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This morning’s White House release of President Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate will, of course, do little to derail the “birther” movement, which will now analyze the document with the kind of ... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 56 minutes ago* the**REALnews* April 27, 2011 *What I Would Ask Bernanke* J*ames K. Galbraith:* A few questions I would ask at the Head of the Fed's rare press conference Wednesday More at The Real News Original he...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
The first time I mentioned Ilya Sheyman, the progressive Democrat running for the northern Chicago suburban seat held by GOP freshman Robert Dold, it was in a long and rambling post lashing out against c... - posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoIt can take more than five years to earn the degree and now jobs for Ph.D. candidates are dwindling.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAlthough excitement is growing for the possibility of U.S. commercially-launched astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), some international partners may need convincing.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoChemical flame retardants used to make pre-2004 furniture and other items have entered the blood stream of dogs.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoWhen it comes to detecting the unexpected, female dogs might have a leg up.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
*Jose* *Prince José* (1761 – 1788) was heir to the throne of Portugal. In 1777, when he was 15 years old, he married his 30-year-old aunt, * Benedita*. *Benedita* She produced no children. On September... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
*Native Youth Media Workshop June 2011* By Censored News and Earthcycles Earthcycles and Censored News are planning a Native Youth Media Workshop for June 2011. Native youths are invited to learn about bro... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A PUB singer was arrested for alleged "racism" after belting out the chart hit Kung Fu Fighting as two Chinese people walked past. One of them complained to cops, who later nicked stunned Simon Ledger - i... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Standard & Poor's has revised Japan's credit rating outlook to "negative," blaming the crisis triggered by last month's earthquake. S&P said late Tuesday that its revision to the nation's outlook, to "neg... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Contributor notes on the above photos: -- The sick opossum had wandered out into the water for unknown purposes -- The pink puffer exhibits signs of hemorrhaging consistent with Corexit side effects o... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe planet is getting skinned. While many worry about the potential consequences of atmospheric warming, a few experts are trying to call attention to another global crisis quietly taking place under our...
- posted by Lu at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
Wowza! It has been one whole year since I began this weekly Wednesdays on the Web segment. 52 webby Wednesdays. A year ago, I was in the best shape of my life and training to run a 188 mile race (split wi... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Set on more than six acres of oceanfront land, with palatial rooms, huge marble bathrooms, a tennis court and a swimming pool, this Hamptons mansion is a holiday home fit for any king. But not for a hedge... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSaboteurs bombed an Egyptian gas pipeline in the Sinai on Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the sky and cutting supplies to Israel and Jordan. It was the second attack since February and came two wee...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
In the mountains of Northern California, a field of radio dishes that look like giant dinner plates waited for years for the first call from intelligent life among the stars. But they're not listening an... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Japan's earthquake and tsunami has caused a health risk overshadowed by contamination from a leaking nuclear plant: the odourless and nearly invisible threat of asbestos. Activists have found the cancer-... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Food inflation in South Africa could be heading for 15 percent over the next year, Andre Louw, a professor of agribusiness at the University of Pretoria, said yesterday. The sharp escalation is in line w... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The BP spill hasn't been the environmental nightmare many thought, but it's still a nightmare in terms of the impact on locals trying to recover. Local turtle activists Donald and Shirley Tillman say they ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. (The contributor, Wit's End, pointed out that the trees are thin, and much of the plant life is either dead or drying out, or stunted or exhibiting other signs...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoIf you're game for a hip hop-fueled sci-fi excursion through a world of interstellar conflict and robotic super villainy, then the 2006 album "Sci-Fu" will get you definitely there.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago*Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council* By Alex White Plume Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council meeting is April 28 -- 29 at the Billy Mills Hall ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoObama Releases 'Long Form' Birth Certificate, Right Wing Unrepentant: "OK, here it is, you racist Birther morons: President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate.Click to enlargeThe right wing whining will now...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoOnce More, Border Vigilante Laine Lawless Flirts With Nazi Enthusiasts: " Arizona nativist Laine Lawless, chief of the vigilante group Border Guardians, pitched a fit in 2006 after the Southern Poverty Law...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoColorado bomb suspect due in court: "A man suspected of planting a bomb at a mall in Colorado on the 12th anniversary of the attack at Columbine High School is scheduled to appear in federal court in Denver ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoMLK Day bomb plot suspect pleads innocent to hate crimes (USA): "A reputed neo-Nazi accused of planting a backpack bomb discovered along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade pleaded not guilty on...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoMuslims to help EDL to protect royal wedding? (UK): "Prominent Muslims in Luton say they are angry at attempts by Islamic extremists to disrupt this Friday’s royal wedding.Extremist group Muslims Against Cru...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoWhite House releases Obama birth certificate: "The White House has released the long form of President Barack Obama's birth certificate in response to questions about whether he was really born in the U.S."
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Japan's Radioactive Nightmare Hits Home for Navajos* By Groundswell Films Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As Japan struggles to contain radioactive contamination, Gro...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoBy now, I'm sure you all know that power failures cause refineries, pipelines and natural gas facilities to backup and release huge amounts of toxic compounds into the air. If you haven't heard about it, get...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Desperate measures: Free car with home purchase. An Illinois developer who has finally found a way to unload the new houses he has built some 50 miles from downtown Chicago, has decided to throw ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoRecent cases of multiple child murders highlight the threat to children of custody fights.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoUS President Barack Obama has posted his full birth certificate on the internet, in an effort to finally kill speculation he was born abroad. The issue of the leader's origins had become increasingly pro...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoYesterday we did a longish post on how the Republicans in the Senate-- every single one of them but the two ladies from Maine-- led by the lady from Kentucky voted to filibuster to death a bill the House ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Packbot robot in Fukushima Reactor 1 reactor building, 4/24/2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 April 2011 Fukushima 1 nuke plant: 1120 millisieverts/hr – That high...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 hours agoMy dear friends, it's about finding a balance. There's nothing I'd like more than to see the corrupt, dysfunctional, self-perpetuating status quo shattered into a million little pieces. If we have to stick...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoI was reading a post at Greefyre's wonderful blog, about the fabulist denier Judith Curry, where I happened across a video linked to in comments, which is embedded below. It's a lecture by Richard Muller,...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 6 hours agoWay to go Jessica!SHAMING CANADA: Jessica Ernst (Rosebud, AB) To Present To United NationsHalf a decade ago this Rosebud, AB resident alleges that her groundwater was polluted by EnCana's contractors. After...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours ago*Globe and Mail*: Poll projects 100 seats for surging NDP Ekos Politics: Orange Crush: Are Jack Layton and the NDP redrawing the boundaries of Canada's political landscape? Wouldn't this be amazing??? And...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoPaul Ryan (above) has never had a serious reelection challenge. Like we've said many times in the past, the DCCC always seems to butt into the primary-- knock out anyone plausible and then walk away from ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 6 hours agoFrom Lysiane Gagnon, a little over a month ago: *Don’t expect a Quebec surprise* As a federal election looms, Quebec might be the quietest place in Canada – the province will yield no surprises, and the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoOne of the world's most ingenious venture capitalists, Peter Thiel, the father of PayPal and the first major Facebook investor, believes that the air from the subprime bubble has already been moved into ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA particle detector to be launched aboard shuttle Endeavour will help NASA learn how to protect future space travelers from radiation.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSome birds avoid cities, but others purposefully move to them, seeking their own version of the big time.
- Experimental maps of the Earth for people interested in geophysics. Reload to update any 30 minutes. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Syrian human rights group says at least 453 people have been killed in the crackdown on anti-government protests, as the army tightens its grip on the centre of a month-long uprising. Witnesses reporte...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoReverend Nadim Nassar, a Syrian-born Anglican priest living in Britain, keeps in touch with contacts in Syria. He also listens to various media reports of the crisis. In an interesting interview on Today w...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *NATO *is increasing airstrikes against *Muammar Qaddafi’s forces *and select targets closer to the Libyan leader in an effort to break a military stalemate be...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] Syrian resistance figures said Wednesday their "massive waged people revolution" will break the regime unless President *Bashar Assad* leads a change to democr...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoWhat a fascinating turn of events. WikiLeaks has revealed that the government was so determined to uphold our reputation as a safe haven for the world’s oppressed that it repeatedly ignored warnings about ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] A veteran *Afghan *military officer opened fire on foreign forces Wednesday after a dispute at the Kabul airport, killing several *NATO *troops, Afghan and coa...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 8 hours agoAs the high cost of gasoline takes a toll on *politics* and pocket books, President Barack Obama said Tuesday he be calling on major oil producers such as Saudi Arabia to increase their oil supplies to h...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoI found this interesting; Helen "Impartiality" Boaden has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of East Anglia. Isn't that where the CRU emails came from...isn't that one of the BBC environme...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoA Biased BBC reader writes; "Frank Gardener, the BBC's security correspondent, today condemned the government for not taking Abu Hamza seriously as a threat...this from a man who works for an organisatio...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoA new open thread for you... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe BBC's contempt for those of us who carry a Christian faith contrasts nicely with its deep concern not to offend those who follow Mohammad or indeed any other faith. Take this item on the Today programm...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoDo you share his pain? Despite paying annual salaries of hundreds of thousand of pounds, Mark Thompson claimed it was “extremely hard” to fill executive roles as the broadcaster tried to cut costs. In the...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 11 hours ago"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMORIAH — If it weren't for the dead fish clean-up effort under way now, public campgrounds in Moriah and Port Henry might not be opening this year. A record number of a non-native fish called alewives wash...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 12 hours agowikipedia Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis, 23 May 1986) is a English musician, poet, playwright and political activist of English and Iraqi descent. He first came to fame through a series of mixtapes he rel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials are conducting an investigation after workers at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant made a mistake that exposed them to higher-than-usual levels of radiation. Plant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEcuador has declared an amber alert after the Tungurahua volcano started spewing ash again. A plume more than 7km (4.3 miles) high could be seen emerging from the volcano in central Ecuador. The author...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThese two neighbouring spiral galaxies were discovered by the English astronomer William Herschel in 1783. More than 700million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Sextans, NGC 3169 and NG...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA cold-blooded murder on a New York street was caught in graphic detail on a video from a nearby surveillance camera. Trevonne Winn, 24, was gunned down as he stood outside his uncle's fast food restauran...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA mother who abused 10 children in Haringey - the London borough where the Baby P and Victoria Climbié scandals happened - has been jailed for 18 months. Police, who were tipped of by a member of the publ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEnjoying the sunshine, three police officers perch next to a lake while they supervise a teenager on a fishing trip. Two of the officers seem more interested in checking their mobile phones and chatting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHaving confronted travellers cutting down trees on her farm, terminally-ill Tracy St Clair Pearce found herself subjected to a terrifying ordeal. Some of the group pelted her with rocks while a youth threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe human cannonball who died after he was fired 40ft into the air in front of hundreds of horrified children had been a stuntman for only a week. Matt Cranch, 24, hit the ground head first as the net mean...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolice investigating parcel bombs sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two high-profile supporters of the club have intercepted a fifth suspect package. The parcel, believed to be a nail bomb, was disc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPlease take note: 1) The incredible speed of the objects, measurably by the camera shutter speed 2) The absence of insect-like silhouettes, such as wings, a head or thorax 3) The metallic-like glare 4) T...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAmateur video has been posted online that appears to show protesters in Syria being shot by security forces. It is claimed the footage was filmed in the southern town of Izraa where Syrian government fo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFears that struggling eurozone nations will not be able to pay their debts intensified as official data showed the hole in Greece's finances was bigger than thought. The deficit in the Greek government's...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPlease click here to watch the video in question. Some peculiar features to take note of: 1) The off-kilter engine 2) The uneven trails of materials 3) The strange object on the craft's undercarriage Is ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThis is reported from 2008, now long forgotten -- but does it sound familiar? The daily Arab-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat is reporting that the riots and fighting in southeastern Libya that began la...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoCANADA/ENVIRONMENT - Wow. Watch and be horrified. Hopefully enough people will protest against this to prevent it from happening. It seems too big to actually go forward.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoHEALTH/TECHNOLOGY - According to new statistics released the average kid in Canada now spends over 40 hours / week (2,080 hours per year) in front of the TV and/or computer. The 2011 annual report card fr...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoCANADA - Someone in the Conservative Party of Canada has leaked a controversial list of quotes made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The 500 page dossier contains damaging remarks made by Stephen Harper a...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoThat EKOS poll, thrilling as it is, may well turn out to be an anomaly. Sure, the corporate media love the momentary drama, but at the end of the day they'll do their duty and ensure that only the blue and...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*"Winter Visits the Mills, Hammond, Indiana"*: *oil painting by Lenore Condee Lawson (born 1899), c. 1930* *"Through my brain nightly danced visions of six-guns snapped from the hip and shattering bottles...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoPolitics is intense in the Barnett Shale.The ABCAlliance blog deciphered the BS (not short for Barnett Shale) dished out in Argyle and Bartonville lately.Fort Worth is trying to figure out who will be the ne...
- posted by c g at So What Did I Miss? - 14 hours agoCanada’s leading medical authorities have all pleaded that the export of asbestos is medically and morally indefensible and will lead to an epidemic of asbestos-related disease and death overseas. Harper ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Ensemble Median Percentage Change in Annual Runoff for 2070s from the 1990s Across HCDN Sites. usbr.gov] Contact: Kendra Barkoff (DOI) (202) 208-6416 Dan DuBray (Reclamation) (202) 513-0574 25 Ap...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoAw, poor gas guys. Obama wants to end their $4 billion in tax breaks.Obama to Congress: End ‘unwarranted tax breaks’ for oil companiesPresident Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to take “immediate action” to e...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours agoThat's all I got. It's a tweet from Robert Fife at CTV on a new Angus Reid poll. Back with links and graphs when they become available. Woot! [updated again below] *Update* : OK, a few details in now fr...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 16 hours agoRaymond and the Map of DestructionRaymond, Dr. Al and me
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours agoOver the past week, the Liberals launched a pair of attack ads going after the NDP (and a new positive spot). I present the second here, asking for your comments and ratings. Personally, I'm not so sure b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: Not a living soul in sight: An empty street under the surreal light of an evening in the Fukushima exclusion zone, 12 April 2011. Getty Images / dailymail.co.uk] By David McNeill in Tokyo 23 Apr...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Postscript: Keith Olbermann's announcement (see below)* * Ronald Reagan laid the groundwork for the Right's official severing of the country from the reality standard. * *"In researching [the '80s], I've b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Perimeters of the major wildfires in Texas during 2011 as of April 25. Image credit: GEOMAC Wildland Fire Support] By Jeff Masters 26 April 2011 According to the Interagency Fire Center, wildfi...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoAlleged MLK Day Bomber Hit With Rare Federal Hate Crime Charge: " The white supremacist accused of planting a potentially deadly back pack bomb on the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade in Sp...
- posted by Amanda Onion at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoGetting tired of all the Will and Kate hoopla? Londoners say let them have their day.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoYou may not recognize the name, but Sidney Leslie Goodwin was one of the Titanic's most famous passengers.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSyrian security forces have shot dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush month-long pro-democracy protests, Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said on Tuesday. The group, founded by...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe extreme drought that has gripped parts of nine states — most of them in the South — is expected to drag on for several months or intensify, posing a risk for more wildfires, agriculture problems and wa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRep. *Ron Paul*, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he's going to try a third time. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPro-Palestinian activists say a planned convoy of aid ships to the Gaza Strip will be twice as big as a similar flotilla that was raided a year ago by Israeli forces, leaving nine people dead on a Turkish ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNicolas Cage, the Oscar-winning star of “Leaving Las Vegas,” bought a seven-bedroom home with a panoramic view of the city’s casino-lined Strip in 2006 for $8.5 million. By January 2010, it was in foreclos...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week's busy economic calendar. The Europe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnother significant tornado outbreak will endanger many lives and property across the Arklatex and South later today. These are the same areas that were just hit by tornadoes Monday into Monday night. Th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice are looking for a man who urinated on more than 100 packages of cough drops inside a Walgreens in Florida. It happened last Thursday around 10:30 p.m. at a Walgreens on S. French Avenue in Sanfior...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA majority of Egyptians believe laws in their country should observe the teachings of Islam's holy book, the Quran, according to the results of an opinion poll by a U.S.-based research center. The result...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRussia said on Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict in the North African nation, local news agencies reported. "If a reso...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe rising price of gas appears to be leaving many drivers trapped on the side of the road, choosing to take a chance rather than filling-up. Calls from drivers out of gas are up 25 percent compared to l...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSyrian security forces have shot dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush month-long pro-democracy protests, Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said on Tuesday. The group, founded by...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThat morning cup of coffee is going to cost you more. Coffee prices are at a 34-year high — $3 a pound. Yet coffee drinkers plan on grinding out the extra cash because they need that cup of Joe, CBS 2’s ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRussia said on Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict in the North African nation, local news agencies reported. "If a reso...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe rising price of gas appears to be leaving many drivers trapped on the side of the road, choosing to take a chance rather than filling-up. Calls from drivers out of gas are up 25 percent compared to l...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 20 hours agoRunning for the Liberals in Calgary is about as difficult as it gets. On most nights of door knocking, you'll be held personally responsible for the Sponsorship Scandal, the NEP, and the Flames missing th...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours 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! - 21 hours agoProtests are increasing against Paul Ryan's GOP budget-- his "cause," as he puts it-- which seeks to utterly shred the social safety net and tear up the social compact that has bound America together as ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAt 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 - 23 hours agoRhino populations are on the rise in Nepal.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 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 - 23 hours agoHumpback whales migrate for hundreds, even thousands, of kilometers along remarkably straight lines, but marine biologists are stumped as to how.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agoA 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 - 1 day agoMeet 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 - 1 day agoI 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 - 1 day 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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 "s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI 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 - 1 day agoGenetically engineered bacteria detect toxins or disease and turn on the appropriate indicator colors.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoA novel battery produces electricity in places where freshwater meets saltwater.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoGigaPan Time Machine enables viewers to explore space and time at extremely high resolutions.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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? - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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...
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