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Dutch 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 - 5 minutes ago
Further 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 hour ago
Toiletries 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! - 2 hours 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 - 2 hours 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...
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Debt 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 - 2 hours ago
Original 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 - 2 hours 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 - 3 hours 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...
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Charles 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! - 5 hours 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 - 5 hours agoA good place to begin your education in "*economics*".
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"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 - 6 hours 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 - 7 hours agoAs these visualizations show, asteroid 2011 MD does battle with the Earth's gravitational field... and loses.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 8 hours 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 - 9 hours 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! - 9 hours 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 - 9 hours ago*US State Dept threatens activists with fines or incarceration if they sail to Gaza* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* The United States warned activists on Friday ag...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 9 hours 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 - 9 hours 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 - 9 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[Answer: No.] [image: Infant mortality in eight U.S. Pacific Northwest cities, 8 January 2011 - 11 June 2011. CDC / Michael Moyer / scientificamerican.com] By Michael Moyer 21 Jun 2011 A recent articl...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThis week Discovery News readers weigh in on the government's gruesome new cigarette labels.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoSETI has shut down its most powerful telescope through lack of funds. It's time for us to step up. What's the search for extraterrestrial intelligence worth to YOU?
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoAccording to CNN and others, Ron Paul, a thoughtful, peace-loving, and freedom-loving 2012 U.S. presidential candidate, is worried that the gold bullion from the United States Bullion Repository in Fort ...
- posted by Reality Chick at Reality Check - 11 hours agoThe hype, political positioning, and basically CRAPOLA coming out from DC are nothing but nuggets of drama to keep a veil over the public's eyes, who can't seem to remember what happened the month before, ...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoAstronomer Mark Thompson reports on the large asteroid that will pass within 8,000 miles from Earth and why we were given such short notice.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIt seems that the father's preference to have sons is the main factor behind the Gallop Poll finding.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:39:25 UTC Friday 24th June 2011. The epicenter was 159 km (98 miles) From Hakedate, Hokka...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt looks like a stripped-down version of Star Wars character C-3PO. But this robot is science fact not fiction - and one of the most advanced in the world. Ecci, as it has been named, is the first ever ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA rival hacking group has threatened to name each of the members of LulzSec. TeaMp0ison, (Team Poison) are racing against the police to expose the names of those involved with the group, who have already b...
- Tiny camera reveals the inside of a Mayan tomb that has been sealed for 1,500 years - 24th June 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA tiny, remote-controlled camera has been lowered into an early Mayan tomb that has been sealed for 1,500 years. Extraordinary footage of the tomb at the Palenque archaeological site in southern Mexico re... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA father accused of shooting dead his ex-partner and daughter before turning the gun on himself appeared in court today. David Oakes, 50, is accused of murdering Christine Chambers, 38, and Shania, two, w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoVolunteers using the app can upload the recordings to a website to keep track of bat populations.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 14 hours agoGeert Wilders has been cleared in the Netherlands of Inciting Hatred. This story was highlighted by none-other than Rupert Murdoch's impartial and in no way Zionist Sky News. Wilders was accused of inciti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law. It happens as Customs and Border Protection inspectors try to f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHeavy rains and high winds from Tropical Storm Meari lashed the Philippines Friday, killing at least 11 people and displacing 40,000 people, an emergency management agency said. The storm has been menaci...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSecurity forces opened fire Friday as thousands of anti-government protesters took to Syria's streets in a weekly ritual of defiance and demands for President Bashar Assad's ouster, activists said. They sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRepublican negotiators have walked out of talks with US Vice-President Joe Biden on how to reduce the country's debt. The US treasury department has warned the US risks default if Congress does not autho...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAn extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a Diabetologia study. Newcastle University researchers found the low-calorie d...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japan's 9.0 earthquake on March 11 caused a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPoor children in Britain are more likely to be condemned to educational failure than in most other developed nations, new figures show. In a damning indictment of Labour’s legacy, it emerged that deprived...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFor the last few days, we’ve been having an important discussion about the magnitude of the economic challenges in the west; if you didn’t read yesterday’s letter, I really encourage you to do so before pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA convoy of three military trucks loaded with Mexican soldiers crosses the border at Bridge Number Two clearly violating international law. It happens as Customs and Border Protection inspectors try to f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHeavy rains and high winds from Tropical Storm Meari lashed the Philippines Friday, killing at least 11 people and displacing 40,000 people, an emergency management agency said. The storm has been menaci...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago* Jason Owen, linked to a child abuse ring and top people?* In 2007, in the UK, 17 month old Peter Connelly, known as Baby P, was found dead with over 50 injuries. In 2008, Jason Owen was jailed in connec...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoMy finger has been hesitating over the "publish" button since Wednesday as I dithered. It's been years since I smoked but I've actually caught myself thinking...a cigarette would be just the thing to clea...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 14 hours agoCANADA - Remember the Officer Bubbles incident from the G20 last year? The woman who made Officer Bubbles famous is suing the Toronto police for $100,000 for false arrest and a violation of her Charter r...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 14 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - The juggernauts of the tech industry are set to rumble over the final remains of Nortel Networks Corp. At stake is the liquidation of over 6,0000 of Nortel's wireless-related patents, a verita...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 14 hours agoPOLITICS - Think you live in a free country? Be thankful you don't live in China. A Chinese journalist who was jailed after he wrote about suspected wrongdoing by local officials has been sentenced to ano...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours agoOn Wednesday, Airshow and Baird announced their success in killing off any further investigation into the abuse of those Afghans it pleased them to refer to as "Taliban detainees" - the farmers and taxi ...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoSolar power plant heats up molten salt during the day and uses the stored energy to run the plant at night.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago*Photo: AP* *The Russian nuclear experts* killed in the plane crash, in Russia, on 20 June 2011, *helped design a nuclear facility in Iran.* Iranian nuclear scientists have in the past been involved in u...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoOn Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court released its verdict in the case with a technical name AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., ET AL. v. CONNECTICUT ET AL. Three authors have discussed a nice footnote #2 tha...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoN.Y. Anti-Mosque Leader Defends Group That Clashed With British Police: " Hate blogger Pamela Geller N.Y. Anti-Mosque Leader Defends Group That Clashed With British Police (Newsweek) A leader in the movem...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoFox News Uses Hate Group’s Graphic to Illustrate Unfounded Accusation: "Rumors that migrants attempting to cross the border illegally are the source of Arizona’s wildfires are spreading like, well, wildfire....
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoA Skinhead’s Story: Bryon Widner and ‘Erasing Hate’: "It’s hard enough trying to overcome a history of violence and race hatred for a new life of redemption and purpose. Imagine trying to do so with the evid...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: A lone elk makes her way through unburned grassland in the foreground, with burned grassland behind her and burned forest on the mountain in the background near Crescent Lake, in Show Low, Ariz. ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoReservist charged with firing on bases: "Federal authorities on Thursday charged a Marine reservist in connection with 2010 shootings at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoCaptured mobster to be taken to Boston: "The FBI says captured alleged mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger could be extradited back to Boston as early as today. "
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago*"If that's really happening, why don't I see it in the news?"* I bet many of you may have encountered a question like this one. You're speaking to a co-worker or a classmate, or discussing an issue on a b...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoSo Bill Blair's had some time to reflect on last summer's G20 clusterfuck, and good and loyal servant he is, he's graced us with a report. Among other things, he praises his officers for "facing danger and...
- Fukushima Prefecture to fit all 280,000 infants and school children with radiation monitoring badgesposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: Radiation Monitoring Badges from Chiyoda Technol. All children in Fukushima Prefecture will wear these. Chiyoda Technol]By arevamirpal::laprimavera 24 June 2011 There they go. Dr. Shunichi Yamas...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 16 hours agoEx-Rwandan minister jailed for life for genocide, rape: "Pauline Nyiramasuhuko was one of the first women charged with genocide. She was minister for family and women's affairs when 800,000 people were kille...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 16 hours agoPoll: Ryan's Medicare-killing plan very unpopular: "Paul Ryan's radical Medicare changes are not going over well with the public. The supposedly unpopular Obamacare plan is much more popular, with 51% sayi...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 16 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Democrats are unhappy. I daresay most criticism of President Obama these days is from the left wing --not the GOP! Much of this criticism of both party and the Presi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoEric Cantor has taken more legalistic bribes from the finance sector-- $5,046,285-- than any other currently serving Member of Congress. This year, as he championed Wall Street over Main Street again and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLevi Bellfield has been given a life sentence for the abduction and murder of teenager Milly Dowler - but the jury has been discharged before it could reach its decision on a second count of attempted kidn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAbout 1,200 people including tourists and hotel employees stayed the night isolated in the Kamikochi highland resort of Nagano Prefecture in central Japan after massive mudslides shut off the only route to...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoJF-17 Thunder fighter jet equipped with 2 x SD-10/PL-12 BVRAAMs (Beyond visual range Air to Air Missile) and 2 x PL-5 E II Within Visual Range (WVR) AAMs. Click Here For Additional Pictures
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoChief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik has called for developmental of the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with ranges of 10,000 km to ensure that India can deliver its nu...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoOne can see that the intensity of the ongoing competition between China and Vietnam in claiming sovereignty over two disputed South China Sea island chains, the Paracels (Xisha in Chinese, Hoangsa in Vietn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe March 11 earthquake in Japan wreaked immediate devastation, but now there are concerns about the mental health of those that survived it, with suicide rates rapidly increasing in areas hit by the disas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA paedophile who kept pictures of dead babies on his computer was jailed for 18 months yesterday. David Adams, 65, had the images from post-mortems in a file marked 'Dead Kids' within his huge cache of p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA burglar stabbed to death after an attempted break-in was on police bail for another burglary, it has emerged. Earlier this month, John Leonard Bennell, 27, from Hyde, Greater Manchester was arrested in ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 19 hours agoA ship-borne MiG-29KUB fighter/ trainer, which was for the Indian Navy as part of the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier deal, crashed in south Russian Astrakhan region today, killing its two-member crew, a...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 19 hours agoThe British Army will be ready to start using its first Watchkeeper tactical unmanned air vehicles in Afghanistan this December, following the completion of operational field trials that will commence in O...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 19 hours agoLockheed Martin has announced performing the first flight of a C-130J tactical transport for Qatar from its Marietta site in Georgia, the USA.Carrying the tail number 211, the aircraft is one of four C-130...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 20 hours agoThe Indian Defence Ministry is considering a proposal by the Indian Air Force to order 280 Honeywell F125N engines via the U.S. Foreign Military Sales route. That would make the U.S. company the winner of ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 20 hours agoThe Indian Defence Ministry is considering a proposal by the Indian Air Force to order 280 Honeywell F125N engines via the U.S. Foreign Military Sales route. That would make the U.S. company the winner of ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 20 hours agoTurkey's largest defense company, Aselsan, has penned a 721 million euro ($1 billion) contract to sell low- and medium-altitude air defense systems to the Turkish military. This is the largest contract awa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 20 hours ago------------------------------ * * *Brain, No Gain: College a bad investment for jobless US grads * *RT* Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jun 12, 2011 A solid college education used to be the key to gettin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOfficials in the *Philippines* say 11 people are missing and nearly 50,000 residents have fled to evacuation centers after Tropical Storm Meari triggered flash floods and rough seas. Among the missing are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSince last year southwest Georgian’s have become aware of the Africanized honey bee and how deadly it can be. On Thursday, officials said they found a swarm of bees that could in fact be the hostile breed...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago* Brigadier Ali Khan, who has been arrested in Pakistan, due to his reported links to Hizb ut Tahrir, an organisation said to be working for the CIA and MI6. * The CIA and its friends reportedly use the o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTwo people arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar have been released without charge - but police are continuing to question a 59-year-old man. Neil Flanagan, 27, and 21-year-old...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoATLANTA - US health officials are investigating whether the death of an Arizona resident could be linked to the recent E.coli outbreak in Europe. If confirmed, the Arizona patient, who recently traveled to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLab tests on samples from a foreigner found dead at an Udon Thani hotel have detected an E. coli strain, but confirmation is pending on whether it was a communicable type, Public Health Ministry permanent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFour Russians serving on the Captain Kurbatsky ship died on Thursday of poisoning after drinking bootleg alcohol in Indonesian port city of Banjarmasin, Indonesian MetroTV channel reported. According to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA ward at the El Paso County jail has been placed under a modified quarantine after an inmate tested positive for chicken pox. Sheriff's officials say the inmate was diagnosed Wednesday. Colorado Sprin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThirteen children between the ages of 3 and 8 were hospitalized on Thursday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province after becoming sickened in a suspected case of food poisoning, doctors said. The 13 ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoChief of air Staff, air chief marshal PV Naik, on Thursday released a 214-page coffee table book on the Indian Air Force (IAF), titled So that others may live, at a function in New Delhi.The opus chronicle...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Hacked data reveals US Marines contract killers, hunting migrants on the border* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo: San Xavier crosses for migrants who died in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Japanese nuclear reactor that slowed down when jellyfish partly blocked a seawater intake resumed normal operations on Friday, operator Chugoku Electric Power Co said. Output from the 820 megawatt rea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoScientists have collected the strongest evidence yet that Saturn moon Enceladus has a large saltwater ocean lurking beneath its surface. Samples of ice spray shooting out of the moon have been collected by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFive Russian scientists who died in a plane crash on Tuesday had been helping Iran with nuclear secrets, it has been revealed. They were among 45 killed when the plane's lights failed in heavy fog and car...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoResidents of Minot, North Dakota, fled their homes in panic today as devastating floods from the overflowing Souris River left entire neighbourhoods under water. More than 11,000 residents, almost a quart...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoThere are four hep-ex (high energy physics experiments) preprints on the arXiv. I have temporarily blacklisted the CDF Collaboration for its ambitious - but apparently flawed - hype about the huge top-a...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoLibyan Rebels standing at the top of destroyed MiG-23 fighter jet of the Forces of Moammar Gadhafi Click Here To Continue Reading
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA former New York City attorney who was charged with stockpiling thousands of images of sexually abused children died in Mexico City after his case went public. Moshe Gerstein, 35, died on June 16 just da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 62.6 km (38.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:33:06 UTC Friday 24th June 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) SSE of Lata, Santa Cruz I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoCasey Anthony’s own mother attempted to blow up prosecution evidence against her daughter today as she claimed that she was the one who looked up facts about chloroform on the family’s home computer. In a...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHealth and safety red tape is routinely stopping emergency services from helping the public, a survey finds. Almost half of police officers and three-quarters of paramedics say they have been prevented fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 'domineering and controlling' builder has been jailed for life for the brutal double murder of his estranged wife and her best friend in a frenzied sex attack. Neil Langmead, 41, repeatedly stabbed and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA battered toddler died hours after an official mistook his groans for the sounds of him waking up. A damning report yesterday found that 14 agencies missed chances to save Ryan Lovell-Hancox. He suffere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBritish authorities feared the Nazis would use poison gas as part of an attempt to invade the UK, accordingly to newly disclosed intelligence files on WWII. Intelligence suggested Germany had stockpiled l...
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- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoWith a launch weight of 600kg Turkish Stand-off Precision Guided Munition (SOM) has range of 180km and carries a warhead of 230kg. Turkish air force has recently displayed its first medium range Stand-off ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoSeeking to increase its share in the growing Indian defence spending, Finmeccanica, an Italian conglomerate, hopes that Italy could sell military and other equipment to India through the government instead...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTo her thousands of fans she was the perfect pop star. But scratch beneath the coiffed hair and delicate features of Japanese singing sensation Aimi Eguchi and all was not well. The sickly-sweet pop idol ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoGovernment officials in Brazil have confirmed the existence of an uncontacted population in the Amazon rainforest after the tribe of 200 was spotted by satellite. Three large clearings were identified in ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoAs President Barack Obama had promised after taking up the reins of power, he has announced that 10,000 US troops will leave Afghanistan this year, beginning next month. An additional 20,000 troops will be...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoChinese J-20 Mighty Dragon is a 5th generation stealth fighter jet powered by twin-engine. It is being developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (P...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoChinese aerospace giant AVIC II was able to secretly develop Z-10 gunship helicopter program and kept it hidden from the eyes of the world for several years. Read More at Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA toddler in a nappy and pyjamas crawled onto a bus all by himself and travelled 24 miles from Wales to England. It was only when the bus reached its final stop at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, that the driver ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mid Indian Ridge Faultline at a depth of 10.1 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:10 UTC Friday 24th June 2011. The epicenter was 1252 km (778 miles) from Port ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe J-15 Flying Shark is the Naval fighter jet developed to be used on the Chinese aircraft carrier. J-15 has folding wings, shortened tail and bulked-up landing gear to meet the requirements of landing an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMr Cameron said: ‘My mission is to make sure families can feel safe in their homes. The first duty of government is to protect people. A father and son were being questioned by detectives last night after ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoChinese Aerospace Long-March International Trade Company showcases the new M20 Guided Ground Launched Ballistic Missile Systems. M20 Guided Ballistic Missile is designed to attack the land targets with pre...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistan has test fired the Short Range Surface-to-Surface Multi Tube Ballistic Missile `Hatf IX’ NASR on Tuesday. Hatf IX NASR has a range of 60 kilometers and can carry both tactical nuclear warheads and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVideo Reader Contribution: NATO said it conducted an airstrike early today on a compound in Sorman, west of Tripoli, after earlier rejecting Libyan claims that it had attacked the site. The target was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoItaly broke ranks with Nato yesterday and demanded an urgent halt to hostilities in Libya. Franco Frattini, the foreign minister in Rome, called for an 'immediate suspension' of military operations to all...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoFirst Images of the JF-17 Thunder fighter jet carrying LS-6 Standoff Precision Guided Glide Bomb. LS-6 uses GPS/INS-based guidance & targeting system with an optional terminal guidance system and pair of f...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistan air force has sent three JF-17 Thunder fighter jets from the No. 26 Squadron 'Black Spiders' to participate in Izmir Air Show in Turkey. Read More at Source
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoFrance will stop sales of heavy military equipment to Pakistan hoping to assuage Indian concerns and prolong the recent success it has had in winning contracts from the Indian armed forces. Gerard Longuet ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistani company Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS) will jointly produce Runway Penetration Bomb (RPB) with Azerbaijan. This was announced by the marketing director of GIDS, Mohammad Salman at t...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoIN has confirmed that it will order 4 Boeing P-8I Maritime Patrol Aircrafts in addition to 8 already on order. Cost of these new 4 P-8Is will be around $1.5 billion. Click here to Read at Source
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoTurkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI) has unveiled 1st F-16 D Block 50+ for the Turkish Air Force. Turkish Air Force has placed order for 30 F-16 Block 50+ which will be build in Turkey by the Turkish A...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoShenyang J-15 Flying Shark is based upon the Chinese J-11B /Russian Su-27K(Su-33) for the PLAN's aircraft carriers. Click here for more
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in his message on the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers has said that last year 173 peacekeepers lost their lives due to natural disasters, violence, acciden...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoTAI Anka (Turkish for Phoenix) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is under development for the Turkish Air Force.TAI Anka UAV will have endurance of 24 hours and it will be able to fly at altitudes up to 9,150...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoIndian Air Force (also known as Bhartiya Vāyu Senā) has issued a request for information (RFI) for the long range Beyond Visual range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) which can give advantage the Indian Air For...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistan Navy has ordered two missile boats from China. First of these 500 ton missile boats will be manufactured in China and second one will be produced in Pakistan. These missile boats will carry Chines...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoIndia and Russia has signed an agreement for the joint development and production of the 5th generation stealth fighter jet. This contract is very much like the one for supersonic cruise missile Brahmos. C...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 day agoApart from the nonsense about gold, a very accurate assessment of where america and the world is headed.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRogue waves likely strike when waves are running perpendicular to each other.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian troops are reportedly massing near the Turkish border where hundreds of refugees have fled. In a speech on Monday, Syria's President Assad proposed political reforms in an effort to end the anti-go...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe two security guards slump in the abandoned shell of a building at the gateway to Athens's Olympic Village, drinking iced coffees in the heat of the day. The vast glass edifice was once the gleaming en...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith all eyes focused on Europe's unfolding fiscal crisis, I've spent the past week on the other side of the world in Japan. There, despite public debt of a scarcely comprehensible order of magnitude and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConfidence in the global recovery was sent reeling yesterday by a flood of weak economic data that wiped billions off stock markets as investors fled to the safe haven of government bonds. Poor US employ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoSad to say, these encores bring our traversal of the Original Broadway Cast recording of *Bob and Ray: The Two and Only* to a conclusion. There's lots more Bob and Ray out there, though, so I expect this ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe tragedy of America is not that it is misled and deceived by cunning traitors and evil demons like Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Barack Obama. But that so few people within the government have come forw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 7.4earthquake has struck Fox Islands. Aleutian Islands in Alaska at a depth of 46.8 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:09:39 UTC Friday 24th June 2011. The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) Sout...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoI wanted to vegetate for a little while with my cabernet so I turned on TV and "Love Story" is on. Adam is playing the sound tract from "The Village" on the new keyboard that I got him last Sunday. Prior to ...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*In Basra, Iraqi civilians stop a British Armoured Vehicle with Molotov Cocktails, forcing the soldiers out in a terrified scramble for their lives. * You can make Molotov Cocktails easily; take a glass b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo U.S. citizens from Seattle and Los Angeles -- described as "would-be terrorists" by the FBI -- have been arrested and charged with plotting to kill Americans enlisting in the armed forces in Seattle, f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: 'Shipbreaking #4' - A ship once named the Kingfisher is broken apart at the Chittagong, Bangladesh ship-breaking facility, 2000. Photo: Edward Burtynsky] Dhaka (AFP) June 13, 2011 - Bangladesh's...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Choking dust rises from an unpaved road in Kabul. Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency issued an advisory recommending the use of masks or other protective devices during the mo...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Noah* . . . and all I got was this T-shirt. (If I cough up a mere $30, that is.) Like many of you, I get a lot of mass e-mails asking me for money. Many of them come from politically progressive grou...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Global forced displacement, 2001-2010. At the end of 2010, some 43.7 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to conflict and persecution, the highest number in more than 15 years. Th...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifcourtesy: Nutloaf via TreeHugger From e.coli in produce to serious contamination of our meat supply, there's little doubt that major outbreaks of food poisoning ar...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Motorists and people wade through floodwaters in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, 18 June 2011. AP / CHINATOPIX / blogs.sacbee.com] Berlin, June 21, 2011 (AFP) – Munich Re st...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThanks to Don Young for sending me this link.Forum: Just How Safe Is ‘Fracking’ of Natural Gas?
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Farm workers load a truck with cucumbers on a farm in Leslie, Georgia, 16 June 2011. Just weeks after Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed one of the toughest laws in the country cracking down on ille...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoEPA TO INVESTIGATE TEXAN’S DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATIONWise County homeowner to be included in national fracking study, he says; property value has plummeted Tim Ruggiero’s 10 acre-property in Wise County is...
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