- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 11 minutes 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 - 30 minutes agoA 'trash' boat made of all recycled parts set sail around Taiwan last week.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 30 minutes 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 - 30 minutes 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 - 30 minutes 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 so...
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A 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 13.7 km (8.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:12 UTC Monday 13th June 2011. The epicenter was 210 km (130 miles) ENE of Manado, Sulawesi. In... - posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 40 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 52 minutes 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 - 1 hour ago
Poetry 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
Hi 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. - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe wetsuit instantly inflates should a big-wave surfer end up in danger.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour 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 - 2 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...
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Heavy 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 - 2 hours ago
More 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 - 2 hours ago
Syrian 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 - 2 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 hours agoIn March, Tommaso Dorigo hyped a preprint by the CDF Collaboration, Measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks As far as I remember, I hadn't discussed that paper on this blog beca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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! - 11 hours 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 - 12 hours 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...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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! - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs 23.5-inch tall Junrey Balawing turned 18 on Sunday, he set the record.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you're not already someone who eagerly jumps into 50-degree, shark-infested waters, it may be a hard hobby to understand.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Skid of water treatment facility at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 3 June 2011. Sludge that will be generated in the process of treating radioactive water is estimated to contain 10...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoIn May 1942, the Czechoslovak government in London decided that the "blonde beast" and one of the main architects of the holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich, has committed too many crimes. Even though he had nev...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOver at Grist.com there's a discussion about Canada's (Stevie Harper's) abandonment of Kyoto. One commenter posted the following 2002 letter our Ruler sent to his then - and now - followers. It speaks v...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoToday Wisconsin's 4th CD is the most dependably Democratic district in Wisconsin. Gore took it with 66%, Kerry with 70% and the Obama landslide was an eye-popping 75%. The Congresswoman from WI-4 is Gwen ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOver 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have used the European 'right to a family life' to avoid deportation from the UK in the past year. Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Muhammad Ali - were any of his fights fixed?* In 2010, an England cricket star was under police protection after being targeted by a betting syndicate. (Star under police protection after threats from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian forces have stormed the flashpoint town of Jisr al Shughour and clashed with armed groups said to have taken over the northwestern town. Violent clashes were reported as the troops tried to gain ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents of this North Dakota city were trying to keep water from their homes as the flood-swollen Missouri River continued to rise this week. By Friday night, more than 800 homes had been evacuated. Nat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 600 people, including 103 children, have been sickened in China's latest case of mass lead poisoning, state media reported Sunday. China has suffered widespread problems in recent years from heav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea has detected what could be seen as the first case of members of the same family suffering from an unidentified severe acute lung disease, the state-run disease control agency said on Sunday. A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPhulbani (Orissa), Anthrax scare has gripped Orissa's tribal dominated Kandhamal as at least 12 people including children, were affected by the dreaded disease in Tumudibandh block of the district, officia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCasey Anthony’s trial took another gruesome twist today as it was suggested her daughter’s body had begun to decompose and attract flies in the boot of her car. Anthony, 25, is on trial in Orlando, Florid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome may have thought we would never discover the Titanic, but this is an even more ambitious search. Treasure-hunter Bill Warren, of California, is reportedly launching an underwater search to find the b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Ikea superstore in the port city of Dalian, China, is a blue-and-yellow monument to the global reach of Western commerce, but any shopper stumbling out through the back door would be confronted by a ja...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI read that Chris Patten is performing to cue; The new BBC Trust chairman told the Sunday Telegraph he would fight for it as a 20% budget cut across the corporation takes effect this year. Lord Patten has...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAndrew Mitchell, he who thinks we should aspire to be an "overseas aid super power", is the kind of Conservative that the BBC likes. He got an easy ride on the Sunday morning horror that is the Andrew Marr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe boyfriend of missing Indiana University student Lauren Spierer has been named a 'person of interest' in the case, according to police. Twenty-one-year-old Jesse Wolff from Long island is one of ten peo...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoMany people are incapable of understanding that the experimental as well as theoretical evidence shows that quantum mechanics is right. They can't see or don't want to see that the world is described by st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtesters in Tokyo have staged mass demonstrations against the use of atomic power just three months after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. Crowds o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Irish Mail on Sunday today reveals how nursing home owner and society figure Therese Lipsett covered up a series of sickening sex attacks on an elderly woman in her care. Mrs Lipsett, who had set up t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe devastating wildfire sweeping through Arizona has become the worst ever in the state's history. The Wallow Fire has burned more than 600 square miles, 408,887 acres, and is now six per cent containe...
- Eerie underwater images reveal the remnants of lives swept away by Japanese tsunami - 12th June 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen the massive tsunami slammed into Japan entire towns and villages were left submerged, forgotten and frozen in time. Now, a team of scuba divers have released a series of incredible underwater images... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA string of suicide bombings across Afghanistan, including one by a young boy pushing an ice cream cart, has killed at least 21 people today - many of them children. The worst attack took place in the Kha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFine dodgers sentenced to jail time are released from prison after as little as an hour or two because of a secret government policy, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Every day, as many as 20 prisone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe FBI has been called in as the International Monetary Fund has come under a 'serious and sophisticated' cyberattack. The scale of the hacking is still unknown - but the confidential information held by...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Ximonic**, Simo Räsänen* Here we are in St Moritz for Bilderberg. We have a nice suite at the Suvretta House hotel. After breakfast on the terrace, we head for the Salon Venise for a session on flower ...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA renewed battle for the west of Libya could end the month-long stalemate in the struggle between Colonel Gaddafi's ugly regime and the rebels fighting for control. In the Jebel Nafusa mountains southwest...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Allemandes are at the top of tonight's "Bach the suite-maker" agenda. Here Mischa Maisky plays the Allemande from the First Cello Suite.* *by Ken* Oh my. This was supposed to be a simple sequel to last ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThere's hope! "Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto", story that follows was found via a new movement, One New Dawn "A collection of 60 certified organic farmers around the country filed a lawsuit last week aga...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDramatic evidence showing how young children and even babies are falling victim to the obesity epidemic is disclosed today. Babies are being treated in hospital because of their weight – some after being...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe curious ape was in its enclosure, when it noticed the bird's struggle in the pond It yanked a leaf from a nearby bush and extended its arm out to the bird, beckoning to the chick in the hope that it...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe War For The West: Nationalist Patriots Vs. Globalist Traitors We are seeing a democratic and patriotic challenge to the Western political and economic elite in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the site of this...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Hotspots with Max Keiser - Ireland - FULL * ffourfingerzz Cherchez la Verite
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA former adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan accused the government of having aggravated the problem of radiation exposure during the nuclear crisis, news reports said Saturday. Toshiso Kosako, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was int...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHome prices may drop as much as 25 percent, after inflation, over the next five years, economist Robert Shiller, co-founder of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index, said Thursday. "A 10 to...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMeters beneath Beijing’s hectic streets, a warren of bomb shelters extends citywide, dug at the height of nuclear paranoia in the 1970s. Home to sewer rats, damp and more recently, migrant workers, they’r...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFlorida Highway Patrol logged 163 DUI arrests this past Memorial Day week-end. Since 9-11, there has not been one terrorist related death in the United States by the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. During this same t...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThis NASA illustration image shows a surprise from the edge of the solar system. Using a computer model based on Voyager data, scientists have shown that the sun's magnetic field becomes bubbly in the heli...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoAmerica's On-Again, Off-Again Love Affair with Iran's Nuclear Program By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett The Race For Iran June 8, 2011 Seymour Hersh, the acclaimed journalist who, in 1970, won a ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Ken* As Sam Stein reports today on Huffpost: "Anthony Weiner Seeks Treatment, Requests Leave Of Absence As Top Democrats Call For Resignation." My goodness, didn't E. J. Dionne Jr. just suggest -- in...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *June 10, 2011* *Japan Admits 3 Nuclear Meltdowns, More Radiation Leaked into Sea; U.S. Nuclear Waste Poses Deadly Risks* Almost three months after the earthquake and tsun...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs I’ve previously noted, infants are much more vulnerable to radiation than adults. And see this. However, radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy m...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCongress has received a letter ostensibly from Moammar Gadhafi that calls for a cease-fire and urges the U.S. to take the lead in negotiating a deal for peace in Libya. The June 9 letter, which The Hill o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe latest victim was a 57-year-old man in Frankfurt who last month travelled with his wife to the northern city of Hamburg, an epicentre of the outbreak, authorities in the western city said. The death o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*The bankruptcy of Corporate America has seeped into the society and those who toil in its machinery.* *Corporate America is profoundly bankrupt.* Not in a financial sense, of course; the Federal Reserve...
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- *“We must all hang together,or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”*- Patrick Henry *One of the biggest struggles in the American Revolution was not necessarily against the British Empire,it was uniti...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetractors routinely contend that the annual elite *Bilderberg meetings* are nothing more than an outdated irrelevant get together of aging has-beens whose power on the international stage has long since w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 14-month-old girl was thrown from a speeding getaway car late Thursday night after the suspects were caught shoplifting at KMart, according to the Richland County Sheriff's Department. Just after 9:00...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHours before she was killed in a senseless Brighton Beach boardwalk shooting, Tysha Jones looked like any other carefree teenager enjoying a day of sun and sea with friends. One of the last known photos ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least two people were stabbed and hospitalized, and three others injured after a massive brawl involving dozens of people broke out in the parking lot of a McDonald’s near San Jose State University. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPelham police say they were justified in using a Taser several times on a cow, despite a complaint from its owner. Last Saturday, one of Wendy Bordeleau’s two cows got loose from her 30-acre farm. About...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTexas congressman Ron Paul on Friday predicted that inflation will hit 50 percent in the next couple of years, thanks to the massive debt the country has accumulated. Paul, who spoke to admirers and Repub...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIt was probably apparent to astute observers since the day Obama was elected that the Republican Party would do their worst in trying to delegitimize him and to even go so far as to punish America for ele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRYAN Giggs has told wife Stacey he will seek professional help for sex addiction in a bid to save their marriage. The shamed Man Utd star, 37, offered to go into rehab in a bid to rebuild his shattered f...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*New* *CROW VOICES RADIO* Listen as Crow youth read the news on the new Crow Voices Radio at Center Pole in Montana. Censored News is honored to have these youths read the news! Thank you! Thanks to Gov...
- *CodeWeavers* released their brand-new *"CrossOver Impersonator"* as a follow-up of its bottled CrossOver versions and WINE. It isn't an emulator, but an 'impersonator', allowing you to run Windows' softw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of al Qaeda's "most experienced planners in east Africa" has been killed in a shoot-out with Somali forces, the US Government has confirmed. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was reportedly killed in the Somali...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWednesday I took a first stab stab at examining Mitt Romney's role in the downfall of Warner Bros Records. It's a long, complicated story and I expect to develop it more extensively over the course of the ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Scotland's First Minister, part of the cover-up? * On 9 June 2011, *Al Jazeera* aired a documentary providing new evidence that 'the Lockerbie bomber' is innocent. Al Jazeera gained exclusive access to m...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Combines harvest soybeans at a farm in Tangara da Serra, Mato Grosso state in western Brazil, March 5, 2009. REUTERS / Paulo Whitaker] By David Fogarty, with additional reporting by Gerard Wynn i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSudan's military has bombed a village in an oil-rich southern region, southern officials say, as tensions increase ahead of the south's independence next month. Three people were killed in the raid on Un...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Tunisian poachers are sprayed with firehoses as they attempt to stop Sea Shepherd activists inspecting their nets for illegally caught tuna, in the Mediterranean on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Activ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoSyrians continued to cross into Turkey on Saturday to seek refuge amid the government's latest crackdown on dissent, which saw tanks and troops surround the restive northern city of Jisr al-Shughour. Res...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoNorth American stock markets were trading in the red Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing below 12,000 for the first time since March. Rising worries about the American economy trumped i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoOfficials in Manitoba are scrambling to shore up flood defences, before a major rain storm descends on waterlogged areas of the province Sunday night. The weather system is expected to bring 30 millimetr...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoEvery minute of every day, a child laborer somewhere in the world suffers a work-related accident, illness or trauma, the International Labor Organization said Friday. An estimated 115 million children w...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThis year the monsoon arrived in Mumbai almost a week ahead of schedule. It announced itself with whip-cracking thunder on June 5, catching the otherwise prepared Mumbaikar unawares. Around June 10 in no...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoNFL legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the Bible. “Scripture tells you that all things shall pass,” a choke...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe main beneficiaries of a stronger yuan would not be American and European companies but the factories of Vietnam and Bangladesh. Before we start, let me make a full disclosure. I live in China, but un...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agomagine what your reaction would be if the Mexican government agreed to pay Barack Obama $1.4 billion to deploy US troops and armored vehicles to New York, Los Angeles and Chicago to conduct military operat...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Progression of the Wallow Fire in Arizona, June 2011. The human-caused Wallow Fire began on May 29. This progression map shows the daily movement of the fire, which remains 100 percent uncontaine...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Biologist Jorge Guerrel puts a tiny Toad Mountain harlequin frog into a plastic bag for weighing and measuring on the slopes of Panama's Cerro Sapo March, 26, 2011. REUTERS / Sean Mattson] By Se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoOSLO — Torrential rains combined with melting snow have caused devastating floods across central Norway, washing away several houses and roads and causing landslides. One person has been injured in the fl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoGermany's health minister has warned more people will die from the deadly E.coli bacteria in Europe. But at the same time, Daniel Bahr has said the worst of the outbreak is over. The bug, which official...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoLeaked papers have revealed Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings from civil servants over Labour's tax and spending plans that ultimately left the country saddled with record debt. The damning paper...
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