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** *"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" first appeared in The New Yorker of Jan. 5, 1946.* *"The instinct to conceal one's true livelihood from the kiddies, for fear of their possible scorn, is as normal ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
Greece's recovery plans have suffered another hammer blow after Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating because of "a significantly higher likelihood of one or more defaults". The rating agency... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes ago
As Washington urged African countries to reject the government of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, rebels reported progress Monday against government forces in western mountain cities. After a siege of nea... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes ago
Two Missouri River levees broke Monday along the swollen Missouri River near the Iowa-Missouri border, a local official and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. The first breach, which was some 300 fee... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 55 minutes agoIt's official. Michelle Bachmann is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for 2012.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Texas Governor Rick Perry fires a pistol in the air. wonkette.com]By Wonkette Jr. 9 June 2011 Texas Governor Rick Perry has declared he can’t solve the state’s problems, so from now on official ...
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*Smithsonian continues legacy of racism and morbid disrespect harboring Indian remains* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo Cheyenne Arapaho woman . WASHINGTON -- The U... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago*At :45 in * - Rain and winds bringing radiation into Fukushima City [60 km from plant]. - We were at a spot with 1,000 times safe dosage. These are very, very dangerous levels. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Earth movement by humans and rivers. Maps of the United States showing, by variations in peak height, the rates at which earth is moved in gigatonnes per annum in a grid cell measuring 1° (latitu...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAstronomer Mark Thompson explains why, on Wednesday, a lunar eclipse is set to dazzle night skies (but not in the U.S., sadly)
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
North Korea has probably succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear device, South Korea's defense minister said on Monday, an advance that would in theory allow the hermit state to place an atomic warhead on a r... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as out... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
*With America's economy in the gutter, lawmakers pledge to cut back—except, apparently, when it comes to fancy trips around the globe at the expense of taxpayers and special interests. Laura Colarusso repo... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents — allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to sc... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Scenic Superfund site: Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal* *by Ken* The tease on the contents page of this week's *Time Out New York* got me: "Explore Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal, two of NYC's *Superfund wonde... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoOn June 13, 2011, the Guardian reported from Afghanistan about secret U.S.-Afghanistan talks on the nature of America's presence in that country. All signs are pointing towards permanent occupation and lim...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoThe head of India's Air Force is urging his country to build and deploy intercontinental ballistic missiles of up to 10,000 km. range. Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik says getting the ability to nuke distant ...
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France said on Sunday that it was doing what it could to secure a U.N. response to increasingly brutal repression in Syria. "France is continuing its efforts with its partners in the international commun... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Greece could earn up to 170 million euros for its cash-strapped treasury from a trade of greenhouse-gas emission allowances on the Athens stock exchange, a report said Sunday. Eleftherotypia daily said a... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA small town in Alabama, which has stopped paying its retirees' pensions, could be an early casualty in a coming pension disaster, the *New York Times * reports. As public pension funds across the nation ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRiceland Foods is the largest rice cooperative in the U.S. The cooperative filed suit against the Bayer Corporation for damages it suffered as a result of Bayer's unapproved genetically-modified rice conta...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIf a depression by any other name would feel as bleak, what do you call the current state of the U.S. economy? A number of influential American economists are no longer mincing words: They argue that defic...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA number of Wall Street's biggest banks are preparing to lower their use of U.S. Treasuries in August, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The decision comes as a precaution against any turbulence tha...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoThe debate is over; the revolutions are fake, the people behind them illegitimate. by Tony Cartalucci CANVAS leader Srdja Popovic stands here before Columbia, a public sponsor of the US State Department...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Invasive Asian carp in the Illinois River. In addition to devouring native species, the carp leap wildly out of the water, sometimes injuring anglers. In April 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court reject...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoSometimes it seems when it rains, it pours. At least it always seems that way to me. Whenever hard things happen in my life, they happen all at once. I have been working on revamping my work area to suit m...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoIt's still 300,000 miles away, but the jagged features of Vesta, a large asteroid that is believed to be a protoplanet, are starting to come into view of NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoIn light of a spate of rabies attacks, take a closer look at the disease, its risks and how you can avoid it.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoMy friend Paul gathered this anthology of late-night comics' musings on Weinerworld, as well as a compendium of the binging cartoonists' output. It seems a shame not to pass on the yuks along with at leas...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 8 hours agoBy Denis G. RancourtA reliable gauge of the present state of academic freedom in the USA is to ascertain what its scholars who purport to be defending academic freedom are actually saying.In this regard, the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are inspected for radiation exposure. On Monday, 13 June 2011, the health and labor ministry said six other workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear p...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe genetic predisposition to play the field appears to be locked into the DNA of socially monogamous species, including humans.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThese 'spy glasses' have a built-in camera, 8 gigabytes of memory and can stream video to social networking web sites.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe HiRISE camera on board a NASA satellite orbiting Mars has spotted a recent series of meteorite impacts on the Martian surface, a stark reminder of the dangers that face future Mars colonies.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChinese migrant workers have clashed with police for a third consecutive night outside the southern city of Guangzhou. About 1,000 protesters set fire to cars and damaged government buildings on Sunday n...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWe really need readers to weigh in on this one, because we're stumped. The video goes from being passable as a puppet show at the beginning, but then oddly develops into what almost seems like a real-lif...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA host of familiar grocery products are getting smaller while their price stays the same. Why? Tough times might be weighing heavily on UK shoppers, but one burden, at least, is becoming lighter: their s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 2010 Bloomberg study showed that the school of hard knocks and not a college degree was the number #1 source of CEO’s for S&P 500 companies. Go to: www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com. Peter Thiel, founde...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Mike Engler, President of Cactus Feeders in Amarillo, Texas. dairyherd.com]Bruce Blythe, Business Editor 13 June 2011 The government’s latest crops outlook brought unwelcome news for Mike En...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoA two-day referendum in Italy has just ended. Silvio Berlusconi has encouraged people not to vote. *Italy has its Greenpeace whackos, too* The referendum will be valid because almost 60 percent of the v...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoYour browser does not support iframes. By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY 13 June 2011 NORTH LAS VEGAS — Dayna and Scott Merritt ask themselves almost every day if they should keep paying their mortgage. Man...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 11 hours ago*A guest post by* *Israelinurse*: "In the Middle East once you have chosen between the irreconcilable narratives on offer, everything confirms the narrative you have chosen, and nothing confounds it." Af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSix members of Pakistan's paramilitary forces accused of killing an unarmed teenager last week have been turned over to police and will be tried under the country's terrorism act, a police official said Mo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoAmerica's prophet of fiscal doom, Nouriel Roubini, is warning that China now faces a "meaningful probability" of a hard economic landing. Roubini came to prominence by warning of the US housing bubble an...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHackers who broke into the International Monetary Fund's computer system may have been backed by a nation state, according to security experts. They point to the sophisticated nature of the attack and the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThousands of Syrians waited along the border with Turkey on Monday to see what happens next in the tense struggle between the government of President Bashar Assad and rebel forces. After circling Jisr al...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA forest fire has forced 500 people from their homes in northern Saskatchewan. The fire was about four kilometres from the communities of Hall Lake and Sikichu, southwest of La Ronge, Sunday afternoon wh...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChina's banks extended fewer than expected new loans in May as the country kept up its efforts to rein in rising prices. Chinese banks lent 551.6bn yuan ($85bn; £52bn) in new loans, compared with 739.6bn...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOnce provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7% of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA short night-vision video posted on YouTube depicting three lights in the night sky over California has been getting attention on the Web. The video was allegedly recorded in Oakland a few days ago by som...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe edge of our solar system is filled with a turbulent sea of magnetic bubbles, according to new NASA research. Scientists made the discovery by using a new computer model, which is based on data from N...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIndia has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It also has a growing gulf between the country's burgeoning rich and poor. While the wealthy face issues like obesity and diabetes, the majori...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 12 hours agoThis is just a quick update from our tour of the Eagle Ford Shale. I'll have a more complete report with lots of photos up later.This is Toby Frederick holding a jug of his water that the Texas Railroad Comm...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA 'trash' boat made of all recycled parts set sail around Taiwan last week.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoWhile Japan's Antarctic whaling may be nearing an end, its North Pacific whaling is still going strong.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoCould treating insomnia be as simple as putting on a cap to slow down the brain's metabolism during sleep?
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoA genuinely touching mini-movie. This story has won a 2010 short film award. The dialogue, "What is that? It's a unicorn. I've never seen one up close before. Beautiful. Get away, get away. I'm sorry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 6.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 53.3 km (33.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:31:22 UTC Monday 13th June 2011. The epicenter was 210 km (130 miles) ENE of Manado, Sulawesi. I...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoMuslims have a history of tolerance toward other faiths: " Written by KHALID SAJJAD On May 27, Bill Stephens published a letter in The Star Press in which he claimed, “Muslims want Shariah law, that has dea...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoSpain arrests 3 in hacker network probe: "Police said Friday they had arrested the top three suspected leaders in Spain of the international computer hacker network called Anonymous, which is suspected of...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoLibya and the Law: Media Show Slight Interest in War Powers, Geneva: "Media debates over the U.S./NATO war in Libya have often amounted to proponents arguing for 'humanitarian' intervention while conservativ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 13 hours agoPoetry for Palestine “In a redemptive state the Jewish People will reassume their more *natural role as the head*, leading the world to a new age” “The natural inclination of the Jewish People is to eleva...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThe Pentagon and the Iraqi government are giving up trying to locate $6.6 billion in greenbacks that went missing in the chaos after the American conquest of Iraq. Their conclusion - the cash was probably...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoHi folks, I know this is overdue but the floor is yours...seen any BIAS today? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe wetsuit instantly inflates should a big-wave surfer end up in danger.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, damaged by a tsunami on March 11, became the site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Reuters] By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLER 12 June 2011 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCALUMPIT, Bulacan, Philippines — At least 200 people, mostly children, were taken to hospitals on Sunday after allegedly suffering food poisoning at a birthday party for a two-year-old boy in Barangay Meys...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHeavy rain and hailstorm destroyed standing crops spreading over thousands of acres of land in Bajaur Agency on Sunday night. According to Met office, a total of 18 millimetres of rain was received which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMore than 100 people in nearly 60 vehicles were trapped after a rain-triggered landslide Monday interrupted traffic on a highway in Tibet Autonomous Region. The debris of the landslide, which happened ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSyrian troops have rounded up hundreds of villagers surrounding a town they forcibly retook from protesters, according to reports. Nearly 7,000 Syrians have fled the region around Jisr al Shughour to seek ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe woman who misled Texas police insists that she never claimed to be psychic -- only a prophet of God.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe word "Bilderberg" immediately conjures up New World Order conspiracy theories. Wikipedia has a thorough explanation of what the group, which has been meeting annually since Holland's Nazi Prince Bern...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago*Frank Mulholland* Is Scotland's government part of the New World Order? In May 2011, Frank Mulholland became Scotland's chief Law Officer. During his career he oversaw the prosecution of the 2007 Wor...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoI was born on June 13, 1961. I've been alive on this planet for 50 years today. And I'm pretty fucking happy about it. In my belief system, we only get one shot. When we die, our bodies go the way of al...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 16 hours ago"He simply will not last very long," Harper said of Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA species of shark thought to be behind hundreds of attacks on humans has been reported off the coast of Cornwall. One sighting of an oceanic white tip shark was made by a fisherman who said his wooden bo...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoWebsite for this map *Who are we to blame for all the recent wars:* Al Qaeda (tool of the CIA in Kosovo, Libya and elsewhere)? Israel (and its imperialism)? The USA (and its imperialism)? Big Corporati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA blaze at a care center in the South African city of Springs on early Monday morning killed at least eleven people, authorities said. Dozens more were injured. Netcare 911 spokesman Jeffrey Wicks said t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago*First: major LHC detectors reach one inverse femtobarn!* By 21:10 Prague Summer Time tonight, the CMS and ATLAS at CERN have collected 1/fb of data each: see viXra blog. This was the original plan for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHeavy rain triggered by an active rain front and low pressure system continued to fall in the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan on Sunday, leaving a man missing in Kagoshima Prefecture and leading a loca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoEight people injured by the devastating Joplin, Missouri, tornado have contracted a rare fungal infection, and three have died, officials said Friday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNew Mexico officials are warning residents of potentially hazardous air quality from throat-burning smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona that has been blazing for several weeks. The 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDisplaced families in tornado-ravaged Alabama are outraged after being denied federal aide to rebuild their flattened homes - due to 'insufficient damage'. Jefferson County resident Jonathan Stewart said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe radio preacher who sparked an international media frenzy by predicting the end of the world last month has suffered a stroke. Harold Camping was rushed to hospital from his Alameda, California home on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe true identity of internationally renowned blogger 'A Gay Girl in Damascus' has been revealed as a 40-year-old American man. Tom MacMaster, a student at the University of Edinburgh, wrote an apology on...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoThe sleepy island of St Helena fears its spectacular natural heritage and unique natural flora and fauna will be threatened by new airport and luxury tourist complex. Photograph: Kent Kobersteen/Corbis via...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoAs David Vance pointed out yesterday, Lord "I love my EU Commission pension" Patten had his begging bowl out for the World Service yesterday and was moaning loudly that a reduction in its budget would lead...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 66-year-old man was charged today with murdering his wife at their country home after she was found with fatal head and stab injuries. Emergency services received a call from the couple's rented six-bedr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn unemployed daughter has been accused of using a pickaxe to hack her father so that she could get his social security benefits. Guenevere Hudnall,19, is accused of carrying out the gruesome killing in F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe unrest in Libya reached a crescendo once again yesterday - but the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, appeared as if he didn't have a care in the world as he played a game of chess during an appearance...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn astonishing 98 per cent of Britain’s prison population have been granted ‘privileges’ supposedly reserved for better-behaved offenders, it emerged last night. Critics say 80,000 inmates are receiving t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe number of dangerous criminals being returned to prison has risen five-fold in the past decade. Thousands of serious offenders, including killers, paedophiles and rapists, have been let out early only ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThere was a certain inevitability about it. No sooner had drought been declared across large parts of Britain, than the heavens opened. And they stayed open. Some parts of the country had more than an inc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago'Enough is enough': Home Secretary Theresa May has warned of the dangers of the ADHD drug. Captured in a family video, Harry Hucknall gives a cheeky grin before whizzing off down the street on his new bik...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 22 hours ago- *Latest Posts:* - Vet Wars: Fallout from Massive Lawsuit to Save America's Veterans - False Flag Racism: The Internet Proxy War - Weiner and the Washington Cesspool Saturday, June 11...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Cuvée Corner / CC via TreeHugger As you probably already know, male goats are called bucks or billies and female goats are called does or nannies. Contrary to popular belief, goats are ver...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 23 hours agoSorry, dear friends. This is going to be one of those times when I try to get cerebral, but not *too* cerebral, and end up sounding like a wanker. Business as usual, in other words. In the context of last...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:50 UTC Monday 13th June 2011. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) North, North West of Ch...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"I am trying to use reason and intelligence," said the strange new mongoose. "Reason is six-sevenths of treason," said one of his neighbors. "Intelligence is what the enemy uses," said another.* *-- f...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*White House coopts 'Three Sisters' for offensive media event* By Brenda Norrell John KaneCensored News. http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com WASHINGTON -- The White House co-opted the "Three Sisters" of corn...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNow a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as "the hum". Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour more people have died in Germany, health officials said Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths from an E. coli outbreak to 35. All but one of the deaths were in Germany, with the other occurring...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe extent of Dubai's financial crisis has been laid bare after the Arab state revealed that 217 property transactions were axed or put on hold in the wake of the troubles hitting the country. The revelat...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day agoHad a super busy weekend after my dinner out Friday night meeting Megan, Chris and Nate! Saturday morning, I ran in the 1st Cabrini High School 5K. This race was held during the Cabrini summer festival. A...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe escalating military offensive in northwest Syria began after what corroborating accounts said was a shoot-out between members of the military secret police in Jisr al-Shughur, some of whom refused to o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Thimble jellyfish bloom, 24 April 2011. stingmate.com] By Tracy McVeigh, The Observer 12 June 2011 Global warming has long been blamed for the huge rise in the world's jellyfish population. But...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDrawing by John Klossner Contest #291, June 13, 2011 *This week's caption:* *Because this is a double issue (June 13 & 20), you have extra time to submit your entry -- the deadline is next Sunday, June 19...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoAnonymous Vs. The Federal Reserve (OpESR June 14th Video Announcement) June 11, 2011 By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report In this new video release, “as a first step,” Anonymous has called for publi...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoFollowing the hijacking of the Egyptian Peoples' Revolution, it should be clear to everyone that to achieve freedom, it is not enough to simply changing the puppets who control our lives, we need to change...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHaving read DB’s post at Biased BBC and the frenetic overture to the Palin e mails saga trumpeted on the BBC website a few days ago Critics say the e-mails may damage Palin's presidential chances I thoug...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day agoBy Denis G. RancourtFor the same reason that it is so difficult for a slave to recognize that he/she is a slave! [1]A first step is for the (wage, economic, or other) slave to recognize -- beyond the master'...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoWhere are the guillotines in Washington? The Obama administration is following the Bush and Clinton administrations by advancing the destruction of America's legal and political system, spreading the crim...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina said Thursday it would conduct naval training drills in the western Pacific later this month, state media reported, amid lingering fears among Beijing's neighbours about its military ambitions. The ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea threatened Thursday to disclose a voice recording of a secret meeting with South Korea, at which it says Seoul "begged" for summit talks. The North last week disclosed the May meeting in Beijin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorld powers expressed "deeper concern" Thursday about the intention behind Iran's controversial atomic drive in face of its refusal to answer questions about possible military dimensions to the work. A d...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNATO wants to beef up its cyber defence capabilities with the creation of a special task force to detect and respond to Internet attacks, an alliance expert said Wednesday at a conference on cyber security...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina wants to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and was surprised and concerned when its ally Pyongyang abruptly shut the door on dialogue with Seoul, a senior US official said Friday. Kurt Campbell,...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIndia tested a short-range nuclear-capable missile along its eastern coast on Thursday, an official said, as part of the nation's efforts to build up its atomic deterrent. The surface-to-surface Prithvi-I...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man aged 76 and two members of his family were arrested after a ‘vicious’ punch-up on a plane that took cabin crew 30 minutes to break up. Derek Edmond, his daughter Zoe King and her husband Martin were ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAstounding footage has emerged of top Bilderberg members being confronted by protesters as they walked on foot down the mountain road towards the Suvretta Hotel. Bilderberg attendees rarely ever venture ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBlood specialist Dr. Cay-Uwe von Seydewitz has been making his rounds 16 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, since the outbreak of a deadly bacterial epidemic. The wing he's in charge of was a construc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHamas is reporting record turnouts for its summer camps for children in 2011. The 'summer camps,' combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again thi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Comparison of decadal-scale variability in estimates of Upper Colorado Basin April 1 SWE and total annual streamflow. For clarity, each reconstruction is shown with a 20-year (dark blue line) and...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Drought-affected areas in the United Kingdom, May 2011. UK Environment Agency / guardian.co.uk] By Lisa Evans 10 June 2011 East Anglia is now officially classed as in drought by DEFRA. Today Ja...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoKissing and making up with dedicated hereditary traitors never works. For them, historically, it's just an opportunity to try again. Many historians-- including African-Americans ones-- realize that the S...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Wallow Fire was well on its way toward becoming one of the largest fires in Arizona history when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this i...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoBlack-footed ferret emerging from its burrow in Coyote Basin; Utah County. Photo courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret These nocturnal creatures spend about 90% of their time undergro...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoA general view of Kabul city horizon shows the blanket of haze from air pollution. War may kill thousands of civilians a year in Afghanistan, but choking air pollution in the capital Kabul from old cars,...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoOh those BAD capitalists. A Biased BBC reader observes with regard to this item on the BBC ; Traditional regurgitation of agitprop press release from "The Oakland Institute" which five seconds googling re...
- 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 David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe BBC's assiduous cultivation of ecowackery is one of its key reasons to exist, and a Biased BBC reader notes; *Phil Jones, July 5, 2005:* “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncerta...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day ago[image: Episode image for Your Desert Island Discs] A Biased BBC reader writes with regard to the episode of Desert Island Discs broadcast on Saturday 11th June between 9 and 10.30am. This was the edition ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA brilliant meteor blazed through the sky above Georgia recently, and two NASA fireball-monitoring cameras caught the dramatic display on video. The meteor was caused by a human-size chunk of an unknown c...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Radiation inside Fukushima Unit 1 Drywell, 21 May 2011 - 12 June 2001. Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency / atmc.jp] Location: *Unit 1 nuclear power plant Fukushima* Current values: D /...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Water stop at the pit near the water intake canal of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3. TEPCO] Tokyo, June 12 (DPA) – Radioactive contamination from the stricken nuclear power f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA state of emergency has been declared in Russia's southeastern Astrakhan region where locusts are swarming through farmlands, devouring crops, the local branch of the emergencies ministry said on Sunday. ...
- Japan prefecture tells company to conceal info on radioactive tea leaves because of ‘public anxiety’
posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Search results for 'tea' from the Radishbo-ya site at www.radishbo-ya.co.jp.] Shizuoka, June 10 (KYODO) – Shizuoka Prefecture told a Tokyo-based mail order company not to say anything on its web... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Stanley Fischer, member of Bilderberg.* Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer has decided to become a candidate for the position of boss of the International Monetary Fund. Stanley Fischer has previou...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoStevie Harper's insistence on saddling Canada with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has enormous significance for our country's military and diplomatic future. Forget the business about defending Canada's...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*János Starker (born 1924) plays the Prelude of the Bach Cello Suite No. 3 at a recital in Tokyo, July 29, 1988. For a markedly different approach, considerably less inclined to make songlike phrases out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Eritrea, Ethiopia Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:07 UTC Sunday 12th June 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) West Nort West of As...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHello everyone! We hope you're all enjoying your summers so far, unlike the other half of the world, which is flooded, on fire, and being visited by Hillary Clinton. You might have noticed that we've adde...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian government forces have advanced into the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, state media say, as part of a widespread government crackdown. TV reported heavy fighting with armed groups, two dead and...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSaudi Arabia must halt the death penalty, as state-sanctioned beheadings increased exponentially in the past six weeks, the London based Amnesty International said Saturday. "The Saudi Arabian authoritie...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia sent emergency fire-fighting aircraft over Siberia's Taiga forests and residential areas to battle 200 new wildfires raging over the past 24 hours, the Emergency Ministry said Saturday. Twenty-two...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe combination of $trillion bond fraud, dependence on inflating home equity for economic development, oversized cars, oil dependence, constant market intervention, insolvent banks, insolvent homes, outsou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe research I've laid out in the past few days (here, here, and here) suggests interest rates are inevitably headed higher. But how much higher? Over the long term, the average real rate of interest on U...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerica clocked up a record last week. The latest drop in house prices meant that the cost of real estate has fallen by 33% since the peak – even bigger than the 31% slide seen when John Steinbeck was writ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe southeastern Minnesota town of Hastings may try to solve a vandalism problem in an out-of-the way park by installing a noise machine to repel teenagers. The city is considering installing the SonicSc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports that the chronically unemployed f...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's Saturday night, and you want to catch the latest summer blockbuster. You do a quick Google search to find the venue and right time, and off you go to enjoy some mindless fun. Meanwhile, your Internet...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe high profile Global Commission on Drug Policy recently released its report on the state of drug use and suggested that the past 40 years of enforcement efforts have been a dismal failure. Panel member ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwin bomb blasts minutes apart ripped through a crowded supermarket-hotel complex killing 35 people and injuring over 80 in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar. The attack, one of the deadliest sin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mass grave has been found near Jisr al Shughour as violent clashes unfolded in the northern town, according to reports. State television said when Syrian forces stormed through the town early on Sunday...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoEver since I first realized that trees and other vegetation are dying off from exposure to toxic ozone, I have been expecting that certain consequences will inevitably become evident. After all, even our ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Ayano Tashiro holds her 6-month-old daughter at her home in the Ishida district of Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 6, 2011. She is one of many young parents who are moving away from towns nea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A large hole blasted in the south-side wall of the 4th floor of the Fukushima nuclear power plant Unit 4 building, 10 June 2011. The hole was caused by the March 15th explosion. The mangled pipin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will leave her rehabilitation facility and begin outpatient therapy by the end of June, her spokesman said Sunday. She will depart TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston an...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTea Party Patriots, Among Many, Pushing Distorted U.S. History: "Former Alaska governor and Tea Party favorite Sarah Palin this week tried to sell the bizarrely twisted story that the midnight ride of Paul R...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoNativist Group Honors Arizona Writer for ‘Non-PC’ Coverage: "Amidst much fanfare and immigrant-bashing, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Wednesday presented Tucson Weekly reporter Leo W. Banks with i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoNeo-Nazi pleads guilty for role in murder scheme (USA): "A Pasadena, Texas, member of a neo-Nazi group on Thursday pleaded guilty to charges related to a homicide that took place in Atascosa County, Texas, i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoDeath of reputed Aryan leader stumps police (USA): "Frank E Roch JrBaytown man, 54, ruled over some 1,500 in and out of prisonWhen police found a heavily-tattooed, dying man slumped in a pickup truck crashed...
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