- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 minutes agoThank you Senator Davis!“Those in charge have made irresponsible choices in allowing specialinterests to preserve tax-payer funded loopholes, while tellingeducators, students and working families that we can...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 minutes ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station rubble around reactor building 3, 21 May 2011. Radioactive debris of 1,000 mSv/h was found in this area. TEPCO] May 30 (Xinhua) – Tokyo Electric Power Co....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoThe government has decided to abolish the upper cap of radiation exposure for workers at the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, drawing concern from experts, it has been learned. The ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 minutes agoMore than half the reactionary Blue Dog caucus was defeated in November-- unable to attract Republican and right-leaning independents they had tried so hard to please, while completely demotivating the De...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 27 minutes agoWhile the annoyances in Fukushima have only led to one death - which was unrelated to the radiation, a heart attack of an old employee (compare with the 14 deaths so far caused by the Spanish "organic" c...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 28 minutes ago*Annually America’s Warrior Tradition is Commemorated in Major Media Editorials and Op-Eds, Honoring Fallen Men and Women for Reasons NOT Explained* * *by Stephen Lendman *On May 29, The New York Times h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoA 23-year-old man was killed after apparently being flung out of a moving car which sped off into the night leaving him dying on a busy main road. Police launched a murder enquiry after Aaron McQueen Willi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoA British tourist has died after being left lying unconscious in a pool of blood during a suspected robbery at a popular Portuguese holiday resort. It is believed Ian Haggath, 50, from Gateshead, Tyneside,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoThai police have launched a murder enquiry into the death of a Briton on the island of Koh Samui after a post-mortem examination ruled that he had drowned. Police on the holiday island had previously rule...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoA teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under 'Sharia law' after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine. Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home. Friends sai...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 50 minutes agoHere’s a tale about the BBC and its conjoined twin The Guardian being taken in by the same bit of Pali propaganda. It seems Jacoub Odeh has been entertaining the gullible siblings. “The fact that one Yacou...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 58 minutes ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The most recent scuttle-butt, the smart-money, the self-appointed pundits, those in-the-know as well as those who don't have two clues are making the safest bet on...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour agoSo it begins. The potty training battle. I have done the best to prepare myself, bought all of the recommended items and I am still smacking my head against the wall a little bit. As I was preparing, I loo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGermany's coalition government decided early Monday to shut down all of the country's nuclear power plants by 2022, a policy change prompted by Japan's nuclear disaster, the environment minister said. Mea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTwo workers from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been contaminated by high levels of radioactive iodine, the operator said Monday, prompting fears over their long-term health. The workers, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSadly, this is not the plot to some post-apocalyptic science fiction movie. This is really happening. When you read the list below, each of the 32 signs may not seem to be all that significant individual...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant has suspended some of its outdoor work due to a tropical storm, just days after it admitted it was not prepared for harsh weather. Heavy rain and strong win...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEuropean leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatization of state assets, ...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoWhy has Global Sticks, a manufacturer of wooden ice cream sticks, moving from Dalian, China, to Thunder Bay, Ontario? It’s the kind of low margin manufacturing that is never supposed to come back after i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAs a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle gobl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant has suspended some of its outdoor work due to a tropical storm, just days after it admitted it was not prepared for harsh weather. Heavy rain and strong win...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEuropean leaders are negotiating a deal that would lead to unprecedented outside intervention in the Greek economy, including international involvement in tax collection and privatization of state assets, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoWhy has Global Sticks, a manufacturer of wooden ice cream sticks, moving from Dalian, China, to Thunder Bay, Ontario? It’s the kind of low margin manufacturing that is never supposed to come back after i...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour agoOn 21 May 2011, Pakistan's General Mirza Aslam Beg wrote that the 'Osama compound' was raided in 2009 (Abbottabad attack: New revelations) : *"This house was raided in 2009, to capture Abul Faraj...* *"W...
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- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThat is the assessment of Lord Stern of the London School of Economics after reviewing the latest International Energy Agency figures on carbon emissions in 2010. The report shows that the global recessio...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThe world is poised on the brink of a "cheap gas" era that may undermine the viability of renewable energy options. Not gas as in gasoline but as in natural gas, shale gas released by fracking. "*More ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoMemorial Day- by Joyce Kilmer The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it sings to-day. The road is rhythmic with the feet Of men-at-arms who come to pray. The roses blossom white and red On tombs...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThe other shoe drops. A federal judge in Virginia has leapfrogged the US Supreme Court's *Citizens United* decision and ruled that a century-old law barring corporate contributions to political candidates...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoDWT has been doing a series on fascism. I want you to take a look at this video at the Jefferson Memorial. Recall that the Texas Board of Education, a strange amalgam of corporate puppets and religious f...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoIn case you haven't seen it yet. On May 28, 2011 Television host Adam Kokesh and several other activists participating in a flash-mob were arrested at the publicly-funded Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMay 30 (Bloomberg) -- Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan's crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a "dead zone" remains 25 years after the reactor in the former...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMore than 920 people suffered the effects of suffocation on Monday morning in the city of Desouk, in Kafr al-Sheikh Governorate, following a chlorine cylinder leak. A hardware store's owner was unloading...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGlobal warming is fast heading towards 'dangerous' levels owing to the emission of a record amount of greenhouse gases last year, according to new figures. Estimates from the International Energy Agency s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPolice have launched a probe to investigate a rural footpath after 13 dogs were mysteriously poisoned to death over the course of just a few days. The horrifying series of deaths in Cross Hills, North Yor...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 6 hours agoThe following was posted: 29th May 2011 07:19 PDT by FINAL CONFLICT. For those outside the UK, the BNP is the largest patriotic party (nationalist/populist) and the EDL the largest street organisation (s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA series of dramatic sea twisters have been spotted off the NSW central coast this morning. The huge columns of water could be seen spiralling up from the sea near Avoca Beach about 9.45am. Up to four hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoKlyuchevskaya Sopka (4750 m), the highest volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, has spewed ash to an altitude of 5 kilometers above the sea level. The nearby settlements are said to be out of danger. At pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoYemeni forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh have shot dead at least 20 people and wounded hundreds more when they opened fire on protesters in the second-largest city of Taiz, sources said. A Reu...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoA new week, a new Open Thread. Go get 'em! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEuropean Union and IMF officials are expected to deliver their verdict this week on Greece's faltering drive to bring its budget deficit under control, but ordinary Greeks have warned that their patience i...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoIf you want to have an idea about the amount of time you have when tsunami arrives, look at this 5-minute video of tsunami attacking in Minami-Sanriku. Not much is happening in the first minute or so - e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA United Nations panel of experts has reportedly urged the UN Security Council to immediately put a halt to North Korea's uranium enrichment program, or UEP, saying that the program could easily be used fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDespite having weakened somewhat, the storm is yet another natural disaster to hit the already stricken country. The first major storm of the season is now making its way across southern Japan. It has we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHolland is to bar foreigners from its infamous cannabis-selling coffee shops. Anti-drugs laws will see restrictions placed on who can use the shops, which allow patrons to buy and smoke drugs legally. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA mayor in a small town devastated by a tornado has sparked outrage over his refusal to let homeless residents stay in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Jack Scott has been bra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn eleven month old Italian baby boy has died after being forgotten in his parent's car - the second in less than a week. Jacopo Riganelli had been left in the car for three hours by his father Sergio, 4...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Egypt by **Desertman* On 27 May 2011, the New York Times has an article entitled: *Egypt’s Next Crisis* In this article we read about a political meeting, in the town of Kafr Shukr, where a chicken farm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoState volcanogists noted a "remarkable increase" in seismic activity at Taal Volcano in Batangas, recording 115 volcanic quakes in the last 24 hours. Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology dire...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWildlife experts have been baffled by the sudden death of more than 800 tons of fish which have rotted on farms in a lake near Taal volcano south of Manila. Residents were stunned when the milkfish, a wid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWithin hours of obtaining a gagging order to cover up his extra-marital affair, Ryan Giggs was unmasked by a bank worker on Twitter, it emerged yesterday. Claims have been made for various media personali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDavid Cameron’s decision to deploy Apache attack helicopters in Libya will place British forces at ‘increased risk’, the Defence Secretary Liam Fox admitted yesterday. Four of the aircraft will begin sort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoStaring into the huge hole in the road, this Chinese official probably cannot believe his eyes. That's because a lorry has fallen down this massive fracture in the road which opened up as he drove over it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice hunting a former aide to David Blunkett suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend have confirmed it was his body that was found less than a mile from the scene of her murder. Detectives have been work...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe burglar let out of jail because it breached his family’s human rights has a history of aggressive behaviour, it emerged yesterday. Wayne Bishop, 33, left a headmistress fearing for her own and her pupi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNearly two thirds of criminals avoid jail despite amassing at least 15 convictions, shocking figures show. Instead of being put behind bars, more than 62,000 offenders were given lesser punishments, such...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA EUROPEAN quango could take control of British border guards under alarming new plans to create an EU-wide immigration agency. Proposals passed by the European Parliament’s home affairs committee call ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBRUSSELS last night sparked fury after backing plans to increase the European Union’s budget to £787billion and directly tax British workers. Euro MPs were accused of delivering a “kick in the teeth” to U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbout 40 houses had their roofs blown off and hundreds of acres of crops destroyed when a hailstorm hit Namutumba District. The two-hour hailstorm on Thursday hit 20 villages including Isegero A and B, Ndi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThese stunning images capture the final stage of the construction of the International Space Station. But as they marked the beginning of a new era in space exploration, the spacewalk undertaken by Gregor...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoOne of the key points of the BBC's agenda about climate change (as David skilfully also points out in his post below) is the enthusiastic backing of the political, liberal elite/ruling class in their deter...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 13 hours agoI know, I know. I spent far too much time and energy on it, to no avail. What can you do? But reaching people like that is what we have to do, and it doesn't do any good to just write them off as zombies ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Keith Olbermann reads Part 1 of Thurber's "The Greatest Man in the World."* *by Ken* As I mentioned in the "postscript" to our reading of Ring Lardner's "Champion,": "With 'Champion' under our belts we'...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago*Record rise, despite recession, means 2C target almost out of reach* [image: Economic recession has failed to curb rising emissions, undermining hope of keeping global warming to safe levels. Photograph...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 14 hours agoFederal Reserve Bank (Inc.) A Murderous History? Banksters, the Worlds Worst Gangsters | Wake Up From Your Slumber Webpage discovered by Rockclimber! - May 1, 1776 Jesuit Professor Adam Weishaupt who ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Demolished: An aerial view of the plant taken on March 24 shows Unit 4 and Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi. A red crane far left shows the valiant efforts of th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Coming Crisis fully supports John DeHart's protest, and the retaking of America from the self-proclaimed elite, who excel above the rest of Americans only in their violence, meanness and greed. If y...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoTrends Forecaster Gerald Celente warned in February that we should expect another false flag attack in America to boost the popularity of President Obama and escalate the wars in the Middle East. "Look fo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Lowari Pass begins in the Pakistani town of Dir and winds its way through the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. Hell's Road, as it is known among locals, is 240km long and forms the only supply ...
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- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThirty-five talks (total), seven talks (attended), three panel discussions, three amazing short films. Several pints of beer, countless interesting ideas, dozens of thought-provoking comments, not enough...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 15 hours ago*Global financial crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-05-20-2011-(Part1)* *PressTVGlobalNews* Uploaded by PressTVGlobalNews on May 21, 2011 In this edition of On the Edge, Max Keiser interviews Dr, Paul C...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*by Ken* I don't know how closely everyone has been following the curious story of the use on both *Glee* and *Good Morning America* of edited versions of Lady GaGa's "Born This Way" which by curious co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAcclaimed Chinese author Xiaolu Guo told the Hay Festival that China sees America as its enemy. Leading Chinese author Xiaolu Guo has revealed that China still views America as its biggest enemy and compe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAs a doomsayer from the start, who has written several times on the subject, I have recently been reluctant to burden my readers with more jeremiads about the euro. But fasten your seatbelts. Here I go ag...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours agoA study released today warns that Canada will lose access to 400,000 sq. kms. of northern territory by 2050 and that's due to global warming. The report by scientists at UCLA that a lot of northerners, de...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 18 hours agoWould you be surprised to learn that in Ontario, Canada, the government has farmed out child protection to a ruthless corporate mob that gets paid "by the head" and that is accountable to no one?Some extraor...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 18 hours agoDon't look to North American mainstream media for anything like this about the outside world: Another amazing report by video journalist and foreign correspondent Jesse Freeston!
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 18 hours ago[image: Wallpapers, fondos o backgrounds para tu pc, laptop o netbook][image: Wallpapers, fondos o backgrounds para tu pc, laptop o netbook] [image: Wallpapers, fondos o backgrounds para tu pc, laptop o ne...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 19 hours ago*PERSONAL:* *THEN AND NOW:* As part of the cleanup that never ends I recently came across a series of old publications ie the 'Discussion Bulletin' published by Frank Girard down Michegan way. The issu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEvery two to three years, Eddie Sales trims and prunes the crape myrtles at his church, Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church. But this year, the city of Charlotte cited the church for improperly pruning it...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEnter next phase of the housing crisis. First quarter sales data released yesterday by RealtyTrac showed that foreclosure accounted for 28 percent of all sales -- the highest amount in a year. The slow ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe controversial PROTECT IP Act unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee today. When the PROTECT IP Act becomes law U.S. authorities and copyright holders will have the power to seize domains, bl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLong speculated upon in our community, the rock and the hard place has finally become a reality. An economy not accelerating at an accelerating rate is declining at an accelerating rate. The mirage of a re...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMedia reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal revenues. This would come on top of the higher income tax rates that President...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoCheck out Katty Kay - taking over for Matt Frei as alpha Beeboid at BBC World News America since he left for Channel 4 - telling Mayor Bloomberg of New York that she is "astonished" to learn that more and ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich posted an excellent opinion piece Thursday, The Republican Death Wish. He wrote it even before Miss McConnell came out and declared that the Senate Republicans had d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA senior Scotland Yard official is being investigated over career-threatening allegations made by a female member of staff. Martin Tiplady, the £180,000-a-year director of human resources, faces an uncert...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Unit 2 nuclear reactor at the Limerick Generating Station shut down automatically at 5:02am today. Operators at the plant are still determining the cause of the shutdown, the company said in a statemen...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
- *Over our Andalucian desert* now and then occur short but heavy convective thunderstorms with nearly constant lightning in the skies. Always a spectacular sight with sounds you hardly can imagine. Thunder...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoAntiwar Radio, May 28, 2011: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses David Sanger’s latest inflammatory and inaccurate NY Times article on Iran’s nuclear program (you’d...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoBlue Sky Black Death - Our Hearts Of Ruin
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Image of abalone in water containing 1,800 ppm CO2 is an example showing abnormal shell development. ubc.ca]Increasing levels of ocean acidity could spell doom for British Columbia's already bele...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: A digitally enhanced satellite image shows the oil spill cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico. The image uses the satellite's sensor bands to highlight the oil and dispersant. DigitalGlobe via Re...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoLike George Monbiot or James Hansen and James Lovelock, I don't think we're going to be able to free ourselves of our fossil fuel addiction without embracing every non-carbon energy source currently availa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Demonstrators shout slogans in Desaguadero, Peru, on Wednesday, May 18, during two weeks of protests against Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining's proposed silver mine. Juan Karita / Associated Pre...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Catch Trends by Valuable Marine Species Groups, 1970-2008. UNFAO, The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010] Growth of tuna fisheries halted in 2008 as catches of this species group decr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Verhalen, Texas — Dry weeds surround a wooden cross in a field near the town of Verhalen, 21 May 2011. The state is suffering from a severe drought that is causing wildfires and hardship for ranc...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: A fire truck sprays water at No 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture in this still image taken from a video by the Self Defence Force Nuclear Bi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of flooded city in Pakistan, 13 September 2011. MSNBC] London, May 10, IRNA – An all-party committee of MPs Tuesday expressed concern that only $700 million of a $2 billion appeal has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 19-year-old illegal immigrant who tricked a school into believing he was 15 was only exposed after he was arrested for stabbing two youngsters with a broken bottle. Violent thug Niamat Miah even dated a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*VERDI:La Forza del destino: Act III, Recitative and aria, Alvaro, "La vita è inferno all'infelice" . . . "O tu che in seno agli angeli"* *José Carreras sings Don Alvaro's Act III monologue at La Scala in ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of a flooded village in Pakistan, 2010. phillyworkersvoice.wordpress.com] ISLAMABAD, May 29 (PakTribune) – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said Pakistan suffered a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHello everyone. There aren't many announcements this week, so I'll keep it short and simple: many of the stories are pointing to a gradual but steady ebbing away of freedom in the United States, and if you...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe world's biggest outbreak of a deadly form of E.coli bacteria has claimed another life as it continues to spread across Europe. Health officials say the virus, *believed to have originated from organic ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWhether you prefer the term "ocean acidification" or the less compelling but more accurate "ocean de-alkalisation", there's little doubt that the addition of carbon dioxide to the seas threatens to chang...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoNOAA's Eye-Opening Time-Lapse Video of April's Deadly Tornadoes Major Tornado Outbreak Impacts Southeast U.S. - April 26, 2011 Technorati Tags: North America,global warming,climate change,infrastructur...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Oliver James* According to someone who worked in a psychiatric hospital: "Patients had 'events' mostly on days when visited by... 'loving, supportive families'. "One girl in her twenties, who was before...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: SINKING FORTUNES: Threats to dolphins include certain tuna fishing practices and run-off of agricultural and industrial chemicals into rivers that drain into coastal areas of the ocean where dolp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING — Authorities say a blast at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed three people and injured eight others. The government of Zibo city in Shandong province said in a statement Sunday that p...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Republican House Representative Dana Rohrabacher believes that razing down rainforests will solve global warming.] Commentary by Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com 27 May 2011 Republican House Repres...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and winds of a typhoon heading towards the country, officials admit. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, said ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDoctors say what may seem fun and innocent may actually be leading teens into what's being termed "Facebook Depression." If you're a teenager you're most likely on a social networking site like "Faceboo...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI know some will roll their eyes when I say this, but the federal Liberals - *and* *all political parties for that matte*r - could learn a lot from the Alberta Liberal Party. After all, everyone talks abou...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAnother screwed up NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. 14-dead, reportedly all women and children. Six others wounded. The Talibs are busy signing up new recruits. Karzai's beating his chest. Says this i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGoogle made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmed men are reported to have taken control of a provincial capital in the unsettled south of Yemen. Government officials and residents said fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian troops have attacked two towns north of the capital Damascus, as they continue a crackdown against anti-government protests, reports say. Witnesses said the troops - backed by tanks and helicopters...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSales of homes in some stage of foreclosure declined in the first three months of the year, but they still accounted for 28 percent of all home sales — a share nearly six times higher than what it would be...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfrican swine fever (ASF), a viral disease harmless to people but lethal to pigs, is likely to spread beyond Russia and the Caucasus region into Europe, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Economist recently featured two articles that depict the new extent of American poverty. A lot of us have grown complacent in the face of widespread unemployment and destitution, but as Catholics we ca...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoFund created to bypass earmark ban: "The defense bill that just passed the House of Representatives includes a back-door fund that lets individual members of Congress funnel millions of dollars into projects...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoLockheed Martin thwarts cyber attack: "Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest aerospace companies, acknowledged a 'tenacious' attack on its information systems network earlier in May but said no custome...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoNATO looks into claim 12 Afghan children killed in strike: "An airstrike hit two houses where women and children were staying, residents say. Afghan officials are also investigating the claim. "We did it ...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe origin of 60-year-old photographs of Marilyn Monroe remain a mystery.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBMW, Ford and Chevrolet are testing a method to capture waste heat from car engines to improve gas mileage.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYesterday we talked a little about how Republican state governments have taken such harmful and extreme positions-- particularly in states like Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, Maine, Arizona and Michigan-- that...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoPlease enjoy three minutes of inspired filmmaking. "Just another cog in the machine," produced and directed by John Wood (UK, 2009). Thanks to Kim_in_TO and CLiFF for showing us this.
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwelve children and two wom[image: Link]en have been killed in a Nato airstrike in Afghanistan, according to local officials. The tragedy happened in Nawzad district in southwest Helmand province late on...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoHarper, Obama talk plans for perimeter security Manley, CEOs, propose details on perimeter security CATSA airport security screening measures tightened Government of Canada enhances aviation security ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe people of Wales don't want windfarms and the associated forests of pylons. The economics of windfarms are those of the madhouse. But we now have a ruling class that - in greedy pursuit of their own sel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor the first time, the American social networking site has bowed to a court action brought by a British group complaining that they were libelled in messages. The individuals who brought the legal actio...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*August 2008 -Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen and Navy Rear Adm. Scott van Buskirk talk with Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, centre, and Major Gen. Ahmad Shuj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA robber nicknamed the 'Grandma Bandit' was actually a man, it has been revealed. Roxanne Taylor, 57, was killed by Atlanta police on Friday morning, one day after they issued a warrant for his arrest. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoModern China is like a great freight train storming up a long, steep slope with no summit in sight, all its locomotives straining. It cannot slow or stop. The brakes would never hold. If it pauses for a se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors. They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe high school You Tube star who was sucked through the sunroof of his car as he drove home from graduation has been confirmed dead. Will Norton was driving home from his school graduation when the torna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor years, the greatest minds in astrophysics have grappled with the 'missing mass' question. They knew that universe contained more mass than was visible in planets, stars and other objects - but they d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new secrecy row has erupted after a tribunal judge imposed a gagging order on a sex discrimination case involving a married executive at one of Britain’s most high-profile public bodies. The case has be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's lingering drought is continuing to affect the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Despite government measures the situation remains critical. The five provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant Saturday ignited a fire and forced the evacuation of some 750 people, an official said. The local fire department received a call about an explosion at Chem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOfficials in Philadelphia had no explanation Saturday for residents who felt their homes shake from what they thought was an explosion, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Police, firefighters and other ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoSpanish filmmakers have finally shot a documentary movie accurately showing how the bureaucrats operate: Holy cow, I totally identify myself with the blonde entrepreneur. That's exactly how I approach...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*José Carreras (Don Alvaro) and Piero Cappuccilli (Don Carlo) sing "*Solenne in quest'ora*" at La Scala, 1978. (You'd think someone would have had the tact to edit out that ghastly "*lasciate*" with which...
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- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 1 day agoInvestment bankers salivate over North Africa*Chaos and strife create the revolutionary atmosphere in which opportunity abounds* Written by Atheo | *Aletho News* | March 8, 2011 Investment banking is usua...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 1 day agoHolocaust ‘denier’ death, Mossad linked Press TV – August 22, 2010 Dariusz RatajczakAmerican writer JP Bellinger does not rule out the the involvement of Israeli spy agency, Mossad, in the tragic death o...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere is a unique commerce system at work along the narrowest stretch of the Tajaparu River in Amazonia, northern Brazil. This is where the boats pass close to the shore, and the best place for the litt...
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