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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 minutes 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 - 5 minutes ago
Click here to watch the BBC investigation of the video in Abbottabad, Pakistan with interviews of locals - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
Judges 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 - 6 minutes ago
An 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 - 6 minutes ago
The 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 - 6 minutes ago
Police 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 - 6 minutes ago
Suspect '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 - 6 minutes ago
When 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 - 6 minutes 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 - 20 minutes 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 - 31 minutes ago
Brazil 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 - 41 minutes 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 - 41 minutes 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 - 46 minutes ago
One 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour ago
US 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 - 1 hour ago
Debt-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... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA near-record crest is forecast in Greenville, Mississippi, Tuesday as the bloated Mississippi River makes its relentless march toward the Gulf. By the weekend, flood waters are expected to peak at reco...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) annual rate of inflation rose to 4.5% in April, up from 4% in March. The rise was due to a jump in transport costs, particularly Easter rises in air and sea fares, and ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A new report from the B.C. government is warning builders and developers to plan for a one metre rise in the sea level within the next 90 years. The report, Climate Change Adaption Guidelines for Sea Dike... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA United Nations report released on Tuesday projects that world population, instead of stabilizing at above 9 billion by 2050, will keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by 2100. The population of Africa...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA year ago this month, an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Horizon oil platform cost the lives of 11 men. It also caused the largest marine oil spill in history and wrought havoc on the southe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Food Rights Network (FRN), a nonprofit research group, recently issued a press release explaining the test results from a study of San Francisco's free "organic biosolids compost".These independent tes...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoProvincial officials are assessing the Manitoba flood situation hour by hour, trying to determine if and when to breach a dike along the Assiniboine River and intentionally inundate about 150 properties. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSomewhere, John Kerry is gesturing for an aide to bring him three Advils and a Bushmill’s chaser. Just after the Massachusetts senator cajoled the Pakistanis into returning the remains of the stealth helic...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*The Jir Project Band Wins the North American Indigenous Image Award (NAIIA) for Outstanding Blues/Jazz Album* *Press release date: May 17th 2011* Sometimes music can shed some light on our roots. With “S...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoArnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child more than 10 years ago outside of his marriage to Maria Shriver, a source close to the former California governor confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. The revelation, publ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours ago*Charles Dickens' letter opener. The handle is the preserved paw of one of his beloved cats* I can think of few things sadder, scarier, and stupider than public libraries being destroyed by government "au...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoRabbi Convicted of Molesting Soldier on Plane, What if he were Muslim?: " Rabbi Gavriel Bidany was convicted last week of a fondling 23-year-old Israeli soldier sleeping in the seat next to his on a transat...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A graduate student examines coral off the coast of Guam for American University marine ecologist Kiho Kim's research. Nitrogen pollution in our coastal ecosystems, the result of widespread use of...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoShortly after the 2008 election, Stephen Harper caught everyone off guard with his plan to kill the per-vote subsidy political parties get. The backlash was intense, and this was seen as part of Stephen Ha...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoOne of the more odious aspects of the era ushered in by Steve Harper and Mike Ignatieff was the wholesale embrace of Israel over the Palestinians in Canadian foreign policy. Ignatieff seemed to go so far...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agoLong Walk 3 northern route in HoChunk, photo 1, and Lac Du Flambeau, Wisconsin, photos 2--4. Photos, thanks to LW3. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Recall Arizona … from the 19th Century.* ** *Column of the Americas* *May 17, 2011* *By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez* *Published at Censored News* The dictionary definition of insanity should be changed t...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoWant to plant a tree in the afterlife? A biodegradable urn that doubles as a seed-starter kit makes it easy to take that green thumb with you to the grave.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoDon't let your GPS lead you along. It might not know where you're going either.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoFrom 1885 to 1958 it always cost between two and three cents to mail a letter. That's right, for millions of Americans alive today, born in the 40's and 50's the price of a postage stamp was steady at thr...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoWhile it is impossible to predict the future, experts say that population changes tend to follow patterns.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPresident Barack Obama's approval rating has slipped to 48 per cent - ending the so called 'Osama bounce'. The President had enjoyed a near record high of 51 per cent in the days following the death of Os...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Image) Not taking things too seriously... yet: This Wall Street trader found time for a laugh this morning, despite the U.S. hitting its borrowing ceiling today. The Obama administration will tap Federal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA typical FTSE 100 executive enjoys a pay package of £3.75million – 145 times more than their workers receive, a report reveals today. The High Pay Commission goes on to criticise fat-cat bosses for their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDominique Strauss-Kahn has swapped the luxury of top hotels for New York's notorious Rikers Island prison after he was remanded in custody. The IMF chief, who was denied bail on Monday, was dispatched to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChina on Tuesday played down a United Nations report that pointed to it as a trans-shipment point for banned missile technology and other illicit trade between North Korea and Iran. The report, obtained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoUNITED NATIONS - North Korea remains “actively engaged” in exporting ballistic missiles, components and technology to numerous customers in the Middle East and South Asia in violation of United Nations sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAfter much hand-wringing, the Japanese government finally created a mandatory evacuation zone around the radiation-spewing Fukushima plant. Humans should be safe be now. But the same can’t be said of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Department of Fisheries says a strong Leeuwin Current is causing an unusual species of fish to wash up on Albany's shores. Dozens of oceanic sunfish have been found dead on Goode Beach and at Frenchm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAlert level 1 remains at Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon after state volcanologists noted a significant rise in seismic activity in the area, recording 144 volcanic quakes there in the last 24 hours. The Phil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNew York Police Department have red-faces after a member of the public discovered anti-terrorism plans... in a dustbin. Bucky Turco found the eight-page document, from NYPD's Chemical Ordinance, Biologica...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt was the heart-rending story of two parents' battle to help their young girls survive in a world where even the slightest exposure to germs could kill them. ABC reality show 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis is the shocking video of a 10-year-old boy being mown down by a hit-and-run driver as his family and siblings watched in horror. Eric Aguilar, who miraculously survived the impact almost unscathed, wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice are appealing for help to identify a boy, aged between four and six years old, whose body was discovered along a remote road. The body of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired youngster was discovered by a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 32-year-old has been charged with killing his best friend and room mate of 20 years after his dismembered body, various body parts and a chainsaw were found outside the house they shared together. Noe G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 'committed' paedophile who began downloading 250,000 child porn images from public library computers a day after being released from prison was today jailed indefinitely. Gary Salt, 49, had previously b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAfter decades with a single-child policy, residents of Shanghai are now resigned to the fact that the strict control will also be applied to their pets. Keeping dogs was banned under the rule of late Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British mother who admitted on American TV that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections has had the child taken away by social workers. Britney Campbell was removed from the care of her mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice revealed Deyanov was already on bail for another violent attack and described him as a Danger to the Public 3 Months ago!! The man who beheaded a British grandmother in Tenerife is the son of a mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British Airways pilot wept yesterday as he apologised to relatives of his wealthy wife for battering her to death in a frenzied attack which he claims he cannot remember. Robert Brown, 47, slumped over ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHome Secretary Theresa May was today accused of doing nothing to deal with a 'glaring loophole' which endangers children in the Government's proposed changes to the child safety vetting scheme. Under the ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago* Bashir* Mohammad Bashir lives in front of the house in Abbottabad, where Osama bin Laden *allegedly* lived. According to a Pakistan news report (Veterans Today): Mohammad Bashir was on his rooftop w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEndeavour’s commander urged America to continue to ‘reach for the stars’ today as he led the orbiter on its 25th and final journey into space. U.S. Navy Captain Mark Kelly and his five crew blasted off fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe near-drought that has created dustbowl conditions in parts of Britain is expected to stretch into June and crop failures look set to drive up the price of food. The Met Office forecasts a fortnight of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHundreds of species are facing extinction across Europe in a 'crisis of biodiversity'. According to the EU's Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik, animals such as the Iberian lynx, the Mediterranean mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe world's first satellite the size of a loaf of bread is to explore the final frontier with one task: to hunt down extra terrestrial life. The nano-satellite will launch next year with a sole purpose of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA second 'viable' explosive device has been found in Dublin, ahead of the Queen's historic visit there today. The device, found at a tram stop in Inchicore, Dublin, was made safe by the Irish army. It f...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoI have a message from the boss to all the world financiers and politicians who read TRF. The International Monetary Fund has relocated its headquarters to a neat island in New York: *See more videos abo...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoJester brings us some news from Rome that became the Mecca of the Fermi collaboration. Once again, Fermi didn't disappoint and its new findings could have implications for the "Is Dark Matter Seen" war. I...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFirst there was baby "Facebook" and now this: An Israeli couple has named their kid "Like." Let the Valley Girl jokes ensue. The Israeli news source Galgalatz reports that Lior and Vardit Adler are the ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*"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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoThe 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 - 14 hours agoThe 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 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...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 16 hours ago*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! - 18 hours agoAs 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 - 19 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 - 19 hours agoEric 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 - 19 hours agoIt 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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! - 20 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 ...
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- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoMarine protected areas are good. Big marine reserves are better.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe X-Prize Foundation and Qualcomm have teamed up to design a handheld medical analysis device.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoFinding success stories in marine conservation isn't always easy, but they are out there.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 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 - 21 hours agoYoung scientists receive awards in international competition.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoWhat's your earliest memory? Chances are, it's unlikely you'll bring back memories from before age three.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWhen it comes to diluting fossil fuel with bio-alternatives, some biofuel crops are as black as coal.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe shuttle is delivering a potent physics experiment to probe the origins of the universe.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoPersistent, low-intensity noise from humans cause serious stress to fish, research shows.
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoProsecution appeals Demjanjuk verdict: "German prosecutors are appealing John Demjanjuk's sentence."
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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