Image via Wikipedia- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 29 seconds agoI don't discuss preprints that are disconnected from (or in contradiction with) the body of the research and findings about the physics beyond the Standard Model too often, especially not those that have...
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The U.S. Air Force has been urged to prepare for war with Iran. The Rand Corp. asserted that the Air Force must increase exercises and testing of weapons as part of preparations for any order to attack Ira... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The Free Palestine Movement announced that Jimbo Simmons of the American Indian Movement West (AIM West) will be a member of the Gaza Free... - posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 hour agoWe've exposed the shale gas shell game before but now it's fully exposed and hanging out.Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas RushIn the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago*The start of the fourth-movement theme and variations of the Schubert Octet played by Chen Halevi, clarinet; Radovan Vlatkovic, horn; Sergio Azzolini, bassoon; Janine Jansen and Julia-Maria Kretz, violin...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is hospitalized in Cuba and is in critical condition, according to a report published in the Miami, Florida-based *El Nuevo Herald* newspaper. He was last heard from on J... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Hundreds of missiles have been moved into Lebanon from Syria in the past several weeks, according to a report published Saturday in the French newspaper* Le Figaro*. A "Western expert" quoted in the repo... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The first of the Summer 2011 anti-Israel Gaza flotilla ships have set sail from France. The two vessels left port in Corsica on Saturday, according to a *Channel 2* news report. Both headed for the coast... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Rates of diabetes have exploded in the past three decades with an estimated 350 million people in the world now suffering from the disease, according to new research. Almost every region of the planet ha... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Mexican troops fanned out across the border state of Tamaulipas this weekend, taking over security operations in half the state's cities and towns. About 2,800 soldiers were deployed to 22 of 43 cities i... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agot is one of the most perilous air routes in the world. Colombian pilots fly through storms in decrepit planes over dense forests to deliver food and goods to villagers isolated from the rest of the world...
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Sign up HERE to join peaceful protests and civil disobedience in Washington DC, against the tar sands pipeline, in August. When I watched the videos and saw the massive tailing ponds full of carcinoge... - posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThere was big news on the neutrino front last week, when the Japanese T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment announced the first evidence of a rare form of neutrino oscillation.
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*Alas, the Pavilion at Conference House Park was used as a stage for the "musicians," and so was off limits to us Second Annual Raritan Bay Festivalgoers.* *by Ken* So I really did it, and it all went of... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoRadio host and documentarian Alex Jones delivered the keynote speech at the 2011's Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York. *Alex Jones: Beyond The Box* ** *Paul Joseph Watson Infowars Saturday, ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 5 hours agoGuess it's good to have the occasional reminder. From Jason Kenney's favourite left-wing kook.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 5 hours agoWednesday, June 29th at 7:30 PM @ the Texas Theater.
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 6 hours agoActivist Teacher blogger Denis Rancourt on Thursday was served with a $1 million lawsuit for posts on his U of O Watch blog about University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis.Professor St. Lewis filed...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Radiation exposure limits for food in eight nations and Codex. The limits for isotopes Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137 are shown for drinking water, milk and dairy products, vegetables, an...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoI *confess *this morning while in a store I was irritated with my daughter's behavior and I could feel my frustration building. About two seconds later a mom walked by with a child throwing such a violent ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: In Shika, Japan, a nuclear plant's visitor hall promotes nuclear power with 'Alice in Wonderland' characters. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By NORIMITSU ONISHI 24 June 2011 SHIKA, Japan — ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLabour unrest is on the rise in Vietnam as the country struggles under ever rising inflation. Food costs are up and not everyone can negoatiate higher wages. Official figures show the inflation rate neari...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago*The Cobell Settlement 'Rolling Snake Eyes* by Brenda Norrell Narcosphere The mainstream media is claiming the Cobell Settlement of the Indian trust fund lawsuit is a victory -- because they didn’t do their...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSenior Chinese and American officials are to meet this weekend as Beijing warns Washington that it is "playing with fire" by supporting countries that contest China's claim to own the whole of the South Ch...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe current armed conflict in Burma's northern Kachin State has effectively ended nearly two decades of ceasefire between the country's second largest ethnic army, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), and t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPakistan is caught today in a web of complex geopolitics and internal strife. Standing between it and total collapse are a smattering of political forces and discipline within the military. If either is un...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago*A levee three-miles upstream from the Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville failed Thursday night, but authorities said the incident presented no threat to the nuclear plant.* The failed levee, in Atchison...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe European Union is suffering on a scale much larger than just the crisis in Greece. Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, says it’s because the old political and emotional motivators of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWhen will the U.S. economy return to full employment? No sooner than 2018, according to a new report from *McKinsey* — oh, and that’s the best-case scenario. Worst case, the economy produces a measly 9-10 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIsrael on Sunday launched a major five-day home front defence exercise intended to prepare its population and emergency services to respond to massive missile attacks, the Israeli military said. Named "Tu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe United States and its allies are concerned that al-Qaida and other terrorist groups may have got their hands on scores, if not hundreds, of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles plundered from Libyan m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoUnscrupulous traffickers, Burma's economic decline and militarization, and a shortage of females caused by China's “One Child Policy” have all combined to contribute to the trafficking of women from the Pa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Russian woman died from a heart attack brought on by the shock of waking up at her own funeral. Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was mistakenly declared deceased by doctors, the Daily Mail reported Friday....
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*GREEKS PROTEST AUSTERITY CUTS** by **Joanna* Greece is corrupt. The Greek government hospital system is said to be the most corrupt institution in Greece. (Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption.)...
- *Of course I don't want* to scare you your pants off, but sometimes unexpectedly your Linux *Debian* desktop computer can go nuts for no reason. That appears so to my opinion. Working and experimenting wi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*by Ken* I don't know if you've been following the fracas, so far focused mainly on GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) -- leading to the resignation of executive director, Jarrett Bar...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 9 hours agoAnd why not take this opportunity for a reprise of the most famous Wit's End Koch Climate Zombie Top Hat Hits parade?? *Update*: "Clarence Thomas Must Go" from Truthout - an exploration of his lin...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago"For 40 years, secret terrorist organisations, many trained by Western intelligence agencies, have manipulated the political control of European sovereign states by a campaign of terror and murder. Origi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoConservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint has a message to fellow Republicans in Congress: If you support increasing the debt ceiling without first passing a balanced budget amendment and massive across-the-b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt seems that the situation in the South China Sea is taking a turn for the worse. The increasingly harsh rhetoric is now being backed by a display of muscle. China sent one of its most modern surveillance...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader *Muammar al-Qaddafi*. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Souris River's full weight hit Minot on Friday, swamping an estimated 2,500 homes as it soared nearly 4 feet in less than a day and overwhelmed the city's levees. City officials said they expected more...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSEVENTEEN people have been hospitalised after two further outbreaks of food poisoning in France. Health authorities are investigating what appears to be an E.Coli infection in Bègles-en-Gironde, near Borde...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThat's it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy. *Rennie Gibbs is accused of murde...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Fukushima nuclear disaster: Trucks drive past piles of rubble collected after the tsunami and nuclear disaster. Kiyoshi Ota / Getty Images / guardian.co.uk] By Takemichi Nishibori, Yoshinori Hay...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Minoru Yokota, 58, a carpenter from Tomioka town, Fukushima Prefecture, says at an event facility in Koriyama in the same prefecture, which is his current home, "We do not know how many years it ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoFlorida nursing home operators must have a powerful lobby. State Republicans turned down federal grants to help remove patients from nursing homes and provide the same level of care to them in their own ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIt was just weeks ago that Steve Harper declared Canada's mission to Afghanistan a "great success." Actually he couched it by saying we had to "consider" our military excursion a great success. But any d...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: The body of a bird killed by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill lies on a Louisiana beach. From the Animal Planet documentary, BLACK TIDE: VOICES FROM THE GULF. discovery.com]On July 28, Animal P...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"Republicans are silent on Thomas for a simple reason. He’s doing their bidding on the Supreme Court today, and they don’t want to do anything that compromises his ability to enforce a political agenda i...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoOperation Gladio [BBC Timewatch, 1992] State-Sponsored Terrorism in Europe
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Long-beaked Common Dolphin, Los Angeles County, California, 2 November 2008. Martin Meyers] By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist 24 June 2011 Two dolphins that would be more at home frolicking in t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFt. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska...and maybe for more than one state.* Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoScientists have shown off a "cloaking device" that makes objects invisible - to sound waves. Such acoustic cloaking was proposed theoretically in 2008 but has only this year been put into practice. Desc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNATO airstrikes hit a bakery and a restaurant in the Libyan city of al-Brega Saturday, killing 15 civilians, a Libyan government official told CNN. NATO denied the claim and said it had struck key command...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoJorge Mollinedo and Alex Choque are best friends. They have worked together in the tin mines of Bolivia, hammering out a living from the underground rock. They are now teenagers and looking for a way ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt was a giant leap for mankind, a truly historic moment, and so many people wanted a apart of it. Now, 40 years after some moon dust brought back from the Apollo 11 mission went missing, it has been reco...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe small town of Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta is facing the consequences of being the first to witness the impact of the Tar Sands project, which may be the tipping point for oil development in Ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBetween 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year, according to a 2005 report from the U.S. State Department. (Source)
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMale bluestreak cleaner wrasses tend to punish female "co-workers" more severely if they are at high risk of turning into males, a British researcher has found. Cleaner wrasses remove parasites from the f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWhy do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain's borders and Britis...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDon't let the perma bulls fool you, this is not a normal correction, and it has nothing to do with Greece or Spain. This is the beginnings of the next leg down in the secular bear market and the start of t...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 13 hours ago... with a few nice words about accountability and regaining public trust. Here are some suggestions for you. - Do something about the assholes who brutalized Lacy MacAuley. - Out the sons of bitch...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoAnother international disgrace for Canada - thanks to Greasy Steve Harper. The Canadian delegation to a UN conference in Geneva agrees that chrysotile asbestos fully deserves to be labelled as "hazardous" ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoBeing as how Wit's End so recently posted about unsustainable overpopulation, I have to embed this very funny (and dirty!) clip of Bill Maher's version of the topic - which mercilessly encapsulates in one ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoUPDATE: For more on how one man made this all come about, see the Dallas Drilling blog.This was posted on the Cross Timbers Gazette: (thanks Westchester Gasette for the heads up)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoNew poll finds ‘monumental shift’ in public perception of Toronto police because of G20 actions - thestar.com I might just have to revise my opinion of the Star again. This is clearly adding to the pressu...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoA design for a New York City pool proposes that it float on the Hudson River and filter water through its sides.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoLast night at 11:55, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill that had caused such furor in the closing week -- or should we say the *post*-closing week -- of the legislative session. At 11:57 a ...
- posted by Raed Jarrar at Raed in the Middle - 17 hours agoI can't recognize this city anymore. What a sad sad reality. I can't recognize streets because of the concrete walls, and I don't know anymore here anymore. All my friends, family, colleagues, neighbors,...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoNew York State, thank you for doing the right thing! Forty-two years after Stonewall, same-sex couples have the legal right to marry in New York State. Whoo-hoo! New York is the state of birth, of my par...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 17 hours agoBoeing has announced the signing of a previously announced order for 10 C-17s for the Indian air force that will extend production of the tactical airlifter by one year.The signing of the $4.1 billion orde...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours agoGene has sent me a link to this fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal: China Trips Up Major Airbus Deal A few days ago, the European media celebrated an amazing, record-breaking deal: AirAsia of...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours agoSheyi Emmanuel Adebayor Born in Togo to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group, he began his career in a homeland playing for OC Agaza in Lomé and he made it to the U-15 level, and was spotted by the...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 19 hours agoOriginally published in Adbusters - reprinted in its entirety below The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger sweeping across failed states such as Somalia, the freak weath...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThirty-five people were killed in a suicide bombing at a hospital in Afghanistan's Logar province south of Kabul, provincial officials said on Saturday. Another 45 people were wounded in the blast in th...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 20 hours agoTextron Defense Systems could be poised to sell its CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) system to Saudi Arabia, with a deal to be worth a possible $355 million.Revealed by the US Defense Security Cooperation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChurning fire described as a "wall of flame'' threatened a remote Oklahoma resort town Friday, pushing through dry brush on 30 mph wind gusts after destroying at least 13 homes. Comanche County authoritie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoEight people were killed and seven injured after an iron ore mine collapsed in East China's Fujian province Friday afternoon, local authorities said Saturday. The cave-in was triggered by a nearby landsli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA wildfire forced the evacuation of 70 to 80 homes in central Oklahoma on Friday, emergency officials said. The homes are northeast of Oklahoma City, in southwest Lincoln County, an official with the Lin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFlood waters from the Souris River soared nearly four feet today swamping an estimated 2,500 homes and overwhelming the city's levees. City officials said they expected more than 4,000 homes in Minot, Nort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThree people have been killed after a tractor-trailer collided with an Amtrak train on a rural highway. The truck drove into the side of a train carrying 204 passengers and 14 staff at a rail crossing eas...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 21 hours ago[image: Photobucket] Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe House refused to vote President Barack Obama the authority for U.S. military operations against Libya on Friday, but stopped short of cutting off funds for the mission. It was a mixed message reminisc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIf it gets results, do it again. And if it means a change of government, definitely do it again. Mitt Romney has adapted a poster and slogan used by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to boo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe phrase ‘jump the shark’ was first used to describe a moment where something once great has reached a point where it can only get worse. But for one gob-smacked surfer in waters off New Smyrna Beach in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt's just one calamity after another for this Emperor penguin. After making a wrong turn in Antarctic waters and ending up in New Zealand, the ten-month-old bird has now been taken to hospital for eating s...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*How safe is Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt's Sinai?* What is happening in Egypt's Sinai: In June 2011, unknown gunmen attacked a police checkpoint. (2 Egyptian policemen killed in Sinai ) The police now need...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 95-year-old man was shot at by a Department of Public Safety officer after he allegedly used an SUV to repeatedly smash into the officer's home. Jonson Lester is said to have rammed his vehicle into the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThere is known to be no honour amongst thieves - but does the same apply to graffiti artists? In the secretive world of street art it is hard enough to find out the protagonists' real names, let alone whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn asteroid the size of a large house will zip within 8,000 miles of Earth at about midday on Monday. That's at least double the size of the asteroids that have previously been observed so close to Earth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMeasles rates in Britain are more than five times higher than last year prompting concerns that an epidemic is spreading across Europe. There have been nearly 500 cases so far since January – mainly in chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSprawling on a mattress with his laptop, this is the baby-faced Briton at the centre of a global investigation into cyber-attacks which caused chaos on one of the busiest online shopping days of last year....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNato forces are successfully tracking Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from lair to lair around Libya, it has been revealed yesterday, as new figures showed fewer than 50 per cent of airstrikes are hitting their ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA young scientist who became a cocaine dealer walked free yesterday – because his talents could benefit society. Doctor’s son Edward Holland, 24, was an academic high-flyer with a promising career ahead o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe father of an intruder stabbed to death during an apparent burglary in Pendlebury, Salford, said yesterday that householders were entitled to protect their property from thieves. Speaking after the lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDutch authorities were slaughtering thousands of chickens at a poultry farm in central Netherlands after an outbreak of a bird flu variety there, an agriculture ministry spokesman said. "Bird flu has been...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFurther evidence has emerged of the violent tactics being used to suppress anti-government protests in Syria. Video footage has been placed online by activists, claiming to show the clampdown on Friday's ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoToiletries at a Seattle hotel. Photo courtesy: Daniel Morrison / Creative Commons via TreeHugger I have always been appalled at the wastefulness of the "have" countries when it comes to just about everyth...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The rollicking Tempo di menuetto (third movement) of the Beethoven Septet is played by Jacques Meertens, clarinet; Jacob Slagter, horn; Gustavo Nunez, bassoon; Liviu Prunaru, violin; Michael Gieler, viol...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Egyptian website featured in the clip linked below is a simulator for nuclear power plants. It lets you simulate disasters, to learn how to manage then. The hair-trigger situation at the Fort Calhou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDebt crises in eurozone countries pose the biggest current threat to the financial stability of the UK, a new regulator has warned. The risk is "material and immediate", according to the Financial Policy ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOriginal painting by a robot of a skyline. Second original painting by the same robot of a flower. Original musical composition by a robot. We all know the inherent strengths of robots: They do not tire,...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoSo apparently it takes three big strong police officers to manhandle one guy. Naked and handcuffed. Don't know whether this is before or after they beat the shit out of him. And please, spare us the pat...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoYes, you read that right. I'm sitting here right now on the anniversary of the G20 listening to Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair tell Carol Off on CBC's As It Happens that he had never even heard of kettl...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoCharles Knife gorge in the Cape Range national park, Ningaloo coast, Australia. Photograph courtesy: Unesco via guardian The Ningaloo coast in Australia, a vast complex of reefs, caves, streams and shallo...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*If you look out onto the water from Conference House Park in Tottenville, at the southern tip of Staten Island, you can imagine you're looking onto the open Atlantic Ocean, but off to the east skinny Sand...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 day agoA good place to begin your education in "*economics*".
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." - Reverend C.H. Spurgeon, April 1, 1855 Earlier this month, on June 8, *The Guardian*'s Global Security blogger Julian Borger reported...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago1997 Neo-Con report describes containing and collapsing China. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand June 25, 2011 - Neo-Con degenerate Robert Kagan penned a fairly insightful 1997 piece in the Weekly Stan...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs these visualizations show, asteroid 2011 MD does battle with the Earth's gravitational field... and loses.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian troops backed by tanks entered a border zone sending hundreds of people fleeing into Turkey as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of a possible escalation of the conflict. Clinton said t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOil tumbled 6 percent on Thursday to a four-month low after the world's top consumers released emergency oil reserves for the third time ever, a surprise intervention to aid the struggling global economy. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOfficials in Minot, N.D., say they've done all they can to protect sewer and water service from the flooding Souris River. Mayor Curt Zimbelman said Thursday evening that dikes have been raised as much a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWould you buy a license plate with a Confederate flag on it? State officials are looking at possibly launching a new Texas state license plate honoring veterans of the War Between the States. Mr. Hilary...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe teenage robbery mobs are at it again on North Michigan Avenue. Some 50 young people barged into a Walgreens at Michigan and Chicago on the Magnificent Mile on Tuesday afternoon. They took bottled drin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMichael Synder writes: It really is hard to find the words to describe the true horror of the national debt. The U.S. government has been on the greatest debt binge in all of human history, and a day of re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestors are bracing for bigger currency swings after Federal Reserve officials signaled they won't do more to help the sluggish U.S. economy, judging from bets in the foreign-exchange derivatives market....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*The dollar collapse will be the single largest event in human history.*This will be the first event that will touch every single living person in the world. All human activity is controlled by money. Our...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the economic gloom settles in, American workers seem to be coming around to the conclusion that they may be facing a permanent midnight. A new survey from American Pulse, released in June, shows that 9...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFolks, we talked a little yesterday about Growthflation—this once-in-a-lifetime global growth story that’s coupled with inflationary pressure on the demand side—and I wanted to pick up on that more today. ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAccording to multiple media reports, a 55-foot-long marine animal recently washed up dead on a beach at Guangdong, China. What's this species that beach goers are calling a "sea monster"?
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoWar criminals from the Foreign Policy Initiative implore House Republicans to ignore the people & the Constitution for continued war with Libya. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand June 25, 2011 - For t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The trailer for Inside Job* *"I hope that [shredding Ezra Klein's piece] will encourage readers to take a cold, bloodyminded look at the excuses made for malfeasance in our elites."* *-- Yves Smith, in ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Six Senators urge safe passage for US citizens to Gaza* *Update: *The Free Palestine Movement announced that Jimbo Simmons of the American Indian Movement West (AIM West) will be a member of the Gaza Fr...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoYou may recall, or not, a post I put up June 10/11? If you don't, let me refresh your memory. Back to the other action at the UN. Israel has complained to the UN "Israel calls on the international communit...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: House rejected] The House refuses to vote President Barack Obama the ability for U.S. military operations against Libya on Friday but stopped short of cutting off money for the mission, a mixed me...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSticky tape turned up in a Missouri auction house. NASA pounced to claim ownership. Either the agency is taking sticky tape pilfering very seriously, or something important is stuck to it.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe criminal bloodsuckers who rule Washington and Israel are framing Pakistan to create popular hatred and ill will in the Western world against the people of Pakistan and thus make future attacks against ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Peter Falk] The best way to celebrate Peter Falk's life is to savor how Columbo, his autograph character, fortified our lives. Thanks to Falk's lovingly genuine portrayal, Lt. Columbo established ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThe north-east of England has recorded a honeybee loss rate of 17.1%. Photograph courtesy: Saul Loeb/AFP via guardian Winged pollinators, most especially bees, are still under attack on a myriad of fronts...
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