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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 minutes ago[image: A coal plant and playground. vlscopenhagen.wordpress.com] Singapore (AFP) April 4, 2011 - A global slowdown in the growth of nuclear power in reaction to the Japan crisis will seriously hamper th...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 minutes ago*theREALnews* April 6, 2011 *Thousands Across USA Rally in Support of Workers' Rights* In hundreds of cities, thousands rally to show support for public sector workers More at The Real News Cherchez...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 37 minutes ago[image: The sea wall in Scituate, Massachusetts has been hit hard by storms that pose an increasing threat, like one that recently sent waves crashing in. Jonathan Wiggs / Globe Staff] By Beth Daley, Bo...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 38 minutes agoThe first known vertebrate with an endosymbiont, spotted salamanders take their gardening personally.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A public worker scans a toddler for radiation at a nursery center in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, where radiation from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continues...
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*Nicholas Ruiz ran for Congress in central Florida as a Green in 2010. This year he's running as a Democrat and he's been endorsed by Blue America. Here's another is a series of posts he's written for DWT... - posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAlive and growing slowly in some of the deepest parts of the ocean, black coral provides a living link to history.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 hours agoA home blew up in Arkansas and the people barely escaped! Methane can be seen spewing out of the water well. Holy $*#%! I wonder of the gazillion earthquakes they've had up there enabled the migration. LINK
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No deal yet but intensifying discussion as possible *government* shutdown looms* *Talks appear to be intensifying on Capitol Hill on reaching a deal on long-overdue legislation to finance the administratio... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoThe Conservatives roll out positive ads that tout, among other things, the role Stephen Harper played in winning World War 2 and the Summit Series. It is, without a doubt, the most cliche-filled ad to eve...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 3 hours ago
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoTCEQ must cut 130 tons per day of VOCs from our air but they can't see the elephant in the room.Downwinders is correcting TCEQ's refractive errors and they need our help.We have TCEQ over a 130-ton-a-day bar...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoWhite House Promises Veto of Anti-E.P.A. BillBy JOHN M. BRODERIn case there was any doubt, the White House on Tuesday issued a formal statement opposing a bill now before the House that would bar the Environ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA brain in near-perfect condition is found in a body-less skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago in England.
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The regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, which continues to enjoy the support of the Obama administration and other Western powers, carried out another massacre of anti-government demonstrators... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
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Southwest Airlines's woes show no signs of stopping as yet another flight was forced to land shortly after take off due to an unknown fault. The flight carrying 103 passengers which was travelling from Oak... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
It claims to have been hit hard by spending cuts, but one constabulary spared no expense in tackling the pilfering of scrap... worth 47p. Alerted to two salvagers rummaging through a recycling centre, Glou... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours ago*Via Cosmic Variance* If you have 2 hours and 20 minutes, you may try to watch a debate about "Whether there is evidence of God". Theologian William Lane Craig represents the believers; cosmologist Lawr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLike a lot of Minnesotans, Bruce Wahlstrom was happy to see the ice disappearing from his lake he lives on. Then, he noticed what was underneath. "I actually saw it last night as the ice started to me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA FATAL mystery equine virus has caused panic among Casey horse owners. But local vets are urging people to remain calm. The Australian Veterinary Association last week issued a warning to owners followi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA BRITISH accountant wanted over the horrific murder and kidnap of a six-year-old girl in the Philippines was free in the UK last night. Respected Ian Charles Griffiths, 50, was arrested in London by homi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPM David Cameron sparked a fresh defence row yesterday by splurging £650million he's saving in Forces cuts on schools in Pakistan. He pledged the giant sum to pay for 90,000 new teachers and get four mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoScientists pulling together a computer model of past eruptions under what is now Auckland city have identified a "forgotten" volcano under the suburb of Grafton, less than 2km from the city centre. Resea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe world was looking the other way as Ivory Coast descended into chaos and bloodshed. The warnings had been there for months – a disputed election, an illegitimate president clinging to power through fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJAMES Bulger's killer Robert Thompson went on an unsupervised foreign holiday - just like his cohort Jon Venables. Thompson used his phoney new ID on his passport for a secret "lads' trip" to Europe. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTax and welfare changes that come into effect today will cost British households £2.3bn this year, according to estimates by Capital Economics. Although lower-earning taxpayers will be better off in the 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe ozone layer, which shields us from the sun’s harmful rays, has undergone record depletion over the Arctic, experts have warned. They blame the combination of a long, cold winter and lingering CFCs in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoChilling confessions of PoWs captured by the British have laid bare the brutality and excesses of ‘ordinary’ German soldiers in the Second World War. A book of transcripts to be published in Germany next ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSir Richard Branson plans to pilot a mini-submarine to the bottom of one of the planet's deepest oceans in his latest record-breaking adventure. The death-defying feat is part of a joint mission with an Am...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBritain and the U.S. were last night angrily accused of ‘rewarding terrorism’ over the lifting of sanctions on Colonel Gaddafi’s henchman, Musa Kusa. Foreign Secretary William Hague was pushing the EU to ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Noynoy Aquino, rich oligarch* In 1986, in the Philippines, the CIA used its assets in the Philippines military and other Philippines institutions, to topple President Marcos. The media called this a Pe...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoA week ago, Steven Chu gave a rather shameful talk at the AAAS: We're not modeling climate tipping points, said DOE's Chu (Computer World blogs) Among other things, he urged the climate modelers to incorp...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoIt's not that I had any specific reason to think Bill Elliott was involved in getting Bruce Carson the requisite top security clearance needed to score a cushy advisory job in Harper's PMO. It was that I ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoHere we go again. Like a rat up a drainpipe, Richard Black gleefully regurgitates the outpourings of research scientists who are being paid - in this case indirectly by the EU - to find climate scare stori...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAfter days of heavy fighting, forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo laid down their arms Tuesday, and the self-declared president was negotiating the terms of his surrender, his foreign minister s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40 support aircraft in the Libya conflict, including the cost of munitions. Secretary ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*The first half of a 1952 outing of the 15-minute Bob and Ray Show -- part two tomorrow in "Bob and Ray Tonight"* * IN TONIGHT'S EXCERPT FROM THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST ALBUM OF BOB AND RAY: THE TWO AND ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoView the entire gallery of Quran-burning-related images here
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTensions flared outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday as reports surfaced of a massive funeral for a man apparently shot dead by security forces in one town and two police officers apparently k...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLibyan rebels have accused Nato of being too slow to act - and asked them to suspend operations unless they "do the job properly". Rebel leader Abdel Fattah Younes has complained the alliance takes hours ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A new California state law requires manufacturers and retailers in the state to discose their efforts at making sure their supply chains are free of slavery. It goes into effect in 2012. (Watch Barbara St...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJapanese police have charged two people with selling a bogus drug they told buyers would protect them from radiation exposure, investigators said Tuesday. The substance, sold as "Premium Zeolite," was bi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoView the entire gallery of Quran-burning-related images here
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 11 hours agoAll societies have social and moral deviants, but in healthy ones they are not in control of the government and large financial banks as they are in America, Canada, England, and other Western countries. H...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 11 hours agoOn the truth problem of public health managementBy Denis G. RancourtSmoke screen?We are all going to die from secondhand smoke on outdoor patios?The medical profession agrees and the government allocates sig...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: This March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE shows damaged Unit 4 of the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukus...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 12 hours agoSeriously. This is why Margaret Atwood is, well, Margaret Atwood, and the rest of us just wish we could be. I suppose it would be bad form to wear such a button without actually getting turfed by the #Ha...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Koch Brothers Exposed T-shirt design. kochbrothersexposed.com] *Poll: What’s the worst thing the Koch Brothers have done?* - Oil spills: Koch Industries, Inc. was fined $30 million in 2000 to ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*KERPLUNK! GOES THE MARKET FOR CHARLIE SHEEN TIX* source: WNYC News Blog *"Day-to-day average prices paid for shows in New York on StubHub (from March 16 to April 4)":* *Is this a new leading economic indic...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoGuest contributor Richard Obousy describes how a starship might harness the awesome power of nuclear fusion to travel to interstellar destinations.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoNon-avian feathered dinosaurs might have spent much of their time nibbling off insects and scratching themselves.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoCANADA - The following is a list of countries and their leaders which suspended government in order to avoid a non-confidence vote: 1933 - Germany, Adolph Hitler 1936 - Spain, Francisco Franco 1939 - Ita...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoCARS - Toyota has won a landmark court case in New York regarding alleged incidents of sudden acceleration, as the first case related to the issue goes to trial and Toyota is found not at fault. A federal...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 14 hours agoFASHION - Want to dress like a moronic person with no class? Think 70s fashion! Seriously. What we're talking about here is a person so obsessed with the latest fads that they're copying styles from 40 y...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoWork-related stress as a result of longer hours can take a toll on your personal health.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoRounding up students who have pics of themselves with Iggy on their Facebook pages: Priority One. Bring the Mounties in if necessary. Making sure high-ranking officials with access to sensitive information...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoScheduled for a 2013 maiden flight, the new rocket could make a Mars sample return mission a reality.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn second battery of the Iron Dome anti-rocket system was deployed Monday in southern Israel, according to Army Radio. The battery, operated by commanders and soldiers from the IAF's Aerial Defense Network...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPortugal's cost of borrowing has jumped to within a whisker of 10 per cent as the belief grows that the country needs an international rescue to fend off a sovereign bond default. The yield on Portugal's...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA live wrestling demonstration making fun of people with mental health issues upset some moviegoers at a Halifax event Sunday. Krista Lettues of Hammonds Plains had come out of a movie at Empire Theatre ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIn what is either a delayed April Fool's report, or its latest exercise in rhetoric the IMF asks the humorous question: "An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: *Who Will Pay and How*?" The...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago*In interview with Arab newspaper, former IAEA chief says if elected as Egypt's next president he will open Rafah crossing in case of an Israeli attack*. Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIndia has imposed a three-month ban on imports of food articles from the whole of Japan on fears that radiation from an earthquake-hit nuclear plant was spreading to other parts of the country, becoming th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn second battery of the Iron Dome anti-rocket system was deployed Monday in southern Israel, according to Army Radio. The battery, operated by commanders and soldiers from the IAF's Aerial Defense Network...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe U.S. Treasury has released a final statement for the month of March that demonstrates that financial madness has gripped the federal government. During the month, according to the Treasury, the federa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe president wants Congress to double spending - to $900 million next year - on a conservation fund that's used to buy more property for the federal government. Currently, the government owns 635 million ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSince Fukushima failed, the Japanese government and TEPCO have obscured the danger of the Fukushima crisis—and it is a crisis. The word "safe" has been tossed about loosely. Unfortunately, when it comes to...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoA tiny video camera on a pair of glasses captures images and converts them into electrical signals that are fed to an electrode array that is surgically implanted in the patient's eye.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoEpsilon isn't saying which of their clients were affected; so, should you worry?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoOn January 25, 1972 I was living in Afghanistan and it was months later that I heard that a Member of Congress from my hometown had declared for the presidency. It was just the kind of idealistic, inspir...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoThe Liberal launched their platform online Sunday. It's an impressive document that uses the word "Family" 96 times in it. And while the Family Pack will be the policies that get the most attention, what c...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*Energy testimony urges rape of Mother Earth,* *while other Native Americans organize for sustainable futures * By Brenda Norrell Censored News Photo Long Walk 3 on Pine Ridge: Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Wester...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Iconic Imagery) at Broken of Britain - 18 hours ago
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoCows are engineered to make milk enhanced with a healthy human protein. But it's still a stretch from human milk.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 19 hours agoby Duane Craig Fireworks create perchlorate, which can lead to thyroid issues and other contamination side effects. In an unusual and secret confession, a woman reported that her husband had stored chemi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*TAR SANDS TOUR UK: Indigenous take on BP and Royal Bank of Scotland* *April 12-20, 2011 IEN UK Tar Sands Speakers Tour!* ** *By Indigenous Environmental Network* *Photo by Allan Lissner* IEN is excited to...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 20 hours agoHere are two excellent election-related pieces, both lists of a sort - lists about what Stephen Harper has done to Canada. "Canada watches its democracy erode" by Ramesh Thakur, who teaches political sci...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThe U.S. debt ceiling has been USD 14.294 trillion - since last February when it was raised by unprecedented USD 1.9 trillion - and the actual debt is just USD 0.095 trillion lower than this value. The U...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoWhile working people were finally drawing together into a we are one stance-- which they are allowing Democrats who want to, to tag along on-- the Tea Party has been disintegrating as a grassroots force a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 20 hours agoMy piece "Why I'm Holding My Nose and Voting Ignatieff" is now running at The Mark. I still don't feel altogether comfortable with the choice, and I'm sure I never will. But I've examined it from every an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMichel Martelly, a carnival singer with a colourful past who seized the mantle of change, is Haiti’s new president after storming to a landslide victory, preliminary results showed. The 50-year-old faces ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe worst flash mob in the world? Only SIX people turn up to protest at lack of rail service (then the train breaks down and not even the organiser shows up) Organisers may well have hoped for a crowd of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe full horror of a brutal campaign of torture meted out by British officials on Kenyan rebels including Barack Obama's grandfather has emerged for the first time. A cache of secret documents detailing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAmerica has lifted financial sanctions on former Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa in a bid to encourage other high-profile henchmen to abandon Colonel Gaddafi. The alleged Lockerbie bombing planner had a...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours agoWe eat a lot of Spanish rice in our house. For the longest time we used the Rice-A-Roni variety, but I was craving more freshness. We make rice in our rice cooker all the time and so we started experimenti...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe stricken nuclear power plant needs to dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water to continue with repairs.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoCante Tenza Okolakiciye - Strong Heart Warrior SocietyFree & Independent Lakota Nation Box 512, Hill City, South Dakota 57745 605-454-0449 or 605-517-1547 www.lakotaoyate.net Facebook “Lakota Oyate” Twitter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPROJECT 4.1 - U.S. Bomb Tests in Marshall Islands Still Raise Cloud of Questions. Those of us who attended the 50th year commemoration of the Bravo test -- when the U.S. tested a hydrogen bomb on the tiny...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA Sand Geyser or Sand Fountain is a geologic phenomena which occurs in association with earthquakes and other seismic events.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*Loop quantum gravity crackpots can be smelled from miles away* The Earth resembles an oblate spheroid - an ellipsoid that is flattened towards a disk-like shape: the points on the equator are further fr...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoPopulations overwintering in Mexico may be on the decline.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe eagles are challenging the likes of troubled actor Charlie Sheen for Internet popularity.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoHere's the scenario. Air patrol over the vast, empty Arctic. February. A long, long way from the nearest airbase. Suddenly warning lights turn the instrument panel into a Christmas tree. One F-35 pil...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 21 hours agoFreedom of Religion for me, not for thee: "Gates of Vienna is, of course, squarely on the side of the Murfreesboro mosque haters. And the Baron can't resist attacking the dreaded jihad-enabling U.S. media f...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoHindus were Really Behind Terror Attacks Blamed on Muslims: " There were a spate of terrorist bombings from 2007 until 2009 on mainly Muslim targets that left hundreds of casualties in India, the incidence...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoIndia: Two Honour Killings, What if They Were Muslim?: " The Caste system provided the impetus for these murders. Imagine if it had been Muslims, it would be top news across the Islamophobesphere. (hat ti...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoUPDATED: You Don’t Shout Fire in a Crowded Theater….: " UPDATE: LINDSEY FINALLY DEFENDS HIMSELF! The Pink Flamingo does not mind admitting that I sometimes get annoyed with Lindsey for not defending himse...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoAlabama Cannot Afford to Follow in the Footsteps of Arizona: "Today, concerned citizens will gather at the Alabama State House to oppose harsh, anti-immigrant legislation that will likely cost Alabama millio...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoCampaign to Rewrite 14th Amendment is About Politics, Not Facts: "The young man was born in San Francisco to parents of Chinese descent. After returning from a visit to his ancestral home via the steamship C...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoIndigenous Caucus Treaty Meeting Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoTea Party Group Warns of White "Extinction" In America: " Tea Party Nation is a major (for-profit) Tea Party organization that gained prominence after its convention last year hosted Republican leaders like ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAcknowledging the toll the unrelenting nuclear crisis has had on people's lives and livelihoods, the owner of the stricken nuclear plant has offered money to some of those in the radiation's reach -- an of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe risk is roughly one in seven that Europe's ongoing debt crisis will push member nations to abandon the shared currency, raising the spectre of the "effective end of the euro area," the Economist Intell...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoEfforts by banks to help out mortgage borrowers in trouble could be storing up serious problems for the financial system, according to credit rating agency Moody's. Increased "lender forebearance" in the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe cash-strapped MTA may soon put welfare recipients to work scrubbing and cleaning the subways. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to revive its participation in the city's Work Experience ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFURIOUS gamers made ill by Nintendo's new 3DS console have been REFUSED full refunds. Record return levels were reported after thousands suffered headaches and dizziness. Many only got some cash back fro...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRatings agency Moody's has downgraded Portuguese government debt by one notch, to Baa1 from A3, and warned that a further cut may be necessary. This is the second downgrade by Moody's in less than a month...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoOfficials in the Fukushima region of Japan have started an emergency programme to measure radiation levels in school playgrounds. More than 1,400 schools and nurseries will be tested over two days amid a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoViolence is escalating in the west African nation of Ivory Coast, where president-elect Alassane Ouattara is trying to oust incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to leave office after losing an election. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBritish households suffered a fall in disposable income last year for the first time since 1981. Family incomes after tax and adjusted for inflation fell by 0.8 per cent during 2010, the biggest fall sin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTexans could get to vote on a constitutional amendment to expand gambling. The House Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee will hear testimony on a number of measures to allow casinos and slot...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe U.S government wants former Governor Jesse Ventura's lawsuit against the TSA thrown out. Ventura filed the suit in federal court earlier this year. He says he was sexually assaulted by the TSA during ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoIS CRAIG COBB CONNECTED TO FAILED SPOKANE BOMBING?: "Listening conservatives try and justify Rep. Peter King's anti-Muslim hearings with that mantra that there isn't any prevalient right-wing terrorism is ju...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoSECOND MINUTEKLANSMAN GUILTY IN ARIZONA MURDERS: " They are putting the murderous Minuteklan away in the Arizona county whose sherrif called his state the Mecca of hatred and bigotry. A jury there is trying ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoTHE LUCKIEST BONEHEAD IN AMERICA JUST GOT ANOTHER BREAK!: "Remember a few years ago the story we covered of Thomas Gibison? He’s the Philly bonehead who on April 16, 1989 was involved in a shooting that left...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoSecond Day of Deadly Protests Over Koran Burning: "Terry Jones's bigoted stunt has now triggered violence in Kandahar, as hard-line imams and Taliban leaders exploit the Koran-burning to whip up hatred again...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoThe Truth About American Muslims: " More statistical evidence on the anti-Muslim wave post-9/11. The Truth About American Muslims At the Justice Department, it’s called the post-Sept. 11 backlash — the ste...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoUpset Over Nothing: Salon.com debunks latest Sharia scare: " Anti-Sharia propaganda is a load of BS Justin Elliot of Salon.com has been on point in his reporting over the last few months of the hysterics ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoFresh attempt launched to introduce anti-burqa law in Belgium: "A committee in Belgium's lower chamber of parliament approved Wednesday a law outlawing burqas and other kinds of Islamic face veils – relaunch...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 23 hours ago
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoAnti-Muslim Activists Gingerly Deplore Jones’ Koran Burning: " Anti-Muslim activists are walking an ideological tightrope, condemning the actions of the Florida pastor whose burning of the Koran on March 20 ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoFrom *Embassy, *a preview of remarks to be made tomorrow in Washington by Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information about Canada's unhinged decision to purchase the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoYesterday we looked-- in passing-- at how corporatist whores within the Democratic Party, in this case, Third Way, lead the party away from its proud working class heritage and ever closer towards support...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of damaged Fukushima-Daiichi Power Plant, Japan, 19 March 2011. fukushima-nuclear.com] By Tsuyoshi Inajima 5 April 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. is pumping millions of gallons of rad...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Honoring Mother Earth Everyday* ** *Indigenous Models and Practices for Sustainable Communities* *Censored News* *Photo Louise Benally, Navajo Big Mountain, by Brenda Norrell* April 22-24, 2011 Join Woodbin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: An aerial view taken from a helicopter from Japan's Self-Defence Force shows steam rising from the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex in this handout taken March 16, 201...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*ACTION ALERT SOGOREA TE (GLEN COVE)* April 5, 2011 Censored News *Courtesy photo Glen Cove 2010* Despite continuous efforts in good faith of Sacred Sites Protection and Rights of Indigenous Tribes to neg...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoOPEN THREAD Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoContact: Howard Shanker howard@shankerlaw.net *Court Denies Injunction to Halt Snowbowl Development* *By Klee Benally* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com * *FLAGSTAFF, AZ -- The Ninth Circui...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoPennsylvania Mt. Pleasant Township residents recently received two letters from Range Resources. The first letter received on 4/2/11 is full of good neighborly good will and promises:...we recently decided t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThe first few seconds of this video from Norway are shocking. Does anyone but me not understand that coniferous trees should be densely covered in green needles, not transparent? The trunk looks just lik...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*He's Not Finished With Our Canada Yet, He's Only Begun to Trash Our Democracy* One of Australia's top newspapers and anything but left wing, *The Australian, *carried an *op-ed* piece warning that, bad...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGrasses are taking advantage of the warming Antarctic climate. Are weeds next?
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGreenland glaciers aren't just melting; they are falling apart, driven by warming ocean currents as well as warming air.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Chernobyl Day: Phoenix, April 26, 2011* By Nuclear Resister *Photo: Nevada Test Site in Western Shoshone territory, 1953.* We're going to be in Phoenix on Chernobyl Day, and are seeking endorsers/publi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSea turtles continue to wash ashore along the Gulf, forcing the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to scramble and figure out what is causing the spike. Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Counc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake has hit Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia , 256 km (159 miles) North of Ternate, Moluccas - Indonesia at a depth of 17.6 km (10.9 miles) today Tuesday, April 5th 2011 at 11:14 UTC * T...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNow that the consequences of Muslim immigration have become apparent, the question is should we resist or allow ourselves to be soothed? Resistance sounds nasty and racist, so what to do? Tranquilize the e...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAt the start of the campaign, I asked 20 questions. I've already recapped some of your answers here and here. Today, a look at what you expect from to see on the tube and in the polls: *Which polling c...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*[UPDATE: The Taibbi interview with Boehner below may be a hoax. We're looking into it.]* And here we all thought Paul Ryan is Congress' biggest (and dumbest) Ayn Rand disciple. Apparently, not realizin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIf this doesn't re-engage dis-spirited teabaggers, nothing will. And, let's face it... there's not much to lose anyway. After all, as Charlie Cook-- usually the last to know-- pointed out yesterday, "The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEman al-Obeidy, the woamn who accused Libyan Forces of Raping her, talks to CNN about her Ordeal.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrom a thriving industry in southeast Asia, the catch might end up on dinner plates almost anywhere in the world. But you might be shocked to know how these fish are caught. Sometimes the boats are flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAid organizations are warning of an impending humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of refugees who have arrived in Liberia after fleeing violence in Ivory Coast. International aid agency Oxfam says ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*The aviation alert level around Mount Ruapehu has been raised as the volcano in the central North Island shows signs of activity.* The volcano surveillance co-ordinator for GNS Science, Brad Scott, says ...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoTax Identity Theft Has More Than Tripled in the Past Five Years* *Tax day is less than two weeks away, and this year, for the first time ever, the Federal Trade *Commission* says tax refunds are the No. 1 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said Tuesday that it had detected radioactive seawater in the Pacific Ocean with a concentration of radioactive iodine many million times the legal limit. The operato...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTokyo- (PanOrient News) The Japanese government is reportedly considering a ban on shipments of certain seafood products following the discovery of a radioactive iodine in fish caught off Kitaibaraki, Ibar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in New York hunting a suspected serial killer say they have now found a total of eight sets of human remains on a remote beach. Officers using helicopters, sniffer dogs and a finger-tip search of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA United Nations plane has crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing all but one of the 33 passengers on board. The incident happened as the small passenger plane was coming in to land at the m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Libyan government has said it is ready to discuss reforms to its political system, but insisted that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi must be allowed to stay in the country. The regime reached out to internat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain sold weapons to Libya and other dictatorships in North Africa and the Middle East just four months before Colonel Gaddafi’s regime slaughtered hundreds of protesters, a damning report reveals today...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA suspected serial axe killer is feared to have murdered up to five women, police revealed yesterday. Former carpenter John Sweeney, 54, regarded as one of the most dangerous men in Britain, was yesterday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnne’s first steps are faltering as, slowly, she shuffles forwards, back legs dragging painfully on the concrete floor, her head bobbing nervously up and down, and breath coming in loud, whooshing blasts. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain was sucked deeper into the Libya conflict last night as the number of Tornado bombers targeting Gaddafi’s forces was dramatically increased and ‘non-lethal equipment’ was lined up for the rebels. ...
- Ivory Coast president besieged in palace as UN and French forces launch full assaults - 5th Apr 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnited Nations and French forces closed in on Ivory Coast's presidential palace early today after launching full assaults on the residence of the entrenched leader, the republican guard, two major military... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists have spent 50 years sending radio signals deep into space in an attempt to establish contact with extra-terrestrials. But it now appears there might be a much simpler way of finding alien life -...
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