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Shocking new figures released today revealed that over the past five years almost 200 rapists have escaped with just a caution. The startling statistics, disclosed by 14 police forces in response to Freed... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 45 seconds ago
America may be facing a second dotcom bubble, according to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. His warning came as shares in professional networking site LinkedIn surged for a second day in New Y... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
The ocean floor shifted sideways by 79 feet in the Japanese earthquake in March - much further than scientists originally predicted. And researchers are warning that immense amounts of seismic stress remai... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
Areas of Britain left bone dry by near-drought conditions were yesterday warned they were experiencing ‘a taste of things to come’. Environment minister Lord Henley said climate change would make parched ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoWorkers were allowed back into the Brevard County Sheriff’s complex this afternoon, hours after 22-people were treated for carbon monoxide exposure. Several employees reported feeling light-headed and were...
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Greece has had its creditworthiness slashed by Fitch, one of the world's top three ratings agencies, in another blow to efforts to get the country's finances back on track. Fitch said that the downgrade ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 38 minutes ago*Pianist-as-conductor Zoltán Kocsis zips his way through the "Scene by the Brook" from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, with an orchestra identified as the Hungarian National Philharmonic. At 9:53 we get to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Masataka Shimizu, center, TEPCO executive Toshio Nishizawa, right, and Vice President Masaru Takei bow during a news conference on its fiscal 2010 earni...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 hours agoHas anybody heard Kelly Swan talk about being a "good neighbor" lately? I thought not. The story is HERE.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Ken* And it's hard to know whether to be more appalled by the people who are or the people who aren't seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. As you shake your head at the notion that anyone co... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoPaul Craig Roberts says that the now decapitated IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been falsely accused of raping a hotel maid in New York and is being denied a fair trial because the mass media in t...
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This post is just a collection of blog postings on the past election, for the sidebar archives. Consider it a place to visit at any point over the next four years when you're feeling nostalgic for daily po... - posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA revision of earthquake risk is in store following tomorrow's day of rapture, but would have been even without the judgment based on new geophysical reports.
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThis week Discovery News readers took on the new internet trend called 'planking." But don't worry, it's not the end of the world!
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 5 hours agoThere is a lot of news coming out of Arkansas today.First came the news that a class action suit was filed by law firm Deal Cooper and Holton of Memphis, Tennessee on behalf of the citizens of Arkansas whose...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. A United Airlines ad across the street from ground zero that read "You're going to like where we land" has been removed after NBC New York reported that some ...
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We've all undertaken home improvements but these residents in flood-stricken Mississippi have had to embark on major construction projects just to protect their houses and livelihoods. These homes in Vick... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the coastal city of Banias, which was stormed by the army this month, witnessed the largest demonstration since the uprising began in southern Syria nine weeks ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by four classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack, according to the victim's mom. The Dallas school distri... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoChina has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday. China a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Supreme Court on Monday gave police more leeway to break into homes or apartments in search of illegal drugs when they suspect the evidence might be destroyed. The justices said officers who smell ma...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNATO jets pounded Libyan ports overnight, destroying eight of Moammar Gadhafi's warships, an alliance spokesman said Friday. NATO targeted the ships in Tripoli, Al-Khums and Sirte after it was apparent t...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 7 hours agoUNDER CONSTRUCTION PLEASE VIEW ON YOUTUBE ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoAccording to a new book, the Roswell incident of 1947 wasn't a crashed flying saucer, it was an elaborate Soviet plot to cause mass panic in the U.S.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoIf the world doesn't end tomorrow, as some claim it will, here's what we can expect.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoContact: Mariel Nanasi 505-469-4060 *Crownpoint Chapter House Installs Solar Power System* 100 Percent of Facility’s Electricity Now Comes from the Sun Press statement Crownpoint, NM – The Crownpoint com...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*-by Noah* Back on April 27th, I wrote a post about how I figured the Repug Party would react to the news that President Obama had released his long form birth certificate. Considering the daily and even...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 7 hours agoThis radio program is a must listen.It exposes the......and the hype.Referenced is a new study by J. David Hughes, a Canadian geoscientist.Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century? ABSTRACT:Natural ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoMay 19, 2011 Special Report *Indigenous Mexico Resists* By Fronte NorteSur From north to south and from east to west, indigenous communities in Mexico are standing up for environmental protection, communit...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 8 hours agoSlide the arrow to 10:24 for the Wit's End call! The Brian Lehrer Show: Judgment Day (May 20, 2011) Lisa Miller, contributor to Newsweek and author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoYa'a'teh, This short video was made during a recent visit to the month-long occupation protecting Sogorea Te, also known as Glen Cove, just outside of the Bay Area in California. There has been work for...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours agoI have had a sick feeling in my stomach ever since President Obama went on television on the evening of May 1, 2011 to tell the whole world the unbelievable lie that Osama Bin Laden died as a result of a r...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours ago15 Minute video breaks down the US-contrived Egyptian uprising. via bobzimmerfan For more information check the Egypt archives. For Arabic see Seeking Reality (العربية)
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoCalifornia Sentencing Reform Should Allow the Time to Fit the Crime: " The revised California budget is out, and sentencing reform is, well, left out. In his revised budget Gov. Jerry Brown recommitted to hi...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoSC Pol Says ‘99%’ of Global Terrorism Comes From Muslims: "Terror is only terror when Muslims are responsible, according to South Carolina state Sen. Michael Fair (R-Greenville), who recently sponsored legis...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoMosque Protester, Police Put Miami Neighborhood On Edge: " At this point in time the Imams are “accused” of material support for terrorism, that doesn’t mean they are guilty, in this country we sill believe...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoDid Murdered Neo-Nazi Jeff Hall Abuse His Son?: "New evidence has emerged in the case of a 10-year-old boy accused of shooting his neo-Nazi father to death, contradicting earlier accounts of a warm and child...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoAccusations of Racism in Peekskill Get Uglier: "A taped customer service training session has led to harsh accusations of racism that city officials say are unfounded and untrue. By Liz Giegerich | Em...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoMaryland Passes Bill Requiring French Train Company to Disclose Its Holocaust History (UK): "Maryland passed legislation Thursday that requires a French rail company, as a condition for receiving a rail cont...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoAcademics may redefine antisemitism: "The union which represents British academics has been accused of 'hurting Jews' by proposing to reject a widely-used definition of antisemitism on the grounds that it st...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 9 hours agoWe found the hack and removed it. The site is back with better security.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoAn Egyptian princess who lived more than 3,500 years ago had the oldest known case of coronary artery disease.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 10 hours agoWhen Jack Layton promised that "*I will create more jobs*" during the campaign, many scoffed at him. Turns out he was right. In addition to their rookie MPs learning the ropes, one significant challenge f...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoSince Mozart's time, piano wires have changed in content -- but very little in quality, research shows.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA gut feeling may help you make a quick decision, but the digestive system could influence behavior as well.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNASA has set a new target date for launch of its 135th and final space shuttle mission: July 8, 2011.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe galaxy is a rare beauty: One half of the Milky Way is essentially the mirror image of the other.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBy now, you've probably heard of the religious group that's predicting the end of the world starts this weekend. Harold Camping and his devoted followers claim a massive earthquake will mark the second co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Workers inspect the status of Water Level Indicator A, in the fuel area at Unit 1, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 10 May 2011. TEPCO] May 19 (Yomiuri Shimbun) – Nearly two months after ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoAnd the greater war against free humanity. by Tony Cartalucci *Bangkok, Thailand May 20, 2011* - As Adolf Hitler noted, "all propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehensio...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThere's plenty of other stuff on this blog about the BBC's unbalanced bias against Israel after the President's speech yesterday, but here's one glaring example of their entrenched anti-Israel attitude. T...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoOn this week's edition of Newswatch: "Alas no BBC exec available". Well, it's such a hassle to go down to the Newswatch studio just to mouth "You're wrong, we're right" in a variety of ways for ten minut...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Roger Stern's estimate of the annual cost to the U.S. military of defending the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. Roger Stern / battleland.blogs.time.com] By Mark Thompson 24 April 2011 … Whi...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 12 hours ago*...zzzZZZ* News* CLICK ~MAIN STREAM NEWS~ The Real News . .
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 12 hours agoby Duane Craig Lead contamination at this firing range in Alaska Shooting ranges are soil contaminators and nowhere is that more evident than in Anchorage, Alaska where an old biathlon range with lead pol...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoWhile Barack Obama looks like a moderate guy in many respects, and his successful execution of Osama bin Laden is a recent example, there are also situations in which he turns out to be a largely uncontrol...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago*Regime Change at the IMF: The Frame-Up of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? * by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, May 19, 2011 *The arrest of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kah...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe 1999 document, entitled "Report on the environment, security and foreign policy", like most that come out of European Parliament, is large and unwieldy, so here is the particular line in question: "T....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoInfrared emissions above the epicenter increased dramatically in the days before the devastating earthquake in Japan, say scientists. Geologists have long puzzled over anecdotal reports of strange atmosphe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 48-year-old Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to two despicable robberies in Center City: an attack on a 93-year-old woman in the elevator of her apartment building, and another attack on a young mothe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe refinement of tyranny and control into a science is the dream to which the 21st century scientific dictator aspires. The study of human nature, psychology and biology aid him in his pursuit. What you w...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*J.P. Morgan was never tried for treason... so no one remembers what he did-- and people still do it* I've been reading Glen Yeadon's book, Nazi Hydra in America and everyday I come across more and more i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt's all about perception management. The media is trying to dig up as much dirt as they can on Dominique Strauss-Kahn so they can hang the man before he ever sees the inside of a courthouse. It reminds me...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIf the signs are to be believed, the end of the world starts on Saturday. About 20,000 billboards have popped up around the globe, including in major Canadian cities, proclaiming May 21 as Judgment Day. "...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt was too disturbed even for Jerry Springer. So when the show rejected an 18-year-old girl who was having a sexual relationship with her father, there was only one person they could turn to - Steve Wilko...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDrinking water is in short supply in parts of eastern China where a months-long drought has reservoirs tapped, state-run media reported. More than 230,000 people -- mostly in rural areas of Jiangxi Provin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Secret US embassy cables released by Wikileaks show nations are racing to "carve up" Arctic resources - oil, gas and even rubies - as the ice retreats.* They suggest that Arctic states, including the US ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAward-winning photojournalist Louie Palu has dedicated much of the past 10 years to covering the war in Afghanistan. His exhibition, The Fighting Season, features imagery gathered during 18 months spent ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTests found that the DNA of some villagers in Liqian, on the fringes of the Gobi Desert in north-western China, was 56 per cent Caucasian in origin. Many of the villagers have blue or green eyes, long n...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Deforestation in Brazilian states, March-April 2009, 2010, and 2011. Data from INPE. Note: Amapa and Tocantins are excluded. An area of Amazon rainforest 10 times the size of Manhattan was cleare...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoHas there ever been a country more enthralled with delusions of individualism than our neighbour to the south? It's where, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary, so many still cling to the im...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours agoNew studies show nonoparticles from air pollution travel through your nose and lodge in your brain. They cause inflammation and brain lesions similar to those found in Alzheimers patients. These lesions are ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago*TSA Radiation - Go to BrasscheckTV.com* *iching64* Uploaded by *iching64* on May 18, 2011 For 100s of uncensored videos go to: http://www.brasschecktv.com Cherchez la Verite
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 13 hours agoPOLITICS/SEX - US investigators going through Osama bin Laden's computer and other materials from his secretive compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, have found Osama bin Laden's secret stash of pornography. ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 13 hours agoBy Charles Moffat - May 20th 2011. RELIGION - According to a cult based in California, Judgement Day is tomorrow (May 21st 2011) and Jesus Christ will return to the Earth and bring about the Apocalypse. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours agoBy YUKA HAYASHI And PHRED DVORAK 18 May 2011 FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan—The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deteriorated in the crucial first 24 hours far more rapidly than previously understood, a *W...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoYou all remember when my border-crossing troubles began: "the gray area": in which i am detained, harassed and threatened at the border. And then continued: border crossing take 2. And so on. The routine -...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoUpcoming Shareholder Resolutions Examine Failures of Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Ultra Petroleum to Disclose Environmental and Investment Risks of Fracking; Urge Transparency and Accountability to Ensure Financ...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoSince we tend to eat the same fish as these marine predators, this is bad news for humans, too.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoIn 2000 Gore took IL-10 with 51%. Four years later Kerry beat George Bush 53-47%. And in 2010 Obama crushed John McCain 61-38%. But each year the Chicagoland North Shore district elected mainstream conser...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 17 hours agoJohn Lithgow does a "dramatic reading" of Newt Gingrich's crazy press release that was intended to fire back at critics. ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 18 hours agoAVA : Investment Analytics The article is by Stathis. To give you an idea of the type of scum running this globalist push to enslave people through further corporatization and policies which empower ban...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMARINE rescuers fear up to 100 pilot whales could strand on South Uist. Around 20 of the animals have injuries to their heads and there are fears that they may strand themselves. Members of the British D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*A MINI-tornado has ripped through the Perth suburb of Canning Vale early today, damaging houses and cars and removing tiles from roofs. * Several houses have lost roofs and at least one house has lost a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJohannesburg - A total of 644 passengers were injured, two critically, when two trains collided in Meadowlands, Soweto on Thursday, Johannesburg paramedics said. "We had a total of two men who were criti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA seven-year-old boy has been caught giving heroin to his class mates at an elementary school. The child was caught with eighteen bags of the drug in his backpack and locker after he apparently took them...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Chinese army have developed a computer game that sees their troops shooting at 'enemy' U.S. forces. Glorious Revolution, which is used as a training tool for People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoUnabomber Theodore Kaczynski is being investigated by the FBI for the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in Chicago. The FBI said they were making a re-examination of the case due to advance...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 135-year-old smallpox scab caused a health scare after government scientists feared the skin may still be highly infectious. The scab, found in the Virginia Historical society archives, was originally u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 135-year-old smallpox scab caused a health scare after government scientists feared the skin may still be highly infectious. The scab, found in the Virginia Historical society archives, was originally u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBefore I post this Article I would like to say, I sure hope it doesn't Because the Grand Prix is on this Sunday.. on a serious Note: This cult has a Estimated 200 million Followers, by Chance if one of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWith freezing blizzards, wildfires and devastating floods, America has suffered enough weather related disaster so far this year to last a lifetime. But in its first storm forecast this year, the National...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt's a frighteningly fast plunge that is sure to leave all but the hardiest of flyers clutching their stomachs. But if plummeting to Earth at a near-vertical angle sounds like your cup of tea, then this o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThousands of children have carried a knife for their own protection in the last year, shock figures revealed today. The youngsters admitted they had a weapons with them - even though they agreed that it m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe atmosphere directly above the fault zone which produced Japan's recent devastating earthquake heated up significantly in the days before the disaster, a study has shown. Before the March 11 earthquake...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Israeli Prime Minister voiced outrage at Barack Obama’s vision of Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 as he headed for talks in Washington DC. Benjamin Netanyahu said the plan, endorsed by the Pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDavid Cameron was accused of rolling out the red carpet for Bahrain’s torturer-in-chief last night after holding talks with the head of the hardline Arab regime. Human rights campaigners condemned the Pri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDominique Strauss-Kahn was today dramatically bailed for $6million under draconian conditions as it emerged he will face a trial for his alleged sex attack on a hotel maid. The former head of the IMF will...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*CIA asset arrested in Karachi? * It looks as if the Pakistan military is cracking down on the CIA. *1.* On 17 May 2011 we learn that, in Karachi, Pakistani security forces have arrested *Muhammad Ali Qasi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA retired couple have been forced to flee their picture postcard village after a series of attacks by a mystery arsonist seemingly intent on taking their lives. The fourth and most recent attack on Peter ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThis is the shocking moment a teenage mother attempts to smother her baby in a hospital. Hidden video cameras caught 18-year-old Shantaniqua Scott place a blanket over her four-month-old son's mouth. Mom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoST. MARYS, Ohio — Water warnings are going up again at Ohio's largest inland lake after another algae outbreak. The state is telling visitors at Grand Lake St. Marys not to swim or wade in the lake becau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTo protect the public from the possible consumption of contaminated shellfish, officials from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department hav...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoLeonard Susskind and Raphael Bousso are creative guys and famous physicists. Both of them are well-known for some papers about holography, too. Of course, the first scientist is still a bit more famous. ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoIt is Friday and time for an Open Thread to take you across the weekend. Please detail your thoughts here on those seemingly endless instances of political bias from the State Broadcaster. Click through ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFiji's Meterological Service says a heavy swell generated by a high pressure system over the Tasman Sea was responsible for a giant wave which reached Sigatoka's highway. A Fiji Rugby team, which witnesse...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoHad to laugh at the interview with the Woodland Trust's Sue Holden on Today this morning (7.42am). Sue was on to spout the usual spiel that we need many more forest, more trees, since this is good for our ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTHE destruction of nature is driving species to extinction - but perhaps not as rapidly as has been thought. While the most widely publicised estimates predict the loss of natural habitat will condemn 18 t...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoI listened aghast to this 5 minute paean to the ritual humiliation of Her Majesty the Queen otherwise known as the Irish State Visit. Royal Correspondent *Peter Hunt* demonstrated a lamentable lack of obje...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoIn a second interview, I appeared on Chinese radio as part of CRI's "Beyond Beijing" to discuss the retirement of NASA's Shuttle Program and the future of space commercialization.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoGiven the hostility shown towards Israel by Obama in his blustering speech yesterday, it was of course entirely predictable that the BBC would get very excited about it. We had Mark Mardell and Jeremy Bowe...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 21 hours agoA Historic Moment: The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History | Rebel News - Dissident News and Analysis *“I have a vision of Americans in their 80’s being wheeled to their offices and factor...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours agoI *confess* that my 2-year-old lost my Visa this week. Seriously, I thought I had at least 10 years before we were having problems with her wanting my credit cards. If I start getting Toys R US charges, I'...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoI caught a documentary tonight about the legendary and recently departed Les Paul, guitarist, inventor and so much more. It reminded me of this tribute by Jeff Beck and Irish singer Imelda May performing...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoEarlier today, I had the honor of being invited on PRI's "The World" radio show with host Lisa Mullins to discuss a combination two of my favorite subjects: space beer!
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf you're the type of person who already reflexively jiggles every card slot and looks for pinhole cameras whenever you go to swipe your card, despair. There is no 100% foolproof way to protect yourself, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:16 UTC Friday 20th May 2011. The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles) East of Tok...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Midge picked up the stack of letters and post-cards and glanced them over. From the pile he sorted out three letters and laid them on the table. The rest he tossed into the waste-basket. Then he picked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of just 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:15:24 UTC Thursday 19th May 2011. The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from WSW Kutahya, Turkey ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Workers examine puddles on the first floor, inside the reactor building of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2, 18 May 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 19 May 2011 40 degrees...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGeorge Soros, the hedge fund investor who called gold "the ultimate bubble", has sold almost his entire holding of the precious metal, leading to fears that the price is about to fall. The investor, famo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNATO aircraft targeted warships overnight, striking eight of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's vessels in Tripoli's seaport, the organization said Friday morning. A Libyan government official said the targ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe European Central Bank has threatened to stop lending to banks using Greek government bonds as collateral if Athens changes the terms of the debt, a move which could bring down the country's banking sys...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThey are trying to steal the minerals from under the Town of Flower Mound.UPDATE to add links to an article about state sponsored theft of minerals and the sneaky things operators do to extend leases.Forced ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*It's a tricky business building an episode around an event focused on one of the three households that make up this "modern family" -- last night it was Alex's middle-school graduation -- since the show ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Indiana Supreme Court ruling that people don't have the right to resist police officers who enter their homes illegally has sparked outrage among some residents and lawmakers, with plans under way for a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Alabama police officer allegedly hospitalized an elderly man who called 911 to report an accident across the street from his house while his wife watched the entire beating from her wheelchair. The Co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused Western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in the Islamic republic, as he inaugurated a dam in a central province. "Western countries...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 1 day agoI don't know how I missed this gem attributed to Freeman Dyson. I don't have much time for books these days, but quotes like this usually find their way into my stream of reading rather quickly. Pithy, and...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Arrival of 'Mega Float' at the Yokohama port, 7 April 2011. The float is made up of huge boxes which now have holes in them to store up to 10,000 tons of contaminated water. TEPCO] BY EISUKE SAS...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoLoophole-Filled Measure a Bid to Dodge Real Public OversightAUSTIN, May 19 -- Today the Texas Senate heard testimony on legislation touted as a national precedent on public disclosure of chemicals used in hy...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSea Shepherd heads to Libya to search for illegal tuna fishers.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlex Jones addresses the latest revelations about the phony document presented by the Obama White House as proof of his eligibility for high office. Author Jerome Corsi has now become the target of Whi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoLast month we were worrying that the always ambitious, always reactionary corporate shill, Ed Case, would get a free ride for the Senate seat he once tried to steal from Dan Akaka, a progressive who is n...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn China's Inner Mongolia, Kangbashi district offers residents "new modern" living, with tree-lined streets, shiny apartment buildings, vast parklands, restaurants and even a motor racing track. But seve...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, but a rise in the four-week moving average to a six-month high indicated the labor market recovery will remain painfully slow. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProsecutors say a New York City woman admitted setting fire to her young daughter during a voodoo ritual by pouring flammable liquid on the girl's head and igniting it, scarring her body. Marie Lauradin ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*On the rare occasion* that New Yorkers talk about farming, it's usually something along the lines of what sort of organic kale to plant in the vanity garden at the second house in the Adirondacks. But on ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor some, it's Judgment Day. For others, it's party time. A loosely organized Christian movement has spread the word around the globe that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday to gather the faith...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussian Interior Ministry troops were fed dog food earlier this year to save money, a former officer in the ministry said on Thursday. A rare whistleblower in Russia's expansive security forces, ex-Major ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHave you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it's a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let 'em take the Sheeple Quiz! A...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople are always talking about the silver/gold ratio—but the copper/gold ratio seems to be much more predictive of market trends. My friend Michael Hampton has this very interesting chart—check it out. T...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*I stated on Jan 1st in Doom is Always 6 Months Away, that I believe that our psychopathic Elite will blame China for the collapse of the dollar. *It did not take long for Donald Trump to float that trial ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHearing something bad about someone unfamiliar could make that person more recognizable.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoNew Hampshire is different from Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine, Indiana, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and Texas. Like them, New Hampshire suddenly finds itself in the grasp of an ideologically extremist-- and dete...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoVirgin Galactic has released a video clip of the latest test flight of SpaceShipTwo, featuring the spacecraft's unique "feathering" technique.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new tool to look at the universe debuted Thursday, with the installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, nicknamed AMS, on the International Space Station.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoShould doctors be allowed to help people commit suicide?
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews* May 19, 2011 *Social networks used to call thousands to protest in Spain* EuroNews: Hoping to repeat the success of Egyptian people power, various groups in Spain have occupied Madrid's...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoIt's somewhat paradoxical that the nuclear forum is taking place in Prague because the Czech Republic effectively rejects the idea of new tests of the nuclear power plants. *Dukovany, the older of the t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoCenk Uygar is right. Corporatism has utterly corrupted American democracy and, as shown by the *Citizens United* decision, the country's top court to boot. The thing many don't understand yet is that th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Baitullah Mehsud. * The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in Abbottabad was called *Waziristan Haveli*. According to a neighbour called Danial: "There was a rumour in the neighbourhood that the man who lived th...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - The Toronto District School Board has approved a $445 million deal to add solar panels to almost every school in Toronto over the next 20 years, at no extra cost to taxpayers. It will be the bigge...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama has called for the creation of a non-militarized Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 Israeli borders. “*At a time when the people of the Middle East and North Africa are casting ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI have always wanted to be in more than one place at once. Wouldn't that be a great superpower? Imagine all of the things you could get done, maybe even part of me could take a nap while the other part cle...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBy following their noses at night, these great-uncles of modern mammals paved the way for their descendants to evolve larger brains.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFederal forecasters predicted another busy hurricane season and warn that residents of U.S. coastal areas shouldn't count on being as lucky as they were last year.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoby Duane Craig Chlorinated solvents such as tetrachlorethylene (PCE) are thought to have contributed to the vapor intrusion of homes in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA London Ambulance Services paramedic suffered a heart attack after accidentally taking overdose of tablets to help her sleep, an inquest found today. Lorna Lambden, 27, was found by her boyfriend on 17 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 'womanising' qualified male nurse staged car crashes to murder his first wife and try to kill his second -as part of a plot to pocket £1 million in insurance payouts. Devious Malcolm Webster, 52, murder...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThese Unexplained Lights were recorded by NBC Cameras on the 17th May around 22:00 O'Clock
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new class of 'lonely planets' floating on their own in space has been found by astronomers. The dark, Jupiter-like worlds are isolated and far from any host star. Scientists believe they may have been e...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Doomsday billboard reads 'Save the Date! Return of Christ May 21, 2011'. WeCanKnow.com / wonkette] Desdemona readers outside of the failing U.S. industrial deathkulture may not be aware of the l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice are hunting for a woman who dumped the body of her newborn baby girl in a Yorkshire rubbish tip. A staff member at Association Waste Management, in Bradford, made the gruesome discovery at the firm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo teenage girls who terrorised an estate leaving one man too scared to turn on his house lights are being taken to the cinema and on canal boat trips to stop them re-offending. Amanda Holt, 16, and Tori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA South Korean man found with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head is likely to have killed himself, according to police. The unidentified 58-year-old taxi driver ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFIREFIGHTERS were last night battling to control a massive fire at a Dandenong South factory that contained about 800,000 litres of flammable lubricants. CFA operations officer Arthur Haynes said the 20 ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAs I said all along, this is really the best solution to the Liberals' search for an interim leader. Rae is an outstanding communicator and will keep the party relevant during the search for a younger, per...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDaily I get more worried hearing that Dreadful term 'Human Rights' it's a cop-out for the stupid, criminals and rich. Why Don't we hear people fighting for the Victims, why is it always the accuser that h...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe latest work on frozen coral embryos and sperm will preserve staghorn coral from the Great Barrier Reef.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWorried about what happens when Rex is left behind after the Rapture? One group is here to help.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA rise in sexually transmitted diseases among teens and young adults could be attributed to social networking websites, a report has suggested. Health experts said a recent spike in STDs in America may be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter stunning railway staff by trying to get his horse on a train, it emerged today that it wasn't the first time its owner had treated him like one of the family. Remarkably he had taken the animal into...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe man who beheaded a British grandmother was released from a mental health hospital in the UK after he was sectioned last summer. Deyan Deyanov was in Britain visiting relatives when he was admitted to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA sick thief who robbed a young woman as she lay dying in the street after plunging 80 feet from the top of a multi storey car was behind bars tonight. Ben Heney, 23, sneaked up to the 22-year-old victim a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWall Street and Big Insurance have poured more cash into Paul Ryan's political career than into any other Wisconsin politician in history. They recognized something in him early on and kept the money roll...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day ago*True Patriot Media* This guy doesn't know when to quit: NEW YORK (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday that if Republicans insist on passage of their budget plan as a condition for a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlbert Einstein was right: Dark energy is constant throughout the universe and causing it to expand.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAnatOnMe projects an image of underlying bone structure, muscle tissue, tendons or nerves onto a patient's skin.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlbert Einstein was right: Dark energy is constant throughout the universe and causing it to expand.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The sub-national map of the Water Stress Index 2011. Water stress is a major issue for the large emerging economies, including India (30) and South Korea (36), which are both categorised as ‘high...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Though his 'presidency' was cut short, JFK had already grown disillusioned by the CIA and the US Military-Industrial Complex. JFKs 'awakening' was among several mo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A farmer on his dried field in Wuhan, China, May 2011. Crops and drinking water have been threatened by a long drought. Getty Images] By EDWARD WONG 16 May 2011 BEIJING — A severe drought along...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in China say they are seeking a man who allegedly threw an egg and shoes at the designer of the country's Great Firewall of web controls. Fang Binxing was lecturing at Wuhan University, Hubei provi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPlease don't feed the animals. Or touch them. Or do anything to keep them from crossing levees to escape rising floodwaters. At a time they are already under stress, deer, bear, turkeys and other animals...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe flood-swollen Mississippi River held at historic levels at Vicksburg early Thursday -- a status it's not expected to relinquish for days. Hitting its expected peak of 57.1 feet hours ahead of the ori...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 840 people were killed and more than 6,000 injured during the Egyptian revolution earlier this year as then-President Hosni Mubarak clung to power through violence and intimidation, Amnesty Inte...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe following series of photo essays are not new, and are from the book entitled "The Hungry Planet" featured by Time Magazine. They are worth posting, however, as rising food prices steadily bring revolut...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThese things usually are. When the West, particularly the Americans, finally leave Afghanistan it's probably going to be messy - for a time. The Western presence in Afghanistan, military and civilian, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*With Sony's PlayStation Network freshly back online, attackers have once again breached the system, this time going for a vulnerability with the system's password reset.* This is getting (more) ridiculou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina has admitted that the Three Gorges Dam has created a range of major problems that need solving quickly. Top leaders say the project has led to environmental problems and issues involving relocating...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn Chile, it was called the *The Brick*. It was the many-thousand page economic manifesto of Dictator Augusto Pinochet, written by "the Chicago Boys" - Chilean exchange students from the University of Chic...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCall it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoTEPCO has just released new photos of the March 11th tsunami hitting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following sequence shows the first tsunami wave approaching the plant, overwhelming the sea...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTouch-screen is handy, but who wants to paw at a TV screen? A new device lets you put your thumb in two places at once.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ AlterNet / *By Nomi Prinz* *Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sits in Prison While the IMF Keeps Ravaging Entire Economies Every Day* *The IMF can do far more damage trashing gl...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day agoQuestion Time comes tonight, unbelievably, from inside HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Built in the 1880s by convict labour (imagine trying that today...*can't do that, it's me uman rites, innit*) - past inmat...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoThis little corner's taken its whacks at the Ford "vision" before, but the saga of the Fort York bridge just underlines it all over again. The context for the discussion is ably set up by cityslikr over at...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoGoodwin Liu was first nominated to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 9, 2010. Today he'll finally be voted on... kind of. What will be voted on is a cloture resolution triggered Tuesday evening...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo Mississippi fishermen have reported hooking manatees in the last week. While both incidents happened in the same area -- around the Katrina Reef near Deer Island, just off the Mississippi coast from O...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDental disease, weight issues and fleas were the most commonly diagnosed conditions for cats and dogs -- or at least those that got to see a vet at all.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA huge fire has engulfed a scrapyard in Newcastle, prompting police to warn nearby residents to close doors and windows. Thick black smoke has been billowing from the site of the blaze in the Byker area...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoCBC, via WikiLeaks : 228182 SECRET 2/10/2009 SECRET OTTAWA 000768 Subject : Visas Viper : The "Toronto 18" as candidates for Visas Viper Program SUMMARY At Embassy Ottawa's monthly Visas Viper meeting on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn aeroplane has skidded off a runway and burst into flames as it took off from an air base injuring three people. The Boeing 707 tanker plane was taking off from Point Mugu Naval Air Station in Southern ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOsama bin Laden recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements shortly before his death, predicting the revolutions would spread across the region. The 12-minute message was released as a v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA health warning has been issued for parts of Lake Rotorua and Lake Rotoiti. The affected areas include the eastern side of Lake Rotorua from Holdens Bay to Ohau Channel and the Okere arm portion of Lake R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Gwinnett County is under a “Rabies Alert” after a two animals believed to be rabit bit a teenager and a 4-year-old boy. The attacks happened at neighboring apartment complexes in Law...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMbombela - A hailstorm has damaged 53 houses in the Hoyi area of Mpumalanga, the provincial government said on Thursday. Some of the houses were totally destroyed in the storm on Tuesday night, the co-ope...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoThe following inspiring video may anger monarchists, but everything stated is fact. The Windsor gangster family are responsible for most of the evils in the modern world. Their crimes go back through their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Image) Sir David Attenborough yesterday said artificially-reconstructed scenes during science shows including Inside The Human Body (pictured) had become a 'big problem' Computer-generated imagery in sci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who allegedly pinned a flight attendant against the wall and tried to open the exit hatch of a plane mid-air was trying to commit suicide, according to prosecutors. The terrifying drama unfolded on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA gunman shot dead his business partner and injured his wife because he thought he had been cut out of a lucrative patent deal, it was claimed today. Ilya Iglanov, 48, called at the house of business asso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA High School principal has been placed on leave after he hypnotised a teenage student who committed suicide the next day. Dr George Kenney was given his orders by school chiefs in Florida as they launche...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mother has reportedly admitted killing her son after the dead boy’s body was found on a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, of Irving, Texas, allegedly told a female trooper: ‘I killed my son. I want to kill m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt has been 15 months since the McStay family vanished without a trace. A carton of eggs on the counter, two bowls of popcorn on the futon and two dogs in the backyard were all they left behind, clues that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the dramatic moment a mother swerves towards her daughter and runs her over after a furious row in a supermarket car park. The 19-year-old was hurled to the floor after her mother deliberately aime...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mother who admitted on national television that she gave her eight-year-old daughter Botox injections may have been lying in a desperate attempt to get publicity. Kerry Campbell caused outrage when she...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron has said that he didn’t believe a full inquest into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly was necessary. The Prime Minister – apparently pre-empting the findings of an official review ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Afghan detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison has died in an apparent suicide. The 37-year-old prisoner, identified only as Inayatullah, was accused of being an Al Qaeda member and housed at the controv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran faced global condemnation today after it defied safety warnings and launched the country's first nuclear power plant. Western countries including the United Kingdom and the U.S. have for years feared...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConfusion after Vice President Biden landed in Chicago on Monday almost resulted in a collision between two passenger planes just above the tarmac at O’Hare International Airport, according to fed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSolar storms could have 'devastating effects' on human technology when they hit a peak in two years' time, a leading scientist has warned. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assistant sec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA three-year-old boy drowned after falling through a manhole and into an underground tank of used cooking oil. Jordy Marmolejo fell into the tank used to store waste oil as he played behind his father's f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTanks bombarded a Syrian border town for the fourth day on Wednesday in a military campaign to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad, under mounting Western pressure to stop his violent repressi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe uncle of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death appeared in court today accused of his murder. Jordan Cooper was found in a house in Newriggs in the Fatfield area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe emergency services launched a major incident operation after a man was blown up in his car today. The 58-year-old died after the blast on Old Cemetery Lane, Hartlepool, Teesside, blew the roof off his...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoCharlie Haden, an obscure jazz bassist whose hero is the muderous thug Che Guevara - to the extent that he has written whole albums in praise of him - is not widely known outside jazz circles. No matter, h...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoLEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE. LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE BACK and LEFT SIDE OF 'OSAMA' HOUSE. In April 2011, the US military reportedly made a full scale replica of the 'Ob...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoJapan's economy, sputtering since the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, has fallen into recession, according to government figures released Thursday. The country's gross domestic produc...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: State food insecurity rates for U.S. seniors, 2001-2007. U.S. map containing the geographical distribution of food insecurity across states, where food insecurity rates are broken into four categ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago* Paul Stewart as Tommy Haley with Kirk Douglas as Midge in the 1949 film version of Champion * *"I don't need no contrac'. He knows it was me that drug him out o' the gutter and he ain't goin' to turn me d...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoI was out shopping for groceries the other day with a friend of mine who has been living in Beijing for over a decade. We stopped by the fruit section, and I automatically gravitated to the bright red ap...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Aerial view of homes destroyed by a wildfire in the town of Slave Lake, Alberta. 17 May 2011. Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal] By Scott Haggett and Jeffrey Jones; editing by Rob Wilson...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles. Edward Smith, who lives with his current "girlfriend" – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, ins...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days ago*( I finally figured out a way to rescue my lost post from last week so sorry for the repeat post in your reader.)* I take my camera everywhere. It is both a good and bad habit of mine. Good because I have...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA super-civilization might build black holes for numerous mega-engineering projects. Interstellar travel and colonization would be a natural spinoff.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoThe obvious answer is because it doesn’t matter. Those pushing for cuts in Social Security and the other big items on the right’s agenda can get the basic facts about Social Security, the budget and the ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 days ago“Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Authoritarian globalism, not terrorism...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoFour white Philadelphia teachers filed federal race-bias lawsuits that accuse a black principal of creating a hostile work environment and suggesting they were unfit to teach black children. The teachers...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago*At a New York screening of the new HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that not only is our financial system not too large to go bust—but we’re...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA Basking Ridge homeowner would really like to know why there’s a crater in her front yard. “To me it looked like something blew out of the ground because the grass was folded back, the rocks and dirt we...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe U.S. Postal Service will begin to default on its financial obligations just over four months from now unless Congress takes action to relieve it of its obligation to pre-fund retiree health care accoun...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's principal intelligence agency, routinely transmits to U.S. authorities the names and personal details of Canadian citizens who are suspected of, but not...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoChina has blocked the release of a UN report accusing North Korea of sharing ballistic missile technology with Iran in violation of sanctions. China's UN ambassador said that Beijing was "still studying t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoMatt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone writer who labeled Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in one of the defining stories of the financial collapse, has written another article on the Wall Street firm. This one ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThere are certain times in life when a man is faced with overwhelming adversity… times when he has no reason to adhere to society’s norms anymore. It is in these instances that the true quality of his char...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 days agoFor those who thought the new Stephen Harper, free from the shackles of minority government, would be any different from the old Stephen Harper, think again: *Harper appoints three defeated candidates to...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoBad news for college students: Drinking in excess, defined as roughly five drinks for men and four for women, could affect the ability to learn.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoMayor Bloomberg wants to extend the reach of technology throughout his city to engage, serve and connects New Yorkers.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoA provocative new book alleges that the Apostle Paul authored only a fraction of letters attributed to him and the Apostle Peter just wrote nothing.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as “adult babies” are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments - after one of t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*Two of Congress' most corrupt members* A few days ago we looked at a quote by President Franklin Roosevelt: “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 days agoSyria, Libya, and beyond, Globalists prepare for second phase. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 18, 2011 - While the "easier" nations of Tunisia and Egypt were picked apart by foreign-funded color...
- posted by Lorene at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days agoHave you ever used a computer tutorial that not only told but *showed *(using pictures) exactly what to click and how to do everything? Or seen a giveaway winner announced where they showed the number gene...
- posted by Laban at Biased BBC - 2 days agoBBC news journalism to a very large extent relies on reporting stories that fit an existing left-liberal narrative and ignoring stories which challenge this narrative - the classic example being the enormo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoJust days after a young man died in Australia during a 'planking' prank, a second man is fighting for his life after seriously injuring himself during the internet craze. Simon Hallam, a plasterer from th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoStargazers around the world are helping scientists to try and detect signals from an advanced civilisation on another planet. In February, Nasa announced that its Kepler space telescope had identified 1,2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThis is the moment a man lunges at police with a two-foot machete - as more than 30 officers try and detain him. The images shows a pot-bellied man in a distinctive floral shirt viciously swinging the hug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA man has claimed that the Predator obsessed killer who beheaded a grandmother in Tenerife tried to kill him as well. Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov is said to have hit security guard Fermin Suarez Perez, 45, ov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago[image: Link]Hanging precariously outside a seventh-storey window, this is the dramatic moment a bride-to-be was saved from falling to the ground below. The desperate woman had clambered out on to the win...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA teenager who plunged 30ft to his death from a balcony may have been trying to recreate an acrobatic stunt from Britain's Got Talent. Christopher Hughes, 17, tried to perform a handstand on the railing of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(Image) Ms Elisabeth Tercero visiting the grave of her son, Mr Luis Picado, who died after a kidney operation. Mr Luis Picado's mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA convicted child kidnapper has admitted he was responsible for the disappearance of a 20-year-old woman in 1992, police revealed today. Larry DeWayne Hall has confessed he snatched Laurie Depies from the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA double murderer shouted out 'I love you' to his daughter seconds before he was executed for a crime he says he can't remember committing. Ohio man Daniel Lee Bedford, 63, confessed to shooting ex-girlfr...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWho needs a solar system? Research shows solitary planets may be more common in the universe.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIan Thomas Ash and cameraman Colin O'Neill venture inside the Fukushima 30 kilometer radiation exclusion zone to understand the radiation danger facing local children.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 days agoOne quarter of the Superfund sites in New Mexico are related to mining and near Grants, New Mexico, there are 97 old uranium mining sites that make up two Superfund sites. Together these mines produced mor...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days agoEvery 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days agoLong 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 - 2 days 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 days agoHundreds 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 days agoIn 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 days agoI'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 days agoProtests 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 days agoJust 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 days agoOver 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 days agoGet 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 days 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 days agoPresident 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 days 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 - 2 days agoBlimps that project video and audio feeds from a remote boss are capable of overseeing workers.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoSnakes have a viscous way of using their venom.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoMisuse of growth hormones on the melon farms in China is causing a rupture in goods.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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! - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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...
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