- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour ago
Really, it's just so *awkward* when the lower orders forget their rightful station in the order of things. The harrumphing, glaring and disdainful sniffing from the self-appointed members of Ottawa's e... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan; CAO-AYAN, Ilocos Sur, Philippines – Fish kill incidents widened this weekend with reports of dead fish floating in some parts of Angat Dam in Bulacan and Mestizo River in Ilocos Sur,... - posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 hour ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The year 1564 is noteworthy for several reasons. John Calvin and Michelangelo died. Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei were born. It was Galileo, upon the shoulders o... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station temporary storage tanks (for the purpose of low level radioactive materials in Unit 5 and 6), 4 May 2011. Location: Storage Area (North Side)] With assist...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPrologue As the nation frets about job growth, once again historical precedent has been overlooked. Peddlers, street vendors, direct sellers were the progenitors of corporations and modern small businesse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
"This post was reader contributed." Computer Translation from Original Article >>> A leak of radioactive water occurred the last few hours in the small nuclear facility Anshas, Egypt, after the explosio... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Sensing groundwater: Changes in California groundwater storage and groundwater level, 2003-2010. Famiglietti, et al. / The New York Times] By FELICITY BARRINGER 30 May 2011 IRVINE, Calif. — Sci...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: In this June 1, 2011 photo, students on a field trip eat lunch as water is released from Grand Coulee Dam, Wash. At Grand Coulee Dam, gigantic cascades of water are being released to make room fo...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoThe BBC - in its venomous hatred of fossil fuels - was very quick this weekto link attempts to extract shale gas with earthquakes and to emphasise the danger that such efforts would alarmingly cause tap wat...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 3 hours ago. February 15, 2011, opening lecture by Denis G. Rancourt (Ottawa, Canada) in the Estudis Crítics des de les Ciències Socials series - Barcelona, Spain.The series was an academic squatting exercise at the Un...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours agoThis video was released by TEPCO on 4 June 2011. It shows radioactive steam venting somewhere in the Unit 1 reactor building. [Update: Ex-SKF has the scoop] Packbot video was taken on 3:30PM on June 3....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoEven though they are an extreme right-wing front group for the Republican Party, it's still odd that the Faith and Freedom Conference would invite Ayn Rand die-hard Paul Ryan to speak at their DC conclav...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Workers install temporary pressure indicators for the Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 3 June 2011.] TOKYO, June 4 (Kyodo) – The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nu...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 4 hours agoHEALTH/RELIGION - Do alcoholics need god? In Toronto the Alcoholics Anonymous organization has split into two rival groups... the groups are split over the usage of god in the Twelve Step Program and the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says steam was observed coming out of the floor of the No.1 reactor building, and extremely high radiation was detected in the vicinity. Tokyo E... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
People across the Tri-State awoke to an unusual sight Thursday — thousands of earthworms lying dead on sidewalks and porches. WLWT was first alerted to the issue by Rick in West Chester. "This appears t... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Palestinians traveling to Egypt stormed a gate at the border crossing on Saturday after waiting for hours in buses, Gaza officials told CNN. It is the first kink in cross-border travel after Egypt reopene... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Radioactive water that has accumulated inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could spill to the outside if heavy rains come before new decontamination equipment can be installed, the semi-off... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday warned that clashes could occur in the South China Sea if nations in the area do not agree on ways to deal with disputes. "Without rules of the road, witho... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoInvestors should prepare themselves for a third round of quantitative easing, Simon Maughn, co-head of European equities at MF Global, told CNBC Wednesday. “The bond market is going in one direction which...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA weak dollar, mounting inflationary fears and skyrocketing gold and silver prices are prompting some states to convert precious metals into currencies. Utah is now allowing gold and silver coins to be use...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Chinese government has stepped up censorship of local television in a sign of the broadening of a political crackdown that has landed many dissidents in jail. Hunan Broadcasting System, the most comm...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoI was having a look at Katty Kay's Twitter page, wondering if she had said anything about Sarah Palin lately. Not only is Palin on tour (as we know from Mark Mardell's sneering the other day), but she said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe boss of the European Central Bank sparked anger yesterday after demanding the right to veto the economic policies of EU governments. Jean Claude Trichet put himself on a collision course with George Os...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago Photo Brenda Norrell Censored News*The Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life* *A 75 mile walk from Sásabe, Sonora, Mexico to Tucson, Arizona * *Photo Migrant Trail by Brenda Norrell* The precarious reality of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA man considered one of the world's most dangerous militants has been killed in a US drone missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official has said. Suspected senior al Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmir...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoAnyone catch this wonderful interview on the BBC this morning with Millie Tant and her feminist tendency? It concerns the opening of a Playboy club in London and all good feminists are up in arsm against ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoFor as many years as I can remember, the BBC has propagated the line that the State always knows what is best for us. This is particularly accentuated when the Government is Socialist but the BBC default l...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago------------------------------ Original here. Friday, June 3, 2011 Unemployment During the Great Depression Has Been Overstated and Current Unemployment Understated (We've Now Got Depression-Level Unemp...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 6 hours agoLast month physicist Denis G. Rancourt embarked on an examination of the radiation physics behind "global warming" and called for peer review of his work: HERE, HERE, HERE.All this has lead to his most recen...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 6 hours agoWave Bye-Bye, Ron: "The halls of justice may not be perfect - but karma is! After his Klan group severely beat a Latino teen at a county fair in 2006, Ron Edwards was ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages o...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 6 hours agoOld Habits Die Hard: "A blast from the past, it seems that 41 months in a Federal prison didn't make a big enough impression on this 71-year-old Aryan Nations benefactor.Richard Bertollini made the down-paym...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 6 hours agoBradley Manning's Father Says His Greatest Fear Is Son Is Guilty: "By DAN HARRIS (@danbharris) and ALYSSA NEWCOMB When people ask Brian Manning if he is related to Pvt. Bradley Manning, he sometimes denies i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 6 hours agoSony Hacked Again, 1 Million Passwords Exposed: "LulzSec is the same group that posted fake news on the PBS website on Saturday in retaliation for a PBS Frontline documentary's portrayal of Julian Assange, t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 6 hours ago‘The Sociopath Next Door’: ‘Sovereign’ on a Rampage: "Three useful tips for dealing with an antigovernment “sovereign citizen”:1. Don’t ask him for his driver’s license.2. Don’t ask him, “Did you file your f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWallow Fire Burns Over 100k Acres, Remains Out of Control: MyFoxPHOENIX.com The most dangerous wildfire in years is still out of control. Now more towns are on notice that they need to be ready to get a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA mountain community is evacuated, and smoke and ash blowing into New Mexico alarm many residents of Albuquerque. Wildfires raged in eastern Arizona, burning tens of thousands of acres and sending smoke m...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Mladic & DuPont-- at least one fascist will face trial* Most Americans don't know who Ratko Mladic is, where Srebrenica, Serbia, Bosnia or even the Hague are, or why a war crimes tribunal is important-- ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 8 hours ago[image: Diego] On Victoria Day, we met our friends James, Lori, Cobalt and Denim at Cherry Beach, which has an excellent leash-free dog park area right on Lake Ontario. Getting together at dog parks on st...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoOn their conference notes page at CERN, the ATLAS Collaboration began to produce many new papers that use the 2011 data. At this moment, the fifth one is Search for squarks and gluinos using final states ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe father of a teenager who died after taking Ecstasy has blamed his son's death on the 'hedonistic and destructive culture of drug-taking'. Tom Simons, a 51-year-old deputy head teacher, said his son Joe...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 9 hours agoAnd now for a break from the regularly scheduled broadcast! This afternoon will mark "4th daughter" Laura's graduation party from Pratt Institute (congratulations Laura!). Pending that event, I will temp...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoWhen, why and how did the rot set in at the BBC? As an ex-employee who joined the corporation in 1978 when there were at least some news and programme editors who did not support left-wing lunacy, I have o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGovernment claims attack on presidential compound was 'attempted coup' as fighting intensifies in Sana'a. Yemen's embattled president survived an apparent attempt to kill him on Friday as fighting intensi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChinese scientists who have fully sequenced the genome of the new E. Coli spreading through Europe said Saturday they found genes in the bacteria that gave it resistance to eight classes of antibiotics. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAt least 350 kilos of "tainted" fish were seized near a market in Manila's Divisoria district Saturday, during a inspection by the city's veterinary office. A Balitanghali report said not all the fish may...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA mud volcano that began erupting five years ago, near a drilling site on the eastern portion of Indonesia’s Java island is still spewing out toxic sludge. Entire villages, towns, business districts, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA widow from New York who died last year has caused outrage among her relatives by giving the bulk of her estate to doomsday 'prophet' Harold Camping. Doris Schmitt left the bulk of her roughly $250,000 e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIn a chilling new video, U.S. born Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on American Muslims to buy weapons from gun shows and carry out random, lone-wolf attacks. The video, called 'Do Not Rely on Others,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPresident Barack Obama flew to the Midwest today in an attempt to promote his economic agenda - the same day a damning report revealed the number of jobs plunged in May making it the weakest month this yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn 11-year-old girl has died after falling 100 feet from a Ferris wheel during a school trip. Horrified classmates watched as Abiah Jones, from Pleasantville, New Jersey, fell from the upper half of the b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man has managed to avoid caution for wasting police time after he called 911 when a tiny kitten bit him on the thumb. Craig Wyatt, 24, from Indiana, desperately called authorities yesterday after a cat ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSending millions of worms into space may not sound like it would reap many rewards. But scientists who examined the effect of sending the microscopic creatures into orbit found they could help us understa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Florida woman was taking her dog for an early morning walk yesterday, when she rounded a corner only to see an alligator eating her beloved pet. Palm Beach Gardens Police said the woman did not have the ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 13 hours agoSenate page Brigette Marcelle DePape, 21, stood silently holding up a Stop Harper stop sign for 20 seconds during the Speech from the Throne today before being ejected from the Senate Chamber and fired. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Image) Jailed: Cyclist Paul Lambeth punched motorist Tony Magdi, who later died from his wounds. A cyclist was jailed for 18 months today after he killed a motorist who opened his car door in front of hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*THE explosion which killed one man and injured six others in a tunnel in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga was caused by an unidentified gas, New Zealand emergency services say. * The explosion happened 4...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Briton has been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal the personal information of millions of Facebook users. Officers swooped on the 26-year-old man’s home after being tipped off by the FBI. He is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*THE explosion which killed one man and injured six others in a tunnel in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga was caused by an unidentified gas, New Zealand emergency services say. * The explosion happened 4...
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/gG_mATRHm3M *I experiment still with Webian*, but can say that this has a huge potential indeed. Be very careful, then I encountered some nasty quirks, that require (Linux) know...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAfter overtaking Grand Lake St Marys last year, a toxic algae has now been detected in a popular central Ohio lake. Officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources say they've detected algal blo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMexico City - The Popocatepetl volcano, 60 kilometres southeast of Mexico City, on Friday erupted with a 3,000-metre-high cloud of ash. Civil protection authorities said the ash was not dangerous for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWildfires burning north of Fort McMurray have forced a partial evacuation of an oilsands site. Shell has evacuated all non-essential workers from its Albian Sands site located 75 kilometres north of Fort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*Toxic algae has again been found in the water at the area’s biggest watersports attraction.* The blue-green algae was found in Strathclyde Loch and is the same organism which appeared last year leading ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBritish nationals in Yemen have been told they must flee the escalating violence on commercial flights now or risk being stranded. Foreign Secretary William Hague said if people did not make the decision ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDoctors in Germany are appealing for donations of blood as the E.coli outbreak, which has affected 11 people in the UK so far, continues to spread. German newspapers reported doctors having to give blood...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBritish Apache helicopters have carried out their first strikes on targets in the Libyan town of Brega, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Sky's defence correspondent Niall Paterson, who is on board H...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago* Jerome Kerviel lost €5bn due to 'rogue' trades. * Western Banks 'ripped off' Libya. Libya was then hit by NATO and the USA. The banks now say they don't have to pay back any money to Libya. SocGen Made ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPotential 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! - 16 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFears 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 - 18 hours agoBritish 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! - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours agoWhat 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 - 18 hours agoThe 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 - 18 hours agoCouncil 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 individual freedoms as "terrorists," and "extremists" to divid...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 20 hours agoHEALTH - 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 - 21 hours agoVideo card vouchers in regular packs of trading cards are putting a new twist on an old hobby.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 21 hours agoIn case you haven't seen it yet: Brigette DePape of Manitoba, you are my new hero!
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 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...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe 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 - 22 hours agoGermany'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 - 22 hours agoAnalysts 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 - 22 hours agoThe 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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! - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNicknamed "Doctor Death," Kevorkian claims he actively helped 130 people to die.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoImagine the awkward social dynamics, the many ‘un-friendings’ that will ensue.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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