Image via Wikipedia- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes 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...
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It 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 - 15 minutes 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...
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Between 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 - 15 minutes ago
Male 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 - 15 minutes ago
Why 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 - 15 minutes ago
Don'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 - 36 minutes 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 - 57 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoThis was posted on the Cross Timbers Gazette: (thanks Westchester Gasette for the heads up)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Reviews License Applications in Furtherance of Oil/Gas ExplorationFORT WORTH, Texas – U...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 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 - 2 hours agoA design for a New York City pool proposes that it float on the Hudson River and filter water through its sides.
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Last 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 - 4 hours ago
I 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 hours ago
Gene 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 - 5 hours ago
Sheyi 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 - 5 hours ago
Originally 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... - posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 6 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 11 hours 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! - 12 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 - 12 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 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 - 13 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...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 14 hours 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! - 15 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 - 15 hours agoA good place to begin your education in "*economics*".
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 15 hours 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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! - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours ago*And should America return to a gold standard?* According to CNN and others, Ron Paul, a thoughtful, peace-loving, and freedom-loving 2012 U.S. presidential candidate, is worried that the gold bullion f...
- posted by Reality Chick at Reality Check - 21 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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! - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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...
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