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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas rejected the idea of a third intifada today during a visit to Tunisia. Speaking to reporters, Abbas described the second intifada in 2000 as 'disastrous' for ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 45 minutes ago*To call the Forza Overture Verdi's greatest may not adequately reflect its stature, since as we've noted he didn't write that many full-scale overtures. Here, in Japan, Plácido Domingo -- after taking hi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Beach erosion at Long Beach Island, New Jersey, 14 Nov 2009. pressofAtlanticCity.com] May 26 (NJ Press Media) – Sea level likely will be a foot higher along New Jersey by 2050, and at the end of...
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*Okay, sure, sex is better than Thin Mints -- sometimes, anyway -- but Thin Mints you can buy by the box. If by chance somebody were to stick this plate of 'em in front of me, as they disappeared I would b... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A McCann survey of 6,000 people aged 16 to 30 found that 53 percent of respondents would rather forfeit the ability to smell than lose access to social networking websites. BizReport.com says that the stud... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 hours ago
Coal smog in China. Photo courtesy: Haldini via Flickr/CC BY-SA via TreeHugger China is beginning to see the costs of its rapid march towards industrialization -- the heavy industry, coal-fired power plan... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoData recovered from flight recorders on the Airbus A330 that crashed in 2009 is beginning to provide investigators with an idea as to what happened.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoTexans Revolt Against TSA Tyranny, Storm Capitol
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Institute for Marine Mammal Studies veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to Gulfport, Miss., Tuesda...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThese medications can limit E. coli populations and other potentially harmful bacteria from growing in Great Lakes ecosystems.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoAldous Huxley's Interview with CBS' Mike Wallace in May 1958:
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours agoView Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team in a larger map By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 May 2011 Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The world economy is losing strength halfway through the year as high oil prices and fallout from Japan’s natural disaster and Europe’s debt woes take their toll. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now expects glo... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa on Friday as increased fighting threatened to tip the country into c... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
While the state has yet to officially cancel any events involving horses that might have been exposed to a local recent equine herpes outbreak, owners and arenas are taking precautions. Because of the ou... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Capping a week of political bickering and parliamentary delays, the House joined the Senate on Thursday to pass a four-year extension of key provisions of the Patriot Act that was set to expire at midnight... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Pending sales of existing U.S. homes dropped far more than expected in April to touch a seven-month low, a trade group said on Friday, dealing a blow to hopes of a recovery in the housing market. The Nati... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The first thing Silvia Huelves was told when she started studying architecture was that she should take up Chinese or Japanese - she was not going to build anything in Spain any time soon. It wasn't crit... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 7 hours ago
Yesterday Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont signed a single-payer health care bill into law, the first of it's kind in the U.S. Legislators say the plan, approved by the Democratic controlled House and Senat... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?* *Luke Mitchell Is Innocent - Caseblog Sites* ~~
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoFacial reconstructions of the skeleton could determine once and for all who is Mona Lisa.
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoWell, the world didn't come to an end -- despite lots of natural disasters and no more Oprah. But all the Discovery News readers wanted to talk about was a new species of bat.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThough chosen for its scientific allure, the mission will moonlight as a flight test for future human expeditions.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoExpanding the Field - the vile Pamela Geller: "This alleged human being is spreading her net wider, and is now teaming up with alleged online newspaper World Net Daily. And here is her first 'contribution' O...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoA five-year study pins the blame for abuse not on the priests, but on the culture of the 1960s. Really?
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Article updated May 27, 2011, 6 pm, New York time *Photo: AIM at the UN: Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of American Indian Movement (AIM) w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBARCELONA, Spain -- Riot police firing blanks and wielding truncheons clashed Friday with protesters as authorities cleared away a makeshift camp set up as part of a Spain-wide demonstration against the co...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 9 hours agoHere is a glimpse of Representative Dennis Bonnen who authored the amendment to SB 875 that would violate our property rights by stripping away our right to defend our property.He has not ONE but TWO ethics ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoSustainable clothing can still be couterre.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA teenager from Britain breaks the world record for the youngest to complete the Seven Summits challenge.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe country is toiling under the heaviest ever public spending cuts, but that didn’t stop David Cameron deciding the time was right to lavish £653,192.34 of taxpayers’ money on Downing Street, including £3...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoI confess I did something this week I never thought I would do. I bought a Nikon. I swore my allegiance to Olympus years ago but when I went to buy their newest camera body, I just felt ill. My husband sug...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoBBC North America editor Mark Mardell has posted his summary and analysis of the President's visitation to Ireland and England (not the UK, but England, as we'll see in a moment). Poor Mardell has been que...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: An abandoned ship is stuck in the solidified salts of the Oroumieh Lake, some 600 kilometres northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 29, 2011. AP Photo / Vahid Salemi] OROUMIEH LAKE...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours agoWe had a wonderful little getaway, despite some crazy weather. It was great to re-connect with our Windsor friends, now not only married but Canadian citizens. We had dinner at a terrific little Salvadore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTHEY might be ancient graffiti tags left by a worker or symbols of religious significance. A robot has sent back the first images of markings on the wall of a tiny chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza in E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA MYSTERY sea creature spotted in the Mersey has experts baffled. The “monster” was snapped off Seacombe Ferry at 9am yesterday by photographer Mark Harrison. Paul Renolds, from the Blue Planet Aquarium...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIn an escalation of Yemen's crisis, air force combat jets bombed tribal forces opposed to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a senior defense official said. At least seven air force bombers were d...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoPhotofly software converts 40 overlapping photos into printable, 3-D models.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoHelmet-mounted binocular camera and small vibrating motors help a person navigate the safest route.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA U.S. Marine who was killed when he was gunned down in his home near Tucson, Arizona, never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house firing 70 times in a hail of bullets, a report has revealed. The ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team look at the No.3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (Tepco) Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station in Fukushima, Japan,...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 11 hours agoYesterday *Rolling Stone* published a spectacular feature by Tim Dickinson, How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory. "Ailes runs the most profitable-- and therefore least accountable – head of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAnti-government protesters in Yemen stormed a military base today sparking battles that left dozens dead and prompted the embattled president to defend the assault with airstrikes. The attack came as Syri...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours ago...not even a tornado. Dog crawls home on broken legs, three weeks after tornado. Wow.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe discovery of a dog that was buried alive up to its nose after being shot in the head 40 times has led to calls for Malta to reform its animal welfare laws. The crossbreed mongrel, which was named Sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA burglar was freed from jail today - after judges ruled his five children would suffer as much as he would if he remained behind bars. Wayne Steven Bishop, 33, was serving an eight-month sentence, imposed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSharon Shoesmith is set for an estimated £400,000 payout after the Court of Appeal ruled she was unlawfully sacked over the Baby P scandal. Ms Shoesmith, 58, challenged a High Court ruling that cleared reg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA family day out turned into a nightmare for zoo visitors after they witnessed a bearcat cub being ripped apart by a pair of lions. The horror unfolded at the Chessington World of Adventure in Surrey after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGoogle is being sued by internet payment firm PayPal over claims the web giant stole technology allowing smartphones to buy things in shops. PayPal allege that former executives Osama Bedier and Stephanie ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBad example: Children at The Quest Academy have been banned from copying David Cameron and Barack Obama's high-fiving antics. When Barack Obama and David Cameron were pictured back-slapping and congratula...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTwo people have been diagnosed in Britain with the killer E.coli strain that has already claimed two lives in Germany. At least 300 people are in hospital in the northern part of the country clustered aro...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoThis week the Texas House voted unanimously on a bill to make TSA body pat-downs a felony under the law. But the bill was prevented from passing the Senate because Texas's Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurs...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA veritable explosion in the number of natural gas wells in the United States in the late 2000's resulted in only modest gains in production, a new study finds, suggesting that the promise of natural gas a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHundreds of passengers on board an Air France jet endured a three-and-a-half minute plunge to their deaths after its engines stalled while the pilot was resting, it emerged today. The terrifying end of Fl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis week we turn from the crisis brewing in the US to the one that is coming to a slow boil in Europe. We visit our old friends Greece and Ireland and ponder how this will end. It is all well and good to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrom UFOs to the Loch Ness monster, the mysterious and inexplicable phenomena across the globe which claim just as many believers as skeptics have a hold on many here in Arizona. Here's the story of a ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFOR years a remote patch of the North Pacific has served as a benchmark of global marine plastic pollution - and now it appears we have our own. Seabirds which forage in the Tasman Sea are mistaking plast...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThat the lethal Hendra virus could jump from Australia’s flying foxes to its humans might seem like nothing more than bad luck, an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of contact with animals. Instead,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoActivity at the Volcano Poas is increasing rapidly, while at the same time drying up the lagoon, say experts, a team of geologists and volcanologists from the seismological network of the Universidad de Co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHe couldn't swim. But that didn't stop Victor Frasno from trying to cross a reservoir to 'get to God' moments before the first earthquakes of 'Judgement Day' were supposed to strike. The 25-year-old from...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 13 hours ago*BATR* Americans are a hollow shell of their proud history. Their financial controllers have enslaved the few remaining hard working producers of actual wealth. Those who still cling to a feeble dream o...
- *For those who don't want to believe their eyes* Ulr movie: http://youtu.be/FKlihU9bmao *Isn't that wonderful?* With beer, music and a toilet on the small river * Isar* near Munich, Germany. What's kept ou...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoJewish And Muslim Students Unite To Debunk Horowitz’s Claims: "By Santa Barbara Hillel, UCSB American Students for Israel, UCSB Students for Justice in Palestineand UCSB Muslim Student AssociationThe relatio...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoNumbersUSA Denies Bigotry but Promotes Holocaust Denier: "Update: Hatewatch has received a response from Roy Beck, who says the groups that appeared as state and local contacts on the NumbersUSA website are ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoKlan Boss Ron Edwards Sentenced to Four Years on Drug Charges: "A federal judge this morning sentenced Ronald Wayne Edwards (seen at right during a deposition in 2007), former imperial wizard of the Kentucky...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoFor several months, Wil Hylton, an excellent writer from *GQ* magazine, has been interviewing Phil McDowell, an Iraq War resister living in Canada, along with many other war resisters and their supporters ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 15 hours agoThere were so many amendments that I could hardly keep up-- most being Republican members asking for military pork for their districts-- but in the end, the House passed warmonger Buck McKeon's H.R. 1540 ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoWe finally got a bit of clarity from Jack Layton on an issue he has danced around for the better part of the past decade: *It’s official: Layton backs 50%-plus-one rule for Quebec secession* NDP Leader ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoAs the BBC constantly reminds us, it's an era of public spending cuts and these nasty right-wing policies are allegedly hurting us all. Not, however, when it comes to tipping money down the drain on green...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 16 hours agoBlogger is having a glitch again, preventing me from responding to comments or sending messages to followers. Thank you for your patience.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoAnd while we're on the subject, the inimitable and indispensible Alison over at Creekside sums up the whole police-brutality, civilian-oversight thing as only she can. Go read it now. *Update:* And after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA fire has broken out at a second nuclear plant in the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima. The fire broke out in a power distribution board in the basement of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daini plant...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 19 hours agoOversight - noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto las...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBritain is facing a measles outbreak with nearly more cases reported in the first three months of this year than the whole of 2010. The rise has sparked health officials to urge eveyone to ensure they are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOver 150 dolphins have been found dead so far this year in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of last year's BP oil spill and chemical dispersants deployed to break up the oil on the surface and deep underwate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 20-year-old Erie woman was jailed without bond Wednesday night on a criminal-homicide charge in connection with the death of her 14-month-old daughter. The girl's emaciated body was found stuffed insid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe frantic search for a missing 15-year-old has likely come to an end after police say they believe she jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Allison Bayliss, from Danville, San Francisco, was last seen on M...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe coolest radio telescope around just got better. Several orders of magnitude better.
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoAstronomer Mark Thompson is getting ready for summer, sharing some important solar astronomy advice.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt sounds unlikely, but according to new research the winged critters can be deafening... and they have already started to invade the U.S. after a 13-year hiatus. Todd Ricketts, an associate professor of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoHe couldn't swim. But that didn't stop Victor Frasno from trying to cross a reservoir to 'get to God' moments before the first earthquakes of 'Judgement Day' were supposed to strike. The 25-year-old from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAs more witnesses take to the stand in order to attack her morals and character, it has emerged that accused child murderer Casey Anthony allegedly failed to pay the IRS $68,000 in taxes in 2008 - the same...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Image) Jorge and Carmen Barahona could face the death penalty if found guilty of killing adopted daughter Nadia. A father accused of murdering his adopted 10-year-old daughter told police the little girl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAs this truck is effortlessly tipped on its side and torn to shreds by a horrifying tornado, it seems that there is no chance that anyone could survive. But miraculously the driver lived and has no seriou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWater may be as plentiful in the moon's interior as the Earth's, a study of Apollo mission lunar rocks has revealed. Trapped water was found in tiny volcanic glass beads returned to Earth in 1972 by the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn eight-year-old girl found dead in the woods near her home had hanged herself after being bullied, police have said. The body of little Tori Blair Wilson was discovered just 80 yards from her house near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNasa has unveiled a design for a spaceship that could propel four astronauts on a six-month voyage to Mars. Engineers are already assembling of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or MPCV, which is based on th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice have launched a nationwide manhunt after an international aid worker was found strangled at her home. Angela Hoyt, 34, was working for the Red Cross and had just returned from a three-month trip to...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoIt's Friday and time for a new Open Thread to take us off into the weekend! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI've been following the debate on the proposed changes to the allowable criteria schools can use when determining which pupils they will accept. What interests me is that the BBC frames the debate within* ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA High Court judge’s reputation and career were in ruins last night after he was found guilty of battering his wife in a fit of temper over his missed dinner. With the verdict James Allen, QC, was branded...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA giant prehistoric shrimp-like monster which terrorised the oceans more than half a billion years ago has been discovered by scientists. The fearsome-looking beasts, known as anomalocaridids, grew up to 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA child sex crime was committed every 20 minutes last year, shocking Home Office figures reveal. A staggering 23,000 child sex offences were reported to police in England and Wales - 64 a day - but with m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoItalian lawmakers have claimed Amanda Knox was treated unfairly during her murder trial and have called for a probe of the prosecutor's office in Perugia. Led by Rocco Girlanda, a group of MPs has sent a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA five-year-old girl was sent home by three doctors in two days before dying of meningitis, an inquest has heard. Experts told the hearing that her symptoms suggested meningitis but the GPs all thought h...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoBarcode used on trees. Photo courtesy: diongillard via Flickr CC via TreeHugger Barcoding seems to be the conservation concept of the day, and that goes for sparing trees from illegal logging. The lates...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoI have considered myself a champion of the Consistent Histories interpretation of quantum mechanics for almost 20 years - Roland Omnes' 1992 article just erased all my doubts about the statement that the...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoNo one injured.“Several people reported hearing two explosions. I heard it and felt it, and it was rocking some parts of the county pretty good,” Gamez said. “We are not sure of what caused it, but it sure w...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Well, sure, you know which way we run the bases in this country, but what if you were a boy from Niles, Michigan, who learned your baseball in England ?* *by Ken* The combination of Ring's wit and his si...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoNot that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer's G20, but Rosie DiManno's got an idea abou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoExplosions at three government facilities in eastern China Thursday left two people dead, including the alleged perpetrator, the country's state-run Xinhua news agency reported. At least six people were ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America- 1 day ago*Kourosh Ziabari* is an Iranian journalist, author, polyglot, and contributing columnist and correspondant for numerous publications worldwide, including the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Bulgaria...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoThe Royal Parasites have no legal right to rule. We need a Republic - Now! Source: http://mtrial.org/node/9 - a site well worth examining.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: April Tornado Count for the U.S., 1950–May 2011. NOAA] By Tamino 25 May 2011 Shortly after it became clear that April 2011 broke the U.S. record for the most April tornados, the Washington Post ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” - Philip K. Dick "Men must have...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoKeith Olbermann will be back on television on June 20, 2011 on Current TV. He also has a blog called FOK News Channel (FOK means Friends of Keith). Current TV is found on these channels: ``` DIRECTV cha...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerican consumers' spending weakened more than initially estimated in the first quarter of the year, renewing concerns about the pace of the economic recovery for the rest of the year. Purchases by house...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoOxfam Bigheads at the G8 in Paris CTV quotes "sources" on Obama/Harper security perimeter meeting at the G8 bunfest today : "The Prime Minister's Office said the meeting would likely adv...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreece could be disqualified from claiming part of its next cash injection from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the chairman of European Finance Ministers has warned. Jean-Claude Juncker said the s...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDrawing by Ariel Molvig Contest #289, May 30, 2011 *This is the current captionless cartoon for The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest. Entries -- 250 characters or fewer -- are accepted through ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLinks in the brain can connect the sensations of sound and touch.
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTensions remained high Thursday as the president of the Southern Sudanese government demanded an immediate withdrawal of Sudanese armed forces that continue to occupy the disputed oil-rich Abyei border reg...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe last nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic. Yet, Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBy now, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the IMF, was hauled off an Air France flight two minutes before it was due to take off, and taken into custody by the NYPD. Why? The US cover...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEnvironmental activist group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation above legal limits. The...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRadioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said on Thursday, in a new setback to the battle to contain radiat...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOfficials in Missouri have released a list of the names of people unaccounted for after a tornado hit Joplin. Missouri Department of Public Safety deputy director and general counsel Andrea Spillars says...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn astounding Department of Justice threat to cancel airline flights to and from Texas, in addition to underhanded lobbying by TSA representatives, has killed efforts in the state to pass HB 1937, a bill t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 day agoWisconsin's neo-fascist governor (don't ask me why we bother with the "neo" since it makes no real sense) Scott Walker does not want to see what happened in NY-26 Tuesday happen up and down Wisconsin. But...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCan using hand sanitizers get you drunk? No, but they can make you appear so on one kind of alcohol test.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe inside of the moon may have as much water as Earth's mantle, finds an analysis of moon crystals returned by Apollo astronauts.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs many as 17 pyramids, more than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 settlements were uncovered using infrared technology.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBritish and European space agencies have given the go ahead for the development of a reusable spaceplane that's been under development for 30 years.
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day agoQuestion Time comes tonight from a location they've decided not to share with us (at the time of typing this) on the BBC QT website. Tripoli maybe? Some newly-vacated office-space in Abbottabad, Pakistan?...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoFrom 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day ago*Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Tenth session New York, 16-27 May 2011 * *Draft report Rapporteur : Ms. Paimaneh* *Hasteh Chapter I* Matters calling for action by the Economic and Social Council or br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoZimbabwe 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 - 1 day agoChinese 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 - 1 day agoAn 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoWikiLeaks 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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) - 1 day agoYour's Truly getting back at the Armageddon Apoplectic
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoHelical coils and an omnidirectional drive are key to this robot's unique maneuverability.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!- 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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...
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