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*"Champion" doesn't actually appear in Some Champions, though you have to figure that the editors who titled this 1976 collection of previously uncollected Lardner stories had the title of one of the autho... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Uranium fuel in at least one of the six reactors at Fukushima *has melted*, the operator of the crippled nuclear plant has said. The admission effectively* torpedoes a plan* to flood the overheating fuel w... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: CONTAMINATED AREAS: Surface ground deposition of cesium 137 within the borders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine--a result of the Chernobyl explosion. UNSCEAR / scientificamerican.com] CHERNOBYL, U...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Aerial view of a wildfire near Possum Kingdom Lake where homes have been destroyed in the recreational area about 70 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas on April 19, 2011. The Dallas Morning News / D...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoUranium fuel in at least one of the six reactors at Fukushima *has melted*, the operator of the crippled nuclear plant has said. The admission effectively* torpedoes a plan* to flood the overheating fuel w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Merluza fish. Credit: Image courtesy of IEO Instituto Español de Oceanografía] ScienceDaily (May 16, 2011) — Researchers from the IEO, the University of Oslo and the Institute of Marine Science ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The US has suspended payments into a civil service pension fund to free up almost $150bn (£92bn) as the major debtor nation approaches its legal borrowing limit. Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretar... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The global economy is heading towards another meltdown despite the lessons of the last financial crisis, Gordon Brown has warned. The former prime minister said that unless leaders take more action, the ... - posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoCaenorhabditis elegans worms, descendants from worms that survived the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster, have just become the next generation to do science in orbit.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 hours agoWikiLeaks via CBC : From : US Ambassador Jacobson, Ottawa Embassy, 3/17/2009 To : SECSTATE WASHDC SUBJECT: CANADA: RE-CONSIDERING ALL OPTIONS FOR ITS FUTURE MILITARY ROLE IN KANDAHAR? "Summary: The mino...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Evolution of the 3-month Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI-3) over western Europe from January to April 2011. Values below -1.5 indicate a severe meteorological drought. edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu]...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Aerial view of Amazon forest clearing. Photo by Rhett Butler, 2009] By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.com 16 May 2011 Deforestation has increased sharply in Mato Grosso over the past nine months ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Aerial view of Canada's Arctic coastline. Vegetation killed by the 1999 storm surge contrasts sharply with that along the shoreline receiving regular freshwater. queensu.ca] May 16 (Queen's Univ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) at La Jolla Ecological Reserve. journeyetc.com] By Bonnie Eslinger, Daily News Staff Writer 12 May 2011 Officials have completed a necropsy on one of the doz...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Opponents of a massive dam project in Chile's Patagonia protest on 9 May 2011 in Coihaique. Francesco Degasperi / AFP / Getty Images] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com 16 May 2011 The wild river...
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*image source* I have a small confession. During high school I read almost every single Agatha Christie mystery novel. I was a frequent visitor to the small library in my home town that luckily had a go... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
As Ezra Klein pointed out in the *Washington Post* this morning, Paul Ryan went in front of the Economic Club of Chicago to try to stem the bleedingfrom his much-hated plan to turn Medicare into an inadequ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
*Today's contributor is Fernando "FerFAL" Aguirre. Many of our readers have expressed interest in hearing accounts from those who have lived through economic collapse. FerFAL experienced the hyperinflation... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Eric Sprott, the Canadian money manager who in 2008 predicted banking stocks would collapse, says U.S. savers will eventually pull their money out of banks that are carrying too much leverage on their bala... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
It is been my belief that stocks and the economy have been locked in a secular bear market since March of 2000. During that period we've had two recessions and two cyclical bear markets. One of those reces... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has temporarily assumed the duties of the oil ministry, as the oil cartel OPEC prepares for a biannual meeting in Vienna. "For now, I myself am the caretaker...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to live – is to go on sale to the general public in Britain later this y...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*McDonald’s* is to change the way customers order its meals in Europe, partly replacing cashiers and the use of banknotes at its 7,000 fast-food restaurants in the region with touchscreen terminals and swi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Obama administration will begin to tap federal retiree programs to help fund operations after the government loses its ability Monday to borrow more money from the public, adding urgency to efforts in...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMany of the makeup products that Canadian women apply every day contain a number of toxic heavy metals – and some contain arsenic and lead levels that exceed Health Canada recommended limits. That's what...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 6 hours agoThis self-styled trend analyst is dead on the money regarding the US-Canada college-university scam powered by the same financiers that are dismantling societies everywhere.Leaving aside gold and silver, che...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Debra Bowen, Kathy Hochul* Tomorrow voters in CA-36 go to the polls to pick a replacement for Blue Dog Jane Harman. Her own choice is sleazy City Hall political hack Janice Hahn, the worst of example of ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoMarine protected areas are good. Big marine reserves are better.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe X-Prize Foundation and Qualcomm have teamed up to design a handheld medical analysis device.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe world -- located 20 light-years from Earth -- might sustain liquid water, but it would be a very alien place to visit.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro* Caesium 137 will shine in Rio Urânio em Movi(e)mento - The 1st International Festival of Films on Nuclear Energy, Rio de Janeiro May 16th to 28th, 2011 By Internatio...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoArticle and photos by Protect Glen Cove http://www.protectglencove.org/ This morning, a dozen participants from the spiritual encampment at Glen Cove took part in an annual memorial gathering at Clear La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDominique Strauss-Kahn feared that one of his political opponents would pay a woman more than $1million to say he raped her, it emerged today. The extraordinary revelation emerged in Paris as the Internati...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago*Mortgage Paperwork Mess: The Next Housing Shock - 60 Minutes (April 3, 2011) - Brookstone Law* *BrookstoneLaw* Uploaded by BrookstoneLaw on Apr 5, 2011 Brookstone Law investigates - As more and more ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoFinding success stories in marine conservation isn't always easy, but they are out there.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoFor the first time in Earth's history, a single species has not only radically changed the planet, it is now aware of having done so.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoYoung scientists receive awards in international competition.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours ago*Previously: NDP, Bloc, Liberals, Greens* A lot has been written over the past two weeks about the election that was, but nearly all of it has been about Jack Layton's victory. This may be a bit unfair ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFive teenagers were facing jail today for the killing of a 15-year-old boy who was 'hunted down' and stabbed at a London Tube station in an attack planned on Facebook. Rush-hour commuters looked on in hor...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoA lot of the world's population is concentrated in low-lying coastal regions. These are areas vulnerable to the sea level rise of up to 1.6 meters now predicted by the turn of the century. The Japanese a...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 10 hours agoThe price of gasoline is up again, causing myriad politicians to stumble all over each other pointing fingers of blame. Republicans would have us believe that prohibitive regulations that prevent the oil a...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoWhat's your earliest memory? Chances are, it's unlikely you'll bring back memories from before age 3.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoIt couldn't be clearer. As far as Israeli prime minister Netanyahu is concerned, the occupied Palestinian territories are Israel's homeland. That much was obvious when he proclaimed that Israel was wil...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoIn the world's wealthiest (OECD) countries, losses from flooding have shot up 160% over the past 30-years. Losses from tropical cyclones have swollenby 262% over the same period. *"The risk of losing wea...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoCFR, Brookings, & New York Times join forces with ABC to deceive the nation. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 16, 2011 - Richard Haass, the sloven Robert Kagan, and New York Times corespondent An...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago*La Nina*, ugly stepsister of *El Nino,* seems to have run her course. A commercial weather forecasting service reports that sea surface temperatures, winds and clouds over the Pacific have returned to l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been denied bail after appearing in court charged with trying to rape a New York hotel maid. A New York judge refused his attorney's $1 million bail offer and remanded...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 11 hours agoCANADA - New York City has been ranked the best city in the world in an annual report of the top 26 “Cities of Opportunity” by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Toronto placed 2nd and San Francisco placed 3rd. Its ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 11 hours agoPOLITICS - There are murderers who will get out of prison before Bernie Madoff does. New York financier Bernie Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence for pulling off the largest Ponzi scheme in history. He ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 11 hours agoRELIGION - Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says there is no heaven and no room for heaven or any other fairy tales in his explanation of the cosmos. In an interview conducted in London England, the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoA week or so ago we featured the Doobie Brothers' complaint about banksters illegally foreclosing on active duty service members. The law is very clear-- each illegal foreclosure by J.P.MorganChase should...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoNow that America's nemesis, Osama bin Laden, is gone, it's a good time to scrutinize Washington's ongoing interests in South and Central Asia. The *Great Game* is very much in play and we need to ask whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBritain's most famous scientist has branded heaven and the afterlife ‘a fairy story’ for people afraid of death. Stephen Hawking dismissed the idea that life continues after our body shuts down. His comm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNEW DELHI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- An unknown disease has struck some villages in eastern Indian state Orissa's Malkangiri district killing at least 16 persons, including 14 children, over the last 10 days, r...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago[image: Link](image) Mount Aso is the Largest Active Volcano in Japan Visitors to Japan have been told not to go within one kilometre of Mount Naka, after the volcanic activity at Mount Aso was raised from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Image) A snowman holds a sign along the route that would have been the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California cycling race. A rare mid-May snowstorm forced organizers to cancel the first stage of the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago“Space junk” or debris has become an increasing threat to commercial satellites along with spacecraft and the International Space Station. Now NASA scientists may have a new option for reducing debris. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe US has reached its debt limit of $14.3 trillion (£8.6tn) and is taking measures to cut spending to avoid breaching it. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that he will suspend investing into...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChinese officials have denied the Beijing palace that was once home to China's emperors is being used as a club for the rich. Chinese media reports claim wealthy people can buy access to a restored secti...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe same day Canada publicly refused to join the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, a high-ranking Canadian official was secretly promising the Americans clandestine military support for the fiercely controve...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSecurity forces in Guatemala have found 27 bodies, the majority of which were decapitated, at a farm in the northern region of Peten, Col. Rony Urizar, an army spokesman, said Sunday. Among the victims w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoForty-seven year old Yang Li Bing puffs on a cigarette as he shuffles through photos of a daughter he hasn’t seen in seven years. “After she was taken in 2004, I could hardly sleep and I asked my wife if ...
- Lifeguards in California earn $200,000 and $100,000 pensions -- despite having disastrous debt loads
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHigh pay and benefits for lifeguards in Newport Beach is the latest example of frustrating levels of compensation for public employees. More than half the city’s full-time lifeguards are paid a salary of o... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe crisis of global capitalism is unprecedented, given its magnitude, its global reach, the extent of ecological degradation and social deterioration, and the scale of the means of violence. We truly face...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoShale gas drilling operations increase the risk of nearby drinking water becoming contaminated with methane, a study has suggested. Researchers found, on average, methane concentrations 17 times above norm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA man with a hair fetish murdered and mutilated a seamstress with the same 'hallmark' method he used to kill a teenager in Italy, a court heard today. Italian national Danilo Restivo, 39, is alleged to ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA maniac who beheaded a British grandmother in Tenerife was wanted by police at the time of the horrific attack, it emerged today. An arrest warrant for Deyan Deyanov, 28, had been issued three days befor...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe beads made from the tiny Olivella shell served as currency among the Chumash before the arrival of Europeans in Southern California.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 14 hours agoby Duane Craig Property contamination very often extends beyond the property’s boundaries and affects the environment both above and below ground. This adds a level of complexity to remediating the contam...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoStill working on the dual-blogging multiple-redundancy thing. Bear with me. Link here, via here.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoWhen it comes to diluting fossil fuel with bio-alternatives, some biofuel crops are as black as coal.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe shuttle is delivering a potent physics experiment to probe the origins of the universe.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThere is a beautiful snowball effect going on. In light of my recent posts about NHL player Sean Avery's public support of marriage equality - and two non-gay male athletes taking lead roles in anti-homoph...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 15 hours agoThe deniers would like to dismiss ocean acidification from anthropogenically generated CO2, just as they dismiss climate change, but it's a bit more difficult and there is a better chance for this paralle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSpace Shuttle Endeavour is being prepared to blast off on it's final mission today - after a heater problem delayed launch two weeks ago. If all goes to plan the shuttle should set off from the Kennedy Spa...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoPersistent, low-intensity noise from humans cause serious stress to fish, research shows.
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoI want to mention Jeremy Bowen again, and the interviews with John Humphrys and Palestinian official Husam Zomlot and Mark Regev. While I’m at it I may as well bring in Mark Mardell’s BBC Obama fanzine blo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice and RSPCA officers are hunting a serial cat poisoner who is believed to have killed 12 pets in a quiet residential cul-de-sac. Nine cats have been poisoned, one has been kicked to death, and two are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA former prison officer has been jailed after confessing to raping a girl hundreds of times 20 years ago. Christopher Pearce, 68, began indecently assaulting the child from the age of six and then began r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA computer hacker who ruined a man's internet firm 'for a game' and was caught with thousands of stolen bank account details has been spared jail - so he can carry on studying for a degree in law. Sussex ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIrish republican dissidents have issued a coded bomb threat for central London, Scotland Yard has confirmed. Security has been tightened in the capital after a "non-specific" threat was issued to authori...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoIn yesterday's *Sun Sentinel* Stephen Goldstein makes the case that the area's crackpot congressman, Allen West, is following in traditions antithetical to the American spirit he blindly believes he's fol...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 16 hours agoMinnesota Republicans offer constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage: " Republicans in the Minnesota Senate introduced three bills on Tuesday that aim to put a constitutional amendment banning same-sex m...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 16 hours agoFact Checking Barton Part V: Treaty of Tripoli: " When David Barton and Jon Stewart begin discussing the Treaty of Tripoli (11:30 into the interview), Barton maintains that it simply demonstrates that the US...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoSelling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe: " I don’t question the necessity of pointing out Barton’s history of outright falsehoods, explaining the fallacies of h...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoProsecution appeals Demjanjuk verdict: "German prosecutors are appealing John Demjanjuk's sentence."
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoDid Bradley Manning Almost Blow The Operation To Capture/Kill Osama Bin Laden? ExtremeLiberal | May 7, 2011 at 5:51 am | URL: http://wp.me/pKlC3-1uP I want to start out by saying don't rea...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoThe Most Dangerous Woman In America, Meet Pamela Geller Queen Of The Extremist Bloggers Who Links to Unsolved Murder and Used Car Scam.: " Monday, May 16, 2011 INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER UK…..SUNDAY May ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoTARGETING CAMPUS HATE: HOW YOUTH FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS GETTING HAMPERED BY...REALITY: "When the smoke clears from the ass-whuppin' across the country that the white supremacist group Youth for Western ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoLong form changed a few minds: polls say: " The Christian Science Monitor has a new “post Osama” poll out: … 64 percent said they “always knew President Obama was born in the US.” Nine percent said they’d h...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoHouston Mosque Set on Fire, Arsonist on the Loose: " KHOU, Greater Houston’s CBS affiliate television station, is reporting that a mosque was most likely set afire by an arsonist who is still on the loose...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoTea Party Leader to GOP: You Can Raise the Debt Ceiling As Long As You Keep Gays Down: "In Washington yesterday, Tea Party Founding Fathers chairman William Temple put on his ridiculous George Washington cos...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoRon Paul Wouldn't Have Ordered the Bin Laden Raid: "If nothing else, Ron Paul is certainly consistent, if by 'consistent' you mean 'fanatically dedicated to extreme right wing libertarian ideology:' Ron Paul...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoPorn Discovered in Bin Laden's Hideout: "Osama bin Laden (or somebody in his compound) apparently liked to get his freak on: Pornography found in bin Laden hideout.The pornography recovered in bin Laden's co...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoVideo: Chris Matthews and Ron Paul Have It Out: "Chris Matthews interviews a very defensive crazy uncle, and ties him in knots over his extreme libertarian positions.Video"
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoPamela Geller Rages at the Independent's Accurate Article: " "I ♥ me some Muslims!"The Independent's Robert Chalmers has a very balanced and fair look at Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebran...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoKerry warns Pakistan on Afghan stability: "There are 'disturbing' signs Pakistan's government knows about insurgents crossing from their country into Afghanistan, U.S. Sen. John Kerry said Sunday as he toure...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoGates praises Obama's call on raid: "President Barack Obama's decision to order a raid against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was a courageous and gutsy call, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoIMF chief due in court on sexual assault charges: "Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of chasing a housekeeping employee down the hall of his swanky New York hotel suite and trying to sexually assault her. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoThe DREAM Act: Keeping Our Promise to Our Kids: " “What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s one of the most common questions we ask our children. And no matter what answer they give — veterinarian, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA reigning Olympic marathon champion has died after jumping from a balcony at his Kenya home. Police are investigating whether *Sammy Wanjiru* killed himself intentionally, amid reports his wife had foun...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoMosab Hassan Yousef and Former Shin Bet Handler Respond to Walid Shoebat: " Ron Brackin’s website carries further details of the dispute between Walid Shoebat and Mosab Hassan Yousef. Both men are ex-Muslim ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoMan beaten with iron bars in racist attack (UK): "A man has been assaulted by an armed gang in South Belfast, in what police believe was a racially motivated attack.The victim was attacked by three males in ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoUnfortunately, we had to remove one of our editors, Eric Allen Bell, after we discovered he is vehemently opposed to organized religions.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoWhen Endeavour launches, it will deliver three of prototype microchip mini-satellites to the space station for testing.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoWhen Endeavour launches, it will be carrying a peculiar live cargo: an intrepid three-inch creature named Euprymna scolopes, a.k.a., the Hawaiian bobtail squid.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPakistan's al-Qaida-linked Taliban said on Monday they killed a Saudi Arabian diplomat in the Pakistani city of Karachi. "We take responsibility," a Taliban spokesman said by telephone from an undisclosed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPresident Barack Obama warned Congress that failing to raise the debt limit could lead to a worse financial crisis and economic recession than 2008-09 if investors began doubting U.S. credit-worthiness. ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoThere was a flood of frogs on a highway in Greece, which has managed to close down the highway for hours. Greek officials confirmed that one of the critical northern highways was closed for a couple of h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Cathay Pacific aeroplane was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its engines caught fire. Passengers have spoken about how they prayed together as the aircraft made its way back to Singapor...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours agoOsama bin Laden cut himself off from straight access to the Internet during his final years in Pakistan as he attempted to elude the CIA. But the terror group he found has been able to seize the power of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoColombia is facing the worst natural disaster in its history as heavy rain and floods continue to cause widespread damage in the north of the country. In Barranquilla, in the Atlantico department, the wat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA railroad official says several cars have derailed in a switching yard and about 2,000 gallons of a toxic chemical spilled. Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas says the train was moving a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours agoWhether you operate a public truck weighing facility or a private *business scale*, one thing remains the same - your need to provide drivers with around-the-clock scale access, but without paying for arou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWild-eyed, he held his hands wide apart and declared: ‘I want a knife this big – I’m going to kill someone.’ Caught on a supermarket CCTV camera, this is Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, the vagrant held over th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice in Los Angeles are seeking the whereabouts of a young woman seen in photographs with a suspected serial killer. The woman in the pictures is hugging and kissing Michael Gargiulo, who is facing cour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWild-eyed, he held his hands wide apart and declared: ‘I want a knife this big – I’m going to kill someone.’ Caught on a supermarket CCTV camera, this is Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, the vagrant held over th...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoNot the dogs involved in the fight at the dog park. Photo courtesy: maricopacounty It wasn't quite man-bites-dog, but there were men and there were dogs and there was biting. A sheriff's office said Monda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe case of the so-called 'Craigslist Ripper may have gotten even more bizarre. The New York Post reports that two NYPD police officers are under suspicion in connection with the case, in which up to 13 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRunning just south of the U.S. border with Canada, you’d expect the North Cascade Highway to be subject to some wintry weather occasionally. But this weekend drivers on State Route 20 – which passes from P...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoAnd so a new week dawns and a whole new set of BBC bias needs examined. Here you go, the floor is yours, have you something to say? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSix people were injured when -- for the third time this year -- a jumping castle was blown away Saturday. This time it happened to a group of fifth-graders celebrating the end of their school year. As th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs more gates of the massive Morganza Spillway were opened today, to alleviate pressure on the swollen Mississippi River, the focus of the natural disaster turned away from the potential problems of the bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThese pictures show the four potential landing sites that NASA scientists will try and send the new rover, Curiosity, which is tipped to become the next Mars explorer. The robot will replace the Phoenix M...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoIf there is one kind of Conservative that the BBC almost like, it's the sort that are Conservative-in-name-only. Take* Tim Yeo,* please. This blustering buffoon was on the BBC this morning to discuss why...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWhat better way to start the week on the BBC with another chance to discuss that hardy perrenial, should drugs be legalised? There's a discussion at 8.33am based on a new report from the left-wing Demos p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Image) Garret Berki, right, died from a gunshot wound after he answered a Craigslist ad for a computer. Mesa College student Garrett Berki, 18, and his girlfriend Alejandra Faudoa, 18, answered a Craigsl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Met Police is fighting a legal battle to keep files detailing the investigation into the notorious Jack the Ripper case secret - to maintain confidentiality for Victorian 'supergrasses'. The documents...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago* copyright © 2005 by James F. Perry * The Scottish Government is speaking out about Lockerbie, Iraq and Palestine. The Scottish Government curently has limited powers, but hopes to achieve independenc...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoPhoto courtesy: dr relling Mosquitoes are probably the most hated little insects in the world. Actually, it's only the female mosquitoes that bite; so, actually only about 50% of the mosquito population i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago'We have no remorse ... they brought shame to our community,' says alleged murderer Two Muslim mothers in an Indian town have been arrested over allegations they killed their daughters for dishonouring th...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoAnyone catch Sheikh Jeremy al Bowen on Today this morning? With Palestinians exercising their right to return to violence at any available opportunity. Bowen was quick to declare this is all part of the "A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Image) Shield: A carousel in the playground built above one of Colonel Gaddafi's bunkers in Tripol. The net was closing on Colonel Gaddafi yesterday as Nato was urged to intensify its bombing campaign wh...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI can remember vividly Britain's last major sustained power cuts back in the 1970s, the consequence of maniac Ted Heath's ham-fisted attempt to take on the all-powerful National Union of Mineworkers under ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThousands of immigrants have been granted 'squatters' rights' to stay in the UK - after living here illegally for 14 years. Under a little known rule up to 2,000 immigrants have been allowed to remain ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA two-week heatwave is on its way to the UK as a result of warm weather sweeping in from Europe, say forecasters. If temperatures continue to stay high then experts believe records will show May to have b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhile West Nile has been in the U.S. for about a decade, the fear of the disease, along with the number of reported cases in humans and animals, has declined during that time. However, that doesn’t mean th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA fish is lying in the mud at farmer Jacquelin Bisaillon’s feet. It’s a silver-scaled carp about 30 centimetres long, and dead. Which is odd, because Bisaillon is standing three-quarters of a kilometre awa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFlames continued to flicker into the night time skies above Slave Lake after a devastating, fast moving wildfire caught community officials off guard. The damage is catastrophic. Hundreds of homes, church...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoWhile the results of the CLOUD experiment will be published in 2 or 3 months, another competing experiment has just revealed its results in *Geophysical Research Letters*: Aerosol nucleation induced by ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours agoAlterNet / *By* *Joshua Holland* America's Largest Newspaper Launches a Nasty Attack on Grandma and Grandpa *The Rupert Murdoch-owned, right-wing Wall Street Journal is lying, plain and simple*. ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"This special police dog was like the most of them and hated everybody." Uh-oh, watch out, Grandma!* *"One or two times they was a little gal that lived in the suburbs who they called her little Red Ridi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe deepening crisis in Greece and the collapse of the Schengen borders agreement are serious threats to the European utopia of political and economic union. The visionaries who dreamed of a peaceful and ...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day ago***please excuse my appearance. TOTALLY drenched, with layers of clothing on and NO make-up. But, excited that Kurt did his first 5K! Yay Kurt! * A few weeks ago, Kurt realized he CAN run further than he...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*The Parasite Reporters* *In the bargain basement of news, the reporters are out to deceive you and censor the authentic voices of grassroots Native Americans* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.b...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*In last week's episode of In Plain Sight, "Crazy Like a Witness," Bradley Whitford played a black-ops-type specialist who goes into Witness Protection with his son and is persuaded that his old company is...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoI blogged earlier today in response to the Dallas Morning News article about natural gas drilling but I didn't zero in on this part:The anti-drilling movement is beginning to have an effect on the natural ga...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI've been outside the country for the past week (prepare the attack ads). While they say a week is a long time in politics, it doesn't look like I missed much. After all... 1. The Liberals are *still* se...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoClashes between pro-Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces erupted along Israel's borders Sunday, leaving at least 12 dead on a Palestinian mourning day marking the birth of the Jewish state. Israeli...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLate one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unma...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe situation in the United States has deteriorated and will continue to do so unless drastic action on our federal, state and local government deficits is taken. We need to trace what happens during an ec...
- Japanese engineers have abandoned cooling plan at Fukushima Nuclear Plant -- Cooling chamber leaking
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapanese engineers have abandoned their latest attempt to stabilise a stricken reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The plant's operator, Tepco, had intended to cool reactor 1 by filling the containme... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoI thought about a stronger title for this post, but that might have required a nasty loaded word like, oh ... "bias." Anyhow, this isn't intended to be a factual statement, but off the top of your heads...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*US Ambassador in Ottawa: * *US and Canada agree Indigenous Rights Declaration headed for 'train-wreck'* *Censored News* *Photo: UN* In a diplomatic cable marked "sensitive," US Ambassador David Wilkins sta...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoCongress, particularly the graft-oriented House Agriculture Committee, has steered U.S. food policies in the interests of fat-cat donors from Agri-Business and in ways diametrically against the well-bein...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoWikiLeaks - Most Dangerous Man Part 1/3 WikiLeaks - Most Dangerous Man Part 2/3 WikiLeaks- The Most Dangerous Man Part 3/3 TEXT ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:* *'THE LISTENER' BOOK LAUNCH:* **Coming up soon here in Winnipeg: the book launch of the graphic novel 'The Listener' about the political propaganda surrounding the rise of teh N...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*By Greenpeace* Greenpeace warns growing military tension poses threat to peace. New revelations by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks show how the scramble for resources in the Arctic is sparking mili...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf you're reading this, please contact us via the contact page. Our email address is there. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 43.2 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:37:10 UTC Sunday 15th May 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) from ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*The Wall of Holocaust Denial Begins to Topple: * *Aboriginal Museum is Forced to Display Evidence of the Canadian Genocide* By Hidden from History An Update, with thanks to Jim Windle of Teka News Brampto...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe site is up and running fine with only a small number of posts lost due to the Great Blogger Incident of '11. Please note that we now have a twitter feed (see it bottom left of this site), which will fe...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*NEW SATELLITE-BASED MIGRANT SAFETY INITIATIVE* BY REV. ROBIN HOOVER, Ph.D. President Obama has declared that the border is safer now than it has been for a long, long time. For whom? Certainly not for m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA habitual burglar has been spared jail after convincing a judge that his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder would make life behind bars 'too traumatic'. Nathan Cassidy, 20, smashed his way into an elderly coup...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoFirst, the Dallas Morning News inappropriately titled their article, "In midst of gas boom, anti-drilling movement gains ground." (The article is behind a gate so you will need to buy a paper to read it.) Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe former finance minister will plead not guilty to charges of carrying out a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. French officials say he must be presumed innocent unless proven...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 1 day ago** ** ** ** The two CIA/MOSSAD Cover-uppers..., Michel CIA SULEIMAN and Elias CIA El-Murr....the Traitor in Chief....*...من يفتش على ربه يلقاه * http://newhk.blogspot.com/2007/04/who-are-assassins-kil...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Photos by Longest Walk 3 reversing diabetes, northern route, published at Censored News. Thank you!* (Sat., May 14, 2011) from northern route: WE NEED YOUR HELP! "We made it to Mole Lake Casino today....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago*One of the driest springs on record has sparked fears for agriculture and wildlife, while crews 'work to the point of exhaustion' to battle forest fires* [image: Firefighters have already been working ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInterstellar planets — those without stars to orbit — could serve as havens for life, according to a new study. They are often thought to be nearly invisible, since they are much dimmer than stars and do...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*VERDI: Aida: Act III, Aida, "O patria mia"* *Margaret Price sings Aida's Act III aria, "*O patria mia,*" in San Francisco, 1981.* *by Ken* We're still remembering the Welsh soprano Margaret Price, and f...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day ago*Poetry For Palestine* Posted on April 29, 2011 by nahida the Exiled Palestinian The world has almost become desensitized to hearing horrible news; there isn’t a day that passes without being bombard...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: image] By Ursula Goodenough 5 May 2011 Sometimes, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I was recently at a scientific conference on the development of sustainable biofuels, this b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe maniac who decapitated a British grandmother and paraded her head through the streets of Tenerife lived in squalor in a filthy derelict squat. Bulgarian Deyan Valentinov Deyanov, 28, shared the ramshac...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Radiation-hardened forklift truck for removing rubble from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 27 April 2011. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. / TEPCO] TOKYO, May 14 (AFP) - A highly radioacti...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*OWE AKU (bring back the way) INVITES YOU TO A FUN & INFORMATIVE EVENING AWAY **FROM THE UN* All are invited to participate in this event which includes the presentation of three short films, dialogue o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoPosted by LuqmanNaq 18 August 2010 Here is Dmitry Orlov's book reinventing collapse (highly recommended) - http://amzn.to/l9tEih Dmitry Orlov - Why superpowers collapse (short clip) http://www.youtube....
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