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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
The Office of National Statistics' entire 2011 Census, containing the personal information of millions of Britons, has reportedly been hacked. The infamous online hacking group LulzSec have issued a state... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after a six-year-old boy was knocked down and killed. The man, from Huddersfield, is to be questioned by police over O... - posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 22 minutes ago
*Summer rain* *Pours down like a waterfall* *Seeping into eager cracks of baked earth* *Quenching the eternal thirst* In the Northern Hemisphere, today is the Summer Solstice. I woke up early this morning... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
A woman was seriously hurt Monday after being attacked by an aggressive deer in her own yard in southeast B.C., police say. The woman was taking her dogs out when a deer came onto her property and stompe... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
China began diversifying away from the US dollar in earnest in the first four months of this year, most likely by buying far more European government debt than US dollar assets, according to estimates from... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
The Government's sentencing changes have sparked controversy, but prison reform plans are about more than just numbers. Kenneth Clarke wants to fix a system that fails on rehabilitation – partly because ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
More than half a million more middle-aged people will develop hay fever over the next decade, as a surge in late-onset allergies baffles scientists. Experts say more and more adults are suddenly finding t... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 31 minutes agoJust two simple questions this morning. 1. Which continent is not essential for feeding mankind? 2. Which continent is still not beset by the impacts of cyclical floods and droughts? Bonus Question ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago
The Fitch credit ratings agency has said that if commercial lenders roll over their loans to Greece, it will deem the country to be in "default". As Greece awaits further bail-out money from the EU and In... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago
Marine life is under severe threat from global warming, pollution and habitat loss, with a high risk of "major extinctions" according to a panel of experts. These are the conclusions of a distinguished g... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoBritish-based researchers claim they may be just a decade away from perfecting a way to persuade the heart to rejuvenate – a process thought to be impossible just five years ago. That means that when a ...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoABout 40 photos are enough to create an interactive, 3-D image.
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 hour ago
*Health Freedom Alliance* 41Share Is the world’s e.coli scare the Osama Bin Laden of food? Europe’s e.coli outbreak was traced to multiple produce, then organic bean sprouts, then not, then settled adama... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour ago
Around the midnight, the Greek Parliament will vote on confidence in Papandreou's new socialist government: it contains a new finance minister, a guy who almost managed to bring Greece into bankruptcy ju... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAll-electric vehicles have been ruled too slow, but the Pope's gas-guzzling Mercedes is on its way out.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAn epitaph on the tombstone of an ancient gladiator may be the oldest evidence of a ref's bad call.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoIn what is considered a crazy plan to slow desertification, countries across Africa are planting a wall of Acacia trees.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe recent fast global decline of ocean health points to a level of marine die-off similar to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAlthough its new mega-structure is intended to use alternative energy and revitalize green spaces, Apple might have bitten off more than it can chew.
- posted by derekshowerman atContaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 hours agoby Duane Craig Lake Tahoe erosion due to human development? It is a telling and sometimes sad fact that no matter where we humans go we wreak havoc with the environment. Most of the time it isn’t intenti...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant surrounded by Missouri River floodwaters, 14 June 2011. The direction of river flow is indicated by the arrow. japanquakereport.com] By Jeff Donn, Associated...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoFrom South Lebanon via Queens with Hate… When Hanan met Peter: " Brigitte Gabriel Hanan Qahwaji, better known as Brigitte Gabriel in the Islamophobesphere has been exposed yet again. We wrote about Brigi...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoDog Sentenced to Death by Stoning: " A Jerusalem rabbinical court sentenced a wandering dog to death. I didn’t know incarnation was a part of Jewish belief? Imagine if Muslims had done this? (Hat tip: Jack...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoLulzSec teams up with Anonymous: "Anonymous is more hard-line, taking a stand on the WikiLeaks issue earlier this year by attacking payment companies that blocked donations to Bradley Manning, the accused do...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoGa. immigration law heads to court: "Supporters and critics of Georgia's controversial new immigration law will square off in federal court Monday. "
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Share of U.S. Income, 1917-2008. Growing share of income for the rich: Inequality in the U.S. has has grown steadily since the 1970s, following a flat period after World War II. In 2008, the weal...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours ago19-year-old arrested in Sony hack: "A teenager has been arrested near London in connection with the hacking of Sony, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday. "
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Damaged Administration Office Building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 29 March 2011. TEPCO] By Takao Yamada, Expert Senior Writer, Mainichi Japan 20 June 2011 […] One figure who...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoFadi Quran: Netanyahu’s lie to Congress exposed by June 5 protests: "When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of Congress last month, he proclaimed proudly that “only a democr...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoElectronic Intifada on the US Boat to Gaza: "I have a detailed look at the US Boat to Gaza’s efforts to break the Israeli naval blockade later this month as part of the biggest planned flotilla to Gaza yet. ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 2 hours agoUN report debunks Israel’s Naksa propaganda: "Immediately after the Israeli military reportedly killed dozens of unarmed demonstrators in the occupied-Golan Heights on June 15, Israel’s propaganda machine we...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoTime for a new one. Take aim... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoFrom the Telegraph: "BBC apology over suggestion that Norris McWhirter was a fascist" "David Baddiel and Alan Davies discussion about Norris McWhirter on Radio Five Live was in breach of the BBC's editoria...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoNot sure if this was mentioned in the comments, but ex-Panorama journalist Tom Mangold unloaded on his former employer in Sunday's Independent: Primark's objections were investigated by the BBC's internal ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoMichael Mann and 5 other, less infamous would-be "scientists" have just published a paper about the hockey stick "scientific" method applied to the sea level: Climate related sea-level variations over the...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoI was especially glad I've been taking my Rhodiola Force 300, which purports to help you feel more energetic and improve your mood, mental alertness, memory and physical endurance but was recommended to m...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 hours agoThe best way to think about the Liberal leadership race is like those velodrome cycling races you see at the Olympics. The gun sounds and two cyclists crawl around the track, quietly jockeying for positi...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 3 hours agoBy Paul Craig Roberts While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition. A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 19-year-old suspected of being a mastermind behind notorious international computer hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in Essex, after a joint operation by the FBI and Scotland Yard. It comes just...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA rare genetic mutation causes mammals -- and now fish -- to develop muscles that are twice the normal size.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHackers have brought down the website of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which targets organised crime in Britain and overseas. Lulz Security, a loosely-aligned hacker group, has claimed responsibility...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA nuclear reactor in southeastern South Korea went offline on Tuesday because of a glitch in the power transmission line, a state-run nuclear power company said. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co (KHNP) said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:22 UTC Tuesday 21st June 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) From Christchurch, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:40 UTC Tuesday 21st June 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) From Mito, H...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA RussAir Tu-134 aircraft burst into flames on making an apparent emergency landing in northern Russia.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoQantas airlines has cancelled all flights in and out of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra as ash from a Chilean volcano once again moves into Australian airspace. The cloud, created by the eruption of the P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA number of people have been injured after rioters attacked homes in east Belfast overnight. Police say more than 100 Protestant teenagers and men threw rocks, bottles and bricks at Catholic properties i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA passenger jet crashed in heavy fog and burst into flames late Monday on a highway in northwestern Russia, just short of a runway whose fog lights had failed, killing 44 people, officials said. Eight peo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA new earthquake-producing fault has been discovered in California - to the surprise of scientists who thought they had found all of the state’s seismic danger spots. The Polaris line, at only 22 miles lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials in northern Utah say they've confirmed five measles cases in Cache County. The Bear River Heath Department confirmed its first case in early June in a child believed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA fire has broken out at the Ina oil refinery in Sisak early this morning (Mon), daily 24 Sata writes. Twenty-metre high flames created thick clouds of smoke that spread throughout the neighbouring area. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHundreds of firefighters continue to battle a wildfire on Monday in Central California that has burned nearly eight square miles of grassland. The fire started at the McDonald-Anticline Oil Field in Kern ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs Britain prepares itself for a massive solar flare that could knock out the national grid within the next two years, a breakthrough by scientists may at least minimise any damage caused. A team at Georg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Japanese supercomputer has snatched the title of the world's fastest machine, ending China's brief reign at the top after six months. The K supercomputer, built by the Fujitsu Company, is as fast as one ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA nuclear plant was inches away from being engulfed by the bloated Missouri River after several levees in the area failed to hold back its surging waters, raising fears it could become America's Fukushima....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHacker groups believed to be behind a breach of the systems of Sony and CIA have vowed to unite against world governments. LulzSec enlisted the help of the group known as Anonymous in their cybercampaign ...
- World's oceans in 'shocking' state say scientists as they warn of marine extinction - 20th June 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe world's oceans are facing an extinction crisis as the result of a range of human impacts from over-fishing to climate change, scientists warned today. A preliminary report from an international panel ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA-supported scie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA record-setting dead zone is predicted to occur in the Gulf of Mexico and expected to kill bottom-dwelling fish and other marine life over a significant portion of the seafloor this summer following the r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA mother who shocked America by drowning her five children in the bathtub may be freed by the end of the year, according to her lawyer. Andrea Yates systematically murdered her children, aged between six m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSuspects could be identified within minutes of committing a crime thanks to new technology developed by forensics experts. The portable, high-speed equipment uses specially developed rapid profiling techn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne in five men accused of grooming underage girls for sex is Asian, according to a damning report. It found that many more British children 'than thought' are falling into the clutches of sexual predator...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDavid Cameron will today ditch plans to halve jail terms for offenders... after complaining his Lib Dem Coalition partners are stopping him being as tough as he wants to be. The Premier will humiliate Dep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThis was the heartbreaking moment when a 12-year-old boy confronted the terrible loss of his little brother in a hit-and-run tragedy. As police stepped up their hunt for the driver who killed six-year-old ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 10 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:04:15 UTC Tuesday 21st June 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) SSW of Lata, Santa Cruz I...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Bouazizi, whose story turns out to be fake.* The 'Syrian Gay Girl blogger' turned out to be an American fake. (Syrian Gay Girl Blog Revealed As Fake Had News Agencies Fooled) On 17 June 2011 the BBC repo...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Dano via TreeHugger I'm sure your gag reflexes are in full effect right now and they should be. This is a weird one. A Japanese researcher has come up with an artificial meat that's made f...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 12 hours ago
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"I don't know, this game passed me by somewhere."* *-- the retiring grizzled veteran Stuffy, to Biff Burns* Last night we began a weeklong march through the second act of the Original Broadway Cast recor...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMax Melitzer, who pushed his possessions around Salt Lake City in a shopping trolley, has been left a "significant" amount of money by his brother, who died of cancer, said the detective, David Lundberg. ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours agoJust how bad does frack sand mining suck and blow? You aren't going to believe your eyes. It's the motherlode of fracking impacts. Read about it here: Frack sand mining doesn't just suck, it blows
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTreasury ministers have admitted that the Government is drawing up contingency plans for a Greek bankruptcy after being warned by a former foreign secretary that the euro “cannot last”. Jack Straw, the f...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago------------------------------ * * *Conspiracy Theory* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* OpEdNews.com While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition. A "...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAir Chief Marshal Sir Simon Bryant has told MPs that intense air operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East are placing a “huge” demand on equipment and personnel. In a briefing paper delivered to s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwo miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwo influential Republican senators said Sunday they oppose any effort by House Republicans to cut funding for U.S. participation in the Libya military mission. The comments by conservative Sens. John Mc...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPreface: I studied global warming in the 1980s at a top university. My environmental credentials are solid by any measure. I have no dog in the climate debate, other than to do what is best for the people ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoJust days after Pacific Gas and Electric lamented the ongoing and widespread theft of copper wire from its Antioch power poles, the utility is now revealing that a particularly brazen thief – or thieves – ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCongress waited for Anthony Weiner to say he's leaving -- and now it's waiting for him to clean out his desk. Although the randy rep. announced Thursday that he was quitting after seven terms, he still...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHundreds of Brazilian soldiers and police officers have swooped on a crime-ridden slum this morning as part of an operation to rid Rio De Janeiro of gangs ahead of the 2014 World Cup. A group of marines...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe stalling of the US recovery raises big, scary questions. After a recession, this economy usually gets people back to work quickly. Not this time. Progress is so slow, the issue is not so much when Amer...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Japanese computer has taken first place on the Top 500 supercomputer list, ending China's reign at the top after just six months. At 8.16 petaflops, the K computer is more powerful than the next five sys...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoDon't think there's not shit you can do, ways you can at least slow down this angry demon. Each and every one of us must do *something*. Stand up, take a swing, fuckin' throw an elbow. For example, after...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 17 hours agoSupreme Court Blocks Climate Change Lawsuit Filed By States www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court blocked a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe bloated Missouri River rose to within 18 inches of forcing the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska but stopped and ebbed slightly Monday, after several levees in northern Missouri f...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo dogs belonging to a Concord woman were found dead after police said they ate poisoned meatballs. A disgruntled neighbor is accused in the case. On June 4th, DJ, the woman’s black Scottish terrier was...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGreece's debt crisis may be contagious and poses one of the biggest risks to global financial markets alongside Middle East uprisings, Citigroup's Chief Risk Officer told Reuters. Greece, on the verge of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA mismatch in the US labour market between the skills of unemployed people and the jobs available is making it hard for some companies to find the right staff despite an unemployment rate of more than 9 pe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIt's been a year since the yuan's peg to the dollar ended. So what's been achieved? First the good news. The yuan has reached 6.4696 to the dollar, up 5.5%. Factoring in higher inflation in China, the re...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRussia will likely continue lowering its U.S. debt holdings as Washington struggles to contain a budget deficit and bolster a tepid economic recovery, a top aide to President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAthenians used to stop off at Syntagma Square for the shopping, the shiny rows of upmarket boutiques. Now they arrive in their tens of thousands to protest. Swarming out of the metro station, they emerge i...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGreece was hit by rolling blackouts Monday as employees at the main power utility began 48-hour rolling strikes to protest the company's privatization, part of austerity plans needed to avoid a national de...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoRemember how the BBC regularly hit us hard every day with stories about the arrogance and inefficiency of the Bush presidency? So hard, in fact, that you would have thought we had become the 51st (or, acco...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoOne way to turn electronic waste into art.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Once upon a time, Doonesbury's Roland Hedley went spelunking in Reagan's brain. Would anyone have the courage to attempt the same quest in Our Davy Brooks's brain?* *by Ken* I expect many of you have al...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoTop Ten Things Anthony Weiner Has Said That’s Worse than Sexting: " Juan Cole addresses the Weiner controversy. Remember him? The undercover Muslim who was a vehement defender of Israeli war policy? (via....
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoPentagon to Prep for Battle Via 'National Cyber Range': "CINDER evolved out of last year's WikiLeaks scandal in which Army analyst Bradley Manning was arrested for giving information to the whistleblower Web...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoSupreme Court blocks job bias suit against Wal-Mart: "The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, saying class-action status that could potentially involve hund...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoATF acting director expected to resign: "Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is expected to resign under pressure, perhaps in the next day or two, in t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoRise in racist abuse reported (Switzerland): "Reported cases of racism against blacks and Muslims went up in Switzerland in 2010.Incidents mainly happened in public areas, at work and in contact with the pol...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 20 hours agoPurported Conn. white supremacist faces sentencing (USA): "A purported white supremacist from Connecticut faces sentencing for what authorities describe as a plan to sell a rifle to the Ku Klux Klan.William ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe Church of England cannot refuse to appoint bishops simply because they are gay, but it can insist that they remain celibate, the denomination's lawyers have told it. It would be wrong for boards appo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least 175 people have died from flooding this month in southern and eastern China, the country's Ministry of Civil Affairs said Monday. Another 86 people are missing from the flooding that began with r...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe number of people forced from their homes worldwide has risen to 43.7 million, the highest level in 15 years, according to a U.N. refugee agency report released Monday. That's up from 43.3 million pe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSingapore has called on China to clarify its claims in the South China Sea following recent confrontations with Vietnam and the Philippines. Singapore said China's "ambiguity" had caused international con...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 21 hours agoA farmer/photographer named Randy Halverson has created a hauntingly spellbinding time-lapse video of his big South Dakota sky. It has become disconcerting to me that in just about any contemporary film o...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoAnn Bancroft and Liv Arneson plan to lead an 800-mile trek to the South Pole starting in November 2012.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFlood-battered residents of southeast Saskatchewan fled their homes Sunday after another night of heavy rain. About 400 people were ordered to leave the Willow Park Greens trailer park at Estevan, about ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago* Bar Mitzvah in Surabaya, Indonesia. * Indonesia has a small Jewish population. In the 19th century, most of the Jews in the Dutch East Indies (now called Indonesia) were Dutch Jews from the Netherlands. ...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoWhen falling from forested canopy, these ants can zip themselves out of a free fall and back into the safety of the treetops.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA year after the mission came to an end, the Japanese Hayabusa mission is officially certified by Guinness World Records as the first spacecraft to return to Earth carrying material from an asteroid.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA record-setting dead zone is predicted to occur in the Gulf of Mexico this summer following the excess nutrient runoff from spring floods along the Mississippi.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoProterra buses fully recharge in 10 minutes or less at automated FastFill Charging Stations.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe Paris Air Show highlights the future of aviation.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoCheck out this BBC article about the Obama impersonator whose act at the Republican Leadership Conference was cut short. It's basically an excuse for an unnamed anti-Republican BBC hack (ie any BBC journal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA Nato air strike hit a civilian house in Tripoli and killed nine residents, the Libyan regime said yesterday. Nato admitted on Sunday that its weapons destroyed a house in Tripoli in an incident likely t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWith a look of fear in her eyes, this tiny girl sits next to a police officer as he recounts the ordeal which she endured. Sohana Jawed, nine, was on her way to school when she was kidnapped by militants ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoReality TV daredevil and Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed in a car accident in the early hours of this morning. The 34-year-old died in a one car collision near his home in West Goshen, Pennsylvania at a...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoIn the coming decade we're in for a rude reminder of something we've forgotten - how dependent civilization is on our oceans. A report will be released in a few days prepared by experts in a variety of sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW Within the past hour a earthquake appeared on USGS in Wyoming, registered at 3.0 Magnitude with a depth of just 10.6km (6.5 Miles) The Earthquake struck at 15:55:03 Monday 20...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 117 km (72.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:35:59 UTC Monday 20th June 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) North East of Calama, Anto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The fire started at Chemisphere Corp. at around 2:30 a.m., KSDL reported. The area reportedly contains some 30 chemical tanks an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSky sources have said that an illegal immigrant who was being deported from the UK has slashed his throat soon after boarding a Virgin flight to Jamaica at Gatwick Airport. The flight was held on the gr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoA Republican forum in Louisiana hoped to get a few shots in at the Democratic president by hiring an Obama impersonator. It was all chuckles until the comic began making fun of Republicans at which point...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*by Noah* The pictures do not lie. In the picture above, the dark, shadowy figure being chauffeured in a golf cart by President Obama is none other than House Speaker John Boehner. To be fair, and I alwa...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAlthough few exoplanets have been detected using this technique, it's finding worlds that challenge planetary formation models.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoUrban areas in North America these days are plagued by masses of unwanted Canada geese - birds that have abandoned their migratory ways for the comforts or urban living. They crap up our parks (literally...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoI love driving, absolutely love it. Not the trip to the mall or voyage to the in-laws sort of driving. I'm talking about the sheer joy of negotiating an empty stretch of challenging mountain twisties so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo coaches carrying schoolchildren have been involved in an accident on the M60. Police were called to the eastbound carriageway of the M60, close to the Eccles Interchange, at about 3.10pm this afterno...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHow do we know which hands are own own? Scientists zero-in on the explanation.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoOne of the hardest things about photography can be making children smile, and/or to getting them to look at the camera, enter the Camera Lens Pal. This wonderful little guy slips over my lens giving the ki...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoThe other day I was on a radio show and the host asked if there was a cover up. I said, "Yes," and that I could prove it. The documentation available shows that the military tried to hide what it was doi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreece is preparing to sell off billions of dollars worth of state assets including airports, highways, state-owned companies as well as banks, real estate and gaming licenses to meet international lende...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 70 kilometres of dikes are close to overflowing in a city in eastern China, the country's flood authority said Monday, a day after a senior official warned a critical point had been reached in ba...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOffices and shopping malls in the Chinese city of Shanghai will be urged to close their doors on the hottest days of the year this summer. The power rationing is necessary due to the country's shortage of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe all think it’s a panacea. If you don’t have enough money saved for retirement, you’ve got a few ways to close the gap between what you have and what you need in your nest egg: Save more, invest more agg...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn the rare occasion that I’m bored, I like to watch 24-hour news television for entertainment. It’s hilarious watching the talking heads spin out of control in apoplectic fits when they’re essentially arg...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoQuantum mechanics implies that the angular momentum is quantized: in particular, its component J_z, with respect to any axis of z, has to be a multiple of hbar/2. Why it is so? Animation by Flip Tanedo wh...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIs the West taking away the best thing Afghans had going for them? Retired US foreign service officer Patricial McArdle contends that well-intentioned Western aid programmes are undermining Afghanistan's *...
- posted by derekshowerman atContaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoby Duane Craig Some Texans oppose Fracking.Thinking of oil and gas? Well, think of Texas. But, some Texans are sounding the alarms about fracking, the process of hydraulic fracturing that busts open stone...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - The North American and European economy has entered an interesting stage... Greece is now in talks for a 2nd bailout package, the US economic recovery has been sloooooooow and Sarah Palin (who i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Marga Ortigas, AlJazeera English 19 June 2011 The nuclear plant at Japan's Fukushima may be leaking radiation, but people are still going there daily to look for employment where about 2,200 of the ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: On the cliffs surrounding Lake Buchanan in Central Texas, a white ring extends some 13 feet above the shoreline, marking where the water reaches when the lake is full. At nearby Lake Travis, stai...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo far Ur, the Biblical birthplace of Abraham, has relinquished only a fraction of its antiquities.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago4G mobile broadband on a smartphone can speed up your downloads, but it can also drain the battery and run into bandwidth caps that much faster.
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYesterday Ken did two posts about the "austerity" movement, by which the very rich hope to even further entrench and enhance their positions in society-- "Austerity": the price we've gotta pay to keep the...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Tripoli in Libya.* NATO's bombing of civilians in Libya looks as if it is deliberate. On 19 June 2011, a Libyan government spokesman condemned NATO air raids on a civilian neighborhood. He said that NA...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoThe tide is turning in the UK. Our military are renowned the world over for being the fiercest fighters with the highest discipline. They are also very accurately described as Lions led by Donkeys. With ve...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThe project I've been working on - my summer position as a research assistant - is in the spotlight today, as two of the IPSI research teams give a public progress report. IPSI Research Day - Proportion...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian President Bashar al Assad has accused foreign conspirators of unleashing a wave of violence across his country, but concedes reforms are necessary within his authoritarian regime. *Mr Assad* calle...
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