- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 minutes ago
*As the White Sox complete their spring-training swing out West, before returning East for the season opener in Cleveland, Jack for the first time joins his teammates in a poker game. He winds up winning... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
It’s all a bit worrying. Evidence of a sharp slowdown in both the European and world economies continues to mount. Earlier confidence that the global economy was strong enough to absorb moves by China and ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
I’m not sure why everyone thought comments the other day from the German Finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, to the effect that Greece may eventually face a sovereign debt restructuring, were such a revel... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The €78bn (£69bn) bail-out package will push Portugal into recession for at least two years and cause substantial economic and social upheaval, the beleaguered country's finance minister has warned. Teix... - posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoIt's a sad day for physics crackpots bent on disproving relativity, because once again, it turns out that Einstein was right.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 hours agoMy friends, there's no denying the impact of the past couple of days. The way it stands now, we're going to have to live with a Harper majority for the next four or five years. And while it's nice t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Wave-cut coastal scarp near the Varandei oil terminal, Pechora Sea, Russia. State of the Arctic Coast 2010 / S. Ogorodov, Arctic Coastal Dynamics Coastal Photo Collection, Potsdam] Wave-cut coas...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoWhen something happens and the public really needs industry to know, all industry has to do is refuse to disclose....just like Chesapeake Energy did recently after their well blowout.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Republicans, quick to claim that torture works -- though of course this country doesn’t torture, but if it did, that would have been the key to getting clues to Osama’s hideout -- said Obama just followe... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Annual excess mortality attributable to heat waves in Chicago, 2081–2100, for seven climate models under the B1, A1B, and A2 SRES (with 95% CIs reflecting statistical uncertainty in risk estimati...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoEnergy In Depth has now written two hit pieces on Stephanie Hallowich of the Marcellus Shale and only one on me. Dang!Dear Steph, I stand in your shadow.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: FAO Food Price Index, 1990-May 2011. fao.org] The *FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 232 points in April 2011, virtually unchanged from the revised March estimate, 36 percent above April 201...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Firefighters tackle flames near the village of Kustaryovka in the Ryazan region of Russia, 11 August 2010, as the wildfires continued to fan out across the country and head towards the contaminat...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 hours agoCommon Dreams Published on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Wired.com by Spencer Ackerman The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in c...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 4 hours agoENTERTAINMENT/POLITICS - We've all done it. Confused the names Obama and Osama at some point. Its just funnier when the news media does it. The following clip is from Jimmy Kimmel Live! and features news ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago
*May 5, 2011* *Pakistani Military Faces Scrutiny as Unfolding Evidence Suggests Direct Role in Harboring bin Laden* Numerous questions have been raised on how Osama bin Laden could have been livi... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America. People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Ch... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Treasury has told lawmakers a roughly $2 trillion rise in the legal limit on federal debt would be needed to ensure the government can keep borrowing through the 2012 presidential election, sources w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA new study suggests that Canada's millionaire club is going to have a lot more members over the next decade. The study, released by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, predicts the number of Can...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoI do not always agree with 86-year old Richard Russell, author of the Dow Theory Letters, but there is no disputing that he has been on the money with his gold recommendations ever since the low of $250 te...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMexico has quietly purchased nearly 100 tons of gold bullion, as central banks embark on their biggest bullion buying spree in 40 years. The purchase, reported in monthly data published by Mexico’s central...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWorld food prices rose to near a record in April as grain costs advanced, adding pressure to inflation that is accelerating from Beijing to Brasilia and spurring central banks to raise interest rates. An...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo Pennsylvania school districts are considering switching to a four-day week to save money. The Coatesville Area School District in Chester County and the Warren County School District are considering ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAccording to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday. WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke w...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 6 hours agoAmerica needs a new peaceful revolution says Dr. Steve Pieczenik, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and a serious expert in the hidden world of government psyops. He made the statement on the A...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoFifty years ago when Alan Shepard climbed inside his Mercury capsule to blast off into space, things were looking pretty grim for the fledgling U.S. space program.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours agoOne of the questions I get asked the most, is where I print my photos. I thought I would start a series on my favorite printers and tell you about why I love them. It is no secret that I love Shutterfly. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoFirst the good news: House Democrats unveiled a series of proposals Wednesday that are meant to for the basis of a Make It In America agenda. Their proposals would aggressively boost manufacturing output ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 8 hours agotruthdig Posted on May 1, 2011 Chris Hedges, speaking at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death. I know that because of this anno...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago*Spending Caps: The Republican Plan with Lipstick * *karinmoveon* Robert Reich describes the new threat, a Medicare Kill Switch disguised as a reasonable-sounding spending cap. As he puts it, it's t...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoGlobal warming has been cutting into worldwide wheat and corn production, except in the United States.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoWorkers entered a reactor building at Japan's stricken nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since an explosion hit the facility a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 8 hours agoSteve's majority holds by 14 seats Below Matt Peters and Ryan Boldt look at 14 of the most closely contested Conservative ridings where the combined opposition vote was less than 800 - and in one case in ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoOBAMA RESTORES OLD ROMAN COLISEUM BLOODBATHS By Mohawk Naiton News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN. May 4, 2011. US President Obama made the decision to send assassins to disfigure and brutally murd...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoWelcome to the LiveChat which is a 5th May Election Special. We kick off with the return of Question Time; which tonight comes from the last BBC option "*damn I can't claim decent expenses from here*" of ...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThis post has been split so that if you want to follow both LiveChats at the same time you can easily open the two posts in two different windows and put them alongside each other. Cunning thinking, eh?...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoMark Thompson explores the famous Drake Equation and estimates how many communicating extraterrestrials could be out there.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe Navy commandos who swooped down and killed Osama bin Laden are reportedly members of an elite squad known as "Team Six."
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: A truly frightening radar image: multiple hook echoes from at least ten supercell thunderstorms cover Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee during the height of the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak. w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPresident Barack Obama is visiting New York's Ground Zero - as fresh doubts emerge over the official US account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The *American leader* will hope to begin to bury t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago2011 is only four months old, yet this is already one of the deadliest years for US tornadoes on record. As Alabama and other states count the human cost of the twisters that ravaged the South last week, y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a radioactive release into the Mississippi River from the Grand Gulf Nuclear Plant in Port Gibson.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThe Corporatist spin machine went into high gear with the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed. They immediately began downplaying the Obama administration's role in getting bin Laden, portra...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: A moorland fire burns in Mytholmroyd, England as the dry weather continues, 5 May 2011. Getty Images] By Ben Mitchell and Mike Hornby, PA 5 May 2011 Hundreds of firefighters are continuing to ba...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Here comes the judge* The "We Want Him To Fail" Crowd is still going full steam ahead, but the bloom is off the rose for that bunch too. In the history of the United States Senate no District Court Judge...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoNot a single voice allowed on the BBC today to criticize. Every single Beeboid on air is saying how wonderful this is, and how this is "paying respect" to the families and is absolutely not a victory lap o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThere are suggestions that various sites around the world; such as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey; the Incan ruins of Sacsayhuamán in Peru; the Carnac stones of France; and Zorats Karer in Armenia, show constructi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHillary Clinton has said she has "no idea" what she and the rest of Barack Obama's national security team were watching at the precise moment a photographer snapped what has become the defining image of th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIsrael halted most departures from Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion international airport on Thursday after routine checks found aviation fuel supplies were contaminated, an airport spokesman said. Only aircraft th...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 11 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The U.S. right wing will not be happy until every American is reduced to a mere 'consuming' machine, a unit, into which is fed the most absurd lies, the most outra...
- posted by Lauren Effron at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoCinco de Mayo marks Mexico's freedom from France -- but it's celebrated more in the U.S. than in Mexico!
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe gene, identified as TRIM5, appears to offer protection from the deadly virus.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoChildren with autism experience an extra burst in brain size before reaching 2 years old.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours agoMore videos of San Carlos and environs are posted here from time to time. Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPolice probing the murder of Thorntons worker Jia Ashton arrested a 22-year-old man today. The 25-year-old was found dead in woodland near Somercotes, Derbyshire, in March. A spokesman for Derbyshire Pol...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPakistan warned America Thursday of "disastrous consequences" if it carries out any more unauthorized raids against suspected terrorists like the one that killed Osama bin Laden. However, the government...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThere is a fascinating piece at Poynter that describes how since the *Reagan * era (and possibly before) it has been the standard operating procedure that during a live presidential address, like the one *P...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose to an eight-month high last week and productivity growth slowed in the first quarter, clouding the outlook for an economy that is struggling to gain spee...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe deputy leader of Canada's new Official Opposition party says he doubts the U.S. has photos of Osama bin Laden's body. Thomas Mulcair, who stands in for NDP Leader Jack Layton in the House of Commons ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJapanese workers entered the No.1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since a hydrogen explosion ripped off its roof a day after a devastating March...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResearchers at MIT have found a way to make significant improvements to the power-conversion efficiency of solar cells by enlisting the services of tiny viruses to perform detailed assembly work at the mic...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe boreal forests of Siberia are a vast, homogenous ecosystem dominated by larch trees. The trees survive in this semi-arid climate because of a unique symbiotic relationship they have with permafrost – t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAs we approach next year's presidential elections, the chances of President Barack Obama being ousted by a rival from either side of the political divide are low, according to Thanos Papasavvas, the head o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCHINESE warships could be heading to Australian ports this year after the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, took "a few small steps" towards military transparency and co-operation with President Hu Jintao. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLess than two months before voters are expected to go to the polls in national elections, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday announced ambitious plans to dig a new canal through Istanbul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck of the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.2 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 14:58:21 p.m. UTC Thursday. The epicenter was 471 km (292 miles) from Tokyo, Japan No tsu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoIntel Sandy Bridge microprocessors are already being sold. However, Intel just announced something much more shocking, namely Ivy Bridge microprocessors that will use 3-dimensional tri-gate transistors (...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe question begins by noting that Canada has a majority government that goes by the name "Conservative" but really isn't. They're opposed by a party that once was proud to proclaim itself socialist that...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours ago*Over the past four months, I have been adding updates to my article, "The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran's Nuclear Program," whenever new predictions and allegations ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours agoDr. Steve R. Pieczenik "served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and/or Senior Policy Planner under Secretaries Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, George Schultz and James Baker." US envoy Pieczenik ad...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoFrom Facebook: On your census Comments section, you can indicate your support for reinstating the mandatory long form. For example, "We would be happy to fill out a mandatory Long Form, to improve plannin...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoBin Laden’s theology a radical break with traditional Islam: " By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN) – Osama bin Laden wore the mantle of a religious leader. He looked the part and talked a goo...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoThe President ordered Osama Bin Laden killed without trial, without due process of law, and the BBC North America editor is crestfallen. Mardell really doesn't know what to do. He has his own opinions, his...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoNativist Extremist Pushing Arizona to Activate New ‘State Guard’: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last Thursday signed into law a bill authorizing herself and future Arizona governors to deploy an “Arizona State Gu...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoHolocaust Denier David Irving Speaks Tonight in Montana: "David Irving is no historian, as his official biography would have the world believe. The reality is that he a propagandist who has probably done as ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours ago10-year-old accused of killing neo-Nazi father may pursue insanity defense, his attorney says (USA): "An attorney for a 10-year-old boy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his father, a local neo-N...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoOnline scammers jump on bin Laden news: "Online thieves and spammers are using the killing of Osama bin Laden to send out malicious software and spam."
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoDemjanjuk attorney: Client suffered like the Jews: " John Demjanjuk's attorney has compared his client's suffering at the hands of the Nazis to that of the Jews."A camp guard "suffered like the Jews"???? Giv...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoUS stunt to salvage tenuous regional dominion faces Pakistani-Chinese ire. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 5, 2011 - The immediate reaction by most across the world upon hearing of "Bin Laden's" d...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoDevice attempts to mimic the feeling of a long-distance French kiss, swirling tongue and all.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA future material could bend sound waves so they would only pass through a wall in one direction.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 13 hours agoIn the 2004 election, the Liberal Party lost 37 seats. Liberals blamed this on Adscam, and they blamed it on Dalton McGuinty. This was considered a bad result, but the good news was voters had gotten it ou...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoAs Big Business and authoritarian government began melding in the early 1930s in Germany (as it had in Italy), it wasn't always smooth but both sides saw eye to eye on one factor-- without the destructio...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 15 hours agoI love the way the trees move in wind, not straining against the force, but bending back in ecstasy to accept the warm embrace. Wind in the leaves tickles the branches and they sparkle, flashing the light of...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoBefore the invention of modern contraception, family planning took the form of a chilling practice.
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoWe’ve had many surprises this week. One was seeing Mark Regev in the studio, speaking without constant interruptions and contradictions. We had the usual anti Israel tripe from various talking heads too, e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe plight of inmates in North Korea's huge network of Soviet-style gulags has been revealed in a report by human rights campaigners. Satellite images of the camps, released by Amnesty International, showi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA massive asteroid will fly within the moon's orbit narrowly missing Earth later this year. The space rock, called YU55, will hurtle past our planet at a distance of just 201,700 miles during its closest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThirteen people at a local community health clinic were treated and released at Evergreen Medical Center in Redmond after they reported feeling nauseous and dizzy this morning. Crews from the Redmond Fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago*A NUCLEAR leak on a Russian icebreaker off the coast of western Siberia forced the vessel to head back to port, Russia's nuclear fleet, Rosatomflot, said today. * The "insignificant increase in activity...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoVincent Tabak has admitted the manslaughter of Joanna Yeates but prosecutors say he will still face trial for her murder. The Dutch engineer, 33, appeared via videolink from prison for the hearing at the ...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 21 hours ago(PHOTO: Troy Davis with family during a prison visit.) Troy Davis Execution Date Expected Anytime --An interview with Laura Moye of Amnesty International By Angola 3 News Laura Moye is director of the Am...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThey managed to penetrate Pakistani airspace, hover for 40 minutes, and flee undetected towards Afghanistan until the very last minute. And now, pictures of the wrecked helicopter that crashed in Osama bin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHundreds of children in Nigeria are being subjected to horrific violence after being accused of withcraft, according to a report by a children's rights charity. Children as young as two have been burnt, p...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoStanford's $0.76 billion satellite mission to test Einstein's theory of gravity, Gravity Probe B (Wiki), has announced the final results during the press conference aired by NASA TV a few hours ago. The re...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 21 hours agoHe was a man of many names. Arshad, Ahmed, Abu Ahmed to name a few. To his neighbors within *Abbottabad*, Pakistan, he was a friendly man from the country's tribal areas who worked as a money changer and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPakistan and America are locked in a diplomatic stand-off over the fate of Osama Bin Laden’s youngest wife. Amal al Sadah was at the centre of an international custody battle after Pakistan refused to giv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOsama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts em...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFormer U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is joining the notorious security firm known previously known as Blackwater that has changed its name to Xe Services. The investment group USTC Holdings, LLC, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAlthough now a household name boasting a host of celebrity fans, Banksy proved yesterday that he still knows how to court controversy - by selling a poster of a lit petrol bomb in a Tesco bottle. The anon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 16-year-old youth has been charged with murdering two British tourists who were shot dead in Florida last month. Shawn Tyson will be tried as an adult for first-degree murder after the deaths of James ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoPaul Craig Roberts May 4, 2011 at 16:55:49 Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/4/11: The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com The US ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of Syrian tanks and troop transporters have been sent to the city of Homs as the government continues to arrest hundreds of opposition activists, witnesses say. Amateur footage on the internet sho...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"[A]ll the essential truth about ball-playing can be found in You Know Me Al. Its broader values to one side, there has never been a sounder baseball book. . . . [I]f you stop to pick over the accounts of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJohn Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism chief, said that the assault force who attacked *bin Laden's* compound, would only have accepted surrender if they were 100 per cent sure that he was unarm...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne curious aspect of recent events in the Middle East and North Africa is how unwilling most commentators have been to join the dots between the Federal Reserve’s second phase of quantitative easing and...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPictures taken shortly after the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden show three men lying dead in pools of blood and the wreckage of a U.S. helicopter abandoned during the assault. One of th...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoA pair of headlines from today: Mulcair to coach new NDP MPs NDP deputy leader doubts bin Laden photos exist
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - For decades during the Cold War the Soviet Union was the devil incarnate. Inflated the threat to unbelievable levels and it was only after the fact we learned most of it was just mythology and p...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoIn the past few days I have come to understand more clearly how the war on terror as a drama is maintained and advanced by the script writers in America's shadow totalitarian/psyop state. The framing of Os...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThe New York Times actually ran an article about a video series exposing the outrageous activities of the billionaire Koch Brothers - who are a sinister force behind efforts to use think-tanks, professiona...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoDr. Steve R. Pieczenik: Obama is Totally Inept! 1/2 2/2
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Maybe Roz Chast's Idiotman couldn't explain what the deal is in Afghanistan, but I bet he could help us not care.* *"In other post-bin Laden news, the White House said that they were 'no longer concerned...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHas dark matter been detected? Is dark matter really varying with the seasons? Possibly.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoKnowing the truth makes one feel alive, and live on the edge of reality instead in the land of fantasy. Freedom can't be restored unless the people know the full truth about 9/11 and the false war on terro...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPaulo Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut serving aboard the International Space Station, will be coming home later this month to a world without his mother, Maria Motta.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoUnder any of the various versions of proportional representation, Steve would not now be enjoying his majority. *Fair Vote Canada* : "The Conservative party increased their vote percentage by less than...
- posted by Eric Allen Bell at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoMedia Advisory Waterboarding 'Worked'? Media push pro-torture message 5/4/11 To hear s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetroit mother Maryanne Godboldo faces multiple felony charges and is being held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with a heavily armed police SWAT team. Godboldo was protecting her 13-year-old da...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorld’s most wanted al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden was not killed by the US special forces during a predawn raid at his compound in Abbottabad on late Sunday night, home to Pakistan Army’s military academy...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJust hours after American Navy Seals shot dead Osama bin Laden in a compound in Pakistan on Sunday, US President Barack Obama shot down the Pakistani security establishment's attempt to claim joint credit ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's irrelevant. It may be a rockin' Hollywood thriller - an Osama/Obama double bill (directed by Kathryn "Hurt Locker" Bigelow). But the targeted assassination - allegedly with an iconic American bullet t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnofficial sources claim that the newly wed Prince William and his wife kate Middleton had allegedly aborted plans for a honeymoon trip to Kenya due to being tipped off by US secret services that the Penta...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIndia may resume its nuclear tests taking advantage of the unrest in Middle East to counter China which it considers "a slumbering threat at its bedside," a state-run newspaper in Beijing said, describing ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAcross the Muslim world, the killing of Usama bin Laden has unleashed a swirl of conspiracy theories, with many Pakistanis, Afghans and Arabs refusing to believe US assurances that al Qaeda's founder is ac...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGrowth in the food stamp program appeared to reach a plateau in February — with 14.3% of the population relying on the safety net program. The number of food stamp recipients was essentially flat in Februa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe *Dow Jones Industrial Average* dropped more than 80 points after *edging into positive territory *at the end of a choppy session on Tuesday. Among Dow components, *Chevron *[CVX 104.05 -2.12 (-2%) ], *...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift. The declaration was made at a ceremony at...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreen, incredibly alcoholic and some say mind-altering - these are the qualities that led to absinthe being banned in France almost 100 years ago. But all that's about to change, after the government voted...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoLong Walk 3 at White Clay, Nebraska. The northern route is now at Leech Lake, Minn. Thanks to Chris Francisco and the walkers for the video. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blog...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoDr. Steve Pieczenik is the inspiration for the Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan, played by Harrison Ford in the 1992 film "Patriot Games." Dr. Steve Pieczenik, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Stat...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThis is just another toy by NeoWorx. NeoCube is the most awkward and inconvenient way to organize the truth about recent visitors on 6 places. The places are faces of a cube. ;-)
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoApologies, this is just a toy for people who like to play. ONLINE COUNTER ; VISITOR COUNTER No science may be found in this blog entry. You may rotate the globe above. The "people" and "planet" icons s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Not Bush, not Cheney, but war criminals nonetheless* When someone's small grandchildren are killed in a war it always seems especially tragic. And it happens every single day in every single war. It's ho...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoDr. Steve Pieczenik, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance, and James Baker, went public on the Alex Jones show on May 3rd, 2011, and said that the entire war on t...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoChicago is in for a hot time in the old town come 2100 - if no adaptation or mitigation for climate change is taken.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMore lost artifacts are being returned to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo -- some of which the museum never owned.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: 'Pray for Rain.' Boise City's current dry spell is its longest since note-keeping began in 1908. On the sign outside the Boise City Church of Christ, an apt prayer request. Matthew Staver for The...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoOver the past month, I've asked you to rate election commercials. I've gone back and calculated the mean grade for each, and will now count down the top 5 ads of the election. You'll notice the following ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[This horrifying video shows harp seals being slaughtered with hakapiks; not for the faint of heart.] The Canadian seal hunt opened this week with fewer animals being killed. Record-low ice kept sealer...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe 1,300 gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain region are considered recovered and are losing federal protection.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Fort Sill Apache Tribe to President Obama about 'Geronimo' * ** * **Wednesday, May 4, 2011* By Jeff Houser Letter from Jeff Houser, Chairman of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, to President Barack ...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day agoOn May 4, 2011, James Corbett of The Corbett Report interviewed Activist Teacher Denis Rancourt in this wide ranging 29-minute radio discussion:LINK TO RADIO INTERVIEWAnthropogenic global warming, guilt-alle...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe battle scars on the remains of a 120-million-year-old marine reptile suggest ocean life during the dinosaurs was rough.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Coming Crisis has discovered White House released correspondence with the Hawaiian State Department of Health that details, specifically and without any doubt, that Obama's long form birth certificate ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Food Price Index and Oil Price Index, January 2006-January 2011. IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2011.] By MARK KAPCHANGA 4 May 2011 The International Monetary Fund is warning that poverty lev...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFrench president Nicholas Sarkozy has fired a shot across Israel's bow. He has warned that if the peace process remains dead France will formally recognize the Palestinian state. *"If the peace process i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*The Telegraph* is reporting that Osama bin Laden left a 4-page will in which he urges his kids not to follow his path. *The instruction to his 24 children not to fight jihad cites a precedent from the Is...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOur Afghan war has morphed into so many directions, so many causes that it's hard to keep track of why we're over there. The Americans went in to get bin Laden and his al Qaeda cohorts. They stepped into...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChild killer Jon Venables is to get a new secret name, because of a serious security breach which has revealed details of his current identity. Details of the breach cannot be revealed for legal reasons. ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*By paul craig roberts* In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Tru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Little by little, CIA Director Leon Panetta is giving details about the operation that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. He tells PBS that President Barack Obama wasn't getting a di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn an interview with Steve Kroft for this Sunday's 60 Minutes, President Obama says he won't release post-mortem images of Osama bin Laden taken to prove his death. Video of the comments will appear on th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSteve Harper has a real problem. It's a bunch of little people in little boats. They call themselves the Gitga'at Nation and their ancestral home is in Hartley Bay. The Gitga'at live and earn their liv...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoPamela Geller: A Military Coup Forced Obama to Act: " According to Pamela 'Shrieking Harpy' Geller, President Obama only acted against Osama bin Laden because there was a military coup.Yes, she really did w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTaking a look at various stories of angelic visitations that to some ancient astronaut theorists read more like alien encounters than divine appearances, and suggests they are not supernatural beings, but ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTransport authority files appeal in fight against 'Leaving Islam?' ad for Detroit buses: "Florida Pastor Terry Jones isn't the only controversial character fighting for the First Amendment right to bring a c...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTennessee: Republican politician delivers anti-Islam rant as hundreds of Muslims protest at state capitol: " The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on state and nation...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoMuslim waiter had to change name from Mohamed because Waldorf hotel 'did not want to scare guests': "An Arab banquet waiter at the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel says he was forced to wear different name ta...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTrial of Anti-Semitic Lawyer in Plot to Kill Wife Enters Final Stage: "As early as today, a federal jury in Idaho will begin determining the fate of Edgar Steele, a volatile attorney who represented leading ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoThe Radical Right Reacts: Spinning the Killing of Osama bin Laden: "Right-wing extremists, already reeling from the release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate – the document many “birthers” ins...
- Department of Homeland Security Removes Designated Countries from Controversial Surveillance Programposted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoDepartment of Homeland Security Removes Designated Countries from Controversial Surveillance Program: "In a significant triumph in the fight against racial profiling, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoPam Geller and the Ulsterman: " Charles Johnson draws attention to a new post by Pamela Geller, in which she cites a website that claims that Osama bin Laden only met his end because the military overrode th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIn Monday's post about how Wyoming is exhibiting a kind of non-fascist libertarian face of conservatism, we looked a bit at some of the similarities between Hitler's rise to power and the political career...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoSt. Petersburg neo-Nazi gets prison in pipe bombs case (USA): "A St. Petersburg man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for selling pipe bombs to undercover agents.Marc A. Balentine, 42, pl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's believed it wasn't until 1814 that mankind first reached a billion strong. When I was born that had reached 2.5-billion. This year our numbers swelled to 7-billion. We had been told that we might ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistan's prime minister says spy agencies worldwide share the blame for his country's failure to capture Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces. Meanwhile, the head of the CIA has said the US did...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorld Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest. Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank's early role ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe staff at the Ingham County Register of Deeds office dug up 60 mortgage documents last week that bore the hallmarks of fraud. On Monday, they found dozens more. The documents in question are mortgage a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFlooding in Quebec's Richelieu Valley is affecting about a dozen municipalities along the river, and residents are bracing for more evacuations as heavy rain and strong wind expected to continue all week. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEconomic recovery? What economic recovery? Contrary to popular media reports, government economic reporting specialist and ShadowStats Editor John Williams reads between the government-economic-data lines....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs early as January of 2005, high-ranking officials were discussing the best way to sell the idea of North American “integration” to the public and policymakers while getting around national constitutions....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United States is seeking a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan. It hopes to reverse the Taliban's momentum and bring them to the bargaining table through a counter-insurgency program, diplomacy with i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew Jersey has finally started to recover some of the jobs it lost during the recession, but at such a sluggish pace it will take another five years to get back to pre-slump levels, according to a Rutgers ...
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posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression. The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like... - posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG:* *SOLIDARITY PICKET FOR BRISTOL AEROSPACE WORKERS:* Happening this afternoon from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm ************************ *Solidarity Picket at Bristol! *Time Wednesday, May...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago*Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com May 4, 2011 [image: Top US Government Insider: Bin Laden Died In 2001, 9/11 A False Flag 040511top] Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numer...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*Thom Hartmann: I'll bet you didn't see this Palin on "Face the Nation" * *TheBigPictureRT* Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTwo innovations were combined to increase efficiency of solar-thermal flat panels by seven to eight times.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe finding challenges assumptions about the boundary between humans and non-human animals.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWas killing Osama bin Laden more trouble than it was worth? I suppose the Americans had to kill him. Taking him alive could have fueled all manner of fanatical responses and perhaps turned him into a ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCosmic rays crashing into the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations, rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Similar cosmic ray "hotspots" have been seen i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConcerns raised over shooting of unarmed bin Laden, burial - The killing of Osama bin Laden when he was unarmed has raised concerns the United States may have gone too far in acting as policeman, judge and...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, a female Sumatran tiger that is believed to have killed 3 men is seen inside a trap set up by forest rangers and environmental activists at a palm oil...
- posted by Lorene at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoHappy Wednesday! Thanks for the kind feedback for last week's anniversary post -- and remember, suggestions are always welcome! Today we're talking about searching. Not for Mr. Right... I've already found ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPHOENIX - A Phoenix man has been hospitalized after being stung by a swarm of bees. Firefighters say there were close to a 100,000 bees in the swarm. The swarm of bees attacked a homeless man walking down...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A meteorite weighing about a kilogramme smashed into the roof of a Masurian agro-tourism farm in the village of Sołtmany, near Kruklanki, northern Poland.* Nobody was hurt but some damage was done to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChilling video emerging from Syria is appears to show security forces firing on anti-government protesters. One set of pictures show a tense stand-off between soldiers and protesters on what is now being...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Marsican brown bear. For the last several decades the species has been on the brink of extinction -- with current estimates putting their population at less than 50 individuals, down from over 10...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNature exhibited her full fury last week when tornadoes swept through the South, devastating whole towns and killing hundreds. But yesterday she showed her magnificence as rare twin waterspouts - created ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA desperate father whose son was suffering from a life-threatening brain tumour has revealed he gave him cannabis oil to ease his pain. And he has now apparently made a full recovery. Cash Hyde, known as ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Pollution in the Matanza Riachuelo. The river provides the market with little more than landfill space; the market does little more than dump whatever can't be sold here. faslanyc.blogspot.com] ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Facebook message was brief and chilling - ‘Bout 2 kill ma kid’. It was posted by 24-year-old Australian Ramazan ‘Ramzy’ Acar before he picked up a huge Ninja-style knife and plunged it into the tiny bo...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago[image: ABBOTTABAD: 25Jun2008 A Pakistani drug addict smokes heroin in Abbottabad on the eve of International anti Narcotics Day. PHOTO by Sultan Dogar] *A Pakistani drug addict smokes heroin in Abbottaba...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOur Universe, and everything in it, was created by the Big Bang... or was it?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoObama decides not to release a photograph of a dead bin Laden since the photos are graphic and could be inflammatory.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWhile most Americans are still savoring the elimination of Osama bin-Laden, the Republican Party had something else they were hell-bent on eliminating this week: health care. Even their own right-wing po...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Greens got 360,000 more votes in 2008 than on Monday - in fact, they lost a larger proportion of their vote than either the Liberals or the Bloc. And yet, the 2011 election will go down as a historic ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoJust to reinforce my point about the partisan backbiting. I note this morning that Simon's got an excellent post addressing some of the same things, but he says it better than I can. Go and read it now. ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat was thought to be a cousin turns out to be a parent on the human evolutionary family tree.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThis is the first in a trio of "what i'm reading" posts falling under the general category of books about books, or reading about reading. After Roddy Doyle, these books are the top three books on my sprin...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIf comments on Twitter are anything to go by, Richard Bacon was an extremely inept and very biased host on last night's Young Voters' Question Time. This will come as no surprise to regular readers of this...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe man who purchased the land in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden's compound was built has been arrested, Sky sources reveal. The landholder was taken into custody after details emerged of the successful ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoSoros think-tank concedes to "possible foreign involvement." by Tony Cartalucci The International Crisis Group (ICG) has been at the center of the unfolding "Arab Spring" since the very beginning. Mohamed ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHere's a new Open Thread for you, enjoy! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNo, not THAT one! I mean Mohammed el Baradei. Did you catch this interviewwith this snake oil salesman this morning. As he points out, he doesn't hate America, just its policies. He doesn't hate Israel, he ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNice to see the BBC giving yet another "Thought for the Day" Slot to Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim chaplain at the University of Cambridge. Abdal gets a lot of platforms which is curious given the tiny % of th...
- posted by Williams Stephan at 24 Hours News Update - 1 day agoU.S. *intelligence* officials have been forced to reconsider many of their assumptions about Osama storage bin weighed down and his terror network with the discovery that he was living in relative luxury n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCIA "exploited intelligence leads" given by ISI to reach bin Laden: Pakistan Foreign Office Islamabad, May 4(ANI): Pakistan has said that the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is the world's top spy agenc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLa Salle County residents are asked to report finding dead birds of several species to the county health department. Dead birds are important sentinels for early detection of West Nile virus activity, acc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoElk die after gorging on winter wheat. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Mark Kirsch, who is based in Pendleton says that winter wheat is a addictive for elk. This addiction got the best o...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoiMatter March, a children's astroturf climate activist organization that will organize a march of broken glass between 7th and 14th of this month, has released their research about the end of the world i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAdvanced spacesuit technology that scientists hope will take mankind to Mars is being put through its paces... on Spanish mining terrain. European Space Agency scientists tested the spacesuit simulator Aou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLeaders of the so-called 'birther' movement have claimed that the birth certificate produced by Barack Obama is a fake. Despite the president providing the the full long-form document last week, the 'bir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe White House admitted last night that its initial account of the way Osama bin Laden died at the hands of US forces had been riddled with errors. Claims that the al-Qaeda leader had died while firing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLevels of radioactive substances have jumped in the Pacific seabed off Japan to as much as 1,000 times the normal readings, authorities have announced. Seabed samples collected near the Fukushima nuclear ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - As Michael Ignatieff has resigned as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada its now up to one of his fellow party members (presumably one which actually got elected as a MP) to replace him. At the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoMatthew Tamsett of the U.S. LHC writes about Frank Wilczek's recent talk in Texas that focused on supersymmetry. If you have 80 spare minutes, here is a similar talk he gave a year ago - his J. Robert Opp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe White House on Tuesday sought to clarify what actually happened when Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on Sunday. The day after White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan said bin Laden resi...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPreserved tissues from an extinct marine lizard fossil show that even sea-loving animals can keep their collagen cool under pressure.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe Harper/Layton government has delivered Canada firmly into the hands of Big Oil. With a big leg up from Laughing Jack, Furious Leader has given them what they most needed, a Conservative majority. A...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 1 day agoBanksters defraud as much as they can, leaving countries in financial ruin as in the case of Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland as well. But the Icelandic people are very intelligent and know what a rat ...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS; THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS:* *THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF REVOLUTION:* I guess that one might consider me fortunate to have lived through *three*different eras of internation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt the moment a mighty explosion lit up the night sky, the Mississippi River gushed through the hole in an action which was to save the homes of thousands. The 11,000-foot hole in a Missouri levee was int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA B.C. journalist working for the Al-Jazeera network is missing in Syria, the news organization says. Dorothy Parvaz, of North Vancouver, has not been heard from since Friday, when she disembarked from a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teenager has been convicted of slitting his mother’s throat while they were on holiday in India after he became upset by his parents’ divorce, a court heard. The 16-year-old boy, of South Fayette, Penns...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe body of a young child has been discovered buried under a home where a six-year-old girl was kept in a cage and almost starved to death. Police made the grisly discovery of the child's remains while the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOSWEGO COUNTY, N.Y. -- Officials are looking into what caused an Oswego County nuclear power plant to automatically shut down. The owners of the Nine Mile Point Unit 1 say a recently refueled nuclear reac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico - A gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico on Tuesday killed three miners, injured one and left 11 others trapped deep underground. Officials said chances were slim tha...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*Virignia Woolf, "who didn't know an infielder from a fungo bat," hearts Jack Keefe.* Mr. Lardner does not waste a moment when he writes in thinking whether he is using American slang or Shakespeare's Engl...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoOil and gas leaders will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort to persuade the Government to abandon a £10bn tax grab on North Sea energy companies, amid warnings the levy will "utterly destroy" the indust...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoDavid Cameron says al-Qaeda leader "must have had an extensive support network in Pakistan" in Commons statement. The White House is facing calls to release images of the al-Qaeda chief to prove that he is...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe White House admitted last night that its initial account of the way Osama bin Laden died at the hands of US forces had been riddled with errors. Claims that the al-Qaeda leader had died while firing ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 2 days agoDear Readers,I am in DC. Hick goes to town. Hick rides the Metro.I will be home soon. Please carry on and inform each other in the comments.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Date of Freeze-up for Wales/Bering Strait, 1979-2007. Kapsch and Eicken / State of the Arctic Coast 2010] Date of freeze-up (day of year) for Wales/Bering Strait from passive microwave satellite...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days ago(I've been looking for the Blame Thrower scene from *Mystery Men*, but crapped out. Anyone finds it, email me.) Can we please, please, stop the post-election fingerpointing? Haven't we given the Dark Side...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 days agoIf there's one thing these election results have shown, it's that we all owe Stephane Dion a big apology. For the past 3 years, he has been the punchline of every political joke. He has been ridiculed, and...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoWatch this video by journalist/activist Luke Rudkowski who interviews kids outside of the White House after President Obama announced the death of film star/patsy terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Be careful not...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 days agoThis not blogging for long periods has got to stop! I never remember what I wanted to post about as so much time has elapsed since my last post. Wanted to take a second to rave about New Balance customer s...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoIgnorant Public Cheers Bin Laden Death Outside White House *Luke Rudkowski* WeAreChange.org May 2, 2011 WeAreChange journalist Luke Rudkowski hits the streets right after Obama’s announcement in front of ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*by Ken* I'll bet you got one of these in your inbox too. (By the way, you *can*click on it to enlarge. Why you would want to is a curious question, but heck, none of my beeswax. I know some people like t...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 days agoThis is a must listen interview. Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul: Bin Laden Hoax to Expand War into Pakistan/Asia 1/2 2/2
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoI've seen the comparison floating around out there on the intertoobz for some time now. For those not familiar with the era in question, Rick Perlstein's seminal book *Nixonland: The Rise of a President a...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 2 days agoTECHNOLOGY - We are on a quest to find video editing software that is top notch, doesn't charge an arm and a leg, and is super easy to use (like your illiterate 5 year old kid could use it). Last year Lil...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoUsing simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, scientists shed light on why humans help each other.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoAmong an array of technologies, Navy Seals may have used infrared devices to gain a glimpse into activity within bin Laden's compound.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIsraeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran. A considerable number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, repo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoI hope precious metals newbies have not been emotionally derailed by last night's obvious ambush of silver by the corrupt Wall Street bullion bank cartel. It's funny because just yesterday I was chatting w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago*Is this what justice looks like? Al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a secret military operation in Pakistan. Americans are celebrating, but there are serious doubts about whether the ta...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago*ABC News' Lara Setrakian interviewed Osama bin Laden's son Omar bin Ladenin early 2010 to discuss his book "Growing Up Bin Laden." Below are his thoughts on his father's life, what it was like to grow up t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThere have been increasing concerns about the fate of United States' prized triple-A sovereign debt rating. While *Standard and Poor's recently downgraded its U.S. debt outlook to negative fro...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoSony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a divisio...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA woman killed during the U.S. raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was not his wife and was not used as a human shield by the al Qaeda leader before his death, a U.S. official said on Monday, co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoWith silver down just over 4%, the dollar continuing to grind lower and gold consolidating, today King World News interviewed James Turk out of Spain. When asked about gold and silver Turk responded, “Nea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it *has already begun*. And it does...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoOsama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 days agoWe have a Conservative majority government and an NDP opposition. We don't know what will happen. I am prepared to fight for Canada. I hope you are, too. Life goes on.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 days agoThe hardest part of last night for me was watching so many quality MPs go down in defeat. All too often, the individual casualties of a blood bath like this are overlooked, and aren't given a proper farewe...
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