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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes agoThe notion that nature itself will act as a check on the atmospheric excesses of humanity has long held a fair amount of appeal, not least because it draws on a nugget of high-school science that most peop...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoRobert Baer tells LA KPFK radio that strike on Tehran likely to happen before vote on Palestinian state, that PM wants US to be involved. Israel will probably attack Iran in September, a veteran CIA office...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoYou don’t need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinformation. The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff out soci...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoPhosphate has been essential to feeding the world since the Green Revolution, but its excessive use as a fertilizer has led to widespread pollution and eutrophication. Now, many of the world’s remaining re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoSome of the world's most famous clothing brands, including Nike, Adidas Puma, and H&M are using suppliers that pour toxic chemicals into China's rivers, the environmental pressure group Greenpeace has clai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoAt a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in early April, President Obama was asked about a bitter fight between industry and environmentalists over a proposed $7-billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to ship crude fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoA Colorado woman was arrested Thursday after she groped a female TSA agent at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, MyFoxPhoenix.com reports. Yukari Mihamae, 61, reportedly grabbed the left breas...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 37 minutes ago*If you think the climax of the slow movement of the Mahler Sixth needs to be made "exciting," I guess Valery Gergiev's your man -- here are the final four minutes (beginning at bar 138) of a November 200...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThree US navy ships including USS Chung-Hoon and USS Preble and USNS Safeguard were welcomed Friday morning by Vietnamese navy forces at Tien Sa Port in Da Nang central city for joint training, starting th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThe Chinese government on Saturday called on the United States to cancel a planned meeting between President Barack Obama and the Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama, warning that it would “damage” rel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoA Utah woman has committed suicide shortly after telling emergency personnel she wanted her organs harvested. St. George Police Captain Scott Staley says the 57-year-old woman made a call Friday morning t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoPolice in Manchester, N.H., say two men held a 15-year-old boy at knifepoint, glued his lips shut and burned him while filming the incident with an iPod. The men were arraigned Friday and held on $100,000...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoTwo Alaskans have pleaded guilty to illegally trading the tusks of about 100 walruses with Eskimo hunters. The pair were arrested in April with the ivory tusks, along with two polar bear hides. They had...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoMarkets around the world could crash by more than a third if Europe fails to resolve its debt crisis, Deutsche Bank analysts have warned. A disorderly end to the turmoil would "inevitably" lead to a global...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoIn 1979, the then Irish environment minister, Sylvester Barrett, did an extraordinary thing that was to have ramifications for Ireland’s drivers for decades to come. Seeing large numbers of his fellow cit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThe rancorous debate in Washington over whether to raise the federal debt ceiling is alarming many of the nation’s governors from both parties, who fear that whatever the outcome, much-needed money will al...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoClick here for photos, articles and video regarding the ongoing drought crisis in Africa, organized and presented by Al Jazeera News.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThe one caveat to this graph is that the colors on the bar showing control of the House of Representatives look to be reversed. But that doesn’t distract from its main point: “Since 1980, the debt ceiling ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoThe United States is engaged in a deadly but seldom mentioned proxy war with Iran. In a rare act of candor, two senior Obama administration defense officials have addressed the open secret of Iran’s active...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agontel officials tell 'The Times' Syria gave Shi'ite group Scud D missiles putting "Israel, Jordan, large parts of Turkey within Hezbollah's range." Damascus is increasing shipments of advanced missiles and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes agoResearch done on rats at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles suggests that several genes associated with common brain tumors and degenerative brain diseases are more active in rats exposed to freewa...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*French boat Dignité of Flotilla leaves Greece* *Canadian activist, Haaretz and Aljazeera onboard* By Canadian Boat to Gaza |July 16, 2011 Statement from the Canadian Boat to Gaza: French boat Dignité of ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agoFrom Roberto Rodriguez: Getting ready for: Tucson Barrio Spiritual Run Sunday July 17 - 6 pm Mission Manor Park. 12th South of Drexel. For info: 551-5229 teoxicalli@hotmail.com (Good prep for next Saturda...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"[Rupert Murdoch] never touched my copy, and his editors never touched my copy. . . . You could say I and other serious reporters at the paper, political ones, you know, they're figleafs. They could say, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago"For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants." - John Milton. It seems every gener...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* Anyone still muddled over the actual nature of altruism would do well to read the man who coined the term. Here, August Comte makes it completely clear that when he talks abo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDan Insdorf has issued a challenge: Can you complete this math test that was once presented to fourth graders? Is there any correlation between American's declining educational standards and its loss of th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCounties throughout the country are acting like drug addicts who need a fix. They are begging for more money and are trying to scare the public into thinking that less money will equate to lower educationa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoDan Insdorf has issued a challenge: Can you complete this math test that was once presented to fourth graders? Is there any correlation between American's declining educational standards and its loss of th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago*Photos copyright by Nikke Alexis, Navajo, published with permission at Censored News* Article copyright Brenda Norrell Photos by Nikke Alexis Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com CHURCH ROCK...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoFurther to David Preiser's post about the BBC's use of an apocryphal quote in a far from subtle article on media barons, here's one of the co-authors of that piece on Twitter yesterday: Last week the BB...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCounties throughout the country are acting like drug addicts who need a fix. They are begging for more money and are trying to scare the public into thinking that less money will equate to lower educationa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoPoor ol' Rupe Murdoch. The old geezer is trying hard but he keeps falling behind the unfolding of events that could bring down his whole rotten enterprise. The latest is word in *The Telegraph* that *Ne...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSince Deng Xiaoping, China’s leaders have been obsessed with “food security” the same way America’s are haunted by not having enough oil. And as Chinese diets become more meat centric, fears of the dangers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhen Michael Fishbach set out for his day of boating around the beautiful waters of the Sea of Cortez, he probably didn't think that it would be the day he and his friends would become wildlife heroes. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoU.S. officials say that Osama Bin Laden wanted to assemble a team to attack America on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and had a hit list that included President Obama, General David Petraeus and a major U....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Hugo Chavez's fight against cancer has taken another surprising turn, with Venezuela's leftist leader announcing plans to fly back to Cubaon Saturday to begin chemotherapy. Chavez has kept a clos...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo Syracuse teenagers were convicted this week – one by guilty plea and the other by a jury verdict – in the armed robbery of an elderly man that netted them a total of seven cents. Skyler Ninham, 16, of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTeenagers - especially girls - who binge drink could be damaging the part of their brain which controls memory and spatial awareness, say Californian researchers. Young women's brains are particularly vu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSea ice in the Arctic is melting at a record pace this year, suggesting warming at the north pole is speeding up and a largely ice-free Arctic can be expected in summer months within 30 years. The area of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSea otters eat sea urchins and sea urchins eat kelp. When sea otters are present, the coastal kelp forests maintain a healthy balance. But when the fur trade wiped out the otters in the Aleutian Islands in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWetlands, forests and farmlands soak up large amounts of carbon dioxide but rising amounts of the gas in the atmosphere mean these carbon "sinks" could become less effective at fighting climate change. Sc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLast year I began to wonder, this year doubt is seeping away, to be replaced with a rising fear. Could it really have happened? Could the fishing industry have achieved the remarkable feat of destroying th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWildwood bills itself as a family friendly resort on the Jersey Shore, but suddenly, it’s a city dealing with an incident of racism. “I thought maybe someone thought this is prank,” says Uyvonne Robinson...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini backs offering $5.8 billion in aid to Syria to bolster its economy, a French newspaper said Friday, citing a report by a Tehran think-tank linked to Iran's lea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIran's intelligence minister said Friday that his country has found a way to block the so-called "Internet in a suitcase," a program reportedly developed by the U.S. to bring online access to dissidents ar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLast weekend, a Tennessee woman was arrested at the Nashville airport for disorderly conduct after she refused TSA security measures for her children. The woman didn’t want her two children to have to go t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPolice in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits. Midway Police Chief K...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRebel leaders won recognition as the legitimate government of Libya from the United States and other world powers on Friday in a major boost to the rebels' faltering campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi. West...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoDead Horse Lands At JFK Airport: MyFoxNY.com A horse arrived dead at Kennedy Airport Friday morning aboard a cargo plane owned by El Al, according to the airline. The dead animal was aboard Flight 831 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo Syracuse teenagers were convicted this week – one by guilty plea and the other by a jury verdict – in the armed robbery of an elderly man that netted them a total of seven cents. Skyler Ninham, 16, of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTeenagers - especially girls - who binge drink could be damaging the part of their brain which controls memory and spatial awareness, say Californian researchers. Young women's brains are particularly vu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSeven prisoners have been killed and 59 others have escaped after a riot at a jail in northern Mexico near the US border, officials say. Five guards are also missing and are believed to have aided the mas...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 7 hours agoDAMMIT JANET!: Eye-Opener Nice reproductive freedom you got there. Be a shame if something was to happen to it. Go read.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 7 hours agoHere's a little something to impose deep thought (for a few moments anyway) that I stumbled across at Gideon's Big Mouth. Thought Japan was over and one of a kind? Bet you missed out on a lot of this history...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*One day you could wake up & find John Mica's wig in your drinking water* Wednesday the House voted 239-184 to roll back the Clean Water Act, by amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in a way th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoIt may take Scotland Yard years to notify all the victims of the Murdoch crews' "industrial strength" phone hacking operation. An eye opening article in *The New York Times* claims that Scotland Yard jus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 48.2 km ( 30 miles), the quake hit at 19:59:14 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Sou...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews* *Greece--a Dress Rehearsal for United States* *Michael Hudson:* Cuts to Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy ...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 9 hours agoThe Ultimate Goal of the Bankster-led Political-economic Warfare Being Waged Against Us Is . . . ? **opednews.com July 14, 2011 by Richard Clark As economist Michael Hudson points out, the European debt ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoHere are some dandy links for those following the battle between Obama and congressional Republicans over America's budget deficit. James Kenneth Galbraith explains what he maintains is America's "imaginar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Lake Baykal Region, Russia at a depth of 16.2 km ( 10.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:38:52 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) from Ulan-Ud...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 9 hours agoI had a different life. (I don't say, "I had a life" because that implies that this is not a life. This is my life now. And, it's okay, I accept it.) That different life started every day with a cup of coffe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 247 km ( 153.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:41 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) North of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoIt's gone, surgically removed by specialists from the Republican congressional ranks. Now Obama has lost all chance of ever being able not to roll over on command. Elizabeth Warren is out. The best po...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*NATO's destruction of Libya. *Reportedly, Scotland is playing its part in the 'looting and killing' in Libya. On 5 July 2011, it was reported that the first Leuchars-Scotland-based Typhoon crews to hav...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Taxes cattle at a watering point. The continuing drought and high temperatures are causing cattle water sources to become a greater concern, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service livestoc...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 10 hours agoAn Addendum « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke Over at AFUITBS, @cityslikr describes the subtle art of politics as practiced by Team Ford. Not. Go read.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 10 hours agoStorify: great for aggregating tweets, but you can go blind putting them in order if you're dealing with more than a handful. If only there were a sort function ... [<a href="h...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 10 hours agoopednews.com July 16, 2011 By Ray McGovern My co-passengers and I of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have now gone from "High-Seas Hippies," according to the right-wing Washington Times, to participants in a fl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: A worker walks toward the rest area in front of Main Anti-Earthquake Building, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, June 2011. TEPCO] July 16 (Press Trust Of India) – Workers are struggling und...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agontel officials tell 'The Times' Syria gave Shi'ite group Scud D missiles putting "Israel, Jordan, large parts of Turkey within Hezbollah's range." Damascus is increasing shipments of advanced missiles and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 246.2 km ( 153 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:39 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 272 km (169 miles) from D...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoWe'll have to wait to find out whether the NASA spacecraft was successfully captured by Vesta's gravity.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoActor Mark Ruffalo on Olbermann explains why frackgas is so insanely dangerous. "We don't have another 40 years."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWhen this ostrich decided to make a bid for freedom, little did it realise the trouble it would cause. The 6ft albino bird was spotted roaming through a Dover street early in the morning by a startled sca...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI'm envisioning next year's presidential race being about how Romney really and truly is worse-- even much worse-- than an admittedly truly horrible Barack Obama. Romney may have been correct when he tol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoImage: Discovery: The mine, thought to be similar to this one which washed up on the Suffolk coast in 1946, was misplaced before crews could destroy it. The Royal Navy today lost a 2,000lb Second World Wa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThe international hacking group *Anonymous* has launched *Operation Green Rights*. Their first target was Monsanto, a company the group called "corrupt, unethical and downright evil." *Anonymous* claim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe middle of July may normally see the sun shine and temperatures soar, but it seemed a long way from the height of summer today as heavy downpours hit Britain. The prospect of a barbecue summer was put ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFour firemen were admitted to hospital after being trapped in an inferno - because they used the lift in a burning tower block. The unlucky firefighters got stuck in the lift after they disobeyed one of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Serbia at a depth of 17.4 km ( 16 miles), the quake hit at 16:09:18 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) WSW of Nis, Serbia No reports of da...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Cedar Revolution * The Arab Spring is part of the plot to destabilise all Moslem countries, and some non-Moslem countries. In 2005, the Cedar revolution took place in Lebanon. The result of the Cedar rev...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoExxon has been using a pipeline to transport Athabasca bitumen without notifying state officials who thought the line was only carrying conventional or "sweet" crude. The presence of bitumen was not init...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMilitary action against Muammar Gaddafi's government will be intensifed while a UN envoy presses for negotiations to end the conflict in Libya, William Hague said. Mr Hague, the foreign secretary, said th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSome 10 executives from the companies visited Pyongyang from July 5-9 on the invitation of the North’s Korea Taepung International Investment Group, a major channel for attracting foreign investment. Sour...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoExtreme heat and humidity are expected to blanket Canada this weekend from Saskatchewan to Quebec — and Environment Canada's long-term forecast says warmer-than-normal weather can be expected to persist th...
- Arab Spring: protests in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt while fighting continues in Libya (Photo Gallery)
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoView entire photo gallery here. - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoInternet search engines have changed the way that memory works, researchers have claimed. A study from Columbia University suggests that the ability to find almost any information via a few keystrokes on ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn article in the The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that our budget situation is likely worse than what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects, meaning we could be in much more debt than we...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 12 hours agoENTERTAINMENT/POLITICS - Julian Assange and his whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been the target of much drama and political scandal, especially when his website keeps posting government secrets which a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEuropean banks are set for a day of “chaos” on Monday as investors and analysts derided the latest round of industry stress tests as “inadequate”. The nine banks that failed the European Banking Authority’...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe death toll from this week's bombings in India's financial capital rose to 19 as Mumbai police continued Saturday to systematically sift through the evidence gathered from the site of the three blasts. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA second horse has died during the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede. Stampede spokesman Doug Fraser said Friday that a horse belonging to Jim Knight suffered a fractured leg. Knight's rig had been...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSeparate blasts in Iraq killed nine people and left dozens wounded in attacks targeting pilgrims near the Shiite holy city of Karbala, authorities said Saturday. An additional 70 people were wounded in t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn Indian soldier and five suspected militants died in a shootout that lasted all day in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said Saturday. Four other soldiers were injured, said Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA third death of a hospital patient is being investigated after vials of saline were found contaminated with insulin. Detectives are now looking at the deaths of a 44-year-old woman and two men, aged 71...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGeneral Motors confidently claims that it’s reinventing the automobile. But so far at least, The General has failed to achieve this ambitious goal. That’s because the reinvention process is spearheaded by ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPresident Barack Obama Friday said the US was "running out of time" to reach a deal on raising the country's debt ceiling to avert a possible early August default. "We are obviously running out of time. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Obama administration will require mortgage companies to extend more generous mortgage relief to help certain unemployed borrowers from losing their homes to foreclosure. Under policy changes announced...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIllinois will assess only reading and arithmetic now that high school juniors will no longer be tested on their writing skills during standardized exams every spring, according to a published report. Cutt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEuropean banks are set for a day of “chaos” on Monday as investors and analysts derided the latest round of industry stress tests as “inadequate”. The nine banks that failed the European Banking Authority’...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNew Yorkers have witnessed an urban solar phenomenon, with the Sun setting in alignment with the city's skyscrapers and giving an effect fans say is reminiscent of Wiltshire's Stonehenge. Welcome to Manhat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe death toll from this week's bombings in India's financial capital rose to 19 as Mumbai police continued Saturday to systematically sift through the evidence gathered from the site of the three blasts. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA second horse has died during the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede. Stampede spokesman Doug Fraser said Friday that a horse belonging to Jim Knight suffered a fractured leg. Knight's rig had been...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSeparate blasts in Iraq killed nine people and left dozens wounded in attacks targeting pilgrims near the Shiite holy city of Karbala, authorities said Saturday. An additional 70 people were wounded in t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn Indian soldier and five suspected militants died in a shootout that lasted all day in Indian-administered Kashmir, authorities said Saturday. Four other soldiers were injured, said Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA third death of a hospital patient is being investigated after vials of saline were found contaminated with insulin. Detectives are now looking at the deaths of a 44-year-old woman and two men, aged 71...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGeneral Motors confidently claims that it’s reinventing the automobile. But so far at least, The General has failed to achieve this ambitious goal. That’s because the reinvention process is spearheaded by ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThink deflation is only a problem in the future? It's already here, in a big way. The two-year upswing in commodity prices led many to fear a return to significant inflation that would engulf the overall ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTake a crowd of people and put them in an enclosed space for several days and chances are some of those people are going to get sick. Repeat the experiment in another building blocks away and some of these...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoWhy does the new US Defense Secretary talk just like Donald Rumsfeld? DefSec Leon Panneta has been making the rounds in Baghdad, begging the Maliki government to ask American troops to stay. The U.S. wan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA wildfire burning near Zion National Park is expected to be contained Saturday. There were no reports of evacuations. The Lava Butte Fire is still "a number of miles away from the park," said Zion spoke...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoWho says 'sticky' and smart phones don't mix? This nifty stand holds your device at just the right angle.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA full day of sun offers several hours of warm, inviting, off-the-grid glow.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoDon't worry about Netflix's recent price hike, worry about its limited streaming-video service.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe U.S. President joked with the space station astronauts on Friday, but had a heartfelt message for the final shuttle crew.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago.. Photos copyright by Wesley Dick, published with permission at Censored News *(Photo 1) "Ticutta people. My children are standing with me. I was confronted by the U.S. Game Warden just a few hundred y...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoCoastal protection director steps down ~Amy Wold ~Hat Tip~ LaCoastPost Reps. Steve Scalise and Cedric Richmond get House to spring for $1 million to restore coast~Bruce Alpert ~Also~ Editorial: A win for L...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoYesterday it was with regret, but not surprise, when we recounted newly elected Democratic hack Janice Hahn's pathetic response to a simple question about protecting Social Security and Medicare. This wou...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours ago*Via Týden (The Week), a Czech daily. Translation by LM. Autom. translation* *Brooklyn* *July 15th, '11: The New World has been hit by a modern counterpart of the plague of Egypt in the form of a dead...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 15 hours agoThe Turkish Air Force says one of its small jet-powered planes has crashed on a training flight in western Turkey, killing two pilots aboard. The air force says in a statement on its website that the T-37C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwenty nine cases of suspected typhoid fever was reported anew in Quezon province, according to the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD-4A). OCD 4A reported that the Municipal Health Office (MHO) of General N...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoPhoto credit: No More DeathsCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Four humanitarians from No More Deaths were detained and cited southwest of Tucson, near the Arizona border, where summ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 34.8 km ( 21.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:15 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 168 km (104 miles) SSW of Bristol ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours agoOn Thursday, July 21nd, the European Physical Society's (EPS) conference on high-energy physics (HEP), EPS-HEP2011, is getting started in Grenoble, Southeastern France. Chances are higher than one year ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Powerful *Category 4 Typhoon Ma-on* is headed westward over the West Pacific Ocean, but is expected to encounter a trough of low pressure this weekend that will recurve the storm to the north and northea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 34.7 km ( 21.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:10 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 182 km (113 miles) South of Bristo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCalifornia really is sinking...and so is the rest of the Pacific coast. A recent U.S. Geological survey study shows long-term soil erosion combined with rising sea levels put the Pacific coastline at a mu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least six people have been killed and around 1.57 million others have been affected by torrential rains and landslides in the southern region of China, officials said on Saturday. The National Commiss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoExtreme heat and drought are spreading across 14 states in the US. From Arizona all the way to Florida, it's as if the entire South of the country were burning from below, adding pressure to states and tow...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoChristine Rice on Woman"s Hour (mp3) Hat tip to Millie Tant in the comments for drawing our attention to Jenni Murray's interview with mezzo-soprano Christine Rice on Thursday's Woman's Hour. At one point...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 18 hours agoThis is for all the people in the jooSA that get it. This not for the sheeple, I do not care about you or your families anymore, trying to educate you fucking morons is a waste of my time! This is a war ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Nicobar Islands, Indian Region at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:36:47 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) NNW fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:58:26 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) South of Bristo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*Autopsy performed by IML on Thursday 14th July confirms that Victor did not suffer any harm Teniola before falling to the Black River. The body remains in Manaus awaiting the release of the family. * ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn the main coast road that runs the entire width of Libya countless buses, trucks, vans and cars made their way east from the capital Tripoli and towns and villages en route. The bussing-in of Gaddafi su...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe BBC is determined not to let facts get in the way of a good story. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b012fs6k A B-BBC reader writes; 'You and yours' Winfred Robinson talks to energy minister Greg ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoIt really IS unbelievable. I refer to the 24/7 hate shown by the BBC towards Murdoch. For those with a strong stomach why not give this a listen? Obviously John Humphyrs would like to see James Murdoch fol...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoScreengrab from the BBC's US & Canada page: Pretty rich, huh? Here's the report by Tom Brook. How very different to the BBC's treatment of the Obama documentary We The People which even the Obama-friend...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Mormon teenager will stand trial for allegedly helping her lover to kill his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend, a judge has ruled. Toni Fratto, 19, and Kody Patten, 18, are accused of hitting Micaela Costanzo o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Somali terror group has allegedly recruited more than 20 young men from Minnesota to fight against the Ethopian army. Details of how a carefully-organised Islamist cell raised money, created fake itiner...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAfter a four-year journey from Earth, a robot surveyor was expected to go into orbit around one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt today. NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a year-long encounter wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRecent lightning from thunderstorms started nine fires on the Wilderness Ranger District of the Gila National Forest. All nine fires are in the northwest part of the Gila Wilderness, approximately 12 to 18...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScores of dead fish floated in Crossgates Lake Friday, permeating the air with the stench of decay in an almost identical scenario as one that played out last summer. "I don't know what's going on with th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA fire caused by a lightning strike at the Villas at Old South in Bluffton early Friday destroyed one apartment, damaged seven others and left one person homeless. The blaze was one of five that broke ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA Japanese power firm said it would halt operations at a nuclear reactor because of a technical failure, placing further strain on the country's power supply. Kansai Electric Power Co. said it would manua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 106.2 km ( 66 miles), the quake hit at 07:03:45 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 157 km (98 miles) from Nuku'Alofa, Tonga N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIts shell constricted by a plastic band, this turtle is just one victim of the great garbage patch. But while the reptile may be deformed, it is more fortunate than many of the animals that come into cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThey desperately wanted to see the sunshine after the rain - and they were certainly not disappointed. A day after inch-long hail battered the city of Denver, residents were rewarded with a spectacular su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA former NFL player has been found guilty of murdering a wealthy businessman in a plot to collect a $1 million life insurance payout. Ex-New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts linebacker Eric Naposki ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe mother accused of putting her six-week-old baby girl and killing her is pregnant again, it was claimed today. Ka Yang, 29, who has three sons, is said to have conceived four months ago, according to h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA 26-year-old sausage factory worker suffered a grisly end when he slipped and fell feet first into a meat grinder which chewed off his legs and killed him. Father-of-four Michael Raper was trapped from t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA mother-of-two who is accused of dumping her newborn baby in a hospital trash can 'hid' the pregnancy from her boyfriend saying she was bloated by cancer treatment, according to a report. Jasmine Marie R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHardy Chinese beachgoers may have been hoping for white sand and crystal-clear seas when they took their summer holidays this year. But Qingdao residents have not let the freak Algae bloom smothering their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThousands of panicked Indonesians were forced to flee their homes after the volcano they lived near erupted. Mount Lokon spit lava and smoke high into the sky - sending residents racing down its fiery slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThousands of panicked Indonesians were forced to flee their homes after the volcano they lived near erupted. Mount Lokon spit lava and smoke high into the sky - sending residents racing down its fiery slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThousands of panicked Indonesians were forced to flee their homes after the volcano they lived near erupted. Mount Lokon spit lava and smoke high into the sky - sending residents racing down its fiery slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDespite a savage war being fought there, Afghanistan is home to a healthy population of snow leopards, a wildlife group has discovered. The big cats are among the most elusive animals on earth and their nu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoScientists have captured the atmospheric signature of a tsunami in a discovery that could lead to an early warning system for the phenomenon. A study by the University of Illinois captured the airglow sign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHackers working for a foreign government stole more than 24,000 top-secret files from the Pentagon in a single cyber strike, officials admitted today. The audacious heist earlier this year was just one of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWhat's wrong with our immigration system? Released on bail, the extremist who shouldn't be here. An extremist who exposed gaping holes in Britain's border controls will be free to walk the streets after a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA hospital poisoner who has killed three patients was trying to murder dozens more. The saboteur injected insulin into at least 36 vials of saline solution, knowing it could be fatal. Police do not know...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 66 km ( 41 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:42 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 14 km (8 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 81 km ( 50.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:06 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) South West of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck just offshore of Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 22.9 km ( 14.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:13 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) WSW o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Pentagon is considering massive changes to the force — including a draft — amid fears that new and far deeper budget cuts are looming just over the horizon, a top military official said Thursday. Mari...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibya's prosecutor general charged on Wednesday that NATO air strikes in support of rebel forces since the end of March have killed more than 1,100 civilians and wounded about 4,500 others. Mohamed Zekri ...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHong Kong has been gripped by another photo scandal, after racy images featuring policewomen were taken from a blog and splashed across the territory's newspapers. The photographs - which numbered more th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe napkin, once a staple of the British dinner table, is being replaced by kitchen roll as evening meals become a more informal affair, a survey has found. Nearly half of Britons now prefer a casual meal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is aiming to meet its first stage deadline to bring the plant under control by injecting nitrogen into its No.3 reactor containment vessel. But a problem...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile much of the U.S. was cooler Thursday ahead of another heat wave, temperatures were still around triple digits in Oklahoma and Texas — where ways to beat the heat included dumping 2,400 pounds of ice ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA city bus stop has been temporarily moved so bus drivers and riders can get away from the smell of a homeless woman who's living at a busy Honolulu bus shelter. That’s the first time the city has relocate...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis story probably falls into the category of Ripley’s “bee-lieve” it or not. The Bloomberg administration socked a Queens man with a hefty fine for failing to water his beehive, reports CBS 2′s Marcia...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoChesapeake is going to drill you whether you like it or not.Regardless of what happens in this case, he told the commission, the well will be drilled. And, "our well will drain all the gas."
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Theo Alcantara conducts the Andante sostenuto of the Brahms First Symphony at Festival Casals, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2005. (The whole performance is posted.)* *by Ken* We've heard the radiant...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor a while, Europe's common currency crisis seemed to be cooling down. But this week Italy joined other debt-ridden euro-zone countries in the crosshairs of the financial markets. Europe's indebted nation...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter international markets went into a panic earlier this week over concerns that Italy, the European Union’s third largest economy, would not be able to pay its debt – which amounts to 120 percent of the...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoClick here to read the PDF document of the bill.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFive Points Park in downtown Sarasota has become a magnet for homeless people and it makes Phil Grande crazy. "Everybody thinks of a homeless guy as somebody who just lost his job at G.E., who is sittin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHe’s accused of performing unnecessary surgical procedures on hundreds of his patients. And now many of those patients are celebrating news that state yanked Dr. Marc Midei’s medical license. *Derek Valc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf you believe the likes of liberal columnists Thomas Frank, Frank Rich, and Jane Mayer, the Cato Institute is part of a "pro-corporate movement." I would like Frank, Rich, and Mayer, then to explain this ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMagnitude*6.0* Date-Time - *Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 00:26:13 UTC* - Friday, July 15, 2011 at 08:26:13 PM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location33.798°S, 72.074°W De...
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- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoMayor Rob Ford is out to privatize the living daylights out of Toronto. Privatization is a great deal for the corporations that pick up lucrative contracts, and a very bad deal for everyone else. As privat...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*The week that ended Rebekah Brooks's News International career* *From the Telegraph -- view the video on the website.* *by Ken* This morning the news was that Rebekah Brooks, the chief exec of News Corp'...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThere's one thing about ritual sacrifice. Do too much of it and you'll look scared, maybe even guilty of something. Rupe Murdoch has been shamelessly abusing the rite of sacrificial cleansing lately as ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture / cc via TreeHugger In what has to be the most ridiculous and nonsensical statements ever issued by a governmental body and/or person, Cu...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoToday I was in Denton to sign that frack disclosure bill--heh, heh--and I also shot up a couple of coyotes. I hope other states will follow the Texas disclosure bill because then the gas companies will give ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"The collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre, on September 11, 2001, were the most frightening images that I have ever seen, up until May 24th, 2011, when Binyamin Netanyahu addressed a jo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the twin pillars of international monetary system threaten to come tumbling down in unison, gold has reclaimed its ancient status as the anchor of stability. The spot price surged to an all-time high of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe eldest of Pamela Fettes’ three sons only recently celebrated his 15th birthday, but she is already worrying about the cost of their college education. Ms Fettes, a 46-year-old single mother, lives in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn Oklahoma woman believes outrage over the Florida murder case almost cost her her life. The 26-year-old says a crazed woman tried to kill her because the woman thought she was Casey Anthony. It happen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies arrested an illegal immigrant working inside the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant, the nation's largest nuclear plant and one of the most closely monitored in the coun...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOh boy, this is going to look bad. The Republicans may not realize it, but they have an extra point of leverage in the debt ceiling talks: Barack Obama’s birthday. It’s on Aug. 4. The president is turning...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou wouldn’t know it from the Obama administration, but North Korea’s global threat continues to metastasize. South Korea recently concluded that extensive cyber-attacks against civilian and military targe...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoW. Joseph Campbell, proprietor of the Media Myth Alert blog has busted the BBC for the same kind of Narrative-supporting BS we often call them on. It's worth featuring here. BBC calls Hearst vow apocrypha...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn this week's Friday News Feedbag, James returns, Jorge laughs, and Will searches the Internet while James and Jorge talk! Actually, in what might be our most amazing adequate show ever, we discuss the Un...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far. Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA securit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPublic schools in California will be required to teach students about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans starting Jan. 1 after Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a contr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBlack men are half as likely to die at any given time if they're in prison than if they aren't, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates. The black prisoners seemed to be especially protected against...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Defense Department unveiled a new strategy for protecting military computer networks from hackers on Thursday, designating cyberspace as an "operational domain" U.S. forces will be trained to defend. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt seems like everyone is feeling the heat this summer. Human, canine, feline, or even bovine, we're all at the mercy of high temperatures. Unfortunately, AccuWeather.com meteorologists foresee no signs of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian security forces shot dead at least 12 protesters on Friday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country in the biggest protests so far against President Bashar al-Assad....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he is instructing officials to boost prison construction after a 27-day uprising by inmates highlighted problems of overcrowding and violence. Chavez likene...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA detective testified in Denver court Thursday that the victim in April’s assault at Denver International Airport was headed to Illinois to become a nun. Noel Bertrand, 26, of Portland, is accused of rap...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWho is torching American flags? It’s a disturbing and potentially dangerous trend in one New Jersey community, reports CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport. Someone is definitely up to something sinister in Roselle Pa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeveral lawmakers are questioning the Obama administration about whether the controversial "Fast and Furious" gunrunning probe may have had a cousin in Florida that resulted in guns being trafficked to Cen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian security forces have open fired on anti-government protesters in cities across the country leaving at least 14 people dead, activists say. At least seven people died in the capital Damascus where ab...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Mexican army says it has discovered a huge field with mature marijuana in the northern state of Baja California. Soldiers were patrolling the area, some 300km (190 miles) south of the US border, when ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama has told lawmakers he wants agreement on a US debt deal in 24-36 hours, Republican and Democratic aides say. A fifth consecutive day of cross-party negotiations at the White House ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting has closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. Latin American nations attempted to force a vot...
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