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- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 minute agoYes, I have been following it - Mr Marr's sudden conversion to openness. Your thoughts? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 minutes agoProtests against Paul Ryan's GOP budget-- his "cause," as he puts it-- seeks to utterly shred the social safety net and tear up the social compact that has bound America together as a prosperous middle c...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 hour agoGiven the number of polls we can expect this week, I'll offer a quick seat projection update each afternoon around this time. For today: *Popular Vote* (*change since yesterday in brackets*): *CPC*: 37.8%...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTaking a Look at legends about powerful gods and fearsome monsters that have similarities between them even though these legends are found in different cultures separated by vast distances, and this episod...
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At least 16 people including seven children were killed and 18 others injured as a passenger bus was set ablaze by unknown miscreants in the wee hours of Tuesday in Pakistan's southwestern city of Sibi, re... - posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoRhino populations are on the rise in Nepal.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAmenhotep III reigned during a time when Egypt was at the height of its prosperity and cultural development.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoHumpback whales migrate for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers along remarkably straight lines, but marine biologists are stumped as to how.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoIn the singles-bar approach to evolution, flashy plumage and other ornaments arise because they favor survival of the sexiest.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoMesh fences are harnessing water from fog to provide a lifeline to small impoverished communities.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 hours agoCame in an email forward:After further examination of the economic viability of the Milner gas well site, XTO Energy has decided not to pursue drilling activities at the location. Our plan envisioned connec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A dangerous storm slamming Vilonia, Arkansas, left four dead and the town in shamble. Emergency crews worked to account for dozens of people still missing Tuesday after a powerful storm battered Arkansas ... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago
Meet Diego, the newest member of the Kaminker-Wood family! According to the people at Toronto Animal Services, he is about two years old. You can see Shepherd, Boxer, Rottweiler and Staffie in him, and w... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 3 hours ago
I have always loved Cajun pasta, it was a recipe that always found its way onto our menu every couple of weeks. We used to make the recipe, this wayuntil I discovered this one from the Pioneer Woman. This... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Government social programs as a percentage of personal income, 1930-2010. Government social programs made up a record share of the nation's personal income in 2010. Source: USA TODAY; Bureau of E...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoDespite the severity of the crisis in Japan, Chernobyl remains the most devastating nuclear accident in history.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoLast week, Gallup has released the results of an AGW poll taken in 111 countries: Fewer Americans, Europeans View Global Warming as a Threat Only 42% of the people in the world view global warming as a ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
I thought the most expensive gas in America was in my neighborhood. I was wrong. Orlando, Florida has that distinction this weekend. Suncoast Energys, located near the Orlando International Airport, was ... - posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoGenetically engineered bacteria detect toxins or disease and turn on the appropriate indicator colors.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTens of thousands of people have fled fighting between Thailand and Cambodia over the past week, 30 people have been injured, and five Thai soldiers have been killed, the Thai Ministry of Public Health sai...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFighting has erupted between soldiers from Cambodia and Thailand along their disputed mountainous border for a fifth consecutive day. Spokesmen from both sides said skirmishes broke out near the Preah Vih...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIn the fall of 1984, I was a student living in Boston. A high-tax manufacturing state, Massachusetts had been hit hard by the economic troubles of the 1970s. But now suddenly there were signs in every shop...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe owners of the world's last remaining typewriter factory have shut the plant's doors because of declining orders. Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has shuttered its facility in Mumbai, India, whe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSoaring food and fuel prices are threatening to derail growth in Asian economies, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The bank has warned that if food and fuel prices continue to su...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSelling the Crafar farms to an overseas consortium cannot possibly be in New Zealand’s economic interests, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today. The Shanghai Pengxin International Group will ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe thousands of words and hundreds of column centimetres this newspaper is this week devoting to a series entitled "China and Us" has done nothing so far but fill me with a deep sense of unease. And I'm...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLast month, a story in *Forbes* headlined, "U.S. Navy scrambles for piece of Arctic pie," highlighted what is perhaps the most explicit test case for climate change and geopolitics. As *Forbes* reported: ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gan...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDid you know that the lifetime of light bulbs once used to last for more than 2500 hours and was reduced – on purpose – to just 1000 hours? Did you know that nylon stockings once used to be that stable tha...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours agoCongressman Ryan, I Don’t Want To Be A Lab Rat Apr. 22 2011 - 3:38 pm Posted by Mark Sunshine *An open and a sent letter to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.)* Congressman Paul Ryan 1233 Longworth HOB Wash...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago*GLEN COVE Occupation of Sacred Place* *Day 12, Monday morning update:* *City workers survey for fence installation* At 10:30am today (4/25), two City of Vallejo workers pulled up at Glen Cove. They walk...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA scoutmaster has been found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, tying up young boy scouts in bizarre punishment rituals. Steven Etherington bound the hands and feet of one teen in a 'hog-tie' and whi...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe race is on to return to the ocean's deepest point -- and a submarine team says they have a new design that can withstand the pressure for multiple trips.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after explosions. AFP / Air Photo Service] TOKYO, April 25 (UPI) – Radiation leaks remain a health threat for areas around Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear powe...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 7 hours agoBy Duane Craig When you think of Wyoming you might think of wide-open spaces, air so clean you can’t even tell you’re breathing, and pristine water you can just scoop up from the nearby stream to quench y...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor building 1, 16 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] By Ichiro Matsuo, Tatsuyuki Kobori, and Hidenori Tsuboya 26 April 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. started th...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 7 hours agoAt least seven deaths have been reported in connection with a series of * tornadoes* and severe weather with the intention of ripped through several states from Kentucky to Tennessee Monday, authorities s...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 7 hours agoHawaii confirms COLB — again!: " The Associated Press reports [alternate link] an interview with special assistant to the Hawaii state attorney general Joshua Wisch. The AP article said: Wisch also said Oba...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 7 hours agoObama hosts Easter prayer breakfast: " If you’re offended by religious language, then feel free to skip this one. I think it is important to counter the notion that President is the Muslim jihadist that the ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 7 hours agoThree Coptic brothers accused of killing sister, her husband and child for converting to Islam: " Coptic Orthodox Cross Reads: Jesus Christ, the Son of God This is sad news, it will only lead to more sectar...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 7 hours agoBusinessman at Center of Lesbian Custody Case Hawked Hate Pub Subscriber Lists: " A prominent Christian direct-mail guru — who for years helped conservative groups market themselves to subscribers of a blata...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 7 hours agoRev. Graham and the Signs of Armageddon: "On ABC’s "This Week," the Rev. Franklin Graham was wrong when he said that earthquakes, wars and famines are occurring "with more frequency and more intensity."The p...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoSaturday we looked into the inspiration for the Republican budget-- what its principle author, Paul Ryan, insists is "a cause" more than just a budget. That inspiration, at its core is not just deeply an...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 8 hours agoIn several wmtc threads over the last few weeks, there have been discussions of whether or not to vote strategically in this election: here, here, hereand here. I've gotten into similar discussions both on...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours ago*With orange coloured glasses... *...a party over 50 years old can be considered "new". *With orange coloured glasses... *...the constitution can be opened up and everyone can be made happy. *With orange...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoAfter prehistoric humans and cave bears competed for the same real estate, the bears were wiped out. But are our ancestors to blame?
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoOops! The Conservatives didn't register the name of their campaign slogan as a dot-ca website. Naturally, somone else did. Here For Canada: Fear For Canada. I'm probably the last progressive in Canada to...
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- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 13 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Steve Hicks/Creative Commons via TreeHugger There are still a small number of rhinos in Nepal; but, there's some good news: A new census of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros un...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The *Libyan* city of Misratah is still being tattered by weaponry fire despite rebels claiming they have pressed Colonel Muammar* Gaddafi's forces*out of the ce...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Proponents of *California* same-sex marriage ban filed a movement Monday seeking to check out of the historic ruling that upturned Proposition 8 since the fede...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in previous to dawn to the city where *Syria's* anti-government rebellion began, reasoning panic in the...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours agoThere are well known spy services such as the CIA, MI6 and the KGB. But, there appears to be a super-group that links all of the above and that is more powerful than all of the above. Or perhaps there...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoTo make the jungle of suspicious yet unreliable bumps found by particle physics experiments even more convoluted, the D0 Collaboration at the soon-to-be-euthanized Tevatron is reporting a result that doe...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 15 hours agoI stumbled across a recent interview by *New York Times* arts writer Dave Itzkoff of "Mad Men" creator and show-runner Matthew Weiner the other day and found one part particularly interesting. At one point...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTHE hated European human rights act is costing the UK more than £9BILLION a year, experts said last night. The law is used by celebs to hide their secrets behind superinjunctions and lets prisoners fight...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWellington - The New Zealand government was urged Tuesday to halt testing for oil and gas off the coast after reports that scores of dead penguins had been washed up on the shore. A flotilla of five prot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwenty five years since the world's worst nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power station, the surrounding settlements are still ghost towns, with thousands of houses abandoned and left to fall into ruin. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs Britain basks in the sun during one of the driest April's on record it seems one water provider has started up a revolutionary seawater plant just in time. The £270million Thames Water desalination pla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe U.S. could lose its status as the world’s biggest economic power within five years. The International Monetary Fund predicts China will overtake the U.S. in 2016, which will effectively end the 'Age o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAlbert Einstein’s granddaughter has died with a mystery still unsolved over whether she was really the illegitimate child of one of the great minds of the 20th century. Evelyn Einstein, who was adopted as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA scoutmaster has been found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, tying up young boy scouts in bizarre punishment rituals. Steven Etherington bound the hands and feet of one teen in a 'hog-tie' and whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe BBC could be part of a ‘propaganda media network’ for al-Qeada, according to U.S. files published by Wikileaks. A phone number of someone at the BBC was found in phone books and programmed into the mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHorrified families looked on as a human cannonball was killed when his safety net failed during an Easter Bank Holiday extravaganza. The stuntman suffered catastrophic head and neck injuries when he hit th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBritain's mosques became an international haven for extremists who enjoyed state benefits while being trained for terrorism, leaked documents show. The WikiLeaks files, written by U.S. military chiefs, rev...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSoviet efforts to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster a quarter of a century ago were far better than Japan's "slow-motion" response to the disaster at Fukushima, a leading member of the 1986 recovery e...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*by Ken* Last night we had the first chapter of Jean Shepherd's story collection-cum-novel *In God We Trust -- All Others Pay Cash*, which brought another visit from our favorite Shepherd expert, Eugene B...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTornadoes were forming over Dallas late this afternoon, as the weather there turned ominous, threatened by a storm system that has brought 200 reports of severe weather across the country over the last 24 ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Syrian army used tanks against its own people for the first time on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad resorted to overwhelming force in an attempt to crush the last vestiges of unrest against his rul...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNintendo has deepened the gloom enveloping corporate Japan after profits hit a seven-year low because of stiff competition in the video games console market and a post-earthquake slide in consumer confiden...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe waiting is nearly over. Gross Domestic Product for the first quarter is announced on Wednesday – rarely has the data caused so much anticipation. Last quarter's surprise contraction has created confusi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAbu Qatada and Abu Hamza, two preachers who lived off state benefits after claiming asylum, are identified by the American authorities as the key recruiters responsible for sending dozens of extremists f...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 17 hours agoToo early to say whether the wheels are coming off the bus, but ... I'll just let this guy speak for himself. I mean, *Jesus*. A sample: ... we must focus on retaining the Liberal Party's spot in this co...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 18 hours agoWith 1.5 million Quebecers watching, Michael Ignatieff put in quite the performance on *Tout Le Monde En Parle* yesterday. He laughed, he was relaxed, he was confident. He talked about Liberal policies, he...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 18 hours agoNo, not because of the latest poll that has people somewhat prematurely speculating about Layton as Prime Minister. Rather, Harper should be worried, because it turns out Jack is a better piano player tha...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 19 hours agoI know everyone has seen more than enough - but this one is special. Even if you don't speak Japanese, the voices capture in exquisite calibration the disbelief and shock that something so horrible could ...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 19 hours ago*The Corporate State Wins Again* Posted on Apr 25, 2011 truthdig By Chris Hedges When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater?...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*Note that this AP video clip, which says doctors have cleared Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to attend husband Mark Kelly's space-shuttle launch this week at Cape Canaveral, and she will do so, sourcing an inte...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoPhoto courtesy: trekearth.com Canada, where I live, is home to over 500 species listed at some level of risk -- extinct, extirpated, endangered, threatened or of special concern. At risk species are found...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 22 hours agoEKOS poll surveyed 3,004 Canadians, including 2,783 decided voters, between April 22 and April 24. 8% were undecided or ineligible. A poll is only a poll is only a poll. But if it has any basis in reali...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFor the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWeakness in the US dollar, which is causing everything to go up—including gas prices, food and stocks—is unlikely to go away soon as a selling frenzy hits the currency market. The greenback is approaching...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLaw and order will be the first casualty when the shit hits the fan. Recent historical examples the world over, including New Orleans, Haiti, and Chile show that without policing, looting will become an im...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe United States has never defaulted on its debt and Democrats and Republicans say they don't want it to happen now. But with partisan acrimony running at fever pitch, and Democrats and Republicans so far...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA member of the Hawaii State Senate has said he believes Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father. Republican Sam...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIran has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target. "Certain characteristics abou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoQ: What do CNBC, George Soros, Warren Buffet and every other mainstream investment commentator on the price of gold have in common for the last ten years? *A: They are all wrong.* All the time, every ye...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered. The 14-year-old and two of the women w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThai and Cambodian forces battled for a fourth straight day along their disputed border Monday, as Cambodia accused its neighbor of damaging two ancient temples in weekend clashes. Southeast Asian diplom...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSenior western leaders called for Nato to adopt an assassination policy against Col Muammar Gaddafi to salvage the bombing campaign in Libya from a descent into stalemate. The calls came as Col Gaddafi w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAdvocates for transgender rights are planning a rally outside a McDonald's in Maryland where an attack against a transgender woman that was caught on video took place. The rally condemning the attack is ...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 23 hours agoby Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsor...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoTrying to make sense of what the NDP's Quebec surge means in terms of seats is a difficult game. For starters, most public polls lump all of Quebec together when, in reality, a voter in Montreal is very di...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoBefore it got chewed up and digested and spat back out as part of another Wall Street bankster operation, I was a client of Smith Barney, soley because my financial advisor went to work there when some o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis episode examines locations around the Earth that are proposed "hot spots" of UFO activity; such as the Bermuda Triangle; Mexico's "Zone of Silence" an area of land said to naturally disrupt radio sign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThese are the spectacular death throes of a distant star captured through the Hubble telescope. The Cat's Eye Nebula may be three thousand light years from earth - but its fate is the one that likely awai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA two-year-old boy keeps calling for his mother after he is feared to have shot and killed her while playing with a loaded gun. Troy Bailey pointed a 9mm Glock pistol at his mother Julia Bennett after mi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBeekeeping engineers want to use sensors, microphones and microcontrollers to monitor beehive health.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe SETI Institute is suspending its search for extraterrestrial radio beacons using its most advanced alien signal-seeking tool while it hunts for new sources of funding.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe adventure park where a boy of 11 died after falling from a 30ft high ‘zip-wire’ ride closed its doors today 'as a mark of respect' to the child's family. The Easter Sunday tragedy happened as the boy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA would-be hijacker armed with a knife tried to hijack an Alitalia passenger plane last night and demanded it be flown to Libya. As 131 passengers looked on in terror, Valery Tolmachev, a 48-year-old Kaza...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree men have been arrested over the murders of an elderly couple found dead in their home in Wolverhampton. The bodies of Giuseppe Massaro, 80, and his 77-year-old wife Caterina, were discovered by thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCat lovers paid thousands of pounds for security guards to patrol their neighbourhood after eight cats died from anti-freeze poisoning and another two vanished. Families living in the village of Runwell, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of teenagers dressed as Easter bunnies were turned away from a zoo - amid fears they would 'psychologically damage' the animals. Cancer-sufferer Laura Gibson, 15, and her friends were told to chang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teenager accidentally set his girlfriend on fire while trying to light a disposable barbecue with a bowl of petrol. Chris Flintoff, 19, had become frustrated that the barbecue wouldn't light so got a di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man has died after a safety net failed during a human cannonball stunt, police said today. The accident happened during a show put on by Scott May's Daredevil Stunt Show at the Kent County Showground in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a desperate attempt to have their asylum claims accepted by the UK government, four Iranians have sewn their mouths shut with fishing wire and gone on hunger strike with two others. The men have not ea...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe NDP platform has been given a free ride this campaign. Luckily, there are people out there willing to put the NDP's platform promises under scrutiny. Those people? The NDP: *NDP casts doubts over its ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoStill electioneering but wanted to highlight this story for you! Does Al Queda have sympathisers in the BBC? The files, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph, disclose that a...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHow did Earth manage to hold onto its organics after being slammed by a Mars-sized object 4.4 billion years ago?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 400 prisoners, including members of the Taliban, have escaped a jail in Afghanistan after insurgents tunnelled in to free them. The majority of the 476 prisoners who fled the 1,200-inmate Sarpos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTests have found dangerous levels of harmful bacteria in the water at two popular Darwin beaches, causing their closure as tourists and locals flock to the recreation area of East Point. Both Lake Alexan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetails added after the third paragraph (the first version was posted at 13:27) Iranian specialists have found a second virus named "Stars" in the country’s Internet network, commander of civil defense G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBOGOTA – More than 29,100 people have been forced from their homes by the latest round of torrential rains blamed for 93 lives so far this year, the Colombian Red Cross said Saturday. “The situation remai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKENDARI, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on early Monday morning, seismologists said, causing some damage but no casualties. The 6.0-magnitude earth...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs the U.S. Congresswoman makes a steady recovery after the Jan. 8 shooting, her husband confirms she'll watch him launch on STS-134.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster upon us, find out why radiation contamination can spark panic.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA novel battery produces electricity in places where freshwater meets saltwater.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoLast weekend we took a look at the People's Budget, introduced by Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison on behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. It's been largely ignored by this country's ruling eli...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 1 day ago[image: Un verdadero encanto - Spectacular relief (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 co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The tsunami washed this fishing boat onto the breakwater of a river in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. nypost.com] By Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama, and Frederik Balfour 25 April 2011 The wrecka...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 1 day ago[image: Un mundo de ensueño - A dreamy world (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 Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGigaPan Time Machine enables viewers to explore space and time at extremely high resolutions.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHydroBOB lets riders zoom around underwater and interact with a school of robotic fish.
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 1 day ago[image: Viaje por la fantasía - Fantasy traveling (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 co...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 1 day ago[image: Cascadas en las rocas - Stone waterfall (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 compar...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day ago[image: Photobucket] *SurvivalBlog.com* By James Wesley, Rawles on April 25, 2011 10:06 PM Ayn Rand's 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged" is enjoying renewed popularity following the release of the new *Atlas S...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day ago*“Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour’s bound, When majesty stoops to folly.” – Kent to King Lear* On Friday night, my husband and I were ve...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago23-year-old Wang X who had been studying abroad in Japan for 5 years arrived at the arrival terminal of Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport on the night of April 1st and stabbed Gu X, his mother who ha...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTaliban militants tunnelled more than 480 inmates out the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 320-metre-long underground passage they had dug over months, officials and i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country's long-term growth model. My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially destabil...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFiles obtained by the website Wikileaks have revealed that the US believed many of those held at Guantanamo Bay were innocent or only low-level operatives. The files, published in US and European newspap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe militant group Hezbollah is actively plotting with the opposition in Bahrain to overthrow the country's ruling family, the government said in a confidential report to the United Nations. "Evidence co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecently, the Hefei department of industry and commerce discovered a “beef extract” additive circulating widely on the market, allowing for chicken meat to be come “beef”. A city resident revealed that thi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnscrupulous businesses fish out stinking hogwash from urban sewages and gutters, and with filtrating, heating, subsiding, and dividing, gutter oilturns out the clear-looking “edible” oil and end up on tabl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian government launched a major military operation Monday, sending thousands of troops into the town where the country's uprising began to carry out what witnesses described as a brutal, wider-sca...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoViolent clashes over a disputed area along the Thai-Cambodian border erupted for a fourth consecutive day Monday, resulting in the death of a Thai soldier, a military official said. Four other Thai soldi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFaced with an increasingly dire financial situation, Portugal has started negotiating a bailout package with the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It follows in the footsteps o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLow levels of sunlight coupled with glandular fever could increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), say researchers. There are many suspected risk factors for MS and the disease is known to...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Could you please fail me?" As a university lecturer, it is by no means unusual to have seniors drop by to check if they have sufficient credits to graduate. However, I was flabbergasted by this recent vis...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoUsing historical records of microwave satellite images, atmospheric scientists have discovered two patterns that indicate a storm system is about to turn into a hurricane.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe computer system you prefer can say a lot about the kind of person you are.
- posted by c g at So What Did I Miss? - 1 day agoI would like to see the research this man bases these comments on - except there isn't any: "Is it a wise idea to encourage young people to vote who aren't well informed on politics and current events to ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews* *Hudson/Wolff on debt and recession* Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the theatrics of the debt debate in Washington and why debt does matter More at The Real News Original and...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoAnd deporting US war resisters is the last straw! Thanks to friends-of-wmtc Stephanie, Wendy and Beth.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews* *GOP Budget Ends Medicare* Dean Baker: Media is failing to report how radical Republican budget is More at The Real News Original and transcript available here. *Bio* *Dean Baker* is ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy Duane Craig Pompton Lakes, New Jersey residents find themselves caught in a catch 22 because a district judge has ruled they cannot sue DuPont for vapor intrusion damages. The ruling affects 113 homeow...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoBecause really, it's not fair of me to single out Sun *readers.* Especially now that there's a TV network for them. I confess, I'm not an expert in physics. How *does* a person's brain hold this much...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day ago
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agohttp://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/rel-christians.html Christians Discriminated Against by Israel By Donald Neff Former Israel Bureau Chief for Time Magazine Excerpted from Fifty Years of Israel On De...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoPeople often ask why I never wear jewelry.Gold jewelers, activists urge clean karat buysBy SUSAN SALISBURYPalm Beach Post Staff WriterIt's hard to believe that the gleaming gold rings, earrings and other jew...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoSaudi Arabia Jails House Church Christians Without Trial: " Two Indian Christians of a thriving Pentecostal house church in Saudi Arabia have been moved from pre-trial detention to a prison in the Saudi cap...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 1 day ago*A guest post by Hippiepooter*. This is overdue but I think you’ll agree very worthwile covering. H/T to ‘Buggy’ for bringing this up in the Open Thread a couple of weeks ago. Here is a BBC Online report ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoMississippi Republicans Still Struggling With Interracial Marriage: "A recent poll revealed that 46% of registered Republican voters in Mississippi believe that interracial marriage should be against the law...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The real meaning of the audacious break-out of prisoners from a Kandahar jail lies in the fact those more than 100 *Taliban* commanders are supposed to be in t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoPace of Federal Lobbying Slows in First Quarter: " Facing a newly divided Congress and a murky legislative outlook in the near future, many of the nation's most active government lobbying powerhouses are slo...
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