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No Good Crisis Goes to Waste. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 14, 2011 - With US troops occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, conducting military operations in Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, and covertl... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 33 minutes agoTo Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May and Auditor General Sheila Fraser: We call on all party leaders to urgently file an official request with the Auditor Gener...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 44 minutes agoDid a psychic accurately predict where police would find one of the victims of the Long Island serial killer?
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoOne today's 'B' stories is about all the Gulf Coast fisherman complaining that BP isn't dealing fairly with them, isn't paying enough compensation, won't let them into meetings for a negotiation. Nasty old...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe ocean-going floats could track radioactive material as it approaches Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.
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Last night's storm in New York City brought a dramatic display, as the iconic Empire State Building was hit by lighting three times in rapid succession. Manhattan's tallest building was brilliantly lit up... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Ryan's Wall Street-hatched plot to turn back the clock is nothing short of catastrophic and, even as a jumping off point, Simpson-Bowles is just barely tangentially better, while still being awful. Yester... - posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe border between Egypt and Israel is testing the ability of ancient deserts to survive through tough political times.
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The NYTimes posted a slideshow of various disasters. There were destructive tornados over the weekend in Wisconsin - but this tree sure looks predisposed to fall - it is rotten on the inside... ...and th... - posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours ago
The weather was absolutely gorgeous out on Sunday.........Sunny, warm, surprising weather just makes me happy. I worked part of early afternoon, and by the time I went out to my car again, it was over 80 d... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A 102-year-old Japanese man killed himself because he did not want to leave his home in the extended radiation zone. The centenarian lived in the village of Iitate, which until earlier this week was decla... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago*The first invitation* Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:26:47 -0400 Subject: Opportunity - Thursday night with the Prime Minister From: zzidaric@gmail.com Hello, On Thursday night, the Prime Minister will be in...
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One Fat-Cat Corporation at a Time. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 14, 2011 - We've told you who, in "Naming Names," now it's time to tell you how. Many may ask, "How exactly can we boycott the... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe *Shag Harbour UFO Incident* was the reported impact of an unknown large object into waters near Shag Harbour, a tiny fishing village in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia on October 4, 1967. The im...
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It seems even dialling a mobile number is becoming too time consuming for our fast-paced time precious society. But researchers in America have come up with a solution - a mobile phone which uses the powe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
For the 16th century man trying to get around town it was as useful as Google Earth or a sat-nav. And if you prefer a map to technology you can now follow your ancestors' footsteps, thanks to a reprint o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A mother-of-five has gone missing after telling her children that she was going to rent a video from. Wazineh Suleiman, 30, went missing after leaving her house in Bartow County, Georgia, on Friday and he... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
It's the oldest timber frame house in America, lived in for generations by the same family and lovingly kept just as it was in its early Colonial days. But what the Fairbanks House lacks in modern faciliti... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Up to three serial killers could have used the same Long Island beach front to dump the remains of their victims, it emerged today. The new theory comes after police revealed the bodies of a man and a todd... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThey thought they were part of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit recruited to help protect their adopted country. The 100-strong ‘army’ recruited from California’s Chinese community were provided with mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA plane was forced to land without ground assistance after an air traffic controller fell asleep - the fourth such incident this year. The controller at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada fell asle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe parents of children vaccinated at a Colorado clinic have been told to test their infants for HIV after a mix-up by a medical assistant. Vaccine syringes were shared between children receiving their pae...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAn ambulance crew allegedly refused to take a dying woman to hospital because they felt local accident and emergency departments were too busy, a coroner heard today. Janet Kent's family GP told how she h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOxygen deficiency killed thousands of fish earlier this month in the sea off Qinzhou City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, not radioactive contamination as previously rumored, a spokesman...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA massive overnight fire in the 20th district of Paris has left at least five people dead and dozens more injured, rescue services said on Thursday. A massive fire in a Paris apartment block killed five pe...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoA good diet pays off for every body especially if you are a criminal. Criminals that eat a lot of processed foods leave clearer fingerprints on things such as guns because the salt in their diet makes th...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoEveryone would agree that electric cars are a good, environmentally-friendly idea; but, some people wonder if it's a good idea to launch them in Ethiopia. What's the problem with launching an electric ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFalmouth police and fire officials said there is heavy flooding due to extreme weather on Cape Cod. Several calls have been made about cars stuck in huge puddles unable to get out and some cars were report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe threat of a dam breaking in Medicine Hat subsided Wednesday but a state of emergency remained in effect for the southern Alberta city and surrounding county, as communities across the Prairies continue...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 7 hours agoPigeons are most widely known for making a mess of statues and buildings; and, are considered a nuisance. Some people even think of them as winged rats; but, they are intelligent and have been taught to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — Unseasonable heavy rains have caused landslides on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials on Tuesday relocated families away from swollen rivers that flooded homes and des...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLibyan rebels refused to meet defector Musa Kusa yesterday, accusing Colonel Gaddafi’s former foreign minister of having blood on his hands. In a rebuke for Britain’s policy of cosseting the former intelli... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 7 hours agoContainer City, a shipping-container apartment building on the docks of London, England. Photo courtesy: designshell.com Alternate housing has long been the holy grail sought to abolish homelessness. If...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA British tourist was beaten to death by officers in a Dubai police station after being arrested for swearing, it was claimed yesterday. Lee Bradley Brown, 39, was on holiday at a £1,000-a-night hotel in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCriminals must be treated as customers – not offenders, a probation service boss has insisted. They should be invited to speak about their needs and asked how they feel about the treatment they receive, L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 6.1 -magnitude earthquake struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan The quake struck at 19:57 a.m. UTC - 537 km (333 miles) from Tokyo. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 11.2 km (7 miles). No dam...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Arifinto, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. * On 11 April 2011, we learn that, in Indonesia, an anti-porn Member of Parliament has resigned. He was caught watching porn during a parliamentary debate. *...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*UK Labour Party membership.* On 7 April 2007, in The Guardian, Billy Bragg tells us (*Labour is already too blue*): *1.* The UK Labour Party lost 4 million working-class voters between 1997 and 2010. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThousands of Syrian women and children holding white flags and olive branches blocked a main coastal highway Wednesday, demanding authorities release people detained during a crackdown on opponents of the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSyrian soldiers have been shot by security forces after refusing to fire on protesters, witnesses said, as a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations intensified. Witnesses told al-Jazeera and the BBC ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Boiled dry: This shot shows of the inside of reactor number four at the Fukushima nuclear plant before the disaster. The spent fuel storage pool is seen at the front of the shot. The rods are at ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*"Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not."* *-- White, in the original (1954) Foreword to The Second Tree from the Corner* *by Ken* For a long time the only books of E. B. W...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe “no-fly” zone in Libya set a precedent for possible action in Syria, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, but instead, the Arab League has targeted Israel. The Arab group, which includes the Palestinian Authorit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoZhu Yufu was detained on March 5 for writing a poem in support of the online calls for demonstrations that have been circulating in *China* in the wake of pro-democracy protests in the Middle East. His a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDebt-laden banks are the biggest threat to global financial stability and they must refinance a $3.6 trillion "wall of maturing debt" which comes due in the next two years, the International Monetary Fund ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoChina is poised to become an "exporter of inflation to the rest of world", according to Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), which warned that the threat from rising prices in the world's second-b...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBarack Obama, the US president, has unveiled a $4 trillion deficit-reduction programme, and slammed Republican plans for sweeping spending cuts as an attempt to fracture America's social compact. The US ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJustin Bieber is not getting much spiritual peace on his eagerly anticipated visit to Israel. The Canadian teen idol bitterly complained on Tuesday that paparazzi had ruined his visits to holy sites, say...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBig banks like Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc should be reclassified as government-sponsored entities and have their activities restricted, a senior Fed official said on Tuesday. The 2008 bank ba...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFollowing Goldman Sachs' negative call on crude prices which took the wind out of the commodities rally this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is predicting a 30 percent chance that Brent crude could hit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe US lacks a “credible strategy” to stabilise its mounting public debt, posing a small but significant risk of a new global economic crisis, says the International Monetary Fund. In an unusually stern ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA sophomore at a local private high school thinks an effort to make Easter politically correct is ridiculous. Jessica, 16, told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson Show that a week before spring break, the students...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMore than half a million people have fled Libya over the past two months, the UN refugee agency reported on Tuesday as it warned that the exodus had picked up pace in recent days. Those leaving were mainl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJapan has lowered its assessment of the country's economy for the first time in six months, as it begins to quantify the tremendous toll twin disasters have brought to the island nation. Japan's cabinet ...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 11 hours agoActivist, writer, and actress Linda Carmichael explains that she "first wrote the play SOUL ON FIRE about seven years ago, and has had several staged readings performed since, including one Off Broadw...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Chinstrap penguins walking on Antarctic ice. Numbers of chinstrap and Adelie penguins are in steep decline. Getty Images] By Jessica Marshall 11 Apr 2011 Numbers of Chinstrap and Adélie penguin...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 13 hours agoMy very first video. Somehow I don't think the gang at A Creative Revolutionwill be quaking in their boots. A huge tip o the hat to Martin Clark for doing the voiceovers, and to the BBC who let you rip t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*by Ken* As Howie has been pointing out, *of course* there are alternatives to the right-wing-gone-wild program for budget cuts that allow those least able to afford them to do the most sharing in this "...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 14 hours agoAdam Vs The Man - Military Policy, Iraq Detainees, Conflict Reduction, Martial Law, Oath Keepers
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoAlthough the french debate has been moved to accomodate millions of rabid hockey fans, the new date does not convenience me. So I leave this as an open thread to comment on the debates - I'll be back lat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA foot of snow couldn’t keep Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jennifer Hudson and other celebrities away from a star-studded celebration of civil-rights-era music, hosted by President Barack Obama and first lady Mich...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoChina’s “troubling” military buildup coincides with new efforts by Beijing to block the Navy from international waters near its coasts and field new missiles, submarines and cyberweapons, the commander of ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA new paper shows that consuming genetically modified (GM) *corn or soybeans * leads to significant organ disruptions in rats and mice, particularly in livers and kidneys. By reviewing data from *19 animal ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAmerica has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAfter former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed in 1979, the consumer price index surged into the double digits, causing the now revered Fed Chief to double the benchmark interest rate in ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe US budget deficit shot up 15.7 percent in the first six months of fiscal 2011, the Treasury Department said Wednesday as political knives were being sharpened for a new budget battle. The Treasury rep...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBolivia will this month table a draft United Nations treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans — having just passed a domestic law that does the same for bugs, trees and all other natural thin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThere's no doubt that the fate of the market/economy upon the completion of QE2 is one of the hottest questions going around. It's believed by many that the market will stumble once the program comes to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThere was a time when having one’s name listed in the despised ranks of those villains that governments often categorize as “terrorists” involved quite a bit of leg work, as well as an ominous running resu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."* -- Friedrich Nietzsche Does it seem too strong to call the way America deals with its debt "madness?" If not...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe words "Ganbaro Nippon" -- "Be strong, Japan" -- shine down on the nation's capital nightly from the soaring steel of the landmark Tokyo Tower. But a society known worldwide for its culture of stoicis...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe warm spring has already broken temperature records and is set to be one of the warmest Aprils for 100 years, according to forecasters. The Met Office said overnight temperatures earlier in the month b...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 18 hours agoPOLITICS - America's National Debt is $14.3 trillion USD, ironic when you consider it was about to be paid off completely when Bill Clinton left office. Blame George W. Bush's poor fiscal sense, two wars a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoDiscovered in the burial cave of a Jewish high priest, the nails may have been used to crucify Jesus.
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 18 hours agoA recent letter by the Israeli peace and justice group "Boycott From Within" (BfW) calls upon Bob Dylan to heed the Palestinian call for BDS and therefore not perform in Israel. The letter follows reports ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe body of a man swept away by the tsunami waves that hit California following the March 11 Japanese earthquake has been found.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours agoScience 25 March 2011: Vol. 331 no. 6024 p. 1504 DOI: 10.1126/science.331.6024.1504 *NEWS & ANALYSIS* *Devastation in Japan* *Radiation Risks Outlined by Bombs, Weapons Work, and Accidents* *Jocelyn Kai...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoWe don't always get even close to a perfect Blue America candidate. But Norman Solomon is. He's running for the Marin-Sonoma County seat widely believed to being given up by Lynn Woolsey. It's a sturdy De...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 19 hours agoWe have new ads out by both the Tories and the Liberals. Both have picked their issue and gone on the attack. *Conservatives*: As the old saying goes, if you repeat something enough, it becomes true. On ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agohttp://www.ikatun.org/thebordercrossedus *'The Border Crossed Us'* *Art installation, with O'odham and more Native American speakers* *Wednesday, April 20* Opening Reception 3-4:30 PM The Border Crossed Us...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoWoman Sentenced for Harboring ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Who Shot at Police: " A Michigan woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for harboring a sovereign citizen who fired shots at Florida state troopers when...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoSurprised by Solidarity in Wisconsin: Media erred in assuming public shared their distaste for unions: "One of the early assumptions in media coverage of the Wisconsin protests against Gov. Scott Walker’s pr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoAmerican troops are supposed to be gone from Iraq entirely by December 31, 2011. That's just eight months from now, not much time to dismantle the US force and base structure. In fact, the Americans hav...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoCivil and Human Rights Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Ryan's 'Draconian' Budget Resolution: "The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is calling on Congress to reject the fiscal year 2012 budg...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoSerial Killer: Search Extends Underwater: "Police dive teams are prepping for an underwater search of bays near a barrier island off New York's Long Island area where at least nine bodies have already been f...
- *What attracts nearly 20 million* Google search-entries? Burning a Video-DVD! You bet. I got my share of the problems upon finishing my project for friend and bakery-neighbour Ramón (see earlier article). ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 20 hours agoBy Dennis Kucinich Transcript from interview by Paul Jay of Real News Network PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay. We're in Washington, in the Capitol building with Congressman Dennis...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe more years you expect to live, the less likely you are to go to church, finds a study.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoStable planetary orbits are theorized to exist inside black hole event horizons, sufficiently advanced lifeforms may live there too.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe tiny insect can turn entire pine forests into bleak landscapes.
- Record number of Americans on government assistance – Austerity measures may cut off aid to millionsposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Storefront sign: 'We accept Food Stamps / EBT cards'. A record number of Americans is receiving food stamps. Spencer Platt / Getty Images]By Tami Luhby, senior writer 13 April 2011 NEW YORK (CN...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours agothe*REAL**news* *April 13, 2011* *Kucinich: Obama Admin Transferring Wealth to the Few* Dennis Kucinich: Obama administration presiding over transfer of wealth from the mass to the upper few More at ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThese species are some of the most biologically surprising, unique or threatened recent discoveries.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoHere we have the most evil man in Britain, according to the BBC news. If I understand what the BBC have been saying today, he seeks to close down the NHS and order the slaughter of the First-born. Oh for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn eight-year-old girl is among scores of people refused medical help or shelter in Japan because of fears they could be contaminated by radiation and could pass it on to others. People who have been made...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 22 hours ago[image: Cascadas del Paraíso - Paradise - 1920x1200]*Haz click aquí* o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compartir nu...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 22 hours ago[image: Mujeres hermosas - Bianca Balti - 1920x1200]*Haz click aquí* o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compartir nu...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 22 hours ago[image: Paisajes del mundo - Antigua - 1920x1200]*Haz click aquí* o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.[image: Si lo deseas, únete a nuestra comunidad en Facebook para compartir nuest...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 22 hours ago[image: Mujeres hermosas - Jennifer Beals]*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 imá...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 22 hours ago[image: Volkswagen Bulli - La nueva Combi]*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 imá...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoKorea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., which supplies 40 percent of the nation’s electricity, shut its oldest nuclear reactor to fix a technical problem. The unit of Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEP) closed the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe big news today is that the $38.5 billion in budget cuts announced with such fanfare on Friday night mostly aren’t real. A good deal of it involves money from previous years and previous budgets that ha...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently warned that the U.S. is likely headed back into recession: The Economic Truth That Nobody Will Admit: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double-Dip Why aren’t Am...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoEven as polling shows the American people recoiling from anti-working family Republican extremism in disgust, a dependably cowardly Obama has essentially embraced all their precepts. For him *anything* i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo of the nails used to crucify Jesus have been discovered in a 2,000-year-old tomb, according to a new film. The film, 'The Nails of the Cross' by Simcha Jacobovici, follows three years of research du...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThis impressive collection of pictures taken by Joshua Lambus, in Hawaii reveals the colourful creatures that are just a few centimetres in size. They are found in water more than 7,000ft deep, off the coa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe price of gold will reach $2,100 an ounce within three years and could rise to almost $5,000 by the end of the decade, according to a new report. Rising demand for gold in China and India will drive ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe US should make a 'down payment' this year on tackling its budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund has warned, as it emerged that the world's biggest bond investor is shorting the country's bond...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe United States will hit the legal limit on its ability to borrow no later than May 16, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday, ramping up pressure on Congress to act to avoid a debt defaul...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIf you’re about to embark on your usual 12-hour day at the office, you might want to pause a while – a few hours, actually. A study has found that those who spend more than 11 hours at work increase their...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe fragile ozone layer shielding our planet from ultraviolet rays has deteriorated to unprecedented lows over the Arctic, the UN weather agency said Tuesday. The ozone in the Arctic has depleted by abou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades—and the reason is a mystery, a new study says.* In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average. Extremely strong winds caus...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBED is a medicine," instructs an Italian proverb. Increasingly, Americans are inverting that counsel by ingesting sleeping pills to speed their slumber. With complaints of insomnia mounting, and marketin...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoMealSnap uses a database of 500,000 food items to calculate calories.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWhile working for that next merit badge, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts may face stereotypical ideas about gender.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe body count of a Long Island serial killer is now up to 10. What makes him tick?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoSoftware from IBM uses information from road sensors and the Internet to identify commuter patterns.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 23 hours ago[image: HaliburtonWolves (36 of 153)] Haliburton Wolf Centre, March 27, 2011 Photo by JH *Story and more photos below* * * * * In the summer of 2009, Allan and I and two friends went to the Haliburton F...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoENVIRONMENT - Radiation levels coming from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan spiked today, reaching level 7 (complete meltdown!!!), making it on par with the level of disaster that Chernobyl was in 1986...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - If you go to the CBC website and watch their highlight reel of last week's leadership debate you can clearly count the number of times Stephen Harper lied (or misled people) during the debate. Ku...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoAlterNet / *by Les Leopold* Hedge Fund Gamblers Earn the Same In One Hour As a Middle-Class Household Makes In Over 47 Years *How do they make so much money? Where does it come from? How can hedge ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Refugees at Yonezawa Gymnasium in Japan. A mother holds her baby at Yonezawa gymnasium which is now providing a shelter for 504 people who either lost their homes by the Tsunami or live near Fuku...
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoWe've been car shopping lately. Even my little guy has gotten in on the action: At some point or other, car shopping is a necessary evil for most of us. It doesn't necessarily have to be an evil though -...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoNot commenting on last night's debates or on the effectiveness of Canada's opposition parties here. Just another element in this corner's non-partisan approach to getting rid of Stephen Harper. This grou...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe day's temperature has an influence on the level of concern some people have about the impact of climate change.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFrom the NRDC: I am dismayed -- and heartbroken -- to report that the last-minute budget deal agreed to by Congressional leaders on Friday night will strip endangered species protection from gray wolves...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Anyone telling me that there are no differences between GOP and DEM had best prove it! The government's own stats prove that every Democratic President since WWII ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Morocco Bama left a link to this incredible segment in comments. I had no idea there was reporting of this caliber on the teevee....
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe dinosaur lived about 205 million years ago in what is now Ghost Ranch, N.M., which inspired the animal's spooky name.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoLast night's leaders' debate, in my view, was no small triumph for the Liberal Party. If I didn't know anything coming into the debate - if I didn't know that liberals always sound progressive at electio...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoGo, George, Go! Outspoken former British MP George Galloway has made good on his threat to sue Canada's immigration minister. A statement of claim served on Jason Kenney and his assistant Alykhan Velshi ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoOne of the less loathsome aspects of the deal Obama and the Democrats cut with the GOP was to allow an open vote on one of the less rational strategies in the Republican Party war against women: defunding...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoIran, Syria, and Belarus join China in condemning West for meddling. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 13, 2011 - Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion peopl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwenty-five children have died and dozens more been seriously injured despite being known to social services, an Ofsted report reveals. Vulnerable youngsters are let down in ‘too many’ cases by professiona...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*DRENCHING rain has forced the relocation of patients at the Royal Hobart Hospital today. *The rain is continuing to wreak havoc across the South and East of the state today, closing schools, flooding ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Norwich neighbourhood has been rocked by a triple stabbing which saw a woman and two young girls taken to hospital. Police later arrested a 28-year-old Norfolk man on South Beach Parade in Great Yarmout...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAre we at a cross-roads in human spaceflight? Or are we in a steady decline? On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first flight, Discovery News space producer Ian O'Neill shares his opinion.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Japan Air Lines flight 1628* was a UFO incident that occurred on November 17, 1986 involving a Japanese cargo jumbo freighter aircraft. The crew witnessed three unidentified objects while flying over Alas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US state department says an American citizen is being held in North Korea, and is calling for the person's release on humanitarian grounds. No details have been given about the American's identity or ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSixteen long-nosed dolphins were washed ashore dead at three places along the Puducherry coast on Monday. It has raised concern among environmentalists as it is the 20th instance in 16 months of protected ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is a stinky and scaly situation in River Rouge as thousands of dead fish were discovered floating along the shoreline. The smell has been described as almost unbearable. Viewers were so concerned they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe long cold winter wasn't just tough on Minnesotans, it was tough on fish in area lakes. Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board officials say they're cleaning up fish at several lakes in the city, which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA rowdy baseball fan was videoed being shot with a Taser and beaten by police in front dozens of chanting drunken supporters. There have been 300,000 views on Facebook of the bust-up between the officers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestigators hunting the 'Craigslist Ripper' are investigating the theory that there may be more than one killer. Police have now found the remains of seven adults, one toddler and a bundle of bones whic...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Justin, who is having a bad time in Israel.* Israel has tried to get Justin Bieber on its side. *Netanyahu 'cancels' Bieber date over snubbed kids - ABC News ...** * The bad news is that Justin Bieber, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice have charged four people in a scheme to sell a baby girl to a convicted child molester and his sister. Indianapolis Police say siblings Michael and Debbie Overby tried to buy the 10 day old daughte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA video of two children smoking cigarettes on a train has sparked fresh debate about the scale of China's tobacco habit. The short video shows two young boys - aged approximately three to four years old -...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Image - 'Shocking arrogance': Conservative MP Dominic Raab says Britain must stand firm against the growing abuse of power) European judges last night dismissed the Government’s final appeal against pris...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDonald Trump has surged in the polls to become the joint-first candidate when Republicans are asked who they would support for the 2012 presidential nomination. The big CNN survey rise comes after he cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Big banks are using the £100 billion sitting in current accounts as a fighting fund to stifle competition from smaller rivals and prevent customers from getting the best deal. Britain’s biggest five b...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoI Understand and I wish to Continue postcard from Planet Backwards arthur zbygniew Annoying Joe J7: 7/7 Inquests Blog The Lynton House Mystery You Couldn't Make It Up!
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBoston officials had hoped to have aerial and street-level photos taken across about four square miles of the city this winter using infrared cameras that would show heat loss in the city homes. Official...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTake, for instance, the Labor Department's annual springtime boost in the faux jobs market. While it's nice that the government thinks there is an employment boom coming, this won't be a good development i...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The Palm Court of the old Plaza Hotel, possible setting for the famous tea dance to which young Elwyn White escorted his girl "of interest," Eileen* *"I do not know now, and of course did not know then, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJacob Harrison did what he thought kids from rural West Texas are supposed to do. He went away to college and didn't look back. But after working in Central Texas for a while, he called home with a confess...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe body of a 25-year-old northern California man swept out to sea while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival from Japan last month has washed ashore about 380 miles away, in Oregon, officials there ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan admitted delaying upgrading the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant to the highest possible level, putting it on a par with Chernobyl, prompting calls for "swift and accurate" information about t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was admitted to a hospital Tuesday after complaining to his doctor that he felt unwell, according to a spokesman for the Egyptian military. A military source said ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance and Britain, who first launched air attacks on Libya in coalition with the United States, Tuesday criticized NATO'S bombing campaign, saying it must do more to stop Muammar Gaddafi bombarding civili...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThirteen-year-old Chelsea Edwards says last weekend was the first time she ever tried her hand at a money-making venture. The seventh-grader at Feagin Mill Middle School says it wasn't too long though ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile Washington averted a government shutdown this week, California Governor Jerry Brown continues with his budget battles. The governor may feel like he’s in a recurring nightmare these days. Everywhere...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe sentencing of a blogger to jail for criticizing Egypt's army has drawn a chorus of objections from rights groups, who say the country's ruling military council is drawing red lines around free speech. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe global recovery is moving at two speeds, with emerging countries like China still expanding rapidly as advanced economies like the United States grow at a snail's pace. "The pace of activity remains g...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOK, so the JPM vault that contains a whopping 30,844 ounces of silver (about two hours worth, given the torrid pace at which JPM delivers) was just approved by the COMEX in March. JPM’s probably got lots o...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAnd now we spin. I'm not going to call a winner on this one, because it's very difficult for someone who eats and breathes politics to predict how people tuning in for the first time will absorb what the...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day ago... although the partisan spin machines are, no doubt, going full-tilt boogie right about now. Who can blame them, really. It's how the game is played, and it's what they're paid for. Regardless of how th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: In the span of just four winters, a deadly new disease called white-nose syndrome (WNS) that devastates bat populations has spread rapidly across the country from east to west. The bat illness wa...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoART HISTORY/POLITICS - Time Magazine has ripped off a famous painting by Canadian artist Charles Moffat. The painting in question, "United States Censorship", was painted in September 2001 shortly after th...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoToday, April 12, 2011, marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. Below are some random excerpts from the book 'Reflections on the Civil War' by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Br...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Former NOM activist Louis Marinelli * *"The very title of the Defense of Marriage Act is an insult. What’s there to defend? Many gay couples want to be married -- they’re not attacking the institution."*...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImagine turning your car’s steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now you’re speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel. It sounds like a vi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnti-government demonstrations in Syria are part of a plot by the West to undermine a government that supports "resistance" in the Middle East, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Unlike u...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it halt C.I.A. drone strikes ai...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt one time, $5 per gallon gas seemed like a far-fetched idea, but that is no longer the case. As of Monday, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the Chicago area is $4.11, comp...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDoes a 1950 FBI document prove that the Roswell UFO crash was real?
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoApril 12, 2011 *Nuclear Catastrophe in Japan “Not Equal to Chernobyl, But Way Worse”* Japan has raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis from 5 to 7, the highest level, matching the 1986 Chernoby...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago*7:00 pm*: We are ready to go! Vegas had the over/under on "coalition" mentions by Stephen Harper at 8.5. Place your bets! *7:02 pm*: Fun fact - this set was also used in the 1972 debate. Geez, you think...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoNeedless to mention, the Lewis & Clark Centennial was a big thing in 1905 but things have changed a lot since those times. Indeed, 2005, passed by without any signifigant celebrations, with most of the re...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoConstitutional Refuseniks Stewart Rhodes on his controversial group the Oath Keepers and the orders they won't obey By Radley Balko Reason.com When you run down the list of issues the Oath Keepers are wo...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoIt's amazing that PBS runs these sickening ads from our corporate masters and still pretends to be independent. Maybe that is what makes this show so ridiculous. Here's my comment on it, after a fellow c...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEven though the U.S. financial system nearly experienced a total meltdown in late 2008, the truth is that most Americans simply have no idea what is happening to the U.S. economy. Most people seem to think...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was a chance encounter that led Naoto Karasawa's family from the shaky ground of Tokyo to the firm soil of Toronto. At a business conference in the days after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Japan on...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*For those keeping summer fit via leafy greens, be warned: From Applebee's pecan chicken salad (1,340 calories) to a Jason's Deli monster (2,000 calories), VIEW OUR GALLERY of 40 dangerous salads.* It’s ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThinking back to the following post from April 5th: Expect the Round Number Effect at $1500 for gold, but less severe than the battle at $1400. Angel $1650 is quickly coming into focus. If we have learne...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years (both in terms of the markets and the general economy), equity valuations are now approaching the second largest bubble in United States his...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolitical tensions in the Middle East once again remind us of the fragile dependency of the Western nations on imported petroleum, which have driven the price of a barrel of crude oil to above $100, as was...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs reported by ABC News, what started out as a program to hold unclaimed property, such as the contents of safety deposit boxes owned by people who have moved away without a forwarding address, has gone wi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several. Most people who follow unemployment and the housing crisis wou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe daughter of an elderly mail scam victim is complaining to the federal privacy commissioner about Canada Post — after it sold her dad's new address to mail sorting companies — which then provided it to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Americans won the race to the Moon when Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface in 1969. That single act trumped the Soviet achievement of sending the first man into space eight years earlier. B...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Japanese government says it will take a decade to rebuild the country's earthquake disaster areas. Officials in the worst affected area of Miyagi Prefecture, in north east * Japan*, say many cities an...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoSaturday there was a rally on the Avila Beach pier in San Luis Obispo to protest the license renewal for PG&E's ancient Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. PG&E is asking to renew the troubled facility until 204...
- posted by allan at wmtc - 1 day agoHow happy are we about yesterday's leak of the Auditor General's report and the revelations that the Conservatives lied about Sheila Fraser's statements? Hurrah for Joan Bryden and double hurrahs for wha...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoTommy Banks, a Liberal Senator from Alberta, has written a strong, cogent, stirring piece about what the 2011 Canadian federal election is about. I re-post it here with one paragraph omitted and one disag...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoVideo posted by Radical Pragmatist. Event: Investigate Building 7: A Call to Reexamine the Most Important Event of Our Time. Date:March 26 2011 Place: University of Hartford, Ct Website: Investigatebuildin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVideo footage has emerged from the moment an A380 jumbo jet collided with a smaller passenger plane at JFK airport, causing it to spin violently. The amateur recording captures the moment the wing of the...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI'll be live-blogging the debate tonight, so tune in here at 7 pm Eastern for kick-off. Until then, here's everything you need to know to get ready: *FORMAT*: Gone is the free for all PM-pile on. Gone ...
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