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Potential setbacks in installing a mechanism to remove radioactive contaminants from water at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant could result in more radiation-tainted liquid flowing into the Pacific Ocean, T... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 24 minutes ago
*To compensate for our Forza del destino Overture deficit last week, Erich Leinsdorf herewith does the honors.* *VERDI: La Forza del destino: Overture* *Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, cond. EMI, ... - posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 49 minutes agoJohann Hari: It's not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoYemen's veteran president, Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded by shellfire, as his presidential palace came under attack amid the country's brewing civil war. Mr Saleh, who has held office for nearly 33 yea...
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Fears rose for the strength of the global recovery, after jobs figures from the US capped off a week of alarming data. The unemployment rate in the world's biggest economy climbed 0.1pc to 9.1 pc in May,... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
British supermarkets should withdraw German produce from their shelves to reduce the risk of an outbreak of a deadly strain of E. Coli, one of Britain's leading microbiologists has said. As four more cas... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*No, I'm not going to inflict a picture of Willard on you. But really we're only talking about him in his capacity as an elite master practitioner -- maybe the elitest -- of bogosity, and who knows more ab... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour ago
What was I saying about having to build an *extra-parliamentary* opposition? This young woman shows us all how it's done. If saying she's got *cojones*makes me sound sexist, I apologize and beg your indu... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The language of Shakespeare has been superceded by the language of soundbites, according to Ralph Fiennes. The actor said that bringing people to the plays is increasingly difficult because Shakespeare's... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Council houses are to be taken away from rich tenants who earn more than £100,000, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Ministers will target those who could afford to buy or rent a house comfortably but ins... - posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 3 hours agoSenator Wendy Davis said that the state's budget will result in the firings of thousands of educators, larger classroom sizes and will force school districts to raise local property taxes."Through use of rai...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoWhenever any government in any country is taken over by lawless and power mad traitors they naturally demonize the people and the defenders of individuals freedoms as "terrorists," and "extremists" to divi...
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HEALTH - Doctor Jack Kevorkian, the famed euthanasia doctor and activist who believed deathly ill people have the right to choose the time of their own death, has died at the age of 83 after a short illnes... - posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoVideo card vouchers in regular packs of trading cards are putting a new twist on an old hobby.
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In case you haven't seen it yet: Brigette DePape of Manitoba, you are my new hero! - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than 1,000 people have died in Syria since the conflict there started in mid-March, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday, a grim milestone that reflects his alarm over the "escalation of v...
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The government on June 2 ordered a halt to shipments of tea leaves produced throughout Ibaraki Prefecture and parts of Kanagawa, Chiba and Tochigi prefectures, after detecting radioactive cesium in leaves ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Germany's disease control center reported on Friday 199 new cases in the last two days of a rare, deadly strain of E. coli that has so far caused up to 17 deaths. The Robert Koch Institute said in a stat... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Analysts at Societe Generale are warning that China’s structural inflation is going to begin negatively impacting the USA. They say the inflation dominos are falling as we speak and should translate to hig... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The Obama administration said Wednesday that the government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer funds from the bailout of the U.S. auto industry. In a report from the president's National Economic Cou... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMoody’s Investors Service says it expects to place the U.S. government’s rating under review for possible downgrade “if there is no progress on increasing the statutory debt limit in coming weeks.” The r...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe economic news keeps getting bleaker for the Obama administration and Americans in general. The manufacturing sector, which had been one of the few bright spots in the wan recovery period over the last ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWas Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise? Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed. The mak...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony. Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s order against the Medina Valley Independent Sch...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA CSX railroad engine en route to a delivery in Taunton’s Myles Standish Industrial Park derailed Wednesday afternoon after thieves cut away two 8-foot sections of solid steel track, authorities said. No...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe details of land under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is of special interest to anyone concerned about future sea level rise in a warming world.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoLong before the Republican Party adopted Ayn Rand as their newest ideological goddess, right wing sociopaths have been adamant that federal regulatory agencies were an outrageous interference with the "fr...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 8 hours agoYou can read the first Stephen Harper majority government throne speech here. But you probably don't need to. After all, there are few surprises in it, which is in line with Harper's "stability" message r...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours agoJune 02, 2011 Original here. *Part 1* *Part 2* *“Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon”* A prominent Wall Street analyst predicted this ...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThis week Discovery News readers fought the cell phone cancer scare with sarcasm. But does our expert think we should be taking the WHO's warning so casually?
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoKaren Butler woke up from dental surgery with an accent from a faraway place. But how?
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoIf there's someone Sarah Palin could be expected to revere, it would surely be, why, Paul Revere. So what does the former, half-term governor, recall about Revere? You might be amazed. Nah, this is Sara...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Temporary water storage tanks at the Storage Area (North Side) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. These tanks are used for storing low-level radioactive materials in Unit 5 and 6, 27...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWARNING: The following video is graphic in nature. Despite being flooded with tens of thousands of phone calls and a petition of over 200,000 Australians, the Government hasn't acted to stop more boats ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: The supertanker Hellespont Alhambra enters US waters for the first time on 16 May 2002. Now renamed the TI Asia, she is one of four TI class supertankers, the largest ocean going ships in the wor...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNicknamed "Doctor Death," Kevorkian claims he actively helped 130 people to die.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoRep. Weiner says a hacker sent a lewd image from his Twitter account. Either way, the incident reveals Twitter's perils.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.5 km (15.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:16 UTC Friday 3rd June 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (3 miles) East of Iwaki, Honsh...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoWhen people consider what's insane about Minnesota politics, their minds immediately jump to deranged religious fanatic Michele Bachmann. But, as we saw in 2006, John Kline is an ideological doppleganger ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe U.S. is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid to some of the world's richest countries - while at the same time borrowing billions back, according to report seen by Congress. The Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDramatic video footage of the moment a 64-year-old art teacher punched a student several times in the face after he allegedly called her obscene names and backed her against a wall has been cleared. Thoug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA lawyer died after she was given a dose of a labour inducing drug 16 times the level stated in national guidelines, an inquest heard. Suzanne Ballantyne, 47, a partner at Capsticks Solicitors, was being t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe hooded and bound body of a woman has been found a canal in a beauty spot Police are investigating after the corpse was discovered floating in the Coventry Canal between Bedworth and Bulkington in Warwi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThere is no proof that vegetables are the source of Europe's deadly E. coli strain, Italian scientists have said. Researchers at the EU's Reference Laboratory for E.coli in Rome said scientific checks ha...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoIn an interview with some UK media, talk-radio host and veteran war resister Adam Kokesh explains why he organized the dance party at the Jefferson Memorial that ended with his brutal arrest, why he'll be ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoVincent Li, the man who beheaded a traveller sitting next to him on a Greyhound bus in 2008, will be allowed more time outdoors at his Manitoba mental health facility, a review board has ruled. Last year...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe World Health Organization has cautioned people against taking antibiotics if sickened by the E. coli outbreak that began in Germany last month. The U.N. health agency says anti-diarrhea medication al...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, has called on the European Union to take bolder steps towards controlling fiscal and economic policies, suggesting a long-term goal of establish...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe head of the German public health body tackling a deadly E.coli outbreak says it may be months before it stops. Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, told the BBC "we may never know...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets across Syria after Friday prayers, in defiance of the ongoing crackdown on dissent. At least 27 people were killed when security forces o...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUS employment growth slowed sharply in May, with only 54,000 net new jobs added during the month. Markets had expected a rise of 150,000. It follows a downwardly revised but still rapid 232,000 increase ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA “broken” food system coupled with depleting natural resources and severe climate change will more than double the price of staples such as corn in the next two decades as demand spirals, hitting poor peo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoI argued in a previous article why, despite America's current obsession with government budget issues, the real key to bringing back our economy lies in a) fixing our trade deficit and b) restoring our cap...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWith the North’s sinking of the Cheonan and its attack on Yeonpyeong Island claiming the lives of 50 South Koreans, the two countries posted their lowest rankings ever in the Global Peace Index. According...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoAs the 2012 Presidential election gets underway (ugh, already?), it's time for an update on what the Tea Party movement has been up to lately. The BBC has been utterly silent since begrudgingly admitting a...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt has come to our attention that many readers have grown upset, in particular the Muslim ones, for our having re-posted the initial articles which speculated that a group of Muslim youths had killed Katya...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoThe media has had a jolly old time ragging on the new, young, inexperienced Members of Parliament in the NDP caucus. Even the most casual observer of mainstream Canadian news will note the mocking, smirkin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThis eye-opener was published in *The Guardian* today. It depicts the biomass of fish in the North Atlantic as it was in 1900 and as of just a decade ago. That's today's North Atlantic on the right. Wh...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago20 former world leaders, including Jean Chretien, Bill Clinton and Mexico's Vincente Fox, have joined forces to warn of the looming water crisis and to form a panel to tackle the "worldwide leadership gap"...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoAssisted suicide champion, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, has departed this mortal coil - apparently without assistance or intervention. The 83-year old died in hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan from pneumonia and a r...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago------------------------------ AlterNet / *By David Sirota* Has America Become a Corporate Police State? *In just the last few years, the Corporate Police State has reared its head at every level of...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The site of a mass grave with some charred spots (rear) is seen in the suburb of Juarez, neighbouring Monterrey, July 22, 2010. Forensic investigators and the military found the remains of at lea...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoRemains of the second century ship show signs of an ancient pumping system designed to suck sea water into a tank.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Short-term Energy security Risk Index, 2011. The G7 economies of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and USA are at ‘high risk’ in the short-term, whilst China and countries from the oil producing...
- Exceptional, extreme drought ongoing for most of Texas – Falcon Lake dropping ‘at a staggering pace’posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Texas State Troopers Aaron Lewis and Greg Sullivan open a gate to allow livestock to escape a running wildfire on April 19, 2011 in Graford, Texas. Getty Images / Tom Pennington / blogs.sacbee.co...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe 30 percent drop was significant, but was at least less steep than the previous winter by 4 percent.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoThe Bradley Manning Support Network has been very busy raising both funds and awareness in support of the accused Wikileaks truth-teller. Tomorrow, supporters of peace and conscience will gather in Leaven...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoHere's what America's Natural Gas did today in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.You can keep up with what America's Natural Gas is doing in the Eagle Ford Shale on the new Eagle Ford Shale blog, Texas is ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoCouncil of Conservative Citizens Networking with Racist Skinheads: "Seems the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) has some new allies these days. The group’s Tennessee chapter is co-hosting a June 18 barb...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoNATO extends Libyan campaign: "Libya's oil minister confirmed Wednesday that he's defected and said he's considering signing up with the opposition movement. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoHow to respond to online haters: "It's an empirical fact: There are people out there who hate you. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoCrimes against humanity in Syria?: "For more than two months, the Syrian regime 'has been killing and torturing their own people with complete impunity,' a Human Rights Watch official says. "
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThis is the moment a man blew his hand off and set himself on fire during a failed bomb attack on a bank. Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger also lost his eyesight and suffered severe burns after the device ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA teenager bakery worker laughed in the face of a masked raider who pointed a gun at her head because she thought it was a friend playing a joke. Avril Murray, 19, was alone behind the counter during the ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoCybercrime gets sophisticated: "In the cyber war being fought across international boundaries, the recent Gmail hack of top U.S. and South Korean officials makes one thing clear, analysts say: the bad guys a...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoLab tech to be sentenced in Yale killing: "Raymond Clark III, a Yale University lab technician who pleaded guilty to murder in the killing of a graduate student in 2009, will be formally sentenced Friday. "
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 15 hours agoMladic calls charges 'obnoxious': "Appearing at a war crimes tribunal, the ex-Bosnian Serb commander said the charges contained big words, and he demanded extra time to review them. "
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*DWT* readers are not unacquainted with slippery New Hampshire congresscritter Charlie Bass. We first started covering his slimy roll in politics back in 2006, 7 months before the voters decided to retir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo workers at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant have exceeded the radiation exposure limit for men. The two control room operators were the first men to surpass the government-set limit, said Tokyo E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Yemeni President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was "slightly injured" in an attack on his palace, according to reports from the Al Arabiya news channel. Four of his guards were apparently killed and the speak...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoImagine the awkward social dynamics, the many ‘un-friendings’ that will ensue.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWildfire fighters in B.C. are working the province's first major blaze of the 2011 fire season. A nine-square kilometre blaze was sparked by lightning yesterday near Tisigar Lake in northern B.C., 35 kil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWildfires burning through tinder-dry brush and timber lands in Arizona forced dozens of evacuations in three small communities, authorities said. The evacuation order for Paradise and East Whitetail Canyon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGiant rats as big as cats are have killed and eaten two babies in separate attacks in South Africa's squalid townships this week. Lunathi Dwadwa, three, was killed as she slept in her parent's shack in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis is Simon Parker, the primary school headteacher who launched foul-mouthed racist and sexist attacks on staff and parents and who has now been banned from the classroom for life. The disgraced head 'b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh have battled with tribal fighters in Yemen's capital in clashes that killed dozens and injured hundreds more. Two weeks of street fighting with mortars, machi...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 18 hours ago1."Boots on the Ground": Sarkozy and Cameron Prepare to Land in Libya [Voltaire Network] 2.Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic [Voltaire Network]
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMANILA, Philippines - More "double-dead" fish have been confiscated from public markets in Metro Manila. Around 400 kilos of stale milkfish or bangus, suspected to be from the fish kill in Batangas provi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChicago - Scientists probing the deadly E coli strain in Europe are finding the bacteria combines a highly poisonous but common toxin with a rarely seen "glue" that binds it to a patient's intestines. It ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA mother died as she shielded her 15-year-old daughter in a bath tub as a tornado flattened their Massachusetts home. Angelica Guerrero, 39, died in her house in West Springfield as she desperately tried ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDon't even think about terrorism when passing through an airport - as a futuristic Minority Report-style security programme could catch you out. The Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) security pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn elderly man apparently angry over a divorce case went on a shooting spree, killing five people and wounding another before taking his own life. Carey Hal Dyess, 73, from Arizona, is said to have shot an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCasey Anthony, who faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, was seen laughing in court today. As she waited for the afternoon session to begin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA U.S. high school student was shot dead by a hotel security guard in Costa Rica after being mistaken for a thief. Sixteen-year-old Justin Johnston from Kansas was shot in the chest in the early hours of ...
- Muhammad Asghar returns from holiday to discover 20ft crater in his Berkshire garden - 3rd June 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt's not every day you get a call when you're on holiday to tell you that a huge 20ft crater has opened up in your garden - and that the garden fence is hanging in thin air. Businessman and father of four... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe man who triggered a three-hour police siege after threatening to blow up a bank may have had some kind of grudge, police have said. The 23-year-old suspect walked into the high street bank with a devi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoFriday dawns and time for you to tell me what has been bothering YOU about BBC coverage. I'm waiting here in Room 101.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoA Biased BBC reader advises me; Have a look at this review of over 2,700 links (only a portion of thousands more links, but a decent chunk) It is a snapshot of outward bound links to National Dailes take...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWas away yesterday so hence lack of posts but having got back I see the BBC are still running with their meme that the private sector and the "profit" motive are deleterious to our good health. They have b...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoThe public banking movement is becoming mainstream thanks to great work done by thoughtful and dedicated researchers like Ellen Brown, author of "Web of Debt." In May, Brown reported on the growing list o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA 32-year-old man is to stand trial over an alleged 'Hannibal Lecter'-style attack on his estranged wife in which he is accused of bit off her eyelid. Rahsaan Lavonte Thedford, of Clinton Township, Michiga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHackers claim to have successfully attacked the Sony network and stolen more than one million passwords, email addresses and other information. The cyber attackers, who call themselves LulzSec, said they p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThugs beheaded birds, poisoned fish and smashed 130 windows during a night rampage through a wildlife centre. When park managers arrived in the morning, they found 18 exotic birds dead in their aviary an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA sharp-eyed holiday-maker claims to have spotted two alligators lurking in a lake at his holiday park. He called the police after catching sight of the terrifying reptiles on the water's surface at the 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPhillip Garrido used a Taser gun to subdue kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and threatened to stun her again if she tried to escape. The shocking new detail was revealed by El Dorado County Superior Judge Doug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA total of 42 people were injured, 19 of whom were hospitalized, when ammunitions began to explode at an artillery arsenal in the Volga region Republic of Udmurtia, the regional emergencies ministry said o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA new strain of the MRSA "superbug" has been found in the milk of British cows and is believed to be infecting humans. Experts are still trying to assess the public health risk, but insist there is no ge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn oil refinery blast that killed four maintenance contractors appears to have been a "tragic industrial accident", police have said. The explosion at *Chevron* Refinery, Pembroke Dock, south Wales, shook...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:05:03 UTC Friday 3rd June 2011. The epicenter was 270 km (167 miles) East of Iwak...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours agoI *confess* my 2-year-old taught me how to take a screen shot on my itouch today. Yeah...sometimes she makes me feel dumb. I *confess* the words, "Uh-oh, Sofie broked it. No mad mommy, K? Shruggle me?" co...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 22 hours ago*Iran Nuclear Scare Timeline Update XL:* "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley A post on *The New York Review of Books* blog today demonstrates a striking lack of underst...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago*A rather remarkable triplet of similar events with the dijet energy near 3.33 TeV is the most spectacular hint of a new particle* Note that two days ago, I discussed the string theory Z'-boson explanati...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoMatt Ridley observes in his excellent book The Rational Optimist: Despite a doubling of the world population, even the raw number of people living in absolute poverty (defined as less than a 1985 dollar a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Website for this image** * Brian drew our attention to the post entitled "MCKINNEY LEADS DELEGATION OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS TO LIBYA." The following comes from: *Cynthia McKinney in Tripoli.* "Tripo...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoAnother example of the insane witch hunts that are gradually returning our world back to Salem 1692. Vitalik sent me a link to a stunning article at the Fox News server, Italian Seismologists Charged Wi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 23 hours agoso that Suezmax oil tankers carrying four times as much crude as spilled from the Exxon Valdez will be able to access the Vancouver Harbour Westport tanker terminal on the southeastern shore of Burrard I...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNigerian police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking or other purposes, authorities said on Wednesday. "We stormed ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Again, from "The War Between Men and Women" (and again, you can click on it to enlarge it)* *"When Dorothy grew up she became quite pretty and so even more of a menace. Gentlemen became attracted to her ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThe Texas Railroad Commission sided with the people so somebody please let me know if you see any cats and dogs living together.Link fixed.To industry cheerleader in the comments: Thanks for your heartfelt a...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe Golden Pavilion (also known as Kinkaku-ji or Rokuon-ji) is one of the most famous sightseeing places in Japan. It was listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1994 and is part of the overall list o...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUp to now I was providing information mainly regarding Japan, but my core idea is not to focus on only one country, but rather on the whole East Asian region. Nowadays, China is becoming a Great Power, and...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThis is a topic, which I am sure, has been buzzing around the minds of millions of people that are (or were) somehow attracted by Japan. I have noticed that most of the internationals who are starting to s...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoI know that most of the people who are browsing the net in search of any job for foreigners in Japan encounter these two obstacles:"We are searching for a native English speaker" "We are searching for a bi...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoAlthough AIESEC is one of the biggest student organizations in the world and the biggest student-driven one, I assume that some of you may haven't heard of it, so I will make a very brief introduction. AIE...
- posted by Nyagoslav Zhekov at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoMy name is Nyagoslav, but you can always refer to me as Nyago. I am Bulgarian but for the past two months I am living in Japan. And yes, I am not living in the Tokyo area. My current residence is in Kobe, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoAlex Jones - We're Under Psychological Warfare Attack 1/2 2/2
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Coming Crisis asks: Is this overdone, or overdue? And: Is this a Greek opinion, or a world opinion? For those interested, the Greek writing translates as: "Thieves, you *******, here come the hangings"
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe cost of insuring Greek debt rose on Thursday morning after the debt-laden country suffered another credit-rating downgrade. On Wednesday night Moody’s dealt another blow to Greece with a further down...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMoody's said the world's biggest economy's AAA-rating is under threat because the country will run out of money unless policymakers agree to increase the limit on the national debt above the current $14....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHay Festival went back in time today with a call to return to a more simple life when we made do with old clothes, shared baths and grew our own vegetables. Caroline Lucas, Britain’s only Green MP, led th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEman al-Obeidy, who grabbed the world's attention this spring when she accused Moammar Gadhafi's security forces of gang raping her, has been forced back to Libya, which she had fled in fear. Qatari aut...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInfectious disease detectives worldwide rushed Thursday to find the cause of an outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli that has spread to 10 countries and is blamed for at least 16 deaths and hundreds of ill...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Can Jill Abramson fill Bill Keller's shoes? (Yes, that was meant to sound kinda snarky.) NYT caption: "Jill Abramson, left, a managing editor, will succeed Bill Keller, center, who will become a full-time...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNagasaki University Hospital says that at least 40 percent of local people sent to Fukushima Prefecture, host to the crippled nuclear plant, suffered internal radiation exposure. The hospital checked staf...
Friday, June 3, 2011
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