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The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant stabilised on Sunday as engineers reconnected power to two of the reactor buildings at the earthquake-stricken facility. Almost 300 engineers have been battli... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 46 minutes ago
The DC Democratic Establishment was out in force with a message yesterday: Stand Up For Women. They even have a nifty new Facebook page with pictures of Democratic heroes who do stand up for women-- like ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Yemen's Ambassador to the UN Abdullah Alsaidi has resigned following the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Sana'a. The move comes as Bharain's Human Rights Minister Huda al-Baan, 27 parl... - posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 57 minutes ago
There has been a resurgence of what could be called 'Englishness' in the last few years. With it has come the question, which I think is a fair enough one - "There is a Scottish Parliament, but why is ther... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 57 minutes agoYippee, a no-fly zone, because it's much better for the West to kill Libyans than for Gaddafi to do it! Hey, those crazy Arabs can't liberate themselves, you know. They need our help. Just ask the Iraqis! ...
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As you may know, Afghan writer and activist Malalai Joya has been denied entry to the US. Joya opposes the Western occupation of her country, and with a clear majority of USians now opposing the war in A... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTAIPEI — Authorities in Taiwan checking food imports for radiation on Sunday found a shipment of fava beans from southern Japan had been very slightly contaminated, an official said. The radiation, which ...
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A woman of 80 and a teenage boy have been rescued from the wreckage of a house - nine days after the earthquake that has devastated northeastern Japan. Rescuers spotted the 16-year-old boy on the roof of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Col Muammar Gaddafi says Libya will fight a "long war" after Western air strikes against his forces to protect rebel-held areas. Military officials are said to be assessing the damage after at least 110 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has issued an urgent appeal to military and political leaders to consider the safety of Libyan civilians and ensure they have access to emergency aid in his first comment... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago
*U.S. airstrike on the village of Khanaqa. 200 killed. (**Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan**)* In* Libya*, *western planes have bombed Beir al-Osta Milad hospital* in Trip... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Wildlife experts today feared that a rogue hunter was on the loose after a herd of deer was targeted near the spot where 40 swans were shot dead. Two red deer were killed after being chased out of their wi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*DAYS before Japan plunged into an atomic crisis after a giant earthquake and tsunami knocked out power at the ageing Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator had admitted faking repair records. * The revel...
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One of the most localized and emotional posterchildren of the global warming doom in the last decade has been the snowcap on the top of Mount Kilimanjaroin Tanzania. It's been retreating for quite some... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
The former Governor of Alaska and reality TV star Sarah Palin has suggested China is preparing itself to launch a military offensive. She questioned why the Far East country was stockpiling ballistic missi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Bahraini embassy in London today calling for the downfall of the Bahraini government. Police estimated that up to 600 people took part in the demonstration dema... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Police stormed a protest camp in southern Yemen today, firing live rounds and tear gas that wounded at least 13 people as President Ali Abdullah Saleh's crackdown on dissent grows increasingly deadly. The... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPalestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 rockets into Israel today, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said. A Hamas official was killed and four civilians were wounded when Israe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFor a ghost town supposedly on the brink of imploding, Tokyo was rocking last night. I had expected the worst after endless stories claiming the Japanese capital had been devastated by blackouts and chroni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAmerican warships and submarines unleashed a fury of cruise missiles against Libya as the world finally signified it had turned on Colonel Gaddafi. An amassed fleet of U.S. warships and submarines in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFresh questions were raised last night about Labour’s close links with the Libyan regime after it emerged that Saif Gaddafi was given special assistance by MI6 while he was a student in London. The move ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTRIPOLI, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Anti-aircraft gunfire could still be heard in Tripoli by early Sunday as warplanes flew over the city. Intensive anti-aircraft guns have reportedly lasted about 10 minutes i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPhotos are reader contributed The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree hours after I gave my name and e-mail address to Michael Fertik, the CEO of Reputation.com, he called me back and read my Social Security number to me. "We had it a couple of hours ago," he said. "I ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans still flock to the archive that stores the files compiled by the Stasi, East Germany's notorious secret police. Around 1.8 million people h...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCôte d'Ivoire is on the verge of a new civil war. This tragedy can only be avoided if Africans and the wider international community stand firm behind the democratically elected president, Alassane Ouattar...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLast week I attended a discussion group chaired by the Observer's health correspondent Denis Campbell where one of the other experts, a public health doctor, asserted that alcohol should be treated differe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAs federal stimulus runs out and states from California to New Jersey face a third year of multi-billion-dollar budget deficits, Congress is right to worry about how to avoid bailing out states and their i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt had been another sleepless night in Benghazi. The city was waiting in both defiance and dread for Gaddafi to carry out his threat of an attack ‘without mercy or compassion’. By dawn yesterday, the rele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPrime Minister David Cameron has sought to defend British military action in Libya, saying airstrikes against military targets were "necessary, legal and right". Both he and US president Barack Obama ins...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 8 hours agoFormer PBS broadcaster Bill Moyers says that people should defend NPR against its critics. Moyers writes: Sure, public broadcasting has made its share of mistakes, and there have been times when we who pr...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago*This is the first part of Sir Hamilton Harty's own 1933 recording of the suite -- played, as we see, from original 78s (unfortunately with some outer-groove damage) -- he arranged from Handel's Water Mus...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWhy not just bury them? The idea of smothering and sealing the overheated nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 facility in sand or concrete to stop the crisis is appealing. But experts say it is too ea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHours after French, British and American military forces unleashed cruise missiles and fighter jets, a defiant Moammar Gadhafi said Libya will fight back against undeserved "naked aggression." A coalitio...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe owner of a kitten that died after being transported in the cargo hold on a Delta plane says the airline is only offering to refund her airfare plus $50. The hairless kitten, named Snickers, froze aft...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*The energy chickens come home to roost:* *If there were a life form less suitable than Michigan Rep. Fred Upton to chair the House Energy Committee . . . well, you can be sure the Republicans would have f...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoExplosions and anti-aircraft fire thundered in the skies above Tripoli early Sunday, but it was not clear whether they resulted from another round of cruise missile attacks by allies determined to stop M...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 15 hours agoThe biggest error that people commit is taking sides in global conflicts, seeing one side as purely good and the other side as purely evil. This error could be forgiven a hundred years ago after World War ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoColonel Gaddafi has threatened to attack military and civilian targets in the Meditarranean in a phone call to Libyan state radio. The Libyan leader called the radio station to threaten retaliation for W...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoBritain is deeply concerned about the Bahraini monarch unleashing his along with Saudi and Emirates forces against civilian protesters. Britain is profoundly saddened that these forces have gunned down una...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSyrian security forces have fired tear gas to disperse crowds at the funeral of two people killed in anti-government protests on Friday, witnesses say. Thousands had gathered for the funeral in the southe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe *1755 Lisbon earthquake*, also known as the *Great Lisbon Earthquake*, was a megathrust earthquake that took place on Saturday 1 November 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning.[1] The earthquake was foll...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAs the world anxiously watches Japan's nuclear crisis, the death toll from earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the country one week ago is still rising, and many hundreds of thousands remain homeless. Jap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSecretary of State *Hillary Clinton's* meetings in Paris with the G8 foreign ministers on Monday left her European interlocutors with more questions than answers about the Obama administration's stance on ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAs the sun set over quake-stricken Japan on Thursday 17 March 2011, we learned that four of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth, that the *fire is burning out of control** at Reac...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoCompare this report from Fox News: U.S. Launches Cruise Missiles Against Qaddafi's Air Defenses The U.S. Navy fires the first U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles against Libyan leader's Muammar al-Qaddafi's air...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoI admire the Tunisians, Egyptians, Bahrainis, Wisconsinites, Libyans, Yemenis... They're putting aside their differences and going up against the overwhelming odds and might of the entrenched Establishmen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA US warship fired Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya today, targeting Muammar Gaddafi's air defence sites, a senior US military official said. The action in Libya, launched by France earlier this afterno...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPalestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 mortar shells into Israel on Saturday, the heaviest barrage in two years, Israeli officials said, raising the prospect of a new Mideast flareup. Also Satu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBritish forces are in action over Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed. Allied forces began military action against the country after leader Muammar Gaddafi apparently defied the UN's demand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe U.S. Navy fires the first U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles against Libyan leader's Muammar al-Qaddafi's air defenses Saturday, Fox News has learned. The U.S. military strikes clear the way for European a...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 17 hours agoThe myth of the panicking disaster victim By Johann Hari The Independent Published: March 18, 2011 Before the Second World War, the Ministry of War confidently predicted what would happen when London was...
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Bumper cars in Pripyat, 2011. In 2011, 25 years after the town of Pripyat was abandoned, the area surrounding Chernobyl still looks like a ghost town. Fan of TotallyCoolPix David Schindler went t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA sample of tap water from the Japanese capital shows a tiny level of radioactive iodine after an earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear power plant 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, the government said...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in tears - as his country finally acknowledged the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction cau...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSpinach and milk from two regions near Japan's stricken nuclear plant are showing radiation levels above the legal safety limit, a Japanese official said Saturday. But Yukio Edano, the chief cabinet secr...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoConcerns that global manufacturing could be halted by damage to suppliers in Japan has spread to European car plants and the new iPad after a string of companies announced precautionary measures. General...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRussia has legalised the hunting of polar bears for the first time in more than half a century, a move that critics say will put further pressure on the endangered mammal. Roman Kopin, the governor of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThey are an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers who are risking their lives at the very heart of Japan’s nuclear crisis. But as the stricken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant appears to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFrench forces have launched their first air strikes into Libya to enforce the UN-mandated "no fly zone". Absurdly, the first targets chosen where battle tanks, supposedly two to four of them according to C...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 20 hours agoThe Obama Administration Adapts Its Israel Talking Points For Bahrain And Saudi Arabia By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The Race For Iran Published: March 16, 2011 Today, the White House confi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least 15 people were killed and 30 others injured when a fierce thunderstorm hit the city of Sialkot in east Pakistan Saturday afternoon, according to a website report of a local Urdu TV channel ARY. ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThis is the 175,000-tonne ship that was lifted up by Friday's tsunami and dumped on top of a pier in Japan. The cargo ship lies on the dock promenade Kamaishi, more than a week after the huge surge of wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJapan today banned the sale of food grown in the area around the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant after milk and spinach was found to be contaminated with radiation. As engineers worked to rewire a power ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoKnut, the world-famous polar bear, collapsed and died in front of 600 visitors at Berlin Zoo this afternoon. The bear rose to stardom when he was hand-raised by zoo keepers after being rejected by his mot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe latest statement from the Libyan regime - addressed to the French, British, the United States and the UN - signals another small shift. Just 24 hours ago, in the very same room where we heard today's s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago-by Johnny Angel Wendell *Baby Talk* Last week, Rand Paul (R-KY, man, there's a double entendre just waiting to happen), went shithouse ballistic (pun intended) over what he sees as one of the most pres...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*David Cameron.* *Website for this image** * On 19 March 2011, we learn that, in Libya, the rebels have broken the ceasefire. *Libyan rebels have acknowledged that the warplane which crashed in flames in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLeaders of nations supporting the UN-backed no-fly zone over Libya have warned Colonel Gaddafi that "the time for action" has come over because of ceasefire breaches.British Prime Minister David Cameron sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoJakarta: At least 600 people have been evacuated to temporary shelters a day after Indonesian authorities issued a red alert for the Mount Karangetang volcano, a volcanologist said Saturday. The volcan...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFrench military jets have flown reconnaissance missions over "all Libyan territory" on Saturday, French military sources say. Western and Arab leaders have been meeting in Paris to agree a course of acti...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 23 hours agoThe Mail Online reports that Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri broke down as he left a news conference after Japan officials raised the level of the nuclear crisis to acknowledge t...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago. . Home > Publications > Blogs > Beat the Press > NPR Joins Drive to Cut Social Security NPR Joins Drive to Cut Social Security Tuesday, 15 March 2011 19:48 NPR ran a piece that largely accepted u...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 23 hours agoArlington homeowner argues for scent in natural gas | wfaa.com | Dallas - Fort Worth Politics, Politics News*This huge pipeline is right behind Jeana Cole's home. I don't see any reason, other than cost to t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoReferring to gay party members the county chairman said "They all have these weird ideas about how our society can function better... they have infiltrated the Bexar County party, much like termites infil...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe above comes from the always classy CPC war room, in response to this online video: In a dispute of this sorts, perhaps we can see what the "Harper government" has to say about whether George was a...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces struck against unarmed demonstrators urging their leaders' ouster. CAIRO - Violence shook the Middle East after security forces attacked protesters Friday in Yemen and Syria, leaving at le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTurkey has intercepted an Iranian cargo plane flying to Syria, ordering it to land southeastern Turkey on suspicions the aircraft might have been carrying military supplies. Turkish chemical, biological,...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 1 day agoTaking the War Out of Air War: What US Air Power Actually Does, from agent Orange to Shock and awe...and from Drones to the X37B.... Wednesday 16 March 2011 by: Tom Engelhardt | *TomDispatch | Op-Ed* ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAbnormal levels of radiation have been detected in milk and spinach near a nuclear power plant damaged after the northeast of the country was battered by a tsunami. The discovery came as engineers tried to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMuammar Gaddafi: tyrant, pawn, or madman? Whatever one's take on the besieged Libyan leader, his reign has suddenly taken on the dark, foreboding tone of another Arab dictator who just a few short year...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBBC News has video of what appears to be a jet fighter shot down and falling in flames over Benghanzi. Stills from the video suggest it is indeed one of Gaddafi's dozen or so remaining Mirage F1s.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Website for this image* "An ex-CIA agent and counter-intelligence expert has revealed in a special report that Barack Obama has quietly appointed individuals who are friendly to radical Islam to key po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Benghazi:* Libyan rebels shot down a warplane that was bombing their eastern stronghold Saturday as the opposition accused Muammar Gaddafi's government of defying calls for an immediate cease-fire. An ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIn a world that increasingly appears to be spinning out of control, you may find yourself reaching out for something to clutch. When you hit 60 that may become a lot easier to understand. I got The Beas...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoMuammar Gaddafi seems intent on sealing his own fate. Numerous accounts claim that, despite calling an immediate ceasefire in response to a threatening UN Security Council resolution, Libyan military for...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mysterious resurgence of phosphorus in the Great Lakes is endangering the aquatic food chain and human health, says a binational agency that advises Canada and the U.S. Fifteen years after the last pro...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouthern California researchers have found evidence of widespread ingestion of plastic among small fish in the northern Pacific Ocean in a study they say shows the widespread impact of floating litter on t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the largest challenges in climate science is determining how the great ice sheets over Greenland and Antarctica will respond to the increase in temperatures expected from rising concentrations of he...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to an old saying on the stock exchange, “if the USA sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold”. But in the meantime it would seem as if this had become true for China. We remain critical vis-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoElmira, N.Y. --- Hundreds of dead fish have floated to the surface in one Elmira pond. The dead fish on Millers pond were first spotted yesterday. Officials say the cause of death is winterkill. The DEC ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPalestinian youths have clashed with security forces in East Jerusalem as tensions rise over Israeli plans to build hundreds of new homes for Jewish settlers. Angry demonstrators hurled petrol bombs at Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago19th Mar 2011 - As Japan's radiation disaster appals the world, this disturbing dispatch from the Lake District investigates a lethal legacy closer to home... Down a long country lane at Newbiggin, past t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMarch 19 (Bloomberg) -- Engineers missed a deadline to restore power to the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic plant, prolonging efforts to prevent more radiation leaks as Japan’s nuclear agency advised pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibya's Colonel Gaddafi was given an ultimatum to surrender power last night as British jets readied for military action against his murderous regime. In a clear hardening of tone just hours after the Unit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlmost 2,000 years ago, 19 Roman soldiers rushed into a cramped underground tunnel, prepared to defend the Roman-held Syrian city of Dura-Europos from an army of Persians digging to undermine the city's mu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Premature Bottlenose Dolphin Deaths along the Gulf Coast may be directly related oil toxicity. How can science field trips raise environmental awareness and possibly prevent future environmental tragedies...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man was found alive early today (Sat) in the wreckage of his house - eight days after the tsunami smashed into the building, making escape impossible. All hope had been given up of finding any more survi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Update on 5 March:* *Lead researcher Jack Lissauer says: "Further study of the light curve of this target produced an alternative interpretation wherein one of the co-orbital candidates (KOI 730.03) has a...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoMarch 18, 2011 *"Underestimating the Seriousness of the Problem": Experts Urge Japan to Raise Nuclear Alert Level and Evacuate Wider Area* The Japanese nuclear crisis worsens as Japanese authori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*The intense heat wave that centered on western Russia last summer was truly a record breaker. It surpassed even 2003's scorcher in western and central Europe — which has been blamed for 70,000 deaths. And...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibya's deputy foreign minister has insisted it is sticking to a ceasefire as Prime Minister David Cameron prepares to discuss military action with the US and other allies. Khaled Kaim spoke after US pre...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*Who was Eugene Debs and what brought him into conflict with the government? * Debs was the great voice of socialism in the United States for the first two decades of the 20th century, a five-time preside...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe owner of the stricken nuclear power complex in northeastern Japan said Saturday that it will hike the radiation exposure limit for its workers at the plant from 100 millisieverts per shift to 150 mil...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe U.S. military-industrial complex has consistently used Islamic fundamentalists for their own nefarious ends in the global geopolitical game, who have proved their usefulness whether as a militant relig...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe head of the UN’s nuclear safety body said Japan was still “racing against the clock” to prevent a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant after he arrived in the country for a first-hand briefing on the ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 'maximal perigee' tonight has only a minimal effect on seismic activity and cannot be linked with last week's earthquakes in Japan.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"Rejoicing":* *Sir Andrew Davis conducts this "Prom at the Palace" (Buckingham, that is), for the Queen's Jubilee, 2002.* *by Ken* Once upon a time Handel was known primarily as the composer of the orat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCol Muammar Gaddafi was on Friday night warned that he must surrender large swathes of Libya or face military action from Britain, France and other Western countries this weekend. British warplanes wer...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInternal documents show two of the oldest Muni tunnels are riven with cracks, leaks and corrosion, but a spokesman said the transit agency has never seismically inspected them — even following the 1989 Lom...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoINEFFECTUAL, invisible, unable to honour pledges and now blamed for letting Gaddafi off the hook. Why Obama’s gone from ‘Yes we can’ to ‘Er, maybe we shouldn’t’... Let us cast our minds back to those rem...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. The disclosure came a day after the Group of Seven major industrializ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEven amid the carnage and despair of Japan's tsunami victims, the plight of the 30 children at Kama Elementary School is heartbreaking. They sit quietly in the corner of a third-floor classroom where they ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFallout from the current meltdown occurring at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was hit by the 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami last Friday, could contaminate the world's food supply with tox...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUK mortgage lending remained at low levels in February as the housing market remained "stuck in a rut", lenders have said. Gross mortgage lending during the month was £9.5bn, almost identical to January'...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Vancouver city councillor says it's time to find out specifically which buildings in the city would survive an earthquake, following a decades-old report that suggests thousands of buildings wouldn't. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 33 anti-government protesters have been shot dead by Yemeni forces in Sanaa, doctors have told the BBC. They said 145 were wounded when government forces opened fire on a group of protesters gat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMillions of Japanese people are bracing themselves for massive blackouts as the country’s power system struggles to cope amid the nuclear crisis. Banri Kaieda, Japan’s trade minister issued a plea to fact...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Yes, I know we just looked at this wonderful Lee Camp clip on Wednesday. Well, here it is again.* *"O’Keefe did not merely leave a false impression; he manufactured an elaborate, alluring lie. . . . The...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoGlenn Greenwald, including links and emphasis: The forced nudity imposed on Bradley Manning followed by the forced resignation of P.J. Crowley has clearly created a media tipping point in this story. In ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day agoFelicity Arbuthnot March 18, 2011 *"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever." *- George Orwell. The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoThis isn't the one with the MOX fuel - that is Fukushima #3. My understanding is the other reactors use uranium. Pictures: *(the storage pool in normal working order)* more http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThis is how it's done. They schedule the public hearing for Tuesday and don't notify us until the last minute on Friday. That way working people can't get off and get to Austin to protest.Who wants to go to...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoCompare these reports. The BBC website is upbeat about the Palestinians’ latest measures to heal the feud between Hamas and Fatah. Mahmoud Abbas is ready to go to Gaza, and Hamas has welcomed the move. Hoo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeveral administration officials held a classified briefing for all senators on Thursday afternoon in the bowels of the Capitol building, leaving lawmakers convinced President *Barack Obama* is ready to at...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of Iranians marched on Friday in Tehran in support of the revolts rocking Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, state television reported. Chants backing the protests of majority Shiites in Bahrain, who are...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGeneral Motors Co. says it suspended production at its Shreveport, La., plant for the week of March 21 because of a parts shortage stemming from last week’s earthquake in Japan. Damage to parts suppliers a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the uncertainty about Japan's nuclear power plant continues, the largest flight attendants union says some of their members' families are pressuring them to avoid flying to Japan. United Airlines has...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe situation in Japan is getting worse, not better. There are shortages in food, fuel and warm dry shelter. To make matters exponentially worse, nuclear power plants there continue to burn out of control ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFinancial chiefs from the Group of Seven advanced economies said Friday they agreed to conduct a concerted currency intervention to curb the recent sharp rise of the yen against the U.S. dollar. Authorit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US military awarded a contract for software to create 500 fake personas on social networks in order to secretly influence online debate in its favour, it has been reported. The $2.76m contract was won...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBank customers could face $5 ATM fees. In Illinois, JPMorgan Chase is testing $5 fees for non-customers, in Texas, it's $4. If the trial runs make enough money, the fees could be rolled out nationwide, the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSevere earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Japan have experts around the world asking whether the world's tectonic plates are becoming more active — and what could be causing it. Some scientists theorize ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI haven't provided a poll soup update since 2010, but with a campaign around the corner, it's worth checking in. Before we get to that, I must meet Blogging Council standards and issue the following discla...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day ago[image: Photobucket] You know I love Friday Confessional, so I just can't help but participate. I confess yesterday when I sat down in the waiting room at the surgery center to wait for my husband, I ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoScience doesn't agree with anybody. It is what it is. On the other hand you can accept science, you can dispute science, you can even deny science but, beyond that, your choices are limited. How many ti...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoIt is beginning to dawn on me why the main stream media got rid of Kieth Olbermann, noting that Morgans softball questions are lobbed right over the base. Netanyahoo doesn't even get to first base. ZZZZZ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDid you think Boehner's crooked buddy Tom Ganley-- remember him?-- landed on the garbage heap of history after being thrashed by Betty Sutton 56-44% last November? The multimillionaire sex predator is the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Satellite View of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Site, 18 March 2011. The most significant difference in the new image is the lack of any visible steam above the damaged reactor building for unit 3. S...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Campo de flores hermosas - Beautiful 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 compart...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Árbol junto al río - Tree next to the river (1920x1200)]*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 ...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Tomates rojos - Red tomatoes (wallpapers de 1920x1080)]*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 c...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Limones amarillos - Yellow lemons and limes (1920x1080)]*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 ...
- 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 Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoNo disrespect to the President intended, but I couldn't resist using this clip, which of course has nothing to do with the "No Fly Zone". That was enacted last night while we were snoozing. This aircraft...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBRITS desperate to escape Japan were last night told: “Pay £600 if you want out.” The UK Government is sending planes to Japan to rescue holidaymakers and expats. About 17,000 are trapped as radiation po...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*E-mail from Bryan Chen* Dear Lubos, It's been a few years since I wrote you. I thought you might be interested that the LaTeXing of Coleman's notes has had quite a bit of recent progress. Indeed, the p...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLike cars lined up at a car wash, sharks and rays gather to rid themselves of dead skin and parasites.
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe system will eventually produce a thermal map of the entire city of Boston.
- posted by James Williams at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHere at Discovery News, we understand the crisis in Japan is confusing. There was an earthquake, a tsunami and now a nuclear disaster. Our experts are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe fastest man-made object ever built crosses the orbit of Uranus today on its nearly decade-long odyssey to the dwarf planet Pluto.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn the center of galaxy NGC 4151, a black hole lurks.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoGiven what's going on in Japan, it's probably a good idea to learn about how the government (yes I know, this is the late stage Soviet govt, but what is so different?) lies lies lies during these type of "...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNissan has started scanning vehicles made in Japan for traces of radioactive material, a company official said Friday. "Looking ahead, we will continue to implement all appropriate measures to reassure t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago** *Photos by Longest Walk northern route. Thank you!* Carl Bad Bear, Western Shoshone, on LW 3 northern route, Thurs. night: "A nice day, Yellowstone National Park, Montana." After walking into Gardiner,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday Canada is deploying the military to enforce the United Nations no-fly zone over Libya. Harper's announcement comes aftter the UN Security Council authorized ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded the rebel-held city of Misrata on Friday with tanks and heavy artillery, killing at least 25 people, residents said. "Gaddafi's forces are bombing the city with...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe owner of a military supply company in Maine says he’s been inundated with orders from people in California buying gas masks and chemical suits. Maine Military Supply owner Frank Spizuoco says hundreds...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan documented more deaths Friday as Prime Minister Naoto Kan sought to reassure a nation reeling from disaster, saying that he is committed to taking firm control of a "grave" situation. Japanese pa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan is in imminent danger of a credit-crunch with global implications unless the authorities stabilise Tokyo's stockmarket and take overwhelming action to stop the yen exploding to record levels. Akito...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoCongress has finally acted on global warming—by denying it exists. It’s in the grand lawmaking tradition of the Indiana state legislature’s 1897 attempt to redefine the value of pi. The Republican-led Hou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA gang of feral cats "the size of dogs" has been terrorizing a neighborhood in the Australian city of Brisbane for more than a year, the City South News reported Thursday. Residents in the suburb of Moor...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDonald Trump aligned himself with "birther" conspiracy theorists during an interview with ABC "Good Morning America" host Ashleigh Banfield, saying he has "a little doubt" about President Obama's birthplac...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea on Thursday proposed holding talks with South Korea on possible volcanic activities at its landmark mountain, Seoul's Unification Ministry said, amid reports of a looming eruption there that co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWriting casually on this blog, I've said more than once that the United States is broke. As with all other issues, the question of whether we are broke has now become *political*. Upon opening the opinion ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMilitary action to protect civilians from Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's forces will come within "hours" and France will participate in the strikes, government spokesman Francois Baroin said Friday. The s...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoDrilling industry continues attackson Texans' property rightsTell the Railroad Commission: don't change Rule 37Under Rule 37, the Texas Railroad Commission allows minerals you own to be taken from you -- eve...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoI have noticed this happening over the last few years, with blackbirds in particular. See, when you walk past them they used to fly away without fail. It's a natural instinct. But recently I have observed ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMESSENGER became the first satellite to orbit the innermost planet in an unprecedented study.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoA13 drew our attention to the article entitled: "*HAARP Magnetometer data shows the Japan earthquake was induced."*: The United States Air Force and Navy has provided a visual insight into what caused t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in tears - as his country finally acknowledged the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHillary Clinton told CNN the other day that she won't be working for the President if there is a second term in 2012. Not just that she doesn't want to be Sec. of State again, but wants no position at all ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Rep. Karen Bass did the right thing yesterday* Yesterday Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) pointed out during the debate over NPR that public radio is twice as popular as the American occupation of Afghanistan. That d...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe loss of digital assets has almost as great an impact on the speed of economic and emotional recovery as the replacement of brick and mortar assets.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConfidential data held by nuclear test ban organization emerging as key to monitoring Fukushima radiation. international agency set up to detect nuclear tests, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Or...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoNuclear Crisis -- Projection: Diluted Radiation Plumes Will Reach California Friday; Tokyo Flight Sets Off Radiation Detectors in Chicago Follow the latest news from the disaster in Japan at the Fukush...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibya today continued to blast rebel fighters with a brutal bombardment from land and sea despite the regime claiming it had called a cease fire. In a day of rapid developments after the UN agreed to launc...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSteve Harper has decided that it suits his "tough guy" self-image to order six Canadian CF-18 fighters to Europe, somewhere, to enforce the UN "no fly zone" edict over Libya. This is about as blatant a st...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoClean Technica, a green lobby's astroturf website whose traffic exceeds that of TRF by a factor of five, became the most recent champion of the idea that the earthquakes are caused by the evil American SUV...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoArmed with radar and infrared sensors, the aircraft could help assess the extend of unseen damage inside the nuclear reactors.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs Japan wrestles with an escalating nuclear crisis, the humanitarian crisis is as difficult as ever.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*The Guardian's *chief environmental writer, George Monbiot, warns that the nuclear disaster we need to fear is happening in China where the Japanese fiasco has caused the Chinese government to suspend app...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe real damage from nuclear accidents is mostly psychological. It's fear and fear can have powerful manifestations. Cambridge University prof and specialist in the public understanding of risk, David ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoBeginning May 1, Ontario will begin time-of-use pricing for energy* use. With time-of-use pricing, electricity use will be billed at three different rates: off-peak (least expensive), mid-peak and peak (mo...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat should couples do with leftover embryos? A Toronto hospital plans to offer them to other couples for "adoption."
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAt the 11th hour, 59th minute, the United Nations Security Council ordered a no-fly zone over Libyan airspace and authorized all necessary measures short of invasion to protect that country's citizens. Th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEmergency workers frantic to regain control of Japan's dangerously overheated nuclear complex turned to increasingly elaborate methods Thursday to cool nuclear fuel rods at risk of spraying out more radiat...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoMaverick MLA Raj Sherman has found a new home with the Alberta Liberals. Sort of. He will sit as an independent Liberal for now, and run under the party's banner in the next election. And, oh yeah, he als...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoOur Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* *Go here for original.* If we were to be blessed with a 21st century George Orwell, he would coin a ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe weather service predicts threats of high water from Montana to Maine, Minnesota to Missouri and down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
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