- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 minutes ago
[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] The *Senate* blocked a bill Tuesday that would cancel about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five major oil companies, a Democratic retort to $4-a-gallo... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
Chinese provinces are rationing electricity as soaring coal prices squeeze power generation companies, underlining the challenges facing the world's largest energy consumer as global fuel prices rise. Whi... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 32 minutes ago
*The 1949 film version of Champion was a great vehicle for the young Kirk Douglas. I realize I've never actually seen it, probably because I've had the impression that beyond the use of the basic plot and ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoRebel forces in the Nafusa Mountains of western Libya were under heavy attack Tuesday by forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi and had issued a call for help, the National Transitional Council said. "Re...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
In the cavernous lobby of the Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo, executives sip US$14 coffees, crisply dressed waiters hover with English-language menus and bilingual reception clerks wait patiently for incoming guests... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 56 minutes ago
Photo by Marlin Harms via Flickr CC via TreeHugger In the United Kingdom, everyone became so used to others complaining about swallows building their mud nests under eaves and along fascia boards that a r... - posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 hour ago*THE REAL VALUE OF GOLD* *"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."* Robert Anton Wils...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks." - Lord Acton "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a finan... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A wildfire burns through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada on 17 May 2011. In what's been called the largest-ever mass evacuation in Alberta history, thousands of Slave Lake residents are waiting to le...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 hour agoBartonville passed the Fair Share for Clean Air resolution tonight. It was on the Southlake agenda for tonight but I haven't heard anything yet. Last night Flower Mound passed it. DishDallas CountyFlower Mou...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour ago
In this photo taken Friday May 13, 2011, a farmer holds up the packaging for chemicals used on watermelons that had burst in Danyang city in eastern China's Jiangsu province. Watermelon fields in eastern C... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
European Union and International Monetary Fund officials are in Athens carrying out a review of Greece's finances and reform measures to determine whether the indebted nation merits a critical new slice of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 were flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, an official said today. The girls received 10 lashes each under the cou... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young s... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: A dead zone the size of the state of New Jersey lies in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Here water from the Mississippi, laden with sediments, organic material, nutrie...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours agoMay 17 (AP) – Wildfires that blazed through a northern Canadian town forced the evacuation of nearly 7,000 people. The mayor of Slave Lake nearly one-third of the buildings were destroyed after strong w...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Once upon a time* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* When Tom Tomorrow signed on with Daily Kos following his long stint with Salon, one of his stated reasons was the opportun... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this image at 12:35 p.m. local time on May 16, 2011. Similar images of central Canada are available twice ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 3 hours ago
*"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- Lord Acton * Dees Illustration *Activist Post* For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the w... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: A shelf cloud passes over one of the driest regions on the African continent: the Namib desert. The shelf cloud is associated with a high-precipitation supercell thunderstorm. In 2010 and 2011, h...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 5 hours agoOur blog has been recently hacked. We know who did it and are working with the authorities.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThis disease has killed more than a million hibernating bats in eastern North America alone since 2006.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOn Sunday, May 1, 2011, in the late hours, news stations across America carried Barack Hussein Obama's address to the world, announcing that Osama bin Laden had been taken down. Initial reports were sket...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStop us if this sounds familiar: An antagonistic South American strongman invites one of America's worst enemies to build long-range missiles in his country, sending the region -- and damn near the world -...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRussian authorities arrested a man Tuesday in connection with dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow, police said according to reports. The suspect was arrested after police found a stew...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoToyota has warned it could move manufacturing out of Japan because the strength of the yen is damaging the car maker. The yen hit post-war highs against the dollar in March and on Wednesday it was reveal...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA major NewsChannel 5 investigation has uncovered serious questions about Tennessee's war on drugs. Among the questions: are some police agencies more concerned about making money off the drugs, than sto...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe China Syndrome refers to a scenario in which a molten nuclear reactor core could could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement of the power plant and down into the ear...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA cup of coffee is about to get even more expensive. The price of raw green beans has more than doubled in less than 12 months and coffee shops say they can no longer absorb the soaring costs. Danny Erlic...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWatermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating fields of "land mines" instead of the bounty of fruit they ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Syrian government is denying claims that a mass grave was found near the embattled city of Daraa, a focal point in the nationwide wave of anti-government rage. The country's Interior Ministry said th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than 100 forest fires continued to burn across Alberta Tuesday — 36 of them out of control, including three around the already almost half-destroyed town of Slave Lake. Scores of firefighters were b...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGuatemala's President Alvaro Colom has declared a "state of siege" in a northern border province, ordering in the military after police found 29 migrant workers brutally killed on a farm over the weekend. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA visiting senior United States senator warned Pakistanis on Monday that members of Congress were asking "tough questions" about economic aid to Islamabad after Osama bin Laden was killed on Pakistani soil...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoBBC lauding the prospects of an Independent Scotland - cheerleading for Mr Toad look-a-like Alex Salmond. It slyly says that Salmond would keep the Queen as Head of State and the Pound Sterling. How kind. ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoBBC loving Her Majesty paying tribute to the "Fenian brotherhood" and the "old IRA" in Dublin. I find the BBC coverage nauseating and, of course, politically contrived. The BBC has been a long time cheer-l...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoCertain dinosaurs may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoRestaurants prefer to seat smaller groups and will even discourage larger parties. But is this practice really to their advantage?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoThe kind of anarchism we're beginning to see in Greece is the response from frustrated citizens with the feeling that they can have no impact on their own lives because society is being run for and by a ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago* Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the son of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor and member of the Grand Orient de France, and Russian/Tunisian journalist Jacqueline Fellus. His family is of mixed Seph...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoFeral camels in the Australian desert are attacking air conditioning units, toilet systems and more in a desperate search for water.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoSatellite tagging of animals can have conservation benefits.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago* the**REALnews* May 17, 2011 *Anti-Austerity Rallies in Spain* EuroNews: Police in Madrid made several arrests after a peaceful protest against government austerity measures ended in violent clashes. ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoThis URL contained the blog entry before the blogger.com problems. If the article ID is preserved, the comment section will offer an immediate access to the threads. However, my actual article is found ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoSame organizations, same rhetoric, same globalist agenda, different country. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 17, 2011 - In Egypt before the January 2011 globalist-funded mobs took to the streets...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoMy husband and I grew up in very different families when it comes to food. A lot of what my mom made was based on our Norwegian heritage and my MIL made traditional American food. Both types of food are d...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours agoOriginal here. If bin Laden beat all odds and managed to live another decade to await, unarmed and undefended, the arrival of the Navy SEALs last week, how it is possible that the "terror mastermind," who...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoThanks to Sophie Morel for allowing Censored News to post her photos from the Long Walk 3 reversing diabetes. The photos are from Raceland, La., and the home of Chief Brenda Dardar Robichaux of the Houma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Image) Cruelty: The adult swans and their adorable six cygnets, pictured two days before their death, were shot dead in the neck and chest. Police are hunting a 'sick' gunman who shot dead a family of eig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe family of a man who met a bizarre and tragic end by being sucked into a jacuzzi at a Bahamian resort is suing the hotel for negligence, emotional distress and false imprisonment. John Van Hoy Jr, 33, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussian police have tracked down a suspected killer after finding half-eaten human remains in his fridge. Police found their suspect in his Moscow home eating a human liver with some potatoes before find...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoScientists can finally explain exactly how and why a cell's defences fail against some invaders, including the plague, while successfully fending off others. A new super-resolution microscopy technique is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Syrian Interior Ministry has denied that a mass grave had been found near the southern city of Deraa, which the army entered last month to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad. 'Reports of...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours agoMay 13, 2011 at 21:37:41 *Creating the bin Laden Reality* *by paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com I have heard one dozen times today (May 13) from media that the US killed Osama Bin Lad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA paedophile maths teacher who repeatedly raped a 16-year-old girl he met at the school where he worked has been jailed for 15 years. Anthony Dockerty, 41, raped one girl, sexually assaulted another 15-yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA crèche owner has been found guilty of giving Valium to children as young as six months at her nursery. Monica Helm, 61, crushed up the pills in water and fed them to the children, causing sleeping and m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHigher levels of radioactive cesium than the national provisional limit were detected in green tea leaves harvested in Daigo and Sakai in northern Ibaraki Prefecture, the prefectural government announced M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA nursery nurse is facing jail after she hit a two-year-old boy over the head with a space hopper, a court heard. Nisha Rani, 22, left the youngster in tears after knocking him to the floor with the bounc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoShoppers fled from a supermarket yesterday after reports that a man armed with a shotgun had entered the store. Police were called at 8.30am to a branch of Tesco in Aston, Birmingham, leading to a five-ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMORRILTON, Ark. - Authorities say a young girl has died and several other people are injured after a building collapsed in central Arkansas. CBS affiliate KTHV Little Rock reports the victim was a 2-year-o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA nursery nurse is facing jail after she hit a two-year-old boy over the head with a space hopper, a court heard. Nisha Rani, 22, left the youngster in tears after knocking him to the floor with the bounc...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoIcebergs are nature's iron fertilizers in the Southern Ocean, nurturing phytoplankton blooms that draw out carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoDeath, according to Hawking, is even more of a drag than we thought.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoCBC: NATO helicopter attack injures 2 Pakistani soldiers The treasonous hijackers of the U.S. government are bloodthirsty madmen.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 13-year-old girl has been dragged into bushes and raped as she walked home from school in Manchester. The girl was attacked between 3.30pm and 4pm on Monday as she was walking through a field in Gorton...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoFor the past five years, Major League Baseball has held an annual "Civil Rights Game," in which the sport congratulates itself on becoming integrated, despite its massive efforts to remain whites-only. At...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe search for the Higgs Boson could be over by the end of 2012.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA Facebook craze could be putting some people in harm's way.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoMost ants in the grip of a deadly fungus spend their last moments on Earth around midday.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 11 hours agoby Duane Craig Vapor Intrusion is coming to Horicon WI Wherever metal is used in manufacturing it has to be cleaned and trichloroethylene (TCE) has long been the cleaner of choice. A former Gardner Manufac...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Right-wing plutocrats switching sides* Friday the *NY Times* published an interesting story by Nicholas Confessore and Michael Barbaro on where some of the big Republican money is going this year. While ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoClick here to watch the BBC investigation of the video in Abbottabad, Pakistan with interviews of locals
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJudges and magistrates are to be told to send burglars to jail in instructions that end a decade of official leniency. Rules for the courts made public today said a criminal who burgled somebody’s home sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn enormous flare which erupted from the remnants of an exploded star in a faraway constellation has left Nasa scientists baffled. Last month, the famous Crab Nebula supernova, first observed in 1731, gave...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Yangtze river, the longest waterway in Asia and China's most important shipping route, has been closed by the worst drought in 50 years that has left cargo ships stranded and 400,000 people without dri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice today released an image of the murdered Ding family celebrating Christmas as they named the man wanted in connection with their murder as the 'most wanted' in Britain. Anxiang Lu, 52, was identifie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSuspect 'sat down to dinner with fiancée just minutes after beating schoolgirl to death in basement' The fiancée of a man accused of raping and strangling a nine-year-old girl has revealed she overheard t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWhen the planet acts in ways that prompt humans to claim “natural disaster,” ecologists calmly point out there are no disasters in nature, only events. Louisiana’s oyster industry is about to be the next e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMeteor likely caused mysterious boom: wavy.com VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Virginia Beach is a city full of sound. Waves crash at the Oceanfront and fighter jets scream overhead. However, a boom Tuesd...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago*El Presidente* Harper bids you welcome to the Republic of Canada. In case you're new to our Republic, here's how it works. Decisions about how the country and our people shall be governed are the excl...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoBrazil has blocked an outspoken indigenous advocate from attending the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where she was set to present her criticism of the controversial Bello Monte Dam h...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoFirst of all, I received my copy of *The Hidden Reality* a few weeks ago - which I was asked to translate to my mother tongue - and it is mostly excellent. Recommended. It covers physics from the viewpo...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 12 hours agoCop Block It’s never been politically correct to criticize religions, but when a religion is just so utterly stupid, it is worthy of regular mention. The religion I have in mind is unbelievably backward...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoOne of the most knowledgeable journalists on all things Afghani is McClatchey Newspaper's Jonathan Landay. He's been running the hills with the Mujaheddin since the Soviet days. Recently, Landay appear...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA low water level in a reactor building at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may have exposed fuel rods and caused them to melt, the owner of the facility said Thursday. Tokyo El...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUS companies sold a record amount of goods and services overseas in March, but a big jump in oil imports pushed the nation's trade deficit higher. The Commerce Department says the trade deficit rose 6pc to...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDebt-hit states on the fringes of the eurozone need "unrelenting" reform efforts to try to prevent the current crisis spreading, the IMF has warned. Greece and the Irish Republic have needed bail-outs, an...
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