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- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 6 minutes agoA question shale gas buyers should ask:Shale Gas: If this is such a good deal why are you selling it to me?11 March 2011, 09:43 BST"Shale gas high roller Range Resources" is selling it's Barnett Shale proper...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 43 minutes agoMore drilling won't helpFrom the Cartoonist GroupSomeone needs to tell the paid protectors we elected. President Barack Obama's remarks on drilling draw scorn from Louisiana congressional delegation.Presiden...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
I want to tell you how soundly I sleep. When I wake up in the morning, my bedding is completely undisturbed. I can make my bed with one finger. Always. Friday, I bolted upright at 1am and rushed down to m... - posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 3 hours ago
Since the topic of the technological aspects of what I call "surviving in a world of zombies", I have decided to post some links to the audio recording of a recent presentation by Richard Stallman on the... - posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoNASA scientists have gleaned new insights into the origins of fast-moving electrons during substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere, according to a new paper.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
The BBC is cunning. During the past week as it became clear that Chris Patten was destined to become next Chairman of the BBC Trust the BBC propaganda line has been to suggest he is some sort of far right... - posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoSeveral bits of cool space music entered the atmosphere this week. So pop on those headphones, slide into your favorite void suit and prepare to drift off into the wild black yonder.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours ago
Anyone catch Alex *"the precepts of Scottish justice" *Salmond on the Marr show? He was allowed to weasel his way out of the Al Megrahi issue simply by repeating "precepts of Scottish justice" to a simper... - posted by Laura Knight Jadczyk at Laura Knight Jadczyk - 4 hours ago
Rather than post a comment in response to a comment on a previous Comet Elenin post, I thought I would just address it here. The comment was "How do you feel now that the earths axis has indeed shifted 25c... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago
* Sir Evelyn de Rothschild* On 13th March 2011, the Mail on Sunday reports on Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little St James, and on his 'little black book' listing phone contacts. (How Prin... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoWales is home to the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. No, this is not the result of my cat helping me. The name has 58 letters and in English means "Saint Mary's Churc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
RAS LANUF, LIBYA - Moammar Gaddafi's forces pushed farther eastward Saturday toward a strategic port city, pounding terrain with airstrikes and rockets and delivering a setback for Libya's rebels. By Sat... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours ago
The common yet cunning raccoon. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia The raccoon sometimes spelled as racoon is also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon and colloquially as coon. It ... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago
*Jonathan Rees, who has links to David Cameron. * UK Prime Minister David Cameron hired Andy Coulson as his media adviser. Cameron knew that, as editor of Rupert Murdoch's* News of the World*, Coulson emp... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTokyo, Mar.13 (ANI):Japanese Government officials have said meltdown may have occurred in two reactors at the Fukushima power station. Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano says it is possible that t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWorkers at two nuclear plants in Japan are struggling to prevent a meltdown in the wake of a powerful earthquake, a tsunami, and an explosion. Crews flooded an overheated reactor core with sea water in h...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
Concerned that the shipping channels will be shut for days, many Japanese rushed the supermarkets. Many shoppers were hampered by closed stores, and the ones that were open Saturday encountered masses of... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoClick here for a giant list of demonetized currencies throughout the worldsince the 18th century, when they were issued and the reasons why they collapsed. Note that "Hyperinflation" remains the dominant re...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBillionaire real-estate magnate Sam Zell warns that Americans should brace for a "disastrous" 25 percent decline in the standard of living if the U.S. dollar’s reign as the global reserve currency ever end...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOur economic death spiral into the Second Great Depression Wracked up by both parties over many decades our debt has evolved into a yearly deficit that can no longer be serviced with tax revenue and borrow...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoDespite the bad press, I really enjoyed 'Battle: Los Angeles.' It is, after all, just a movie about war, aliens and mankind's desire not to be exterminated without a fight.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 7 hours agoThis video is by the YouTube user StormCloudsGathering:
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAgartala, March 12 (IANS): Close on the heels of the detection of bird flu at two government-run farms in western Tripura, mysterious deaths of some animals and birds at the Sepahijala Zoo has put the auth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFisherman says he saw "thousands" of dead fish Fish die outside water treatment plant: krqe.com ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Two state agencies are looking into what could have caused a massive fish die-off in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAt least 50 animals, mostly cows have died due to a mysterious disease in different villages of Gadap Town in just three days creating panic among the local herdsmen. Salim Memon of the Karachi Rural Netw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA State of Emergency has been declared for over a dozen Mississippi counties following a significant severe weather event that produced confirmed tornadoes and widespread flooding in the state. The State...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*(TheWeatherSpace.com) --* Earthquakes are striking the middle of the Gulf of California, giving U.S. West Coast residents the question ... when? TheWeatherSpace.com has received many reports and concerns ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours agoVIDEO: Rain to continue in Nth Qld AAP, The Courier-Mail March 11, 2011 ALMOST every inch of Queensland has been disaster-declared following the state's devastating summer season. Premier Anna Bligh a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago*We've already seen and heard the glorious Overture to Weber's Oberon, in a terrific performance by the Berlin Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons, in my "comfort music" post, "Just like there's comfort foo...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 10 hours agoLibya's Muammar Gaddafi is a savage and brutal despot, the sooner he is removed from power the better. But he must be removed by the Libyan people, not America, or NATO. It won't take a couple of weeks bef...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJapanese officials announced Sunday that the cooling system at a second nuclear reactor crippled by Japan’s devastating earthquake had failed completely, even as they took the extraordinary step of floodin...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoHas an even cooler brown dwarf been discovered? If so, this "ultra-cool" object has an atmospheric thermostat set at around room temperature.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours ago*Narayan Mahon for The New York Times* As the senators walked around the Capitol square, where one of the largest protests in what has been a daily outpouring of union employees and supporters was under ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoView the entire incredible photo gallery of Japan's devastation here
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNicky Washida scoured her central Tokyo neighborhood looking for food Saturday, but was unsuccessful. The convenience stores had already been stripped of food, batteries and most supplies when she visite...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSouth Sudan has announced it will suspend talks with Khartoum about its planned secession in July after accusing Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, of plotting to overthrow the new government in the s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie issued an emergency proclamation Friday, the first step toward securing federal disaster relief to help pay for repairs to damage done during the tsunami. Abercrombie sai...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe number of people exposed to radiation from the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan may reach as high as 160, a Japanese nuclear safety agency official said. Nine people had already shown...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoFor goodness sakes, won't someone please *think of the children*??? As a Facebook friend said: the smartest child in Canada.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*by Ken* Of course I remembered about the Borders bankruptcy. I'm not a total chump. Still, when I found myself yesterday in sudden need of a decent map or maybe even a street atlas for those neighbor ci...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAround 200,000 people have been evacuated from near two Japanese nuclear power stations as fear spreads of radiation exposure. The evacuations were ordered after nine people showed signs of possible expo...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoRaoul Dahl's Matilda Gets An e-Reader by Aaron Renier And the music to go with it. Enjoy!
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 14 hours agoFrom what I can see, both the US and Israel have been using exotic electronic warefare weapons for many years, starting with the Shock & Awe campaign in Iraq and probably before that. The electronic war ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIf you are in the area of the reactors or can communicate with others there, GET OUT IMMEDIATELY! A meltdown may be occurring at one of the reactors at a damaged nuclear power plant in northeast Japan, a ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHundreds of people were injured in Bahrain Friday, when rival groups clashed over an attempted march in the town of Riffa, a residential area where the ruling Al-Khalifa family lives. The national health...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe recent earthquakes that have pounded Japan, New Zealand and Chile all have one thing in common: They were caused by the movement of a massive piece of Earth known as the Pacific Plate. The Pacific Pla...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDamage caused by Friday's catastrophic earthquake in Japan expanded Saturday, with the combined number of people who have died or are unaccounted for is feared to top 1,700, while an explosion occurred at ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA human rights group says an Internet activist has been charged with subversion for spreading calls on the Internet for Middle Eastern-style anti-government protests in China. The Hong Kong-based Informa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIt appears Crescent City and southern Oregon bore the brunt of Friday's tsunami, with officials reporting devastated harbors, sunken boats and a total of seven people swept out to sea, one of whom is presu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThese are difficult days for market economists. Like the rest of us, they stare in awe at the video of a raging river where none should be, consuming Japanese coastal communities and sweeping over the coun...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 15 hours agoRegarding the on-going crisis of the nuclear plants in Japan, I received this (which I have abridged and reformatted as a numbered list): So, what do we learn? Don't use nuclear power. If you do, don't buil...
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- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 15 hours agoA Kashmir Goat The city of Llankudno, Wales, is dwarfed by a huge hill called the Great Orme. Over a century ago, Queen Victoria released a pair of Kashmir goats, a gift from the Shah of Persia onto the G...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoYesterday Daily Kos carried a diary about the Republican Party's racist, reactionary immigration agenda very much worth reading. It featured California Neanderthal Elton Gallegly, politically endangered b...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours agoThis is Queen Elizabeth with Anthony Blunt who reportedly ran a paedophile ring which included a lot of top people (aangirfan: Sexpionage). "It was long rumoured that the unusual resemblance between Blunt ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTokyo Electric Power Co plans to fill a leaking reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant with sea water to cool it down and reduce pressure in the unit, Japan's top government spokesman said on Saturda...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 17 hours agoThe disaster in Japan is, even now, putting a spotlight on the question of nuclear power and whether it's a good idea to emphasize it in the planning of energy policy. I'd like to say something sensible, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJapanese authorities have told the U.N.'s atomic watchdog they are making preparations to distribute iodine to people living near nuclear power plants affected by Friday's earthquake, the Vienna-based ag...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*JAPAN'S quake-hit nuclear power plant Fukushima No.1, about 250km north-east of Tokyo, "may be experiencing nuclear meltdown", local media says. * The report via Kyodo News, citing the nation's Nuclear ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of Self-Defense Forces searched desperately for survivors in earthquake-ravaged northern Japan on Saturday as rescue and relief efforts went into full force, even as concerns rose that a ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of Bahraini protesters encircled one of the royal family's palaces Saturday, shouting calls for political freedom and the king's ouster a day after a similar march triggered a violent res...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoArab states must intervene in Libya through the Arab League and in line with international law and the Libyan crisis poses a threat to the stability of Arab states, the foreign minister of Oman said on Sat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJapanese officials battling to prevent a meltdown at a nuclear power station after Friday’s record earthquake are using seawater to try and cool a reactor and prevent damage to the chamber holding its radi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMany industries vital to the economy of Japan were left limping through Saturday following a devastating earthquake and tsunami as factories closed to assess damage throughout Japan’s northern region. Jap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoArab League officials convened Saturday to vote on backing a no-fly zone in Libya, where a civil war is being fought between forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi and a tenacious opposition movement. Th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Today, concern over the human suffering in Japan naturally dwarfs any worry about how much it will cost to rebuild earthquake-hit areas.* But as the scale of the tragedy comes into fuller view in coming ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPortugal unveiled further spending cuts on Friday to try to restore confidence in its finances as eurozone leaders met to discuss the crisis in the single currency. The yield on Portuguese five-year debt...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: A logpond on Sarawak's Limbang River. Photo courtesy Bruno Manser Fund / ENS]BASEL, Switzerland, March 9, 2011 (ENS) - Protests over timber corruption that has made a billionaire of the chief min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: The World Catastrophe Map nav bar. catastrophemap.com] Occasionally, Desdemona runs across a site or a blog that’s uncannily dialed into the Des vibe. All dedicated Doomers know the Apocadocs and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPeople were evacuated within a 12-mile radius after an explosion at one of Japan's nuclear power plants. The building housing one of Fukushima Dai-ichi's reactors was destroyed in the blast and a cloud of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago9,500 people missing in Minamisanriku 24 hours after double disaster struck Official death toll hits 574, but hundreds believed to be buried under rubble or washed away by waves Explosion at nuclear power ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: An aerial view shows depleted water reserves at Kouris reservoir in Limassol district, Cyprus, 25 November 2007. timesofmalta.com] By Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey 12 March 2011 Key reservo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Map of fish study area. Southern California researchers say about 35 percent of fish they collected in the northern Pacific Ocean in 2008 had plastic in their stomachs. The study shows the troubl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoRecalling Scott Walker's senators-- and putting an effective check on his outrageous ideologically extremist over reach-- has to be the top priority of everyone in Wisconsin committed to democracy. This i...
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