- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoA German-inspired plan to reschedule Greek debt could force eurozone governments to provide up to an extra €20bn ($29 billion) to avoid a meltdown of its financial sector, European finance ministers have...
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Rating agency Standard & Poor's has downgraded its outlook for China's property market from stable to negative due to the country's tightening credit policy. The agency said as credit becomes more restri... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
A rural worker has been shot dead in Brazil's Amazon - the sixth murder in a month in the region, amid conflicts over land and logging. The body of Obede Loyla Souza was found in dense forest close to his... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
Some 60,000 people have fled bombing in Sudan's South Kordofan region near the north-south border, the UN says. Northern forces are accused of targeting the area's pro-southern groups, as oil-rich South ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
Learning all lessons from the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power station could take a decade, according to France's top nuclear safety officer. But all nuclear countries should carry out safety ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
The world's worst food security crisis is continuing in the eastern Horn of Africa, a US agency has warned. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) said areas of particular concern were in Eth... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
*Who are the leaders of China's economic miracle? Where do they come from, and what are their wildest ambitions?* A hundred years ago it was the likes of Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie who were building the... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
The federal government's financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The government add... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 36 minutes agoWe in the West like to keep things simple, especially when those things relate to countries on the other side of the world. We like to reduce everything to basic math - i.e., Afghanistan + Insurgency = Ta...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 37 minutes agoWhat does abortion access look like to women who don't have any? What does it mean to be unable to obtain an abortion when you need one? The anti-choice movement in the US has succeeded beyond most of our...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAn annual, one-day event hopes to encourage commuters to take public transportation instead of their cars.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 hour ago
By Duane Craig Septic Contamination image courtesy of MSNWhile it is industry that garners many headlines for contamination and pollution, individual property owners are also serious polluters on their ow... - posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 hour agoBeck: I Would Be ‘Uncomfortable’ With Muslim In My Administration (AUDIO): " Glenn Beck agreed with GOP candidate Herman Cain on his Tuesday show, saying that he would be uncomfortable having a Muslim in h...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: World distribution of plague (Yersinia pestis) in 1998. web.uconn.edu] By Katharine Gammon, LiveScience Contributor 14 Jun 2011 When the climate gets wetter, plagues can get worse, according to ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoReport Aiming to Prove ‘Creeping Shariah’ Theory Proves the Opposite: "The relentless campaign to fool Americans into believing the nation’s 220-year-old rock-steady Constitution could be toppled any moment ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoReport Aiming to Prove ‘Creeping Shariah’ Theory Proves the Opposite: "The relentless campaign to fool Americans into believing the nation’s 220-year-old rock-steady Constitution could be toppled any moment ...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThis car can drive over rocks, sand, ice and water at speeds of up to 65 mph with no carbon emissions.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe 5,300-year-old mummy suffered from cavities, possibly brought on by a high-carb diet.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Children play outside of an evacuation centre at Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture. Japan's Fukushima city said on 14 June 2011 that it would hand radiation dosimeters to 34,000 children to gauge ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Whale meat on sale in the Whale Meat Shop at Tsukiji Markets, December 2006. stippy.com] TOKYO, June 15 (AFP) — Japanese whale hunters have found traces of radioactive caesium in two of the ocea...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours agoIt's summer and school is out... where are your kids? My toddler is doing pretty much the same thing now as when school was in session, only more of it with Daddy now that HE is done with school for the su...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThere are plenty of countries where it's no blessing to be born female but there are some where it's bloody awful. The worst, the very worst country is - why it's our own rescued state, freshly-liberated ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoProtesters in the Greek capital Athens have thrown petrol bombs and clashed with police during a 24-hour strike over brutal government budget cuts. Thousands of people have gathered on the parliament buil...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoThose goddamned Yankees! Far right Republican jackass, Senator Mitch McConnell, says the federal government is at war in the South again. "*They have declared war, war on Kentucky's coal industry.*" Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of just 8.6 km (5.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:14 UTC Wednesday 15th June 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Lazaro C...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoResearcher builds UAV to film and study bats in flight.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOyster mushrooms can rid the world of the diaper disposal problem. Next question: would you eat these bottom feeders?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Good thing we didn't elect any of these warmongers president* I was hardly out of the country for a day when one of the local congressmen from around here, Brad Sherman (D-CA)-- who, because of redistrict...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoLast week, I noted that Richard Black had sunk into blatant advocacy - again - in his obscenely hasty support for the fanatical Phil Jones' claims that global warming has been proved (again) by his crooked...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours agoRevolutions and wars can bring about a transfer of wealth and power from one 'clan' to another. The takeover of Russia by Lenin and Trotsky led to a transfer of wealth and power to certain 'Jewish' fol...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoFrance today may be renowned for its fine wines, but it has at least a 2,500-year-old history of beer-making.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHillary Clinton has accused Iran of assisting the Syrian regime in their ongoing and bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protesters. The US Secretary of State's comments come as Syrian government forces...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhile most of us have struggled to get our hands on a single ticket to the 2012 Olympics, it seems Britain's richest man has had no such problems. Lakshmi Mittal, worth £29.8billion, has been allowed more ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours agoA general strike is crippling Greece today. In principle, strike may be a legitimate tool of the employees to show or try to show that their work is more important and valuable than what the employer se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPakistani intelligence officials say a pair of U.S. drone-fired missile strikes have hit a suspected militant compound and a vehicle near the Afghan border, killing at least three alleged insurgents. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA new plan to reschedule Greek debt could see Britain and other eurozone governments forced to bail out the country with an extra £17.6billion to avert economic meltdown. Riot police have blocked off the ...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoToby Harnden in today's Telegraph: The White House spin machine moved into top gear as the Republican candidates prepared to take the stage for the first major debate on Monday night. "Make way for the se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFive informants who helped the U.S. kill Osama Bin Laden have been arrested by Pakistan's intelligence service, it was revealed today. The group allegedly covertly photographed vehicles coming and going fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAnthrax is fast spreading in different villages of Tumudibandh block in Kandhamal district. The outbreak was first reported in Sanaguchuka village in Gumma panchayat and 10 days later, it has spread to 10 ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoThe BBC likes nothing better than a strike. Or two. This is even more true when Labour is not in power. So it ran this item on Today this morning with Comrade Mark Serwotka even as it runs this item on the...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoWednesday, mid-week, and time for a new Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHundreds of tickets to the London 2012 Olympic Games have been given to Libya, organisers have admitted. The country's National Olympic Committee (NOC) has been given a "few hundred" passes. Colonel Mua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHundreds of thousands of public sector workers are poised to go on strike with members of two teaching unions in protest at pay freezes and pension changes. The result of a strike ballot by the Public an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo armed men have been arrested in Devon over a suspected "murder plot" involving Joss Stone, the international singing star and close friend of the Duke of Cambridge, police said. Detectives found the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA church pastor whose teenage son shot him and his wife when they took away his video game has said he has forgiven him. Daniel Petric, 16, killed his mother and injured his father after he shot them in t...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoThe really chiling element of climate change activism is the extent to which it has taken hold. Take Forest Europe, a co-operative body which sounds on the surface to be a sensible initiative. It is not pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSky watchers in the UK will be hoping for a cloudless sky this evening so they can get the best view of the longest total lunar eclipse since 2000. The dramatic event will turn the moon blood red for 100 m...
- Arizona wildfire is now largest in state history at a record-breaking 469,000 acres - 14th June 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe wildfire that has roared out of control for more than two weeks in Arizona is now the largest in state history, having consumed over 469,000 acres. The Wallow Fire, which authorities suspect started f... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 8 hours agoPhoto courtesy: John Bell via flickr via TreeHugger Here's a little good news for people concerned about public health: the EPA released the names of 150 chemicals, the identities of which had been kept s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBumblebees are vanishing from the U.S. at an alarming rate - except, it seems, in Manhattan. Yesterday 15,000 bees descended on a lamppost in Chinatown, in at least the third swarm in as many weeks. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn estranged husband tragically shot to death his estranged wife and their two children before turning the gun on himself. Steven Lake, 37, went to the home of estranged wife Amy Lake, 38, in Dexter, Main...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTwo of the CIA's biggest mistakes made under President George W. Bush are coming under fresh scrutiny. The CIA's inspector general has resumed asking questions about a botched operation in which the agenc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAuthorities have named a missing police cadet's boyfriend as the prime suspect in her disappearance. David Perry, 47, has long been a 'person of interest' in the investigation, which began when Kelly Rot...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoShots of the front yard - before and after the theft. Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News Denise Thompson had a beautiful front lawn, thick and green. It was where her four children and two dogs played, and where...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA father allegedly killed his baby daughter with a cinder block just hours after she was born - because he and the little girl's mother couldn't afford to have another child. Christopher Fitzpatrick, 20, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs she stepped down from the stand wiping her tears after testifying against her daughter for the third time, Cindy Anthony mouthed the words 'I love you' to Casey - who responded by looking away. Mrs Ant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA woman juror sobbed as she was told she will be jailed for using Facebook to contact a defendant in a multi-million-pound drugs trial. Joanne Fraill, 40, revealed highly sensitive details about jury room ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 9 hours agoA powerful doc from war correspondent and investigative journalist/author John Pilger showing media complicity in the promotion of war and the difference in reportage from embedded vs independent journos...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 9 hours agoCANADA - Young Canadians are racking up debt faster than any other age groups, according to an extensive study released today. The annual study by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA gang of Asian men went on trial yesterday accused of a sickening catalogue of child prostitution offences against vulnerable teenage girls as young as 13. The nine – six are married and one is a grandfa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA two-year-old boy has become the youngest victim of the deadly E.coli bacteria in Germany, the 37th person to die in the outbreak. The child lost his battle with the killer bug after spending several day...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWORKERS were evacuated after a chemical spill on an industrial estate released at least 100 litres of dangerous acid. The leak was caused by a fork lift truck puncturing a plastic container containing hy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA fire at a plant where chemicals are blended and stored for oilfield operations forced residents to evacuate or hunker down Tuesday night while a grayish-brown column of smoke rose hundreds of feet into t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA radiopharmaceutical company in Selangor has been ordered to stop operation and its premises has been sealed by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) for further investigation after radioactive materia...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoPhysOrg.com and others are writing about a talk in New Mexico where solar physicists have hypothesized that the Solar Cycle 25 will be delayed or it won't occur at all. The black region on the picture i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAfter two men in Alaska were taken to a hospital in Ketchikan last week after coming down with paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) due to eating tainted baby mussels, Northern Health sent out a notice to r...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago Marcos in Sonora by Brenda Norrell*Subcomandante Marcos: June 5 Letter to the Citizens Movement for Justice .* June 2011 ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY ZAPATISTA M...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoJune 14, 2011 *Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles on Mexico’s Caravan for **Peace with Justice and Dignity that was in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso from **June 9-11.* *Caravan for Peace support...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*RAPIER WEATHERWAX*: I've been running with a pretty serious crowd up at New Haven -- lots of bull sessions about swing and stuff -- and I've been wondering. Where does our money come from? *MILO WEATHER...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoAmerica is The Devil's Country. In 1913, with the establishment of the usurious, unconstitutional, and criminal Federal Reserve Bank, Satan's minions secretly stole the soul of America and turned the Ameri...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has said his family was "not invested" in a second term in the White House and would have been content if he had decided against running for re-election. He said first lady *Michell...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHere’s a sad statistic: Facebook users spend 23 hours of every month browsing the website. That’s 500 million people staring at a computer screen as a social network swallows up 700 billion minutes of thei...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoRefugees fleeing the advancing forces of the Syrian army have accused the United Nations of abandoning them to their fate, saying they fear they will be massacred. Syrian troops sweeping through the resti...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours agoFracking Disclosure Bill Advances in California State LegislatureJoint Release: EARTHWORKS | ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPSacramento, Calif. -- The California State Assembly has passed legislation sponsored by...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Libyan regime has successfully requested close to 1,000 tickets to events at the London Olympics and the country’s attendance at the Games is being co-ordinated by the Gaddafi family. The Libyan Ol...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThousands of sex offenders, including rapists and paedophiles, will be able to apply to be removed from the sex crimes register under human rights laws, the Government has announced. A Supreme Court ruli...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 14 hours agoMubarak is gone. Egyptians feel a sense of reverie. But how long will it last until some new oppressor moves in to pick up the slack? "Democracy" is just another word in the modern world for, "Let our ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoTerence McKenna: Interview, Hawaii - October 1998 - 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago*The World's Dirtiest Oil? - Canada's Tar Sands* Controversial mining operations threaten the lives and livelihood of Canada's indigenous people, who have organised a global response to take on oil comp...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe United States risks a financial meltdown if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. “We could actually have a reprise of a financial crisis if we play this too c...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe European Central Bank, with its staunch opposition to sovereign debt restructuring in Europe, is making a bad situation worse. By threatening to withdraw support for banks in countries such as Greece i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGold should trade to just over $1,600 an ounce by the end of 2011 and silver should be flirting with $50 an ounce as governments will need to maintain a loose monetary policy despite the phasing out of sti...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLegendary investor Jeremy Grantham of GMO has published a treatise on the root cause of exploding commodity prices. He has also offered a startlingly depressing outlook for the future of humanity. Grant...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAfter the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bushadministration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death. In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence i...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*With an update from Howie (see below)* *"The Speakout for Good Jobs Now tour will feature stops in numerous cities across America giving Americans the chance to speak out about how the economy is affec...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 15 hours ago@cityslikr's pal Urban Sophisticat on the Six Sigma sickness currently afflicting our municipal leadership. Read it now. On The Road To Metropolis « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke Dude's bang on. We're not...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoSurfers and whitewater kayakers could get some tips about how to perfect their sports from these geese.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoAmerican negotiators are working out a deal that could allow US forces to remain in Afghanistan for decades. All this nonsense about an American withdrawal by 2014 was always just that - nonsense. The P...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJapan's Fukushima city said Tuesday it would hand radiation measuring devices to 34,000 children to gauge their exposure from the crippled nuclear power plant about 60 kilometres (40 miles) away. The cit...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy called Tuesday for tighter controls on the speculators he blames for soaring food and energy prices threatening global growth. Saying the world had "worked extremely hard...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe chances of positively resolving Europe's serious debt problems are decreasing from day to day as authorities focus on "buying more time," not solving problems, billionaire investor George Soros said on...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe witness who filmed the incident gives the following description of events (which we've left unedited, and can be found on the Youtube page): "The incident occurred at around 10:40AM on a Manhattan bo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoChina criticized the U.S. on Tuesday over a senator's call for multilateral negotiations to resolve festering territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said only th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEgypt's military rulers told human rights advocates Monday that at least 7,000 civilians have been sentenced to prison terms by military courts since Hosni Mubarak was ousted — an astoundingly high number ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSyrian armed forces continued a "scorched earth" campaign near the country's borders with Turkey and Iraq, witnesses said Tuesday, as the US and Europe stepped up condemnation of the Syrian government's de...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFor years now Chinese authorities have been installing spying devices on all dual-plate Chinese-Hong Kong vehicles, enabling a vast network of eavesdropping across the archipelago, according to a Hong Kong...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 18 hours agoI just posted a blog post about the Eagle Ford Shale tour on EARTHblog.Eagle Ford Shale: The Dark Side of the Boom tourIt has information about more water contamination and a slide show of photos at the end.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours ago25-year old Crystal Harris has called off her engagement to 85-year old Hugh Hefner. They were to be married this Saturday but Crystal, it seems, changed her mind "after much deep reflection and thought."
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoThe Greeks should have seen it coming when, just a couple of weeks ago, Stephen Harper pronounced himself confidant that Greece was on the road to a full economic recovery. As a guy who supposedly earned...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoOur Furious Leader has served notice that strikes will not be permitted in his country, Harperland. Finance minister and dutiful leprechaun Flaherty has announced his master's government is preparing leg...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoThe late Colonel John "40 Second" Boyd would have a thing or three hundred to say about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and not one of them good. Boyd was a highly accomplished fighter pilot who fought th...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 19 hours ago[image: Grandes íconos del fútbol mundial (7 wallpapers)][image: Grandes íconos del fútbol mundial (7 wallpapers)] [image: Grandes íconos del fútbol mundial (7 wallpapers)] [image: DESCRIBE][image: Grandes...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Keith O, from the Rolling Stone interview* *"I don't know that there's going to be anything hugely different that's visible to the viewer. It's not going to be like, 'I'm going to do the last half of the...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe black beret, introduced 10 years ago, proved deeply unpopular with American soldiers,
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe sun is changing, but scientists aren't sure why.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours ago*The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) says Canadian police involved in felony drug trafficking* International media release June 14, 2011 ITCCS Condemns RCMP raids on sovereign...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 20 hours agoSolitary Watch Confronts Torture in US Prisons --An interview with James Ridgeway and Jean Casella By Angola 3 News Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in Californ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoOne of the most loathsome aspects of the BBC is how it advances an anti-Israeli agenda by leaving out information which might make at least some people question the "independence" of what it reports. A Bia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThis amazing photograph shows the incredible moment a deadly tornado of water appears to strike a cruise ship. The towering torrent of water stretched over 300ft into the air as it 'hit' the water close t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGenetic engineers are deliberately breeding transgender goats to see if their milk is similar to that produced by humans. The goats being created are effectively a female trapped in a male’s body, comple...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoInteresting example of bias by omission here; "HM Treasury is failing to monitor "excessive" profits from the selling-on of PFI (private finance initiative) equity, the BBC has been told. One industry ana...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoYou may have read about living lasers that were built out of proteins. Fun. The cell stayed alive while being hired as a laser. :-) It's not necessarily the most handy thing in the world but it is kind o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPaedophiles and rapists have the 'human right' to apply to be removed from the sex offenders register, the Home Office has said. Thousands will now be able to apply to have their names removed 15 years af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA pair of British tourists gunned down in Florida were forced to strip before being shot, court documents reveal. Students James Cooper and James Kouzaris were found shirtless and with their trousers aro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNato has refused to rule out bombing Libya's ancient Roman ruins if Colonel Gaddafi is using them to hide military equipment. Rebels in the divided country claim the under-pressure Libyan leader could be ...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA device projects a bright green image onto the pavement ahead of bikers to alert motorists.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChina Tuesday blamed its neighbors for escalating tensions in the South China Sea, one day after the Vietnamese navy held a live-fire drill in disputed waters. "Some countries took unilateral actions to...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNATO refused to say Tuesday whether or not it would bomb ancient Roman ruins in Libya if it knew Moammar Gadhafi was hiding military equipment there. "We will strike military vehicles, military forces, mi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFirefighters have stopped the northward advance of the second-largest wildfire in recorded Arizona history and are now focusing on its eastern flank, which has burned its way into New Mexico. Light wind...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA rash of violent protests in China continued over the weekend as migrant workers and security forces clashed in a rural city about 60 miles northwest of Hong Kong, local government officials and witness...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIs Facebook’s reign as the king of social networking coming to an end? Facebook, known for its meteoric rise in popularity, lost 1.5 million users in Canada in May. Facebook also reported a loss of approxi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA 780-year-old religious relic of the patron saint of lost causes and missing objects was stolen from a Catholic church near Los Angeles on Monday, just hours after it was put on display to commemorate t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoBlackfire and Aztlan Underground will be performing in East L.A. this coming Saturday June 18th, 2011, at The Blvd. 2631 Whittier Blvd. Doors open at 8 pm, show starts at 9 pm and admission is $10.00 C...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoInjecting a bit of life -- in this case, bacteria -- into a painting can go a long way toward extending the life of a piece.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTwo students died while 42 others were hospitalized after eating noodles mistakenly cooked with what authorities suspect to be oxalic acid in Cagayan province Tuesday. The National Disaster Risk Reduction...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFifty children and four adults were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning from the holiday camp Chaika in Russia’s Tver region on Tuesday, the regional administration told Tass. They said the pois...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn amateur fossil hunter found the world's smallest dinosaur - but kept it in his bedside drawer for two years not realising the importance of his discovery. Collector Dave Brockhurst, 51, stumbled on the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHackers who stole the personal details of more than 200,000 Citigroup customers 'broke in through the front door' using an extremely simple technique. It has been called 'one of the most brazen bank hacki...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoHow the teenagers actually rated the songs, however, showed no link to the songs' future success.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 22 hours agoThe planned EOG frack sand mining operation in North Texas appears to be an intense operation with full wet/dry plant, rock crushing, etc. There will be huge impacts from this.Please attend a public meeting ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago*Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missiles or other weapons to Myanmar and made it turn back, a senior US official said Monday, APA reports quoting AFP. The comments by Gary...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA vintage B-17 bomber built during the Second World War burst into flames yesterday morning in a cornfield outside Chicago. The vintage plane, which carries passengers for around $400 a seat, took off fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt is thought to have been the biggest international cash airlift of all time, when $12billion in aid was flown by the Bush administration to postwar Iraq. And now, for the first time, investigators audit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSix more workers at Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant may have exceeded the radiation exposure limit, bringing the total to eight, the government said Monday. The health and labor ministry rele...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoIf the clowns running for the Republican presidential nomination can be taken seriously... well, who couldn't be? I'm in China, and the TV stations in my hotel room didn't carry the thing live, but they s...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoCorporal A.V. Scott went missing on the battlefields of the Korean War nearly 60 years ago.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoI think the world would be far better off if we demanded that every candidate for political office held a valid pilot licence. Why? Because time and again, pilots demonstrate a willingness to put the li...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA recharge of your electric vehicle's battery could be just a phone call away.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInflation in China hit its highest level in 34 months despite the government's efforts to rein in rising prices. Consumer prices in China rose by 5.5% in May, compared with the same month last year, acco...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreece was downgraded close to default on Monday, sending yields on its 10-year bonds near to fresh euro-era highs and stoking fears over the eurozone debt crisis. Standard & Poor's cut Greece's long-te...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere are no patriotic calls to arms beneath the rockets' red glare, no bragging about ruling over a vast empire, or any of the militaristic overtones of so many national anthems. This one, a proposed na...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWho ever thought the saying, “It’s the economy stupid,” from James Carville in 1992 would become a staple in presidential elections 20 years later? That expression made its way into the campaign in 2008, ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian tanks pushed toward more towns and villages near the Turkish and Iraqi borders on Tuesday, expanding the crackdown against a 12-week uprising to the north and east as more Syrians flee their homes. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere's gold in them thar hills, but pretty soon you won't be allowed to touch it. In California, the state built on gold, the time is up for prospectors who are about to see their way of life declared i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMexico's rival crime gangs are in an arms race, and the latest sign of that are the homemade "Mad Max" type heavily armored vehicles they deploy to withstand fierce clashes with each other. The army fou...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was a defining moment of World War II. In February 1944, the US Navy attacked Japan's naval forces in the western Pacific. After 48 hours, 200,000 tonnes of Japanese ships, aircraft, trucks and tanks ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day agoJune 14,2011 Over 20 noted whistleblowers have just released a petition calling for rescinding a “Transparency Award” President Obama recently received. The signatories including Daniel Ellsberg, who leak...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoDoes it look like Sarah is giving you the finger? SHE IS! She conveniently neglected to mention that toxic fuel emissions cause cancer, emphysema, asthma, allergies, autism and Alzheimer's - all epidemi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoGlobal warming used to be mainly a battleground for atmospherics science debates. Today the oceanographers and hydrologists are moving way up the prestige ladder because, as we're finding out pretty much ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day agoSyrian tanks pushed on the way to more towns and villages near the Turkish and Iraqi borders on Tuesday, increasing the crackdown against a 12-week uprising to the north and east as more Syrians flee t...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Mountain Peaks] An Austrian government agency suddenly pull two sky-high piece of real estate — majestic peaks contribution stupendous alpine views — off the open market Tuesday after an express...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe combines are early onto the wheat fields of Kansas this year. Accounts suggest they're trying to salvage whatever they can from this year's crop in regions hard hit by drought. *The worst droughts i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe combines are early onto the wheat fields of Kansas this year. Accounts suggest they're trying to salvage whatever they can from this year's crop in regions hard hit by drought. *The worst droughts i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWhat's a "perfect storm" Florida-style? That's easy, a property market collapse, a Tea Bagger governor and the onset of the ravages of climate change. That's a real Trifecta. Florida, like other states...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[Update: Readers have suggested that the “plume” is merely fog rolling in from the ocean. Desdemona agrees and slaps forehead.] Things start cooking around 1:30, and the big plume starts at about 2:10...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoRightwing nutjob Stephen Harper, er, John Bolton, has slammed the United Nations and its membership of irrelevant countries, a.k.a. "the world", for having the audacity to grant political recognition to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Workers enter the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The health ministry says that another 23 workers at the nuclear plant may have been exposed internally to over 100 millisieverts of rad...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSharply reducing emissions of soot and smog could play a critical role in preventing Earth from overheating.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoTV yak show host and pitchman Montel Williams is hawking medical marijuana. Williams has gone into partnership in an outfit known as the Albatin Wellness Cooperative in Sacramento. Williams has used p...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoF.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds: " There goes our privacy…oh wait…what privacy? F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investi...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoHerman Cain: I'll Veto Bills Longer Than 3 Pages, Gays Are Sinners, Muslims Are Traitors: "Meanwhile, the real rising star of the Republican presidential race, Herman Cain, has announced that he will veto bi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBloomfield, NM*US Supreme Court and media aid Interior Department to cover its crimes* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot/. WASHINGTON -- A Supreme Court ruling states that the ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoMilitia Leader Sought After Shots Fired at Officers: "A manhunt was underway Monday in a remote area near the Idaho-Montana border for an antigovernment militia leader who fired shots at pursuing deputies a ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day ago‘Study’ of Mosques Reflects Anti-Muslim Bias of Co-Author: "A new “study” co-authored by a man who staunchly believes America’s mosques are incubators of violent jihad has determined – surprise, surprise! – ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoCriticism Grows of Texas Governor’s Hate Group-Sponsored Rally: "After news spread last week that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is planning to hold a prayer rally in August funded and organized by the stridently ant...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new kind of artificial heart uses whirling motors to 'spin' blood -- rather than pump it -- through the body.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists have engineered cells to produce fluorescent proteins, and then use those cells as lasers.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGenetic analysis of a shrunken head verifies anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoReport: Bulk of Mexico's drug cartel guns are from U.S.: "U.S. lawmakers are calling for tougher firearms laws after a report showed more than 70 percent of Mexico's drug cartel weapons originated in the Uni...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoNo U.N. action on Syria: "After more than a thousand reported deaths from a government crackdown on dissidents and chilling videos of violence on social media, the unrest in Syria has drawn international att...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoBahrain urged to stop military trials: "Human Rights Watch is urging Bahrain to stop special military court proceedings against those arrested during the country's anti-government's protests. "
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 1 day agoIs your blog or website considered as a LIFESTYLE blog or website? "Lifestyle" encapsulates topics of interest to women and families such as Apparel and Beauty, Cooking and Dining, Holidays and Special Occ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The opening of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California's decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA (click to enlarge)* *"In the end, the court finds that DOMA violates the equal pr...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoOne of the democratic reform initiatives that never seems to get much publicity is the preferential ballot. Yet it's simple, assures the majority of the riding backs the winning candidate, and helps avoid ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Outed: This is construction worker Bill Graber, who pretended to be a lesbian called Paula Brooks The married American man behind the lesbian Syrian blog hoax has issued a grovelling apology - as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Arab living in the UK on a temporary visa has denied causing the death of a three-year-old boy while driving a Jaguar. Ahmed Aldubaili, 30, is charged with causing the death of three-year-old Henry Bla...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoDid the City of Toronto paint over a mural because a figure in it resembled Stephen Harper? Or was the mural eradicated because it bears an anti-capitalist message? Or perhaps a little of both. In early ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 16-year-old boy accused of killing two British tourists in Florida confessed to the murders, court papers show. Shawn Tyson allegedly told another prison inmate: 'I did it', when asked about the shootin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoParts of Iowa were tonight braced for flash flooding after a 50ft hole was torn in the Missouri River's levee within minutes. The National Weather Service has warned residents of Hamburg and parts of Inte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSky watchers in the UK will be hoping for a cloudless sky on Wednesday evening so they can get the best view of the longest total lunar eclipse since 2000. The dramatic event will turn the moon blood red ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrimary school teacher Nigel Leat, who filmed himself sexually abusing vulnerable young girls in his classroom, has been jailed indefinitely. The 51-year-old took videos of himself molesting five girls ov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople residing in the central part of the Marovo lagoon in the Western province in Solomon Islands are worried at the death of marine species in the local waters. Reports reaching the Solomon Star newsp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArgentina’s authorities have declared an agricultural emergency in the Patagonian region after ashes from Chile’s Puyehue volcano caused severe losses for many farmers, website *Tucumanoticias *reported. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA small tornado has hit a small coastal town in northern New South Wales, as wild weather continues to batter the region. Residents say the whirlwind hit Red Rock, north of Coffs Harbour, shortly before ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKOLKATA: The city is in the grip of a viral fever that has affected thousands, including many in Ballygunge, Alipore and parts of central Kolkata. It has been leading to high fever accompanied by a severe ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTorrential rain and hail is blanketing most of Cyprus, in a spell of unusually bad weather. To add to the wet weather, the temperature has also dropped four degrees below the norm for this time of year wh...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day ago10th Anniversary *by BrianHaw* Brian Haw is an exceptional individual. For the past ten years he has been fighting the vipers in Westminster, encamped in Parliament square every day until forced to leave ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFarmers along the South Saskatchewan River downstream from Lake Diefenbaker were being warned of rising river levels Monday. John Fahlman of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority said officials are increa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists are quickly combing the DNA of the killer bacteria behind the world's worst E. coli outbreak to find clues about how to treat patients and prevent future epidemics. So far, one strain from a G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mountain lion was killed just 70 miles from New York City, and officials were trying to determine if it was the same big cat spotted a week ago roaming the posh suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut. The 140...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoElite Syrian Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships and tanks regained control of a rebel stronghold yesterday. Helicopters hovered overhead, paving the way for scores of tanks and armoured personnel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA loosely aligned group of computer hackers calling themselves Lulz Security said they broke into the U.S. Senate's computer network today. There was no immediate comment by the Senate Sergeant at Arms Off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCasey Anthony may have placed a heart-shaped sticker over her two-year-old daughter’s mouth before sealing it shut with duct tape, court evidence has suggested. As Anthony's murder trial entered its fourt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of air passengers flying in and out of Australia and New Zealand breathed a sigh of relief today after the resumption of flights cancelled due to ash from the Chilean volcano. Hundreds of flight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKaren Matthews, who arranged the kidnapping of her daughter Shannon to claim £50,000 in reward money, claims she has been repeatedly attacked in prison. The mother of seven is on a block with convicted chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour men were jailed today after they admitted running an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films of children to over 40 countries around the world. Ian Frost,...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoIn 2005, 47% of the world's population was living on less than $2.50 per day. To remove these poor people from poverty would cost $507 billion per year. (Thomas Pogge on Global Poverty) The US military ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Goodyear blimp burst into flames and plunged to earth in a weekend crash in Germany. The pilot was killed but three passengers managed to jump to safety when the airship caught fire as it was coming in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo male prison officers had sex with woman inmates in exchange for favours including weekend release and alcohol, a court heard. Russell Thorne and Simon Dykes were 'at the heart of corruption' at Downvie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt might be one fantastical work of science fiction - but researchers have discovered we have more in common with the characters of the X-Men films than we first believe. Scientists have found that each ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA popular diabetes drug used by almost a quarter of a million Britons has been suspended by French and German safety chiefs. The move comes after concerns that Actos, and a similar drug called Competact, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA jealous wife murdered her wealthy husband with a hammer because she suspected he was having an affair, a court heard. Sally Challen assumed Ferrari enthusiast Richard’s deception after dialling 1471 on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA television actress who left her elderly mother’s body for up to six months in the bedroom of the home they shared while pocketing her pension was yesterday warned she faced jail. Worried neighbours had...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Warning:* the video below is amazingly offensive. It still got 95% of upvotes among the 1,000 votes from 50,000 viewers. An op-ed by Bill McKibben is being read and illustrated by a Stephen Thomson of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTired of social networking? Logging off Facebook? You’re probably not the only one. Fearing for their privacy or perhaps just bored with using the site, 100,000 Britons are said to have deactivated their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain's defences are at risk if the war in Libya drags on for another three months, the head of the Royal Navy warned last night. First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope said the Fleet will only be able...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers of the future will get a get a window on the world as they fly through the sky. For this plane with it's 'intelligent' cabin wall membrane and interactive ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe drifting plume of ash from Chile's erupting volcano forced the cancellations of dozens of flights in Argentina, Uruguay and other South American countries, while thousands of air passengers in Australi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA book has warned of a "complete collapse of civilization " if humankind fails to shield itself from a major volcanic eruption. In 'Eruptions That Shook The World' , Cambridge University's Clive Oppenheim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in Florida due to wildfires and drought conditions. The declaration Monday puts the state Division of Emergency Management in charge of the situation. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnderson Lake is closed to on-lake activities due to high concentrations of a deadly neurotoxin. The lake is undergoing a spring blue-green algae bloom made up predominately of the genera *Aphanizomenon*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents in a small northern Saskatchewan community are waiting to find out when they can return home after being evacuated during the weekend due to a forest fire. At around 1:15 p.m. Sunday, a lightnin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Crews battling a massive wildfire in eastern Arizona for two weeks shifted their focus Monday to New Mexico, where they lit fire...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago** *"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 - 1 day agoGreece'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 - 1 day agoAs 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 - 1 day agoTwo 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 - 1 day agoIt's official. Michelle Bachmann is seeking the Republican presidential nomination for 2012.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Smithsonian continues legacy of racism and morbid disrespect harboring Indian remains* Smithsonian continues racism and morbid disrespect harboring Indian remains in violation of federal law By Brenda ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNorth 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 - 1 day agoVietnam 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance 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 - 1 day agoWhen 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 - 1 day agoGreece 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoA 'trash' boat made of all recycled parts set sail around Taiwan last week.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 sor...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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