- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThis is just a single link: in a list of ATLAS' notes, the last one is Update of Background Studies in the Search for the Higgs Boson in the Diphoton Channel with the ATLAS Detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV an...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've been remiss in not writing about this sooner. The next time you feel that activism can't make a difference, think of Bradley Manning, and keep at it. Without the efforts of so many people shining a sp...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews* April 7, 2011 *Capitalism, Chinese Style* Orville Schell on China's view of American debt More at The Real News *Bio* *Orville Schell* is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoMelanie Phillips has written another open letter, this time to David Cameron. The one she wrote earlier, to Jeremy Hunt about the BBC, must have got lost in the post, so it’s doubtful that she had high hop...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*Bankruptcy Hell - The Sequel to ForeclosureGate* Submitted by Michael Collins on Mon, 05/02/2011 - 05:44 Michael Collins You're headed for bankruptcy court tomorrow. It's been a long and difficult...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPlanetary rings made of rock or silicates might be common in the Galaxy.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoA while back, I wrote about the "born that way" excuse for sexist gender stereotyping, and my complete rejection of the "men are from Mars" school of relationships: science proves that men and women are fr...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUS-funded sedition and the responsibility to restore order. commentary by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand May 8, 2011 - The global corporate-financier funded think-tanks rolled out their slick acronym, ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*THE SIEGFRIED IDYLL STORY ACCORDING TO DERYCK COOKE* D.C. stresses, to begin with, that neither the *Siegfried Idyll* nor "the tiny *Catechismus*" was intended for publication or public performance: Wa...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA lot of people noticed that news of the Libyan civil war had barely hit the newspapers when the price of gasoline in our neighborhood stations started steadily shooting up. Odd, many of us thought, since...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAfter a campaign like that, we can all use a bit of political detox. Me, I'll be *Just Visiting* New York for the next week. I've got a few blog posts time stamped to go up, so there will be action going o...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoAnti-Sharia Laws Stir Concerns that Jewish Halachah Could Be Next: " By Ron Kampeas at the Jewish Week WASHINGTON (JTA) — With conservative lawmakers across the United States trying to outlaw sharia, or Isl...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoSalon: Jews and Muslims united for sharia?: " Jewish groups mobilize against anti-sharia bills that would also bar arbitration under Jewish religious law BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT We’re a bit late to this one, but ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFrom IVAW's Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan, Mike Prysner: The vast majority of people living in the US have nothing to gain from this occupation. In fact, not only do we have nothing to gain, but we s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agogypt's prime minister called for an emergency Cabinet meeting Sunday, a day after officials reported at least 10 people were killed and 186 in sectarian clashes outside a Cairo church. Officials said the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHundreds of high-risk prisoners, including one assessed as being likely to kill his original victim, have been released into the community as soon as they have served half their sentence, the probation uni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMANAMA, Bahrain -- In the ancient Bahraini village of Aali, where some graves date to 2000 B.C., the Amir Mohammed Braighi mosque had stood for more than 400 years - one of the handsomest Shiite Muslim mos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetainees at an Iraqi detention facility tried to overpower their guards during a prison break that left 16 people dead, including six police officers, officials said. The violent clash at the Ministry of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen 23-year-old Sarah Carter died in Chiang Mai in Thailand, it was initially thought her death was a terrible case of food poisoning. That was until six other tourists died in the city, including three ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLoss of public confidence in nuclear energy may lead to decommissioning of sister plant. The govenrment is thinking of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant in deference to those who hav...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Osama Bin Laden's squalid hideaway in pictures Mail Online* Allegedly, this photo shows Osama bin Laden, in Abbottabad in Pakistan, using a remote control to flick between satellite video coverage of hims...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least one person drowned while more than 626 families were evacuated in Eastern Visayas due to rains and floods brought by tropical storm "Bebeng" (Aure). The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Manag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe theory of general relativity is as relevant to us today as it was when it was formulated, as a discovery about space-time reveals. After working for half a century and spending £500m, scientists last ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: An inmate convicted of murder sunbathes outside the wooden cottage where he lives at Bastoy Prison, Norway's only island prison. Can a prison possibly justify treating its inmates with saunas, sunbe...
- posted by Eric Allen Bell at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTwo Muslim religious leaders say they were removed from a plane in Memphis on Friday and were told the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. One of the imams, Masudur Rahman, said they had cleared securit...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Tafazal Mohammad* Tafazal Mohammad attended a training camp with the London tube bombings' 'ringleader', Mohammed Sidique Khan. The camp was led by Martin McDaid, a former Royal Marine special forces s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt first glance, these desolate images look like they're from the aftermath of a warzone, or a ghost town left behind from the Chernobyl disaster. But in fact these pictures were taken in the heartland of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was a scene familiar from coffee bars around the world. A student in designer clothes tapping away on his laptop while Pink Floyd’s Money blared out from a stereo and customers ordered iced Americanos a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGuatemala - Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango and Retalhuleu were declared this Friday in yellow alert due to the increased activity of the volcano Santiaguito . According to the National Institute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Otago Regional Council is closely monitoring river levels after heavy rain in all parts of the region. Rainfall in the Manuherikia, Pomahaka, Taieri, Kakanui and Shag catchments has caused the rivers...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFresh evidence that inflation pressures are still building in the economy has emerged as clothing and textile prices rose at their fastest rate since records began, causing UK producer prices to fall by le...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*In last night's preview I promised a fuller version of the scene in which Larry David is accused of being a self-hating Jew for whistling Wagner. Here it is. Now here's Wikipedia's somewhat fuller versio...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day agoCould not have said it better myself. *SOTT* debbierlus Firedoglake [image: presto!] © n/a I am sorry. But, after the past decade of lies, distortions, obfuscations, and out and out deception surround...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Ken* *WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN HOUR AND A HALF CAN MAKE* *Version 1* ---------------------------------------- Breaking News Alert: Medicare dropped from GOP budget proposal May 4, 2011 9:11:13 PM -------...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoThis originated as a comment over at Thwap's place, but perhaps I should expand on it a bit. Call me a hair-splitter if you must, but while certain individual Liberal activists might be open to some new e...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA Ron Paul supporter was probably unhappy that morons in Frank Luntz' focus group made headlines by voting Herman Cain, a lackey of the Koch Brothers, the winner of Thursday's GOP "presidential" debate. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSun Yingxia, 64, could have had little idea of the 12-day ordeal that awaited her when she went to the Tianganghu township government in Sihong county, Jiangsu Province, for "negotiations" on the demolitio...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe eastern coast of China has borne the environmental brunt of a massive sandstorm that has swept across a large swath of the country, causing air quality in Shanghai to plummet to its worst level in year...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlmost four years ago, a federal jury convicted Citgo Petroleum Corp. of two criminal violations of the Clean Air Act, having found that the company’s refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, afflicted a nearby ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmericans are suffering from asthma in record numbers, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly one in 10 children and almost one in 12 Americans of a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoVideos seized during the raid on bin Laden's compound show the terrorist was still active and keen on maintaining his image.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEd Miliband sounds almost good enough to come over and give a pep talk to American voters in Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan or any number of places that have been taken over by deranged right-wing fa...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day ago...so how many years makes for a "tradition"? With the BBC; not so many when it suits them. *Number 10 shuns EU flag tradition Downing Street will not fly the EU flag over Number 10 during Europe Day on ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoLast night there was an emergency at an Aruba Petroleum gas well site in Wise County. It was not the first time.Video OneVideo TwoThere is a video on Facebook you can watch to get the general idea of how fri...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoBy their example the neocons have taught mankind a lesson that we seem to forget every generation or so, which is that when good men are not vigilant and active in politics then evil men prosper and take o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 4 million people living in 63 counties close to the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico could be affected by flooding in the coming days. Communities all along...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US Department of Defense releases video of Osama bin Laden while hiding from authorities in Pakistan. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoIt is seldom indeed that the shenanigans of the faux democratic system are of any interest other than as an annoyance. Living in a part of England over-run by non-Europeans, the local council elections pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Obama, it turns out, is by far the most golf-mad of all the Presidents in history. Yesterday, the President was playing the 66th round of his presidency, and his fifth round in five weeks, as US ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoTwo years ago, I wrote an essay for Czech magazine Reflex called Is Darwin's Theory Gibberish? (full) that politely but unambiguously disagreed with the creationist opinions about the origin of species h...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Flooded farmland west of Sikeston in New Madrid County, 29 April 2011. William Lounsbury / columbiamissourian.com] *1. Record Breaking Mississippi River Levels Cause Levee Demo* The Big Muddy ro...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoOver the years Blue America has interacted with scores of Democratic congressional candidates. After our jarring experience with dishonest Chris Carney (PA), a stealth Blue Dog and bigot, we never ask an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*A genetics research group working in a lab in Kansas, has succeeded in creating a new species of lizard by mating two distinct species of North American Whiptails, both native to New Mexico. The offspring...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of Mississippi flooding, 6 May 2011. BBC] By Daniel Griffiths 6 May 2011 Several US states that were hit by recent storms in the south and midwest now face the threat of severe flood...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews* *Japanese MP: It's Time To Tell The Truth* Kuniko Tanioko: Japan must tell world how it dealt with the nuclear runoff into the ocean *theREALnews* Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: This is a Feb. 2, 2003 file photo of Inuit hunters, from left, Meeka Mike, Lew Philip and Joshua Kango, as they skin a polar bear on the ice as the sun sets during the traditional hunt on Frobish...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Melted clock, Cass Technical High School, Detroit. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre / marchandmeffre.com] By Matthew Yglesias 5 May 2011 Something that I think drives at least some of my disagree...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Allegedly this is the passport photo of Amal, a 'bin Laden wife'. **Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah* is reported to be Bin Laden's fifth and final wife. Amal is also known as Amal Ahmed al-Sadah and reportedly sh...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoViolence in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei will jeopardize relations between north and South Sudan governments as the two sides gear up for a permanent separation in July, the United Nations said. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears are growing among US residents living along the Mississippi River as rising flood waters threaten communities in states from Illinois to Louisiana. Police officers went door-to-door in Memphis, Ten...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn interesting caption attached to the video: "A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to 'luck'. Gundersen discusses wha...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStudies that point to probiotics and a healthy digestive and immune system as being just as affective as deadly psycho-drugs at relieving "mental illness": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19338686?ordi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhat would the world be like without Islam? In *A World Without Islam,*former CIA official and historian Graham Fuller says it wouldn't be much different from the world today. According to Fuller, the Wes...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUS meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south. "If you look at the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn 2008 Old-Thinker News reported on the deployment of Ubiquitous Computing technology in South Korea as a testing ground for future development of cities world-wide. South Korea was chosen for the test ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAliens may have caused various disasters, as depicted in the Bible and other texts, or even tried to warn man of them; such as Noah of the Great Flood. Also proposed is that some disasters ushered changes ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoViolence in the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei will jeopardize relations between north and South Sudan governments as the two sides gear up for a permanent separation in July, the United Nations said. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears are growing among US residents living along the Mississippi River as rising flood waters threaten communities in states from Illinois to Louisiana. Police officers went door-to-door in Memphis, Ten...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe three biggest lies current in the world today: 1) “The check is in the mail” (still a favorite, after all these years). 2) “Lower taxes for the rich means more jobs for the poor” (well into its fourth ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Liberal Party will name an interim leader this Wednesday. While it may not be the *most* important decision to make over the next four years, it still deserves careful consideration. All indications ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Rubbish-strewn: With paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from original claims the compound was a sophisticated £1m hideaway. Extraordin...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*AlterNet / By Rachel Tabachnick* The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education *By now you've surely heard of the Kochs. Meanwhil...
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