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A 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 - 20 minutes ago
An 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 - 20 minutes ago
So 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 - 31 minutes agoThe first man to walk the entire length of the Amazon shares his experiences on video and social media.
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Tropical 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 - 37 minutes ago
The 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 - 38 minutes ago
he 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 - 38 minutes 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...
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India'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 - 38 minutes ago
The 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 - 38 minutes ago
Assailants 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 - 38 minutes 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...
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Jarrod 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 - 38 minutes ago
When 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 - 38 minutes ago
The 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 40 minutes 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 P...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 40 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 59 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoSeabirds can smell out good partners and choose to mate with genetically dissimilar partners.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoPirates of the Gulf Coast~Gambit ~Jeremy Alford on how Louisiana has spent -- and misspent -- its oil-gotten gains Governorcist Bobby "Brady" Jindal's recovery program panned in audit New Orleans inspecto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoResearchers have mimicked an unusual muscular structure found only in tongues and elephant trunks.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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. A writer nicknamed "Science" has wri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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! - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours agoSimplified device targets seniors and kids with an SOS button and stripped-down functionality.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 11 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"His howl is caused by a large hyoid bone at the top of the trachea. It can be cured by a simple operation on the neck with an axe."* So far in the title section of Will Cuppy's *How to Tell Your Friends...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Index note: The "Thurber (et al.) Tonight" index has (finally) been updated, and should now be current!* *"Gibbon authorities do not know whether the Gibbon is interested in sex. But you know and I know....
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 14 hours agoThis weekend, Kurt and I ran in the Wyandotte Portofino Art Fair 5K, Saturday at 800 AM in Wyandotte. It was a nice race and I was glad it was early, as it was already super hot at 800 AM! Kurt broke his...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoSIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation ... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else. Who could have foreseen such a thing? Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Dessicated corn field in Garvin County, Oklahoma, July 2011. oklahomafarmreport.com] By MICHAEL MCNUTT, CAPITOL BUREAU 15 July 2011 With no forecast of rain in sight, Gov. Mary Fallin suggests ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago* Once upon a time the Polo Grounds sat at the foot of Coogan's Bluff. * *by Ken* For your avid urban gadder, does this sound fabulous or what? *Highbridge Park Hike with Sidney Horenstein* *Tuesday, July ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago"There exist in the life of societies as well as individuals hours of moral discomfort when despair and fatigue spread their leaden wings over human beings. Men then begin to dream of nothingness. The en...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoThe Lens wins press club awards for investigative reporting, social media! Times-Picayune, NOLA.com take top honors at New Orleans Press Club
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoEmpty streets never looked so good.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoMarathon swimmer Diana Nyad is attempting to do what she couldn't finish in her late-20s.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 18 hours agoThe White House Blog Posted by Kori Schulman on July 17, 2011 Yesterday morning President Obama met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House. Here's the statement from th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Sharks cruise over a coral reef. Fishing alters predator patterns; when large fish are removed, corals don't fare as well. S. A. Sandin, et al. / nsf.gov] Media contacts Cheryl Dybas, NSF (703) ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Workers on the bus which will transfer them to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They are known as 'nuclear gypsies'. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert] By Justin McCurry in Iwaki-Yumoto, www.guardian.co....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: UK Energy Minister Chris Huhne warns that global warming could threaten Britain's security. dailymail.co.uk]By David Derbyshire 8 July 2011 Global warming will threaten Britain's security by tri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe documentary film Farmageddon explores the fine line between consumer protection and government intrusion when it comes to food safety. Certainly we all want wholesome food, but what happens when rules ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIsraeli rescue services evacuated the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Sunday as a large forest fire raged out of control, threatening several Jerusalem neighbourhoods, rescue workers said. Thick grey smoke...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBradenton, Florida - A Bradenton family still reeling from the loss of their loved one has decided to offer a $500 reward for the return of their loved one's ashes. 19-year-old Nicholas Reek, a Manatee ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Bronx man was viciously assaulted and robbed on a subway train Sunday by four men who he says taunted him for being white. Police confirmed they are investigating the assault and robbery of Jason Fordel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGold prices rallied to record highs above $1,600 an ounce in Europe on Monday, as investors spooked by the euro zone debt crisis and the threat of a U.S. default bought into the metal as a haven from risk....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Pentagon has a policy which can only be called the zenith of militaristic arrogance and stupidity: “Full Spectrum Dominance”. As the name implies, the policy’s aim is for the United States’ military to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe credit ratings agencies are again angering governments, but this time they are taking on the big fish of the world economy. From Washington to Brussels, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch have added ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Bronx man was viciously assaulted and robbed on a subway train Sunday by four men who he says taunted him for being white. Police confirmed they are investigating the assault and robbery of Jason Fordel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGold prices rallied to record highs above $1,600 an ounce in Europe on Monday, as investors spooked by the euro zone debt crisis and the threat of a U.S. default bought into the metal as a haven from risk....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Pentagon has a policy which can only be called the zenith of militaristic arrogance and stupidity: “Full Spectrum Dominance”. As the name implies, the policy’s aim is for the United States’ military to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of people are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The crisis has been brought on by a deadly combination of severe dr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForecasting systems were warning about a serious drought in the Horn of Africa as much as a year ago — but communication problems between scientists and decision-makers meant the alerts went largely unheed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday. Called "P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of people are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The crisis has been brought on by a deadly combination of severe dr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForecasting systems were warning about a serious drought in the Horn of Africa as much as a year ago — but communication problems between scientists and decision-makers meant the alerts went largely unheed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday. Called "P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago* Sean Hoare.* Sean Hoare is dead. Christopher Shale is dead. Daniel Morgan is dead. Sally Ann Wood reportedly claimed to have seen 30 murders. *Sean Hoare* claimed that Murdoch's former News of the Wor...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoFishermen claim they've captured a Cadborosaurus on video, and that it's genuine.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoNot all Republicans are racist and not all racists are Republicans. But an extraordinary number of Republicans-- by design (they were recruited by Nixon and Reagan to build the party in the South)-- are r...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 20 hours agoNY Times By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: July 11, 2011 JERUSALEM — The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Adreanof Islands, Alaska at a depth of 9.4 km ( 5.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:24 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Atka, Alaska N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA former reporter for the News Of The World who blew the whistle on the extent of phone hacking at the paper has been found dead at his home. Hertfordshire Police have said Sean Hoare's death is being tre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least six people died in the torrential rains that buffeted the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco over the weekend, emergency management officials said. A mudslide killed four members of a fam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least three people died and more than 180,000 others were affected by the torrential rains that hit southern Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec over the weekend, officials in Oaxaca state said. Two people...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 21 hours agoFormer IDF prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg has an updated post on supporting the boycott of Netanyahu here in the US. It includes this tidbit: "...all I can say is this: Since 1948, Israel has been a besiege...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 21 hours ago*by Barbara Loe Fisher* * * Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 499.1 km ( 310.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:15:25 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 308 km (192 miles) Northwe...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoNot yet, but further examining the mineral could open the door to creating synthetic materials that mimic its absorbing qualities.
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - You know its good when you go to see it twice in the same weekend. We give *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* a solid 4.5 stars out of 5. Meanwhile the boy wizard has also va...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoPOLITICS - 64 missile warheads have been stolen from a Romanian train. The train was transporting military equipment to Bulgaria. Prosecutors said today they are investigating the theft. Spokesman Marius ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoPOLITICS - Don't drink the water in Georgia because apparently all the cops there are braindead. Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three little girls trying to save up money for a t...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 22 hours agoAnybody smell massive lawsuits? Or dirty tricks? (These guys have got a lot of class, don't they? What kind of slug-level class is up for debate though.)Hurray for lawyers! They're gonna get rich. But they a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours agoOne can hardly call them all Libyans or all rebels. Sure there are some Libyans. But, there are also special forces troops, CIA operatives and quite likely some mercenaries supplied by NATO thrown into the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 40.7 km ( 25.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:07:27 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 153 km (95 miles) South of Beng...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 3.2 km ( 2.0 miles), the quake hit at 16:03:46 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) East of Raoul Islan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Negros, Philippines at a depth of 41 km ( 25.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:14 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) WNW of Dumaguete, Negros...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*The Bad Reps* *The first time I ever spoke with Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan on the phone, I kept thinking, "How did someone this young ever get into so powerful a position?" I never asked his...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoMy husband's family is obsessed with doughnuts. Actually, obsessed might be a little bit of an understatement, so when I saw the cute doughnut necklace over at Lil Blue Boo, I knew that my husband's siste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Taiwan Region of 13 km ( 8.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:53 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Hualien, Taiwan No Tsunami warning i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlmost 100 forest fires are burning in northwestern Ontario, with smoke affecting many communities — and more than 30 new blazes expected over coming days. The Ministry of Natural Resources says there are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe economy of the Pakistan is going down by the passage of every day which calls for urgent and decisive actions by the government, the Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) said on Sunday Incompetent leadership a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCredit rating agency Moody's dinged a key backup plan to raise the debt ceiling Monday, and said the United States would be better off if the ceiling was eliminated entirely. Lawmakers appeared to make li...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe stress for Spain could just be getting started after several of the nation's banks failed to pass stress tests Friday. The European Banking Authority tested 90 financial institutions across Europe to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome Canadians are in for more hot and sticky weather on Monday, with Winnipeg possibly hitting official heat wave status. More hot weather is forecast for parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and southern Ont...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoParts 2-5 are here: 2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AkuE0f1pQ&feature=related 3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTgt8dAnFE 4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUv_NjT9F0g 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger's secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process of mending a 20-year breach in diplomatic relations between the United States and China. That t...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoDear Followers and Readers, First of all, I would like to offer a sincere "thank you" to everybody who has answered the questionnaire so far. The response has been honest and robust, and I am very gratefu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's government is set to suspend all cattle shipments from Fukushima as concerns over radiation-tainted beef escalate. Senior Vice Health Minister Kohei Otsuka said beef from surrounding areas may als...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago“I have seen the future, and it works,” journalist Lincoln Steffens famously said of his 1919 visit to Bolshevik Russia. Guided by his economic faith, Steffens saw the future as he wanted it to be, not as ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than five people are dead after an angry mob attacked a police station in western China. According to Chinese media reports, a mob attacked the police building in Hotan in the Xinjiang region, taking...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn 1995, I published a book called *The World After Communism*. Today, I wonder whether there will be a world after capitalism. That question is not prompted by the worst economic slump since the 1930s. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic pro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe past several years in the economy and investment markets have been extraordinary. We have had the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Banks, brokerage firms and AIG went bust, or...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHow on earth did we come to this? Three weeks from now we might very well find ourselves in total economic collapse not from a devastating natural disaster or a diabolical terrorist attack. No, the politic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago“I have seen the future, and it works,” journalist Lincoln Steffens famously said of his 1919 visit to Bolshevik Russia. Guided by his economic faith, Steffens saw the future as he wanted it to be, not as ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStock markets fell on Monday as concerns over debt crises in the United States and Europe weighed on oil prices while boosting gold. Toronto’s benchmark index, the S&P/TSX composite, was down 15.90 points,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday financial markets need to see further concrete action by European leaders to prevent the continental debt crisis from spreading to more countries. Spea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTropical storm Bret continued to strengthen and came closer to the Bahamas Monday morning, but the forecast called for the storm to begin moving out to sea later in the day. As of 8 a.m., Bret -- the seco...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United Nation's highest court ruled Monday that both Cambodia and Thailand must withdraw their troops from an area where a disputed border temple sits. The International Court of Justice drew what it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than five people are dead after an angry mob attacked a police station in western China. According to Chinese media reports, a mob attacked the police building in Hotan in the Xinjiang region, taking...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA long lost island in the North Atlantic Ocean sits on the seafloor, but rivers and mountains and other remnants of its time at the surface remain etched on its features.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe stress for Spain could just be getting started after several of the nation's banks failed to pass stress tests Friday. The European Banking Authority tested 90 financial institutions across Europe to ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoRestoring Coast, Seafood’s Reputation Are Linked, Says GNO Chief Upper Pontalba renters suing the city to try to overturn recent rent increases Bourbon street, war, violence…and hey! Take it down a notch…...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Green star shows a Earthquake of 3 Magnitude or Higher - At 02:02:27 a 3.8 Magnitude Earthquake struck under Katla Volcano at a depth of just 1.1 km Update: According to information from the Iceland...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoHey, Dear Readers, I have a brand-spanking-new website made just for me by Runner Susan who, when she is not running, buying shoes or drinking wine, is a professional web designer. (Actually, sometimes wine ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoWhile I am busy studying, I thought I would share various pieces that attract my attention from time to time. The following link is to a piece by one of my favorite authors, Derrick Jensen, coauthored with...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Cattle feed on straw which have been declared safe by the Fukushima prefectural government, at a farm in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, 16 July 2011. Credit: Reuters / Kyodo] Reportin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoYesterday it was Metropolitan Police commissioner Stephenson who fell on his sword. Today his second in command, assistant commissioner Paul Yates, also resigned. Events are spinning out of control so ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: This sea butterfly is a kind of pteropod, a swimming snail just a half inch across. It's the dominant zooplankton in polar waters, nicknamed the "potato chip of the sea" because fish and other pr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoGlobal warming denier, self-styled "Lord" Christopher Monckton has been warned by the British House of Lords to cease and desist his claims that he is a member of that body. Monckton, who did inherit a ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've just started reading a remarkable book, one that can't wait until I finish to share it with you: *Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Env...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoPredictably, I received a comment to my earlier post, Lurching from Bedlam to Oblivion, from a reader supporting the idea that chemtrails are being sprayed, with a link to a youtube. I don't want to dispa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA spokesperson for the UK supermajor said the spill at the pipeline which serves the Lisburne oil field in Prudhoe Bay “appears minor”. The spill, which happened on Saturday, occurred during pressure test...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy Duane Craig Upper Ringwood Superfund Site Upper Ringwood, New Jersey continues facing the long-term consequences of hazardous waste dumping. According to the ABC news affiliate WABC in New York City, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA stage at the Bluesfest music festival collapsed during a severe thunderstorm today injuring five people. The incident happened on the main stage at the Ottawa festival on Sunday night during a Cheap Tri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA tour bus travelling from Washington D.C., to Niagara Falls crashed in a wooded median in western New York yesterday afternoon, killing two people and injuring 35. The crash happened on Interstate 390 in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Swiss man has died after piloting a rented plane into the home of his estranged mother. Minutes before the attack, he phoned her from the cockpit to say: 'Are you home? I am just going to drop by!' The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean stock markets have tumbled today as investors fled at the prospect of a two-pronged debt crisis in the eurozone and the U.S. Bank stress test results that took place after markets closed on Friday...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe Navy has decided to expand a helicopter landing facility on Ulleung Island and dispatch two more military helicopters to it, according to a lawmaker.The move comes as Seoul seeks to bolster its capabil...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI'm starting to lose track of the mayhem inside the fascistic Murdoch media empire as the criminal regime starts unraveling. Over the weekend the head of his operations in the U.K., Rebekah Brooks, resign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn excavator is driven into to a tunnel to rescue workers trapped inside at a construction site on Shengli Road of Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province, July 18, 2011. Twelve peop...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoOn 17 July 2011, *The Sunday Herald* reported on apparently fake evidence in the Lockerbie trial. *The Lockerbie Case: New doubts over crucial evidence in Lockerbie .* It is believed that the CIA and Sco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLink sent in by Reader: A Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid. A Budapest court acquitted the former police captain, now 97, of ordering th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Political pressure on scientific research even at CERN began to resemble the undemocratic regimes of the past* Veteran science journalist Nigel Calder has found an incredible interview with Rolf-Dieter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInfestation of Poisonous Jellyfish Posing a Threat to Swimmers Along Stretches of Bali’s Eastern Shores. Lifeguard Service Says Kuta Beach Not Under Threat.* Bali Post, Nusa Bali* and *Beritabali.com* are...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoThink you know who Rupert Murdoch really is?I know I did.And it certainly sounds like this gentleman knows quite a bit about the truth we've been denied by the MSM, which has been dominated for decades by Fo...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWill bootprints in the Martian soil be a part of our future, or will the interplanetary trip prove too hazardous for humans?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCould the discovery of two neighboring brown dwarfs indicate that more of these ultracool "failed stars" are nearby?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe sharks are attracted to an abundant gray seal population.Google FriendConnect.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes 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 - 20 minutes 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 - 20 minutes 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 - 31 minutes 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 - 37 minutes 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 - 37 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 38 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 39 minutes 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 - 40 minutes 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 P...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 40 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 59 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoSeabirds can smell out good partners and choose to mate with genetically dissimilar partners.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoPirates of the Gulf Coast~Gambit ~Jeremy Alford on how Louisiana has spent -- and misspent -- its oil-gotten gains Governorcist Bobby "Brady" Jindal's recovery program panned in audit New Orleans inspecto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoResearchers have mimicked an unusual muscular structure found only in tongues and elephant trunks.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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. A writer nicknamed "Science" has wri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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! - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours agoSimplified device targets seniors and kids with an SOS button and stripped-down functionality.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 11 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"His howl is caused by a large hyoid bone at the top of the trachea. It can be cured by a simple operation on the neck with an axe."* So far in the title section of Will Cuppy's *How to Tell Your Friends...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Index note: The "Thurber (et al.) Tonight" index has (finally) been updated, and should now be current!* *"Gibbon authorities do not know whether the Gibbon is interested in sex. But you know and I know....
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 14 hours agoThis weekend, Kurt and I ran in the Wyandotte Portofino Art Fair 5K, Saturday at 800 AM in Wyandotte. It was a nice race and I was glad it was early, as it was already super hot at 800 AM! Kurt broke his...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoSIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation ... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else. Who could have foreseen such a thing? Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually co...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Dessicated corn field in Garvin County, Oklahoma, July 2011. oklahomafarmreport.com] By MICHAEL MCNUTT, CAPITOL BUREAU 15 July 2011 With no forecast of rain in sight, Gov. Mary Fallin suggests ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago* Once upon a time the Polo Grounds sat at the foot of Coogan's Bluff. * *by Ken* For your avid urban gadder, does this sound fabulous or what? *Highbridge Park Hike with Sidney Horenstein* *Tuesday, July ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago"There exist in the life of societies as well as individuals hours of moral discomfort when despair and fatigue spread their leaden wings over human beings. Men then begin to dream of nothingness. The en...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoThe Lens wins press club awards for investigative reporting, social media! Times-Picayune, NOLA.com take top honors at New Orleans Press Club
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoEmpty streets never looked so good.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoMarathon swimmer Diana Nyad is attempting to do what she couldn't finish in her late-20s.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 18 hours agoThe White House Blog Posted by Kori Schulman on July 17, 2011 Yesterday morning President Obama met with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House. Here's the statement from th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Sharks cruise over a coral reef. Fishing alters predator patterns; when large fish are removed, corals don't fare as well. S. A. Sandin, et al. / nsf.gov] Media contacts Cheryl Dybas, NSF (703) ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Workers on the bus which will transfer them to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They are known as 'nuclear gypsies'. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert] By Justin McCurry in Iwaki-Yumoto, www.guardian.co....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: UK Energy Minister Chris Huhne warns that global warming could threaten Britain's security. dailymail.co.uk]By David Derbyshire 8 July 2011 Global warming will threaten Britain's security by tri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe documentary film Farmageddon explores the fine line between consumer protection and government intrusion when it comes to food safety. Certainly we all want wholesome food, but what happens when rules ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIsraeli rescue services evacuated the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Sunday as a large forest fire raged out of control, threatening several Jerusalem neighbourhoods, rescue workers said. Thick grey smoke...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBradenton, Florida - A Bradenton family still reeling from the loss of their loved one has decided to offer a $500 reward for the return of their loved one's ashes. 19-year-old Nicholas Reek, a Manatee ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Bronx man was viciously assaulted and robbed on a subway train Sunday by four men who he says taunted him for being white. Police confirmed they are investigating the assault and robbery of Jason Fordel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGold prices rallied to record highs above $1,600 an ounce in Europe on Monday, as investors spooked by the euro zone debt crisis and the threat of a U.S. default bought into the metal as a haven from risk....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Pentagon has a policy which can only be called the zenith of militaristic arrogance and stupidity: “Full Spectrum Dominance”. As the name implies, the policy’s aim is for the United States’ military to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe credit ratings agencies are again angering governments, but this time they are taking on the big fish of the world economy. From Washington to Brussels, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch have added ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Bronx man was viciously assaulted and robbed on a subway train Sunday by four men who he says taunted him for being white. Police confirmed they are investigating the assault and robbery of Jason Fordel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGold prices rallied to record highs above $1,600 an ounce in Europe on Monday, as investors spooked by the euro zone debt crisis and the threat of a U.S. default bought into the metal as a haven from risk....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Pentagon has a policy which can only be called the zenith of militaristic arrogance and stupidity: “Full Spectrum Dominance”. As the name implies, the policy’s aim is for the United States’ military to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of people are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The crisis has been brought on by a deadly combination of severe dr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForecasting systems were warning about a serious drought in the Horn of Africa as much as a year ago — but communication problems between scientists and decision-makers meant the alerts went largely unheed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday. Called "P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of thousands of people are fleeing drought and famine in Somalia in search of food and water in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. The crisis has been brought on by a deadly combination of severe dr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForecasting systems were warning about a serious drought in the Horn of Africa as much as a year ago — but communication problems between scientists and decision-makers meant the alerts went largely unheed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday. Called "P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of small, old rocket warheads were stolen from a train carrying military equipment from Romania to Bulgaria, officials said Monday. Authorities promised that the 64 warheads posed no danger to the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA convicted murderer is suing the state of Colorado for saving his life after his heart stopped beating. Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered prison guards not to resuscitate him if...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo policemen are recovering after they were shot by fellow officers as they tried to arrest a man on child pornography charges outside a crowded move theatre. The incident happened as undercover officers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHouse Republican leaders have missed a 36-hour deadline President Obama set during a Thursday meeting for lawmakers to give him a plan to avert a national default. The deadline came and went Saturday morn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama has been using the debt-ceiling debate and bipartisan calls for deficit reduction to demand higher taxes. With unemployment stuck at 9.2% and a vigorous economic "recovery" appearing more a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new doll hitting stores in the U.S. is causing some controversy with parents. It’s called The Breast Milk Baby and it claims it teaches young girls how to breast feed. The doll is made by Berjuan Toys,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRatings agency Moody's on Monday suggested the United States should eliminate its statutory limit on government debt to reduce uncertainty among bond holders. The United States is one of the few countries...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe extreme heat and persistent drought seen in much of Texas is taking its toll on wildlife, with deer, birds and other animals abandoning or unable to feed their young. Pregnant does are having problems...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHalf of Dahlen Hancock’s cotton fields are dead. The other half are clinging to life. The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nin...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago* Sean Hoare.* Sean Hoare is dead. Christopher Shale is dead. Daniel Morgan is dead. Sally Ann Wood reportedly claimed to have seen 30 murders. *Sean Hoare* claimed that Murdoch's former News of the Wor...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoFishermen claim they've captured a Cadborosaurus on video, and that it's genuine.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoNot all Republicans are racist and not all racists are Republicans. But an extraordinary number of Republicans-- by design (they were recruited by Nixon and Reagan to build the party in the South)-- are r...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 20 hours agoNY Times By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: July 11, 2011 JERUSALEM — The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Adreanof Islands, Alaska at a depth of 9.4 km ( 5.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:24 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Atka, Alaska N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA former reporter for the News Of The World who blew the whistle on the extent of phone hacking at the paper has been found dead at his home. Hertfordshire Police have said Sean Hoare's death is being tre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least six people died in the torrential rains that buffeted the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco over the weekend, emergency management officials said. A mudslide killed four members of a fam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least three people died and more than 180,000 others were affected by the torrential rains that hit southern Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec over the weekend, officials in Oaxaca state said. Two people...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 21 hours agoFormer IDF prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg has an updated post on supporting the boycott of Netanyahu here in the US. It includes this tidbit: "...all I can say is this: Since 1948, Israel has been a besiege...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 21 hours ago*by Barbara Loe Fisher* * * Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands at a depth of 499.1 km ( 310.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:15:25 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 308 km (192 miles) Northwe...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoNot yet, but further examining the mineral could open the door to creating synthetic materials that mimic its absorbing qualities.
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - You know its good when you go to see it twice in the same weekend. We give *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2* a solid 4.5 stars out of 5. Meanwhile the boy wizard has also va...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoPOLITICS - 64 missile warheads have been stolen from a Romanian train. The train was transporting military equipment to Bulgaria. Prosecutors said today they are investigating the theft. Spokesman Marius ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 22 hours agoPOLITICS - Don't drink the water in Georgia because apparently all the cops there are braindead. Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three little girls trying to save up money for a t...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 22 hours agoAnybody smell massive lawsuits? Or dirty tricks? (These guys have got a lot of class, don't they? What kind of slug-level class is up for debate though.)Hurray for lawyers! They're gonna get rich. But they a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours agoOne can hardly call them all Libyans or all rebels. Sure there are some Libyans. But, there are also special forces troops, CIA operatives and quite likely some mercenaries supplied by NATO thrown into the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 40.7 km ( 25.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:07:27 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 153 km (95 miles) South of Beng...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 3.2 km ( 2.0 miles), the quake hit at 16:03:46 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) East of Raoul Islan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Negros, Philippines at a depth of 41 km ( 25.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:25:14 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) WNW of Dumaguete, Negros...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*The Bad Reps* *The first time I ever spoke with Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan on the phone, I kept thinking, "How did someone this young ever get into so powerful a position?" I never asked his...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoMy husband's family is obsessed with doughnuts. Actually, obsessed might be a little bit of an understatement, so when I saw the cute doughnut necklace over at Lil Blue Boo, I knew that my husband's siste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Taiwan Region of 13 km ( 8.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:53 UTC Monday 18th July 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Hualien, Taiwan No Tsunami warning i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlmost 100 forest fires are burning in northwestern Ontario, with smoke affecting many communities — and more than 30 new blazes expected over coming days. The Ministry of Natural Resources says there are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe economy of the Pakistan is going down by the passage of every day which calls for urgent and decisive actions by the government, the Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) said on Sunday Incompetent leadership a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCredit rating agency Moody's dinged a key backup plan to raise the debt ceiling Monday, and said the United States would be better off if the ceiling was eliminated entirely. Lawmakers appeared to make li...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe stress for Spain could just be getting started after several of the nation's banks failed to pass stress tests Friday. The European Banking Authority tested 90 financial institutions across Europe to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome Canadians are in for more hot and sticky weather on Monday, with Winnipeg possibly hitting official heat wave status. More hot weather is forecast for parts of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and southern Ont...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoParts 2-5 are here: 2/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AkuE0f1pQ&feature=related 3/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTgt8dAnFE 4/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUv_NjT9F0g 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways. Some powerful men have long been sexually voracious; unlike today, though, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger's secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process of mending a 20-year breach in diplomatic relations between the United States and China. That t...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoDear Followers and Readers, First of all, I would like to offer a sincere "thank you" to everybody who has answered the questionnaire so far. The response has been honest and robust, and I am very gratefu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's government is set to suspend all cattle shipments from Fukushima as concerns over radiation-tainted beef escalate. Senior Vice Health Minister Kohei Otsuka said beef from surrounding areas may als...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago“I have seen the future, and it works,” journalist Lincoln Steffens famously said of his 1919 visit to Bolshevik Russia. Guided by his economic faith, Steffens saw the future as he wanted it to be, not as ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than five people are dead after an angry mob attacked a police station in western China. According to Chinese media reports, a mob attacked the police building in Hotan in the Xinjiang region, taking...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn 1995, I published a book called *The World After Communism*. Today, I wonder whether there will be a world after capitalism. That question is not prompted by the worst economic slump since the 1930s. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic pro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe past several years in the economy and investment markets have been extraordinary. We have had the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Banks, brokerage firms and AIG went bust, or...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHow on earth did we come to this? Three weeks from now we might very well find ourselves in total economic collapse not from a devastating natural disaster or a diabolical terrorist attack. No, the politic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago“I have seen the future, and it works,” journalist Lincoln Steffens famously said of his 1919 visit to Bolshevik Russia. Guided by his economic faith, Steffens saw the future as he wanted it to be, not as ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStock markets fell on Monday as concerns over debt crises in the United States and Europe weighed on oil prices while boosting gold. Toronto’s benchmark index, the S&P/TSX composite, was down 15.90 points,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday financial markets need to see further concrete action by European leaders to prevent the continental debt crisis from spreading to more countries. Spea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTropical storm Bret continued to strengthen and came closer to the Bahamas Monday morning, but the forecast called for the storm to begin moving out to sea later in the day. As of 8 a.m., Bret -- the seco...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United Nation's highest court ruled Monday that both Cambodia and Thailand must withdraw their troops from an area where a disputed border temple sits. The International Court of Justice drew what it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than five people are dead after an angry mob attacked a police station in western China. According to Chinese media reports, a mob attacked the police building in Hotan in the Xinjiang region, taking...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf your heritage is non-African, you are part Neanderthal, according to a new study.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA long lost island in the North Atlantic Ocean sits on the seafloor, but rivers and mountains and other remnants of its time at the surface remain etched on its features.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe stress for Spain could just be getting started after several of the nation's banks failed to pass stress tests Friday. The European Banking Authority tested 90 financial institutions across Europe to ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoRestoring Coast, Seafood’s Reputation Are Linked, Says GNO Chief Upper Pontalba renters suing the city to try to overturn recent rent increases Bourbon street, war, violence…and hey! Take it down a notch…...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Green star shows a Earthquake of 3 Magnitude or Higher - At 02:02:27 a 3.8 Magnitude Earthquake struck under Katla Volcano at a depth of just 1.1 km Update: According to information from the Iceland...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoHey, Dear Readers, I have a brand-spanking-new website made just for me by Runner Susan who, when she is not running, buying shoes or drinking wine, is a professional web designer. (Actually, sometimes wine ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoWhile I am busy studying, I thought I would share various pieces that attract my attention from time to time. The following link is to a piece by one of my favorite authors, Derrick Jensen, coauthored with...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Cattle feed on straw which have been declared safe by the Fukushima prefectural government, at a farm in the town of Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture, 16 July 2011. Credit: Reuters / Kyodo] Reportin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoYesterday it was Metropolitan Police commissioner Stephenson who fell on his sword. Today his second in command, assistant commissioner Paul Yates, also resigned. Events are spinning out of control so ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: This sea butterfly is a kind of pteropod, a swimming snail just a half inch across. It's the dominant zooplankton in polar waters, nicknamed the "potato chip of the sea" because fish and other pr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoGlobal warming denier, self-styled "Lord" Christopher Monckton has been warned by the British House of Lords to cease and desist his claims that he is a member of that body. Monckton, who did inherit a ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've just started reading a remarkable book, one that can't wait until I finish to share it with you: *Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Env...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoPredictably, I received a comment to my earlier post, Lurching from Bedlam to Oblivion, from a reader supporting the idea that chemtrails are being sprayed, with a link to a youtube. I don't want to dispa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA spokesperson for the UK supermajor said the spill at the pipeline which serves the Lisburne oil field in Prudhoe Bay “appears minor”. The spill, which happened on Saturday, occurred during pressure test...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy Duane Craig Upper Ringwood Superfund Site Upper Ringwood, New Jersey continues facing the long-term consequences of hazardous waste dumping. According to the ABC news affiliate WABC in New York City, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA stage at the Bluesfest music festival collapsed during a severe thunderstorm today injuring five people. The incident happened on the main stage at the Ottawa festival on Sunday night during a Cheap Tri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA tour bus travelling from Washington D.C., to Niagara Falls crashed in a wooded median in western New York yesterday afternoon, killing two people and injuring 35. The crash happened on Interstate 390 in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Swiss man has died after piloting a rented plane into the home of his estranged mother. Minutes before the attack, he phoned her from the cockpit to say: 'Are you home? I am just going to drop by!' The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean stock markets have tumbled today as investors fled at the prospect of a two-pronged debt crisis in the eurozone and the U.S. Bank stress test results that took place after markets closed on Friday...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe Navy has decided to expand a helicopter landing facility on Ulleung Island and dispatch two more military helicopters to it, according to a lawmaker.The move comes as Seoul seeks to bolster its capabil...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI'm starting to lose track of the mayhem inside the fascistic Murdoch media empire as the criminal regime starts unraveling. Over the weekend the head of his operations in the U.K., Rebekah Brooks, resign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn excavator is driven into to a tunnel to rescue workers trapped inside at a construction site on Shengli Road of Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province, July 18, 2011. Twelve peop...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoOn 17 July 2011, *The Sunday Herald* reported on apparently fake evidence in the Lockerbie trial. *The Lockerbie Case: New doubts over crucial evidence in Lockerbie .* It is believed that the CIA and Sco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLink sent in by Reader: A Hungarian man, Sandor Kepiro, has been found not guilty of committing war crimes during a 1942 raid. A Budapest court acquitted the former police captain, now 97, of ordering th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Political pressure on scientific research even at CERN began to resemble the undemocratic regimes of the past* Veteran science journalist Nigel Calder has found an incredible interview with Rolf-Dieter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInfestation of Poisonous Jellyfish Posing a Threat to Swimmers Along Stretches of Bali’s Eastern Shores. Lifeguard Service Says Kuta Beach Not Under Threat.* Bali Post, Nusa Bali* and *Beritabali.com* are...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoThink you know who Rupert Murdoch really is?I know I did.And it certainly sounds like this gentleman knows quite a bit about the truth we've been denied by the MSM, which has been dominated for decades by Fo...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWill bootprints in the Martian soil be a part of our future, or will the interplanetary trip prove too hazardous for humans?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCould the discovery of two neighboring brown dwarfs indicate that more of these ultracool "failed stars" are nearby?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe sharks are attracted to an abundant gray seal population.
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