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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: An aerial photo shows oil in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. The deepwater oil platform that burned for more...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*It seems that on the WaPo editorial pages they actually know about climate change after all. Who'da thunk it?* *"Climate science is complex, and much remains to be learned. But if you asked 1,000 scienti... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 hours ago“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” - David McCullough The history we were taught in school is not real history. We assume we are f...
- Friday News Feedbag for April 15, 2011!
Image by SkyTruth via Flickrposted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOn this week's Friday News Feedbag, we FINALLY post this poll so our listeners can vote. Hooray! Also, we have a word from our new sponsor, the (soon-to-be) heart-warming holiday (which holiday exactly?) c... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 hours ago
Tons of polls out today, with something for everyone. If you're a Liberal, you're no doubt salivating at eating into the 8-point Tory lead in today's Decima and yesterday's Ekos polls. The NDP are surging... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Coal at Tanggu Port, Tianjin, China, 2005. Edward Burtynsky] By Jim Bai and Tom Miles; Editing by Michael Urquhart 18 April 2011 BEIJING (Reuters) – Central China's Hubei province has joined a g...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 4 hours ago
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[image: Paisaje HDR Landscape (1920x1200px de resolución)]*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 compar... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: U.S. Drought Monitor map for Texas, 12 April 2011. This follows the driest March in Texas history, with wildfires burning in all but 2 of the state's 254 counties. unl.edu] By Jim Forsyth; Editi...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 4 hours ago
[image: Mar y montañas - Sea and mountains 2 (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 compart... - posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 5 hours agoGetting Off The Globalist Chessboard: An Introduction ** *By Stewart Rhodes and Brandon Smith Alt-Market.com Published: April 17, 2011* To put it simply, America is nearing a checkmate scenario. Like the ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA one-year jail sentence handed down Sunday seemed to put to an end Zahi Hawass’ career.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
The State Department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Washington Post reported, citing previously undisclosed diplomatic documents provided to the newspaper by th... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
The forbearance shown by survivors of Japan's quake-tsunami has been lauded in the West, but psychologists worry not talking about the hurt could be doing long-term damage. Commentators have heaped prais... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Saudi Arabia's oil minister said on Sunday the kingdom had slashed output by 800,000 barrels per day in March due to oversupply, sending the strongest signal yet that OPEC will not act to quell soaring pri... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
You'll go starry-eyed at Nasa’s latest mission success - because the space agency has uploaded thousands of amazing space snaps onto the internet, including shots of previously unseen galaxies, stars and a... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPope Benedict led Roman Catholics into Holy Week celebrations, telling a Palm Sunday crowd that man will pay the price for his pride if he believes technology can give him the powers of God. Under a spl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Would you feel comfortable if market researchers could know your every thought? A headband designed by San Francisco firm EmSense can sense your brainwaves as you have reactions to watching something and ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe government on Saturday said that levels of radioactivity in seawater near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant had risen significantly in recent days, according to samples taken Friday. Hidehiko Nishiyam...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDallas hedge-fund manager J. Kyle Bass helped advise the University of Texas Investment Management Co. on taking delivery of 6,643 gold bars, worth $987 million on April 15, now stored in a bank warehouse ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDr. Marc Faber spoke with CNBC this morning about currency markets, notably the recent movements in the euro, global long-term position in the dollar, and the rise of gold and silver. Earlier, Faber spo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: The thawing of the ice-rich permafrost causes erosion that delivers large quantities of sediment to the coast. Hugues Lantuit, Alfred Wegener Institute via livescience.com] By Wynne Parry, LiveS...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 hours agoAs we enter the stretch drive on the campaign trail, I figured I'd check in on the "20 questions" pool, to see if the campaign has unfolded as people expected it would. *Over/under on the highest level o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Iconic Imagery) at Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoA few weeks ago I made the case to Wisconsin state Senator Chris Larson about why he should run against Paul Ryan. Ever since the Wisconsin legislature gerrymandered WI-01 to make it safer for Ryan-- remo...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA trillion years from now the universe will be a much simpler place for far-future astronomers to ponder.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoAs the teeth of a 275 million-year-old reptile from the Paleozoic era wore away, dental pulp got infected.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours agoThe second I pulled zippers out of my stashbusting package, I knew I wanted to make zipper flowers. My problem was the last time I went with the sewing route, my flowers turned into a total craft fail, so ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoURGENT Steve Presley of GVRD threatens spiritual encampment of removal tonight after agreements to meet tomorrow!*** Support Needed! For Immediate Release: Monday, April 18, 2011 Contact: Morning Star Gal...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoIf you have something like O(10 x 100 minutes) = O(1000 minutes) and you want to learn the basics of our only candidate for a theory of everything, here is the playlist with ten Prof Susskind's lectures ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoJesus' arrest, interrogation and separate trials likely did not all take place in the space of one night.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 8 hours agoLas Cruces, New Mexico and Dona Anna County wonder why the National Guard isn’t paying its share for a $15 to $20 million cleanup of perchloroethylene(PCE) in that city at North Solano Drive and East Hadl...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*John Buchan* John Buchan's hero Richard Hannay says: "We've overdone civilization, and personally I'm all for a little barbarism." (The Three Hostages) *http://canspeccy.blogspot.com/* reminds us that *...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFlorida police have named the 16-year-old arrested for the murder of two British men who were shot dead while on holiday. Sarasota Police confirmed a boy named Shawn Tyson was in custody accused of shooti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago30-metre long mammal - believed to be a female sperm whale - found on Baleshare shore. *A dead whale has been found washed ashore on a scenic beach in North Uist.* The 10.5-metre long mammal was found on...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoJust because you're on the right doesn't mean you're a genuine conservative. Just because you're to the left of that person on the right doesn't make you a true liberal either. The political spectrum is...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThese disfluencies may help youngsters pick up key words.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoTwenty-five years after the disaster, fallout from Chernobyl remains a poorly-investigated hazard for the environment.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least 1,000 anchovies and sardines have died in the Ventura Harbor from what officials believe is a lack of oxygen. The fish were first seen dead or dying about 6 a.m. today, with some belly up in the ...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 9 hours ago"As the first anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster approaches, the former BP boss Tony Hayward could be forgiven for wishing to see the back of 12 months in which he was dubbed America's "most ha...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoThe festering pustules better known as the Fraser Institute are at it again. They want the feds to stop enforcing the rules governing medicare for five years to allow provinces to "experiment" with privat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teenage girl has survived a 220ft jump from the Golden Gate Bridge in what is being described as a second miracle at the world's most popular suicide spot in just a month. The 16-year-old-girl is the s...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 10 hours ago*Neithercorp Press* ** *By Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers* * and Brandon Smith of the Alternative Market Project * To put it simply, America is nearing a checkmate scenario. Like the final torrid maneuve...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*Two Wisconsin clowns who want to fundamentally change America* Back to Ryan for a moment. He was on NPR Friday vomiting out the same talking points about his budget cause that he spews every time he gets ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: A cleanup crew shovels oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana, 24 May 2010. The oil washed ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Photo by John Moore / Getty Images] By Kerry Sheridan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man has been jailed for 70 days today after he burnt a copy of the Koran just over a month after a Muslim got away with a paltry £50 fine for a similar offence. Andrew Ryan, 32, stole a copy of the holy...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThese primates aren't very good swimmers, but they can still catch fish with their long limbs.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe big question for print publications is whether their articles, slideshows and other features are worth paying for.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe development might be used to design faster quantum computers.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*Navajo Anna Rondon on American Indian Airwaves* *Fukushima is a wakeup call for the human race* *Listen now to the April 12, 2011 program:* http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/xml/americanindian.xml Navajo Ann...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 11 hours agoWe’ve written on previous occasions about the Ten Million Dollar defamation lawsuit filed against Pamela Geller and some of her cohorts. Now we have an update: In case No. 2:10-cv-00793-EAS-NMK Omar Tarazi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe 6.6 -magnitude earthquake *SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS* The quake struck at 13:03 UTC - 527 km (327 miles) from Gisborne, New Zealand. Its epicenter was located with a depth of 90.7 km (56.4 miles). ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago*The Guardian's*, Charlie Brooker has written an interesting screed on Britain's tabloid journalists caught in Britain's phone-hacking scandal. But, as I read it, I realized how well his observations als...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoManitoba officials were working quickly Monday to build higher dikes along the Assiniboine River, while their counterparts in Saskatchewan warned that flooding will remain a threat for the rest of the mont...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOver the past few days ozone-depleted air masses extended from the north pole to southern Scandinavia leading to higher than normal levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation during sunny days in southern Finlan...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTo the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable. Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloist...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA rumored rift between Iran's two most powerful leaders surfaced Sunday when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei overruled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's acceptance of the resignation of the country's intelligence min...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least 200 homes in the colony of San Isidro and La Providencia, in the Mexican state of Mexico, remained flooded Sunday because a crack in an area sewage canal caused water to overflow into the city, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoChristians mark Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, but new research suggests it took place on the Wednesday before his crucifixion. Colin Humphreys of Cambridge University says discrepancies i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe BBC's Komla Dumor in Abuja said the election had not been totally incident free Riots have broken out across northern Nigeria as presidential poll results show Goodluck Jonathan is set to win. Homes...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe death toll from Japan's historic earthquake and tsunami rose to 13,843 on Monday, police reported. As of 10 a.m. (9 p.m. ET), another 14,030 remained missing, according to Japan's National Police Age...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCristol Fleming has gone out hunting for the first wildflower blooms of spring for close to four decades. She knows where every tiny bluish clump of rare phacelia can be found, where every fragile yellow t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIn the last 150 years, prospectors and energy companies have drilled as many as 12 million holes across the United States in search of oil and gas. Many of those holes were plugged after they dried up. But...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLet's play a little game. Please read the following quote and try to guess who said it: Lies, cheat, deceit, distortion, hype, and a blind pursuit of profit have poisoned the business world. The price of ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 11 hours agoABC’s Brian Ross: Concern ‘Resurgent Violent Irish Groups’ May Target Royal Wedding: "Reporting Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Brian Ross detailed the recent return of violent Irish groups who may wan...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoOne of the top medical journals, Britain's *The Lancet, *has published a resounding endorsement of Vancouver's *Insite*, safe injection centre. Harper despises *Insite* and has been trying to get it shut ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 11 hours agoAmerican Taliban Leader David Barton: The Bible Should Rule the World: "Here's American Taliban leader David Barton, a man who is very influential with top Republican politicians and the Tea Party base (than...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe US has been warned that the credit rating on its government debt could be cut by Standard & Poor's. S&P is concerned that Democrats and Republicans will not be able to agree a plan to reduce the grow...
- Climate change is melting Arctic coastlines by 30 metres each year, scientists claim - 18th Apr 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoArctic coastlines are crumbling away and retreating at the rate of up to 30 metres a year due to the effects of climate change, it was claimed today. The rapid rate of coastal erosion poses a major threat ... - posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 11 hours agoHague council rejects PVV demand for ban on building mosques: " The Hague council on Thursday rejected a Freedom Party proposal to ban the construction of new mosques in the city. All parties fiercely rejec...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 11 hours agoAndrew Reinbach: Sharia Law Threat: Right-Wing Boogeyman: " Frank Gaffney and his friends can relax: Sneaky Muslims aren’t going to impose Sharia Law on the US and take away their bacon cheeseburgers. It’s i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 12 hours agoDelaware House Passes Landmark Civil Unions Bill: "Earlier this evening the Delaware House of Representatives passed a civil unions bill by a vote of 26 to 15. SB 30, which passed the state Senate earlier t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 12 hours agoAnother GOP Official Caught Forwarding Racist Obama Email [Idiots]: " Ah, spring, when a young man's fancy turns to love, and minor Republican officials start emai...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoI'm on my way for my annual NY/NJ spring visit. Happily, I was able to fly from Toronto this time, rather than Buffalo, making Allan's life much easier and using a whole lot less gas. And more good news:...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoAntimicrobial double weave silk material can help block blast particles.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoMeteorologists claim the 2010 mega-heatwave across Russia was not the result of long-term climate changes and should have been foreseen using short-term weather forecasts.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA newly developed robotic exoskeleton provides spinal cord injury patients with assistance to help rebuild muscle function.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours agoForeclosureGate Deal - The Mandatory Cover Up Submitted by Michael Collins on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 03:16 Go to original. Michael Collins [image: wsholiday1.png] The Federal government is about to settle the ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoI’ve been writing on this website for a couple of years or more and it don’t seem a day too much, but there aint a broadcasting corporation livin’ in the land as I wouldn’t “swop” for a bit of honest reporti...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours agoDallas, April 18 (CNN) -- Texas authorities have made an arrest in connection with one of hundreds of blazes scorching the state in what a Forest Service official called the "perfect storm for wildfires...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 12 hours agoAs I said yesterday, credit where it's due. Props to Iggy's speechwriters for the Rise Up reference to Harper's slow poisoning of our body politic. And because it's not the Parachute Club, but from a Spri...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agohttp://youtu.be/9D671YcjIXo Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Sacred Site Protection & Rights of Indigenous Tribes (SSP&RIT)* Contact: Mark Anquoe (415) 680 0110 Morning Star Gali (510) 827 6719 Norman “Wounded Knee” Deocampo 707-373-7195 Corrina Gould 510-57...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 14 hours agoBack in November, Three HundredEight . com published this chart illustrating what he called "the house effect" Note that the chart does not measure accuracy compared to actual election resu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoThe voters in Kenosha, Racine, Janesville-- hometown of both Ryan and Russ Feingold-- Oak Creek and Muskego (let alone in rural Walworth County) never see headlines like the one in the *L.A. Times* this w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 14 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoResidence told you can come back home in a few weeks, 25 years later still too dangerous to return.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA young girl who shouted "freedom" was among dozens of people arrested as police in Azerbaijan snuffed out protests against the rule of president Ilham Aliyev. Officials said 25 of those detained were la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRescue crews recovered the body of an eight-year-old as the U.S. struggled to come to terms with the devastation wreaked by three days of violent storms across the southern states which killed at least 45 ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoSeveral of us who live in the gas patch have been wondering what will happen when those wildfires hit the gas patch. Rumor has it that Channel 11 reported on this issue last night.According to one reader the...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoInstead of using radio waves or optical beams, ET may encode information on neutrinos.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA 'vulnerable' man beaten around the head with a blunt instrument had the 'worst injuries police had ever seen'. Two people were being questioned today after Jonathan Ellison, 48, was discovered by friend...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 16 hours agoMore than 100 employees and *customers* at a home improvement store, crammed shoulder-to-shoulder seeking safety from solitary of the deadly storms that rip through the South, screamed in near unison once ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoA Website called “We Are For Israel” is shocked that the BBC refers to the late Vittorio Arrigoni as a peace campaigner. H/T Daphne Anson. This may seem like a trivial matter. For one thing, he was, in a wa...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoDid the famous supernova known as Cassiopeia A coincide with the birth of King Charles II in 1630? New evidence of the "noon day star" suggests this might be the case.
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWhat was it that crashed down into the 13-metre-deep Lake Backsjön north of Arvika in Värmland? An object with small wings, say the witnesses. Nothing at all, say the military who searched for many weeks. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoReadings Monday from a robot that entered two crippled buildings at Japan's tsunami-flooded nuclear plant for the first time in more than a month displayed a harsh environment still too radioactive for wor...
- posted by Laura Knight Jadczyk at Laura Knight Jadczyk - 18 hours agoRecently it has been brought to my attention by a reader that a fellow named J. Kelly Beatty has written about Comet Elenin on the official NASA disinfo site, "Sky & Telescope." Beatty saw fit to include t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSecret information has been mistakenly published online by officials in at least three government departments, it has been revealed. Confidential details about nuclear submarines were accidentally posted o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSky News has learnt of the growing threat Western governments and corporations are under from hackers based in China. Cyber crime costs the UK tens of billions of pounds every year. The attacks cannot be ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoMonday morning and a new OPEN thread for y'all! Off you go....bias, surely not? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoAnyone catch the odd interview here with Irish PM Enda Kenny on BBC "Today" this morning? The line being taken by Evan Davies was that Ireland should follow Iceland and choose to default on its massive deb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn separate incidents, Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters in Homs and mourners at a funeral in Talbisa Sunday, killing seven people and injuring more than 50, an opposition source told CNN. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDozens of protesters were injured Sunday by Yemeni security forces as thousands packed into anti-government demonstrations, witnesses and medical personnel said. Witnesses said some others were arrested,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTexas authorities have made an arrest in connection with one of hundreds of blazes scorching the state in what a forest service official called the "perfect storm for wildfires." A man has been arrested ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoWell, Universal Shami was never going to see anything POSITIVE about the policing of the "Trade Unionists against Reality" demonstration in London a few weeks ago and so it is natural the BBC afford her a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Image: this is a picture taken of Goldstream River in January 2011) Thousands of salmon are expected to have been killed by a large gasoline spill that poured into Goldstream River during the weekend. A ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA potential serial killer, charged last week with four murders, kept boxes of grisly notes on how he wanted to torture and kill women, it has emerged. Joseph Naso, 77, a professional photographer, has gain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSix racehorses burned to death after a driver flicked a cigarette into their trailer as they were being driven to their first start of the season. The young thoroughbreds desperately tried to escape but we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA troubled 19-year-old stabbed himself to death on stage at an open mic night after playing a song called Sorry For All the Mess. Kipp Rusty Walker repeatedly plunged the six-inch blade into his chest as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAstronauts on space missions may not be able to take paracetamol to treat a headache or antibiotic drugs to fight infection, a study has found. Scientists have shown that medicines lose their potency more ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Image: Grant Shapps: The housing minister said it was unacceptable for Labour councils to sit on vast reserves while making political cuts) Labour councils are today accused of slashing services while sit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBillions of taxpayers’ cash is being spent on spurious aid projects through the EU, including giving dance lessons to Africans who earn less than 70p a day. Britons pay £1.4billion towards the EU’s £10bil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt had been closed for two years as part of a £4million parkland renovation project. So when parents and their toddlers turned up for the grand reopening of the under-fives’ playground they were expecting...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe NHS drugs rationing body is to investigate whether anti-depressants should be given to those suffering from acute shyness, it emerged yesterday. The Department of Health has ordered a review into treat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe astonishing speed at which traditional family life has collapsed is laid bare today. Shocking figures reveal that births outside marriage are at their highest level in two centuries and nearly half of...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours agoJesse Ventura From April 1, 2011 Weaintgottimetobleed.com You 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,...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Syrian Girl Guides. Website for this image* "Much of the Syrian opposition is comprised of London-based activists, the Muslim Brotherhood, their national coalition to support the youth, and of course the...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago***Adrian Salbuchi, author of The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization * Blog: *Adrian Salbuchi News* The video was found at: *http://mrfriendsblog.blogspot.com*/ ~~
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoFrom http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/ Webre and Moret ... discuss the likelihood that Fukushima was a false flag. "Among the objectives of the controllers of the Fukushima quake/nuke false flag operati...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 22 hours agoWeek 3 was all about the leaders debates - Tuesday in English and Wednesday *en francais*. We were treated to a round of hockey metaphors by the participants and boxing metaphors by the pundits. In the en...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 23 hours agoMichael Ignatieff's "rise up" speech, which has been generating a fair amount of online buzz this weekend. Ten dollars says Ignatieff shouting "rise up" will be coming soon to a Tory attack, after a na...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe death toll from three days of severe weather in the South-east is believed to have risen as high as 44, as a reported 241 tornadoes ripped off the roofs of schools, blocked roads and took down power li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo British tourists shot dead in Florida 'street robbery that went wrong' Two British tourists have been shot dead in Florida, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The victims, both men, are believed to be ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 23 hours agoWe have a news coverage page HERE but some new reports came in just today that aren't on there yet so I'll just list them all.Denton Record Chronicle - Group calls for water oversight: new report criticizes...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoAlthough Jean Shepherd in fact transferred quite successfully to print -- his seemingly rambling shaggy-dog tales were more tightly structured than they appeared in performance -- there's no doubt that h...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 23 hours ago"But the work of man is only just beginning, and it remains to conquer all the violence entrenched in the recesses of our passion, for no race possesses the monopoly of beauty, of intelligence, of force. A...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoBill Moyers Journal March 27, 2009 BILL MOYERS: As you know, earlier this week Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner proposed a vast expansion of government authority that would crack down hard on Wall St...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoI had to think about it long and hard over the weekend, in part because I got ahead of myself on Friday when I suggested that the meme for the week might be voter suppression, à la Rove. There's no reason...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoENVIRONMENT - At least 37 people are dead and many more are missing as a juggernaut storm of 62 tornadoes, flash floods and hail swept through Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia, leaving carnage and d...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Last week on Army Wives, Frank Sherwood (Terry Serpico) thanked psychiatrist Roland Burton (Sterling K. Brown) for all he did for Jeremy, which turned out to be making him well enough to get killed in Afg...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA retired FBI agent comments on the total lack of police coverage on that day, despite there being two high-profile targets (a Congresswoman and a US District Court Judge), both of whom previously receiv...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoContributor's comments regarding set of dolphin photos: "Taken in Louisiana. Mother dolphin attempt to revive dead baby dolphin. Notice the hole in the dead dolphin it looks just like the holes in red snap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA federal agency's practice of returning weakened dolphins to deeper Gulf of Mexico waters is thwarting efforts to probe dolphin deaths after last year's BP oil spill, scientists said on Saturday. The Na...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome of the most extraordinary things in the universe can only be seen as fuzzy blobs by our most powerful telescopes.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs Monday's tax filing deadline nears, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith market complacency and optimism both nearing levels unseen since before the financial crisis, the market either has A) put the damage of the past two and a half years behind it, or B) is setting up fo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe president of the World Bank has warned that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis". Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk "losing a gene...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWritten by Leuren Moret in 2004 for the Japan Times: Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEAST JAVA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- Nine people were killed and eight others were injured on Sunday after a landslide in Indonesia's East Java province, Antara news agency reported. According to an eyewit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING - Hailstones, thundershower and gales pounded south China's Guangdong province Sunday, leaving at least 12 dead and 27 injured as of 7 pm, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The natural d...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Buck & Schmuck* I don't know a single progressive who is satisfied with President Obama's budget in terms of the Military Industrial Complex. He's offered an overgrown hairy monster a light trim around t...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoMy god, how I hate that word. It reeks of gut reaction, utter lack of analysis and shallow appeals to emotion. Soundbites rather than reflection. Which is why you see it in Sun Media rags every other day. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Fort Lee, N.J., gas station attendant almost lost his life over $20 worth of gas, sources said. Security camera video shows the employee holding onto the side of a Nissan Maxima, desperately trying t...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoVia Jymn and Dr. Dawg. I haven't given this story as much attention as I should, but Jymn and the Dawgmeister have. As has Paul Wells at Maclean's. In the Star, Remy Beauregard's widow sets it out i...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoWell. The Dammit Janet folks are on a roll today. Via the Tweeter, a must-see video from conssayyes. If you're indifferent about this election, if you're not sure how to vote, or if you're not even that m...
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- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAs a member of the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, I imagine Louise Bagshawe bumps into Jeremy Hunt quite a lot. I was wondering, since she has taken an interest in the BBC’s bias against I...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*“The Myth of Voter Fraud” (MUST-SEE VIDEO of Lorraine Minnite & MCM!)* With thanks to Joly MacFie, Ace Videographer Original here MP3: http://punkcast.com/1888/1888/1888_the_myth_of_voter_fraud.mp3 *Ab...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Mezzo Agnes Baltsa really pounds home the looming threat of the "written book" that contains the record of all that each of us has to answer for. In the "*Liber scriptus*" of the Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Stella McMillin, an environmental scientist with the state Department of Fish and Game, performs a necropsy on a great horned owl in Rancho Cordova. Rat poison has been found in the livers of ani...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf you're reading this, please contact us via the contact page. Our email address is there. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoComrade Fyrnova makes another heroic contribution to the organs of revolutionary consciousness-raising. A marvellous and accessible demonstration of the Harper Regime's counter-revolutionary tendencies. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Radioactive releases to the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 21 March-8 April 2011. Levels of caesium-137 and iodine-131 in the sea close to the damaged Fukushima reactors ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is monitoring the situation at the Surry nuclear power plant after the site lost offsite power early Saturday evening due to a tornado affecting an electrical s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Mangroves, which have declined by up to half over the last 50 years, are an important bulkhead against climate change, a study released on Sunday has shown for the first time. * Destruction of these tropi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStatement can be heard around the 46 minute mark.
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking massive amounts of radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBees can detect pesticide residues in the pollen they bring back to the hive and try to isolate it from the rest of the colony, the American government's leading bee scientist revealed in London yesterday....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMountain pine beetles have successfully made the species jump from lodgepole pine to jack pine, increasing concerns that the pest could infect forests from British Columbia to the east coast, according to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe National Academy of Sciences recently released a report confirming that some native bee populations -- the ones agriculture has depended on for centuries for pollination, until the advent of the honeyb...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome mountain glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years. The findings, based on a new ice loss calculation technique developed by studying the glaciers of Patagon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo tie in with the launch of Worldwide Laboratory Animal Week (April 17-24, 2011), Animal Defenders International (ADI) wants to remind the US public of the pitfalls of animal experimentation and inform th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Some comments about the contest and the movies have been added* Hi! Sorry for the week of absence. I am back from AFO 2011, International Festival of Science Documentary Films, in the historical Moravian ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn undercover investigation has revealed that bunnies are being subjected to excruciating drug tests after being starved for up to 30 hours, denied water, then locked into vices – with some not surviving t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Evacuees, who fled from the vicinity of Fukushima nuclear power plant, rest at an evacuation center set in a gymnasium in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture in northern Japan, 15 March 2011. Reuters]...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 45 people are said to have died after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes across parts of the southern and central United States over three days. Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit North Carolina...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Fukushima spent fuel rod pool Unit 3, taken from concrete pumping vehicle, 14 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] TOKYO, April 17 (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday it will take ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A sign warns against swimming in a holding lake in Texas, where Fountain Quail Water Management separates and cleans hydrofracking water. Matt Nager / The New York Times] By IAN URBINA 16 April ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoPeople keep sending me links to this report so I guess you guys want me to post it...like this is news or something.CHEMICALS USED IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING"It appears that the companies are injecting fluids c...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMore and more workers in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe report chronic symptoms neither they nor their doctors can explain.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoQuran-burning pastor, Terry Jones, still coming to mosque: " Florida-based pastor Terry Jones, who is slated to come to Dearborn this week, with a copy of his book "Islam is of the Devil." (Photo courtesy O...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoGeorgia Legislature Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Bill [Laws]: " Georgia's tough anti-illegal immigration legislation — based on the controversial bill passed i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoMadonna Leaves Mystical Jewish Sect for Scary Catholic Sect [Faith]: " Ancient pop singer and spiritualist Madonna has long been associated with Kabbalah, a mystic...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoEditorial: Neo-Nazi rally at N.J. Statehouse is a disgusting display of hate (USA): "The prospect of jackbooted marchers, swathed in swastikas and spouting racist propaganda, is an unsettling one. An embodim...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoDutch anti-Islam MP seeks new judges for trial (Netherlands): "Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders wants the withdrawal of a new panel of judges chosen to try him for hate speech, his lawyer said Friday, claim...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoNeo-Nazi rally in front of Statehouse ends early (USA): "Authorities said four people were arrested but there were no major incidents at a poorly attended rally held by a neo-Nazi group in front of the State...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago*(who can honestly say we aren't locked in a culture that has systematically devalued human life?)* Just a few points about abortion. Firstly, a regular thing that (stereotypically left wing) abortion a...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoAn article from the Sacramento Bee so infuriated me when I saw it at the Coming Crisis, I had to repost. It's simply outrageous that researchers have been warning for a decade that a new generation of com...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 1 day ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUeDlHhruA It sure looks like one of these huh?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYou've probably seen some of the ads, like the one above from the Corn Refiners Association, trying to persuade you that high fructose corn sweeteners are "just as good" as sugar. I'll give them that. Li...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFrom Mediaite: In the wake of Japan's recent massive earthquake and accompanying tsunami,the daily *Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun*, based in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, found itself without power. So it produc...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoWhen I first moved to Canada, I could really hear my neighbours' "accent" - their Canadian-sounding speech. Now I no longer notice it. People still sometimes ask me if I'm from the US, and occasionally som...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*John Buchan* John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages) He helped invent the spy novel. In his adventure story *The Three Ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago***Please Click Images to Read Documents Many of you probably ran across the cringe-worthy headline that appeared in the UK paper known as The Sun, and if you didn't, here it is: "Close Encounters of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe *Battle of Los Angeles*, also known as *The Great Los Angeles Air Raid*, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOutside Palm Desert, a young bobcat dies mysteriously at a nature preserve. South of Nevada City, a farmer finds an owl dead near his decoy shed. In San Rafael, a red-shouldered hawk bleeds heavily from it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, scientists claim. Long-term climate change has the potential to spin Earth's tectonic plates, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPump-and-Run Driver Drags Gas Station Worker: MyFoxNY.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA tea party activist and elected member of the Orange County Republican central committee said she will not heed calls to resign because she emailed a picture of President Barack Obama's face on the body o...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoDaniel Hannan, the Conservative MEP, has an interesting point here. It's election time again, and what's the betting that BBC will routinely bracket UKIP with BNP in their sustained efforts to cast Britain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKhalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man inspired by the tide of change sweeping across the Arab world. Three weeks ago he joined a group that met at a Damascus mosque and p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe assembly, a traditional Pathan jirga (tribal council), was being held in the open, on flat ground close to the Tochi river, on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border in tribal North Waziristan. There ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoThe Scottish National Party (which opposed the Iraq war and which is anti-nuclear) could win a six-seat victory over Labour in the elections for the Scottish Parliament on 5 May 2011 (*SNP surge*). On ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShocking video footage which appears to show British soldiers beating an Iraqi civilian during the investigation into the murder of six of their fellow Servicemen is being examined by the Ministry of Defen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRadiation levels have risen dramatically in seawater near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, sparking fears of a new leak, according to the country's government. The announcement came ahead of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn asteroid as strong as 15 atomic bombs whizzed past earth last night at just ten times the distance of the moon. Astronomers first spotted the cigar-shaped rock spinning through space on Monday evening ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere's a Che Guevara poster on the boss's office wall - but diversity officer tells 64-year-old grandfather he faces the sack over cross in his company vehicle. An electrician faces the sack for display...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO – Even before the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been brought under control, two conglomerates vying for contracts in an eventual cleanup are estimating that the effort could take 10 ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoAnd people say they're wasting our tax dollars! Don't you just feel stupidnow? Canada's F-35s: Engines not included, says the Ottawa Citizen. And think about what a great recruiting tool they'll be! They c...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Thanks to Brian for the video.* "NATO, are you really protecting the civilians here in Libya? "Please, hands off Libya, hands off our country, because the Libyan people and our leader are better than ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoIn the USA, 50% of 'off-street' prostitutes are children. (Prostitution of children - Wikipedia) Houston is a major hub for child traffickers. (Houston's hidden crime) A 2007 study from Shared Hope Inte...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA month after Japan's worst disaster in generations, the snow in the mountains surrounding the resort town of Osawa is melting and the cherry blossoms are bursting. Diving ducks play in a trout-filled st...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe latest Gallup Daily tracking three-day average represents a new low for Barack Obama, with just 41 percent of Americans approving his job performance as president. This matches his previous lows in Aug...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDay of wrath, day of mourning, earth in smoldering ashes lying, so spake David and the Sibyl. How great the trembling shall be when the Judge shall come, by whose sentence all shall be bound! *Zubin Mehta...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 days agoFile this under things I never thought I'd say: here I am agreeing with Michael Ignatieff again. Canadians *must* rise up against these dangerous, anti-democratic Conservatives, if this country is going to...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 2 days agoFrom poster "donb":We already have quite a few "paper reactors" that look promising. Likely they need more design simulation. But we will not know how good any of these reactors really are until those pape...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 days agoSome of those chemicals industry claims we all have under our kitchen sink burned up 10-18 wheeler trucks today at a Chesapeake Energy drill site in Louisiana.I'm scared of my kitchen sink!Fire crews extingu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, By Charles Fishman, Hardcover, 400 pages.]April 11 (NPR) – The typical American uses 99 gallons of water a day for activities like w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. Writer Paul Solotaroff says climate change is putting the ecosystems of our national parks out of balance. Fish And Wildlife Service via AP] April 16 (...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*Jonathan Franzen's caption:* *The uninhabited island was named for a marooned eighteenth-century adventurer who likely inspired the first English novel. I thought I’d strand myself there and read it.* *"...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Fall on Mount Megunticook in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage wants three million acres of North Woods forests opened to development. Robert F. Bukaty / AP] By LESLIE KAUFMAN Published: April 15, 2011 W...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIsraeli warplanes launched raids against targets in Gaza overnight after two rockets were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. No one was hurt in the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIsraeli military chiefs say a large-scale conflict is inevitable despite a shaky cease-fire since Monday in their current confrontation with Palestinian fundamentalists of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe Central Intelligence Agency has no plans to suspend "operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said Thursday. Pakistan has criticized ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 days agoThe Tories and Liberals went neg earlier this week. And now, Jack Layton, running to be PM, is on the attack...against Michael Ignatieff . How would you rate this ad? A B C D FSee Results
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoJapan will likely need two to three more months to bring an end to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear industry official said Saturday. Takashi Sawada, the deputy direc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA 12-year-old faces two counts of resisting law enforcement for his alleged actions when he refused to clean up spilled milk in the Ben Franklin Middle School cafeteria. A police officer was helping supe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoClick play to watch the LIVE Goose Cam at Forest Lawn. It operates in daylight and also in night vision mode when dark. See images below. The deer has been seen throughout the day, but occasionally wand...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoU.S. regulators announced the biggest bank failure so far this year by assets, Birmingham, Ala.'s Superior Bank, as well as the most failures in a single day in 2011, as five other banks were closed in Ala...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoForeign firms are evacuating staff from Japan, after fears of radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant escalated further. German car maker BMW and car part maker Continental are among companies mov...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoChildren as young as 12 are to be allowed drugs to block puberty while they decide whether to have a sex change, it has been revealed. The monthly injection suspends the onset of adulthood so that young p...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoMorgan Stanley Defaulted on a Tokyo Commercial office building yesterday (April 15th) they gave the keys back! It is the biggest default ever in Japan's History - it is worth 3.3 Billion. Morgan Stanley le...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoSuch a deal! How would you like to be able to fill up at $2.80 a gallon? Gasoline prices like that are available but there’s one catch...they’re in Mexico. But 1200 WOAI’s Michael Board says plenty of sou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoNevada Seismologists are keeping a close eye on an area southwest of Hawthorne, Nevada where hundreds of earthquakes have been detected since Sunday. "It's a little bit concerning in a sense. The largest ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoBelieving that the federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has gone too far in an assault on individual and states rights, a new, national, bipartisan legislative caucus is emerging to take ac...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe House on Friday approved a fiscal year 2012 budget resolution from Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that seeks to drastically limit government spending next year and in years to follow. Bu...
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