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“This tractor does two things - it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think a... - posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 12 minutes agoProfessor Paul Valdes of Bristol university has been working assiduously for years to induce panic about the climate using models. He's very unhappy that the level of panic is not high enough. He's produce...
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Illustrations by Al Hirschfeld *The Insurograph: A mechanism similar to a jukebox, vending insurance at a quarter a throw* The social life of the [movie] industry . . . had changed little in two years. It ... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agoJust posted online Thursday night: _ __ .__ __ __ _____ _____/ ___ ______ ____ ____ #anonymous \ __ / \__ \ / \ __\ / ___// __ \_/ ___\ #anarchists / __ \ \ \___ \\ ___/\ \___ #antisec /_ ~~ _\ (____ /___ /...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Bronzing or ozone damage to the dry bean canopy in the field. Howard F. Schwartz / Colorado State University] [This one’s for Gail.] ScienceDaily (June 30, 2011) – Ground-level ozone is an air p...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoDid ex-NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell illegally take one of the Apollo 14 cameras, only to try to auction it for profit?
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Three more American soldiers were killed this week, the United States military announced Thursday, bringing the combat-related deaths for United States forces in Iraq to a monthly toll not seen since 2008.... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A southeastern Pennsylvania woman is accused of beating her 9-year-old grandson and blasting him in the face with a garden hose because he ate too much bacon. The Delaware County Daily Times reports Maril... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Only a limited array of state services would continue in Minnesota if there is a government shutdown Friday, a judge ruled. Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin decided Wednesday that the state must ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
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The Italian Cabinet approved an austerity budget package Thursday aimed at saving €47 billion ($68 billion) over four years. "It's a package balanced between increasing revenues and reduction of expenditu... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
With disaster in the eurozone once more postponed, if not vanquished, markets are again turning to the US in their never-ending search for trouble. There's plenty to worry about, from the immediate threat... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
An Oregon man got a big surprise on a commercial flight from Seattle to Anchorage, Alaska, when he was stung by a scorpion while sitting in his plane seat. Jeff Ellis of West Linn said he was trying to sl... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits barely fell last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting the labor market was struggling to regain momentum. Initial claims... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Walking down the streets of Beijing, it's hard to avoid seeing red slogans lining the sidewalks. Switching on a TV at home, almost every channel hosts a gala show performed on a red-colored stage. Such t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Is the Missouri River, the longest in the United States at 2,321 miles long, about to suffer a chain reaction failure beginning at the monolithic Fort Peck Dam in Montana, which itself is 21,026 feet long,... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Several investigations are underway following a number of strange twists in the drowning death of a Fall River woman. The woman’s body was believed to be in the public pool in Fall River for days before it... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits barely fell last week, a government report showed on Thursday, suggesting the labor market was struggling to regain momentum. Initial claims...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: African Elephant with young, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, Africa. wallpaperweb.org] By Pete Wilton June 28, 2011 Half the elephants from West and Central African savannahs have vanished in...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 hours agoJust as we wind down the first half of 2011 in preparation for Canada Day, three disparate blog posts are jumping out at me: - At Sixth Estate, Government of Canada Issues Statement Opposing the Al...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, March 2011. The world’s biggest refugee complex, set up at the start of Somalia’s civil war in 1991, now also counts Sudanese and Ethiopians among its population of...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoThe following list of U.S. state terrorists is based on the model of the Most-Wanted Iraqi playing cards that was created by the U.S. military "to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA swarm of jellyfish have forced a shut down of a nuclear power plant in Scotland.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*NJ State Sen. Dick Codey:* *He was the state's most popular pol when he served concurrently as acting governor and Senate president. How did he get, first, muscled out of running for governor, then pried ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours ago[image: Whose_Bloody_Land_is_it_Anyway] All the chatterati are pretending to be incensed about Don Brash’s characterisation of council’s clipboard-wielders as “little Hitlers.” Oh the *outrage*! I’m so ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: The Las Conchas Fire is now estimated to be 92,735 acres and a 1/2 of a mile from the closest home, 30 June 2011. KOAT] June 30 (KOAT) – The Las Conchas Fire is now estimated to be 92,735 acres ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFederal agents have arrested a Nigerian man after he successfully flew from New York to Los Angeles, and tried to fly from there to Atlanta, without having a valid boarding pass for either flight. Invest...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoOne of the more common themes in my recent writing is that, when it comes down to the challenges confronting our country and our people, we cannot depend on our political classes for leadership. We entrus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA senior Saudi Arabian diplomat and member of the ruling royal family has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict in the Middle East if Iran comes close to developing a nuclear weapon. Prince Turki al-Fais...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA U.S. drone aircraft fired on two leaders of a militant Somali organization tied to al-Qaeda, apparently wounding them, a senior U.S. military official familiar with the operation said Wednesday. The str...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoShopping at Amazon.com Inc. and other major Internet stores is poised to get more expensive. Beginning Friday, a new state law will require large out-of-state retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe first death related to the Powassan virus was recorded in Minnesota Wednesday according to a release by the Minnesota Department of Health The victim was a Northern Minnesota woman in her 60s. Anothe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA cluster of whooping cough is growing on Long Island, with dozens of people infected by the virus. As CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez reports, a warning was sent out as children begin to head to summer camp – a c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe leader of one of the four unions involved in a national strike has said that the government will be "proved wrong" in its predictions that few will walkout in protest at an overhaul of public sector pe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTexas lawmakers adjourned their special session Wednesday without passing a ban on Transportation Security Administration pat-downs, to the dismay of staunch conservative critics of the agency. The bill, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Metro rider found an unpleasant surprise on his daily commute at the Franconia-Springfield station on Monday: human feces smeared on the pedestrian bridge into the station. And making matters worse, it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoResort-style swimming pools with fountains and heated spas, billiards rooms, granite counter tops, ceramic tile, indoor basketball courts, stainless steel appliances -- many Fairfax County taxpayers cannot...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThey grow up so fast. But not that fast, Mr. President. In a news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama twice referred to his oldest daughter, Malia, as being 13 years old. Not quite. She's 12. Pe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe financial crisis in Greece could have worse consequences on the global financial system than the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to statements made by European Union anti-bureaucracy czar Edmund...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: The small town of Itate, Japan, is a ghost town on June 20, 2011. It is within the 20-to-30-kilometer zone from the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor that started leaking radiation into the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*“WAR DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS” RUN BY RCMP* *- Lock-up Plan * Mohawk Nation News MNN JUNE 10, 2011 According to internal Indian Affairs files, in 2006 Prime Minister Stephen Harper set up Indian Aff...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 9 hours agoSince the country’s going insane over the so-called “death of free speech” because of folk boycotting an opportunistic book by a peddler of cherry-picking innuendo* (indeed, it was the cherry-picker hims...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice were called to Litcham, near Dereham, last night following reports of an unidentified object falling from the sky. The alarm was raised by a member of the public just after 9pm and officers are inv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA plane equipped with radiation monitors has been sent over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory as a 110-square-mile wildfire burned just 50-feet from its doorstep, putting thousands of scientific experiment...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA shock vote has seen a panel of cancer experts rule that Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, should no longer be used in breast cancer patients. The unprecedented vote by the Food and Dru...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago*Justice Nino speaking in Milwaukee in September 2010* *"Robert Peck, the Washington-based lawyer representing the Louisiana smokers at the Supreme Court, recalled thinking Scalia had made unwarranted ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGiant lizards up to seven feet long are invading some parts of Florida. Wildlife groups are warning residents in Palm Beach and Broward counties to run if they see a Nile Monitor Lizard following a sharp r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice have launched an investigation into a high school principal who hypnotised three students who later died. George Kenney was suspended from his job after he admitted hypnotising a 16-year-old boy wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA mother has been accused of killing her three-month-old son before taking his dead body shopping with her. Toyrianna Smith is alleged to have suffocated her newborn son to stop him from crying after his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA bright beacon in space believed to be powered by a black hole may shed light on a hidden era of the early universe. The object, named ULAS J1120+0641, is the most distant quasar known. Quasars are incre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe cost of U.S. military action in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan will run to at least $3.7trillion, a study has revealed today. The staggering figure could reach as high as $4.4trillion, with the deaths ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA killer who battered a mother to death, leaving a ‘calling card’ of another woman’s hair in her hand like another ‘strikingly similar’ deaths, was last night facing life behind bars. Danilo Restivo, 39, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Satellite images taken on July 28, 2010, left, and Aug. 5, 2010, show before and after a giant ice island broke away from the Petermann Glacier in Northern Greenland. The island measured 100 squa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teenage girl and a young man have been arrested this afternoon after a series of violent muggings in London. Police picked up the 16-year-old girl, from Hackney, and 21-year-old male, from Lambeth as p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThis is one snake who is likely to be more than a little snappy if provoked. The mutant black and gold python regius - royal python or ball python - was born in Villingen-Schwenningen, southern Germany, wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA police inquiry is underway after a 32-year-old man was found decapitated after falling from a fourth floor window. Emergency services were called to the address in West Kensington at 9.26pm last night a...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoClimate change could halve California and Washington wine regions by 2040, but give Oregon vineyards a boost.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoSpace music's most talented musicians go for the eyes first with some killer album art, so with the help of the HowStuffWorks staff, Robert Lamb assembles the top 10 cosmic album covers of all time.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoClimate change could halve California and Washington wine regions by 2040, but give Oregon vineyards a boost.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA massive underwater landslide 200 miles off the coast of Cornwall caused a series of mini-tsunami waves and tides on Monday. Holidaymakers, fishermen and conservationists were stunned when the tide sudde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhen two police officers turned up on his doorstep at 11.20pm, Clive Lindoe feared the worst. But the father of three was shocked and angry to learn the reason for the late-night visit – an allegation tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTens of thousands of killers, rapists and thugs could escape prosecution after an alarming legal judgment. The ruling tore up 25 years of bail rules for criminal suspects, left a gaping hole in police pow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIf you live in Britain, the U.S. or China, start preparing now. Scientists have drawn up a league table of the countries which will be worst affected in the event of an asteroid strike. They have identifi...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours agoOne of my all time favorite days to photograph is the 4th of July. Parades, BBQs and of course fireworks. I love to photograph fireworks. Photographing fireworks can be as easy or as hard as you want it to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn organizer of the Gaza flotilla said Thursday that one of its ships has been sabotaged while anchored in Turkey's territorial waters. The propeller of the Irish ship Saoirse was damaged by what one organ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe death of Osama bin Laden "is not the death of terrorism, unfortunately," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN at an international security conference Thursday. Al Qaeda has been ...
