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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 minutes ago[image: Beached Dolphin on Gulf Coast. A dead dolphin lies on the beach on Horn Island, Mississippi, on 11 May 2010. Photograph by Mike Stewart / AP / nationalgeographic.com] By KAREN NELSON - klnelson@...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 47 minutes ago[image: Forest to pulp mill in Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Eyes on the Forest presented its case for a stronger moratorium in a report sent to Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, head of Indonesia's REDD task ...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 48 minutes agoThe weather service predicts threats of high water from Montana to Maine, Minnesota to Missouri and down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 hour agoPimpin'. Braap braap. Caution graphic video.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour agoFundamental physics has traditionally been a part of the Euro-Atlantic culture. So the Japanese physicists may be viewed as relative newbies but they have already imprinted their skills onto our collecti...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoMoon gazers are in for a treat this weekend when the full moon will appear 14 percent bigger.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoAs I mentioned last week, US war resister Chuck Wiley is on a speaking tour in Nova Scotia. The schedule of event is posted here; you can still catch him in Halifax today and tonight. This story ran in t...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoOntario readers, are you participating in the Ontario Health Study? Where did you hear about it? If you decided not to participate, why was that? I saw ads for the Study on the Toronto subway on my way to ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoIn violation of his own 72 hour rule, Boehner forced through a vote yesterday to defund National Public Radio, using as a pretext the doctored, trumped up, and utterly irrelevent tapes manufactured by a d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoLibyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa tells reporters that Libya will impose an immediate ceasefire and will abide by the U.N. Security Council resolution. He says Libya is stopping all military operation...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoA violent uprising in 586 B.C. led to a push for monotheism, emphasizing Yahweh as a single male deity.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoThis is an update to earlier blogposts by David Preiser about BBC coverage of the troubled passage of deficit reduction legislation in Wisconsin (see here, here, here). Media double-standards over Wiscons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoRAF Tornado and Typhoon fighters will today head to the Mediterranean to join international operations to protect the Libyan people from Colonel Muammer Gaddafi's forces, David Cameron said. The Prime Min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThese pictures show overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant. Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMuammar Gaddafi threatened to turn into "hell" the lives of anyone who attacks Libya in line with a UN Security Council resolution passed overnight. His remarks came in an interview with Portuguese state ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPrime Minister David Cameron has announced that British Tornado and Typhoon aircraft are being deployed immediately to help enforce a United Nations no-fly zone over Libya. "At Cabinet this morning we ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago2006 Chernobyl - They may of buried it, but did it stop the radiation leak? TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFormer Cuban leader Fidel Castro says the US has no interest in seeing peace in Libya but is solely concerned with the country's oil reserves. Mr Castro, in a column published in state media, said it was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTOKYO (Dow Jones)--The Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Friday it raised the accident scale level of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex to 5, similar to the level of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLibya has closed its air space to all traffic in a move seen to thwart the United Nation's imposition of a no-fly zone over the country. The closure of Libyan air space was announced by Europe's air naviga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIt is one of the great cities of the world, home to 13million and as advanced as any metropolis on the planet. Now Tokyo, usually so full of life by day and night, has the aura of death about it. Its lig...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoPast events have helped researchers pinpoint when radiation exposure gets dangerous.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoThe weekend beckons so here is a new Open Thread to lead us into it.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoI chuckled at this interview on the BBC this morning. You can feel BBC outrage at the fact that more and more Brits are living longer than ever despite our obesity/unhealthy eating/incorrect drinking/you n...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoThe BBC's ability to wilfully miss the parts of news stories that do not fit in with "the narrative" is always amusing. A Biased BBC reader notes; "We have headline stories of government cuts damaging Br...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoNow that the..ahem...* "world's highest moral authority"* the UN has finally gotten around to authorising "all necessary measures" - short of soldiers going in - the BBC has instantly responded in tried an...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours agoSo, Libya is to be bombed by the USA and NATO and probably invaded. (*US, allies set for quick military action in Libya***) * Sarkozy* Libya is to become another Iraq. *David Cameron.* Obama, Sark...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoNuclear workers accept their fate 'like a death sentence' Fears for their health as one expert says it is 'perhaps a suicide mission' Radiation levels rise in Japan as crisis continues Power will be connecte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoUN predicts nuclear plume could hit U.S. by Friday - Experts warn that particles will drift across Atlantic for Europe - Obama finally falls in line with the rest of the world and starts evacua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe voice on the phone was calm and dignified, as befitted a proud Japanese mayor, yet this somehow made his fury more forceful. Hours after the tsunami struck, Katsunobu Sakurai told me, he had sought ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoReporters not allowed to speak to children to guard against false hope Ishinomaki confirms the huge number of its citizens missing North Eastern port town was hit by 20ft tsunami Fears that overall death tol...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoMany people are worried that the radiation in Tokyo has to be elevated. Well, here you have a most up-to-date Geiger-Müller counter (wiki) from Hino, Central Tokyo: *Click to zoom in* The y-axis shows ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than 100 senior executives at a state-owned bank pocketed over £1million each last year. The bonanza at the Royal Bank of Scotland saw a team of just five workers share an astonishing £26million. Cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt's not clear how far or how high it can fly – or even how big it is and what makes it take off. But an aircraft created by scientists in Iran is, they claim, the world’s first flying saucer. Called the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe plan to evacuate Britons from Bahrain descended into farce last night. Two special flights to Dubai had been laid on by the Foreign Office following a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe strongest activity at southern Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano in 52 years shattered windows four miles away, sending hundreds of people fleeing the area. Ash and other volcanic debris soared more than 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCOLONEL Gaddafi last night threatened missile attacks on holiday jets and Mediterranean resorts. If Britain and the US launch military action over the Libyan crisis Colonel Gaddafi says he will strike back...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe death toll from the monster 9.0-magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami that hit Japan climbed past 6,400 Friday as search teams continued to comb through the rubble. Japan's National Police agenc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe issue occupying diplomats at the UN yesterday was how best to respond to the Libyan crisis. But an even graver threat to our future prosperity and security is unfolding in the tiny Gulf state of Bahr...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAmidst all the anxiety about high oil prices, China's economy is looking shakier by the day. As I have emphasized in the past, China's oil demand growth is the principal driver of higher oil prices in futu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA geological engineering professor whose specialty is rock mechanics and hydrogeology says hydraulic fracturing to free natural gas from shale rock formations will cause "irreversible harm" lasting thousan...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPotentially harmful chemicals and pharmaceuticals are widespread in Minnesota streams, state scientists found in a new study. The study by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency also shows fish have gene...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHere’s the bottom line, obvious to all but the most arithmetically challenged: when you base an entire civilization on the rapid consumption of a limited resource, you guarantee the collapse of that civili...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe world's big cities are already bursting at the seams but are set to grow even larger, with experts predicting that some 70 per cent of the world's population will be urban by 2050. This will put grea...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoSteve Harper's stimulus budget, more properly called the "Pinata Budget," was a colossal waste of tax dollars. Gee, really? But wait, there's more. With the money Harper squandered he could have used i...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 9 hours ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:* *RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS:* I write these words in the context of what may be a "low point" of the uprising of Arab people for the sort of "democracy" that most of...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 9 hours ago*PERSONAL:* *SORRY FOR THE LACK OF CONTENT HERE:* Regular readers of this of this blog may have noticed a lack of content recently. I've explained this before as I have transfered a lot of my activity ov...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 10 hours agoWard County Crews Working to Cap Natural Gas BlowoutStaff ReportNewsWest 9WARD COUNTY - Crews in Ward County are still working to cap a natural gas blowout.It started Wednesday morning about 10 miles north o...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 10 hours agoEOG wants to be sure you know that they did not make this policy change to stop digging sludge pits and burying them in Montague County simply because a bunch of Lutheran farmers and ranchers got fed up with...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*"The comic art of Calvin Coolidge was a thing so subtle that it almost defied analysis."* *-- Gibbs, in "Glorious Calvin (A Critical Appreciation)"* *by Ken* It occurs to me that the Gibbs piece we're ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 11 hours agoAlan Watts - Who Guards the Guards?
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWestern forces could launch bombing raids against the Libyan regime as early as Friday after the UN backed international military action. The first raids, possibly conducted by unmanned drones, could hap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPresident Barack Obama said Thursday the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant posed ''a substantial risk'' to people nearby, while stressing the U.S. government had no immediate plan to expand the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOpen to the elements after its walls were blown away, this is the dried-up storage pool where overheating fuel rods are threatening a nuclear meltdown at Japan's stricken Fukushima power plant. Close-up ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoI think I went a little crazy today. At least that is the best way to explain my total shift in behavior. I am not the type of mom that goes all out for holidays or birthday parties. I like to do things ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAs nuclear panic began to spread around the world, supermarkets and pharmacies thousands of miles from Japan ran out of anything and everything rumoured to prevent radiation poisoning. Russia saw a run on...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 12 hours agoOhhh so Liberal and Loving, the UN... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12781009 Don't forget Gaddafi had offered them amnesty. That video makes it sound as if he's intending to massacre them all t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe $2.7 million (£1.7 million) programme developed by San Diego firm Ntrepid allows one military user to create multiple personas on the internet and engage in extended online conversations and communic...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTo listen to the earthquake, click on this link, then click on the index picture and choose "quakes" in the subsequent menu.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA section of highway 1, near Big Sur, California is shut down indefinitely. Police say a 40-foot section of the two-lane highway crumbled into the sea and fell hundreds of feet down a cliff. "One of the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDespite the looming possibility of a government shutdown, federal layoffs and furloughs, there’s at least one thing members of Congress from both political parties can readily agree on these days: partying...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Obama administration is seeking a U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorize a wide range of possible military strikes against the forces of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, aimed at prev...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago"They're leaving us to die." As engineers race to avert a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the government has declared a 20km (12-mile) evacuation zone around it. The BBC has obt...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNow I’m really confused. All day long, from congressional testimony to a televised appearance on CNN to interviews with print reporters, U.S. nuclear chief Gregory Jaczko has insisted that radiation levels...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoVisitors to Japan are being urged to flee and avoid non-essential travel as the country struggles amid a nuclear crisis following last week's earthquake and tsunami. Countries including Britain, the Unit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA group campaigning for self-rule in Tibet says hundreds of people have held protests in western China after a Tibetan monk burned himself to death. The London-based International Campaign for Tibet says ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoReuters reports that Tokyo Stock Exchange firms are seeking market closure as the markets are too volatile. We agree. This means we may get the first post September 11 bank holiday as early as tonight. If ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*You can click on the portion I've cropped out of this photo from the inauguration to enlarge it a wee bit, but if you really want to enlarge it, see below.* *by Ken* My friend Paul passed this on, with ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 14 hours agoIt is official. The United Nations Security Council has given the go-ahead for the opening of a new front in the Arab world. The New York Times reports : The United Nations Security Council approved a meas...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 15 hours ago. " In a country already brimming with stoic courage, this skeleton crew is surely the bravest of the lot. From fragments of information, we can build a picture of their desperate struggle to save their co...
- *It concerns me* that my American friends are concerned about some clouds from Japan. Do I see a mild mass-hysteria advancing in the USA and Germany, not about 'swine-flu' this time, but 'radio-activity' ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe U.N. Security Council voted Thursday evening to impose a no-fly zone and other measures to try to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's rapid advances against rebel positions in his country. Diploma...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoThat was the greeting Libya's mad despot Muammar Gaddafi had for the people of Benghazi, the last major holdout of the anti-government uprising. Gaddafi's resurgent forces are said to be preparing to mov...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours ago*Former Harper advisor had deal with escort for First Nations water contracts: document* The problem, of course, is that if we're talking about escorts, no one's talking about Harper or influence peddlin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe death toll in Japan from last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami has risen to 5,692, according to the National Police Agency of Japan Thursday. The agency said 9,522 people remain missing, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthqua...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- Scientists project path of radiation plume -- UN projections place it arriving in US within 24 hours
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoChinese shoppers in Beijing and Shanghai cleared salt from supermarkets shelves on Thursday morning amid fears of a potential radiation crisis from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Government off...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoShortages of food and gasoline were being felt in parts of Japan on Thursday nearly a week after a deadly earthquake and tsunami, as people hoarded basic items fearing that supplies would soon dry up. The...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoShock among survivors of Japan's earthquake and tsunami turned to anger Wednesday as nearly a half-million people displaced by the disaster and resulting nuclear crisis remained crammed in makeshift evacua...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolitical turmoil in the Middle East has powerful economic and financial implications, particularly as it increases the risk of stagflation, a lethal combination of slowing growth and sharply rising inflat...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 17 hours ago. March 17, 2011 *“Serious Danger of a Full Core Meltdown”: Update on Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe* Fears of a full-scale nuclear reactor meltdown are increasing as Japanese authorities use militar...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoOfficials assure the public that they have little to worry about from the plume of radiation coming off the crippled nuclear power plants in Japan -- but is anybody listening?
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 17 hours agoDr. William Pepper presents, “The Case For a New Building 7 Investigation” WeAreChange.com March 17, 2011 Investigate Building 7: A Call to Reexamine the Most Important Event of Our Time will run from 9:3...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoAmericans are buying up all the Potasium Iodide pills on the market-- even to the point of causing shortages in Japan, where they are desperately needed. People on the West Coast are worried and there is ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoBefore 1861, Italy was, in the words of the Austrian statesman Metternich, a "mere geographical expression."
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Satellite image of Fukushima nuclear site, 17 March 2011. Steam continues to vent out of the top of the Unit 3 reactor building. Steam also appears to be continuing to vent out of the side of the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Defense Department authorized the voluntary departure Thursday of some family members of U.S. military service members stationed in Japan. The potential number of evacuees is "in the thousands," Penta...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoColonel Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to retake the main rebel stronghold of Benghazi and warned there would be no mercy for those who do not put down their weapons. n a radio address, the Libyan leader told ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 19 hours agoZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoFor the last several weeks, there have been whispers of excitement surrounding possible new results from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory (LIGO).
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoGuinness stout loses much of its appearance, mouthfeel and flavor after being exported, research shows.
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoInfrared motion cameras show how kangaroos get up to hopping speed without breaking their bones.
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoQuestion Time tonight comes from Eastbourne, which boasts of being the sunniest place in Britain based only on a freak statistic from 1911 and is the location of the third most popular suicide spot in the...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe donut-shaped RatCAP is allowing researchers to study brain activity on the go.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGovernments are taking precautions and conducting thorough inspections of Japanese food, which is popular worldwide and available at high-end stores around Asia, and specialty shops in Europe and the Uni...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAustria says it is moving its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka amid concerns that dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant might reach the Japanese capital. The foreign ministry anno...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFrom the campus advisory: To All TUJ US students, The official notification below has been issued by the US Government. We encourage all TUJ US students to leave. We are now making arrangements with the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe national debt jumped by $72 billion on Tuesday even as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for just three weeks that will cut $6 billi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Japanese government's radiation report for the country's 47 prefectures Wednesday had a notable omission: Fukushima, ground zero in Japan's nuclear crisis. Measurements from Ibaraki, just south of Fu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMore radiation monitors are being deployed in the western United States and Pacific territories, as officials seek to mollify public concern over exposure from damaged nuclear plants in Japan, federal envi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRadiation from the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster may soon reach Alaska, according to the state commissioner of health and social services in that state. He said the state could detect a ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWelcome to *RadiationNetwork.com*, home of the *National Radiation Map*, depicting *environmental radiation levels* across the USA, updated *in real time* every minute. This is the first web site where the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMonday's arrival of more than 1000 Saudi and hundreds of Emirati security forces with a mandate from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to support King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa's regime in Sunni- ruled, Sh...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe latest unemployment figures contain mixed news for the Government - unemployment rising to a 17-year high but fewer claims for Jobseeker's Allowance. The official figures show an increase of 27,000 o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhat recession? The millionaire population jumped in the U.S. by 8% last year, fueled by the stock market recovery, according to an industry report on Wednesday. The number of U.S. households worth at lea...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoNuclear stuff is dangerous. (URANIUM IN THE UK, USA AND ELSEWHERE ) *A graphic showing the path of the Japanese nuclear plume ...** * Contamination with nuclear material has been going on for years - *URA...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 20 hours agoIn simpler times, it was considered a breech of etiquette to discuss money, sex, religion and/or politics in mixed company. Lately, because of a few conversations both online and in social scenarios, it ha...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoIs The Arab World another world? Separate from the ordinary one? I thought the world was just the world, inhabited, but not owned, by various groups, creatures and vegetation. But if I was wrong, and the Ar...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoPhase-change materials allows memory to be stored in the resistance of the material.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWater flowing through the radio spins a micro turbine to create energy.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoOn Friday night, 11th March, a family of Jews were killed in the West Bank . Once more the world saw Jews being killed for being Jews. Three of the victims were children, the youngest a baby of 3 month...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 21 hours ago. I say brave because we don't know what the situation is down there. Perhaps the worst case scenario i.e. "chernobyl on steroids" has not occurred. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366670/Japan-...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*The closeted gay congressman from North Carolina who always carries water for extremist hate groups* Yesterday AmericaBlog posted a list of the 95 biggest homophobes on the US House basing it on which bi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours agoHATSUSHIMA - Earthquake recorded at Hatsushima observatory 1 on March 11 around 05:47 (UTC). To hear the low frequency sounds the recording has been sped up 16 times. Listening to the Deep Ocean Enviro...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoBritish soldiers could get full-time power at half the weight.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe first virus was intentional, written in-house and deployed over a network without malicious intent.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago*When Irish Eyes Are Smilin - *chances are they've got their hand in your pocket. I'm sorry, don't mean to piss on St. Paddy but, really, those two characters have become emblematic to me of, well, Iris...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 22 hours ago. Now maybe sober up a bit and figure out that, like America, you have been returned to the Crown via financial terrorism/debt slavery.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Capture Fisheries Production in the Pacific Ocean, 1970-2008. UNFAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010] *Note:* NEI = not elsewhere included. In the Northwest Pacific, small pela...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe Libyan Army appeared on state television on Wednesday to set a deadline for residents to leave Benghazi by midnight local time ahead a planned operation to "cleanse" the city, Sky News reports. "The ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 22 hours agoYou know, there are days when you just want to pound your head against a wall. Links after the jump. What is that haunting refrain that you hear in the air? Linky dinky dinky dinky doo. Seriously, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Tekeze Dam, Ethiopia. internationalrivers.org] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (UPI) Mar 16, 2011 - Ethiopia is pressing ahead with plans to build large dams on the Nile as upstream African states put pre...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMoammar Gadhafi's air force bombed the airport in the Libyan opposition's main stronghold on Thursday after the rebels used seized planes and helicopters to launch attacks on the government's advancing tro...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Greed, violence and entitlement have scarred this **sacred land* Statement by Maurus Chino, for the March 19, 2011 rally commemorating the Iraqi War, Albuquerque, NM (Moment of silence for the brave one...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoNo sooner had I posted my complaints about Mark Mardell's continued, slavish defense of the President and use of the BBC website to set forth his own personal opinions on foreign policy, the BBC's North Am...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Canada's boreal forest comprises the world's largest water source. D. Langhorst / Ducks Unlimited / pewenvironment.org] Contact: Elyssa Rosen 03/16/2011 Ottawa, Canada – A first of its kind repo...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours agoThomas Hart Benton mural ------------------------------ Chris Hedges' Columns Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/power_concedes_nothing_without_a_demand_20110314/...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 23 hours ago*TOKYO** -- Behind Japan's escalating nuclear crisis sits a scandal-ridden energy industry in a comfy relationship with government regulators often willing to overlook safety lapses.* *Leaks of radioactive...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCameras have shrunk over time, but they've never been this small.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou may want to put down that cell phone next time you step foot through a busy intersection, especially if you're older.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoNatural gas extraction creates MASSIVE amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. Industry has no viable plan for how to safely handle that waste and our regulators fail to protect our VITAL natural resources. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoAaron Wherry in *Maclean's*: This is no time for democracy! Stephen Harper says we can't have another election until the world is completely stable and at peace. If you think about the implications, you'l...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSlather on the sunscreen, the depletion could expose the northern midlatitudes to higher levels of ultraviolet radiation.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnti-Gaddafi forces say they are pushing back government troops in the eastern town of Ajdabiyah, despite claims on Libyan state television that the territory is now under government control. But with pho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA spokesman for the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has admitted the situation is now considered to be "severe". "This is a severe incident that is occurring right now," the spokesman s...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoHigh *Radiation* Levels delay Latest Attempts to cool anxious Fukushima Reactors, Fuel Ponds Japanese officials suspended helicopter flights spraying water over *Japan's* troubled Fukushima Daiichi nucle...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoPatrick Murphy the Blue Dog from Pennsylvania who helped Nancy Pelosi pass the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell was making the rounds in Los Angeles last week, gearing up for a rumored run for Pennsylvania...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A POD of about 30 pilot whales have become stranded on Bruny Island, south of the Tasmanian state capital Hobart, wildlife authorities say.* Department of Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Liz Wren told th...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoI don't know what to say. From a comment on Barnett Shale: An Aerial View:oh, it's more than just photos. You want to shut out blue collar America from the American dream on the pretense of saving nature, as...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThree polls to look at today: *Lib 35%, CPC 30%, NDP 20%, BQ 11%* *PC 36%, Lib 33%, NDP 8%, Ref 11%, BQ 10%* *Lib 48%, PC 39%, NDP 11%* Those are the final pre-election polls for the three most recent time...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - About 25 passengers arriving in Taiwan from Japan were observed with levels of slightly higher exposure to radiation, a government official said on Thursday. Authorities in South Korea had ear...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn the wake of the crisis gripping Japan, should we take a second look at nuclear plants closer to home?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFaster than merchants can keep it stocked, potassium iodide (KI), the so-called “anti-radiation” pill, is flying off drugstore shelves in the U.S., especially along the West Coast. One supplier, Nukepills....
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoArmy helicopters have dumped tons of water on the damaged nuclear reactors in a desperate attempt to cool radioactive fuel, but the crisis continues to escalate.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Emergency crews temporarily withdrew a water cannon from Japan's quake-stricken nuclear power plant on Thursday because of high radiation levels, broadcaster NHK said. The water cannon had be...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI see that the BBC now uses China as voice seeking openness and transparency. Just waiting for the State Broadcaster to give North Korea an opportunity to also berate the Japanese. Click through to read a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn March 19, 2011, the moon will be 3,56,577km away from the earth, its closest in 18 years. The average distance of a normal lunar perigee (moon's closest point to earth) is 364,397 kilometers. In other w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoOn Saturday, I urged the Russians to offer the Japanese some of the unpopulated Russian territories - which would also be safer places for nuclear power plants. It's a pleasure to inform you that one day l...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAny attempt by Cameron to tackle the relentless abuse of the UK education system by those claiming to be foreign students coming from outside the EU (From Pakistan, for example) was always going to annoy t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour protesters who scaled the Libyan embassy in central London remain on the roof more than 30 hours after their demonstration began, police have said. Five men climbed on to the roof at 0250 GMT on Wed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople living near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said they had received no information or help. The mayor of the town of Minamasoma – just 20km (12 miles) from the complex which has seen three expl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBANGKOK — The yen hit a record high against the dollar and Japanese stocks regained some of their fortitude after drooping earlier Thursday, energizing stocks in Europe and pushing U.S. futures higher even...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFires started from the Kamoamoa eruption of Kilauea Volcano burned more than 1,166 acres over two days, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park said today. Gusty winds today pushed the fires southwest toward Hole...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US is recommending a no-go zone of 80 kilometres - four times the size of the 20-kilometre exclusion zone set up by Japanese authorities around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Jacques Repussard...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith its head stuck through a windscreen after being hit by a truck at 60mph, nobody gave the young bald eagle much of a chance of survival. But the bird nicknamed Wiegle - short for 'Window Eagle' - has m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists in Angola claim they have unearthed one of the largest ever dinosaurs to walk the planet. Although they have only found the first fossil, it is believed the creature was a long-necked plant eat...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Bilawal Zardari, the son of Pakistan's president. The leadership in Pakistan are dealing with** Mossad, the CIA, RAW and MI6*, *who reportedly want to break up Pakistan, using agents such as Raymond Davis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIts naked neck has long ruffled feathers among both scientists and poultry fanciers. Is it there because this fowl is a hybrid of a turkey and a chicken? Many once mistakenly believed that to be true, wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCommercial flights available tomorrow 18th Mar 2011 for people to leave on - Prime Minister calls on King of Bahrain to end violent suppression - Witnesses see helicopters firing on homes and attac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHomeless, desperate people clambered over snow-covered debris where their villages had once stood, gathering armloads of firewood as Japan's humanitarian crisis escalated yesterday. In scenes more befitti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of seabirds have been killed when the tsunami generated by last week's massive earthquake off Japan flooded a remote atoll near Hawaii. At least 1,000 adult and adolescent Laysan albatross, along...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPollution is causing a significant barrier to sea star breeding off the coast of California - more so than the varied marine topography along the rest of the western United States.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Washington (CNN)* -- The State Department announced late Wednesday that it has approved the departure of family members of U.S. government personnel from certain areas of Japan in the aftermath of the e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Please, please help us! Are we not human in Bahrain? A foreign army has come to Bahrain and is attacking people everywhere. The international community has to do something." This is just one of dozens an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* Tokyo (CNN)* -- Helicopters dumped water Thursday on and near the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the latest attempt to halt the nuclear accident that appeared to be spi...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Two years previous to a huge coastal earthquake plunged Japan into a nuclear crisis, a geologic fault was exposed about a half-mile from a California seaside re...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she does not desire to wait in her job if President Barack Obama wins a second term in 2012. The nation...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Military helicopters deserted loads of seawater onto Japan's suffering nuclear multifaceted Thursday, rotating to combat-style plans while trying to cool excite...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA report funded by the National Science Foundation's National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis, appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science, warns that overfishing and pollution may mean...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf you are not aware of how rapidly the global economic situation is unraveling you need to snap out of it and start paying attention. The world economy was relatively stable in 2010, but here in 2011 thin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is a change that affects every single airline that operates in the United States. The federal government has ordered safety equipment be removed from 6,000 commercial passenger planes, and the Federal A...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina used a top-secret SC-19 anti-satellite (ASAT) missile in a test last year against a target missile as part of a missile-defense system that remains shrouded in secrecy. The ASAT missile was fired ag...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth rose at the end of last year, preventing many people from selling their homes in an already weak housing market. CoreLogi...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoMarch 16, 2011 *“No Happy Ending”: Nuclear Experts Say Japan’s Disaster is Intensifying* Japan’s nuclear crisis is intensifying. A second reactor unit at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power statio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSYDNEY: A strong 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but no widespread tsunami warning was issued. However, the Hawaii-base...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*The history of the Smithsonian Institution, like the history taught in US classrooms, is largely one of deception and fiction * ** *By Brenda Norrell* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”, it was claimed last night. Nuclear safety officials in France said the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoView the entire gallery of incredible images here.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibya's civil war has cut global crude supply by 1.1m barrels per day (bpd), eroding Opec's spare capacity to a wafer-thin margin of 2m bpd, if Goldman Sachs is correct. Now events in the Gulf have tur...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStocks in Japan dropped Thursday morning there amid fears of a nuclear crisis following the nation's catastrophic natural disaster. The Nikkei 225 index, the most prominent measure of stocks traded in Toky...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Lucius Beebe in his reinvented role as a Virginia City, Nevada, newspaper publisher and Western cultural historian * *"Mr. Beebe . . . was precisely as vast and stylish as he had ever been, and the years...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHelicopters dumped water Thursday on and near the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the latest attempt to halt the nuclear accident that appeared to be spinning out of contro...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNASA astronaut Scott Kelly, brother-in-law of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shows off his "Gabby" wristband after returning this morning from a six-month stint aboard the space station.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoVideo streaming by Ustream And this is the latest: Nuclear plant hours away from another Chernobyl.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoI'm almost afraid to say this but:Last night the Bartonville Town Council started proceedings to place a temporary moratorium on new drilling permits and fracking with chemicals. The vote was unanimous.Hold ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoYeah, well. The title of this post isn't as Google-friendly as I'd like, but ... Shamelessly stolen from Sabina Becker. She uses a lot of bad words, but "vagina" isn't one of them, and it shouldn't be con...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame. The...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe have now gotten to the point — as I noted yesterday — where if national defense, interstate highways, national parks, homeland security, and all other discretionary programs somehow became absolutely fr...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSoldiers and riot police expelled hundreds of protesters from a landmark square in Bahrain's capital on Wednesday, using tear gas and armored vehicles to try to subdue the growing movement challenging the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoView the entire CBC gallery here
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe ongoing radioactivity releases from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan after last week's historic earthquake are creating "one of the most challenging humanitarian operations ever conducted," according ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNaturalNews has received information directly from an American who happened to be in Tokyo at the time of the nuclear incident and who also happens to have a background in atomic energy and nuclear reactor...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"Bad people have plans! They always have a fucking plan! Good people don't have plans, or missions, or agendas. They just stumble through life, thinking, 'We'll all treat each other right if given the ch...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*(Please bear with me. This post is all over the place and deals with a lot of info.)* "Millionaires don't use Astrology, billionaires do." - J.P. Morgan *See first: **HAARP activity* Let's get one thing...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*Dennis Kucinich Speaking at Workers' Rights Rally in Madison, WI, on March 12, 2011* *VideoNewsService * Original here Cherchez la Verite
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoSorry if this is a bit messy. Just to keep the record. At the current time you can read for yourself the data. The magnitude of the 'big one' on the 11th is 8.9 here but other sources say as high as 9.1. S...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*NOHO HEWA: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com . Censored News congratulates Native Hawaiian filmmaker Anne Keala Kelly for her documentary, *NOHO HEWA: The...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoWatch WFAA tonight @ 10:00 PM for a story about drilling waste. Natural gas extraction creates MASSIVE amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. What happens to it all?My pet peeve.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEnergy Secretary Steven Chu told members of Congress Wednesday that the rapidly unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan may be more serious than the situation faced by U.S. officials during the Three Mile Island...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIs there another type of Higgs particle that can travel through time? Could it be used for evil?
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoSo the Liberals have released a couple of new attack ads highlighting Harper's vulnerabilities and making Iggy feel all warm and squishy. Great. So you can sling mud and get your guy to wear fuzzy sweaters...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith no water to cool the fuel rods, they could just get hotter and eventually melt down.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. military personnel who are helping the relief efforts in Japan are prohibited from entering areas within 50 miles of the country's quake and tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Defense ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe frightening disasters in Japan are mounting. Despite workers' Herculean efforts to prevent a complete meltdown at the country's earthquake-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the situation a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibyan leader Muammar Qaddafi set his sights on Benghazi as government forces fought rebels for control of the cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata and prospects faded for an internationally imposed no-fly zone....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. military will operate a Global Hawk unmanned high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft over a stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, possibly on Thursday, to take a closer look at its t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSince the disaster struck in Japan, about 800 workers have been evacuated from the damaged nuclear complex in Fukushima. The radiation danger is that great. However, CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod rep...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe fear that a nuclear cloud could float from the shores of Japan to the shores of California has some people making a run on iodine tablets. Pharmacists across California report being flooded with reque...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt appeared to be the first global storm since World War II, a commingling of unrelated disasters. For Japan, it was 9/11-plus, the worst disaster since U.S. atomic bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVeto-wielding member China is blocking UN Security Council action on Libya while the United States has yet to define its position, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Tuesday. "If today we are stuck,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll Europe's atomic power reactors will be subjected to natural disaster tests in the wake of a the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. Tuesday's EU decision came after Germany moved to shut down ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe BBC and how it treats Islam and Christianity. A B-BBC reader informs; "The BBC continues its assault on Christianity and the Bible ( 'a monstrous book that does more evil than good' Melvyn Bragg sugges...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoA DVD of this lecture on 9/11 truth by Dr. Steven E. Jones is available at AE911Truth.org Dr. Steven E. Jones - 9/11: Science and Society, Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Part 6: Part 7...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoScrapyard dealers test the drilling pipe and find it too hot to handle. Drillers, of course, deny it. Radioactive That's how scrapyard owners describe drilling industry leftovers brought to their businesses...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoCould happen in Oregon According to studies there is an 8.5 quake offshore roughly every 500 years. ------------------------------------------------ Seismic Cluster Strikes Offshore Oregon Posted by f...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoRon Paul - End The No-Win War in Afghanistan
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMcConnell and Boehner are getting hysterical about pushing Obama on passing more corporate-oriented trade policies, trade policies he already supports. U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell led 43 Republicans in v...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoA B-BBC readers writes! "The BBC has declared nuclear power not just potentially risky or even dangerous but actually 'Evil'. On 'Wake up to money this morning, at around 10.50 mins the presenter asks is...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoAllan Gregg interviewed author Jane Jacobs about her book "Dark Age Ahead"in May 2004:
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI would have thought that most decent people would feel that Wootton Bassett thoroughly deserves the Royal In it's title, as announced by David Cameron today. However what to make of this piece from the BB...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIshinomaki confirms the huge number of its citizens missing - North Eastern port town was hit by 20ft tsunami - Fears that overall death toll has been terribly underestimated The terrible toll ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrench minister: 'Let's not beat about the bush, they've essentially lost control' - Radioactive steam spews into atmosphere from reactor number three - Experts warn that crisis is 'approaching p...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoToyota Motor Corp. may lose output of at least 40,000 vehicles after Friday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake damaged factories and crippled nuclear power plants, which led to electricity shortages. Toyota had c...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoRaw Story reports that Robert VerBruggen, editor of the ultraconservative *National Review*, is speaking out against the US Army's torture and abusive treatment of Bradley Manning. I assume everyone alrea...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhere is the president? The world is beset. Moammar Khadafy is moving relentlessly to crush the Libyan revolt that once promised the overthrow of one of the world's most despicable regimes. So where is t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPanicked passengers hoping to flee Japan waited for hours at the country's largest international airport today as concerns about radioactive fallout heightened. The international and domestic terminals ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForeign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan's nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities in the region. BNP Paribas , Standard Char...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtesters have demonstrated in Damascus, the Syrian capital, in a rare show of dissent against the country's hardline regime. Witnesses said 40 to 50 people gathered after midday prayers on Tuesday in t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEconomic and fiscal policy minister Kaoru Yosano suggested Tuesday that the government may purchase stocks to help sustain share prices, which have nose-dived since Friday's powerful earthquake. "It might...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMoody's downgraded Portugal by two notches on Tuesday night and warned the country could face “subdued” growth prospects for years. In a move likely to renew fears about European sovereign debt, the credit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStocks for wind and solar energy producers jump as investors speculate that demand for renewable power will surge in response to the unfolding Japanese nuclear catastrophe. The German solar-panel maker Sol...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen Saudi Arabian troops rolled into Bahrain to help quell Shi'ite Muslim protests, the world's top oil-exporting region inched closer to a sectarian stand-off that could involve non-Arab Shi'ite power ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe US-based, non profit Pew Environment Group is urging Canada to protect our boreal forests which they claim do more to reduce global carbon emissions than even the Amazon rainforests. *Steve Kallick, t...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*The CIA's Raymond Davis, who was allegedly organising acts of terrorism in Pakistan * On 16 March 2011, it was reported that the USA had suspended aid to Pakistan. (US 'blocks' aid over Raymond Davis is...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Alcatraces de agua - Water white flower (1920x1363)]*Haz click aquí*o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compar...
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago*Don't forget to come join us for the just Housewives March Madness Bracket Challenge!* Good Wednesday! Today's topic comes to us from Judy of Cranberry Morning who wrote: *Hi Lu, I am wondering if, in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the evacuation centre inside Yamagata stadium, every new arrival is scanned for exposure to radiation with a Geiger counter. Only then are they given a new home on the hard wooden floors of the basketba...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: DESCRIPCION]*Haz click aquí* o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compartir nuestras imágenes][image: Síguenos...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThis is how I define "lowlife" - people who exploit the Japanese disaster, like these miscreants and reprobates: And this: And this:
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoMichaelMoore.com / *by Michael Moore* Michael Moore: Michigan Governor Pushing Unbelievable Anti-Democracy Measures -- Join the Fight Wednesday *Michael Moore: "You must stand up against these Draco...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Hermosas flores amarillas - Amazing yellow flowers]*Haz click aquí*o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compart...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoMark Mardell is still desperately supporting the US President about His behavior regarding Libya. The President still hasn't made a decision, is in fact hoping the problem is solved for Him, and Mardell is...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Campo de flores púrpuras - Purple flowers field]*Haz click aquí* o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para comparti...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat's it like on a planet where a year is three months long and the sun is 11 times brighter than on Earth? We're about to find out.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs workers struggle to contain Japan's nuclear disaster, a vast cleanup task lies ahead.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTSA body scanners may expose individuals to nearly 10 times the amount of radiation than originally reported.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Campo de flores rojas- Red flower field (1920x1363)]*Haz click aquí*o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compar...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Update from Fukushima*: Tokyo Electric Power Co. is going to install a new power line and TRF predicts that the nuclear alert is going to fade away as early as tomorrow. This video is 4 years old or so...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoObama better get control of America back from this runaway mob of dangerous and delusional teabaggy nincompoops who question his legitimacy to run America because his father was black (and because he's a ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAmerican foreign policy is a shambles. That's hardly surprising when firepower has come to rival diplomacy as the country's prime instrument of foreign policy. It sets up an inevitable and inconsistent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe emergency response headquarters of Fukushima Prefecture announced, on 16 March 2011, that abnormal radioactive elements have been found in Fukushima City tap water: radioactive iodide, at the level of ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFreeKibble donates pet food to animal shelters all over the world. You answer trivia questions, and right or wrong, your click provides 10 pieces of kibble to a homeless animal. Today, all the food donat...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWhen the current upheaval hit the Arab world it quickly emerged that one driving force was youth underemployment. These countries had opened colleges and universities that churned out grads for whom ther...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAfter a round of pre-election ads from the Tories, Dippers, and Greens (which you can rate here), the Liberals have released two new ads of their own. How would you grade this ad? A B C D FSee Results ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapanese officials faced added pressure today after it emerged that they were warned more than two years ago that the country's nuclear power plants could not withstand powerful earthquakes. The internati...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoAs Politico.COM reported, Mr Henry Waxman, a prominent crusader against carbon dioxide in the Democratic Party, wanted the U.S. Congress to codify a new dogma: Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCanada's nuclear regulator said on Wednesday there was a demineralized water leak at a nuclear power plant near Toronto late on Monday after a pump seal failed. With world attention riveted on the nuclea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Both dogs were rescued and are fine at an animal shelter according to reports!)
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago. . March 15, 2011 “This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids”: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan’s Growing Nuclear Crisis Japan is on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe after a third explosi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFor years scientists have pondered the possible connection between spikes in the *El Nino-Southern Oscillation* [ENSO] and Pacific sea bed seismicity. We're just about at the end of what has been a massiv...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith the crisis escalating in Japan, a grateful and anxious nation is hoping nuclear engineers can prevent a meltdown.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Japan nuclear disaster rates between Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania and Chernobyl.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe ambitious pipeline deal to ship bitumen sludge from Athabasca to refineries in Texas has hit a snag. The US State Department has delayed a decision saying it wants additional public input and environm...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's beloved emperor dramatically took to the national TV airwaves Wednesday and buoyed the spirits of his disaster-stricken citizens, an extraordinary address before a nation grappling with the after...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWho would have thought that a massive wave washing ashore in northeastern Japan would shut down auto assembly lines in North America? That's what happens in today's world of lean and fragile globalized m...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoMemo to NATO - Try harder when you're responding to complaints about dead civilians. Last week a NATO gunship helicopter whacked nine Afghan boys out gathering firewood. The bad news: they've done it ag...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: DigitalGlobe commercial satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site taken at 9:35AM local time on March 16, 2011. isis-online.org] DigitalGlobe has released a new satellite image of the...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoMeteorologists say that contaminated dust from Fukushima could disperse in wide patterns.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoA big "hell, yeah" to Steve V over at Far and Wide. The Harper GovernmentTM has, for as long as I can remember, been leading with its chin on the question of open government and accountability. Progressiv...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days ago* theREALNEWS* March 15, 2011 *Spent Nuclear Fuel - The Real Danger?* Harvey Wasserman: In Japan and around the world problem of storing spent nuclear fuel still not solved; Could be another Chernobyl ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 days agoI have never listened to or watched Rush Limbaugh in my life but given the two earlier posts about, shall we say, exceptional Americans, I think there's enough of a trend here that it's worth noting, with ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago-by Danny Goldberg If David Sirota is right, and the culture of the nineteen eighties is defining most of modern America maybe there’s a connection between Charlie Sheen’s “issues” and American political...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNuclear reactors planned for the U.S. are safer and more efficient than the 40-year-old Japan facility that has suffered explosions and leaks.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago*The German government has declared a three-month moratorium on nuclear power, in which nine reactors will stay offline, checks will take place and nuclear policy may be reconsidered.* Chancellor Angela ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoTokyo shares have rebounded sharply, closing up 5.7% thanks to "bargain hunters". The *Nikkei* rallied after two days of sell-offs which saw the index shed more than 16% following the massive earthquake ...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 2 days agoOfficials Warn People to hang about Indoors Within *30-Kilometer* Radius Work to stabilize the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power stand was temporarily halted early Wednesday because...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*Orly Weinerman, Jewish friend of Gaddafi's son * Why has the UK been unlucky with its 'spooks' in Libya? Did Gaddafi have powerful friends? Germany originally blocked plans for a Libya no-fly zone (Gu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoTOKYO (Reuters) – Areas of Tokyo usually packed with office workers crammed into sushi restaurants and noodle shops were eerily quiet. Many schools were closed. Companies allowed workers to stay home. Long...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoAt least two protesters and one soldier dead after clampdown - Foreign Office orders British nationals to leave Bahrain - Doctors held hostage in capital's main hospital - Security forces take c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoWorkers battling nuclear meltdown briefly evacuated today after radiation levels increased - French minister: 'Let's not beat about the bush, they've essentially lost control' - Officials coma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi will fall to government forces within 48 hours, Saif Gaddafi has said in a television interview. Saif, the son of Libyan dictator *Muammar Gaddafi*, told France-bas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoTurkey will not suspend its nuclear projects despite unprecedented damage to Japanese nuclear reactors following its catastrophic earthquake and Turkey’s own seismic vulnerability, according to Prime Minis...
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