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- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 minutes ago*Al Jazeera* is speculating that hothead Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be about to resign. He has clashed with his country's real power, its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the stra...( An interesting Search term is ' ..... suspects' because it targets the nuttiest ideas which have an aura of privileged information. The U.S. uses the technique of reporting 'suspicion' constantly to promote disinformation and spin. )
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 minutes agoYesterday a friend sent me an interesting study by 3 professors from the University of Chicago, Cornell and Hebrew University, respectively Travis Carter, Melissa Ferguson and Ran Hassin. The title says i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 29 minutes ago[image: Link]A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 37.7 km ( 23.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:14:16 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) from...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 32 minutes agoThe struggles underway between Congressional GOP leaders and the White House over America's debt ceiling have an eerie, nihilistic air to them. Some attribute it to the struggles Republican House leader Jo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoA U.S. drone strike targeting militants in southern Yemen Thursday killed at least 50 people, two Yemeni security sources said. This comes as the United States and the Yemeni government step up their effo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoIreland's debt was downgraded to junk status yesterday, as the sovereign debt crisis in Europe deepens, but the big worries are Spain and Italy. Satyajit Das is a globally renowned risk analyst, who accura...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoIf you're the kind of parent who allows your 5-year-old to run rampant in public places like restaurants, I have what could be some rather disturbing news for you. I do not love your child. The rest of...
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- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoA major typhoon is barreling toward Japan. Typhoon Ma-on is expected to make landfall around noon Sunday. It's path, shown above, indicates it will hit Tokyo and, just past that along that path, lies ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoA major typhoon is barreling toward Tokyo. Typhoon Ma-on is expected to make landfall on Sunday heading for Tokyo. The path indicated above points to Fukushima
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 hour agoReaders, The following questions on global climate change are designed to determine the scope of public opinion on the subject. Please see the previous post explaining why I am doing this. I would be very...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSo far there is only one piece of relative good news to cling to in the giant humanitarian crisis now threatening 10 million people in dust-blown, rain-starved East Africa. It is that we are still dealing...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSea piracy worldwide surged to 266 attacks in the first half this year, up 36 percent from a year ago, as Somali pirates became bolder and raided more vessels, a global maritime watchdog said Thursday. Si...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAstronomy & Astrophysics is publishing numerical simulations of the long-term evolution of the orbits of minor planets Ceres and Vesta, which are the largest bodies in the asteroid belt, between Mars and J...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Depression-era bankruptcy code provision known as Chapter 9, which lets local governments seek protection from creditors while restructuring debt, is a rarely used tool. Since 1937 there have been a t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," July 12, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: GOP presidential hopeful...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAs the debt default clock ticks away in the United States and Europe, markets are understandably nervous. The potential for another financial crunch in the next two years is certainly a non-zeroprobability...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe highly anticipated and already contentious Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission report has been released after a lengthy investigation into the economic collapse in America. The 600 page report concludes ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe threat from North Korea -- which started a war with South Korea in 1950 and launched two attacks against the South last year -- is very real and they could well attack again. That's the candid view of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA volcano in central Indonesia spit lava and smoke high into the air early Friday, sending thousands of panicked residents racing down its fiery slopes. One person died of a heart attack, but no other cas...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAt the most recent Zhuhai air show, the premier event for China’s aviation industry, crowds swarmed around a model of an armed, jet-propelled drone and marveled at the accompanying display of its purported...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNew research from Cambridge University indicates that a third of people have felt overwhelmed by technology – but children still prefer face-to-face communication. New communications technology makes one ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 57.1 km ( 35.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:00:51 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) WNW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 hour ago*Susan Lindauer, who has written about the torture and murder of children in Libya. * *In Libya, the NATO Rebels castrate and sodomise boys who refuse to adopt the rebel cause.* On 12 July 2011, *Susan ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 87.3 km ( 54.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:55:30 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 183 km (114 miles) NNE from Calama, Chile N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA mysterious infection in Zamboanga del Norte has left 4 people dead and 16 others hospitalized. The hospitalized victims, all natives of Barangay Mantebo, Sibuco town in Zamboanga del Norte, complained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThree children of Somalis who fled the drought-stricken Bay and Bakol regions were among five people who died in a torrential rain in Mogadishu on Thursday. An elderly woman and man also died in the rain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGeophysicist Helgi Björnsson said a magma intrusion caused the glacial flood from Köldukvíslarjökull, a part of Vatnajökull in southeast Iceland, on Tuesday night. It is possible that a minor eruption occu...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoWhoever finds it enters a serial number on a website, which immediately notifies you of the item's location.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoCan't find time for the gym? With this chair, you can strengthen and stretch while seated.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago*Okay, Now I Need To Know How to Flush This Thing*Already America's most-expensive ever military purchase, the F-35 project price tag just went up by three quarters of a billion dollars - but wait for it -...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 2 hours agoI love Stephen Colbert and Crooks and Liars for a very good reason. Nothing more actually needs to be said about the ludicrosity of our current political situation. (Not that that will stop them.)And, no, it...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoA year after flow of oil from BP spill ended, 'normal' drilling operations are hard to define New Madrid Earthquake Exercise Series ~Amy Wold Here comes the hand squeeze, Senator: Corps short of flood fun...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 2 hours ago*The Daily Bell* Thursday, July 14, 2011 – by Staff Report *9/11 And The Rise of The World Wolf State ... It is an amazing fact of history that what passes for history in the West is factually untrue. Th...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoUnbelievable, though not unexpected, departure from reality. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand July 15, 2011 - Associated Press reports that, "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Ob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPolice are stepping up security measures at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester where three patients have died after medication was tampered with. An 84-year-old man died yesterday. Hi...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours agoI confess that I am pretty sure God gave us children to make sure everyone has awkward moments. My 2-year-old has officially surpassed my husband in the amount of times a day she embarrasses me. I confess...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoTo open this post let's use the staring point of Hillary Clinton's visit to Turkey. She rode, via broomstick, in to that nation today... On the agenda is Libya, Syria, the Cyprus "problem". Which is one of ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Aerial view of the dried-up delta of the Amu Darya river. Carolyn Drake / Panos Pictures and prospekt] Geneva (AFP) July 11, 2011 - The over-exploitation of the Amu-Darya river which snakes acro...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Although the lionfish appears off-putting, some see a growing place for it on American plates. Erik Olsen / The New York Times] By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL 9 July 2011 With its dark red and black st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:26:02 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 248 km (154 miles) from Bristol...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoGlowing, sound-absorbent wall panels could conjure mood-inducing atmospheres like never before.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoEven BPA-free plastic can leach hormone-like chemicals, research shows, and there's no way to tell which products pose the risk.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Southern Ibaraki, Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60.2 km ( 37.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:01:11 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Utsun...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 hours ago*For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 round-ups.* Although Rick Hansen served as Stampede Parade Grand Marshal, all eyes were on Will and Kate this yea...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoProspects may be improving for Lockheed Martin to soon book more orders for Fort Worth-built F-16 fighter jets. Iraq's on-again, off-again plans for buying F-16s may be back on again. In addition, Oman and...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoInter Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha has been sent to the United States to deleaver a clear message to his counterparts in US that Pakistan will keep cooperating with the US in war a...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoInter Services Public Relations' (ISPR) Director General Major General Athar Abbas has said that Afghan province of Kunar and Nooristan are the safe havens for the terrorists. He said that many high level ...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoEven slight signs of depression can chip away at productive hours at work, research shows.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoWith another recently approved multi-billion dollar defence contract, India is giving its armed forces modernisation efforts a significant push. According to AFP, Defence Secretary Shri Pradeep Kumar appro...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoAlthough high-ranking officers of the Indian Army like Chief of Army Staff, Gen V K Singh, Lt Gen Surendra Kumar Sahni, Lt Gen S K Dahiya, Maj Gen Anand Swaroop, Maj-Gen SP Sinha, Maj Gen Anand Kapoor, Maj...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoAlthough high-ranking officers of the Indian Army like Chief of Army Staff, Gen V K Singh, Lt Gen Surendra Kumar Sahni, Lt Gen S K Dahiya, Maj Gen Anand Swaroop, Maj-Gen SP Sinha, Maj Gen Anand Kapoor, Maj...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 4 hours agoWith India expected spend nearly $100 billion over the next decade on modern equipment for its armed forces, Defence Minister A.K. Antony Tuesday cautioned against corruption in defence deals, particularly...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 4 hours ago
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 5 hours agoCryptozoology: The First Documented Case? By Javier Resines Any discipline worth its salt has a more or less well defined point of departure, based upon a specific event or the presence of a giv...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*Hahn (on the right) is the worst kind of Democrat, one who looks at her constituents as career stepping stones* Tuesday night liberals across the country were greatly cheered by the 6 clear cut victories...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoThis is probably the strongest truth-telling about Canada's experience in Afghanistan - and the revolting response to it at home - that I have seen in the mainstream media. Thank you, Thomas Walkom! On T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSouth Australian health authorities have issued a public alert after a man returned to Adelaide from overseas infected with measles. Chief medical officer Paddy Phillips said the man was infectious when h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAn obviously shaken owner of the oil well that caused the first oil spill directly into the Missouri River in North Dakota said he wants to do the right thing and clean up any effects of the spill. The s...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe new generation of astronauts has to learn a host of new skills, including Russian.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 6 hours agoWe won't know what the report really says until we read the damn thing. As one friend put it: The executive summary is awfully "squishy" for there to be nothing. But apparently there were 5 sites with high e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 7.0 km ( 4.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:37:57 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Gu...
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoMeteorologists warn that another week of intense heat awaits the eastern half of the United States, and no relief is in sight.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoWell, it's been a mammoth week here on Biased BBC. We have done our best to flag up the outrageous bias shown by the State Broadcaster against NewsCorps this past week or so. This is not because I have an...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoARGH! Another scalp for the vast left wing media cabal! Rebekah Brooks quits. Christmas comes early for the BBC. First NOTW. Now Brooks. Who next? I see Cameron meekly falls into line on this one presuma...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoHad to laugh. Just went to the BBC Today site to try and link in a few items only to discover that it has not been updated owing to strike action by the comrades in the NUJ. Bliss. Of course that didn't st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News International amid growing political and commercial pressure over the phone hacking scandal. Ms Brooks admitted she had become a "focal point of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 34.4 km ( 24.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:42:09 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) ESE of Raoul Islan...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoI just met my new personal banker in LBBW, a German-owned Czech bank, and he looked like a rather competent investor and adviser relatively to many others. Just to entertain some of the multi-millionair...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRebecca Brooks Resigns 15th July 2011 - more to follow..... Rebecc
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA fire that started on the campus of Tuskegee University caused serious damage to the large West Commons apartments, a dormitory-style building. The Little Texas Fire Department and the Tuskegee Fire Depa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo farmers died after being struck by lightning during heavy rains in Ailau area, police said here today. Lal Mohammad and Sarvesh died yesterday after being hit by lightning in Meura Chak village, they ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 9 hours agoCorporate oilbidness sponsorship of next week's annual conference of federal and provincial energy ministers caused a few ripples in our national mediayesterday. The Government of Alberta Natural Resour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSome 60,000 lightnings were registered during the storm over the Czech Republic during the night, Petr Dvorak, spokesman for the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMU), said yesterday. The figure is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists in Vanuatu have kept the eruption hazard warning at level one for the Ambae volcano but caution last week’s explosions were unusually powerful. A Geohazards Technical Director, Sylvain Todman,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThousands of people on an Indonesian island have been forced to flee a fierce volcanic eruption. Mount Lokon, on Sulawesi, started erupting at around 2230 local time (1530 GMT) on Thursday, according to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLandslides triggered by monsoon rains buried parts of two remote mountainous villages in Nepal on Friday, killing six people, with 10 others believed to be buried in the debris. A landslide buried 10 hou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAbout 1,000 passengers were stranded overnight at Denver International Airport, the fifth-busiest in the country, after a hailstorm forced airlines to cancel flights. United Continental Holdings Inc. (UA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAbout 20 employees were evacuated after a chemical leak at an Albertville plant. Four fire rescue trucks and two ambulances responded to the Americold Logistics plant on Railroad Avenue and George Wallac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA three-year-old girl died after accidentally shooting herself in the head with a gun she had found hidden under a mattress, police said. Lilianna Moore, three, had been left home alone by her father, who ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Reportedly, child sacrifice takes place at Bohemian Grove. (Bohemian Grove Sacrifice Obsession) * On 15 July 2011, the Daily Mail reports on Bohemian Grove in California where the 'rulers of the world'...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoPart of the honeybee rescue effort. Photo courtesy: katu.com As anyone who reads my blog with any regularity knows, I have a special passion for honeybees; raw, unpasterized honey; and, flying pollinators ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mother, whose two-year-old daughter died after her pet Burmese python strangled and tried to eat her, was found guilty of third-degree murder on Thursday. Jaren Hare, 21, now faces up to 35 years in pri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Pentagon plans to turn cyberspace into an 'operational domain' in which trained forces defend against attacks. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said the Pentagon wanted to avoid militarising cybe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCasey Anthony could face more questions over her daughter's death, after lawyers for the woman suing the 25-year-old for defamation demanded that she testify in the civil case. Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez ...
- Banksy Iconic painting of Gorilla with the Pink Mask whitewashed by bungling worker - 14th July 2011posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBanksy's artworks fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds and his graffiti is strewn across cities around the world. But one man mistook the street art splashed on the side of his Muslim centre as vandalism...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDancing and frolicking in the spray, this is the moment seconds before a California man was sucked into a Maui blow hole to his death. David Potts, 44, was holidaying on the Hawaiian island with his infant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe innocent Hasidic child brutally murdered by a stranger he asked for directions bravely fought as he was tied down and suffocated by his captor, it has emerged. Eight-year-old Leiby Keltzy was abducte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.8 km ( 27.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:50:28 UTC Friday 15th July 2011. The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) ESE of Raoul Islan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA notorious group of hackers has called for the infiltration of a top secret elite society as it stages its annual gathering in California. The Bohemian Grove began its two-week gathering in Monte Rio, Cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA city lawyer stabbed his wife to death after they rowed about his four-year affair with another lawyer, a court heard. Richard Davies Jones, 33, thrust a kitchen knife into wife Laura’s neck only weeks a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA British teenager was stabbed 13 times and saw her boyfriend murdered in a bloodbath on a holiday island. Maddison Wrixon, 18, tried to fight off a crazed knifeman who tied up Cristian Santana Guerra, 21...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA nursery worker plunged a large knife into her 11-year-old daughter and stabbed her repeatedly as the little girl cried 'I love you,' the Old Bailey has heard. Mid-way through the attack she paused to hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice may launch a murder inquiry after two deaths on a hospital ward where a batch of medication had been tampered with. A total of 12 patients are understood to have been wrongly and dangerously given ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Libyan Rebels, guilty of beheadings.* Tony Cartalucci reports on *Libya's Not-so-Noble Rebels* as follows: *1.* Libyan rebels are *targeting rival ethnic tribes* within captured towns with beatings, loot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe regime has insisted the West is turning a blind eye to war crimes committed by rebels - and took Sky News to meet civilians who they say have fled to Tripoli. We were taken to temporary accommodation...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Dirk Becker via TreeHugger Once again, bureaucratic red tape has made a mountain out of molehill. However, in this case, there isn't even a molehill. Misinterpretation and governmental tun...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCol Muammar Gaddafi has devised a suicidal last ditch plan to blow up Tripoli if the capital falls as the dictator demands that his troops destroys territory they cannot hold. Mikhail Margelov, the Kremli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoScientists have rediscovered a spindly-legged toad species almost 90 years after it was last sighted in Malaysia's Borneo jungle, an environmental group said on Thursday. The Sambas Stream Toad, or Borneo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a lawsuit to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry from holding a day of prayer event in Houston. In a video promoting the Aug. 6 event dubbed "The Response," Perry cal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIran may not be importing cyber spy equipment, according to a newly released government report, yet the Iranian regime’s beefed up cyber surveillance abilities have many believing that Tehran has begun pro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFresh political violence gripped Pakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, on Thursday, leaving 14 people dead in fighting sparked by a senior ruling party leader's criticism of the city's dominant political...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*"Young Gorillas are friendly but they soon learn."* Having finished up the antecedents of *Homo sapiens* Tuesday night with "The Modern Man," last night we began the title section of the book, "How to Tel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Las Vegas resort is warning some former guests that they may have come in contact with high levels of the legionella bacteria, which causes Legionnaires' disease, a form of pneumonia, the hotel announced...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
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- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 13 hours 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 - 15 hours agoA FINE IDEA, BUNGLED - THANKS JACK I'm republishing this because it's an important development and I sent it out last night and it appears to have gotten lost in the typical morning shuffle. The story is...
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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 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 - 16 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?") - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 hours agoSay goodbye to smelly candles and sprays -- this app takes a high-frequency approach to repelling pests.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 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 - 20 hours agoFoil over-the-shoulder snoopers when you use your tablet in public.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoShark protection makes financial sense as well as environmental.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 oth...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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...
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