- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 26 minutes agoAmong many other things, Brian Greene's new book, *The Hidden Reality*, shows very clearly that the author is kind of obsessed, to put it mildly, with Hugh Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago
A bomb has exploded in the centre of Northern Ireland's second largest city but nobody was injured after the area was evacuated. Three masked men carrying the device had burst into a branch of the Santan... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
A convicted terrorist banned from Britain for being a risk to national security has been stopped by the courts from being deported. The Muslim man, who cannot be named, was found guilty of terrorism in T... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago
FEARS for a pod of trapped whales grew last night when they swam out to sea - only to return hours later. One was found dead and experts believe all 60 mammals could be killed if they follow the lead wha... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoFamilies out enjoying the sunshine at Mississauga’s Jack Darling Park on Saturday were in for an unpleasant surprise: dozens of dead fish were spotted in the water and on the shoreline. Bhargavi Patel, wh...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 hour agoRELIGION - If you were one of thousands of people expecting the Rapture today, as predicted by Harold Camping to happen May 21st 2011 at 6 PM, you were sorely disappointed. There was no rapture, no earthqu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
Doomsday prophet and Family Radio President Harold Camping has gone missing ever since it became clear that his May 21, 2011 End of the World prediction is not going to come true. However, a bigger questio... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A special train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-il headed southwest Saturday after passing through this industrial city, raising speculation that he may have a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jinta... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
North Sudan's army appears to have gained control of the main town in Sudan's disputed Abyei region after fierce fighting with the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), UN and rebel sources said. UN off... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Former U.S. President George W. Bush racked up at least $15 million by delivering nearly 140 paid speeches since leaving office in Jan. 2009, according to reports. Bush spokesman David Sherzer told local ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*Last night we saw and heard Zoltán Kocsis (better known to most of us as a pianist) conduct this orchestra identified as the Hungarian National Philharmonic in the second-movement "Scene by the Brook" fr...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoI really sick of this! I want the EPA to take over all environmental regulation in Texas. The TCEQ changed the results of water testing when the test were above EPA limits for radiation. LINK
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 4 hours ago*Variation On The Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood* **I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its sm...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
If one checks on stories dealing with Venezuela, the most prominent item concerns an autographed guitar by the Colombian singer Shakira. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman, claims that the guitar was de... - posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 5 hours ago
All this talk about the world ending just made me roll my eyes. Seriously. It's now 10:39 p.m. and we are all still here. :). Ran in my 2nd 5K of the summer today! Kurt was supposed to go with me, but s... - posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 6 hours agoKeep these 13 companies in mind --- and their ZIONIST links 13 companies with the worst record for supporting Israel’s policies: 1) General Electric 2) CATerpillar 3) The Home Depot 4) The Limited 5) Starbu...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe active Grimsvoetn volcano began erupting Saturday, spewing a 20 kilometer-high column of smoke.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 7 hours ago
The Star doesn't always get it right, but this time it's taken a centring pass in the slot and buried it in the top corner. When the provincial Special Investigations Unit threw in the towel and said it c... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
* Although this, er, "story" was a "gimme" for the cartooning community, thank you, Pat B! * [T]he rules of sovereign democratic government and global finance have mutated beyond recognition. Today when ba... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIn a few hours May 21, 2011 6 p.m., the appointed time for Doomsday, will have passed, irrespective of whichever time zone we are in, thereby proving that the prediction made by Harold Camping is false. No...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Smoke rises in the air as wildfire in Coke County, Texas, burns on Monday afternoon, 18 April 2011. The Abilene Reporter-News / Tommy Metthe] By Jerry Lackey 21 May 2011 Weather disasters across...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoWatch this beautiful video by ViolatoR called Blue Birds Fly. Blue Birds Fly from ViolatoR on Vimeo.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: The official TEPCO map of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour, 20 May 2011. TEPCO / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com] The official TEPCO map of radioact...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe May 21st doomsday prophecy by Harold Camping, the man who should be ashamed of himself for bilking hundreds of thousands of people out of their money (and faith), has amounted to absolutely nothing. W...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA lingering drought in Central China's Hubei province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, said the local water authority Monday. Known as the "land of a th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFrance has imposed limits on water consumption in 28 of its 96 administrative departments, the environment ministry said Monday, amid signs that a prolonged dry spell that has hit grain crops would conti...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agot is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretching north from the capital, Ulan Bator, an endless succession of dilapidated boundary markers criss-cross away into the dista...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe produce lobby is livid that consumers might be concerned about pesticides. They are taking their fury out on the USDA for its annual report on pesticide use (via *The Washington Post*): In a recent l...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoConservationists desperately want to minimize the impact of overfishing on the oceans and their inhabitants. Doing so requires defining which species are most at risk, and so far, that has not been done on...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoImagine a scenario where tens of millions of Americans are condemned by their own illusions to hours of hot, sweaty, grueling unpaid labor every week involving expensive and potentially dangerous chemicals...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDeforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has increased almost sixfold, new data suggests. Satellite images show deforestation increased from 103 sq km in March and April 2010 to 593 sq km (229 sq...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe great Mississippi River flood of 2011, cresting south of Memphis today, carries a mix of fertilizer, oil, pesticides, trash and farm runoff as it flows toward the Gulf of Mexico, say public health of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe acidification of the world's oceans could have major consequences for the marine environment. New research shows that coccoliths, which are an important part of the marine environment, dissolve when se...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEgypt is running out of food, and, more gradually, running out of money with which to buy it. The most populous country in the Arab world shows all the symptoms of national bankruptcy - the kind that produ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 19.8 km (12.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:01 UTC Saturday 21st May 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) *L'Esperanc...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Satellite view of Slave Lake fire and many others in Alberta, Canada. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn a few hours May 21, 2011 6 p.m., the appointed time for Doomsday, will have passed, irrespective of whichever time zone we are in, thereby proving that the prediction made by Harold Camping is false. No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt is now confirmed that an eruption has started in Grímsvötn in Vatnajökull Glacier. The smoke from the eruption can be seen from many places in south Iceland according to RÚV television. Geologists have...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoAs you probably know, Blue America has been more active in House races than in gubernatorial or even Senate races. And we've never found *any*presidential candidate worthy of asking our donors to contribut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld a decision to send a man to prison for life after he was convicted of throwing a boy off a parking ramp when he was 14 years old. Omer Ninham, now 27, had appealed h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Texas man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend after she was allegedly dragged behind his car by a rope around her neck. Theron Wayne Johnson is alleged to have sped off after his girlfrien...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA desperate hunt is underway for a six-year-old boy who went missing after his mother committed suicide. Timmothy Pitzen, from Aurora, Illinois, has not been seen for a week after he and his mother left f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJose Guerena, 26,survived two tours of duty in Iraq as a marine, only to be gunned down in a hail of 71 bullets in his own Tucson, Arizona home, while his wife and four-year old son hid in a nearby closet....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago[image: Link]An Ohio woman convicted of killing her month-old baby daughter in a microwave oven was spared the death penalty and sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Montgomery County Commo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn 11-year-old girl became pregnant after allegedly being raped in a YMCA sauna by a day camp counsellor who had been supervising her. The girl, who went on to give birth to the child, also contracted a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn order by the Spanish government banning protests after midnight last night was held up to ridicule when tens of thousands of demonstrators continued protesting after the curfew supposedly kicked in. Y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNasa has ordered Endeavour's crew to take a close look at a damaged tile on the space shuttle's delicate heat shield this morning. Using a robotic arm, astronauts are now scrutinising a gouge on the shutt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes paedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss. The orde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThere has been an explosion on a shopping street in Northern Ireland, police said. It happened at Shipquay Street, Londonderry, this afternoon. The area was evacuated at the time and there are no reported...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoOsama Bin Laden's replacement as leader of Al-Qaeda is planning a major terrorist attack on London, ordering his followers to 'crush' the city. Soon after being officially appointed caretaker chief of the ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agoimage source I love apocalypse talk. Seriously. It cracks me up how serious people take it. Well, according to Evangelist Harold Camping, this is it. Today at 5:59 Eastern, those chosen by God will ascend...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago*Blogger's Note*. Back in February, I was one of 175 concerned friends of Bernie Ellis to write to President Obama a letter supporting Bernie's request for a pardon of his "crime" of growing about 100 cann...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoWith two Italian astronauts in orbit and the shuttle program winding down, the Pope Benedict took note and spoke with the shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews on Saturday.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants in northwest Pakistan blew up a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Saturday, and a secondary explosion killed 15 people as a group gathered to try to sipho...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Domestic nightmare: Pictures still hang from the walls, but the rest of this house within the Fukushima exclusion zone has been reduced to rubble, 12 April 2011. Getty Images / dailymail.co.uk] ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 15 hours ago*Center For A Stateless Society* [image: Photobucket] by David D'Amato A couple weeks ago in *The Guardian*, Ellie Mae O’Hagan very thoughtfully bewailed the mainstream media’s treatment of anarchists. “T...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoThey gathered in Stockholm this week for the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability. Their report, the Stockholm Memorandum, is an urgent call to action that will almost certainly be igno...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoNo signs of any rapture in New Jersey this morning yet. In fact at 11am (PT; 2pm in NJ) Ed Potosnak, Blue America-endorsed candidate for the Congressional seat currently being held by healthcare hypocrite...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 15 hours ago6 pm has come and gone to those living on the international timeline and beyond, and the cataclysmic waves of earthquakes, floods and planetary destruction have yet to materialize. I’m glad, not in an “I t...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 16 hours agoDallas should use Corinth and Flower Mound as models for setting up their gas drilling task forces not Bartonville or Fort Worth. Corinth and Flower Mound municipalities now have some of the most protective ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNewly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency’s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe fact that people in Spain are chanting about wanting to be more like Iceland emphasizes something profound that's happening all around the world. At all levels, people are talking about now wanting t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoU.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton) says America might have to default on its bills for the first time ever because Democrats and Republicans can’t agree to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLibyan officials sounded alarm Saturday over NATO bombings of three ports which they said would trigger a crisis by limiting the movement of supply ships carrying critical supplies in and out of the war-to...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA senior official at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says solar storms pose a growing threat to criticial infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation systems and e...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSpanish youths on Saturday protested across the country for a seventh day over the economic crisis, in defiance of a 48-hour ban ahead of local elections. Thousands of people crammed into the center of Ma...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drug-resistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hos...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight limits for new patients. Some of the doctors said the main reason was their exam tables or other equi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFollowing in the footsteps of a rather ignominious list of nations like Argentina and Hungary, the government of lreland is set to take its ‘fair share’ of private retirement funds. Drowning in debt and ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agohe Fluoride Deception is the latest mini documentary from Mike Adams, executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center. Through the use of animation and motion graphics, it exposes the truth about wher...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours agoIt's hard to believe that literally millions of inhabitants of the New York City could have survived decades without a decent restaurant. Food has been nearly unavailable - unless you count the third-world...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 17 hours agoBy now you should know how we feel about HB 3328 the Texas disclosure bill that doesn't disclose. However, if you slept through the past few months, you can get caught up HERE, HERE, where we listed the amen...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoRadical charged in 'South Park' case: "Federal authorities are using words uttered by the co-founder of a radical Islamic group to charge him with threats against the creators of 'South Park.' Keeping i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours agoIt's becoming dirtier and more dangerous to be rich in Britain. At least that's the conclusion in *Bankrupt Britain, An Atlas of Social Change,* due to be released soon. *Levels of crime, pollution and a...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 17 hours agoThe Republicans on the US House Energy and Commerce Committee have drafted a "North American-Made Energy Security Act" - legislation which would ensure swift approval of the proposed $7-billion 2,000-mil...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoBlast hits U.S. vehicles in Pakistan: "A car bomb targeted U.S. Consulate vehicles in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, police said. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoGadhafi forces claim biggest attack yet: "Moammar Gadhafi's forces have been using the naval vessels to launch attacks on civilians and to lay mines aimed at hampering humanitarian aid, NATO says. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoFarrakhan aide released in Guyana: "A top Nation of Islam official was arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism and is being held in a Georgetown detention center, police said. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoTaliban claim deadly suicide bombing at Afghan hospital: "A suicide bombing at a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed six people and wounded 26, a ministry of defense spokesman said. The Taliban s...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoTim LaHaye Against “Trivializing” Bible Prophecy: " Stern words from Tim LaHaye: The Rev. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the “Left Behind” series of Christian prophecy novels, said [Harold] Camping “trivializes t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoMEDIA COMPLICIT IN RISE OF XENOPHOBIA (Europe): "As European leaders increasingly question the concept of Europe without borders and follow each other in announcing the end of multiculturalism, the media res...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoFacebook pages of Czech MP and mayor spreading racism: "The Facebook page of Czech MP Jiří Šulc (Civic Democrats - ODS) features photographs next to a text calling for Czech Roma people to be resettled in Ha...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoHungarian Nazi war crime trial resumes: "The trial of Hungarian Nazi war crime suspect Sandor Kepiro resumed on Thursday after physical and mental health checks showed the 97-year-old was fit enough to atten...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours ago*The Guardian* has published a series of photographs of the tsunami inundating Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant. Here are four of them showing just what occurred inside the plant: It's prett...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoEither God gave Australia and New Zealand a pass or Christian doomsday seer Harold Camping is just another windy bag of shit. Camping prophesied that "the end" would arrive today at 6 p.m. according to wh...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 18 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - Randall Mario Poffo, aka Randy Savage, aka the Macho Man, the legendary professional wrestler known for his deep raspy voice, sunglasses and bandannas, has died in a car accident earlier ye...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoElectrodes implanted in man's body stimulated his spinal cord's neural network to help him take his first steps in four years.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoResearchers manipulate DNA strands to solve computational problems.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoDeranged right-wing gun shill and ex-rocker Ted Nugent was on CNN with Piers Morgan the other night to rant and rave about how much he hates President Obama: "Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dea...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 19 hours agoBeing as how this afternoon oldest daughter is to be married, rather than dwell on ecosystem collapse and mass extinction, I will instead share some poems. I found them - with torn edges, printed on old ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoPerception management & US-funded unrest used to justify regime change. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 21, 2011 - After admittedly organizing, training, funding, and equipping the very mobs lit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSaturday morning thunderstorm left over 30 people dead in west and central parts of Uttar Pradesh. The storm lashed many parts of UP including Noida, Ghaziabad, Shahjahanpur, Badayun, Meerut, Bulandshahr, ...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoRegular readers of this blog will know that David Preiser, DB and myself (in the comments) have had our purely metaphorical cross hairs trained on Katie Connolly - the lead reporter at BBC Online's Washing...
- *Much a-do about Desktops these days... * Last week I spent my spare-time investigating the Linux desktop situation, some new distros and *Linux Mint Debian*. The latter I assume to become a 'replacement'...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* Kissinger does not want India and Pakistan to be friends? * What are Henry Kissinger's plans for Pakistan, India, Russia and China? How can they all be made weaker, to the advantage of the USA? How about...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoOne species of ladybug. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia I have to admit that ladybugs had me twisted around their antennae from the moment I heard that children's rhyme: "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. Your...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoKAJANG, MALAYSIA: A landslide hit an orphanage and the bodies of two children from the Rumah Anak Yatim Hidayah, Madrasah Al-Takwa, FELDA Semungkis, 14th mile, Hulu Langat, near here have been pulled out. ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoDuring the Second World War, the army relied on K rations for their emergency nutritional field rations. The K stood for the man who invented the portable meals - biologist Ancel Keys. An underground ho...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours ago"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." -Jane Hamilton "For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: law_keven/cc via TreeHugger In nature, raising tiger cubs to maturity is almost always the job of mom alone, with tiger-fathers showing little interest in child rearing if any at all. For ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoToo bad more buildings aren't designed to let the green energy flow. Photo courtesy: B. Alter via TreeHugger Madrid's green wall is a veteran...it was designed by Patrick Blanc, who has created some of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoCity of Ashland officials are warning residents and tourists to take precautions after a man walking his dog spotted a cougar feeding on a deer carcass on a Lithia Park trail at about 7 a.m. today. "This ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago[image: Link]Syria has given its response to Barack Obama's call on President Assad to lead his country to democracy or stand aside. Tanks have been sent into a number of towns and a number of people are ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*DUDAYEV, former Chechen president.* *The CIA is reported to have used bin Laden and al Qaeda against the Russians in Chechnya. * Dzhokhar *Dudayev* (1944 - 1996) was the first President of the breakaway C...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe global warming orthodoxy is predicting a judgement day. But some competitors of the IPCC propose that the end of the world will come earlier than that. In particular, Harold Camping (89), an engin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJoseph, Faith and Grace Haddad appear like any other American teenagers - except for the fact their parents Robert and Abby believe the world is about to end. Two years ago their father Robert and mother ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHoneybees are dropping like flies in the Okanagan, leaving bee keepers baffled . A number of bee farms are reporting they've lost a number of hives and according to Owner of Planet Bee Honey Farm, Ed Now...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was a routine bomb drill that had actually gone very well - it was just a shame the TSA failed to tell the police. So when a man posing as a terrorist was caught going through scanners with a fake bomb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of America's most notorious child kidnappers was stabbed by another prison inmate with knives named after his two young victims. Evil Michael Devlin is recovering from his injuries after being attacked...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAl Qaeda wanted to hijack and blow up oil tankers to provoke an 'extreme economic crisis' in the West, it has been revealed. According to documents seized from Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan compound, the ter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBrown stink bugs are causing millions of dollars in crop damage, with the apple industry being hit the hardest. Growers in the mid-Atlantic region have reported the worst problems with about 18 per cent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA paedophile priest expelled from the Catholic Church over his vile sex crimes has been found living just yards from a children's play area. Bill Carney was described as a 'serial sex abuser of children' ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA search and rescue operation has been launched in the English Channel following reports that a person had fallen overboard a cruise ship. Solent Coastguard Maritime Rescue said it had received informatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran knew about 9/11 before it happened and helped train hijackers, court papers say. Lawyers representing September 11th victims’ families claim new evidence shows Iranian officials assisted in training ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds, according to a five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time. The study offers new support for ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWhat with all the noise about the US President selling Israel down the river due to a combination of naiveté, wrong-headedness, and a soupçon of anti-Israel sentiment, but apparently still not doing enough...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe scandal-hit factory where Apple makes its iPads faced a fresh probe today after an explosion ripped through the building killing two people. A blast rocked a compound at the building in southwest China...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShocking 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 - 1 day agoAmerica 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoAreas 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreece 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoAll photos courtesy: Yahoo! News Photos of the recent Japanese tsunami battering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been released by TEPCO, the Japanese power company that runs the stricken facili...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoHas anybody heard Kelly Swan talk about being a "good neighbor" lately? I thought not. The story is HERE.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThis 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe'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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoUNDER CONSTRUCTION PLEASE VIEW ON YOUTUBE ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWe found the hack and removed it. The site is back with better security.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNASA has set a new target date for launch of its 135th and final space shuttle mission: July 8, 2011.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago*...zzzZZZ* News* CLICK ~MAIN STREAM NEWS~ The Real News . .
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 uncont...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 s...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoSince we tend to eat the same fish as these marine predators, this is bad news for humans, too.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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. Th...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoSea Shepherd heads to Libya to search for illegal tuna fishers.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoHearing something bad about someone unfamiliar could make that person more recognizable.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoShould doctors be allowed to help people commit suicide?
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoThese Unexplained Lights were recorded by NBC Cameras on the 17th May around 22:00 O'Clock
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoThe latest work on frozen coral embryos and sperm will preserve staghorn coral from the Great Barrier Reef.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoAnatOnMe projects an image of underlying bone structure, muscle tissue, tendons or nerves onto a patient's skin.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days ago------------------------------ AlterNet / *By Nomi Prins* *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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days agoCharlie Haden, an obscure jazz bassist whose hero is the murderous 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, ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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...
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