- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 minute agoCorps too slow in repairing MS River breach, says MO Legislator ~Southeast Missourian~"It's very frustrating because the corps said 'This is our top priority. We're going to build a temporary levee,'" says ...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 17 minutes agoThe Smirking Chimp by Jane Stillwater | July 15, 2011 - 3:18pm ------------------------------ According to recent articles that have been published in such various sources as Counterpunch, NucNews, the ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 hour agoRawstory By Reuters Saturday, July 16th, 2011 WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Saturday of "grossly" interfering in its internal affairs and damaging relations after P...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoYeah, that's right,* **your* heatwave. It's the way things work these days, what *The Guardian* calls "global weirding." You swelter while out here on the left coast we're stuck with jackets and umbre...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoOne-piece device targets fitness enthusiasts with a water-resistant, rinsable headphone-style design.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoThat was quick. British police have arrested former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks. Her arrest came just two days following her resignation. Police say the 43-year old is being detained in conn...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours ago
Javier Resines’s article on the Spanish kraken that terrorized the vicinity of Cadiz during the Roman Era prompted recollections of readings about “antiquarians” from the ancient world, who labor... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
This week Darrell Issa's inept and cartoonish committee tried, unsuccessfully, to terrorize Elizabeth Warren-- to the point where even Blue Dog Jim Cooper was so embarrassed and exasperated by his right-... - posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 hours agoThe Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is now studying a new training program for the pilots of its third-generation fighter jets, according to Air Force headquarters.The country's fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by officers investigating allegations of corruption and phone hacking, according to Sky sources. The 43-year-old went to a London police station by appointment at midday ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand at a depth of 58.1 km ( 36.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:39:49 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 422 km (262... - posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoWhile reading the news this morning I came across this gem! "Beach harassment"? What is this? The Organization for Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land (Lehava) has decided to start "defending the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 83.2 km ( 51.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:59:08 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) South East of Raoul Island,... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago
***Edward Bernays (right), the father of modern advertising.* (*Website for this image*) The advertisers know what images we like. *What men look at and the order in which they look at these areas of int... - posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 4 hours agoUrl movie: http://youtu.be/TLpHGQzxxc4 - let the movie run in a bit, its 480p format for better sound. * Enjoy!* That's the way I like a steel... Bobbe Seymour made wonderful instructional videos as well....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Central America at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:55:52 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 461 km (286 miles) Isla del C... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 10.7 km ( 6.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:00 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) North East fr... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoIs she a woman more spinned against than sinning? The BBC certainly has no interest in finding out. But why? "News International, parent company of the best-selling Sunday tabloid said that its chief...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours ago
Wasn't it an unwelcome surprise to see Gordon Brown return to the BBC after some of us had hoped that the electorate had driven a stake through his heart that would see him banished in perpetuity ? A Bi... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago
------------------------------ July 15, 2011 *U.S. Debt Default Looms as Talks Still on Deficit Reduction - Democracy Now! Part 1 of 2* *ThisBoyTV* * * *U.S. Debt Default Looms as Talks Still on Def... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMEMBERS of the public are being warned not to approach a convicted drug dealer who went missing after his release from prison. Ivy Brown, 31, below, was last seen in Edinburgh's Broughton Street at 8.15am ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoAndy Coulson may have authorised payments to police officers or the hacking of phones but he has not been charged or convicted yet....except in the BBC's kangaroo court where verdict and sentence have alr...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoBBC coverage of Islam is done with such sensitivity, such consideration, one could almost be forgiven for thinking that the BBC is horrifically dhimmified. A Biased BBC reader notes; "BBC only show progr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA mother cleared of killing her two-year-old daughter in America has been released from prison three years and a day after she was first arrested. TV crews and protesters gathered to see Casey Anthony wal...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoBBC jihad against Murdoch continues in full voice this morning. "Sunday Morning" with sultry pouting Suzanne Reid posits "Is Rupert Murdoch's empire responsible for corrupting Britain?. That followed Andre...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 6 hours agoThe UAF and similar groups exist to silence criticism of Trotskyites like the SWP. They claim to be anti-Establishment but are in fact a part of the Establishment. They threaten to murder opponents but are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe dead fish are attracting buzzards and the odor is overwhelming. The whole situation is making residents of Crossgates angry, like Shelly Roberts who lives on Stonegate Drive. "It smells, the air in y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPart of Dickinson Bayou was covered with dead fish after a massive kill. The fish are Gulf menhaden, commonly known as shad, and there were tens of thousands floating in the bayou. Gulls were having a fie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA volatile volcano in central Indonesia unleashed its most powerful eruption in days on Sunday, spewing hot ash and smoke high into the air and sending panicked villagers racing back to crowded government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFloods triggered by torrential rain that hit North Korea last week washed away homes, roads and farmland and caused unspecified casualties, according to state media. Heavy rain from July 12 to 15 left mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree people were killed and 18 injured when a four-storey building under construction collapsed in Ghaziabad on Saturday, police said. Five people are still trapped under the debris. A contractor and sup...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:08:06 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South East o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoUtility officials say one of several redundant security systems used to monitor the grounds of Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant stopped working for 45 minutes, triggering a declaration of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Santa Rosa County Health Department is investigating a confirmed case of measles in a Santa RosaCounty resident who recently returned from traveling in Eastern Europe. The individual was briefly hosp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAn unknown mass believed to be from outer space on Saturday fell near Kilimambogo and Tala towns. Initially, there were reports of an explosion in Kangundo, Tala, Yatta and Kakuzi before an extra-terrestr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThirty-nine people have been found infected with anthrax in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district. Of the infected, 17 are undergoing treatment at the Gangni Upazila Health Complex while the remaining have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIncessant rainfall accompanied by gusty winds, over the last two days, caused floods and wreaked havoc by uprooting trees, damaging houses and disrupting power supply across the state. In Bicholim, the ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoReader Contribution: Frontier Airlines has announced more flight cancellations through Monday after hail at Denver International Airport took almost a third of its Airbus fleet out of service. The Denve...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago*Is the number relevant for anything?* Australian officials decided about the magnitude of their carbon tax. As Google News sources indicate, it is 23 Australian dollars which is about 24 U.S. dollars p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoReader Contribution: Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Orabi has resigned ahead of an expected major cabinet reshuffle. Caretaker Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has promised a major shake-up of his admin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoReader Contribution: Tunisian police fired in the air and used teargas early Sunday to disperse a crowd of about 200 people who had set fire to a police station in a suburb of the capital. The clashes to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHe measured 25ft, weighed more than a ton and lived almost 100 million years ago. A palaeontologist has identified the oldest prehistoric crocodile of its kind in the world after the fossil of a Terminona...
- Barack Obama welcomes the Dalai Lama to the White House - as China condemns meeting - 17th July 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPresident Barack Obama held a White House meeting on Saturday with the Dalai Lama, a fellow Nobel Peace laureate, hours after China called on the U.S. to rescind an invitation that could sour relations wit... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoReader Contribution: Casey Anthony was freed from jail early Sunday, and her representatives whisked her away to a mystery destination. She wore a bright pink Polo v-neck top as she was escorted out of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA flock of sheep have been gunned down in the countryside by a gang believed to be supplying illicit meat on the black market. The men used .24 calibre hunting rifles to kill the animals on a Northamptons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA daughter poured a cup of lighter fluid over her sex offender dad and set him on fire before leaving his house while he burned to death, police said. Nina Holbrook, 30, allegedly set alight dad Carl Holbr...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours agoThe UK Guardian's *Nick Davies* helped to bring down Rupert Murdoch. (Hacking reporter says more to come) He has also written about child abuse: *A paedophile ring in Amsterdam* *Nick Davies — Child abu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA nurse who reported allegations of abuse at a care home investigated by the BBC claims she was victimised for speaking out. Caroline Kadungure, 36, wrote to managers at Winterbourne View in Bristol warn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWomen who use the internet to seek boyfriends will win the right to force the police to reveal if they have a history of violence under plans being considered by Home Secretary Theresa May. The controvers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 62.8 km ( 39 miles), the quake hit at 02:13:01 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) South opf Pal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 168.6 km ( 104.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:32:29 UTC Sunday 17th July 2011. The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) ESE pf Banda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 20.1 km ( 12.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:54:07 UTC Saturday 16th July 2011. The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) South of Bristo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 13 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! - 14 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 - 15 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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?") - 18 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! - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoLate on Saturday, NASA received welcome news from the asteroid belt: the Dawn spacecraft had been successfully captured by Vesta's gravity.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 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 - 22 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! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agoView entire photo gallery here. - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA full day of sun offers several hours of warm, inviting, off-the-grid glow.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDon't worry about Netflix's recent price hike, worry about its limited streaming-video service.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 deadly...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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