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A banned Islamic extremist has been allowed to walk through Britain’s border controls unchallenged. Raad Salah was excluded from the UK last week by Home Secretary Theresa May, on the grounds that he hold... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago
* Israel Epstein, second from right in front, standing in front of Mao. He later became the minister of appropriations, 'an extremely powerful position in a practically cashless era'. To the right of him i... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Fox Islands. Aleutian Islands in Alaska at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 16:13:32 UTC Tuesday 28th June 2011. The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) Ea... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The crew of the International Space Station was forced to evacuate today after a fast-approaching piece of space junk was detected. The six astronauts sought refuge in two Russian Soyuz spacecraft until th... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*David Frum* *-- voice of reason on the Right?* *"[T]he case against same-sex marriage has been tested against reality. The case has not passed its test."* *"How would it even work that a 15-year-old girl... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour ago"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal." She thought it over. "They can't do that," ...
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CANADA - So long as people keep using Canada Post, no, they won't be obsolete. But by 2030 they could be close to being shut down due to a shortage of people using Canada Post. The reasoning is as follow... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
'Undesirable' and 'dangerous' immigrants who have committed serious crimes in Britain cannot be deported if they face 'ill-treatment' at home because it is against their human rights. European judges rule... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Residents fled in terror today from a block of flats that was set on fire by a bolt of lightning as storms caused chaos across Britain. The building in Bermondsey, south east London, was struck at around 2... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
We've all heard of it, either because it is delicious or because its name makes your mom blush, but Better Than Sex cake is not some weird or crazy recipe, it is delicious and pretty easy to make. You wi... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoChinese groundwater reserves are in peril and the country must cut domestic food production. *Zheng Chunmiao, director of the Water Research Centre at Peking University, said the world's most populous cou...
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A medical crisis is looming in eastern Libya with hospitals in Benghazi running short of supplies, the rebels' health minister says. Stocks of drugs and other items such as surgical gloves are said to be ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoTens of thousands of angry protesters turned Athens into a violent riot scene on Tuesday, as the demonstrations against tough austerity measures in the debt-laden country escalated. The latest measures ...
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The oceans are in a worse state than previously suspected, according to an expert panel of scientists. In a new report, they warn that ocean life is "at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of mari... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoEvery capital. Every city. Every town. Every nation.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will keep the facility closed for a second day on Tuesday as firefighters battle brisk winds and warm temperatures, authorities sai...
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The commander of NATO's Libya operation says the alliance is determined to keep up the pace of its bombing campaign, which is entering its fourth month. Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said on Tuesday ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
One of the 10 ships in the Gaza-bound flotilla has been sabotaged but will be repaired in time for the planned voyage to challenge Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, activists said Tuesd... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The Missouri River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country. This river, our nation's longest, collects the melt from Rocky Mountain snowpack and the runoff fr... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHuman organs could be grown inside pigs for use in transplant operations following research using stem cells. Scientists have found they can create chimeric animals that have organs belonging to another s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will keep the facility closed for a second day on Tuesday as firefighters battle brisk winds and warm temperatures, authorities sai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe commander of NATO's Libya operation says the alliance is determined to keep up the pace of its bombing campaign, which is entering its fourth month. Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said on Tuesday ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoOne of the 10 ships in the Gaza-bound flotilla has been sabotaged but will be repaired in time for the planned voyage to challenge Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, activists said Tuesd...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe Missouri River basin encompasses a vast region in the central and west-central portion of our country. This river, our nation's longest, collects the melt from Rocky Mountain snowpack and the runoff fr...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoAs part of my work for the video surveillance project, I was wandering around the Square One mall, when I saw this sign in the window of Lush. I went inside to ask for more information: there was a petiti...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoTuesday morning, space station astronauts took shelter in their Soyuz "lifeboats" as space debris passed uncomfortably close to the orbiting outpost.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours ago"We discuss the evolution of the protest movement in Syria, media coverage and distortion, the Syrian opposition, the Turkey/Iran/Syria axis, Russian interests in Syria, and what the fall of Assad would me...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoLike your morning cup of Joe? Your brain might also appreciate the lift.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Sea level predicted from paleo-temperature data, using sea-level proxy data from the whole period. Shaded error bands indicate 1σ and 2σ uncertainties. A correction of −0.2 K was applied to tempe...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Sea level is rising an inch every seven or eight years in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, more than in most coastal areas, partially because of sinking caused by an ancient impact crater. Wit...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 4 hours agoIn response to the NY Times reporting (report 1 and report 2):Hinchey Calls on SEC to Investigate Charges of Overbooking,Questions EIA's Handling of Shale Gas Reserve Estimates"These reports raise serious qu...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThese days, a patent -- even one from Apple -- may be little more than a form of intellectual-property exhaust.
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoOur friends at the BBC (you know, the ones who we pay for out of money extracted by force from our pockets and purses) do love to travel in styleat our expense but they are not so keen on we ordinary mortal...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoFwd: BORDER PATROL OCCUPIERS TRESPASSING CHARGE DROPPED-CALL FOR ACTION FOR JUNE 29, 2011 4 BORDER PATROL OCCUPIERS TRESPASSING CHARGE DROPPED-CALL FOR ACTION FOR JUNE 29, 2011 NEWS RELEASE DATE: Th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoThis morning at 11am PT John and Digby are going to be hosting a live chat with Norman Solomon, a movement progressive running for the North San Francisco Bay area House seat being vacated by another pro...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 hours agoIn response to my previous "what if" post on running elxn41 under a preferential ballot, a few blog readers wondered how the election would have turned out had there been a Liberal-NDP merger. The challen...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoHi folks! Just to let you know I am back from holidays, suitably refreshed and ready for battle (Oops, is that the wrong sort of language to use, oh well...) Managed to completely avoid the BBC during the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA British tourist is missing after being swept away by strong currents while swimming in a river with her boyfriend in a remote part of north-eastern India. Christina Louise Reed, 25, from Torquay went mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFour horses have died after they were attacked by an angry swarm of bees. Two of them are believed to have suffered from anaphylactic shock and heart failure while the other pair drowned in a pond as they ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPolice in Athens have fired tear gas after clashing with protesters throwing sticks and bottles as a two-day strike against austerity measures got under way. Leaders of Greece's ruling socialist party wi...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 6 hours agoIndia is poised to sign a letter of request for six additional Lockheed Martin C-130J aircraft, which would bring its total fleet of the type to 12.The company is confident of concluding the deal for addit...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 7 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Recently --Texas Gov Rick Perry's boisterous audience of schizoid GOP idiots were caught waving US flags: SECEDE! Perhaps, because of what the GOP has made of it, Te...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoJust like the first cuckoo of spring, the first cuckoo has been heard chirruping its approval of the latest flotilla. Yes it’s our old friend Ken Loach, proponent of fighting fascism, supporter of those wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHumanity will encounter alien civilisations with the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted yesterday. Professor Andrei Finkelstein said that ten per cent of the known planets circling suns ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSome 750 hectares of pinewoods have burned down in the largest fire ever to devastate the area of Grebastica (Sibenik-Knin County). The fire was caused by the negligence of a 56-year-old Zagreb resident wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA gas blast injured 12 people Tuesday at a regional power plant in Russia's Tyumen region, a spokesman for the Urals regional emergencies center said, Xinhua reported. Fire broke out at the premises where...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFive Russian nuclear specialists were among the 44 passengers who died when a Tu-134 airliner crashed near Petrozavodsk, Russia on 20 June. The quartet had all worked on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant remained shut down this afternoon following a problem with a reactor coolant pump, according to a spokesman for the plant’s operator. Salem 2 automatically went offline Sund...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe site which holds several of the world's most advanced supercomputers and safeguards the U.S. nuclear stockpile has been closed down after a fast-moving wildfire broke out, consuming more than 43,000 ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoImage: Some 20,000 people have descended on the village of Bugarach, which usually has a population of less than 200. Residents of a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees have reacted furio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCasey Anthony’s own defence team had her trial halted temporarily so that psychologists could determine whether or not she was mentally fit for trial, it emerged today. In a bizarre turn of events, Judge ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAs America's nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have become far more crowded and much more difficult to evacuate. Yet government and industry have turned a blind eye, even as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA fire-fighter who was disciplined for posing shirtless on a charity calendar has committed suicide, it was announced today. John Slivinski was found dead at his Lawndale, Philadelphia home on Saturday, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA boy of 13 who died in a dog cage after years of alleged abuse by his parents wrote letters from the squalid prison about how he wanted his life to end. Christian Choate wrote: ‘I want to die’ on the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe global warming of sea waters is causing the biggest movement of marine species in two million years, according to a huge new international study by 17 different science institutes Among the changes re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSix suspected drug smugglers wanted by British detectives are thought to be on the run in Holland. Police have appealed to the public for help catching the men, who are believed to be living in and around...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSix suspected drug smugglers wanted by British detectives are thought to be on the run in Holland. Police have appealed to the public for help catching the men, who are believed to be living in and around...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSix suspected drug smugglers wanted by British detectives are thought to be on the run in Holland. Police have appealed to the public for help catching the men, who are believed to be living in and around...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe delicacies on offer might not be to everyone's taste, but that didn't stop thousands of visitors attending a food festival in Yulin, eastern China. For the town is recognised throughout the region for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA court in Germany today sentenced a vampire killer to life imprisonment for murdering two teenagers whose blood he drank and whose flesh he ate while they were still living. Identified only as a petty th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA rail passenger was decapitated after being dragged along underneath a Tube train which he had fallen out of while smoking a cigarette. The 52-year-old man is believed to have forced open the emergency ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA schoolboy accused of murdering teenager Rebecca Aylward was ‘calm’ as he told friends how he battered her to death with a rock, a court heard today. A jury was told that the 16-year-old boy said to pals:...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoBottle job ... so how do you go from one to the other? It's simple. Honestly, you'll kick yourself. Photo courtesy: Frank Baron/Alamy via guardian.co.uk Gone are the days when most homes regularly washed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFlying through space this was the predicted journey of an asteroid as it came within cosmic kissing distance of the earth earlier today. The huge rock - named 2011 MD - hurtled within 7,600 miles of our pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Taliban has issued a chilling threat to carry out a series of attacks against 10 targets in Britain, American and France to avenge the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. 'Soon you will see att...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDavid Cameron was yesterday warned against ‘lecturing’ China on human rights as he attempted to cosy up to the emerging power in a bid to get Britain’s economy back on track. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Fox Islands. Aleutian Islands in Alaska at a depth of 41.3 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:34 UTC Tuesday 28th June 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTwo police dogs, one of them a puppy, died when their handler left them locked in his car on one of the hottest days of the year. The officer, Sergeant Ian Craven, one of the country's most experienced dog...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoIf you want to get a fair intuition how a black hole emits the Hawking radiation so that it stays unitary and the exterior and the interior remain separated in spite of that, you should sort Rubik's cube...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours agoEarlier today, former IDF prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg approvingly quotedan excerpt from a recent anti-Gaza Flotilla opinion piece by Irish columnist Kevin Myers. Myers' snide commentary is full of histor...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*"The more charitable among our friends took it upon themselves to scotch these old wives' tales. 'He's merely had a nervous breakdown,' they said loyally. 'You can tell by the way he drums his fingers wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwo police dogs, including a puppy, have died after being left in the back their handler's car with the windows shut on one of the hottest days of the year. The fully grown Belgian Shepherd dog and the Ge...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Greek minister warned on Monday of "catastrophe" if parliament blocked a €28bn (£25bn) package of tax increases and spending cuts after signs of revolt by some deputies in the ruling PASOK party. A Gree...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoUS consumer spending has slumped to its weakest in almost a year, underscoring the slowdown the economy has endured in 2011. Spending was flat in May, the Commerce Department said on Monday, and, once adj...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoFlash floods could hit parts of the country as heavy showers follow the hottest day of the year so far, the Environment Agency and Met Office warned today. The EA and Met Office warned communities in part...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 14 hours agoArticles... "Dr. Caldicott is the single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises"...that the author of this Blog has experienced... “Dr He...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Copwatch, Infoshop and Christian vegetarians are on Missouri’s domestic terrorist ‘treat’ list -- rather than ‘threat’ list -- thanks to a misspelled word* * * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.b...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoAlex Jones TSA Rant from Texas Capitol - June 27, 2011:
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 16 hours agoEnCana doing a nitro lift near Tim and Christine RuggieroThe CO2 meter registered some pretty high readings. Health impacts reported include but are not limited to:RashesHeadacheDizzinessSore Throat
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 17 hours agoHundreds of citizens arrested on bullshit pretexts. Detained arbitrarily in conditions that were gross violations of human rights. Subjected to racist, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic slurs and haras...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Know your church:* *Priests at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in San Diego have saved the Catholic Church from the abomination of allowing mass to be said for a dead homo. (The online world being what it i...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoEgypt's next step to "freedom." by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand June 25, 2011 - As terrifying as any Biblical plague, the very corporations that funded the think-tanks and media organizations that c...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe proteins attract human stem cells to migrate to the limb area and start creating skeletal muscle cells.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIran's elite Revolutionary Guards are to launch military exercises on Monday with the firing of different range ballistic missiles, the state news agency IRNA reported. The exercises, codenamed Great Prop...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMissouri River floodwater seeped into the turbine building at a nuclear power plant near Omaha on Monday, but plant officials said the seepage was expected and posed no safety risk because the building con...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTensions increased in Italy's government on Sunday over an austerity plan to be approved next week, with one senior coalition member accusing Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti of trying to cause the governm...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEuropean leaders have admitted they are preparing for a Greek default as the eurozone debt crisis enters a pivotal week. Greek politicians will vote on a radical €28.4bn (£25.2bn) austerity package in the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt is in the interest of cash-rich China to help resolve the eurozone debt crisis, but Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who is visiting Britain and Continental Europe, will want a share of the West’s buying pow...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*THE dire situation in Greece has the potential to cause a second global financial crisis and we all need to factor in that possibility along with the impact of the fallout on our finances. * In recent m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA WOMAN'S leg was broken and several other people were injured Saturday night when a large group of teens accosted pedestrians in Spring Garden, police and witnesses said. Philadelphia police responded to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoHundreds of Muslim extremists surrounded a church in central Egypt and threatened to kill the local priest, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. The extremists began targeting the church in a v...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago2nd Dolphin Calf Dies at Baltimore's National Aquarium: MyFoxDC.com The second of two bottlenose dolphin calves born in April at the National Aquarium has died. The calf died Saturday -- less than a we...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAbout 40 Cleveland Heights police officers had to control a crowd of unruly teenagers in the last hour of the Coventry Street Arts Fair Sunday, an event hat closes Coventry Road every summer from Mayfield ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDarby Borough, Delaware County is under a State of Emergency due to a recent uptick of gun violence. Five shootings in three days led to the announcement Friday night. Mayor Helen Thomas announced the ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe new animals include 580 invertebrates, 134 amphibians, two birds, 71 fish , 43 reptiles and 12 mammals.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe newly observed people live in four large thatch-roofed buildings and grow corn, bananas, and peanuts.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWho says old galaxies don't have kick left in them?
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoAnalysis shows that People emit more greenhouse gases in three days than all the world's volcanoes do in a year.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*Plus: Will Blago have to serve the full 300 years?* *""Laws like Arizona's matching funds provision that inhibit robust and wide-open political debate without sufficient justification cannot stand."* *-- ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 21 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - Looking at your own website statistics is a bit like Googling your name to see what comes up. In the case of Lilith News we've learned something of interest... Historically less than 5% of vi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: An airport in Castellón, Spain, has been open since March 2011. There have been no scheduled flights. Castellón Airport, built at a cost of 150 million euros ($213 million), is not the only white...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoIn New Mexico, fire and smoke has shut down the Los Alamos National Lab, and in Nebraska, floodwaters are closing in on the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago* Indonesians * According to The Wall Street Journal, "Indonesia is in danger of sliding in the direction of Pakistan." (Indonesia's Next Challenge) The CIA is not happy that Indonesia is increasingly fr...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoCANADA - Canada Post will be going back to work tomorrow and its about freaking time. But we must admit mixed feelings on the matter. #1. We support the right of workers to strike. #2. However some of us ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - A Canadian teen will become the youngest person ever to go into space. The boy, currently 17, is from Calgary, Canada, and was signed up for a reserve seat aboard one of Virgin Galactic's orbi...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoBecause of my writings on this blog I am honoured to receive a regular email newsletter called ‘Good news From Israel’ . It’s compiled by Michael Ordman who is now a contributor to JPost. Israel’s acheivem...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Trees in Tanzania silhouetted against the sunset. The Serengeti is a key destination for tourists in Tanzania. SPL / BBC] By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News 24 June 2011 Contr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoInvestors in the US government bond market could face losses of up to $100bn if the largest economy loses its triple A rating, according to a research arm of McGraw-Hill, the parent of Standard & Poor’s. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe next week could decide the outcome of the debt crisis in Greece -- and the financial future of Europe along with it. On Wednesday, the Greek Parliament is scheduled to vote on a raft of new painful au...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPakistan asked the British government to pull at least 18 military trainers from the country, British officials in Islamabad and London told CNN Monday. The trainers were withdrawn from Balochistan and w...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoArrested St. Paul Blogger Charged with Disorderly Conduct: " Islamophobia from Conservatives? Who’da thunk it? Arrested St. Paul blogger charged with disorderly conduct June 20, 2011 St. Paul, Minn. — A S...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoAndrew Brown: Islamophobia and antisemitism: " The money quote from the article, “But with Muslims, in Britain today, there is a feeling that the civilised, funny, clever ones aren’t really proper Muslims...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoFundraising Drive Under Way to Help Jailed White Supremacist: "August B. Kreis III, who calls himself the director of the Aryan Nations, will remain in jail in South Carolina unless he can come up with a $50...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 23 hours agoNews Roundup for June 27, 2011: "White nationalist Richard Poplawski was found guilty of murdering three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush. The jury today began deliberating Poplawski’s fate. He f...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoHere's John Lloyd, producer of BBC quiz show QI, at a recent sustainable energy awards ceremony. He begins with a couple of gags before giving his audience what it really wants to hear - some classic end-o...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoHezbollah alleges CIA infiltration: "Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the militant Islamic group has uncovered three spies within its ranks, two of whom were recruited by the CIA, Lebanon's state ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoHacker group LulzSec ends cyber chaos: "LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was d...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoIraq Shiites offer to attack U.S. forces: "Radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr thanked followers who offered to launch attacks against the U.S. military should he reinstate his notorious Mehdi Army ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoGadhafi now a wanted man: "The court's chief prosecutor says he has evidence that links the Libyan leader to 'widespread and systematic' attacks on civilians. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 1 day agoTrial opens for accused Ohio serial killer: "Opening statements are expected to begin Monday in the trial of Anthony Sowell, who is accused of raping, murdering and dismembering 11 Cleveland-area women betwe...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoLast week I mentioned Golan Heights as an "iron in the fire" A way into Syria. The other way is Turkey. NYSC from thenakedfacts left this link. There are parts of that news that are not believable, but, le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpringdale, Ark. - More than 100 people have been taken by ambulance to several Northwest Arkansas hospitals for medical attention after a chlorine gas leak at the Tyson Plant at 600 Berry Street in Spri...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoShoshone Days photo copyright Michelle Cook Shoshone Days photo copyright Michelle Cook Shoshone Days photo copyright Michelle Cook Photos copyright Michelle Cook, Navajo, published with permission at C...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIt turns out humans aren't so unique in being able to order sound logically.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoI just returned from Prague which I visit once a month in average - however, this time it was just 10 days after the Festschrift. We shared a 1-hour talk with Kesten Green and Scott Armstrong on global wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA British tourist is fighting for his life after mysteriously being found in a critical condition, lying in the middle of a Sydney street on Sunday morning having suffered severe injuries. Daniel Moore, a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Blagojevich] Jurors deliberating in the bribery retrial of Rod Blagojevich told a judge Monday they have reached a verdict on 18 of the 20 counts beside the oustedIllinois governor, and attorneys ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Despite being 70 percent complete, construction of the $2.9 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas was halted in mid-2009 due to financial woes. Today, the abandoned project sits collecting dust, with c...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoClinton: Gaza flotilla a bid to provoke Israel by Gaza Flotilla 101 June 23, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday criticized activists planning to challenge Israel’s sea blockad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA six-year-old boy died in a house fire after being too scared to jump to safety. Onlookers last saw Aiden Owens screaming from a bedroom window before the floors collapsed underneath him at his end-terra...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoby Duane Craig Fracking in PA The recent announcement that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection fined Chesapeake Energy $1.1 million for shoddy well casings and cementing at their frac...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: violent video game] The Supreme Court on Monday refuse to let California clamp downstairs on the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments require authority to "restric...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn international arrest warrant was issued against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as rebels fighters battled to within 50 miles of his Tripoli stronghold. The Hague-based International Criminal Court accus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who holds up travel agents with a knife while dressed as a woman in a burka has been caught on CCTV. The man, who travels from shop to shop taking 'substantial' amounts of money, was filmed twice in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain was in meltdown today as the hottest day of the year caused chaos around the country and thousands of fans queued for Wimbledon. As tennis fans cheered on Andy Murray to victory, the searing heat c...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Plus: A bright spot in the Supreme Court's (expected) strikedown of a provision in Arizona's public financing law?* *"The fact still remains that the left doesn’t hang together well enough, and that tha...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe iconic red and black leather jacket sold at auction for $1.8 million.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAs asteroid 2011 MD approaches, astronomers have been hard at work photographing the incoming space rock.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA young father smashed a wine bottle over a diner’s head when he complained that his baby would not stop crying. Company director Clive Merrifield, 45, was enjoying an evening meal with partner Idalina Lu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo police dogs - one of them just a puppy - have died after being left in a locked car with the windows shut as temperatures soared yesterday. An inquiry has been launched by Scotland Yard after the two a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, accusing him of crimes against humanity. The court had grounds to believe he had ordered attacks on civ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCommuters in the St. John's area who might have been expecting a heads-up about construction delays were instead warned about something else: zombies. "Zombie invasion! Run!" said one of the messages tha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEndless hours of travel have left me more than a little raw. The 12-hour layover in Australia's Brisbane International Airport is a whiz-bang. I find myself shopping for crystal unicorns and staring at ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBut wait! The police have things under control... on their Segweys! *Cue "The Good, Bad, and the Ugly" theme music*
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyria's military spokesman says more than 400 members of security forces have been killed in the months-long unrest that has taken hold in the country, a charge that came as videos surfaced allegedly sho...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapanese researchers have found radiation in all 15 people tested last month from the area near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Cesium was found in the participants, ranging from 4 to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have banned selling "violent" video games to children, a case balancing free speech rights with consumer protection. The 7-2 ruling Monday is...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country's banks would help Greece by giving it 30 years to repay. France's Figaro newspaper said banks are ready to relend - or roll over - 70% of loans they hold...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court Monday, blaming the refusal of Major League Baseball to approve a multibillion-dollar TV deal that owner Frank McCourt was counti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe official hotel photos showed off a sparking pool, lush palm trees and a stunning waterfront location, but the online review from a recent guest wasn't so pretty. "Travelor27" felt that the resort in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA growing number of children in the UK are living in extreme poverty because of huge increases in the cost of energy, petrol and food, according to a leading charity. Save the Children says the figure ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt costs £3.6bn a year to treat problem drug users and keep them on benefits, a report has revealed. The study by the think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has criticised government plans to cha...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWe're onto to the tenth page of comments on the last open thread so it's probably time for a new one. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Raging over the southern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Yasi easily spanned the distance between the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu on January 30, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradio...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Yasuteru Yamada, a 72-year-old former anti-nuclear activist, will lead a band of pensioners to the damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant next month to help clean up the site of Japan's worst atomic di...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News Paul Owns the Sabre Long Walk 2 by Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Long walker Paul Owns the Sabre, Lakota from Cheyenne River, South Dakota, said he was...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: 11 kinds of vegetables from Fukushima have radioactive materials above legal limit, 23 March 2011. From top to bottom, left to right: komatsuna (小松菜), cabbage, shinobufuyuna (信夫冬菜), broccoli, spi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAround 8,000 years ago, prehistoric hunters killed an aurochs and their grilling techniques were frozen in time.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe technology allows a car to drive semi-automatically at speeds of up to 80 mph on highways.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoMonday, June 13, 2011 Michael Hudson: The Financial Road to Serfdom – How Bankers are Using the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era *By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoEverything we know about this industry is fed to us by this industry. Nice. I think I'll just fill out my own job performance reviews from now on.Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural GasIan UrbanaJune 2...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Ontario NDP release their platform, chalk full of policies that are great news if you own a big house, drive a gas guzzler, or like coal power. Partisan jabs aside, Andrea Horwath could do some serious...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Thanks to modern technological miracles of miniaturization, the half-gallon of ice cream, which had previously been shrunk to 1¾ quarts, as seen here (that's 56 instead of 64 ounces), has now been shrunk ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThe members of Canadian Union of Postal Workers engage in labour actions. In response, their employer, Canada Post, locks them out. The Harper Government tables back-to-work legislation. The Opposition lau...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoIt seems it should be a joke and a bad one at that. Still, I hope it is because this is so disgusting. If your body is putting it out, why would you put it back in? Shit is waste. Mitsuyuki Ikeda Wants You...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDead skin cells, bugs, dead dust mites and their droppings...to name a few.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoBoeing has begun final assembly of India's first P-8I maritime patrol aircraft at its Renton factory in Washington, following delivery of the fuselage from subcontractor Spirit AeroSystems. India will rece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA powerful explosion blamed on a gas leak ripped through a gas station in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing one person and injuring 12, a senior official said. Television footage showed serious damage c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Link]The dire fear that Mississippi River floodwater would decimate the already much-beleaguered Louisiana oyster crop has, thus far, not come to fruition. But with the Bonnet Carre Spillway just ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe violent struggle continues in Mexico after more bodies were found Saturday. Mexico's army dug up human remains in 11 pits at an abandoned ranch in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, a state pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico — a region of oxygen-depleted water off the Louisiana and Texas coasts that is harmful to sea life — is predicted to be the largest ever recorded when it devel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere was a story reported this week that should be alarming to all of us here along the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say the dead zone in the Northern Gulf this year will be the largest ever. This is an a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWildlife and environmental officials expect to see more fish kills as floodwaters from the Mississippi River continue to recede. Rod Garavelli, director of fisheries programs for the Mississippi Department...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Los Alamas National Laboratory will be closed Monday as fire crews battle a wildfire raging nearby, a statement on the facility's website said. "All laboratory facilities will be closed for all activ...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 1 day ago... but things will stay the same. Matt Frei's final edition of Americana before leaving the BBC gave him the chance to talk - once again - with one of his "favourite Washingtonians", the Palin-hating con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStrong wind and rain from a typhoon left at least seven people dead or missing, knocked out power and disrupted domestic flights in South Korea, officials said. Local and national officials said the dead...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: A section of an bridge in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang, built to commemorate fallen soldiers of the Korean War, collapsed Saturday after Typhoon Meari caused the Nakdong River to flood, undermining the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA protective barrier which was holding back floodwater surrounding a nuclear power plant in Nebraska has collapsed, sending water gushing around key electrical equipment. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe've already had complaints against TSA agents of toddlers getting patted down, a woman's breasts being exposed and groping. Now a 95-year-old woman in the final stages of a battle with leukaemia has bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was his first ever alligator hunt, but lawyer Levi McCathern made sure his name will go into the record books. With a single shot he killed what is believed to be one of the biggest ever alligators eve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn eight-year-old girl was killed when a bag of explosives given to her by Taliban insurgents exploded as she approached a police outpost in southern Afghanistan. 'The insurgents handed over a bag with a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCompensation payments to prisoners have totalled more than £10 million in five years. The staggering sum was paid out to inmates who claimed they were 'harmed' while behind bars. Payments are made for m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe first ‘test-tube’ hamburger is only a year away, scientists claim. They believe the product, beef mince grown from stem cells, could pave the way for eating meat without animals being slaughtered. The...
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