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- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 27 minutes ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] French warrior jets hit aircraft and a intersection military base deep within Libya on Thursday as the U.S. abridged its fight role in the international process...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 32 minutes ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] NATO decided late Thursday to take in excess of part of the military operations in opposition to Libya — enforcement of the no-fly zone — after days of hard bar...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 38 minutes ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Japanese nuclear security officials said Friday that they believe that the reactor core at one unit of the anxious Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may ha...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 hour agoENVIRONMENT/HEALTH - On Wednesday March 11th 2011 a 9.0 earthquake took place off the coast of Japan and unleashed a massive tsunami. The recorded death poll at this point is over 7,300 and another 11,000 ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 hours ago. . March 24, 2011 *Radioactivity in Food, Water Sparks Fears of Widespread Contamination in Japan* Japan is facing growing fears as radiation leaking from the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nucl...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*This portrait of Mary Fisher Thurber, her son wrote in the caption in The Thurber Album, was "painted only a few months ago, at the age of 85." (She lived another four years.)* *"Two or three profession...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoUt oh! Bad news for the Big Gas Mafia. Now you've pissed off the young people and they're gathering up everybody, young and old alike. For immediate releaseMarch 23, 2011Contact: Nick Magruder 214-763-5763nc...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoOn March 16th Devon lost control of a well in Ward County and had a full on blowout.Devon Energy Gas Well BlowoutThey finally got control of the well on March 22. That's a lot of methane and other stuff blow...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Gul Bahar, a nine-year-old flood survivor, stands with her mother in front of a damaged wall at their house in the village of Murad Chandio, some 35 km (22 miles) from Dadu in Pakistan's Sindh pr...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 4 hours agocellphonereviews.com Is my cell phone tapped? How do you find out if your cell phone is tapped? Well, someone who is wondering why the battery life on that newly purchased cell phone is shorter than ex...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: The graph shows daily Arctic sea ice extent as of March 22, 2011, along with daily ice extents for 2006, which had the previous lowest maximum extent, and 2007, the year with the lowest minimum e...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 5 hours agoBelow is a piece of fiction, a rough draft of what I think President Barack Obama might say if he was ever given a truth serum or forced by a U.S. court or an International Criminal Court to tell the truth...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoDon't forget to check the interactive disaster map frequently... things are happening rather quickly now. And remember to monitor the tiny close-ups of trees. Walk outside and look at some. These laure...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe worst Texas drought in 44 years is damaging the state’s wheat crop and forcing ranchers to reduce cattle herds, as rising demand for U.S. food sends grain and meat prices higher. Texas, the biggest U...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe budget deficit is so serious an issue that it can no longer be ignored by splits in government, a group of former members of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers wrote in *an open letter in The...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn a surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states. Pulled by migration to the Sun Belt, America...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWarren Buffett told CNBC Thursday that the collapse of the euro zone's single currency is far from "unthinkable." "I know some people think it's unthinkable...I don't think it's unthinkable," Buffett said...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoScientists have grown sperm in the laboratory in a landmark study that could help preserve the fertility of cancer patients and shed fresh light on male reproductive problems. Fertility experts called th...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire:* *"On March 25, 1911, in New York City‟s Greenwich Village 146 workers, mostly teenage Jewish and Italian immigrant girls, perished after the fire broke out on Triang...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 7 hours ago
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoMany people claim to have grown up hearing about the vampire el chupacabra. Did they?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoWhite dwarfs may technically be the remnants of dead stars, but could they provide a steady, long-term energy source to alien life?
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago*Hundreds of shards reveal the threat to wildlife from debris floating in our seas* [image: The debris from the stomach of a green sea turtle. Hundreds of shards reveal the threat to wildlife from debri...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours ago*"Canada a Big Presence in Libya,* *Despite UN Snub"* * * According to Post Media's brain trust, Steven Edwards,* "Surely Muslim states now regret having spearheaded the drive to keep Canada off the United...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant. Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Iranian lawmakers—including former supporters—have moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for law violations that could land him in prison. Reza Aslan reports on the bombastic leader’s flagrant mi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPalestinian sources: one injured as building catches fire; IAF hits rocket-launching terrorists, smuggling tunnels along Gaza-Egypt border and Hamas training camp; action follows rocket attacks in Beersheb...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThousands called for liberty Thursday in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, defying a deadly government crackdown as they took to the streets in funeral marches for protesters killed by police gunfire, an ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHundreds of Jordanians set up a protest camp in a main square in the capital on Thursday to press demands for the ouster of the prime minister and wider public freedoms. The 500 protesters appeared to be...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoCanada has long been thought of as a country with a generous refugee system. Despite recent anti-immigrant fear-mongering, Canadians are very proud of their country's history of offering haven to people fl...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 9 hours agoLibya: Largest Military Undertaking since the Invasion of Iraq. Towards a Protracted Military Operation by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, March 20, 2011 Outright lies by the international media...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoAs regards the slaughter of the Fogel family by Palestinian savages ( and I chose that word very carefully), I commend this piece to you. It doesn't single out the BBC in particular, but then again, it doe...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoHow we've come full-circle. commentary by Tony Cartalucci Turban wearing cavemen were never what the "War on Terror" was about. Many have said in the wake of 9/11 that the "War on Terror" was only tempo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoA new survey from Democracy Corps-- Carville and Greenberg's firm-- makes the case that their clients, the DCCC, can win back the House in 2012 and that "the new Republican majority [is] very much in play...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 10 hours agoYes, those are exact quotes from Flaherty's interview with Mansbridge on why Canada should accept the budget and not go to the polls. I imagine HRH the Queen is probably a bit hacked off - you'd think Jim...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoWell buddy, it's time to grow a pair. You've got an election coming and the John Kerry routine isn't going to cut it. You want to win? It's really not that difficult. Get your staff to round up every...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoQuestion Time tonight comes from London. On the panel we have ex-spook and future Foreign Secretary Rory Stewart MP, the "ginger rodent" Danny Alexander MP, newt-loving nutter Ken Livingstone, rocker-dru...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA new site discovered in Texas was occupied 15,000 years ago.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 11 hours agoA scathing video from EnoughHarper attacking Stephen Harper for his secretive government. Here it is, for all of Canada to enjoy!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWind speeds and wave heights over the world's oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It's unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOil firm BP has been dealt a fresh blow as its planned $16bn tie-up with Russia's Rosneft has been halted. An arbitration panel in Stockholm ruled on the case after Russian investors won a temporary inju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWind speeds and wave heights over the world's oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It's unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours agoIt has happened to me so many times. I will be taking pictures of my little girl and her face will look completely clean to me and then I will get the images on the computer and realize that she did have s...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoDamage to buildings as well as lack of electricity, water and staff is halting production at factories and disrupting worldwide supply chains
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA dog-sized plant-eater from 260-million-years ago likely used its fierce-looking teeth to ward off predators.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoAlthough climate change is a suspect, the trend could simply be a part of natural cycles that drive wind speeds up and down.
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 12 hours ago"the water temperature is high... it is unlikely this could lead to an accident"...LOL. Keep everyone calm, huh? Do you trust their surface/water temperature measurements? I am left a little sceptical. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPortugal's financial collapse appeared inevitable on Thursday, as markets took the government's resignation as proof the debt-heavy country will lose its year-long battle to avoid a bailout. Investors pu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoStretched thin by two wars, the U.S. military is spending upward of $1 billion in an international assault to destroy Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses and save rebels from likely defeat, accord...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAisha Gaddafi lives up to her reputation in the Arab press of being the “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”, says Cassandra Jardine. You would think that Aisha Gaddafi had nothing else to think about these...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Bank of England has warned that inflation is in danger of rocketing above 5pc in the coming months, piling more pressure on policymakers to raise interest rates. Its warning will ratchet up fears that...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCoastal communities along P.E.I.'s North Shore need to prepare themselves for the impacts from climate change, a watershed management group was told Tuesday night. About two dozen residents gathered at th...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 12 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I met and interviewed Rosemary Willis --the little girl in the Red Dress seen in Zapruder's film running along the south side of Elm St. Rosemary showed me the slide...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThis collection of junk may resemble the rubbish scraped from the bottom of a toolbox - but it is in fact the man-made debris found inside a dead turtle. The hundreds of shards of plastic were taken from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAllied planes have bombed Libya for a fifth night, targeting military sites as reports emerged a French fighter jet had shot down a Gaddafi warplane in breach of the no-fly zone. However, Colonel Muammar ...
- *Audio and video* processing in Linux remains tricky business. Certainly not by lack of tools, but rather the reverse. There is an abundant range of 'libs', 'codecs' and 'tools' available from which it is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBANGKOK — A strong earthquake struck eastern Myanmar Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, as Thai police reported at least one death and shaking was felt in several countries across southeast Asia. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoWhen a mutual friend at DFA called me to tell me about a candidate for state Senate in New Jersey, who's running in a Paterson-based district not far from where I once lived, I was very impressed with his...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago* With CIA control of North Africa, cocaine can more easily reach Europe?* Gaddafi's opponents are drugs dealers. They are involved in the trade in cocaine. (Coalition of Crusaders join with al Qaeda to o...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 14 hours agoI hear this a lot from the 'new age' type of people, and firstly let me say that if you really do want to destroy your ego, then good luck and "I" - or "this particular area of the collective awareness" - ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHours after a massive fire ripped through a fuel tank at Miami International Airport, a suspicious package caused an evacuation of a terminal Thursday morning. Concourse J at Terminal 5 was evacuated and...
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoRadical new research proposes using an engineered virus that hitchhikes with HIV and gets in its way.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoAs fire and army crews race to prevent catastrophe, the disaster takes its toll on three workers.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoA stuck pipe was to blame for last year's worst-ever oil spill, a study finds.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Sunlight descends over flooded waters near Rockhampton, Queensland, January 6, 2011. Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and hav...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoAs Melanie Phillips says, Louise Bagshawe’s piece in the Telegraph is startling, but for reasons beyond the BBC’s insultingly cursory and misleading coverage of the atrocity in Itamar. Although Louise Bag...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoBy piling mounds of fish remains, turtle bones and other waste, ancient people helped create the Everglades.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoToday is David Suzuki's birthday, and you can give him a gift by signing the Declaration of Interdependence. The Suzuki Foundation says: The declaration is a heartfelt prayer to preserve the Earth, and a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoThis story broke several months back, but it's been revived and is receiving international attention. From today's *Guardian*: An American soldier has pleaded guilty to being part of a "kill team" who de...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoEnormous plant-eating dinosaurs had bodies and necks that functioned like a canister vacuum cleaner.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoJust hours after a new sizable oil slick was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, a Houston-based energy company came forward to claim responsibility for the latest round of crude tain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWASHINGTON – Air traffic safety is under increased scrutiny by federal authorities following an incident in which two passenger jets landed without controller assistance at Reagan National Airport because ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe European Commission was hacked into yesterday just hours before a summit of EU leaders debating the military campaign in Libya, the Euro debt crisis and nuclear safety. A spokesperson for the EC told...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoMany voters are feeling a great deal of buyers' remorse for having elected some very extremist and anti-family Republican governors and state legislatures. Others are realizing that they made a mistake by...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoAfter NASA invited journalists to Houston to interview the crew of the next shuttle mission, Commander Mark Kelly takes a pass.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 19 hours agoWith the government almost certain to fall in the next 48 hours, what should we expect between now and election day? Last week, I looked at the election calendar - today, a look at the strategies the part...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSeveral hundred dead starfish have been found washed up on a north Wales beach. It comes following the discovery at Talybont, between Harlech and Barmouth in Gwynedd. Council maritime officer Barry Davi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoColorado and Oregon have joined several other Western states in reporting trace amounts of radioactive particles that have likely drifted about 5,000 miles from a quake and tsunami-damaged nuclear power pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMore than 150 of the Queen’s mute swans have died on the Thames since the beginning of the year and experts say the extreme cold pushed up the sad total. Around 20 of the dead birds found by Swan Lifelin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Iowa Department of Natural Resources is reporting that melting ice across Iowa waters is revealing some Winter Fish Kills. Numerous reports of dead fish in lakes and ponds are being reported to the DNR...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoExperts call it a winter-kill. Onlookers call it devastating. Thousands of fish - much more than originally thought - are now dead in Ravenna Lake. Game and Parks officials said the extended ice and snow...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 20 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLAKE WHITNEY – A toxic golden alga bloom that has killed over 80,000 fish in Lake Granbury since the first week of January appears to be headed down the Brazos River toward Lake Whitney, according to the T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoYORK — A citizen report of a large number of dead fish at the Beaver Creek spillway near the tennis courts in Harrison Park led to photos and an inquiry to Daryl Bauer of the Game and Parks Commission. Bau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThree of the Fukushima Fifty have been rushed to hospital with radiation poisoning as they battle to save Japan's crippled power plant from nuclear meltdown. Fumio Matsuda, a spokesman for the nuclear saf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe Foreign Office has confirmed the only fatality from a bomb blast in central Jerusalem was a British woman. Officials earlier said they were "urgently investigating" Israeli radio reports the victim w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNato has again refused to take over command of military operations in Libya, with objections from Turkey frustrating US efforts to hand over control. America wants to give up its lead role in the war-torn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago*BANGKOK (Commodity Online):* Thailand is undergoing the pangs of drought with Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation declaring 333 districts under 45 provinces across the country as d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted Miyagi Prefecture and its vicinity on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. A change in the sea level may occur following the 5:21 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoColumnar Basalts are rock formations resulting from the quick cooling of lava flow. Fractures form in a random cellular network (similar to soap bubbles, organic cells, etc.), though the average distributi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoVáclav Havel (74), a playwright, a famous Czech dissident, and a former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, has become a film director, too. I have only seen the theater version of "Le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIt's a good thing the outer space battles in "Star Wars" happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away -- because under a new space-based weapons treaty drafted by aerospace and military experts, huma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDays after observers spotted a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, no one in a position of power seems to yet know where it's coming from. So far, official reports are sketchy and contradictory, as Ne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBritain is withdrawing its embassy team from Yemen amid increasing security fears ahead of further anti-government protests. The *UK Foreign Office* said the temporary measure was imposed because Friday'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe picture of gaping chasms in a Japanese highway demonstrated the power of the March 11 earthquake. Now the astonishing speed of reconstruction is being used to highlight the nation’s ability to get bac...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 22 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMI5 has warned that Libyan expats are plotting terrorist attacks in Britain in revenge for bombing raids on Colonel Gaddafi’s regime. The threat was exposed after intelligence officers monitored hundreds o...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoHave to laugh at the BBC's unremittingly bleak coverage of the Budget. The sneering tone ran across all their media formats. I caught Osborne being interviewed on Today (8.10am) and I thought he did rather...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Candy Jones, born Jessica Arline Wilcox.* Candy Jones, a top American fashion model in the 1940s, became a CIA mind control victim. (Candy Jones - Fortean Times UK) Candy was a Manchurian Candidate-st...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoAs Richard North sagely notes this morning, the most important priority with budgets is to watch what the chancellor is doing with his other hand or behind his back. Wee Georgie slipped in the news that th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMan-made chemicals found in a variety of everyday products – from food containers to clothes – may be causing early menopause in women, say scientists. A study of almost 26,000 – the largest of its kind ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCall it the gooey broccoli theory of climate change. Buried in the ground across the Far North are billions of tons of plant matter deposited over thousands of years since the last Ice Age. All that orga...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe number of Americans who are worried about global warming has fallen to nearly the historic low reached in 1998, a poll released Monday showed. Just 51 percent of Americans -- or one percentage point m...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn arboreal invasion of the Far North is imminent, according to a new study, with vast swaths of Alaska tundra almost certainly yielding to trees and shrubs during coming decades, as human-triggered climat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoExtremely cold temperatures in the upper atmosphere over the Arctic have triggered a "massive" loss of ozone in just the past few weeks, a situation that could create the most severe ozone hole yet observe...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: Tambako the Jaguar/Creative Commons. This one belongs in the "Are you kidding me?" category. There are a few levels on which I find this morally repugnant. First, I find interfering with t...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoNo surprise. The blogosphere is all a-buzz with talk of impending election. Some of its progressive inhabitants are almost swooning with the thought that we might, finally, be able to rid ourselves of Spit...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A U.S. soldier who pleaded responsible Wednesday to the murders of three Afghan civilians was sentence to 24 years in jail after saying "the plan was to kill pe...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Arrowhead Landfill near Uniontown in Perry County is a bother to neighboring residents, who say a proposed bill should be toughened and the ash classified as toxic waste. Jay Reeves / montgom...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Israeli warplanes hit Hamas goals in Gaza early Thursday, hit back for rocket attacks on Israeli cities, as worry peaked over the first lethal bombing aims Isra...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Young Mary Fisher Thurber * *"The day after[her 80th-birthday party], a columnist in one of the Columbus papers recklessly described her as 'a bit of lavender and old lace.' She was indignant. 'Why, he d...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Libyan television presenter makes a bizarre vow to Muammar Gaddafi, promising to sacrifice his "last drop of blood" for the leader while holding a Kalashnikov. Appearing on channel Al Libiya, the unna...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] NATO ships began patrol off Libya's coast Wednesday as airstrikes, missiles and eager rebels compulsory Moammar Gadhafi's tanks to roll back from two key wester...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoFor the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident, Ambientaria Records has gathered many Dark Ambient artists, including famous ones like Northaunt or Atomtrakt, for a compilation project. The album ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoGod bless Retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns for coming forward. EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program By Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye Truth-out.or...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: World capture fisheries production, 1950-2008. UNFAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010] Global capture fisheries production in 2008 was about 90 million tonnes, with an estimate...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoChesapeake failed to contain runoff because they did not implement the required controls. Runoff and sediment flowed into a stream.The order to cease comes after Chesapeake did not respond to DEP's notice of...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoDocumenting the end of multicellular life on Earth requires a somewhat obsessive personality, which Desdemona has in spades. But the good people of the RSOE EDIS Climate Change Monitoring Service have go...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoNone of the 14 families who sued Cabot for their contaminated water have accepted the settlement money. They say Cabot is not telling the truth. (No duh! None of them ever tell the truth.)Attorney Marc Bern ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoPerspective:Those who argue that regulations kill jobs ignore an important fact: Lack of adequate regulation kills people.Getting serious about regulationBy Robert Reich
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoI. Demythologizing Terrorism Terrorism is a tricky word. First of all, it is a political categorization. Aggressive regimes like the ones in America, Israel, and Iran all have political enemies that will...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThis is the best reporting I've seen on the EPA vs Texas Railroad Commission and Range Resources case. Texas Commission Defies EPA and Sides with Gas Company Accused of Water Contamination
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Justice Sammy the Hammer (left) and Justice Nino (right) with some other guy in the middle (he looks like trouble too, wouldn't you say?)* *"All the pieces of Alito’s record fit together. As a prosecutor,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNick Allen reports on the hundreds of people made homeless by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It is close to midnight in a cavernous Tokyo sports centre and two little girls sit on a traditional tatami m...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew violence in a restive southern Syrian city killed as many as six people Wednesday, making it the deadliest single day since anti-government protests inspired by uprisings across the Arab world reache...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*NATO is split over whether it should take over command of the coalition military operation against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. German commentators warn that the alliance could be playing into the des...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis could deliver a bigger blow to that nation’s economy and U.S. manufacturers than originally estimated, some economists say, due to extended disruptions to Jap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Indian elephant called Boy, the pride of the Kiev Zoo, collapsed and died in his enclosure. Around the same time, Maya the camel succumbed to a digestive illness and Theo the zebra died after crashing i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Egyptian cartoonist who was arrested and had his graphic novel banned under Hosni Mubarak's regime is to be published in English. Magdy El Shafee wrote the graphic novel "Metro" in 2008. It was banned ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA loud explosion shook a busy street in Jerusalem on Wednesday, wounding nearly 30 people, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of deaths in the first serious bombing in Jerusalem in four ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Egyptian stock market plunged 5% in the opening minute Wednesday, triggering circuit breakers as the exchange opened for the first time in nearly two months. The sell-off was expected. Traders had p...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agohe international coalition is continuing to launch airstrikes against targets in Libya -- but now speculation is growing about what is likely to follow the U.N.-backed bombardment. The air campaign was l...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPractical astronomy doesn't necessarily require expensive telescopes. Astronomer Mark Thompson shares some tips on how to explore the night sky using just your eyes.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAnyone spotted this on the BBC yet? It's over on Harry's Place but the State Broadcaster with it's multi-billion resources seems to have overlooked it; 'Press Release: British Muslims for Israel condemns J...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoThe Lilith News is back after a 5 week vacation... and oh boy do we have some catching up to do. Tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, the Canadian government teetering on collapse/election, revolution an...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPalestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten lengthy "exchanges of blows" with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Str...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith crisis-hit Portugal on the verge of government collapse and a cry for financial help, European leaders face an uphill task at a summit meant to seal defences against a year-long debt crisis. Leaders...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGermany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done. The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nucle...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn outbreak of the H1N1 virus, known commonly as the swine flu, has hit the Venezuelan Andean state of Merida, the country's health minister said, the state-run AVN news agency reported. More than 100 ca...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Japanese animation created to help the artist explain the nuclear crisis to his child becomes an online sensation. Amid the devastation of an earthquake and tsunami, how does a parent explain a nuclea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Federal Reserve has "done a bit too much" quantitative easing amid signs "of speculative excess" in the the US, according to a senior official at the central bank. Richard Fisher, who heads the Dallas...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoView gallery of Japan's quake and tsunami clean up here.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritons are suffering their biggest drop in living standards for 30 years, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The average household's "real" income – what is coming in af...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPalestinian rockets struck two cities deep in Israel on Wednesday, wounding a resident and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten lengthy "exchanges of blows" with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Str...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThere was a lot of procedural wrangling today, but the end results is that it *appears* the government will fall this Friday, sometime after 1:30 pm Eastern, on the following Liberal motion: *That the Hou...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIt's odd the things that Stephanie Flanders overlooks; A B-BBC reader observes; "Distinct lack of interest from the BBC economic reporters on the record borrowing for February. This gives the lie to ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement and U.S. Coast Guard show off the BP blowout preventer, which is lashed to a barge docked at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Larry Craig & one of his lovers did not meet at a church social* A few weeks ago Sam Stein took a look at the post-senatorial careers of Larry Craig and other recent ex-Senators. Many, like Craig, are cas...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Dutch man has been intercepting radio broadcasts from Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya and tweeting them.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoAustralian prime minister Ms Julia Gillard suffers from a Messiah complex. She decided to impose an insane carbon tax on the economy of the most compact continent. Fortunately, today, she suffered a seriou...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*By Joe Emersberger* * March 23, 2011 **"**Information Clearing House**" *--* - Iraq a*lone should have made any progressive support for Western military intervention in Libya negligible. It is very sad t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Drought threatens the marshes of southern Iraq. Jim Muir / BBC] Baghdad (AFP) March 21, 2011 - Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clea...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Uvas verdes frescas - Green Fresh Grapes (1600x1200)]*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 com...
- 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 Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Flores de Primavera - Blooming Spring 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 compartir ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEmbassies from more than two dozen countries have either closed down or moved operations to cities south of Tokyo since the March 11 earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis in northern Japan, the cou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite being urged not to hoard bottled water, residents of Japan's capital on Wednesday snapped it up in droves after testing showed radioactive material in tap water at levels unsafe for infants. The...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Hojas con gotitas de agua - Leaves with drops of water]*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 Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Extent of oil palm plantations in Papua New Guinea from 1980-2007. mongabay.com / FAO] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com March 23, 2011 During a meeting in March 2011 twenty-six experts—from bio...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at www.FOTOFRONTERA.com - 1 day ago[image: Flor de color púrpura - Purple Flower Clos up]*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 ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day agoVital information. If you are scratching your head wondering what I mean, when I talk about 'British Irsael' here on this blog, then, usual caveats withstanding, I recommend you read: http://zionistgoldre...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Application of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer at planting time. Photo by Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. (1999)] By ROBERT BURNS 21 March 2011 OVERTON — Escalating unrest...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoYesterday the House of Commons unanimously approved Canada's participation in the ongoing no fly zone over Libya mission. Unanimously. Everybody's in. Tory, Bloc, Liberal & NDP. Approval wasn't automa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAbu Yahya al-Libi urges anti-Gaddafi forces not to retreat; reports of mutiny among Gaddafi forces slowing attack on rebel-held Misrata. A senior member of al Qaida urged Libyan rebels to continue their fi...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill approaching, the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill can still provide some lessons.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Navy could run out of Tomahawk missiles after a fifth of the Navy stockpile has been used against Libya, sources disclosed yesterday. Defence insiders say as many as 12 of the weapons have been fired ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHere’s an alarming chart to ponder (click to enlarge). HSBC has calculated what would happen to energy consumption by 2050 given plausible forecasts for economic growth and assuming no constraint on resour...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWilliam Hague has warned that autocratic leaders including Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe could be shaken and even toppled by a wave of popular uprisings rippling out from north Africa. The Foreign Secretary ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoby Duane Craig Perhaps New York has the right idea. Don’t look at land contamination as a problem, but rather as an opportunity for economic gain. General Motorspolluted 270 acres near Massena over a 40-y...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoToday I’ve been mostly looking at reports of the terrorist bomb in Jerusalem. Leaving aside the unnecessary inclusion of: ”Jerusalem suffered a spate of bus bombings between 2000 and 2004 but attacks had ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTrade unions said on Tuesday their march this weekend will be the country's biggest protest for years, but police fear splinter groups will attempt to repeat last December's street violence. The Trades ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoControversial Government reforms will spell the end of the NHS as it stands, academics warn, as the Health Secretary was forced to reassure MPs that hospitals and doctors would not face accusations of runn...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe rate of inflation has hit the highest level for more than two years as the price of fuel, food and clothing continues to rise. Newly-released figures show the CPI rate of inflation soared to a higher-...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReader reports picture taken recently off of Grand Isle, Lousiana. Reader reports that spill resembles BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill plume. Reader adds: This is yesterday's goop after sitting in the frid...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Faheem and his wife Shumaila: 'Murdered by American Terrorist Raymond Davis'* On 23 March 2011, we learn of the disappearance of the families of the two men murdered by the CIA's Raymond Davis. Pak cour...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*Asia Times'* columnist 'Pepe Escobar' claims Washington and the Arab League despots are on the same page. Revolution is tolerable west of the Suez but the *status quo* is to be maintained by whatever mea...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Native American Artists for Japan **Photo: Turquoise and silver bracelet by Jacob Morgan, son of the late Harry Morgan, donated.* *.* *A Community of Givers *Native American Artists for Japan is dedicated...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop Wednesday in central Jerusalem, killing one and wounding at least 38 people in what Israeli police are calling a "terrorist" attack. Israel's national emergency serv...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOver the past half century at all the nuclear reactors in the West how many have died from nuclear accidents? Would it surprise you to learn that it's the very same number who have died from the Fukushim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPalestinians carry the body of a youth in Al-Shifa hospital after Israeli tank fire struck a home. An Israeli tank fire struck a home in the Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians, including three youths, a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThanks to Tom of Sweet Creamery fame. How you can help: Catch 22 Harper Conservatives.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRadioactive iodine in the city's tap water was measured to be twice the safe level for infants.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPreviously the American Academy of Pediatrics said children more than one year old could switch to forward-facing seats.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe darkness is broken only by the flashing torchlight of the heroes who stayed behind. These first images of inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant reveal the terrifying conditions under whic...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Natalia Manzurova, shown here in 1988 in the 'dead zone' of the Pripyat, is one of the relatively few survivors among those directly involved in the cleanup of Chernobyl. Courtesy of Natalia Manz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoZAGREB, CROATIA—Slovenian officials say a nuclear plant has shut down automatically because of a minor incident. Ida Novak Jerela, a spokeswoman for the plant in Krsko, some 30 kilometres west of Zagreb,...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTooth-and-education-deficient teabaggers and their congressional Representatives may think Obama is uppity and resent his Ivy League success but few American presidents are morons and most did graduate fr...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. "If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe commander of British aircraft operating over Libya has said that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's air force "no longer exists as a fighting force". Air Vice-Marshal Greg Bagwell said the allies could now ope...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFirst runner-up in *Ironic News of the Day* is this: US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and World Bank president Zoellick have inked a deal committing (whatever that means) the bank and the US government ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago*Green Prophet delves into the bloody and murky business of shark fishing and finning in the United Arab Emirates* [image: Poached sharks in a UAE market, March 2011. Although shark finning has been ban...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe pioneering device took 90-minute exposures and delivered a radiation dose 1,500 times greater than today's machines.
- posted by Amy Dusto at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn a disastrous world, life-detecting robots are gaining popularity.
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoThat's right, you heard it here first -- Google is quite possibly stalking me, watching my every move. image borrowed from here and edited a bit Flattering, eh? What makes me suspect this? *March 16, ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoLast Saturday, on the 8th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, thousands of people marched in Washington in protest of US imperial war and occupation. Of those, 113 people were arrested, including D...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Cape Fur Seals, Cape Town harbour, 2005. Steve Taylor / livingworldimages.com] By Amy Lou Jenkins, Green Living Examiner 23 March 2011 Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA (South Africa) says that on...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*MEDICINE GAMES at Akwesasne, May 27 -- 30, 2011* Posted at Censored News with permission from Neddie Thompson and Lando Nez. Art work by Nez, Dine'. "The original medicine games played in Akwesasne and t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe are all aware of the stories coming from two sides out of Libya: Gaddafi supporters say that the militia has killed civilians, while the UN informs us it was the Gaddafi forces doing the senseless mur...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: In February 2011, frigid winter weather crept south. Temperatures in Sinaloa dipped as low as -8 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) in a cold snap that lasted nearly a week. By the end of that week,...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoMarch 22, 2011 *"You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!"* What They're Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI *Introduced by Douglas Lummis...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoState Rep. Jim Keffer of Eastland, chair of the Texas House Committee on Energy Resources, last week introduced a bill to require limited disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing of natural...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Radio-tagging a tambaqui fish in the Amazon. Joe Saldaña Rojas / fish2fork.com]By Lewis Smith March 23 2011 The dramatic decline of a fruit-eating fish reputed to be among the most delicious fr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Hopi call for Prayer to Restore Balance *March 17,2011 ... The Hopi are praying for the people of Japan and for the people around the world as we face crisis in our world out of balance. We are in a time...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoInternational airstrikes compulsory *Moammar Gadhafi's* forces to withdraw tanks that were besieging a rebel-held western city Wednesday, residents said, while populace fleeing a strategic city in the ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe lack of evidence proving the existence of aliens is known to scientists as the ‘Great Silence’. They have long been baffled how- despite years of searching – there has been no confirmation of life bey...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoWhen I was a kid, pre-teen, I loved watching old movies. I don't know how I got into this, but I grew up watching Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy and a whole constellation of actors unknown to m...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMonday we touched on the kind of existential catastrophe that could befall southern California if an earthquake and tsunami even smaller than the ones that hit Japan happened anywhere near the Diablo Can...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new study shows that navy sonar causes whales to flee their feeding grounds.
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoby Tony Cartalucci Once again, "claims" and "allegations" herald broader western meddling in the Middle East under the guise of the suspiciously ubiquitous "Arab Spring." As the global corporate-financier...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe world's largest eddies are spinning off the coast of Brazil.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDon't just throw that banana peel away. It could be a cheap new way to detect heavy metal contamination in drinking water.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoAgain, this admission by industry is "stunning."Range and others studying the issue say the gas contamination more likely occurred because too many homes are tapping into shallow drinking water aquifers in t...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoOrchard mason bee. Photo courtesy: BC Gov't Agricultural site. As many people are becoming aware, the winged pollinators of the world are in need of help. These industrious flying insects are so importan...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoAndrew Revkin has noticed the diametrically opposite conclusions extracted from the recent events in Fukushima. He is comparing two opinions in the Guardian: Japan's horror reveals how thin is the edge w...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn ancient race has come to dominate a single agricultural crop, one in which they’ve invested everything to sustain their massive population. This is the story of the leaf-cutter ant.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBy 9:30 a.m. local time on March 22, the emergency shelter at Saitama Super Arena, just north of Tokyo, had reached its maximum capacity of 500 volunteers. The other 1,500 do-gooders wanting to help the di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces have attempted to storm a mosque in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, reportedly killing at least six people. The government, however, blamed the violence on an "armed gang", according t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"America's chains of defeat in the region will continue," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei declared in his speech on the occasion of the dawn of a new Persian year, one day after a "new y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSkeptical Yemeni immigrants say an offer from their homeland's besieged president to leave next January is just another scam to keep the job he's held for 32 years. "I don't believe anything the man says,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA possible meteorite entering the Earth’s atmosphere late Tuesday evening had 911 centers in Southeastern North Carolina fielding multiple phone calls from concerned residents. New Hanover County emergen...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoInteresting to read how the private sector could help us all by running parts of the BBC; I am advised; "As the BBC comes under increased pressure from tightened budgets, the executives of the Birmingham-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIce Circles
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago. http://www.prisonplanet.com/photo-evidence-temperature-in-fuel-rod-pool-above-boiling-point.html
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWill George Osborne announce the slaughter of the first born? Perhaps the unemployed will be required to go up chimneys? The BBC - led by Stephanie "Two Eds" Flanders - is setting up Osborne to ensure that...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Al-Libi* The people opposing Gaddafi are the CIA's al Qaeda. The *Libyan Islamic Fighting Group* (LIFG) has been an affiliate of al-Qaida. (Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor.) Top al-Qaida ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: In the cancer ward of Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19 Year old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years. A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full conse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists at a Cocodrie marine-research center say a miles-long discolored patch on the Gulf originally feared to be oil may actually be a huge algae bloom — the kind that fuels the annual dead zone off L...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGuest contributor Kelvin Long describes the design considerations for the Icarus starship. Part 2 of 2.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoTwo weeks ago, Mr Jan Zahradil, a trained Czech researcher in chemistry who has studied water technologies, was elected the new boss of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, a right-wing facti...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWorkers at the Kennedy Space Center assemble outside the space shuttle's assembly building in a poignant reminder that is the people who make the wondrous machines work.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA test version Nasa shuttle that will allow astronauts to fly to and from the International Space station was showed off today. The Orion spacecraft, which was initially meant to return humans to the moon ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThirty-two musk oxen were found dead in the ice along the Bering Strait, apparently killed when they drowned in water that surged ashore during a winter storm, the National Park Service said on Tuesday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoMinisters admitted yesterday that they have no idea how long the military operation against Colonel Gaddafi could take. Asked for an estimate, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said: 'How long is a piece ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoTwo women walking along the north shore of Presque Isle State Park's Misery Bay reported at about 2 p.m. today what they said were thousands of dead fish.They also said they saw several dead birds as well ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoRadiation from the stricken Japanese nuclear power plant has reached Europe and is heading towards Britain, it emerged last night. Officials in Iceland have detected ‘minuscule amounts’ of radioactive par...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoLibyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has promised victory during a live public appearance - amid reports his forces were terrorising civilians. The country's leader of 41 years labelled his internation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoRadiation detected in the quake-hit Japanese capital's tap water exceeds safe level for infants, it is being reported. The radioactive iodine levels in Tokyo's water was announced by a government officia...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoHousing starts posted their biggest decline in 27 years in February while building permits dropped to their lowest level on record, suggesting the beleaguered real estate sector has yet to rebound from its...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoColorado farmers still own more than 80 percent of water flowing in the state, but control is rapidly passing from them as growing suburbs move to secure supplies for the future. The scramble is intensi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe US has been sending unarmed drones over Mexico since February to gather intelligence on major drug cartels, the New York Times reports. Useful information has already been turned over to Mexican autho...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIt’s no secret that the United States government owes a pretty penny to foreigners. Certainly, what America owes to foreigners pales in comparison to what it owes to Ben Bernanke… but still, $4.45 trillion...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoWhen armed construction workers turned up at dawn to start pumping thousands of gallons of sand and water into Ly Si Moan's home, her terrified scramble for safety had her joining thousands of others who...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Tap water in Tokyo weathered two times on top of the limits for radioactive iodine careful safe for infants, officials said Wednesday amid growing concerns abou...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi may try to stay out a no-fly zone and military attack that has hurt his armed forces, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday in an...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Moammar Gadhafi's snipers and tanks are frightening civilians in the coastal city of Misrata, a tenant said, and the U.S. armed warn Tuesday it was "considering...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA Grad rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a residential neighborhood in Be'er Sheva early Wednesday morning. One person was moderately wounded and some damage was caused to a building. Late Tuesday nig...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*In this 1890 gathering of the Frioleras, a social club of young Columbus married couples, says Thurber, "The pretty girl standing in the middle is my mother."* *"Aunt Mary whammed her way from room to ro...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe Government does not know how long the Armed Forces will be engaged in Libya, a defence minister admitted as debate intensified over the likely outcome, cost and leadership of the mission. Nick Harvey,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe Department of Health report says that half the population could develop symptoms of the disease, possibly “overwhelming” hospitals and doctors as well as costing the economy £28billion, but police and ...
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