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Green algae about the size of a football pitch was seen 12 nautical miles off Qingdao, a port city in east China's Shandong Province, local maritime police said Saturday. The large expanse of green algae,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago
Chlorine gas leaked from a chemical plant has hospitalized 27 students in Southwest China's Guizhou province, the local government said Saturday. The students, from Yuantian Primary School near Zunbao Tit... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea Reg. Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:56:38 UTC Saturday 18th June 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A hit and run driver who left a gifted [image: Link]young student paralysed and needing round the clock care for the rest of her life has been jailed for just 150 days. Cowardly Rohan Bingham, 35, left b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 23.2 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:31:06 UTC Saturday 18th June 2011. The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) North Eas... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck of the Coast of Northern California at a depth of just 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:49:11 UTC Saturday 18th June 2011. This Follows an Earlier Quake in the... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand June 18, 2011 - Out of either desperation or immeasurable hubris, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just attempted to rewrite the last 3 months of history, contra... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Officials found E. coli in the drinking water at Thurmond Lake's West Dam Recreation area, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Billy Birdwell, a spokesman for the c orps' Savannah District, sa... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
One of seven children in northern France still infected with a dangerous strain of E.coli bacteria has been put into a coma as doctors struggle to save his life. The two year-old has an acute renal conditi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Residents drawing water from Leicester and Hillcrest Water districts have been instructed to boil tap water before drinking it, and to take additional precautions until the source of the contamination has... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
T*he dangerous strain of E. coli that has claimed the lives of nearly 40 Germans has been found in a stream in Frankfurt, it was confirmed Friday evening. But authorities said there was no risk to the city... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA potential Escherichia coli outbreak that’s plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the eight-county Northeast Tennessee re...
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday that it has temporarily halted the operation of a new cleanup system aimed at cleaning radioactive water in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because of highe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
WEST POINT, GA (WTVM) -West Point officials are searching for a suspect they say may be responsible for causing 14 other people to be sent to the hospital. Witnesses inside the Shell gas station on Hig... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSingapore - About 100 passengers on a cruise from Singapore to Vietnam suffered food poisoning, The Straits Times said Saturday. The Singapore daily quoted the Star Cruise company as saying the passengers ...
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Algae bloom advisories have been posted at all three Buckeye Lake beaches. Signs went up this morning warning visitors not to ingest the water or touch surface scum after toxic algae was detected at Cryst... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed that the suspected case at Bose Corp. in Westborough was in fact measles. Director of Public Health Paul McNulty said he was notified yesterday afternoon.... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The Peterborough County-City Health Unit states that testing has confirmed that blue-green algae is in the "back channel" area of Pigeon Lake. Residents in the affected area are being reminded to avoid usi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A 230-pound former Marine has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter in a brutal wrestling match, in which he threw the child across a bed and into a wall. Benja... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThese stunning images of Mercury are causing scientists to re-think how the planet closest to the sun was formed four billion years ago. Initial data gathered by Nasa's Messenger probe - which is three mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBritain's biggest wave of industrial action since the 1926 general strike will be sparked by Government pension reforms, the largest public sector union's leader has said. *Dave Prentis, general secretar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoRabbis at a Jewish court allegedly condemned a dog to death by stoning - because they thought it was the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who they'd cursed for insulting them. The rabbinical court report...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoJust to say that I will be away on holidays for the next week and unlikely to blog! Hope my fellow writers can keep the momentum going by providing you with further red meat on the topic of BBC bias and I ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA mother was allegedly checking her Facebook account when her daughter wandered outside and was struck and killed by a van. Karen Pena, 30, faces child abuse charges after allegedly telling police she had...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoI'm not talking Jihadists but rather the BBC. Interesting interview herewith Baroness Finlay of Llandaff. Along with some other peers, she has stated in a letter to The Times that the BBC is *"running an or...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoThe underlying bias of the BBC comes across in some small ways as well as more obvious ways! I was listening to an interview concerning a new book on the interrogation of Rudolf Hess at 7.42am. John Humphy...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoConservative backbencher Philip Davies is one of those rare things - a really solid Conservative voice. Naturally the BBC loath him and so everything he says is subject to great scrutiny. Today has a go a...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoBBC seem to be enjoying the bellicose threats coming from the Trade Union comrades. Today we have the (helpful for the Unions) news headline from the BBC that Unison and other unions could bring about t...
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/u1N6QfuIh0g] *This deserves a Nobel Prize*, I find. The solution for the world's (still hypothetical) food crisis. Make sure you *get payed* for it, then until now you had to pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoYonathan Melaku, a Lance Corporal Marine Corps reservist who lives in Alexandria, Virginia and is Muslim, has been identified as the suspect arrested less than a mile from the Pentagon. Mr Melaku, 22, was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwenty years ago you would have been shot for stepping too close to this monument in Sofia in Bulgaria. But after the smashing of the Berlin Wall, statues celebrating communist rule appear to be fair game...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA fan of the American crime series CSI who used criminal techniques learned from the programme to murder his estranged wife has been jailed for 25 years. Damian Fincher stabbed Gabrielle Chapman 20 times ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours agoI think that many of you remember that Obama's voters used to be fanatical opponents of the missile defense system proposed during the administration of George Bush Jr. We were constantly told that the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe lover of a millionaire forged his will to try to stop his estranged wife inheriting his fortune. Gillian Clemo fabricated the legal document after property tycoon Chris John died suddenly from a brain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA millionaire British businessman is feared to have been the victim of a 'contract killing' on the night he celebrated his first wedding anniversary with his internet bride. Barry Pring, 47, was hit by a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 99 km (61.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:22 UTC Saturday 18th June 2011. The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) East Nort East of Tacna. Per...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoColonel Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to defeat Nato and stay in power in Libya, saying not even nuclear bombs would drive him away. The alliance is currently carrying out a sustained campaign of air strikes ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAnother round of torrential rains has flooded a once-drought-stricken region of southern China, killing 25 people and leaving 25 missing, authorities said Friday. The flood has forced the evacuation of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA measles epidemic in the Republic of Congo has infected 800 people and killed 32 in Pointe-Noire, the country's economic hub, a newspaper reported on Friday. “This is really disturbing given that a vacc...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoSome of the media have surprisingly publicized the findings by Mark Lynas, a well-known environmentalist and a crusader against global warming, who has looked at the latest and final version of the IPCC Fo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe South Korean military fired at a civilian plane near the Yellow Sea border with North Korea, mistaking it for one of the North's military planes, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Saturday, cit...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours agoEditor's Note: This article was found on Color Revolutions and Geopolitics. It cannot be stressed enough how important it is to understand these color revolutions. These tactics allow the global elite to d...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe streets that were once choked with traffic are now bare. The church's sprawling parking lot is half full. Inside the stylish sanctuary, ushers sway to choir music in front of empty seats. On a typica...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Canadian man who kept his son locked in a box no bigger than a portaloo for eight weeks has been forced to release him by police. Johan Knelsen, 21, was forced to live in the homemade wooden prison at ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*BERG: Wozzeck, Op. 7: Act I, Scene 3 (excerpt)* What will you do now, poor lamb? You have a child but no man! Ah, why worry, poor mite? I'll sing through the live-long night. Hush-a-bye baby, my darling bo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLebanon dispatched troops Friday to quell clashes that arose in the city of Tripoli over the Syrian crisis. Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on TV that Lebanese army reinforcements went to two neighborho...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhen the world didn't end on May 21, many people who had given up their earthly possessions were left with nothing. But one believer never lived to see the day. She left nearly her entire estate - around...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPart of the backlash against this week's austerity measures in Athens stems from a breakdown in trust between the Greek people and its elected politicians. But what the Greek government says and does now...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for US economic growth, warning Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSyrian forces shot dead at least 18 protesters yesterday as one of its most reviled figures gave up his business empire in an attempt to assuage public anger. Security personnel used live fire to disperse...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAngela Merkel was forced to abandon Germany's tough stance on Greek debt amid warnings a failure to yield would trigger the eurozone's first-ever default. With just days to go before the vital Brussels s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCristina Kirchner, the president of Argentina, has accused David Cameron of "mediocrity bordering on stupidity" over the issue of the Falkland Islands. The Argentine leader then went on to lambast Britai...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 9 hours agoBloomberg June 17, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT By Patricia Hurtado and Chris Dolmetsch U.S. prosecutors in New York, the first to identify and charge Osama bin Laden three years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrori...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 10 hours agoFollowing the example of my friends impolitical and pogge. A few years old, but like a fine wine, it ages well ... Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo by hammockmusic Raising Your Voice...Trying...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 11 hours agoThis film is a sweetly elegiac meander through the furthest northern latitudes, in a landscape that seems barren but comes alive as a character in its own right, an elemental force with the treacherous wea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: (a) Evolution of global surface temperature (solid green line). The green dashed line denotes a second possible evolutionary path triggered by a temperature perturbation in the Neoproterozoic era...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWhile Rep. Anthony Weiner may no longer have the benefit of Congress’ generous health care plan once he resigns, he will still be able to collect his pension and other benefits that could total more than $...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate ste...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*And Noah says: "Nothing to see here, folks, move along"* *MEANWHILE IT'S SCUMMY BUSINESS AS USUAL* Al Kamen tells the tale today in his *Washington Post* "in the Loop" column of a "veteran television pr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago*Anatomy of a Tragicomic Educational Witch-hunt* By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Arizona’s vicious politics in regards to the legality of Tucson’s highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) program...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoAs we know, the BBC narrative is that the Arab Spring is a "good thing" and the Muslim Brotherhood are a kindly and progressive group....as a Biased BBC reader observes; "Heard this this morning on 'Today...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoI see the BBC are celebrating the Specials "Ghost Town" from all those years ago when the wicked Thatcher ruled the land and oppressed the poor. I remember buying it as a child (!) but one wonders WHY the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago"Every society is dominated by an ideology. When Marxism began, it professed to be something of an escape from ideology and said it would not set up a structure of authority. It would be something in whi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoIt's always important to remember that when it comes to the BBC, impartiality is in their DNA. It's one reason why they are so special. Anyhoo....A BBBC reader observes.... "Evan Davies wants us to allo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoI found this email from a Biased BBC reader interesting... "Just renewed my TV licence. Last year I paid in full in one payment. This year I decided to renew online.Went on the web site and what first str...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoChina is staging three days of military exercises in the South China Sea and plans to boost its offshore maritime patrol force, state media said, as tensions with its neighbours simmer. China has competin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAll 10,000 Detroit Public Schools employees are getting layoff notices as the financially troubled district faces continued budget problems. District spokesman Steve Wasko tells the Detroit Free Press for ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoYou can make a fortune selling parking spots outside the US Open, but don't even dream of setting up a lemonade stand. A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoForty years ago Friday, President Richard Nixon officially declared "war on drugs," citing drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1." Now, forty years, a trillion dollars, and millions of ruined lives later, drug...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*IN the next three to five years the Chinese renminbi (RMB) could become the global reserve currency, especially if the Chinese government pilot programs in RMB cross-border trade settlements are expanded ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAs he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul's most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haun...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOn December 15, 2010, in the GEAB N°50, LEAP/E2020 anticipated the explosion of Western government debt (1) in the second half of 2011. We were then describing a process that would start with the European ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*The Republican view of presidential power c2007* *by Ken* No doubt you caught the Obama administration's response to the charge that the president has exceeded the permissible "Go to War Free" -- i.e., w...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThink the lunar eclipse was cool? Well, check out the view from Europe's Mars Express, which is the only known witness to a recent eclipse of Jupiter by the Martian moon Phobos.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: Spatial distribution of the thickness (m) of the suboxic zone in the eastern Pacific Ocean from World Ocean Atlas 2005, computed from GCM simulations used for O2 simulations. As oceanic O2 falls ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoWhat's in a name? Very little. Look at my own British Columbia. Our province is governed by the Liberal Party of British Columbia. Only there's nothing remotely "liberal" about it. We used to be run ...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThis week we saw the dark side of Discovery News' readers. But we promise to cheer you up with poop-grown mushrooms!
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours ago* Panetta (from Calabria)* On 10 June 2011, CIA boss Leon Panetta met Pakistan army boss General Kayani and Pakistan spy boss General Shuja Pasha. On 11 June, Panetta left Pakistan without achieving a dea...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoDuring committee testimony this week in Austin, a Texas senator interrupted a Spanish speaker and telling him he should "be speaking in English" during a committee hearing. Antolin Aguirre of the Austin...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress on Thursday that the likelihood of a Fukushimi Daiichi-type event in the United States is "very, very small." However, it said an ongoing study of the Japane...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoFor the first time, scientists have recreated the brain's learning process and can restore long-forgotten memories.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoTom Coburn says that three NSF projects lack useful applications and shouldn't have received government funding.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoSouthern China has been enduring the worst drought in half a century but not any longer. Now the region is inundated by flood waters, it's newly engorged rivers, including the Yangtze, overflowing their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA truck leaking a toxic chemical in a central China county has caused the deaths of hundreds of livestock and poultry and polluted hundreds of square meters of nearby forests, local authorities said Friday...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours ago"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which Go...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoPraise for a record swim; concern over the killing of endangered sharks.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA small percentage of neanderthal genes provided a significant boost to human health.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA serial killer suspect targeted lonely prostitutes with matching initials and strangled one with his wife’s tights, court documents claim. Photographer Joseph Naso, is alleged to be the infamous American ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn escaped convict was caught following a day on the loose after he knocked on a cabin door - only to find out the man renting the lodge was an off-duty guard at the prison he just fled. Authorities said ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoI wish happy birthday to Gene! Yesterday, Leonard Susskind and his exp(exp(exp(exp(120)))) clones in the hypermultiverse celebrated their 71st birthday, congratulations, too. Your humble correspondent has...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoIt's 18 months ago since I revealed that the investment strategy of the BBC pension fund is run on a day-to-day by Peter Dunscombe, who was then the chair of the steering committee of the Institutional Inv...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoSeveral years ago I had lunch with then-Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to try to talk him into running for president. As you can see from the photo above, I even wore a Wisconsin-looking shirt with a collar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoComic book fans have long dreamed of emitting a powerful beam from their eyes like superhero Cyclops of the X-Men. Now that dream could one day become a reality after scientists this week announced they h...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours ago- 11% of people are left handed; and, most parrots are left-footed - August has the highest percentage of births - unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it - the average person falls asleep in 7...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEvil David Shaw only received 26 weeks which seeing it's and English Jail, he will prbably be out in 13 weeks. A pervert father and his depraved son who downloaded child pornography have been jailed after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoStarving blackbirds are resorting to cannibalism of their chicks as they struggle to survive the dry spring and early summer. The weather has forced their diet of worms too far underground for the birds t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt would have taken an incredible leap for this young deer to end up on the power lines above East Missoula. But it is unlikely that the animal had an accident while trying to act like its distant-cousin ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnother round of torrential rains has flooded a once drought-stricken region of southern China, killing 25 people and leaving 25 missing, authorities said Friday. The flood has forced the evacuation of ...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDemonstrators have taken to the streets in towns and cities across Syria in a fresh round of protests against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. There are unconfirmed reports of security forces opening f...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago**I'm in Manila, the Philippines, making a documentary for Radio 4 about slums, of which more later. For now, speaking to priests and community leaders about what's driving people to leave the land and mov...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe United States government is building its own "scale model" of the internet to carry out cyber war games. Several organisations, including the defence company Lockheed Martin, are working on prototype...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRiots following big sporting events have become predictable. They happen about half the time following a championship game or series, the experts say. What's more, sports riots are now the most common ty...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe economy is still struggling. And Americans are in for a long and painful adjustment period. One major reason: their own household debt. Many experts say private debt owed by households, as well as bu...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoVirtual love making, dream management, and high-tech contact lenses that allow guests to check their emails will all feature in the hotel rooms of the future, according to a new report. The budget hotel c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEthereal clouds of dust and gas are illuminated by stars in the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A, captured in unprecedented detail by the Hubble space telescope. The photograph was taken with Hubble's m...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWe've all heard it before: Too much stress will give you gray hair. But is that true?
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 21 hours agoAcross Europe, the grip of the banksters who control the official governments is tightening. From the Atlantic to the *Æ*gean, the fist of finance is being felt. In Ireland the economic boom has been tur...
- posted by Natalie at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoThe BBC has made an effort in recent years to portray characters in contemporary drama who just happen to be black, Muslim, homosexual or disabled. How often do you see a character in a drama who just happ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours agoI *confess* that this last week has been so awesome, I kept forgetting to blog. You all know Lu, as an author of a weekly segment on this blog, but did you know she is my IRL best friend too? She and her f...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoMajor Campus Group, Holding First National Conference in Capital Area Tomorrow, Has Racist Roots: "Editor’s Note: This lengthy story is slated for publication in a future issue of the Southern Poverty Law Ce...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoFarrakhan Assails the ‘Murderer in the White House’: "Some spiritual leaders distinguish themselves by speaking truth to power. Louis Farrakhan, head of the black separatist hate group Nation of Islam (NOI),...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 22 hours agoOn the Canucks Riot, Protest, and Division : Politics, Re-Spun And more. Good lord, someone's actually pointing out the class dimension inherent in the Vancouver riot, and drawing the connection between t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Mogollon petroglyph of a ceremonial dancer with rain cloud altar headdress and corn stalk wand, Three Rivers Petroglyph site, New Mexico. desertusa.com]By Ker Than 14 June 2011 Hundreds of archa...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 22 hours agoThe Sixth Estate » When You Don’t Know Your History, You’re Bound to Make Up S@@t And again. Either the Vancouver Police and the corporate media are taking stupid pills, or they're serving some agenda. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: A mooring buoy for a boat rests on the bottom of Lake Constance in Switzerland on 9 May 2011. Evaporation has dropped the level of the lake to a near-record low. Kecko / Flickr] By Jeremy Lovell...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 22 hours agoI often hear people I work with in the gas patch complain of urinary tract infections and, I confess, I wondered what a UTI could possibly have to do with natural gas production and development. Well, well,...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoAl Qaeda names a new leader: "Ayman al-Zawahiri has played a defining role in al Qaeda for more than a decade as Osama bin Laden's deputy. "
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThere are so many ways to travel the length of the Mississippi River. But this one is a first.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoJihadi Web forum suggests targets: "A potential hit list suggesting individuals in U.S. government, industry and the media was posted on jihadi Web forums, according to an FBI intelligence bulletin. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoGarridos start serving time for kidnap: "Phillip and Nancy Garrido have started serving sentences in separate California prisons for their roles in the abduction and rape of Jaycee Dugard, the state's correc...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 22 hours agoCIA, Senate hackers gleefully vow more: "They've breached or busted the websites of the CIA, PBS and the U.S. Senate, and launched at least part of an extended attack on Sony, whose PlayStation Network was b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Smoke bilows from the record-breaking forest fire near Eager, Arizona, on 9 June 2011. CNN] By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer 15 June 2011 WASHINGTON — The fires searing parts of the West...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 22 hours agoPorcupine blog: Explaining Conservative Support Among “Ordinary People”. I can't believe I haven't seen this until now.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: A Chinese farmer on dessicated farmland on the outskirts of Rizhao, Shandong Province, in January 2011. The United Nations’ food agency has issued an alert warning that a severe drought was threa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: China police prepare for large demonstrations in the southern city of Guangzhou over rumors that police beat a street hawker to death and manhandled his pregnant wife, June 2011. oilandglory.fore...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe United States is investing millions of dollars to create what it calls a ‘shadow’ Internet.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoPerhaps not, but experts say there is at least a proper sequence of motions that work best to drive the ball where you want it to go.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: The majority of land in the Mississippi's watershed is farm land (in green). Each spring, as farmers fertilize their land in preparation for crop season, rain washes fertilizer off the land and i...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 23 hours agoA while back in my Intellectual Freedom and the Public Library course, I encountered an interesting shift of ideas. Larry Alexander, while arguing that freedom of expression is not a human right (I disagre...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 23 hours agoA few random Friday thoughts: 1. Don't expect this weekend's NDP convention in Vancouver to be nearly as exciting as Wednesday night. Still, the possibility for riots and/or make out sessions does exist...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*Is Paul "How to Marry a Millionaire" Ryan going to teach us all how to marry a mining heiress?* Frederick Deligne, in *Le Pèlerin* (France) *by Ken* Wednesday, you may have noticed, was Disclosure Day, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeveral major roads are closed near the Pentagon as officials investigate a “suspicious vehicle” near the U.S. military headquarters. WRC-TV, the local Washington NBC affiliate, said law enforcement author...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith summer upon us, ticks are out again, and that's a problem for anyone who enjoys the great outdoors.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean leaders are discussing the economic and political turmoil in Greece amid fears that the country's crippling debt problems could spiral into a global crisis. German Chancellor *Angela Merkel* and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo children are among four people sickened by E. coli infections after recent visits to the city of Everett, Wash.'s animal farm. Dr. Gary Goldbaum of the Snohomish Health District says one child was ho...
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