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It is a long walk from Fini village to Dadaab, the Kenyan refugee camp now the focus of attempts to save millions of people from starving to death in the Horn of Africa. There, daily aid flights bring Hol... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
In the movies it has been hit by meteors and attacked by alien spaceships but now Los Angeles is preparing for what officials are describing as a real-life "Carmageddon." A temporary closure of America's ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Keeley Connolly, 44, a former stockbroker, drove her 15-month-old pet Sara to the vet but the dog died 72 hours later. The mother-of-one said the hives in her neighbour's garden were a danger to local chi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands of people flee the region's worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Beer giant MillerCoors may be forced to stop selling 39 popular beers in stores and bars in Minnesota because of the state's ongoing government shutdown. The company failed to renew their brand label reg... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Posing with his Rottweilers, this is the taxi driver who allegedly stabbed a British teenager to death on a Greek holiday island. Robert Sebbage, 18, was stabbed in the heart in the early hours of Wednesda... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
The Pentagon has disclosed that it suffered one of its largest ever losses of sensitive data in March when 24,000 files were stolen in a cyber-attack by a foreign government. William Lynn, the US deputy s... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
Libya's embattled government accused rebels and the NATO military alliance of carrying out a coordinated air, sea, and land attack on the strategic oil town of Brega on Thursday, the same day a government ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoKurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers in an ambush Thursday and seven militants died in the firefight that marked the worst clash since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ended a cease-fire in Februar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoPosing with his Rottweilers, this is the taxi driver who allegedly stabbed a British teenager to death on a Greek holiday island. Robert Sebbage, 18, was stabbed in the heart in the early hours of Wednesda...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoThe Pentagon has disclosed that it suffered one of its largest ever losses of sensitive data in March when 24,000 files were stolen in a cyber-attack by a foreign government. William Lynn, the US deputy s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoLibya's embattled government accused rebels and the NATO military alliance of carrying out a coordinated air, sea, and land attack on the strategic oil town of Brega on Thursday, the same day a government ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoIt is a long walk from Fini village to Dadaab, the Kenyan refugee camp now the focus of attempts to save millions of people from starving to death in the Horn of Africa. There, daily aid flights bring Hol...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoIn the movies it has been hit by meteors and attacked by alien spaceships but now Los Angeles is preparing for what officials are describing as a real-life "Carmageddon." A temporary closure of America's ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoKeeley Connolly, 44, a former stockbroker, drove her 15-month-old pet Sara to the vet but the dog died 72 hours later. The mother-of-one said the hives in her neighbour's garden were a danger to local chi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoKenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands of people flee the region's worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoBeer giant MillerCoors may be forced to stop selling 39 popular beers in stores and bars in Minnesota because of the state's ongoing government shutdown. The company failed to renew their brand label reg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoKurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers in an ambush Thursday and seven militants died in the firefight that marked the worst clash since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ended a cease-fire in Februar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoPosing with his Rottweilers, this is the taxi driver who allegedly stabbed a British teenager to death on a Greek holiday island. Robert Sebbage, 18, was stabbed in the heart in the early hours of Wednesda...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 22 minutes agoOh, Dear Readers! You are going to love this.At the TCEQ public hearing on the new smog plan this morning, Ed Ireland, the main spokesperson for industry in the Barnett Shale, was irate with the TCEQ because...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoA FINE IDEA, BUNGLED - THANKS JACK A solid majority of British Columbians surveyed by the Pembina Institute support their provincial government's carbon taxation. Here are some of the findings: "[BC'e...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*The promo for last week's episode of Louie, "Moving." (Pamela Adlon, who played Louie's wife on the HBO series Lucky Louie, is a consulting producer of Louie and appears occasionally as Louie's** friend ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoA big h/t to Matthew Steeples of London, apparently Knightsbridge, who brings us a glance behind the paywall of the *Financial Times* for a look at how the lordly Conrad Black views rabble like Rupe Murd...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 3 hours agoSome insight is provided by Mike Whitney into this "debt ceiling kabuki" theatre (melodrama) we're being forced to watch daily now. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain. Obama's goal is the same ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe statue, found in an illegal dig, depicts the ancient Roman emperor sitting on a throne.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe statue, found in an illegal dig, depicts the ancient Roman emperor sitting on a throne.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 hours agoThere are two types of people in the world: Those who turn up volume knobs and those who turn them down. This song by Steel Panther, "Asian Hooker", is definitely not for those who turn them down. So, in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLike a deadly unwanted relative refusing to sever connections, terrorism revisited Mumbai after nearly three years, with three bomb blasts on the evening of July 13. Twenty-one people have died in the expl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLibyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has a "suicidal plan" to blow up the capital Tripoli if it is taken by rebels, the Kremlin's special envoy to Libya told a Russian newspaper Thursday. "The Libyan premier told...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMoody’s Investors Service put the U.S. under review for a credit rating downgrade as talks to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion debt limit stall, adding to concern that political gridlock will lead to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhile humankind has made enormous progress in improving material welfare over the past two centuries, *this progress has come at the lasting cost of degradation of our natural environment*. About half of t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBoth D.C. firefighters and police officers are upset over a new program that forces the fire department to help fight crime. For the past three weeks, D.C. Fire and EMS personnel have been parking their t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWitnesses who watched a Northern California man get sucked into a Maui blow hole to his apparent death say that the tourist was dancing around and frolicking in the sprays of water moments before a wave kn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHarvard University child obesity expert Dr. David Ludwig's recent claim that some parents should lose custody of their severely obese children has sparked outrage among families and professionals across ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhen her alarm went off at 6am every morning, Sunny Moran’s first thought was how she was going to juggle the many deadlines that loomed ahead of her. She would check the text messages on her phone, drag h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorth Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il showed to a visiting Chinese delegation that his youngest son is firmly on the succession path, analysts said Wednesday. The senior Kim Tuesday received a Chinese communis...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSo far, about 9,000 workers have been involved in the four-month operation to stabilise the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where three of six reactors experienced meltdown in the aftermath of the 1...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHere’s how President Barack Obama answered CBS’s Scott Pelley’s question about whether he could guarantee that Social Security checks would go out on August 3, the day after the government is supposed to r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLender delays in processing home- loan defaults will push as many as 1 million U.S. foreclosure filings from this year to 2012 or beyond, casting an “ominous shadow” on the housing market, according to Rea...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoThe choice of words used by the BBC in the heading is instructive; "Murdoch defends hacking handling". Click through to the story and read about the audacity of Murdoch as he defends how his company has ha...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSay goodbye to smelly candles and sprays -- this app takes a high-frequency approach to repelling pests.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoLately we've been doing a lot of reporting on the history of American fascism in the '30s and '40s and how the far right's activism back then planted the seeds for current developments in the Republican ...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoFoil over-the-shoulder snoopers when you use your tablet in public.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Levi Aron and Leibby Kletzy* *Levi Aron reportedly knew the family of the boy he murdered, 8 year-old Leibby Kletzky. * Leiby Kletzky was kidnapped on 11 July 2011, as he walked home from his school day...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Negros, Philippines at a depth of 43.2 km ( 26.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:49:28 UTC Thursday 14th July 2011. The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) WNW of Dumaguete, Ne...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoFrom *The Guardian's* Steve Bell: Apparently Rupe has decided to duck this invitation. Not to be outdone, Hugh Grant staged this puppet show featuring Ol' Rupe, David Cameron and Nick Clegg:
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 8 hours agoBy Denis G. RancourtEdward Said's phrase "speaking truth to power" [1] means naming names of actual present power, at the risk of loss of employment and attacks including punitive defamation lawsuits, false ...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe dwindling of the world's lions, wolves, sharks and other large animals isn't just sad, it's having far-reaching effects on ecosystems.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoShark protection makes financial sense as well as environmental.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 9 hours agoJust remember, the report will come with a big dose of spin, like always. We won't know the real answers until the raw data is digested which will take several weeks.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoWe've just returned from our consult with an orthopedic specialist at the OVC in Guelph. Tal has been doing so well, she seems so improved, that I think many people would have cancelled the appointment. ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 10 hours agoALEC ExposedThrough the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoIn February 2010, the U.S. debt ceiling - the maximum number of dollars that the U.S. government is allowed to borrow (in the form of the treasuries, i.e. the U.S. bonds, held by China, Japan, and many o...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoUPDATE: A stealth edit? The BBC article now includes MillerCoors' statement that they filed the paperwork beforehand. They don't tell quite the full story, but this more or less negates my claim. News Snif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSichuan's Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze has been lashed by heavy rains since Tuesday, the Sichuan Flood Control Office said in a statement. Rainfall in 10 counties has exceeded 25 mm while four...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWho built Stonehenge has long been the subject of debate among scholars. But now the ancient site has offered up another conundrum - in the form of a giant crop circle. This impressive 200ft design appear...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoThe Republican Establishment is determined to roll the dice on Mitt Romney. He's rich; he has rich friends; he's vanilla and predictable, doesn't look like a freak and, most important, it's "his turn," al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTea cups rattled at breakfast-time this morning as an earthquake struck the English Channel - and almost went unnoticed. Some witnesses appeared to doubt whether the small tremor was anything more than a ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: California mussels. montereybayaquarium.org] ScienceDaily (July 14, 2011) — Ocean acidification, a consequence of climate change, could weaken the shells of California mussels and diminish their ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThe BBC keeps reporting on the debt and budget talks between the President and the Republicans in the House of Representatives. The latest report covers the announcement by Moody's that they're going to re...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Maria Farah outside her ari, which her family of six shares with their calf and goat in Ethiopia, July 2011. 'It is boiled wheat for breakfast and for the main meal – we don't have anything else ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA fifth session of talks in five days is set for Thursday to head off a possible government default. Wednesday's session ended on a tense note with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and President Barack...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNatural gas is not a "transition" fuel to a low-carbon energy future, says a report from two of Canada's most respected environmental think-tanks. Switching from coal to natural gas could help meet Canada'...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoArchaeologists in Israel have found remains which may be the biblical City of King David, the first evidence that the ancient Jewish empire actually existed. The bible refers to a powerful 10th century ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDoctors in Halifax are treating a rising number of syphilis cases, mostly among men. Cases of the sexually transmitted infection have spiked since 2008, when it was virtually unknown in the city. Since ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMost Asian stock markets slipped after Moody's Investors Service threatened to lower the United States' credit rating, spreading ripples of caution across the region. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fini...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear". Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSatellite images show mass graves following recent fighting in Sudan, a campaign group set up by Hollywood star George Clooney says. The Satellite Sentinel project says the apparent massacre took place in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHe once had a psychiatric crisis where he engaged in "bizarre, irrational and delusional communications." He led police on a high-speed chase from a hospital to his home. And he was fired from his job for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe huge increase in coal-fired power stations in China has masked the impact of global warming in the last decade because of the cooling effect of their sulphur emissions, new research has revealed. But s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Pew Center on Global Climate Change has put together some resources for examining the link between anthropogenic climate change extreme weather events—floods, droughts, and heat waves. No single extrem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThere is a threat of a 70 meters chimney being blown over from a factory in Rotterdam. The police have cordoned off the area and evacuated people from the immediate area. Earlier today at a tram stop i...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoWhile myopic NewsyDupes like TorStar's Rosie DiManno and that guy whatshisname at NatPo fell over each other gushing that Canada's "mission" to Afghanistan settled the Taliban's hash in Kandahar, events o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: A street in the city center is shown covered in flood water on January 5, 2011 in Rockhampton, Australia. Getty Images / Jonathan Wood] ScienceDaily (July 14, 2011) — Dramatic climate swings behi...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours agoNew Orleans to share Bloomberg grant of $24 million to mayors for innovation Rent is falling in the metro area Canal Street high-rise developer strikes out again with preservation panel LSU Shame on You! ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 12 hours agoThe official Status of Forces Agreement, agreed to by the United States and Iraq in 2008, states, "All U.S. forces are to withdraw from all Iraqi territory, water and airspace no later than the 31st of De...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoI would like to take this opportunity to invite any BBC staff who think we are unfair or plain wrong in our view of your employer to come along and express your opinions. You will receive a courteous and...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoRupert Murdoch is plainly feeling the heat. He closed *News of the World*and dropped (for now) his bid to buy BSkyB cable but, despite previous assurances by News Corp subsidiary, News International that ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 13 hours agoRobert Reich is not confused. And neither should you be.(P.S. Back in the days of yore when Obama sounded like a progressive he had great respect for Robert Reich.)The President’s Jobs Plan (Not)Tuesday, Jul...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours agoU.S. House votes to end EPA water pollution oversightBy Ken Ward Jr.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fueled by coal industry complaints about the Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal, legislation pass...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA California woman's attack on her husband was notable for its severity -- but not its rarity.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA piece of construction equipment containing radioactive material was stolen from a work site in Regina, Sask., Tuesday. Police said a RoadReader Nuclear Density Gauge was taken in the break-in. It conta...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoIf the idea of space food conjures up images of tubes and cubes, you're a couple of decades out of date.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe City of Oak Park, Michigan, is prosecuting a front-yard vegetable garden owner for not following the neighborhood lawns.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 14 hours agoHelp Texas get relief from our case of bad gas!On July 14, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) will have a public hearing on its new smog plan. The main focus of TCEQ's new plan is, once aga...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoAs David pointed out earlier the BBC’s Jonny Dymond has been sounding outsome of the usual suspects from the US liberal left over their reaction to the News of the World phone hacking affair. The top bras...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 15 hours agoBy Duane Craig Mining impact near the Grand Canyon? Determining the long term impact of any industry on the environment has to fall somewhere between a crap shoot and a reading from a clairvoyantly challe...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoHere is one you might have missed. If this type of collusion went on in Britain, then it went on in the US and Canada. To be honest, it was pretty obvious right after Fukushima that Western governments a...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoStudy of jellyfish movement could help develop efficient propulsion systems of the future.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck West Chile Rise at a depth of 9.8 km ( 6.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:32 UTC Thursday 14th July 2011. The epicenter was 1385 km (860 miles) WSW of San Juan Bautista...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoMultiple explosions. Mass murder of innocents. Mumbai. Interesting to see the BBC provide space to Jason Burke, south Asia correspondent of the Guardian (who else?) and expert on Islamic militancy, reflect...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago*Shale.* Rupert Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks, UK prime minister David Cameron and Cameron pal *Christopher Shale* have all been described as members of the 'Chipping Norton set'. Just before the Mur...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoNot many people are paying attention to Santorum (except on Google's search engine), even though the former Pennsylvania senator and far right fanatic claims to be running for president... of the United ...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoThe compact, environmentally friendly iDapt i1 Eco is made from recycled components, charges two devices at once and features an innovative auto-off system.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoAmong the established perks of pet ownership are higher self-esteem, better fitness and lower reports of loneliness.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA New Jersey family have given new meaning to the cliché 'Lighting never strikes twice' after Stephen Rooney died from a lightning bolt surge, 48 years after his father had suffered the same fate. Rodney,...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoAn unusual initiative is taking place in the Sierra de Madrid: a replica Nevada’s “Extraterrestrial Highway” is being created as a homage to the opening of the motion picture “Paul” – the adventures of a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPublic health officials are on the case after about 30 people became sick after swimming at Birch Cove Beach at Dartmouth’s Lake Banook. "We’re at 30 right now," said Michaelyn Thompson, a spokeswoman for...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoHacking into voicemails is not so different from scrabbling around in dustbins searching for something to whip up into a scandal; well, perhaps one step further. The press may well be reflecting our appeti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe British Virgin Islands have been plagued by a swarm of Earthquakes this morning with the latest one registering in at 4.3 Magnitude at 09:15:47 UTC with a depth of 20.7 km (12.9 Miles) Epicenter is 87...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.5 km ( 6.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:32 UTC Thursday 14th July 2011. The epicenter was 1427 km (886 miles) WSW of San Juan Bautist...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoThis image of the ancient buried landscape discovered deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean was made using sound waves bounced off different rock layers. An ancient meandering riverbed is v...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoAn adult female of the Borneo rainbow toad, spanning just 2 inches (51 mm) in length, hadn't been spotted for 87 years. CREDIT: © Indraneil Das via LiveScience Wow!! What an amazing little toad. So breatht...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoSea-floor mapping technology reveals volcanoes beneath the sea surface. Credit: British Antarctic Survey. A string of a dozen volcanoes, at least several of them active, has been found beneath the frigid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.5 km ( 6.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:24 UTC Thursday 14th July 2011. The epicenter was 1767 km (1098 miles) West of Valdivia, Chil...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours ago"While the BBC are celebrating the Nakba and the genocidal anti-Semitic desires of a whopping chunk of the Muslim/Arab world, we may at least take small consolation in celebrating the ‘nabbed ya’." Pl...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI've been away for the past few days but decided to tune into the Today programme as is my wont. For a moment, I thought I had accidentally tuned into Glee. The BBC is exultant at the inevitable decision b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTHE Department of Primary Industry and Resources South Australia (PIRSA) is still awaiting the test results of four horses that died at a Minnipa property in May, a PIRSA spokesperson said. Horse owner Je...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoAmerica's dominant corporatist party, the Republicans, are moving to scrap, block or rollback federal environmental regulations of just about any sort. From *McClatchey Newspapers:* *Republicans in the H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCLEVELAND residents have been asked to help find a possible crow killer after 12 of the birds have been found either sick or dead, suspected to have been poisoned, in the city area in the past month. Last...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe fire department received numerous reports Wednesday evening of a tornado hitting the community of Montreux in southwest Calgary. Fire spokesman Brian McAsey said shortly before 8 p.m., calls started f...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoStephen Harper may act as though climate change impacts can be ignored but the global insurance industry would tell him he's full of crap. An industry review of catastrophic loss claims reveals that 2011 s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA rare Virus Strain was behind a mysterious outbreak of poisoning that saw dozens of children rushed to hospital from a Hungarian holiday camp, medical officials said Wednesday. A week after the outbreak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoHealth officials investigating a cluster of *Escherichia coli* O104:H4 infections at a German school found a large number of asymptomatic infections in students and staff, a development that could pose new...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA massive explosion killed four people, injured seven and destroyed a house on Route 29 shortly after noon Wednesday, police said. Eleven people were in or outside the home when the explosion occurred. S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSixteen New Mexico counties have been designated as natural disaster areas due to drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the designation Wednesday. It covers counties that stretch from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoVanuatu's Ambae volcano has begun spewing volcanic gases, and residents could be forced to evacuate part of the island. An expert from the Vanuatu Geohazards Observatory has been sent to monitor the volc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOver 140 primary students were quarantined at school following a measles scare - and frustrated parents abused staff when they were called to collect their kids from the Pakuranga school. As Auckland's m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Australia at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:51:32 UTC Thursday 14th July 2011. The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) ESE of Port Hedland, We...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Sacred tank in Tiruvanamalai, India. ** http://www.flickr.com/photos/clodreno/105191127/** **Claude Renault* In February 2011, India and Pakistan announced that they would resume formal peace talks, in Ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOsama bin Laden had no plans for terrorist attacks at the time of his death, according to new evidence. The last Al Qaeda attack he was involved in planning was the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005 where he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA millionaire footballer caught speeding at 107mph has escaped a driving ban and was handed a paltry fine after he begged magistrates for leniency as he is currently unemployed. Former West Ham United and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThis is the brutal lynching and public display of the close confidante who shot dead Ahmed Wali Karzai - the half-brother of president Hamid Karzai. A group of men in plain clothes hung the corpse against ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe euro plunged deeper into crisis last night as Greece’s credit rating was slashed to ‘junk’ status – just one notch above default – by another major agency. David Cameron told European leaders to act i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFive men have been killed after a huge fireball ripped through an industrial building in Lincolnshire - with reports it was being used for illegally brewing vodka. Emergency services were called to the Br...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 23 hours ago*INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BAHRAIN:* *TELL US WOMEN'S WORLD CUP PLAYERS TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS IN BAHRAIN:* As this is being written the US Team at The Women's World Football Cup has advanced to...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours agoCFR degenerates back globalist-stooge & his illegal proxy party, warn against moves to remove him. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand July 14, 2011 - The corporate-funded, corporate-servingunelected arbi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 48 suspected militants were killed by missiles launched by US drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest, local intelligence officials said today, one of the largest death tolls to date in the controv...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShould cats be treated like dogs, when it comes to licensing and immunization requirements? The San Diego city auditor's office recommends doing just that -- for the sake of health, safety and "cost recov...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYesterday, the European contagion spread to Italy and Spain. The sovereign debt of those two countries swooned—for no discernible reason. No discernible reason whatsoever: The Italian and Spanish bond mark...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"The love life of Chimpanzees is about what you might expect. When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see."* Last night we completed the opening section of Will Cuppy's *How to Te...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe public pressure on lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling was ratcheted up Wednesday when a major rating agency said it would put the sterling bond rating of the United States on review for possible downg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOf all the parts of Nigeria hit by flood in the country this year, the one which happened in Lagos on Sunday is most devastating. This is as the death toll resulting from the incident hit 15. The Director-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Fukushima & Ft Calhoun Nuclear Update - July 12, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010sélectionnée dans Actualité
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn the New York foreign exchange, the dollar briefly fell to the mid-78 yen range on Tuesday on fears that the Greek debt crisis may spread to other European countries such as Italy and Spain. Moves to se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFitch ratings agency announced on Wednesday it was downgrading Greece's status by three points to CCC status from its previous rating of B+. The move came because of the absence of a new European Union-Int...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of pro-democracy protesters are making Cairo's Tahrir Square their home until all of their demands are met. The famous and iconic roundabout, the focal point of the uprising early this year that...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: This is a home video of measurements taken at multiple locations in Fukushima city for radiation contamination, 24 April 2011. Fukushima city is roughly 63 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi N...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Jellyfish cover the floor in a lot at Israel Electric Corp.'s Orot Rabin power station on the Mediterranean coast near the central town of Hadera on Tuesday, 5 Juy 2011. Ronen Zvulun / Reuters] ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoFollow up reports of rebel war crimes & a hypocritical "international community." by Tony Cartalucci Photo: Libya's rebels are far from motivated by democratic aspirations. Their grievances lie along ethn...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoBy now so much has been written and blogged and tweeted about today's clusterfuck at Toronto Council that there's no point in rehashing it. Go read Matt Elliott's summary at Ford For Toronto if you want a ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBritain might get to the bottom of the rot that has set in throughout the mass media in Britain and elsewhere. The tsunami of public outrage over the latest disclosure of phone hacking and police corrupt...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis could be considered "strike two" for the deeply troubled James Webb Space Telescope.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep" - W. B. Yeats, "Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen." I write so many posts about 9/11 truth because 9/11 is the biggest window into the evil heart ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*To the surprise of most, Juan Manuel Santos (left), seen here with outgoing President Álvaro Uribe the day before Santos's inauguration as president of Colombia in February 2010, has moved away from the p...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAn excellent opinion piece in today's *New York Times. *In it, Notre Dame philosophy professor Gary Gutting explains why you and me and all the other little people have no place challenging the overwhelmi...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoGlobal Research July 12, 2011 by Mike Ludwig Skimming the Agricultural Development section of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation web site [5] is a feel-good experience: African farmers smile in a br...
- posted by Rose Palazzolo at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNASA spacewalker Ron Garan is taking dramatic bird's eye view images.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago1. Stephen Gordon reminds us about the Census, and gloomily points out that the Tory majority means we'll likely find ourselves without credible data from 2006 to 2021. 2. Stephen Harper will be guest sta...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThis is beautifully written by my dear friend, Laura. But, it is terrible to read.The New NormalThe world’s climate has already changed. Now what?Laura PaskusThis is the new normal, and I must re-evaluate wh...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy Brenda NorrellCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Collage by Censored News: COINTELPRO targeted black leaders and the American Indian Movement. There appears to be a systematic operation un...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMining the moon would make access to space economical by bolstering new ventures, including space tourism, satellite refueling, and interplanetary voyages.
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