- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 minutes ago
Every time I see this guy on TV I think the same thing. When will somebody find a way to drop a water balloon on this guy's head? I so want to see the real face of Donald Trump. - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 51 minutes agoBefore we look at the new Cabinet, the answer to the question on everyone's mind: No, Maxime Bernier *didn't* bring a date to the swearing in. With that out of the way, a look at the new puppets in the St...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 54 minutes agoLong before European explorers ventured across the Pacific Ocean, some of the most adept sailors ever known to history made their way across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean to settle on remote Easter...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
Long before he joined the Bush team that saddled American seniors with Medicare Part D (and the infamous Donut Hole), Tommy Thompson was a relatively popular mainstream conservative governor of Wisconsin.... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoWe're not to blame for it. It's what we do. It's human nature and it's also one of our greatest weaknesses. Anthropologist Jared Diamond uses the term "landscape amnesia" to describe it. Imagine regula...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Hundreds of firefighters continued to battle dozens of wildfires across Alberta on Wednesday, as evacuees from Slave Lake waited to find out whether their homes survived the fire that destroyed much of the... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
In case you haven't noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
I've been asked whether it is safe to eat salmon from Alaska and other West Coast locals. I'm copying below my article on this issue from last month. As journalist Harvey Wasserman noted on a radio progr... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Protests against Spain's economic crisis took a new turn Wednesday as social media networks fueled calls for demonstrators to take to the streets before local elections a few days away. Thousands returne... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Just as the eurozone is being threatened by faltering economies, East Africa is moving closer to its own monetary union. But some are asking if it's ready for a common currency, and in light of Europe's tr... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Over the past several days, quite a few readers have been asking us why we are so confident that QE3 (in some format: it does not and likely will not be in the form of the Large Scale Asset Purchases that ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Get ready. We are now entering the final stages in the collapse of the U.S. dollar, and it's not going to be pretty. The massive increases in money supplies will tank the value of the dollar and erode the... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn average 30-year old who’s eaten three meals a day since birth has consumed more than 30,000 meals to date. Even if you’ve only eaten half that much you have to admit this: you’ve let some of that brea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
President Bill Clinton once described homes as something Americans "will always know that their country wanted them to have because they were entitled to it as part of the American dream". t's how the 42n... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 hours ago
*May 17, 2011* Two Missouri labor professors have been vindicated after a right-wing smear campaign almost cost them their jobs. Last month, the website BigGovernment.com—run by right-wing blogger Andr... - posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoBlimps that project video and audio feeds from a remote boss are capable of overseeing workers.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoI'm posting this on behalf of "The Aged P"...with thanks to him for nailing this one. "Probably much consumption of valium at the Beeb this morning as the ONS reported a 36,000 drop in unemployment, the s...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: The dried up banks of the Yangtze River in southwest China are seen earlier this month. Chinese factories are facing curbs on electricity use as coal prices soar and a severe drought hits hydropo...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoHow close it came: WikiLeaks memo suggests Canada offered to aid Iraq invasion. And how it still goes on: WikiLeaks shows CSIS continues to secretly pass names to US watchlist.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*Ryan & Daniels-- as serious as it gets in GOP-land* Beltway pundits are desperately trying to create a serious contender for the GOP. Most have proven their worth by pushing Trump and Newt into the Ameri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA British tourist called the Islamic prophet Muhammad a terrorist in a heated row with an electronics salesman in a Dubai shopping mall, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Graham, 40, faces spending a year i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoRecent satellite images obtained by Fox News from the aerial imagery company GEOEYE show an expanding nuclear facility at the Khushab facility about 100 miles south of Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad....
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoIn the aftermath of a devastating wildfire that destroyed much of the town of Slave Lake in Canada, an article in the Edmonton Journal invites ridicule by deniers in the comments by making an explicit lin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Image) David Norris (L) and Gary Dobson (R) Two men are to face trial for the murder of London teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago. Gary Dobson and David Norris have been charged with killing the 18-...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 hours ago'OK, Pogge, I'll see you a "Now representing Canada on the world stage" and raise you a "New face of Canadian diplomacy". The man who named his cat "Thatcher" is rumoured to be named today as our new Mi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoWell, has Victoria Derbyshire taken Ken Clarke's scalp following this? I don't recall such a tough approach from her with Labour Minister's during the Golden Years but that said, since I find Clarke a C.I....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoThe second of the three "books on books" on my spring-summer reading list was *Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare*, by James Shapiro. *Contested Will* is not an examination of who wrote Shakespeare's p...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*Click on the chart to enlarge* Looks like that half million dollars Republican Craig Huey spent out of his own pocket may have earned him a spot in the July run-off against front-runner Janice Hahn who w...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoFlame retardant chemicals, some of which are probable carcinogens, turned up in car seats, nursing pillows and more.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSnakes have a viscous way of using their venom.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA fall can be fatal for these spiders, but they have a sticky trick to make sure they land safely.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoMisuse of growth hormones on the melon farms in China is causing a rupture in goods.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoMidweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie - no? Well, tell me why... Click through to read and contribute comments...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoFollowing his whipping in the recent local Council elections and the heavy loss in the AV poll, Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg evidently feels that he must be seen to be more hostile to the Coalition in which h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA couple accused of almost beating their son to death claimed his catalogue of injuries were caused by a 'ghost' in their home. The pair insisted an evil spirit was responsible for the multiple bruises on ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoOne of the more colourful attack lines the BBC is running against the Conservatives is that it is out for "revenge" against the good and kindly Police Federation ! The hilarious accusation that this Govern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUp to 13 prostitutes have been murdered in Long Island and Atlantic City – now police believe two more murders may be connected to the killings, including a mother of three whose dissected body was found i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA uniformed cop shot himself in the head after arguing with his girlfriend who he thought was about to leave him. Officer Philip Chlanda, 29, left his Tribeca station house at 3 am this morning and drove ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIf this stunning image of the Northern Lights looks too good to be true, then that might be because it is... almost. Photographer Stephane Vetter combined six exposures to capture not only two green auror...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTunisia has threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council if it fires on border areas again amid claims rockets were fired by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces. Pressure has been piling on *the Li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne of the biggest questions in science - does 'the God particle' exist? - is likely to be answered by the end of next year, it was claimed yesterday. The Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle, is theore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHe is the charismatic preacher who claims to be Jesus Christ returned to Earth. She, meanwhile, tells followers she is the repentant prostitute Mary Magdalene, the woman who first saw the risen Messiah st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLeaked government papers in Copenhagen show officials want to own areas where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas. The document said D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJailed Amanda Knox appeared in court today to face charges of slandering murder squad detectives who led the investigation into the Meredith Kercher killing. Knox, 23, is accused of slandering seven polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCounty health officials have confirmed that fleas collected from a remote area of Doney Park have tested positive for plague. According to information from the county Health Services District, the area i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOsama Bin Laden has got a replacement - but this man is only a ‘caretaker’ for now. Egyptian veteran militant Saif al-Adel is acting as Al Qaeda's interim operational leader before the expected permanent ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*1.* On 28 April 2011, *Liberation* conducted an interview with Dominique Strauss-Kahn. («Oui, j'aime les femmes, et alors?» - Libération) Strauss-Kahn told *Liberation* that he had strong evidence that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 13-year-old boy was interrogated at his school by Secret Service agents without his mother's permission after posting a message about Osama Bin Laden on Facebook. Following the Al Qaeda leader's death, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRapists will have their jail terms halved if they admit guilt under a proposal condemned last night as ‘bonkers’. Judges say it could mean a convicted sex attacker serving as little as 15 months in prison...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDicing with death around fountains of 1,000C glowing lava wouldn't be everyone's idea of the perfect day. But for daredevil photographer Skarphedinn Thrainsson, teetering around theworld's deadliest volca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn artist's impression of the possible surface temperatures of Gliese 581d. It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581 (right), located around 20 light years from Earth. Cooler temperatures are represent...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoIn 2008, David Mermin gave an Oppenheimer lecture at UC Berkeley which was called "Spooky Action at a Distance?" (PDF form here). It's a nice presentation why there is no "reality" as imagined by Einst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe United States launched an ambitious new plan yesterday to stamp the internet with American values such as freedom of expression. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the new national strategy on...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoA wild camel stands on top of a sand dune in the Simpson Desert, Australia. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images. Photo courtesy: Discovery News Australia boasts the only "wild" camel herds in the world. It started wi...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours agoMay 17, 2011 at 19:08:36 *The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward* *by paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com Dominique Strauss-KahnThe International Monetary Fund's director, Dominique...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 12 hours ago*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *SOME LATE LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT CANADIAN ELECTION:* It's been decades since I voted in any governmental elections (the associations that I belong to don't count). Sti...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *Tunisia* has threatened to statement *Libya* to the UN Security Council if it fires on boundary areas once more amid claims rockets were fired by *Colonel Gad...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] *IMF* chief Dominique *Strauss-Kahn* was placed under a suicide watch in jail, while weight mounted on him to leave Tuesday and the hotel maid who accused him ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours agoChinese 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! - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoIn 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 - 14 hours agoPhoto 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours agoIn 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 - 15 hours agoEuropean 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 - 15 hours agoSix 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 - 15 hours agoBy 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 - 16 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 - 17 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! - 17 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 - 17 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) - 17 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoBBC lauding the prospects of an Independent Scotland - cheerleading for Mr Toad look-a-like Alex Salmond. It slyly claims that Salmond would keep the Queen as Head of State and the Pound Sterling. How kin...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 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 - 21 hours agoCertain dinosaurs may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoRestaurants prefer to seat smaller groups and will even discourage larger parties. But is this practice really to their advantage?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoCertain dinosaurs may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoSatellite tagging of animals can have conservation benefits.
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