Image via Wikipedia- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 7 minutes agoThere's no doubt whose side the BBC is on in Julia Gillard's attempts to force her country into economic suicide. It's a "worst polluter", so of course such measures are right. A picture of horrendous, bel...
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The Civil Protection Department has lifted the danger level on the Mýrdalssandur plains in south Iceland, now only Mýrdalsjökull is off limits. The activity in the glacier, which covers the volcano Katla, ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes agoA southern Italian airport was on Saturday closed due to ash from Mount Etna, forcing traffic to be diverted to Palermo, the ANSA news agency said. Catania airport on the east coast of the island of Sicily...
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Small tsunami waves reached the Pacific coast of northern Japan Sunday after a major quake hit the region heavily damaged by the March earthquake and tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The por... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
She was probably already spending the money in her head as she lay in her cell patiently waiting for her imminent release. But it appears Casey Anthony needn't bother because she may not be 'cashing in' o... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 46 minutes agoSad, isn't it. When this is what occupies our imaginations and dominates public discourse, is it any wonder that so many people don't bother to take the responsibilities of citizenship seriously? Look at t...
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Fugitive foreign killers sheltering in Britain are costing taxpayers millions by exploiting human rights legislation to escape deportation. A Mail on Sunday investigation found that an Albanian man has yet... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A former Royal Marine accused of shaking a baby to death has blamed the injuries on a 15-month-old girl, a jury has heard. Colin Scholey, 26, was charged with the manslaughter of his four-month-old nephew... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A murderer who was released early from prison has been jailed for life after a shocking four-decade rape spree was uncovered. Killer David Taylor, 66, was jailed for life for deliberately hitting a man w... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A German bank that shed 300 British jobs at the height of the financial crisis has paid US singer Janet Jackson half a million pounds to entertain its wealthy clients for just 45 minutes. Deutsche Bank, t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A senior Revolutionary Guard commander has revealed Iran secretly conducted missile tests earlier this year as 'American spy planes' turned a blind eye. Speaking on state TV Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the command... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Last Monday, at 1.15pm, Tatsuya Ichihashi entered courtroom 201 of the Chiba District Court in a suburb of Tokyo. Shackled at his wrists and dressed in a black shirt with jeans hanging around his hips, I... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours ago
I confess it is rather disconcerting to live in a place where it is summer all the time. Sometimes I forget what time of year it is. I confess that everywhere else people stay inside during the winter, we ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
At least 20 people were killed when armed men sprayed gunfire on a bar in the northern city of Monterrey. Alejandro Poire, a federal security spokesman, said on Saturday that the attack took place late on... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery and other ailments. A wooden chest dis... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
The global economy faces a unique double threat. The eurozone, of course, remains on the brink of a major, perhaps terminal, crisis. Then there's the small matter of the US Congress possibly "closing down"... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoWhen the final mission of the space shuttle Atlantis takes off, it will end an era of manned space exploration. In The Right Stuff, his book on the beginnings of the space age, Tom Wolfe asked: “What is...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLos Alamos National Lab is proposing to build a massive plutonium bomb factory -- and that has many nearby residents concerned. The Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico is still burning. It is rapidly growing b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe Keiser Report Episode 161: Bernanke's Greek Fire Sale - Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Reader contributed.
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoInflation should stick at a two-and-a-half-year high in figures out on Tuesday, before resuming its relentless climb upwards, economic analysts predict. Data for June is expected to show that for a third ...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 3 hours agoSo, have not posted in a while, have been super slammed and still am. Shocker. Anyway, we have been in Costa Rica for the 4th. More on that later....... *Recent Races* We ran in two races prior to leavin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA major earthquake struck off northeastern Japan Sunday, prompting tsunami advisories for several coastal regions, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. There were no immediate reports of injuries o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago"The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*A nice overview of the waters in and around New York City (which is in light gray), pretty much all really inlets of the Atlantic Ocean: 1. Hudson River; 2. East River, though the number indicates the wil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoProtests have rekindled in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on a grand scale. Hundreds are expressing their frustration at what they see as a snail’s pace of change after the Arab uprisings that began in Tunis six mo...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoObama-Bashing WorldNetDaily Chief Sues Esquire Over ‘Birther’ Satire: "WorldNetDaily (WND) Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah really wants the world to know he’s serious about President Obama’s birth certificate, ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoGeller Promises to ‘Save’ Non-Muslims in Muslim Countries: "Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, co-heads of the anti-Muslim hate group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), have truly outdone themselves.In the ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoThird Defendant in Nativist Home-Invasion Murders Convicted: "Ending the trial phase of a sad and sordid tale that has haunted Arizona for two years, a Pima County jury Friday convicted a Latino man of firs...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoAnother ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Learns Fake Claims Can Lead to Real Arrest: "Declaring yourself a “sovereign citizen” exempt from government authority and tax obligations must be something of a rush – until that...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoNo More Mr. Nice Guy: Patrick Buchanan and the Virtue of Prejudice: "Conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan – for reasons that aren’t always evident to the reasonable observer – has long enjoyed credibili...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoNews Roundup for July 7, 2011: "An African-American man was killed in Jackson, Miss., when he was assaulted and run over by a pick-up truck in what prosecutors are calling a hate crime. Two white men, Deryl ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoGay Bashers Use Myths to Deride New York’s New Marriage Law: "Les Kinsolving, a conservative talk-show host in Baltimore who claims to be a White House correspondent for the fact-challenged online conspiracy...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoSouth Carolina Killer Claimed Militia Training: "A man who went on a killing rampage in South Carolina over the July 4th weekend expressed antigovernment survivalist views and claimed to have trained with a ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoFeds Sue Seattle Man Peddling Sovereign ‘Strawman’ Scheme: "The federal government is suing a Seattle, Wash., man with a long history of involvement with the radical right for running a scheme whereby his cl...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoRadical Campus Youth Group Attacks Another Alleged Rape Victim: "Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), whose founder almost a decade ago verbally attacked women who claimed to be rape victims, is at it again...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoOn-Again, Off-Again FAIR Principal is On Again: "The name of John Tanton, which quietly disappeared from the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s (FAIR) list of its board of directors in the days fol...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 8 hours agoNeo-Nazi skinhead taken down with one punch (USA): "A neo-Nazi is in jail because he allegedly tried to pick a fight with the wrong man, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.According to the Kootenai...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoYesterday was World UFO Disclosure Day... Did we learn anything new about extraterrestrials?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIran said on Saturday it test-fired two long-range missiles into the Indian Ocean earlier this year, the first time it has fired missiles into that sea, according to state television. "In the month of Bah...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoProtests have rekindled in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on a grand scale. Hundreds are expressing their frustration at what they see as a snail’s pace of change after the Arab uprisings that began in Tunis six mo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRebekah Brooks told News of the World journalists there were worse revelations to come in the hacking scandal during a heated meeting which saw them vent their fury at her ‘betrayal’. The embattled chief ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOn Thursday afternoon, James Murdoch assembled senior executives in the top-floor boardroom in the News Corporation’s London headquarters and told them of a momentous decision: to shutter the 168-year-old ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoo use the terminology the Obama administration is using as they push for a debt ceiling increase, the United States is headed for an economic “disaster of biblical proportions.” The administration says th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Turkish Central Bank is engaging in reckless policy. Those invested in the country should prepare themselves for the consequences. Despite a rising rate of inflation, the Turkish Central Bank is mainta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs the financial world breathed a collective sigh of relief as the Greek Parliament voted to impose further austerity measures on the people of Greece, I wondered aloud to no one in particular how many tim...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWhat is the job market is saying about the U.S. economy? And how should it affect the way you invest? Let's examine these questions together. If you want to know why the housing market is still in a depres...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoConsumers who illegally download copyrighted films, music or television shows might see their Internet speed slowed or access restricted under an industry anti-piracy effort announced on Thursday. U.S. In...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGlobal energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. will be forced to face a lawsuit over alleged murder and torture committed by company agents in remote Indonesia, after a federal appeals court said Friday that corpor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least 90 people died when a passenger plane crashed Friday at the Kisangani airport in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the state news agency reported. The Boeing 727 was trying to land in ba...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Devastating seaweed invades Sierra Leone beaches, 4 July 2011. Residents and hotel owners on Lumley Beach, west of Freetown, were startled by the appearance of the thick brown seaweed, which cove...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoPerception of Syrian conflict defined by baseless "activist" statements. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand July 10, 2011 - According to Fortune 500/Soros-fundedHuman Rights Watch whose sponsors represen...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*Kevin Spacey's Abramoff starts revealing guilty Republican senators before being dragged away.* Yesterday-- loosely speaking-- I woke up at 4am to catch a plane from Bangkok to Hong Kong, where I waited a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Alexander Higgins' online report about how Facebook helped spy on and arrest fly-in supporters to Palestine this week, could not be posted on Facebook tod...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoThere's a surprising interview from the 'Today' archive (from 2009) between James Naughtie and Will Hutton. Naughtie asks Hutton to speculate on the future of newspapers in the U.K. Hutton replies: *Well ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago*Protect San Francisco Peaks, sacred to 13 area Indian Nations, from sewage water for snowmaking at the Snowbowl ski resort* *We interrupt your regularly scheduled lives...* *True Snow* http://www.truesno...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago"*We have more visibility perhaps on what we can see coming our way than you guys can, and look I can only, I'm tied because of the criminal investigation in what I can say, but I think in a year's time ev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Fukushima dairy farmer disposes of milk. japanfocus.org] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 8 July 2011 These cattle were allowed to be sold, as long as they were scrubbed clean of radioactive materia...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoDid Canadian soldiers win in Afghanistan? No. Did Canadian soldiers lose in Afghanistan? No. How can you lose something you were never sent to win? Our military mission to Kandahar was never about...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours agoIf you missed This American Life today, go get the podcast. This program exposes some of the mafia style tactics used by this industry.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: FAO Food Price Index, 2007 – June 2011. The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 234 points in June 2011, 1 percent higher than in May and 39 percent higher than in June 2010. The FFPI hit its al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA glacial flood affected South Iceland last night, likely caused by draining of geothermal melt water from underneath the east side of the Myrdalsjokull glacier. Scientists have been speculating that the...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours agoIt was inevitable that the GOP-led House would result in mass layoffs in the clown profession.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Bluefin tuna migrate across the Atlantic Ocean. Photo Credit: Wayne Davis at www.tunanews.org] Paris (AFP) July 7, 2011 - The reference organisation for the conservation status of Earth's animal...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoThe Sydney Morning Herald has discussed what happens when the global mean temperature increases by 4 °C: Too hot to handle: can we afford a 4-degree rise? Kevin Anderson, a director of a Tyndall Centre ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoOther than his bitterest enemies, who have an agenda that seeks to destroy him and counts the rest of us as collateral damage, everyone told Obama to focus on job creation and leave deficit reduction for ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoMore information on Frack Sand Mining.The Enron Oil and Gas proposed frack sand mine in Montague/Cooke counties will be 1400 acres, much larger than the mine in the video.A close up video of frack sand proce...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: False colour scanning electron microscope images of typical Quaternary marine benthic foraminifera from the UK. From left, Ammonia beccarii, Eggerelloides scaber, Bulimina marginata, Elphidium ex...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoHow's that solar farm coming? How are you doing with mothballing those coal plants? 2015 is just four years away after all. How are you in the East doing about rebuilding your horribly atrophied and un...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe US Secret Service has raided the home of an artist who collected images from webcams in a New York Apple store. Kyle McDonald is said to have installed software that photographed people looking at la...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDespite an extensive overhaul to its animal care standards, the Calgary Stampede got off to a rocky start Friday night when a horse had to be euthanized after breaking its leg during the chuckwagon races. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice in Malaysia have used tear gas and water cannons against thousands of people assembling for a banned protest in the capital Kuala Lumpur. Police say they arrested some 1,650 people before the rally ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCamps of people fleeing East Africa's worsening drought have started forming inside Somalia, says medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres. One camp had more than doubled in size in a matter of days, an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAt least 17 people were killed and several wounded when gunmen opened fire on customers and staff in a bar in Monterrey, Mexico, local officials say. The gunmen burst into the city-centre bar late on Frid...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNew US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the US is "within reach of strategically defeating al-Qaeda". Mr Panetta said that following the killing of Osama Bin Laden, key leaders in Pakistan, Yemen ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMany conservationists have been united in animosity toward Tanzania's plan to build the so-called Serengeti Highway. The road, after all, would divide Serengeti National Park, threatening one of the world'...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoYou can tell a lot about the state of European trade by strolling along the docks at the Port of Hamburg. As the continent's second largest container port, it handles over 120 million tons of cargo a year...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIf you’re like me, I’m sure you thought about this many times. You’ve run the scenario of a financial collapse or other National emergency through your mind. That’s what people who are preparing for an eme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoInvestment professionals have a new pitch: The sky could soon be falling. While Greece took a step back from the brink on Wednesday, the possibility of a default remains a fear. Europe’s debt crisis, as we...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours agoCorporate-owned media obfuscates protest's overt ties to Washington. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand July 9, 2011 - Calling themselves "Bersih, or the "Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections," the so-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 23.4 km ( 14.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:38 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) East of Raoul Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 23.3 km ( 14.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:29 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) East of Raoul Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck of the Coast of the North Zealand at a depth of 18.3 km ( 11.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:45 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 303 km (188 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn Iraq war veteran who lost both his legs to an IED attack has died after being flung from a roller coaster. Sergeant James Hackemer, 29, died after falling from the Ride of Steel roller coaster at Darie...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 16 hours ago"Before the Deluge" was of course written by Jackson Browne, but I like this Joan Baez version. The lyrics are copied at the end, following some thoughts about denialism. I'm not referring to those des...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA woman has been accused of microwaving her neighbour's kitten after she was allegedly thrown out of a party. Gina Robins, 30, faces one charge of causing unnecessary suffering to the pet by putting it in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agofarmer’s flock of sheep has been wiped out after armed thugs gunned down a field full of lambs. Barbaric thieves used hunting rifles to kill Vernon Phipps' animals, before throwing 26 of the lambs' life...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 19.4 km ( 12.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:20 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) East of Raoul Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoScientists are monitoring Iceland’s Katla volcano amid signs that a small eruption may be taking place. The acting head of the Civil Protection Agency Iris Marelsdottir, says flooding is taking place nea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAs many as forty two kindergarten children in China''s Zhejiang Province have fallen ill in a suspected case of food poisoning. Students at a kindergarten in Xiaoshan district began to vomit and complaine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 20.4 km ( 12.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:22 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) East of Raoul Isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 40 km ( 24.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:42:32 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) North East of Puerto Angel, O...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoCelebrations erupted across the new capital city of Juba as crowds marked South Sudan's long-awaited day of freedom on Saturday.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*A meeting of the minds? Not really* Assigning motivation on non-party line votes can be pretty tricky. Thursday's failed House vote on Justin Amash's amendment (cosponsored by Dennis Kucinich) to H.R. 22...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoI noticed that the BBC ran an item on the Toxteth riots. Odd that an organisation with all the vast resource of the BBC can't even get the decade in which this happened right. More to the point, note the w...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours ago[image: A demonstrator dressed in a Rupert Murdoch mask controls puppets of British Prime Minister David Cameron] The BBC is hysterical in the sustained attack on Murdoch. Give THIS a listen to if you want...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews* Debt Ceiling Charade a Move to the Right Michael Hudson: Panic about debt ceiling used to attack social programs; no real need for more borrowing PERMALI...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 19 hours agoTurkish Navy warships - three frigates and one tanker - are scheduled to arrive in India on July 7 for joint sea exercises planned during last month's visit of India's Navy chief, Chief Adm. Nirmal Verma, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA tornado has torn through the Kapiti Coast putting a person into hospital, damaging houses and causing chaos on roads. Several other people were wounded with lacerations and blood visible. The twister a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSinger Rihanna was forced off stage early after a fire broke out at one of her concerts. The show at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas was brought to a halt after a blaze broke out at the above the s...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoA wood frog. Photo courtesy: LearnNC Some amphibians freeze up for the winter and thaw out in the spring. The wood frog, for instance, boosts its blood sugar by nearly 400% before the frost hits the groun...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours agoPERMALINK Choreographed Budget Cave In - The Money Party Stabs Citizens in the Back Submitted by Michael Collins on Fri, 07/08/2011 - 02:09 So this is how it is going to be: "After putting controv...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Shaw Creek Bird Supply It is never to early to plan ahead; and, once again, I am blogging about our feathered friends. Most people know that putting out a nest box will attract nesting bi...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours ago- If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year. - On the average, the 140 million cars in America are estimated to travel almost 4 billion ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoA yesterday's seminar about the latest CMS Higgs results probably should have stayed obscure. However, it has penetrated through Phil Gibbs' blog all the way to The Reference Frame, so here is the key grap...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agohe much-maligned Arjun Main Battle Tank is poised to get a fresh lease of life, with the Indian Army set to order 248 more of India's first indigenously-built tanks, a decision that will also give a much-n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck in the Tonga Region at a depth of 28.7 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:53:48 UTC Saturday 9th July 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) East of Nuku'Alofa, Ton...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe first fatality in the United States associated with the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe was an Arizona man who had traveled to Germany, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAnother Oklahoma lake is stricken with a poisonous algae. The Army of Corps of Engineers has closed Taylor's Ferry Swim Beach at Ft. Gibson Lake because of a blue green algae bloom discovered there. Th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours agoRupert Murdoch has powerful enemies. *George Soros* wrote:* *"Those in charge of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, have done well in identifying me as their adversary." *A* Soros-funded operatio...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoGia Dvali, Cesar Gomez, and Slava Mukhanov are clever chaps but their newest paper, Black hole masses is quantized is just silly. A similar team was promoting classicalons that cannot exist. When I was r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA United Nations official said that the U.S. was in breach of international law when they put Humberto Leal Garcia to death in a prison in Texas last night. The 38-year-old Mexican citizen was executed by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the shocking footage of 19-year-old Isayah Muller and his father Andre attacking two car parking attendants moments before the teenager died. The tape shows the two attendants defending themselves ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyria has accused the United States of interfering in its affairs after its ambassador travelled to the flashpoint city of Hama without official permission. The Syrian regime, which has previously blamed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour bats have died and 47 are being cared for after they were cruelly dumped by the side of a country lane and left to die. Inside a box on the road near Ludgershall, Wiltshire, a passerby found the box ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLethal new ‘legal highs’ are being sold using the names of popular cereals and chocolates. Websites are packaging dangerous toxic substances using names such as Cadbury’s Flake and Kellogg’s Special K. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn £850,000 book deal signed by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to write his memoirs has collapsed over fears the U.S. Government could use them for extradition hearings. He has said he is unhappy with h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSensational allegations of a criminal cover-up were made against Rupert Murdoch’s faltering media empire last night as the phone hacking scandal reached the door of Downing Street. Police are investigatin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least half the county councils across the UK are plunging tens of thousands of streets into darkness to save money. Despite fears of increased accidents and crime, blackouts are being imposed after mid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 20-year-old man who admitted abusing girls he met through Facebook has been jailed for 10 years. Jake Ormerod from Torbay, Devon pleaded guilty to 13 counts of sexual activity with girls aged 13 and ov...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Warner Brothers film 'V for Vendetta' was postponed due to its similarity to the London Tube Bombings 7/7 event.* In the months prior to 7/7, Warner Brothers were filming in the London Underground for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Add Image]It’s no secret that Bill Maher isn’t a fan of Republican policies on…pretty much anything. Tonight, he took aim at the party’s economic thinking, and to illustrate what he saw as the absu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Sudan took a seat at the world's table early Saturday as citizens of the new country took to the streets to celebrate. Cars rolled through the capital of Juba. Occupants waved flags and honked horns...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mother arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of her three-year-old son is considering legal action against the police. Alfie Podmore, of Quinton, Birmingham, was later found to have died o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNearly five months after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, thousands of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to urge the nation’s new military rulers to speed up democratic reforms....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNearly five months after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, thousands of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to urge the nation’s new military rulers to speed up democratic reforms....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Japanese government has found that electrical equipment at a nuclear power plant in eastern Japan does not meet earthquake-resistance standards. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency inspected nuc...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoIf the last Friday-night music post was something that aged well over four or five years, well ... give *this* a spin.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter the North Dakota floods wash away hundreds of homes in one neighborhood, one home is lucky enough to withstand the historic floods. AP's Bonny Ghosh reports. (click here to watch the video) Reader c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe bodies of 10 men and a woman were found Friday afternoon on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City, a Valle de Chalco municipal government official said in a statement. The public security official, Jav...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPrototype of New Chinese Z-19 Attack Helicopter Revealed
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEast Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in more than 60 years, with as many as 10 million people at risk. The drought has led to crop failures and food shortages in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Djib...
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- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 day agoPledge | October2011.org This could be it; if we make it so. October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* The great Budapest stereo Beethoven cycle -- for $21.14 (including shipping)? * *by Ken* Sony BMG Classics, the heir to the whole of the RCA and Columbia-CBS-Sony classical catalogs, recently dumped onto...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoCustoms authorities in Russia's Far East have launched a criminal case against a Chinese citizen who attempted to smuggle spare parts for Russian MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters last year, a customs' spokesperso...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoTaiwan has developed a radar-absorbent material in a breakthrough in the island’s development of stealth technology, local media reported. Tests showed that a navy 50-tonne Seagull-class missile boat paint...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe US, Japanese and Australian navies will Saturday hold a joint drill in the South China Sea -- most of which China claims as its maritime territory -- Japan's defence ministry said. Japan's Maritime Sel...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe top US military officer departs for China Friday in a trip designed to bolster a fledgling security dialogue with Beijing, even as a US naval exercise in the South China Sea threatens to upstage his vi...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoI haven't said much on this blog about the Denton drilling panel/task force.Saturday we learned the City had chosen their panel, and the "likely" winners are...Darren Groth, the city’s gas well administrator...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"Archbishop [of New York] Timothy Dolan, he of the wide smile, ready handshake and outsized laugh, was to be the church’s antidote to the cool and distant manner of his predecessor, Cardinal Edward Egan, ...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe consequences of a spinning universe would be profound because a cornerstone of modern cosmology is that the universe has no preferred orientation.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists craft an artificial windpipe from the patient's own stem cells.
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