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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 26 minutes ago[image: A fisherman collects seaweed in the Pacific Ocean near Katsuura city, Chiba province, south of Fukushima. Levels of radiation pouring into the ocean from the Fukushima reactor site are causing co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
From east to west coast, the devastating power of the tornadoes hitting the U.S. was felt last night as twisters touched down as far west as northern California. The National Weather Service reported seve... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
A farm labourer who murdered four people in the 1980s by blasting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun has been handed four life sentences. John Cooper was also found guilty of a string of se... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A murdering asylum seeker who worked as a torturer for the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe will not be deported - because of concerns for his safety if he returns home. Phillip Machemedze smashed a man's jaw wi... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 50 minutes ago[image: Collecting Samples near Fukushima. Left to right: Giorgia Monti of Greenpeace Italy (far left of pic), Sakyo Noda of Greenpeace Japan, Tuomas Heikkila (driving boat), Jacob Namminga (at rear of b...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 55 minutes agoWritten in red paint, the symbols may help Egyptologists figure out why mysterious shafts were built into the pyramids.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*Billy Long (R-MO) don't need no freakin' makeup* Eric Cantor and the House GOP have made a cruel and political connection between global warming and the tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, that sta... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Three men in Borena Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia help a weak cow to stand up, May 2011. CARE / Gemechu Dida] By Audree Montpetit 25 May 2011 I arrived in Borena Zone, Oromia Region, in the sout...
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: In this May 19, 2011 photo, Tyler Gray stirs up a cloud of dust as pulls a tiller across a dry cotton field near Lubbock, Texas, trying to break up hardened ground. A historic drought has already...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoUN Permanent Forum Central, South and the Carribean 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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One of our dedicated readers has submitted a bizarre, if not disturbing radar image released by the NOAA, and we're at a loss as to what it could be, despite our research. Are they meteors? Radar artefacts... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago* the**REALnews* May 25, 2011 *Family Farmers Worse Off Despite High Prices* Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies More at The Real News Original w/ transcript h...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station viewed from the observation deck, 6 April 2011, 18:00. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 25 May 2011 Remember TEPCO has been transporting the highly radi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Zimbabwe may sell diamonds for gold, so that it can have a gold-backed currency, according to a recent proposal from the governor of Zimbabwe’s central bank. The Zimbabwean dollar is no longer in active u... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Chinese investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, buying more than ever before in the first quarter of 2011 and overtaking Indian buyers as the world's biggest purchasers of the metal. China's invest... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say researchers. The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate time and space - as in our idea of, for example, "working through the night". ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerati... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s ongoing release of the Guantanamo Bay prison files, and large numbers of classified State Department cables, attempts to expose what he calls American corruption. But su... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFour Muslim men were jailed today after they carried out a brutal attack on an RE teacher because they did not approve of him teaching religious studies to Muslim girls. Gary Smith, 38, received 'appallin...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 hours agoA vegetarian curry. Photo courtesy: cookfood For Your Health - Fad diets come and go; but, no one disagrees that getting more fruits and vegetables into your diet has a protective effect against cancer, h...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 2 hours agoQueers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA - Toronto) is practicing hyper-effective activism by fighting its own oppression against Canada's Israel Lobby. Brilliant video! Brilliant liberation strategy!RELATED ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 hours ago------------------------------ MONDAY, MAY 23, 2011 Original here. 50 consecutive ballots for Prosser in a city where Kloppenburg had 75%. If true, it is absolute MATHEMATICAL proof of fraud https://...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAurasma app lets users create and view images, videos and animations on real-life life objects.
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 2 hours agoYour's Truly getting back at the Armageddon Apoplectic
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 hours agoYour letters/calls helped defend our property rights from their last attackLet's do it again: tell Troy Fraser & the TX senate to beat backthe drilling industry's latest attempt to squelch Texans' property r...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoThe North Central Texas Council of Governments' Clean Air Steering Committee voted to send a letter to TCEQ asking them to adopt a watered down version of the Fair Share for Clean Air campaign.Downwinders At...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoHelical coils and an omnidirectional drive are key to this robot's unique maneuverability.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA app allows customers to pay for purchases without a credit card or even tapping a smart phone against a device at the cashier's counter.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoPhoto copyright Ben Powless, Mohawk*Global Indigenous Youth Statement: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms * ** *Intervention to the Tenth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 20ll * *...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 4 hours agoWhen trying to uncover the identities of the forces behind the drive for a single global authority to enslave humanity, the phenomenon of Zionism frequently comes to the surface. When one delves more close...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 4 hours agoBob Dylan turns 70; still hasn’t Recanted Praise for Rabbi Meir Kahane: " Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew name Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham) to a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, turned 70...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe first former MP jailed over the parliamentary expenses scandal has been released from prison after serving just a quarter of his 18-month sentence. David Chaytor spent four and a half months behind bar...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoTuesday night we tweeted the NY-26 special election returns and, until now, there hasn't been a post-mortem at *DWT*. Both the *New York Times* and A.P. drew the correct conclusions: this election results...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 5 hours agoAlleged Philly crime boss arrested: "FBI agents Monday arrested alleged Philadelphia crime boss Joseph Ligambi and 10 others in a takedown federal authorities hope represents a crushing blow to organized cri...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 5 hours agoElizabeth Smart's kidnapper gets life: "Brian David Mitchell, the homeless street preacher who abducted, raped and kept a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captive for "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 5 hours agoDeputy caught in human trafficking bust: "Three employees of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his tough stand on illegal immigration, are accused of aiding human traffickers. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 5 hours agoSerb war crimes suspect arrested after years on run: "Ratko Mladic was the highest-ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the 1990s Balkan wars. He's charged with genocide, extermination and murder. ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoThe BBC’s bias against Israel is not merely a case of offending a few Zionists. It has serious ramifications. Who can blame people for being inflamed with outrage if they are fed a continual stream of my...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoA mushroom beginning to emerge from the soil. Photo courtesy: Waldo Jaquith, used under Creative Commons license Mushrooms are being used in a number of ways to improve the environment naturally. From bre...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago** *Seneca Nation points out that the US has not adopted the UN Indigenous Rights Declaration -- which President Obama earlier gave lip service to* Photo Susan Andrews/Salamanca Public Schools at UNB...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Serbian president has confirmed that alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic has been arrested following an anonymous tip-off. Mladic, now 68, is accused of masterminding the 44-month siege of Sarajevo tha...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoJust because consciousness is a mystery and quantum theory is mysterious, it doesn't mean they're connected.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoForecasters warned thousands to take cover as severe storms pummeled parts of Arkansas and Tennessee early Thursday, while communities in neighboring states picked up the pieces after tornadoes cut a path ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe United States has warned Americans against travel to Yemen and advised those in the Gulf nation to depart, citing "terrorist activities and civil unrest." In addition, the State Department "has order...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEgypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing into Gaza beginning Saturday, an Egyptian official reported Wednesday. The move provides Gazans with an open door to the outside world for the first ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe failed prediction of Jesus to return to Earth over the weekend is prompting calls for the ouster of the Doomsday preacher and a congressional probe of his broadcasting network. Harold Camping, 89, of...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThese two stellar siblings don't seem to like each other very much. But it's OK, they make up in the end.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHarold Camping, the failed Doomsday prophet, appeared on Monday, May 23, 2011 at the Open Forum in Family Radio headquarters in Oakland, Calif. where he announced October 21, 2011 to be the new Doomsday da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 14-year-old girl Russian girl was so scared by the doomsday predictions of Californian evangelist Harold Camping that she hanged herself, investigators said Wednesday. Camping warned the world would en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt sounds like something out of science fiction - a huge swathe of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth. But plans to turn the moon into a gigantic mirrorball manned by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAstronomers may have detected the most distant and ancient object ever seen, a massive explosion that lit up the early universe soon after its birth. When the blast, known as a gamma ray burst (GRB), occur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA mother left her nine-month-old son home alone while she went to the bowling alley on a date, police say. Leah June Rabon, 20, from Pensacola, was arrested on Monday night after authorities received an a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt looks to all like a happy and normal scene. A lively young boy jumps up and down and around as his mother waits to check out of a water park resort where they had just spent the night. But the silent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe former student accused of shooting U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial today after an angry outburst in federal court. Horrified survivors of the Januar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCasey Anthony paraded for a 'hot body' contest at a Florida nightclub four days after her two-year-old daughter went missing, a court heard today. The single mother from Orlando carried on as normal durin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMark Zuckerberg has denied allegations he was trying to open up Facebook to children under the age of 13, claiming his comments were taken out of context. The social networking site, which has more than ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDozens of pensioners are preparing to risk their lives heroically in an effort to clean up the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Japan. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as the volunteers have named themselves, have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe most complete 3D map of the local universe has been unveiled by British astronomers. The 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) from the University of Portsmouth extends to a distance of 380 million light years...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA woman who feared her continual migraines were life-threatening died weeks after a GP allegedly told her: ‘Don’t worry, you won’t drop dead.’ Lucy Rudol visited her doctor up to 50 times to voice her worr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA respected High Court judge battered his wife in a fit of temper after being forced to do without his dinner while she comforted their cleaner over a personal problem, a court heard yesterday. James Alle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenage burglar who broke into an 80-year-old woman’s home gloated on Facebook, ‘Bring it on, easy!’ just minutes after a judge ruled he and his accomplice would not face manslaughter charges over her de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGary McKinnon’s hopes of avoiding extradition to the U.S. suffered a severe setback yesterday when Barack Obama declined to allow him to be tried in Britain. Campaigners had hoped the President would halt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Met Office was last night under fire for its ‘unreliable’ predictions about the movement of the volcanic ash cloud which had threatened to ruin the holiday plans of millions of families. Ryanair boss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDoctors are prescribing drinking water for neglected elderly patients to stop them dying of thirst in hospital. The measure – to remind nurses of the most basic necessity – is revealed in a damning report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo RAF pilots have been sent home in disgrace amid claims they were found drunk just hours before they were due to fly on bombing mission Libya. The officers from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire have been d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe United Nations' top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia's tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country. Acc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe daughter of an Indian diplomat is suing police for $1.5m for having to use a toilet in front of cellmates after she was falsely arrested over cyberbullying claims. Krittika Biswas, 18, was pulled out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs many as 1,300 people may have been killed in Syria by troops and security forces since the uprising against the Assad regime began, a human rights group has claimed. The organisation, Sawasiah, said it...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoI've hardly been alone, but that's no excuse. For more than a year now, I've been regularly predicting the euro crisis's final denouement, yet still it hasn't arrived. So I've been forced to reach a diffe...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*The 2004 reprint of How to Write Short Stories (whose title was suggested by F. Scott Fitzgerald)* *"Scott Fitzgerald was the catalytic agent in the transformation of Ring Lardner from a journalistic funn...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBritain's economy made a sluggish start to the year as an improved trade performance was more than offset by the sharpest fall in household spending since the recession, revised estimates of first-quarter ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoThis morning when I heard Keffer on NPR exclaiming that Texas would be the first state to require 100% disclosure of hydraulic fracturing fluids, this happened.So, I want to publicly thank Kate Galbraith and...
- posted by Ai Lung Nguyen at Lilith News - 16 hours agoBy Ai Lung Nguyen - May 2011. CARS - Compared to decades ago the number of people who die in car accidents have dropped dramatically. Let us start in Canada, where the death toll is at its lowest level si...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Mark Fiore* "*Tea Bag -- because other languages are just too hard!*" *by Ken* Yesterday on DailyKos Markos introduced the latest addition to the DK Comics lineup (updating my last post on the subject),...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.” This week, the TSA and federal government threatened the Texas state legislature to halt legislation that would class...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoVariety is the spice of life and animals know it pays to be flexible.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoOprah Winfrey turned a talk show into a media empire and became an entertainment icon in the process.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours agoAlex Calls Upon All Texans to March on State Capital!! Texans Take to Capitol, Demand Representatives Resist TSA Tyranny Paul Joseph Watson and Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com May 25, 2011 Earlier today, Alex J...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoA Hawksbill turtle swimming off Hondurus. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Baby turtles are hardwired to swim the second they feel weightless. If you pick up a newly-hatched turtle using one finger on each side o...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoThe discovery counters the widely held belief that whale sharks, which can weigh more than 79,000 pounds, are solitary animals.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 18 hours agoRemember SB 875? The bill that started out this session by taking away your right to protect your property from pollution is back. Due to citizen pressure, the bill, written by Senator Troy Fraser, was am...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 19 hours ago*Environmentalists Against War* May 25, 2011 Sam Husseini / Washington Stakeout *The United States is supposed to be a country in which everyone is free to speak their mind without fear or equivocation. ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 19 hours agoJudge rules Jared Lee Loughner incompetent to stand trialLos Angeles Times | May 25, 2011 | 12:20 p.m. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Jared Lee Loughner was incompetent to stand trial, all but ending,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreenpeace has found high levels of phthalates banned by the EU and the US in children’s products and toys made from vinyl plastic (also called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC) on the Chinese market. Phthalates...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhite nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesda...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOverfishing, oil slicks, acidification — the world’s oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface, face plenty of environmental problems. As I note in this Green Column, we’ve added another serio...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the last...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Germany's consumer minister expressed deep concern Wednesday at an outbreak of poisoning by dangerous bacteria believed to have killed three women and left hundreds ill. * "This is really worrying," Ilse ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoChina is now South Africa's biggest trading partner. But cheap Chinese imports are threatening local industries and thousands of ordinary South Africans are paying the price. Trade between South Africa ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility's owner. The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2...
- Facebook page calls for beating Saudi women drivers -- will someone just shut Facebook down already?
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. T... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreenpeace has found high levels of phthalates banned by the EU and the US in children’s products and toys made from vinyl plastic (also called polyvinyl chloride, or PVC) on the Chinese market. Phthalates...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOverfishing, oil slicks, acidification — the world’s oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface, face plenty of environmental problems. As I note in this Green Column, we’ve added another serio...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the last...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Germany's consumer minister expressed deep concern Wednesday at an outbreak of poisoning by dangerous bacteria believed to have killed three women and left hundreds ill. * "This is really worrying," Ilse ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoChina is now South Africa's biggest trading partner. But cheap Chinese imports are threatening local industries and thousands of ordinary South Africans are paying the price. Trade between South Africa ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility's owner. The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2...
- Facebook page calls for beating Saudi women drivers -- will someone just shut Facebook down already?posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA campaign has been launched on Facebook calling for men to beat Saudi women who drive their cars in a planned protest next month against the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women taking the wheel. T...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 20 hours agoI'll be honest... I started three posts for today and gave up on all three of them because I just wasn't feeling it. It is summer and the sun is shining (finally, after all the rain we've gotten here in my...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHello everyone, You know the menu bar above the posts that says, "Home, About Us..." and so on? Could you let us know if "Contact Us" at the very end fits within the column, or if it's hanging off the edg...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 21 hours agoby Duane Craig Residents in Franklin, Massachusetts, are tired of the delays in getting a former jewelry manufacturing site cleaned up from contamination potentially going back to 1900. One resident says ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*Today Republicans are angry that Obama didn't fail & that the auto bailout worked* There was a lot of celebrating in Detroit yesterday-- not to mention at the White House-- when it was announced that Chr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: A man and a boy made homeless by the devastating Pakistan floods wade through floodwater in the village of Baseera, in Punjab province, 23 August 2010. Daniel Berehulak / guardian.co.uk] Contact...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Indigenous Environmental Network* *Statement on Agenda Item 7 – The Right to Water and Indigenous Peoples * *10th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues* *May 24, 2011* Tar Sands. *Read by...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoPhoto by Ben Powless, Mohawk *FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT* *Indigenous Environmental Network Statement * *United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues* *May 16th to May 27th, 2011* *UN Headqua...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: A shredded American flag stands in the wreckage of a church in Joplin, Missouri, 24 May 2011. AP / telegraph.co.uk] By Bill McKibben 23 May 2011 Caution: It is vitally important not to make conn...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoResearch that has followed a group of people since infancy reveals strong links between childhood and adolescent relationships to later romantic life.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoTears in microgravity sure can be a hassle when you're on a spacewalk, as one astronaut found out today.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 23 hours ago(With a tip of the porkpie to Tom Stoppard. Jesus, can't a guy even use a metaphor any more?) A triple-barrelled meme generator, starting with this piece yesterday by Lawrence Martin. It was picked up b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Fighting for life in the Fukushima exclusion zone: The bodies of dead horses lie rotting under the hay as one who survived turns its head toward the camera, 12 April 2011. Getty Images / dailymai...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoNude Socialist discusses whether the electron is egg-shaped. I honestly couldn't figure out what they were really talking about before I looked at the paper in *Nature*, Improved measurement of the shap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPresident Barack Obama today reaffirmed the special relationship between Britain and America as 'one of the oldest and one of the strongest alliances the world has ever known', as he made a keynote speech ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: The dried up Yangtze river in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The severe drought has forced a massive release of water from China's Three Gorges reservoir for irrigation and drinking wa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: GBIF database information about the spatial and temporal evolution of nitrophilous herbaceous plants (186 taxa), mosses (44 taxa) and lichens (78 taxa) in Spain from 1900 to 2008. Nordin, et al.,...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoA "Reply to All" gaffe reported by Radio Five Live producer Rhian Roberts on Twitter: Nice work chap, whoever you are. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 23 hours ago* by Barbara Loe Fisher* Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: A meadow of eelgrass. Image courtesy of Virginia Institute of Marine Science] ScienceDaily (May 25, 2011) — A team of 21 researchers from 11 nations, including professor Robert "JJ" Orth of the ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoEarth and Venus may have protected Mars from planet-building impacts common in the solar system's early days.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe bizarre animal with spiny head appendages, body blades and jointed legs thrived in the oceans 542 to 472 million years ago.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A fishing boat is stranded on the cracked bed of Poyang Lake in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, 4 May 2011. Poyang Lake is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. The lake is drying u...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoEl Salvador Mayor UN Permanent Forum 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAs I've said all along, this was the obvious choice for interim leader. Rae is a gifted politician, and will keep the party relevent while it rebuilds. *Liberals name Bob Rae interim chief* Bob Rae says t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*This is what the GOP is using to wreck Michigan* Most normal people look at the Republican presidential primary lineup and recoil in horror-- or just shrug it off as a freak show or circus act. With Ging...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs sea ice melts, managing Arctic fisheries emerges as an important issue.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn 1996, a storm blew up suddenly, stranding him and colleagues in the so-called "death zone."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUpdate: *The World Organisation for Animal Health declared today that rinderpest is now eradicated from the surface of the Earth. At the organisation's 79th annual general session in Paris, France, it was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA large number of dead fish have been found floating in the Manasi Ganga lake in the past three days resulting in difficulties for devotees visiting the Mukut Mukharbind temple situated adjacent to the lak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA satellite survey of Egypt has uncovered lost treasures including 17 pyramids and more than 1,000 tombs. Three thousand ancient settlements have also been located by scientists who studied infrared image...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile Barack Obama is chugging Guinness and Congress is doing… well not much of anything, we’ve breached the US debt ceiling. That’s correct, the US now has more debt than is legally permitted. We’d cross...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday ordering California to release nearly 40,000 of its 143,435 inmates has the state in a panic as officials scramble to figure out what happens next. The SCOTUS ruling ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new report paints a stark picture of the toll on the U.S. military of almost a decade of war: higher stress and lower morale. The report, released Thursday at the Pentagon, relied on questions to soldi...
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