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[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The *United States* today blamed *Iran* of secretly helping Syria in its labors to onslaught on demonstrator. "We consider that there is credible information t... - posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 hour ago
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Congress sent President *Barack Obama* hard-fought legislation cutting a record $38 billion from central spending on Thursday, bestowing bipartisan hold up on ... - posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 hour ago
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] President *Barack Obama* restarted his alarming fundraising operation Thursday with a confront to supporters that the 2012 presidential crusade will be concern... - posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 hour agoUrl movie: http://youtu.be/QaLDMz_e2jQ This is a preview of the Beta 1 version. I assume the Beta-2 that is out now replaces the Release Candidate that was announced. Downloads here. Mind the right versio...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*"Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not, and this is a book of revelations: essays, poems, stories, opinions, reports, drawn from the past, the present, the future, the city... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Thousands of rare fish have been given a lift up a mountain on the back of llamas in an extraordinary move, led by the Environment Agency, to help the species survive climate change. The endangered venda... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe car company joins Honda in selling cars powered by compressed natural gas.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 hours ago
Sorry friends. I don't want to sound alarmist, let alone conspiracy-minded, but this just seems a little too easy. Something like this is so over the top and so ... *scripted* ... that I can't help won... - posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 3 hours agoBy Denis G. RancourtI consider that there is a fundamental distinction to be made between (1) racism of belief or opinion of the individual and (2) racism of action (or inaction) in the systemic oppression o...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 hours agoHave I mentioned that I love love love love love these guys? ShitHarperDid.com. Best thing to happen to democracy since the Vote Mob. Keep it up, you crazy kids! *Related posts:* - The latest video...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoA reporter called me today to get my comments about the restructuring, or not, of the Texas Railroad Commission.What difference does it make? Our elected officials are wasting time arranging chairs on the Ti...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours ago
New York Times op-ed piece by Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand April 15, 2011 - When presidents are writing editorials in newspapers a hard-sell is just around the corner. J... - posted by Gail at Wit's End - 4 hours ago
On this delightful balmy spring morning, I hastily made a brief detour down the driveway to URWA headquarters. I didn't have time to do a side-by-side comparison to pictures in this post from December 20... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Mountain Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) is on the edge of extinction mainly due to genetic factors, predation, disease and forest habitat threats. BONGO PHOTO COPYRIGHT 2011 – COURTESY: RHI...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago
*There was lots of tough talk from then-NYS AG Andrew Cuomo about wrongdoing in the financial meltdown, but it was hard to spot all that much prosecutorial zeal in the follow-through.* *"Several years aft... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 6 hours ago
Never underestimate the sheer batshit stupidity that can come of combining the wrong ingredients in the wrong proportions under the wrong conditions. First example is an easy two points. Some guy working f... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 6 hours ago"Some of us are unwilling to keep silent about anything. What makes us sick to our stomachs is our political society in its entirety. There will be no salvation, moreover, until everyone who is still wor...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoUsing a new visualization tool, the extreme nature of spacetime surrounding colliding black holes has been modeled.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
Cuba is facing its worst drought in half a century, with tens of thousands of families almost entirely reliant on water trucks for essential supplies. The drought started two years ago, and reservoirs are... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA US Senate probe says Goldman Sachs misled investors selling mortgage-backed investments it knew would fail. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has spent two years looking at the behavi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMore than 1,000 kilometers from Tokyo, Seoul is having its very own crisis of faith in tap water, and radiation isn’t to blame. In South Korea, the carcasses of 9.7 million cattle, pigs and poultry were ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoYou control our world. You’ve poisoned the air we breathe, contaminated the water we drink, and copyrighted the food we eat. We fight in your wars, die for your causes, and sacrifice our freedoms to protec...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe price of gold fell against a rising US Dollar in London on Thursday, dropping back to $1454 per ounce but rising for Euro and Sterling buyers as world stock markets fell alongside commodities. Major-e...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe U.S. has accused Iran of funneling to support to Syria to put down pro-democracy demonstrators. Iran is also accused of supporting Shiite hardline groups in Bahrain and Yemen. Also, looking ahead to up...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNew claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, bouncing back above the key 400,000 level, while core producer prices climbed faster than expected in March, government reports showed on T...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRewind to 1991 and you see India buried under an acute debt crisis that forces the nation to mortgage its gold reserves to pay for imports. Twenty years later, the South Asian nation has risen as an eco...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard operatives are planning attacks on western targets in the coming days, a Lebanese report said. The report was based on information gathered by western intelligenc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe reasons to own gold and silver today are many and growing. The obvious and perhaps most discussed are skyrocketing debt, a weakening dollar and the rising threat of inflation. Validating these reason...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe debate over a measured deceleration in our Pioneer and Voyager deep space probes may be reaching a climax.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoOver the years we've pointed out a number of cases where Republicans have actually chosen their own "opponents," shills whose primary victories were financed by forces eager to make sure the Republican in...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoQuestion Time tonight comes from that famous bastion of middle-of-the-road politics...Liverpool. On the panel tonight we have Baron and part time vampire Michael Howard, adulterer, windmill fanatic and e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIf it's not bad enough that most quakes do not reach mainstream news, or even small local news these days, we've now found out that larger quakes of 7+ magnitude are being blacked out from the public. ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoUnder an ice-covered Antarctic lake, astrobiologists discover otherworldly mounds that tell tales of the planet’s early days.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe plume that fuels Yellowstone's famous geysers and hot springs appears to be larger than once thought.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoThe predictions of a Conservative majority on the front page are a bit out of date (*she says optimistically*), but this is a very useful organizing tool: Project Democracy. Put in a postal code (or clic...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe energy used to grow marijuana indoors accounts for 1 percent of the nation's electricity consumption.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours agoDid you know that Photoshop has an online editor? You can use the editor to complete basic tasks such as cropping, red eye and turning your images black and white. When you follow the link, first you will...
- *Video cams wobble*. Am I telling something new? Our small home video cameras are so lightweight, that keeping them steady is an art of its own. Unless you use a tripod, of course. No longer. Then you alre...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 11 hours agoI've only had a chance to watch bits and pieces of last night's debate, where the leaders exchanged hockey metaphors as freely as hockey players exchange body checks. So far be it from me to try and make s...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Sany concrete pump spraying water to the No.1 reactor of Fukushima nuclear plant, 7 April 2011. sanygroup.com] TOKYO, April 14 (Kyodo) -- The government's nuclear safety agency on Thursday conti...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Percentage of US population working / Women and men in the labor force. Julie Snider / USA TODAY / Bureau of Economic Analysis / Bureau of Labor Statistics] By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY 13 April...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA teenage gamekeeper accidentally shot dead his young sweetheart and then apparently turned the gun on himself in grief. Trainee gamekeeper Calum Murray, 18, had been cleaning the weapon, believed to be a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA teenager made a frantic last phone call to his father as he lay trapped in front of an oncoming train, an inquest heard. Ryan Quinn, 14, whose hand was trapped in a cattle grid, said in the tragic cry f...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours agoBy Duane Craig Estrogen in drinking water courtesy of http://www.treehugger.comWater contamination may be get renewed attention that could affect the science of female cancers. The Environmental Protectio...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours agoBlogger's Note: This is a "MUST READ" for all of you who fondly remember the many K-12 teachers who taught us to understand the world around us, think for ourselves, and thereby develop our own moral compa...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoBoehner's office is claiming he has the votes in the bag to pass the budget deal he and Obama made. Recall, when they voted last Friday just after midnight on a temporary Band-Aid to keep the government f...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoLINK FIXEDFlowback: How the Texas Natural Gas Boom Affects Health and SafetyTEXAS OIL & GAS ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 14, 2011CONTACT: Sharon Wilson or Bill Walker, Texas OGAP: (46...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoBurning the myths about Islam: " The complete apathy of the 'Arab spring' in regards to the burning of a Quran reveals how anger-fuelled riots are borne from suppression of freedom, not the allegedly violen...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoJalees Rehman, M.D.: Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for Wearing “Muslim Garb”: "Warning: This is a satirical piece!By: Jalees Rehman, M.D.April 5, 2011 DAYTON, OH – Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoTexas GOP Rep. Pushes Anti-Sharia Bill: " Leo Berman Texas is now joining over 15 states that have introduced bills to guard against the non-existent threat of Islamic Sharia law. In proposing legislation ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agohere are reports of four blasts, followed by anti-aircraft fire, in the Libyan capital. A witness told Reuters of hearing heavy weapons and seeing smoke rising in the city on Thursday. Coalition jets co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoUsing magnets to stimulate the brain may ease depression in people who have not found relief from antidepressants, new research has found. “We have settled a fundamental question about [transcranial magne...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThere are reports of a stand-off between Chinese security forces and residents outside a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sichuan province. Local residents were reportedly trying to prevent police from detai...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEarlier this April we made our way to Fukushima to do some investigative reporting of the current conditions in the five- to ten-kilometer area around the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. This is th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCEO pay of the biggest US companies saw a sharp rebound in 2010, according to compensation consulting firm Equilar, in a study commission by *New York Times*. The median compensation was $9.6 million, up...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIn January this year, an organisation calling itself the House of Traditional Elders of Kenya held court with Libyan strongman Col Muammar Gaddafi. Led by its chairman, Mr Kamlesh Pattni of the Goldenber...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAt a small Hindu temple on the eastern outskirts of Rajasthan, India's largest state, the spiritually possessed come to have their demons expelled. For people suffering mental health problems in this par...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBritain’s growth over the next three months will be roughly one third the pace of other major world economies, according to forecasts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development. n an up...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMeditation can have pain relieving effects greater than morphine, claims new study. Researchers have found that just one hour of meditation training can reduce immediate pain by nearly half and have a lo...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoNaples neighbors targeted by religious hate crimes (USA): "Neighbors in a Naples community have become the victims of a rash of recent hate crimes.The graffiti plastered on Michael Gilberg's garage door tear...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoPolice reveal rise in hate crime against the elderly (UK): "Police in the Lothians have started recording a new category of hate crime - against pensioners.The force has been noting age as an 'aggravating fa...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoCarlisle man who burned Koran due to be sentenced on Monday (UK): "Andrew Ryan, who claims to be a member of the English Defence League, will appear at Carlisle Magistrates Court.Ryan, 32, of Summerhill, Lon...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoCalif. bombing suspect waives right to Cleveland hearing: "California synagogue bombing suspect waived his right to a hearing in Cleveland today"
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoSolar panels, wind turbines, batteries and diesel-thermal generators power this ship.
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours agoNo 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours agoThe ocean-going floats could track radioactive material as it approaches Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLast 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! - 17 hours agoRyan'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 - 17 hours agoThe border between Egypt and Israel is testing the ability of ancient deserts to survive through tough political times.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 18 hours agoThe 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 - 18 hours agoThe 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 - 18 hours agoA 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 - 18 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...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoOne 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 - 20 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt 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 - 20 hours agoFor 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 - 20 hours agoA 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 - 20 hours agoIt'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 - 21 hours agoUp 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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...
- Libyan rebels refuse to talk to Kusa after accusing him of having blood on his hands - 14th Apr 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoAdam Vs The Man - Military Policy, Iraq Detainees, Conflict Reduction, Martial Law, Oath Keepers
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA recent letter by the Israeli peace and justice group "Boycott From Within" (BfW) implores legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan to heed the Palestinian call for BDS and therefore not perform in Israel. T...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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) - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe more years you expect to live, the less likely you are to go to church, finds a study.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThese species are some of the most biologically surprising, unique or threatened recent discoveries.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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