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Yesterday, just as the psychopaths from the Tea Party Express were painting a target on Olympia Snowe's back, the mainstream conservative Maine senator joined a bipartisan coalition introducing the Curren... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour ago
Originally uploaded by Sarah Carr Journalist Sarah Carr has taken some amazing photos documenting the People's Revolution in Egypt: go here. Carr's website is here. Thanks to Allan for the send. - posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoAs you may have heard, a former Resident of the White House recently cancelled a trip to Switzerland because he didn't want to be arrested - or humiliated. From *The Nation*: George Bush has done a pretty...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoFrom Michael Buerk's intro to the Moral Maze this week (via Bishop Hill): "not long ago, to question multiculturalism... risked being branded racist and pushed into the loathesome corner with paedophiles a...
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*HUMOUR:* *A CHILLING PROSPECT:* As I promised, another interesting and amusing cartoon from Stephanie McMillan. - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago
*The final two and a half minutes of the Shostakovich Fourth Quartet (1949), played by the Emerson Quartet* The final pianissimo, like a last sigh, flew off into the hall and returned to us a barely audi... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 9 hours ago"A common refrain among pundits is that fear of radical Islam requires (reluctant) opposition to democracy on pragmatic grounds. While not without some merit, the formulation is misleading. The general t...
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RED NATION CELEBRATION CONTACT Red Nation Media Public Relations Nadine Aragon 818.854.6078 info@rednation.com *AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC CELEBRATED DURING GRAMMY AWARDS WEEK * By Red Nation Celebration** Cens... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 12 hours agoEgypt's Democratic Uprising Exposes the U.S. Corporate Welfare Scheme of Military 'Foreign Aid' By Ernest A. Canning Bradblog.com Published: February 3, 2011 "The problems the protesters are trying to ad...
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If you've been following our Healthcare Hypocrites Campaign, you know that one of the Republican hypocrites we highlighted with our ads is New Jersey career politician Leonard Lance. The ad started runni... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 13 hours agoThe Egyptian Revolution: A Democracy Now! Special on Mubarak’s Resignation
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoSmall amounts of alcohol at an early age can have a long-lasting impact on fish and humans alike.
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoReviewing a day's output (6.00am-10.00pm) of the* BBC News Channel* might perhaps give another perspective on the endemic problem of BBC bias. In the comments field below you will find a detailed run-throu...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoReviewing a day's output (6.00am-10.00pm) of the *BBC News Channel* might perhaps give another perspective on the endemic problem of BBC bias. In the comments field below you will find a detailed run-thro...
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Former Blue Dog Steve Israel was appointed head of the DCCC by Nancy Pelosi, in her most boneheaded move since taking impeachment off the table. Israel is working hand-in-paw with Heath Shuler to recruit ... - posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoNo one has figured out how to read the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, but now we know how old it is.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoIt's looking like a rainy day in the Orion Nebula.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoToday is not a day for hand-wringing and fear, for asking and re-asking, What will come next. Today is a day for joy! Celebrating today will not hurt tomorrow. Celebrate this incredible victory by the ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoGuy the Gorilla, described as a "superb specimen of masculinity," is just one of many animals featured in a London exhibit on sexual nature.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoTwo new polls to report in Alberta. First up comes the latest from Janet Brown, who has earned a solid reputation for projecting Alberta elections: PC 40% WAP 33% ALP 19% NDP 8% AP 0.1% I feel badly for ...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoThe old Open Thread has fled to Sharm el Shiekh. A new Open Thread has been installed. Let the protests against the reporting bias of the BBC continue! Click through to read and contribute comments on thi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoMen: If you're looking to score points with that new phone, don't bother. Get a dog instead.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoThe main Google web page shows the following animated GIF image: Thomas Alva Edison was born 164 years ago. Congratulations to his fans! He had his main lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey - a place that all...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 19 hours agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - Deep underneath Niagara Falls a 4,000 tonne drill named "Big Becky" is drilling a 10.2 kilometre long tunnel, 14 meters wide, that is soon due to near its goal above the Niagara Falls....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 20 hours agoBlue America has had a running battle with Wall Street shill Rahm Emanuel for as long as we existed as a PAC. Our enthusiasm for Carol Moseley Braun is not about Rahm Emanuel though. Yes, electing him may...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoPaul Owns the Sabre, 71, ready to walk for diabetes By Brenda Norrell Censored News Photo by Brenda Norrell. Paul Owns the Sabre at the culmination of the Longest Walk in 2008. SAN FRANCISCO -- Paul Owns ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 20 hours ago"[The Americans] woke up this morning, they got on the phone, and everything that was supposed to happen 24 hours ago, has happened now...it's like a re-run of yesterday, but with the outcome we expected."...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 20 hours ago" Signs to look for a Satanist can be things such as time-loss MPD/DID. This might be a sign of early childhood trauma. Research into this if you're not aware. Christ said you will know them by their deeds...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoA little bit more on the BBC promoting an exhibition of photographs by the German propagandist photographer with the chilling rictus grin and the “who, me?” shrug. I first heard it advertised on Radio 4’s ...
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- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoSevere winter in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes are the result of a breakdown in the normal patterns of air pressure, winds, and the loss of sea ice in the Arctic.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 22 hours agoOkay so I'll play along for a moment. Is this a Racist video? Why no black baby in this video? Where is the Diversity? This video may Exclude Minorities. flashback - Newsweek: Is Your Baby Racist? Here...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoLast night at 9 p.m., the BBC Radio 4 broadcast another 30-minute program about the psychology of deniers: In denial: climate on the couch (audio, HTML) I happen to be able to listen to it from the Czech ...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoOcean modelers are tracking the denizens of the deep from the deluge of data collected during the Census of Marine Life.
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 22 hours ago*February , 2011 -- Arab popular revolutions to spread south into sub-Saharan Africa* America has not seen the end of the loss of its puppets and client-dictators.... A source with close connections...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 22 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/user/RonPaulClassics Some people had 'got it' way back then. Was your correspondent as much as a zygote at that time? Not sure.
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe device delivers burn-like sensations but does not damage nerves or skin.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours agoBy John W. Whitehead 1/24/2011 full text here “Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police...
- Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40TzpjCbx6g Good advertisement! Here is the address...- to buy a book about survival in the wilderness (for example). Question: Can we ever live without *fear* - ...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlmost a quarter of adult American couples are meeting online, but online dating is just an initial step toward building a lasting relationship.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoAbout a week ago I got a fundraising letter from Lynn Woolsey. I didn't realize at the time that she might be concerned because one of her patrons, well-connected conservative Big Business shill Jane Harm...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoWith Stelmach's announcement that he will stay on as Premier until this fall, there's plenty of time for his would-be-successors to put together campaign teams and sign up Albertans. Still, the field is st...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoEgypt's military has thrown its weight at the back President *Hosni Mubarak's* decision not to resign but to transfer most of his powers to his vice president. Friday's statement is likely to further e...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome design students are giving their creations a taste for flesh.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA whopping 94 percent of global data is now stored digitally, up from 0.8 percent 25 years ago.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*The Big Bang Theory* is always a lot of intelligent fun but the newest episode 04x15, *The Benefactor Factor*, was also addressing a serious topic, namely the funding of science. The president of the uni...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLast week, Dextre unpacked cargo from the Japanese HTV freighter, adding some helpful robotic hands to in-orbit activities.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSpace station flight engineer Cady Coleman isn't slacking on her music practice even though she's in orbit.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day ago*WRITE YOUR OWN CAPTION* AIPAC September 1, 1982 Today has been a day that should make all of us proud. It marked the end of the successful evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut, Lebanon. This peaceful...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI always have to rummage around the Thurber books to find "The Letters of James Thurber," a piece of which I'm extremely fond. It first appeared in *The New Yorker* of Oct. 8, 1938, not long after Jim an...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoI don't watch much television news (except for CNN and CBC on some days), but I'm certain that Anderson Cooper is the best news anchor on television. He is emerging as a far more important voice in the med...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoWe will probably see a follow up soon...by Paul Wolfowitz. I believe that John Bolton, Cheney, and probably Rummy have already put their 2 cents in. To be fair, james Woolsey is also the president of Bo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoStruggles for land and justice: Splitting the Sky nominates professor Anthony J. Hall for peace award Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ALBERTA, Canada -- Writing a peace prize nomination, S...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoIt's quite possible that I'm investing this with more significance than it really merits. What can I say – sometimes my inner drama queen needs to get out. The context: Thursday evening, Queen car westbou...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*BLOGGING:* *REPORT FROM THE MOLLY UPDATE DEPARTMENT:* I did it ! I did it ! I did it ! After some rather humbling communication from a Bosnian comrade last December I set myself the task of editing the l...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Behind the scenes at Charm City Cakes -- the first showing of the final episode of Ace of Cakes, "Charm City Cakes Goes Back to the Future" (with Michael J. Fox and Leah Thompson promised), airs on Food ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoLast Tuesday, I attended an IS forum entitled "Egypt and Tunisia: From Resistance to Revolution". There were two speakers: Dr. Mohammed Shokr, of the Egyptian National Association for Change and the Cana...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoIf you are like me, then you think photographs make the perfect gift for many occasions. If you want to to spruce up some of your photos for Valentine's gifts, then look no further, Picnik makes this quick...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day ago"On 28 January the Washington correspondent Paul Adams declared, "The Americans are in a very difficult situation. They do want to see some kind of democratic reform but they are also conscious that they...
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- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoA Day in the Park Infowars February 10, 2011 A strong entry for “The Answer to 1984 is 1776″ Video Contest by fosterlaff. Continued. . .
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - It really boils down to a battle for market share... Facebook and Google have been conducting "low level talks" concerning buying up Twitter (a website which has yet to make any money from adv...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoA People’s Uprising Against the Empire By Lew Rockwell Published: February 1, 2011 Those of the young generation, people too young to remember the collapse of Soviet-bloc and other socialist states in 198...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atwww.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Selecciones especiales de FotoFrontera I] A partir de hoy y como regalo especial para nuestros más de 2,280 suscriptores, *Fotofrontera* inicia una serie titulada '*Selecciones especiales de Fotofr...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat can a Japanese fishing net manufacturer do with all that space junk? The answer is obvious.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn intergalactic communication scheme may be to leave a "Rosetta Stone" artifact for an emerging civilization to discover as it becomes astronomically capable.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atwww.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Escenarios campestres I (Postales de Paisajes)] En esta ocasión, FOTOFRONTERA comparte con todos ustedes 6 bellÃsimas postales de paisajes con la naturaleza como principal protagonista. No olviden ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoObamacare Advocate: Make Refusniks Wear Gold Stars...ahem, Stickers Beware the Neocon Advocacy of Egyptian Democracy Mubarak may resign today (RT said that the Egyptian media had changed its tune, see her...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoUnlike the shady Church of Scientology, Republican Congressman Charles William Boustany, Jr of Lafayette, Louisiana has never been lampooned on *South Park*. He should be. The right-wing loon and ex-medic...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA foot bone belonging to the famous hominid's kin reveals when human ancestors had both feet firmly on the ground.
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo you want to name a star after dear old Aunt Bessy? Just beware that all you'll get is a cheap certificate.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoSan Carlos Apaches met with Winona LaDuke at Northern Arizona University to protest NAU's involvement in the telescope project on Mount Graham, which has led to destruction on the sacred mountain. Photos ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIn the month of January, there were 268 arbitrary arrests and detentions of peaceful opponents of the Castro Regime in Cuba. At least 268 arbitrary haltings of pacific opponents happened during the past m...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day ago(Apologies for the length and regurgitation from previous posts) Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis, famously postulated that all of human behavior can be summarized as an expression of sub...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn 2010, 13,000 U.S. taxpayers wrongly claimed a $7,500 tax credit for electric vehicles, when in fact they owned Hummers and other SUVs.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoGetty Images Daniel Mudd, CEO Fannie Mae, fired: Sept. 7, 2008Getty Images Richard Syron, CEO Freddie Mac, fired: Sept. 7, 2008 ----------------...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 1 day agoObama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper today told the House Intelligence Committee that the Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular". I don't think even the Brotherhood's cheerleaders at th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoAIM West, from the UN Permanent Forum to Chiapas, Gaza and El Salvador By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com AIM West photo 2009 by Brenda Norrell AIM West continues its effor...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFleas are the one of animal kingdom's best jumpers, and now we know how they do it.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA female squid pheromone turns mild males into fighters with the touch of a tentacle.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Walk away from uranium mining Time Sunday, August 21 at 9:00am - October 30 at 4:30pm Location Wiluna, Western Australia *This event is a walk from Wiluna, Western Australia to Perth from August 22nd, 201...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAfter circling the moon as seeds, so-called "moon trees" are now in our midst, but their locations are a mystery.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAttention parents: Looking to spend some quality time with your daughter? Try video games.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoThis is Healthcare Hypocrites Month for *DWT*. Blue America is working with our allies at Daily Kos, Americans United For America PAC and Americans For Change to expose Republicans who voted to repeal heal...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Double click image to enlarge. * Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEight teeth found in an Israeli cave raise the possibility that modern humans originated in Israel and not Africa.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoBenny Peiser has sent us six interesting articles today: 1. Prince Charles on corrosive skepticism: according to the British queen's eldest son, skepticism is corrosive for the society. The heir ...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day agoTonight Question Time comes from Bristol, birthplace of failed singer Nik Kershaw, failed comedian Lee Evans and failed lesbian Julie Burchill. It was also the destination of the final Concorde flight. O...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe device works by passing low levels of electricity through the brain to try and help wearers think more clearly.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDisappearing sea ice could mean fewer and fewer polar bear cubs.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days ago*Teabaggers are like normal Americans when it comes to Bush's misnamed Orwellian PATRIOT Act* As Rachel Maddow pointed out, the House Republicans are taking it very easy legislatively-- some noisy, divisi...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 2 days agoA natural gas explosion in eastern *Pennsylvania* leveled two houses, spawned fires that burned for more than seven hours and provoked the evacuation of hundreds of people. At least six people were unacc...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 2 days agoHere’s what Fed chief Ben Bernanke said to disbelieving *Republicans* at his appearance before the House financial plan *Committee* on Wednesday: No, it’s not yet time to take the punch bowl away from th...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoOn a neurochemical level, people in long-term relationships are just like those who are falling in love.
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 2 days ago
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLast year, Jupiter lost one of its trademark stripes. But with a little help from a little moon, an infrared telescope has found where the stripe is hiding.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 2 days agoFormer BBC newsreader Michael Buerk, quoted in the Telegraph: "If you’ve been hired because you are young and pretty, because you are mincingly camp, because you’ve ticked a particular ethnic box and then ...
- *Making a photo collage* is made easy by 2 formidable software packages that can be downloaded and used for free: Fotowall and Shape Collage. The latter in its free version puts a watermark on the picture....
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://www.news-updations.blogspot.com/] Bus drivers and other public transport employees in Egypt have gone on strike as spreading labor turbulence adds momentum to mass protests calling for Presi...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 2 days agoThe Holy Grail of the warmists is to find proof that the Antarctic ice is going to melt. Most of the world’s ice covers the continent, and yet temperatures remain stubbornly locked at levels that suggest t...
- posted by Lola Heavey at Network for Church Monitoring Blog - 2 days agoAction for Employment (A4E) is a private company that, as the interviewer in the video above points out, has received £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term un...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 2 days ago*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *DON'T LET THE CONSERVATIVES KILL CANADA'S CHANCE TO SAVE LIVES:* The following petition to the Conservative Party of Canada and our Conservative federal government comes from the Ava...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President Barack Obama harassed the need for a significant and lasting political changeover in Egypt in a phone call with key ally King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago* "A Friend of the Earth" first appeared in The New Yorker of June 4, 1949. * *"There must be something grave the matter with me. From the moment I set eyes on Ephraim J. (Zeph) Leggin, I wanted to poke him...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 days ago"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live." - Dalai Lam...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A suicide mugger attacked a group of soldiers through their morning aerobics at an army working out camp in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing as a minimum...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A married New York congressman accuse of sending a shirtless photo of him to a woman unexpectedly reconciled Wednesday, saying he be sorry actions that had harm...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Thousands of employees went on smack Wednesday crossways Egypt, adding a new length to the rebellion as public rage twisted to the vast riches President Hosni M...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America- 2 days agoClaims that the Iranian government attempted to ban the color green (which had been appropriated by those opposed to the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) have yet to disappear completely from t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago[*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *"In Washington, a State Department spokesperson revealed that the U.S was actively searching for a replacement for Mr. Mubarak, 'but we don’t want to use the same he...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoI'm not trying to go all Godwin here or anything, but maybe we need to re-evaluate old Adolf. Seriously, I almost pissed myself laughing at this. This is fucking genius. (H/t FightingInternet.)
- posted by Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 2 days agoI'm surprised that otherwise intelligent people continue to believe the myth that the media is "liberal." I think it's worth discussing what a liberal media would look like if we had one, so we can better un...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoLet's face it. We astronomers like our telescopes BIG. And it doesn't get much bigger than a radio telescope spanning the whole of Europe!
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAnd it's leaking plasma into space.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoA reporter in Washington D.C. mistakenly connects the "V For Victory" campaign that was launched by Infowars.com two weeks ago to the political left, while saying that Homeland Security's "See Something, S...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoDiet soda may have fewer calories, but there may be more risks, too.
- posted by Dinkiedow at Dinkiedow News (Two Sense) - 2 days ago
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSome want controls to be put in place to rein in surveillance capabilities available to law enforcement officials.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 days agoWhen a criminal is found guilty and consigned to a real prison-- not a Club Fed where they put politicians and wealthy corporate types like Mike Carona or Duke Cunningham-- society is also consigning the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Huffington Post slam-dunks writers, as journalists search for higher ground * By Brenda Norrell Censored News Just when you thought you knew your way around the Internet, everything changes. This includes ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThese ancient artifacts represent an imperial family that almost brought down the Roman empire.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoThe Muslim Brotherhood Myth By Christopher Anzalone Informed Comment February 9, 2011 Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood & the Demonstrations: Fact vs. Fiction Since the start of mass popular protests by Egyptian...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 2 days ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS EGYPT - USA:* *EGYPTIAN POLICE TEAR GAS "MADE IN THE USA":* The following story and appeal is from the US based organization Human Rights First. They are calling for the United Sta...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoRichard Gage can't get on U.S. propaganda channels, so he has to spread the truth about the 9/11 attacks on a Chinese propaganda channel.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoListen to Dr. Ali El Mashad in the video below:
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoThe New York Times: A new generation of Egyptian revolutionaries, ensconced in a communal apartment, are trying to bring down President Hosni Mubarak's government by broadcasting the revolt in Tahrir Squa...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 days agoUS House defeats anti-terrorism powers extension By Olivier Knox AFP – 1 day ago WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives rejected a nine-month extension of counter-terrorism surveillance powers at ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days ago
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 2 days ago
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA new long-term temperature record of the Western Antarctic Peninsula shows a strong link to the El Niño-La Niña cycle.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 2 days ago*Nice find, UK Column.* Update - I guess the reaction of some people gives them away... " Yesterday [David Cameron] declared: “You have to say to the people in Birmingham Central Mosque, or wherever, *who ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 2 days ago" Try your hand at investing While it may not be a short-term option, investing in equities over the long term is often deemed to be the most reliable method of gaining above-inflation returns on your mon...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 2 days agoThe fragrant (flagrant?) Ms Fiona Fox has had her say about Peter Sissons; time for a new thread to express your views about matters of BBC bias. Have fun! Click through to read and contribute comments o...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoHigher temperatures mean that grapes in Bordeaux may ripen earlier and become vulnerable to malnutrition.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA charity group wants to buy a telecommunications satellite reposition it over countries that currently lack Internet access.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by CT Fair and Balanced at Drinking Liberally in New Milford - 2 days agoHere are a few snippets from the 2/4/11 editorial in The Housatonic Times. "...all those who assemble the proposed education budget went into the current process with new resolve to craft a package that me...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days agoThe cosmological constant remains one of the most mysterious players in the current picture of the world. *A building of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University in Albertov. In those...
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days agoLast week, I gave you my list of what to do before you click publish and asked you all what you would add. The overwhelming response? LINKS. Check your links. Double-check your links. Check your email link...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThese new hybrid engines are green, cheap and easy to make.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA 1,238-year-long tree-ring chronology suggests drought may have had a hand in Mexico's history.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 2 days agoWait one, isn't that the same preacher (the woman) as here? Maybe someone should tell them about how that flag is a hexagram from witchcraft (6 points 6 lines 6 triangles), or maybe that they are worshi...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoThe scientists used kerosene to keep a drilled hole open in the remote Antarctic Lake Vostok.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIntercontinental earthquakes, such as the ones that rattled New Madrid, may not strike the same place twice.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoHundreds of people owe their lives to the fact that homeopathy is completely ineffective.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoCorals record flooding events in their skeletons and this last century has had the most since since 1685.
- posted by Laura Knight Jadczyk at Laura Knight Jadczyk - 3 days agoI've recently become aware, via some Facebook posts, that there are a number of people posting videos on youtube about an alleged coming Pole Shift in March of this year. It seems that these people are usi...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 3 days agoVice President Joe Biden Tuesday future that the *US government* infuse $53 billion into a national high-speed rail network. The announcement was meet immediately by deep skepticism from two House *Repub...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 3 days agoEgyptian disagreement groups defiant over VP's warning that protests must end *Egypt's protesters* and opposition group be infuriated Wednesday by a warning from Vice President Omar Suleiman that if thei...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 3 days agoOld films are very popular. We love nostalgia, the costumes, the funny accents, lots of smoking, and we can observe with the benefit of hindsight, people going about their business in the 20s and 30s. We k...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days agoFurther to Robin's earlier post, here's another interesting blast from Fiona Fox's past: DISGRACED former Labour politician Jim Devine persuaded a friend to call his office manager pretending to be a jour...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 3 days agoBishop Hill has blogged on the BBC's response to concerns about the Horizon programme which shamefully stitched up James Delingpole. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions. All I would add is that i...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] US parliament members have threatened to stop aid to Pakistan if not it releases an American under arrest over gunfire deaths of two Pakistani men. As the US in...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Insurgents killed two members of NATO's mission to Afghanistan in the south of the country Wednesday, the multinational force said. NATO didn't let go the names...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days ago"The UN can play a vital role in promoting the administration of justice, democracy and the rule of law around the globe." Those are the words from Hillel Neuer's address at the United Nations in Geneva, ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A Salvadoran man jailed in Cuba in link with a string of 1990s lodge bombings says he told a U.S. prosecutor that he got explosive and money in a straight line ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Egyptians have theatrical one of their main complaint yet insisting President Hosni Mubarak step down right away and pay no attention to a government plan to mo...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 3 days agoThe content of Fiona Fox article on the BBC College of Journalism site has been ably and rightfully savaged in the comments that have been posted. There’s nothing I can add, except that it was shooting duc...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A young Google executive who helped ignite Egypt's rebellion eager a cheering crowd of hundreds of thousands Tuesday with his first look in their midst after be...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoThe Toxic Residue of Colonialism: Protecting Interests, Disregarding Rights By Richard Falk Published: February 8, 2011 *At least, overtly, there has been no talk from either Washington or Tel Aviv, the g...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoThrough a US-Europe rocket manufacturer partnership, could a launch vehicle with a strong likeness to the Ares I soon be carrying astronauts to the space station?
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days agoFebruary 3, 2011 The Nile in Style Posted by Hendrik Hertzberg I took this picture almost thirty-two years ago—on March 9, 1979, to be exact. The scene is a ceremonial train ride from Cairo to Al...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoCANADA/TECHNOLOGY - Bell Canada and Rogers Telecommunications have embarked on a mission to start charging Canadians more money for their internet services, namely by jacking up the prices on their interne...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 3 days ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS EGYPT/ WINNIPEG:* *WINNIPEG DEMONSTRATES IN SOLIDARITY WITH EGYPT:* Last Saturday local Egyptians resident in Winnipeg and their supporters came out to demonstrate in solidarity wi...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 days agoYeah, yeah, I know. A coherent policy framework may be too much to expect, given the Harper government's predilections. But one of the most important steps in *building* that framework is clearing away th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Three Native American Youths ready to walk across America -- again! Starting point Monday, Feb. 14, 2011: Gresham, Oregon, Red Sunset Park, walk 9 am to noon; after lunch runners run till sundown. * By ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 3 days agoThe popular uprising in Egypt has been re-energized by a very powerful and emotional television interview of Wael Ghonim on Monday, February 7. Ghonim is the Google executive turned activist who was arrest...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago02/08/11, Tuesday, on American Indian Airwaves *“Declarations for Freeing Peltier, Liberating Coca, and Practicing Sovereignty” * Photo: Alex White Plume by Standing Silent Nation film Listen to Tuesday's...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoElephants, dolphins, primates and now bats have been shown to form human-like friendships.
- posted by Laban at Biased BBC - 3 days agoThe BBC are running a series on the rise of the 'far right' in Europe, and leveraged their investment with a report on The World Tonight featuring the Danish People's Party*, and the hopes of human rights ...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn celebration of Jules Verne's birthday, the search giant is taking users on a virtual tour under the sea.
- posted by Dinkiedow at Dinkiedow News (Two Sense) - 3 days agoBy Wayne Madsen;Dinkiedow Reporting Just when you thought you heard it All. We Have A President Barrack Hussein Obama With A Professional Male Whore on the White House pay roll to Literally play with hi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoA week ago, a radical group of 18 climate bullies has tried to scare the U.S. Congress: Eighteen hardcore AGW alarmists threaten U.S. Congress Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Ben Santer, and 15 additional ...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs students get more popular, they're more likely to harass their peers, finds a study.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoLacking any kind of pilot, this drone flew for 29 minutes, landing perfectly on target.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoThese goons turned up to rob a jewllery store, and were chased off by a 70+ year old woman toting a handbag. Truly awe inspring stuff! At least the police didn't dampen this one with their usual complain...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoUsing oxygen as a cathode could give lithium batteries 10 times the energy.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA rare thundersnow event was recorded by NASA instruments, showing lightning traveled for 50 miles in low clouds.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days ago"Only a nano-layer of your tooth absorbs fluoride, from surface contact, new research shows. Not only does fluoride not reduce tooth decay by being swallowed, it may not even help by brushing it on the sur...
- posted by Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 3 days agoAs readers will doubtless be aware, Labour has instigated a two year root and branch review of party democracy and policy. This hasn't gone down well with everyone as there's a general unease that Labour ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoGM crops to be allowed into Britain under controversial EU plans Genetically modified crops will be allowed to enter the UK food chain without the need for regulatory clearance for the first time under co...
- posted by Lola Heavey at Network for Church Monitoring Blog - 3 days agoThe illegal surveillance of our activities online hasn’t ceased one bit, despite Declan’s most recent letter just a couple of weeks ago to our MP, Lynne Featherstone, a minister in the Home Office, regar...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoI went to the IoW probably about eight or so years ago. Silly me, it never occurred to me that it was a den of Satanic activity!
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoWhen it comes to piquing a woman's interest - make an ambiguous first impression.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days agoI'm sure my fellow blogger Robin Horbury will have one or two things to say about this article by Fiona Fox at the BBC College of Journalism website, but in the meantime savour the comments underneath. Mar...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days agoOkay, so she has a profit motive to say what she said. Okay, it may come across as being a bit 'know it all'. But that one can cut both ways. Maybe the critics ought to check into what she's saying, before...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days agoBBC journalist Iain Mackenzie has returned from his stint in America. I've just stumbled across his newly-named Twitter account and was quite taken with this tweet from last month: Kudos for pointing it ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 days agoThis is a long movie, worth setting aside the time to watch, described as: A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, ClimateChange, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of theAme...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 3 days ago"I kept getting asked, how can you be with a right wing extremist, racist group? - and I said, there's no racism here. Just walk a mile down the street to the *nearest synagogue* and you'll find it there!"...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIf restrictions put in place during the 2008 Beijing Olympics became regular it would save 10,000 lives.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoLower amounts of the chemical that regulates stress and appetite can play a role in depression.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Iconic Imagery) at Broken of Britain- 3 days ago
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA modern aid for every penitent.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days agoA reader sent me the following picture taken by his daughter. As part of some sort of school/youth project she has been transferring the results of a climate questionnaire onto computer. Being a big fan of...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoFebruary 8, 2011 *ETHNIC STUDIES IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Students Speak up * By Derechos Humanos WHAT: Press Conference supporting Ethnic Studies and condemning HB 2281 WHO: UNIDOS (United Non-discriminatory Indi...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoThe US war on American women has escalated lately (as opposed to the US war on Afghan and Iraqi women, men and children, which continues at the same torrid pace). Please read below for important informatio...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 3 days ago
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 days agoThis morning's Today programme devoted substantial time to allegations - scandalous if true - that the Metropolitan Police has undertaken an orchestrated campaign to discredit expert defence witnesses in S...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 days agoWith the exception of Bernier rising to the defence of Tony Clement on the Census, it has been a very mavericky year for the former Cabinet superstar. Although I disagree with the bulk of what he has said,...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 3 days agoPresident *Hosni Mubarak* set up a committee Tuesday to recommend constitutional amendment to relax presidential eligibility rules and impose term limits seeking to meet longtime popular demands as a sta...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 days agoWhat is this truck, you ask, and why does it warm the hearts of Red Sox fans the world over? This truck, my friends, is the first harbinger of spring. It leaves Fenway Park in the depths of coldest wint...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoChimps and other primates are willing to cooperate to maximize rewards.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoA warmer Antarctica makes a hospitable home for these crabs, endangering an entire ecosystem that has no defenses against them.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 4 days agoThis delicious treat is one my mom has been making for as long as I can remember. It is kind of like cheesecake, but it has a softer, more whipped cream type texture. My favorite thing about it is the ch...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 4 days ago***In May 2009, Clinton meets "Egyptian activists", prior to meetings at the State Department in Washington. * On 6th February 2011, in the UK's Mail on Sunday, PETER HITCHENS tells us about Egypt, Peop...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoSean Carroll asked his readers to quantify their confidence that various physical explanations or theories are right. The TRF readers don't have to be explained that polls don't mean anything in scien...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 4 days agoOne of the areas I have reported on recently is the extent to which established concerns (blue chip corporations, professional bodies and so on) are tied up in the climate change scam. Their senior executi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days ago*...and other questions...* The Wigner-Eckart Theorem Wikipedia on the theorem is a formula that tells us about all "simple constraints" that group theory - the mathematical incarnation of the wisdom ab...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The U.S. said Monday it would tell apart a sovereign Southern Sudan and evaluation its description of Sudan's government in Khartoum as a state pay for of viole...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Indonesia's president prepared an inquiry into a bother on members of an underground Muslim sect after a horrible video materialized of a mob beating quite a fe...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Afghanistan – Ten loud bangs that rocked Kandahar one day last week actually signal good news on the front line of the war next to the Taliban. The explosions o...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Echoing John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama poked big business leaders Monday to "ask yourselves what you can do for America," not presently for company bot...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 days agoIt's only Monday, but Jonathan Goldsbie's already taken the prize for Tweet of the Week. He's just that good.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 days agoBlackfire: Navajo Punk Rock Moshing for Mother EarthBy Take Part http://www.takepart.com/news/2011/02/07/blackfire-using-punk-rock-to-protect-the-environment-and-keep-navajo-culture-alive (Excerpt) We had...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoWhat Israel Is Afraid of After the Egyptian Uprising By Peter Beinart The Daily Beast Published: February 7, 2011 *Israelis fear more Arab democracy means more hatred in their country. Peter Beinart on w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoGuest contributor Ian Crawford explains why the interstellar mission will have to be choosy about its first star system target.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoIf you wish to avoid becoming shark bait yourself, take particular care where you dive in, especially if you're a surfer.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoRetired CIA Officer Ray McGovern: Israel - The Elephant in The Room 1/3 2/3 3/3
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoDamning New Report Shows U.S. Strategy Blocking Chance for Peace in Afghanistan
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoThe Egyptian Mirror By Glenn Greenwald Salon.com February 7, 2011 One of the most revealing journalistic genres is the effort by establishment media outlets to explain to their American audiences why Thos...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoCutting carbon emissions soon could help save mountain snowpack, and so wolverines, in the northwest United States.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoThe revolution in Tunisia was speedy in its conception and execution, serving as a catalyst for change in the Middle East, but change won't come tomorrow, or the day after, and if it is to be a lasting cha...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoWere there any space-related Super Bowl ads this year? Kinda.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 days agoThe Friday News Feedbag podcast pits Discovery News reporters James Williams and Jorge Ribas in a head-to-head match with only one science story at their disposal. Host Will Johnson keeps order. If this is...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 days agoAmerica: Standing in the Way of Democracy By Dave Lindorff OpEdNews.com February 7, 2011 It is pathetic and even laughable to hear American leaders, and the leaders of the other Western democracies in Eur...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Iconic Imagery) at Broken of Britain- 4 days ago
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