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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
The rapid growth of smartphones and electronic tablets is making the internet favourite for people seeking news, a report released today said. News consumption online increased 17 per cent last year from t... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes agoHello. My name is Porter Stansberry. A little over ten years ago I founded Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. It has become one of the largest and most recognized investment research companies ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
A butterfly flapped its wings in Tunisia creating a hurricane that is swirling across the globe, wreaking havoc with the existing social order and sweeping away old crumbling institutions and dictatorshi... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
The American banking industry is trying to convince the public that simply by hiding bad debts in the deep levels of corporate balance sheets that taking on leveraged risk is somehow safe. FDIC insured ban... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago*theREALnews* ** Blogger's Note: To properly judge the all-is-well-with-U.S.-reactor-safety defense, the reader is advised to first read this column and this one. Interestingly, the interviewer mentions ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour ago
It's a Japanese month on TRF so this blog may take notice of events that wouldn't be normally discussed. Awards are among them. You could think that the European Geosciences Union must be a totally poli... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
SAS teams are on the ground in Libya with orders to pinpoint and destroy Colonel Gaddafi’s weapons. Dozens of the crack troops have been operating behind enemy lines to identify targets for bombing raids.... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Britain is ready to launch a surgical strike to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi. Defence Secretary Liam Fox said yesterday he would sanction a ‘bunker buster’ attack on the Libyan dictator’s lair as long as ci... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
More than 8,000 Libyans rebels have been killed in the revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's rule, it has been claimed. "Our dead and martyrs number more than 8,000 killed," said Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, spokesman ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"To my father, looking fondly westward from Columbus, Ohio, where he spent most of his life, [Indiana] was the romantic land of the moonlit Wabash, the new-mown hay and the sycamores, the house of the tho... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMuammar Gaddafi has called for the world to unite against the West's "mad aggression". The Libyan leader also warned, in a speech that was broadcast on state television, that he will arm civilians with...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoPlease sign this petition and take this action. OVERVIEW The TEXAS legislature seeks to legalize pollution. This is an end run to take away any legal recourse by any property owner that has been damaged b...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 4 hours agoThe 9/11 crime and cover-up would not have been possible if high-ranking generals in the U.S. military were not informed about the attacks ahead of time and rewarded for their participation in that unforgi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
The "Fukushima Fifty," the group of Japanese workers battling the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, faced a new setback following a spike in pressure at one of the reactors they are trying to... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 hours agoIn an in-depth essay this weekend, one of the Globe's senior foreign-affairs writers urges us not to shy away from building more nuclear-energy plants just because of that spot of bother in Japan. At the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Thousands took to the streets in cities across Morocco on Sunday demanding better civil rights and an end to corruption in the moderate North African country where the king this month promised constitution... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Thousands of Syrians demanded an end to 48 years of emergency law on Sunday in a third consecutive day of protests. "No. No to emergency law. We are a people infatuated with freedom," marchers chanted as... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLibya has been plunged into a second night of military conflict after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi defied Western forces by launching fresh attacks against rebels. The Libyan leader tried to prevent a secon...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAirstrikes Sunday in the heart of Moammar Gadhafi's Tripoli compound had a military objective, but also no doubt brought a message of allied resolve to the Libyan leader's doorstep. A coalition military...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
Power Corrupts, Nuclear Power Corrupts Absolutely Michael Collins The Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gregory Jaczko, told a US House of Representatives subcomm... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe official death toll in Japan soared past the 8,000 mark Sunday, nine days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged the northeast coast. Yet amid this grim reality came a piercing note of uplift ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA fascinating new book reveals how, when society becomes more complex, Man substitutes belief for science - as the ancients discovered to their cost. Something is happening to us. All of us. And it's happe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAdmiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, has said the military operation in Libya called for by the UN Security Council is not aimed at regime change - adding that a "stalemate" could...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWatch the two Al Jazeera Videos, "Frost Over the World", here.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*Shameless producer-writer John Wells talks about the impact of the return of the Gallagher kids' mother, Monica (Chloe Webb), in the episode "But at Last Came a Knock," which aired two weeks ago. A new e...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 9 hours ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:* *THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE FUTILITY OF 'REVOLUTIONARY CONSPIRACY':* Unlike the Chinese proverb says I don't think it is a curse to be "living in interesting ti...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Controversy has built around a proposal to bring dozens of Saudi pilots to an Idaho training facility to learn how to pilot F-15E Strike Eagles, 84 of which Saudi Arabia is purchasing in a new arms deal. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBernard von NotHaus, 67, was convicted today by a federal jury of making, possessing, and selling his own coins, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Follow...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCautioning that the federal dollars in your wallet could soon be little more than green paper backed by broken promises, state Rep. Glen Bradley wants North Carolina to issue its own legal tender backed by...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe unspeakable horror unfolding in Japan has naturally usurped the original purpose of this blog - which has been to record the death of trees - and it isn't at all clear how much longer the crisis there ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBritain's housing market is "stuck in a rut", the Council of Mortgage Lenders said, after new figures showed that activity remains at a historic low. Mortgage lending and approvals numbers for February f...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe company that runs Japan's stricken nuclear power station carried out an extensive underwater survey that should have revealed the plant's vulnerability to a tsunami after an earthquake hit one of its o...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 10 hours ago*"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them." - Emma Goldman* I thought I had this all figured out...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoI have very mixed emotions about the situation in Libya. I'm not fan of the Qaddafi family and I sympathize with what I image is a yearning for freedom and dignity on the part of Libyans. No fan of Obama...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn oil slick measuring 12 miles wide and 100 miles long has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico and is suspected to be from a new major leak at the Matterhorn Seastar oil rig just 20 miles from the Deepwate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA small dairy is damaged in Christchurch following a magnitude 5.1 aftershock that rattled quake-weary residents last night. The significant shake hit at 9.47pm, 10km east of the city and was 10km deep, ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 11 hours ago*Crap. I knew soy was bad but didn't know how ubiquitous this stuff is under other names...* This 'Beloved' Food Can Cause Allergic Reactions for Years - and Infertility for Generations! Soy can be found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDissenting voices, including from the Arab League which had backed the no-fly zone, arose yesterday as the scale and method of "Operation Odyssey Dawn" became apparent. "What has happened in Libya differs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoColonel Gaddafi has recommended the armed forces call an immediate ceasefire, shortly after anti-aircraft fire was seen in the sky over Tripoli. The declaration - effective from 7.00pm - was announced by a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLibyan government calls for an "immediate ceasefire" and "democratic discussion". more to follow...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLibya's government has begun distributing arms to more than one million people and will complete the operation within hours, the state news agency reported on Sunday. Jana news agency quoted sources in L...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEven as the allied intervention began, a group of foreign journalists were bused on a rare visit inside Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s compound — a labyrinth of concrete barracks, fortified walls and barbed wir...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBlack Swan Clusterflock +1. As if earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and war was not enough, the Examiner now discloses that a replay of the BP oil spill could be in the making, sending WTI to the (s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJapan has confirmed the presence of radioactive iodine contamination in food products from near a crippled nuclear plant and is considering whether to order a halt to the sale of such products from the are...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe nuclear power plant workers known as the 'Fukushima Fifty' have been isolated from their families to prevent news of difficult conditions leaking out, it was claimed. A family friend of one of the wor...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJapan's emergency services are struggling to cope as freezing weather, a lack of medicines and insanitary conditions make survival a challenge. Katsumi Hosokawa's eyes are red-rimmed and he sniffs constant...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 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 agoPhotographs and amateur video footage have provided the first compelling evidence that professional snipers shot to kill when they opened fire on an anti-government demonstration in Yemen that left at leas...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 12 hours ago*“But when night had fallen, the sorrow of the worshippers was turned to joy. For suddenly a light shone in the darkness: the tomb was opened: the god had risen from the dead; and the priest touched the li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPARIS, March 20 (Reuters) - Four Qatari planes will soon move into the Libyan zone of operations, a French Defence Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. "As announced by the Qatari authorities, it will depl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe United States expects to conduct more air strikes on Libya, a senior official has said, as the Arab League criticises the military action. The anonymous official said the operation was "ongoing", addin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Department of Environmental Conservation says the cause of hundreds of dead fish in Cranberry Pond is nothing more than natural phenomena. An official was in the area investigating on Saturday. Cranber...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoIt's no wonder he comes across as a cold fish. Nothing, it seems, gets our prime monster's blood coursing like some good, old fashioned bombing. He reminds me of that John Candy hick character/movie rev...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago*Website for this image** globalrumblings.blogspot.com* Some events linked to the number eleven: *11* November 1918 - on the 11th hour, World War I ended (11/11/18) *11* September 1941 - the construction ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAs U.S. and British air strikes and cruise missiles pounded Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan defences today, President Barack Obama was planning a sightseeing tour of Brazil's famed City of God slum. He was also ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt's long been the stuff of science fiction fantasy but time travel could be a real possibility say scientists. Furthermore, they believe the 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) based underground nea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolitics seems to have become a sort of mental illness. We have no bloody business in Libya, and no idea what we hope to achieve there. We are daily told that we have no money to spare. We have just scrapp...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 14 hours ago. Total information blackout on Fukushima Unit 4 reactor raises serious questions about truth of situation Israelis In Charge of Security at Fukashima Nuclear Plant Mossad Virus 'Stuxnet' Found in Japan i...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA pilot program is demonstrating an unusual method for storing energy from sunlight and wind.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe worst natural disaster to hit Japan since 1923 continues to take its toll on the Japanese people.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*Fabio Biondi conducts (and plays his fiddle with) Norway's Stavanger Symphony -- they're currently making a debut tour of North America -- in a zippy performance of the Allegro and Andante from the Alle...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: NASA’s Terra satellite observed dramatic changes at Rikuzentakata on March 14, 2011. Water is blue; buildings and paved surfaces appear blue-gray. Agricultural fields range in color from brown to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Abandoned coastal development, San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico, 2009. Cody Duncan] By Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer 18 March 2011 Californians are bummed out. The Golden State's res...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Texas state population change by county, 2000-2010. US Census / thinkprogress.org] By Brad Johnson 18 March 2011 The state of Texas will be adding four congressional districts due to significan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIran backs the revolt against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi but "doubts" the aims of Western powers pummelling the country with air strikes, the foreign ministry says. "The position of the Islamic republ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoThe week ahead promises to be an interesting one, even if the end result looks more and more certain by the day. The Liberal opposition day and the supply vote on spending estimates have been shifted from...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoA 3D printer makes a tiny, lightweight flapping-wing aircraft possible.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTRIPOLI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Sixty-four people have been killed and 150 others wounded in the air strikes launched by western forces since Saturday, Libya's health officials said on Sunday. Western warp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBoth President Obama and PM Cameron have told the world that what they are doing is legal and justified and the world stands behind them, Is this true? Please take some time to read some of the comments be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Arab League has criticised the military strikes on Libya, a week after urging the United Nations to slap a no-fly zone on the oil-rich North African state. The volte-face by the influential regional ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Ministry of Defence has confirmed that UK forces focused missile strikes near the Libyan capital of Tripoli - as it emerges that at least one Arab nation helped enforce the UN-backed no-fly zone. Air...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoSo the Western war machine is revving up to go to work in Libya because it's a clearcut situation of humanitarian intervention. It's obvious, isn't it? An entrenched autocratic regime, enriched by oil rev...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoAs the last Open Thread is disappearing towards the South Pole, here is a new one. Please have your say! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoThe BBC's former European Affairs correspondent William Horsley ceased being a BBC correspondent in 2007 but still continues to write for BBC Online as an analyst. (He was on *'Broadcasting House'* this mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe 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! - 18 hours agoThe 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 - 18 hours agoYemen'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 - 18 hours agoThere 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 - 18 hours 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! ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSir Mike Jackson the Former Head of the British Army made the freudian slip during a BBC News interview at 12.15 GMT on Sunday 20th March 2011 Political Goal "A Stable Iraq" Surely he meant "LIBYA"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 19 hours agoAs 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 - 19 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 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 - 19 hours agoCol 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 - 19 hours agoVATICAN 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 - 22 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 - 23 hours agoWildlife 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 - 23 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...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoOne 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 t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe 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 - 23 hours agoHundreds 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 - 23 hours agoPolice 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 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 Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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