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To lunch with Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon where the talk is of little other than the proposed United Nations vote on full recognition of a Palestinian state as proposed by President Abbas... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
When Americans think of poverty, we tend to picture people who can’t adequately shelter, clothe, and feed themselves or their families. When the Census Bureau defines “poverty,” though, it winds up paintin... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
When career criminal Vaughn Matthews decided to snatch a woman's purse and run from a stopped El train last Wednesday, he perhaps thought Lindsay O'Brien - who is nearly three months' pregnant - would be a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
The man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed. Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, He... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals said Monday that its experimental anti-smoking vaccine NicVAX did not meet its main goal in a late-stage test, sending the company's shares plunging. The company said about 11 perc... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
he gathers her rouge-colored lips forward in an effort to sustain the heavy soprano voice that emanates from deep inside her throat. Tonight she sings the part of Violetta, a courtesan in Giuseppe Verdi's ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly and ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Seven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah Monday, a government spokesman said, two days before NATO-led troops hand over security control to Afghan... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
A high-ranking U.S. delegation held direct talks last weekend with representatives of Moammar Gaddafi’s government, according to U.S. officials, who said the meeting was intended to deliver a “stern messag... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Territorial disputes and flare-ups in the South China Sea were expected to take center stage at Asia’s largest security forum this week, after Vietnam and the Philippines accused China of interfering in ef... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Australia's reputation as an outstanding food producer is at risk. We are proud to be two of Australia's leading chefs and food industry spokesmen. Making and serving fresh and tasty food is a great pleasu... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
When Pia Navida first came to Australia from the Philippines in the early 1980s, she was a teenage bride who had just married an Australian. But the marriage broke down and, less than a decade later, the ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
At least 14 militants have been killed and several others injured in two separate clashes between security forces and the armed men in Pakistan's northwestern Orakzai tribal region. Dozens of militants at... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Last year I touched on the three reasons why demand for gold was surging. Among the powerful driving forces is the very real fundamental role that growth in China is playing. I said: “I think one thing th... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
In a bid to deter criminal elements the T&T Defence Force has implemented “confidence patrols” to be conducted only by soldiers. However, head of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association, Sgt Anan... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
There’s a lot of discussion now about the role of the GSEs in “the crisis.” Unfortunately, not everyone is talking about the same crisis. Some are talking about the housing bubble/crash, some are talking a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoTo lunch with Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon where the talk is of little other than the proposed United Nations vote on full recognition of a Palestinian state as proposed by President Abbas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoWhen Americans think of poverty, we tend to picture people who can’t adequately shelter, clothe, and feed themselves or their families. When the Census Bureau defines “poverty,” though, it winds up paintin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAt least 14 people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, a federal government official said Tuesday. The arrests have taken plac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoWhen career criminal Vaughn Matthews decided to snatch a woman's purse and run from a stopped El train last Wednesday, he perhaps thought Lindsay O'Brien - who is nearly three months' pregnant - would be a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoThe man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed. Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, He...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoNabi Biopharmaceuticals said Monday that its experimental anti-smoking vaccine NicVAX did not meet its main goal in a late-stage test, sending the company's shares plunging. The company said about 11 perc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agohe gathers her rouge-colored lips forward in an effort to sustain the heavy soprano voice that emanates from deep inside her throat. Tonight she sings the part of Violetta, a courtesan in Giuseppe Verdi's ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoInsect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoSeven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah Monday, a government spokesman said, two days before NATO-led troops hand over security control to Afghan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoA high-ranking U.S. delegation held direct talks last weekend with representatives of Moammar Gaddafi’s government, according to U.S. officials, who said the meeting was intended to deliver a “stern messag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoTerritorial disputes and flare-ups in the South China Sea were expected to take center stage at Asia’s largest security forum this week, after Vietnam and the Philippines accused China of interfering in ef...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoTo lunch with Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon where the talk is of little other than the proposed United Nations vote on full recognition of a Palestinian state as proposed by President Abbas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAustralia's reputation as an outstanding food producer is at risk. We are proud to be two of Australia's leading chefs and food industry spokesmen. Making and serving fresh and tasty food is a great pleasu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoWhen Pia Navida first came to Australia from the Philippines in the early 1980s, she was a teenage bride who had just married an Australian. But the marriage broke down and, less than a decade later, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAt least 14 militants have been killed and several others injured in two separate clashes between security forces and the armed men in Pakistan's northwestern Orakzai tribal region. Dozens of militants at...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoLast year I touched on the three reasons why demand for gold was surging. Among the powerful driving forces is the very real fundamental role that growth in China is playing. I said: “I think one thing th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoIn a bid to deter criminal elements the T&T Defence Force has implemented “confidence patrols” to be conducted only by soldiers. However, head of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association, Sgt Anan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoThe man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has revealed. Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, He...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoNabi Biopharmaceuticals said Monday that its experimental anti-smoking vaccine NicVAX did not meet its main goal in a late-stage test, sending the company's shares plunging. The company said about 11 perc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agohe gathers her rouge-colored lips forward in an effort to sustain the heavy soprano voice that emanates from deep inside her throat. Tonight she sings the part of Violetta, a courtesan in Giuseppe Verdi's ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoThere’s a lot of discussion now about the role of the GSEs in “the crisis.” Unfortunately, not everyone is talking about the same crisis. Some are talking about the housing bubble/crash, some are talking a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoInsect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoSeven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah Monday, a government spokesman said, two days before NATO-led troops hand over security control to Afghan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoA high-ranking U.S. delegation held direct talks last weekend with representatives of Moammar Gaddafi’s government, according to U.S. officials, who said the meeting was intended to deliver a “stern messag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoTerritorial disputes and flare-ups in the South China Sea were expected to take center stage at Asia’s largest security forum this week, after Vietnam and the Philippines accused China of interfering in ef...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAustralia's reputation as an outstanding food producer is at risk. We are proud to be two of Australia's leading chefs and food industry spokesmen. Making and serving fresh and tasty food is a great pleasu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoWhen Pia Navida first came to Australia from the Philippines in the early 1980s, she was a teenage bride who had just married an Australian. But the marriage broke down and, less than a decade later, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoAt least 14 militants have been killed and several others injured in two separate clashes between security forces and the armed men in Pakistan's northwestern Orakzai tribal region. Dozens of militants at...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoLast year I touched on the three reasons why demand for gold was surging. Among the powerful driving forces is the very real fundamental role that growth in China is playing. I said: “I think one thing th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes agoIn a bid to deter criminal elements the T&T Defence Force has implemented “confidence patrols” to be conducted only by soldiers. However, head of the Police Service Social and Welfare Association, Sgt Anan...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 46 minutes ago*INDEX NOTE: The "Thurber (et al.) Tonight" index has (finally) been updated, and should now be current!* *"The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 55 minutes ago*cap·i·tal·ism [ˈkæpɪtlˌɪzəm] [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] noun- an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefl...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoAll photos courtesy: B. Alter via TreeHugger This one of the most delightful cases of recycling I have ever heard about. What a wonderful example of creative thinking. Read on to find out how a small vi...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour agoCorps of Engineers LA Coastal Area science office to close over a patronage fight with the Jindal admin ~Mark Schleifstein
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoPhoto courtesy: Furryscaly / cc via TreeHugger Ten short years ago, Grand Cayman blue iguanas were on the brink of extinction. Human factors, like habitat encroachment and vehicle strikes, had reduced the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoWe won't ever get to the bottom of the scandal that is evolving day by day around Rupert Murdoch's media empire if we focus our attention on Murdoch alone. Murdoch is just a manifestation of what the moder...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 3 hours ago[image: Photobucket] *Uncensored Magazine* *A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ** * *We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, wit...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*It was a rough episode for both Paul (Oliver Platt) and Cathy (Laura Linney) last night on The Big C.* *by Ken* I really loved last night's episode of *The Big C*, the fourth of the second season, which...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 hours ago*The Washington Times* has reported that pizza magnate, raging Islamophobe, blithering know-nothing, and Republican presidential aspirant Herman Cain has declared "he would attack Iran to prevent it from a...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe ancestor who made the 3.7 million-year-old prints walked in a "less ape-ish way" than some humans do today, say scientists.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours agoToday, C-SPAN3 covered the British Parliament's Committee hearing into News Corp's business practices. Rupert Murdoch's media empire has been rocked by a phone hacking scandal that involves British police...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoClick image to enlarge. The Council Advocating an Indigenous Manifesto invites you to join them in their weekly walk/hike/run in Phoenix, Wednesday July 20, 2011, from 6:30 to 8 pm. The purpose is to cre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Japan Fukushima: Update - More Radioactive Beef, Typhoon moves in - July 18, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Department of Homeland Security is taking the case of a Longmont woman who allegedly grabbing the breast of a TSA agent very seriously. Yukari Mihamae, 61, was taken into custody at the screening are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Colorado air traffic controller is under federal investigation, suspected of being drunk while controlling live air traffic, the CALL7 Investigators have confirmed. On July 5, Federal Aviation Administr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA mayoral candidate's plan to reduce violence in Baltimore includes a "bullet tax" that he said will increase the cost of committing a crime. Otis Rolley said he would, if elected, propose a $1 per bullet ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA dripping window air conditioner led to the execution-style killing of a West Side man, police said Monday. Charles Sims, 28, shot Jimmy Parker eight times about 2 a.m. on June 2, police said. Sims appea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe heat was on Monday for millions of Americans from the Upper Midwest to Texas and Oklahoma, where roads buckled and poultry farmers deployed fans and watered rooftops to protect flocks. The National W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman. Dziok had worked for Bachmann f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOur nation is heading toward an Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling and avoid defaulting on our debt. If Congress doesn't act quickly, the United States will face an economic disaster that could have...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhen this godawful blog started three years ago the smell of financial collapse hung in the air like a Wal-Mart fragrance. With its message of caution about what was to come (and it did), GreaterFool attra...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCan you smell it? There is blood in the water. Global financial markets are in turmoil. Banking stocks are getting slaughtered right now. European bond yields are absolutely soaring. Major corporations are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agos another mortgage crisis among us or is it the same crisis that has supposedly been resolved and rectified? Are all of the pieces that crashed housing still lying around acting as accelerant to the fire t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHere is one clear lesson from the economic meltdown of 2008: Any future U.S. administration will intervene directly and heavily if faced with a potentially devastating economic crisis. Market purists might...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhat if you could fix a traffic jam with a push of a button? It might be just wishful thinking or it could become reality under a new high-tech traffic monitoring system unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*Casey Anthony* was seen on the remote island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands on Monday morning July 18 by locals and some tourist staying at the Sandcastle Inn on White Bay Beach. Several...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA mother's stress can spread to her baby in the womb and may cause a lasting effect, German researchers propose. They have seen that a receptor for stress hormones appears to undergo a biological change ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStick insects have lived for one million years without sex, genetic research has revealed. Scientists in Canada investigated the DNA of Timema stick insects, which live in shrubland around the west coast ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe United Nations said Tuesday it needs further safety guarantees from armed groups in Somalia if it is to help hundreds of thousands of people in need of emergency aid because of drought and conflict in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMuch of Canada and the U.S. are entrenched in extreme heat and humidity that are making people cranky and prompting them to crank up air conditioners and electricity demand. Temperatures of 30 C and highe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCanadian drivers could use a refresher course in etiquette, the Canadian Press reports. A new poll released by the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) Monday suggests there's been a sharp decline in man...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIran says it is installing newer and faster centrifuges at its nuclear plants, with the goal of speeding up the uranium enrichment process. The foreign ministry says the United Nations nuclear watchdog, t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago*Kuiu Kwaan Court in Tacoma, Wash., supports traditional Paiute craftsman gathering tules* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Update July 19, 2011, 8 pm* TACOMA, Wash. -- N...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA new stimulant drug that people are calling “bath salts” can have devastating effects.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoLately there's been another stir about prosecuting Bush Regime war criminals, particularly Cheney, Tenet, Rumsfeld and Bush himself. A US human rights group has called on foreign governments to prosecute ...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 8 hours agoAlternet By James Ridgeway July 15, 2011 Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: A Dallas County sheriff's deputy monitors the line for rental assistance voucher applications on the morning of 14 July 2011 outside the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas. Thousands of peopl...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours ago[image: image]*Another guest post from the archives of* The Free Radical*, this time from tennis ace and all-round fine bloke Chris Lewis, on the sort of envy that’s stifling. And everywhere. A post so ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 9.2 km ( 5.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:42 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) South West of Farghona (Far...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: David Gonzales, of Jackson, Wyoming, examines a dead whitebark pine tree in the mountains east of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Mountain pine beetles killed the roughly 800-year-old tree within the prev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Polar bears like this one are having to spend more time in the Arctic water due to less summer sea ice. Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habita...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA video dating back to 2009 may provide new evidence of the existence of an Alaskan Loch Ness Monster, Discovery News reported. The footage, shot by Alaskan fishermen in 2009, will make its public debut ...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 9 hours agoMass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English *Drug companies like Pfizer are accused of pressuring doctors into over-prescribing medications to patients in order to increase profits [GALLO/GETT...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 9 hours agoFarewell to a Researcher: Jorge Anfruns Our friend and colleague Quique Mario (CEUFO) has alerted us to the passing of one of Chile’s great UFO researchers, Jorge Anfruns. A publicist, commentator...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours agoShedding Light on UFO-Related Blackouts By Scott Corrales Joaquin V. Gonzalez lost power at two o’clock in the morning on Thursday, November 26, 2009. No, not a disgruntled utility customer...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 10 hours agoMonday, July 18th, 2011A book that delves into the cover-up a film documenting the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been deemed too violent for Google's ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoWhen I participated at IMO 1992 in Moscow, people were laughing that our year was so unlucky to have Moscow - but I am actually happy it was Moscow. This year, kids compete in Amsterdam which I visited ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 10 hours agoBy Duane Craig Fracking is an environmental risk?Disagreement seems to be brewing among companies involved in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, over how much information about the chemicals used in the p...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoMissing - one carefully constructed narrative. If found, please return to BBC or Guardian. UPDATE. Do the Germans have a word for the schadenfreude one feels when another person's schadenfreude tur...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 11 hours agoCANADA - Rob Ford was elected as Toronto's mayor largely because of his slogan that he was going to cut Toronto's gravy train of wasteful spending. But here is an important question... *Where is the gravy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNews International has fallen victim to a notorious hacking group which took control of The Sun's website for several hours. LulzSec, which has previously targeted companies including Sony, claimed via T...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoJapan on Tuesday suspended cattle shipments from the wagyu-producing Fukushima prefecture on fears of radiation-tainted beef in the country's meat distribution chain.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNew shock absorbers could increase fuel efficiency up to 8 percent.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe winner of the "Steep Shot Slideshow" competition at the Squamish Mountain Festival.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoAnd the worst kind of gays, frustrated, self-loathing, deranged and mentally unbalanced closet cases. And I'm not just talking about the spate of Republicans who have come out recently, like Ken Mehlman a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn outbreak of Portuguese Man-o-War jellyfish around the Maldives has sent guests at many of the country’s upmarket resorts out of the water and back to their villas. The creatures, which can give a nast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA protester who has tried to attack Rupert Murdoch as he was being questioned by MPs has been named as comedian Jonnie Marbles by Sky sources. Mr Murdoch's wife Wendi and his son James immediately jumpe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn army helicopter carrying nine people crashed in a hilly jungle along Thailand's border with Burma today while on a mission to retrieve the bodies of five soldiers killed in another helicopter accident a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSo gold has broken the $1600 barrier – a significant price milestone. But as sure as we talk about it this week, we’ll likely be talking about another hundred-dollar price jump again soon as global investo...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe first man to walk the entire length of the Amazon shares his experiences on video and social media.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTropical Storm Dora is expected to intensify as it moves through the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico and will likely become a hurricane later Tuesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre in Miami sai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe UK Royal Air Force's (RAF) commanders feel legally comfortable to kill civilians in Afghanistan using drone attacks , according to media reports. The RAF has deployed one of its units called '39 Squad...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agohe World Health Organization has warned that European cases of measles are on the rise and urged people to vaccinate themselves against the disease to prevent it from spreading. The WHO European Region sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoU.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reiterated Monday that Iraq needs to crack down on armed factions that have been targeting U.S. troops with Iranian-supplied weapons. "We are very concerned about Ira...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIndia's southern state of Andhra Pradesh may have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world, the country's chief nuclear officer says. Studies show Tummalapalle in Kadapa district could have res...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Israeli military says commandos have boarded a French ship carrying 16 activists and journalists, including a Canadian, attempting to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. They reported no resist...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAssailants who held eight hostages and executed a deadly attack in China's Xinjiang region on Monday carried a flag with "Holy War" written in Arabic on it, a regional spokeswoman said. The attack on a po...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSecurity forces killed 13 people during overnight clashes in the western Syrian industrial city of Homs, a human rights group said Tuesday. The military operation that caused the deaths continued Tuesday...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 -- a notoriously fragile device -- cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf. "I was like, 'Man! That's all it takes to crack the glass?' " he said. So it's ea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWhen Josie Ensor, a British journalist formerly based in Lebanon, became the victim of a sexual assault in Beirut, she sought help at a local police station. As she was giving her statement, the police dra...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe eurozone can in theory still be saved, if two sets of conditions are fulfilled; if the leaders of Germany, Austria, Finland, and the Netherlands accept fiscal union and a common pooling of debt, and ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPART ONE: Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 1 *by corbettreport* PART TWO: Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 2 *by corbettreport*
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoU.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reiterated Monday that Iraq needs to crack down on armed factions that have been targeting U.S. troops with Iranian-supplied weapons. "We are very concerned about Ira...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe business of stimulating economies, creating jobs and mentoring young leaders starts in the cradle. It is no secret that raising children to become working, responsible members of society is all about ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agohe World Health Organization has warned that European cases of measles are on the rise and urged people to vaccinate themselves against the disease to prevent it from spreading. The WHO European Region sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe eurozone can in theory still be saved, if two sets of conditions are fulfilled; if the leaders of Germany, Austria, Finland, and the Netherlands accept fiscal union and a common pooling of debt, and ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPART ONE: Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 1 *by corbettreport* PART TWO: Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 2 *by corbettreport*
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoU.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reiterated Monday that Iraq needs to crack down on armed factions that have been targeting U.S. troops with Iranian-supplied weapons. "We are very concerned about Ira...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe business of stimulating economies, creating jobs and mentoring young leaders starts in the cradle. It is no secret that raising children to become working, responsible members of society is all about ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe traditional "stomping of the divots" during a polo match brings the watching crowd with their colorful mix of hats, heels and outfits onto the field to repair the galloped-upon turf. The inaugural Gol...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoAlthough many people have some idea, I consider the opinions of Lawrence Summers concerning the state of the U.S. economy to be more relevant than the opinion of others - at least those in the Democrat Par...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*De Menezes and Dick.* *Cressida Dick* was the person in charge of the police operation that led to the murder in London of the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes. *Dick has now been promoted to the job o...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago[image: Goldman profit] Goldman Sach Group Inc rattled investors with salary that fell far short of analysts' estimates because of sharp declines in trading revenue.Goldman, one time Wall Street's largest...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago[image: Rupert Murdoch] Rupert Murdoch was humble Tuesday by a committee of lawmakers who grill one of the world's most powerful media moguls and his son on their position in a phone-hacking scandal that ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoUsing sustainably harvested wood instead of steel helps reduce carbon pollution and store carbon at the same time.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoSeabirds can smell out good partners and choose to mate with genetically dissimilar partners.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agoThis simple meal of pasta, tuna and vegetables was one of my mom's go to meals growing up because it is easy and doesn't require one of the more expensive meats. If you love tuna, you will love this. Fir...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours agoPirates of the Gulf Coast~Gambit ~Jeremy Alford on how Louisiana has spent -- and misspent -- its oil-gotten gains Spillionaires revisited: Parish Gov't official's associates got big contracts after the B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 16.5 km ( 10.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:01:09 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 0 km (0 miles) South East of Hualien, Taiwan No dama...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoResearchers have mimicked an unusual muscular structure found only in tongues and elephant trunks.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.8 km ( 19.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:33 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 206 km (128 miles) fro...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoThe Daily Kos, a far left-wing U.S. community website, has been often mentioned on this blog but I guess that this is the first time when it happens in a positive way. (Well, it's actually the second time....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolice have shot dead a teenager who fired on police following him after he failed to pay his train fare. Kenneth Harding Jr appeared to fire first in a brief gunfight in San Francisco. It seems the 19-y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEmergency rooms in the U.S. are having to treat a wave of agitated, violent and psychotic patients high on a new potentially lethal designer drug. 'Bath salts' - man-made stimulant drugs that resemble scen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA raging whirl pool swirls in the middle of a busy road - as parts of China are battered with their 36th consecutive day of rain. The torrential downpours which started last month have caused chaos around ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNasa's Dawn spacecraft has home the first close-up image of the massive asteroid Vesta after a four-year, 1.7billion-mile journey to get there. The robot surveyor is preparing to begin a study of a surface...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe giant hogweed can cause third degree burns and blindness -- and it's spreading fast.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoRupert Murdoch is in the hot seat as he is questioned by British MPs. To keep up with it you should simply go to *The Guardian* for live coverage. First impression is that Murdoch is squirming. His spin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoThis line, from *The Guardian,* says it all. *The 21st century is not yet a dozen years old, and there are already 1 billion more people than in October 1999.* It took civilization until around 1804 to f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: If sea levels rose to where they were during the Last Interglacial Period, large parts of the Gulf of Mexico region would be under water (red areas), including half of Florida and several Caribbe...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA new study finds that more polar bears may be swimming longer distances, and more cubs may be dying, as sea ice shrinks.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, according to a study. Polar bears...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA fourth patient was today critically ill at a hospital where police are investigating the suspicious deaths of three people after a batch of medication was deliberately sabotaged. The deaths of George Ke...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*"Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen"* *Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, cond. EMI, recorded Feb. 17-19, 1964* *Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra, O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAnyone sleeping in the metro area this morning probably received an early-morning wake-up call they weren't expecting. Severe thunderstorms rolled into the area around 2:30 a.m., sparking a tornado warning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn unmanned surveillance aircraft of the Pakistan Navy crashed into an oil refinery and burst into flames following a bird hit in Karachi. No casualties or damage to property on the ground were reported. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSeventeen more patients were admitted to hospitals in southern Cebu after a suspected typhoid outbreak hit Alegria town Tuesday. This brought to 87 the total number of individuals affected by the typhoid ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAs per a state health functionary, around 20 kids were taken ill after having a cake at a birthday bash in Limboda region near Indore. The kids, who had assembled for two-year-old Niharika's birthday part...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAuthorities say a private plane has crashed at an Idaho Landing Strip near the community of Grace, killing all three men aboard. The Caribou County sheriff's office said the plane went down late Monday af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA fisherman was killed and three others were reported missing after a fishing boat capsized in bad weather off the coast of Thoothukudi on Monday. Around 2 am on Monday, M Albert (45) and four other fisher...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNearly 1,500 people in northwestern Ontario left their homes Monday as smoke and forest fires spread through the region. Residents in First Nation communities were evacuated or were in the midst of evacua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*A GIANT wall of dust was rolling through the Phoenix area on Tuesday, turning the sky brown, creating dangerous driving conditions and delaying some airline flights. * The dust storm, also known as a ha...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThis time they've got some new wrapping paper for the thoroughly discredited Ryan budget: Cut, Cap & Balance in the House and a Balanced Budget Amendment in the Senate. And both are actually even worse th...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoIf you juggle multiple cameras and SD cards, this device could make downloads speedier than ever.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoSimplified device targets seniors and kids with an SOS button and stripped-down functionality.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA new breath test which measures the immune response to swine flu could ease future vaccine shortages by revealing those who already have the strain. The 'fast acting, non-invasive' test would measure biom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAnother spill: The pipeline leak is at BP's Lisburne field in Alaska. In 2006 up to 267,000 gallons were spilled in a similar leak at oil giant's Prudhoe Bay field (pictured) BP has reported yet another p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA judge has provoked fury by handing custody of a three-year-old girl to a registered sex offender. The ruling in Jacksonville, Florida, means little Miranda Wilkerson’s late mother’s husband, Donald Cole...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoAs Space Shuttle Atlantis left the space station, it remained uncertain when another U.S. spacecraft would return.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Alaska at a depth of 44.8 km ( 27.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:53 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) SSW of Amukta Island, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA veteran police detective and her 18-year-old daughter were stabbed to death and her son arrested on suspicion of murder after he was found sitting next to the teenager's nude body on the sidewalk outside...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAt first it looks like a raging geyser spurting from the ground. But, far from a restless volcanic landscape, this is actually a suburban street where a burst water pipe fired water 60ft into the air. Res...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTheir final moments are brutal. Forced into a line facing their captors, some with arms bound behind their backs, they listen silent and helpless to the Taliban commander who holds their fate in his hands...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago17-year-old boy 'brutally and mercilessly' killed his parents before having a house party while their bodies were still inside a bedroom, police said. Tyler Hadley, of Port St Lucie, Florida, allegedly be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA gang of armed thugs sprung two prisoners from a van as they made their way to court yesterday. Suspects Tony Downes and Kirk Bradley, both 25, were freed after the prison van transporting them was stopp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoShrien Dewani exercises for hours on end even though his lawyers say he is too ill to stand trial over the murder of his wife on honeymoon, a court heard yesterday. The businessman – alleged to have order...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 52.9 km ( 32.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:18 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) East of Raoul Isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at 09:22:06 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011 at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles) The epicenter was 74 km ( 45 miles) ENE of Dushanbe, Tajikistan No reports of Damag...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 18 hours agoUnder NAFTA, provinces retained the right to administer their own government procurement contracts as they saw fit - water, power, highways, garbage, and local cultural/environmental/job stimulus programs...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoVanessa Feltz on BBC London this morning showing up Alastair Campbell for the hypocrite he is. She puts all the big boys on Newsnight, PM, the Today programme, Radio Five Live etc to shame. Alastair Campb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA bogus model agent who urged a 12-year-old to pose for pictures in her underwear has avoided a jail sentence despite being branded a danger to young girls. Nathan Cheslin called himself 'Emily' to reel i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother with a history of mental illness killed her two-year-old daughter just hours after psychiatric nurses decided it was safe to leave the child with her, a court heard yesterday. Health visitors and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 543.2 km ( 337.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:15:52 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 390 km (242 miles) SSW of Ndoi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice were yesterday given a bag containing a computer, phone and paperwork found in a bin near the London home of Rebekah Brooks. Someone handed the items to security guards at the Chelsea Harbour compl...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoSo, on the day of the Show Trials being held in the Star Chamber, who better for the BBC to give a prime time bully pulpit to but a blast from the past..Neil Kinnoch. Yes, the Welsh windbag was afforded a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Ionian Sea at a depth of 22 km ( 13.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:18 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) from Patras, GREECE No tsu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFears about debt in Europe and the United States tore through financial markets yesterday as shares around the world tumbled. The FTSE 100 index dived more than 90 points to 5,752 – reducing the value of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt rained fire and acid rain for hundreds of thousands of years and killed 90 percent of all life, including plants and vegetation. An analysis of ancient fungus that thrives in dead wood has given scient...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Wyoming at 06:42:30 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011 at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles) The epicenter was 37 km ( 22 miles) SSW of Jackson, Wyoming No reports of Damage or Injuri...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim.* The CIA and its friends are stirring things up in Malaysia. The leader of the '*Bersih'* protest movement in Malaysia is *Anwar Ibrahim. * What do we know about *Mala...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoIf you forgot about the name, Al Gore is a former U.S. vice-president and the de facto leader of the world's global warming alarmist movement. He remains at large; he hasn't even been forced to return th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the North coast of Papua New Guinea at 03:18:41 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011 at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles) The epicenter was 333 km ( 206 miles) NNE of Enarota...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands New Zealand at a depth of 34.8 km ( 83 miles), the quake hit at 02:20:38 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) North East of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 15.8 km ( 9.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:51 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Rat Islands, Alaska at a depth of 58.4 km ( 36.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:30:43 UTC Tuesday 19th July 2011. The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) SSW of Semisopochnoi I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Rat Islands, Alaska at a depth of 57.2 km ( 35.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:48:26 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) SSW of Semisopochnoi Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Rat Islands, Alaska at a depth of 18.4 km ( 11.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:38 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) SSW of Semisopochnoi Is...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt's been 10 months since the first big earthquake struck New Zealand's second-largest city. It's been nearly five months since a far more devastating one killed 181 people and crippled the downtown. But i...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR GEORGIA:* *RESPECT WORKER RIGHTS IN GEORGIA:* The now independent Caucasus republic of Georgia is (in)famous as the homeland of Soviet dictator Josep Stalin. Sorta like being no...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorkers in Japan scrambled Monday to build a protective covering over a damaged nuclear reactor ahead of an approaching powerful typhoon, an energy company spokesman said. Typhoon Ma-on -- currently a "La...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe battle for Brega switched from the desert to intense street fighting in the oil town's northeast on Sunday, as veteran Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed never to quit and fresh blasts rocked Tripoli....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStock markets tumbled on Wall Street as the prospect of the US government defaulting on its debts moved a step closer after another day of political paralysis in Washington. With no signs of progress from...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMounting fears that politicians will fail to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis sent markets sliding and Spain and Italy's borrowing costs nearing the "point of no return". Investors are unconvinced that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt has begun. At last, some raw emotional Gaulliste patriotism from the victims of Europe’s Maquina Infernal. Portugal’s new premier Pedro Passos Coelho — a free marketeer — threw down the gauntlet over t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe tsunami that struck north-east Japan in March rose to a maximum height of 132.5ft, according to researchers, taller than Rio's Christ the Redeemer. In comparison, Nelson's Column stands 169 feet tall a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of China's most promising young gymnasts, who seemed destined for Olympic glory before his career ended in injury, has been found begging on the streets of Beijing, prompting criticism of the country's...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor the first time, a device has created a "hole in time" -- for a few nanoseconds anyway. The theoretical possibility of an "event cloak" -- a metamaterial space-time device that could theoretically conc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHe's hanging up the hat. After decades of popularizing Egyptology -- from exploring the pyramids to studying mummies to digging for buried treasure -- Egypt's top archaeologist has lost his post, fired Su...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPirates have seized a tanker ship in the Indian Ocean and appear to be taking it to Somalia, the European Union Naval Force Somalia said Monday. Pirates boarded the MV Jubba XX on July 16 as the ship trave...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAuthorities in Equador have banned the sale of alcohol in a community where 21 people have died after drinking bootleg liquor. Public Health Minister David Chiriboga says 103 others have been treated for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpanish police Monday announced the seizure of 25 million euros ($35 million) in cash and the arrest of 20 people in an operation against "the biggest money-laundering and drug-trafficking network in Europ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA volatile volcano in central Indonesia has erupted again, spewing ash almost 2,000ft (600m) into the air. Monitoring official Farid Ruskanda said Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island erupted twice within half ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerican electric car company Tesla Motors is pulling the plug on plans to market its zippy, battery-powered sports cars to the wealthy and environmentally hip here – just six months after setting up an of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorkers in Japan scrambled Monday to build a protective covering over a damaged nuclear reactor ahead of an approaching powerful typhoon, an energy company spokesman said. Typhoon Ma-on -- currently a "La...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe battle for Brega switched from the desert to intense street fighting in the oil town's northeast on Sunday, as veteran Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed never to quit and fresh blasts rocked Tripoli....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStock markets tumbled on Wall Street as the prospect of the US government defaulting on its debts moved a step closer after another day of political paralysis in Washington. With no signs of progress from...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMounting fears that politicians will fail to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis sent markets sliding and Spain and Italy's borrowing costs nearing the "point of no return". Investors are unconvinced that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt has begun. At last, some raw emotional Gaulliste patriotism from the victims of Europe’s Maquina Infernal. Portugal’s new premier Pedro Passos Coelho — a free marketeer — threw down the gauntlet over t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor the first time, a device has created a "hole in time" -- for a few nanoseconds anyway. The theoretical possibility of an "event cloak" -- a metamaterial space-time device that could theoretically conc...
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