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The army has been deployed in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, to quell anti-government protests. At least eight people were killed and 44 wounded on Wednesday in clashes in the northern city of Mzuzu, hospit... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
A fake immunisation programme used to trace Osama bin Laden has undermined medical aid and put lives at risk, says Frank Swain. Last week it was claimed that the CIA had set up a fake vaccination programm... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
ccording to a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the 18-month recession has cost over $7,300 per person in foregone consumption as of May 2011 — that’s an average of $175 a month lost... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
The world’s second largest economy is putting on the brakes. But will it be a slow decline, or a rapid stop? China’s red hot economy eased, with second quarter figures showing Beijing’s GDP dropped to 9.5... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
China says the Philippines infringed its sovereignty on Wednesday by sending a delegation of politicians to a disputed island in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said China had "i... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
A bomb attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed at least two oil workers and injured seven, medics say. Police say the oil workers' convoy was attacked near the town of Jafarabad in the south... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoSeveral cars were crushed after part of the metal roof of the main terminal of airport in Thunder Bay, Ont., blew off Wednesday, but there were no injuries, police say. Sgt. Sharon Komar said debris was s...
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In yet another sign that the job market is still stuck in a rut, more Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week than the week before. There were 418,000 initial unemployment claims fi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
The five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers' uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water. The streaks of blood, sme... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a “black ops” department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged. Dan Cooper, who helped l... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
It’s going to hit hard and it’s going to hurt – made worse because most aren’t expecting it. They think the world is slowly returning to our modern “normal” – steadily increasing growth, with occasional an... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoChina says the Philippines infringed its sovereignty on Wednesday by sending a delegation of politicians to a disputed island in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said China had "i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoA bomb attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed at least two oil workers and injured seven, medics say. Police say the oil workers' convoy was attacked near the town of Jafarabad in the south...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoSeveral cars were crushed after part of the metal roof of the main terminal of airport in Thunder Bay, Ont., blew off Wednesday, but there were no injuries, police say. Sgt. Sharon Komar said debris was s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoIn yet another sign that the job market is still stuck in a rut, more Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week than the week before. There were 418,000 initial unemployment claims fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoThe five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers' uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water. The streaks of blood, sme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoRupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a “black ops” department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged. Dan Cooper, who helped l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoIt’s going to hit hard and it’s going to hurt – made worse because most aren’t expecting it. They think the world is slowly returning to our modern “normal” – steadily increasing growth, with occasional an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoThese are tough times for the nation, and for defense. The U.S. financial system is broken and the country is in dire fiscal shape. The defense budget is under enormous pressure. The extent of future cuts ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago*In the beginning was the Debs (and by beginning, I mean some time in the 1980s) and the Debs was awesome (1 Blog 1:1).* Yes, it's that time of year again, the time where Debra's husband hijacks her blog ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoWhat do FOX News and North Korea have in common? Possibly, quite a bit. Rupert Murdoch's American crown jewel apparently has a very dark underbelly, at least according to Dan Cooper, FOX managing editor...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*New Report: Peabody's Black Mesa Coal Mine draining* *region's water supply* *By Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine' CARE, To' Nizhoni Ani, Center for Biologial Diversity and Sierra Club* Photo by Leslie M...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoIf you think the auroral displays we have on Earth are impressive, spare a thought for aurorae erupting in the atmospheres of massive gas giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoNepal is planning to launch a new GPS survey to re-measure the height of Mount Everest.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 hour agoMacArthur-winning activist, Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy. It is an emotional speech...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Zambia at a depth of 13.5 km ( 8.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:55:55 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 222 km (137 miles) North of Livingstone, Zambia No d...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 2 hours ago*I should be working instead of blogging...* * * I’ve been reading a book called The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies by the famous skeptic Michael Shermer for my independ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoFrench knights may have lost to a smaller army of English soldiers in 1415 because they had to slog it out in heavy armor.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoDavid Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and all their minions are running a PR campaign on the *News International* scandal, telling people to keep it "in perspective." It's not really a big deal or at least tha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours ago*Warwick Spinks* "*Warwick Spinks* ... built 'businesses' and bought properties in South Africa, Namibia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, France and England... "He lives in Czech Republic...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoAmerica's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a security matter meriting ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoNo, crime isn't going away but, even as Ruler Steve indulges his prison fetish, crime rates continue to go down - a lot. StatsCan said police-reported crime rates fell a whopping 5 per cent last year from...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours agoWith his kind permission, it's my great pleasure to post this essay written by Mr. Tim Murray: Hi there! We're the Percapitas. We've cut per capita consumption and our per capita waste. We compost, we c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwo more patients linked to contaminated saline at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport have died. It comes after *27-year-old nurse Rebecca Leighton was arrested on suspicion of murdering patients*. She...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoImagine yourself among the thousands and thousands of people gathered for the final game of the Canucks/Bruins Stanley Cup. It's easy to assume you're virtually invisible in the sea of faces. It's not. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoThese sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently many people have been doing ...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoPart terracotta planter, part barbecue grill, this stealth device lets you plant your herbs and then use them for grilling.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoWhy do some missing persons cases stay in the news, while others fade away?
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe WattStation is capable of fully charging a 24 kWh battery in just 4 to 8 hours.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoThe middle class and the working class have sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed... up the wazoo. We paid when the greed-driven banksters drove the economy off the cliff and demanded mammoth bailouts-...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 3 hours agoAnti-Racism is a key weapon of our Zionist enemies. Love of one's own people does not mean hatred of others. Indeed, protection of your own family is a natural instinct. I love my family; that doesn't mean...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoJames posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read. Of course, politicians with a privatization agenda never let the fac...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe shuttle's smooth landing closes the curtain on a 30-year program that carried people to space.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago*Kuiu Kwaan Tribal Court issues declaratory judgment upholding gathering rights of Northern Paiute 'Kwassuh' Wesley Dick* Article copyright by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoHolidaymakers have been warned to be vigilant this Summer as Britain's coastal seas could to be turned into 'jellyfish soup'. Pollution, over-fishing and climate change are among the theories being used t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMexican authorities went on high alert Wednesday as Hurricane Dora upgraded into a Category 4 storm off the country's Pacific coast. The Mexican National Meteorological Center, citing initial reports, said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Japanese government will announce new "hot spots" recommended for evacuation near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant possibly "within the next couple of days," Kyodo News reported Thurs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTen bats recently found in Moorpark have tested positive for rabies, Ventura County health officials confirmed Wednesday. The bats were collected from several homes in a neighborhood next to Moorpark Col...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHot weather is causing trouble for a Prairieville neighborhood. However, it's not just the heat causing trouble. People there are dealing with a lake, full of dead fish. About 15 houses surround the lak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least 32 wedding guests, including women and children, were poisoned in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Col. Noor Gul, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAnother northern Alberta oil pipeline has been shut down after operator Pembina Pipeline discovered a leak in a remote area north of Swan Hills. An estimated 1,300 barrels were released from the undergroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThousands of people were evacuated from a packed Harlem park Wednesday afternoon after an explosion triggered a roaring fire at a sewage treatment plant that spewed a 30-foot plume of fire into the air, of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTHUNDER BAY – The fire situation across Northwestern Ontario remains severe. There were twenty new fires reported since yesterday. Across the province the current scope of the area covered by fires is 300,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoU.S. authorities are investigating what could be killing hundreds of fish and other marine animals - including sharks and manatees - which in recent days have been washing up on beaches in southwestern Flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least three dozen children have taken ill due to the outbreak of chicken pox in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, locals said on Wednesday. The outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease- chicken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHere's something you never want to hear: "That loud booming sound is coming from inside the house!" That's what one Inocenta Hernandez from Guatemala City learned after a noise caused her to run outside,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least three dozen children have taken ill due to the outbreak of chicken pox in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, locals said on Wednesday. The outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease- chicken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThousands of people were evacuated from a packed Harlem park Wednesday afternoon after an explosion triggered a roaring fire at a sewage treatment plant that spewed a 30-foot plume of fire into the air, of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTHUNDER BAY – The fire situation across Northwestern Ontario remains severe. There were twenty new fires reported since yesterday. Across the province the current scope of the area covered by fires is 300,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHere's something you never want to hear: "That loud booming sound is coming from inside the house!" That's what one Inocenta Hernandez from Guatemala City learned after a noise caused her to run outside,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoU.S. authorities are investigating what could be killing hundreds of fish and other marine animals - including sharks and manatees - which in recent days have been washing up on beaches in southwestern Flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHUNDREDS of people were evacuated, some suffering breathing difficulties, after a mysterious chemical leak at the city’s tax office on Wednesday afternoon. The city went into red alert as more than 100 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Taliban claimed today that their mobile phones, email accounts and website had been hacked to send out false messages suggesting their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died. The one-eyed, reclusive ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours agoPermalink *Obama Is A Bankster Puppet “Who Brought On The Depression That The Republicans Never Could Have Gotten Away With”* July 18, 2011 In a recent interview with *Guns and Butter*, Michael Hudso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThey could be trailers for a horror movie. But actually these dark, dramatic adverts, with their undertones of sexual abuse and exploitation, were created by the U.S. Government to combat human traffickin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThis was the moment a jet of water was blasted more than 100 feet into the air after a suspected car-jacker crashed into a fire hydrant. Two houses were evacuated after the crash sent the torrent in to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMajor cities in the U.S. are being invaded by a 'super mosquito’ which returns to bite even after being swatted away. The Asian tiger mosquito is tougher and harder to kill than its regular counterpart an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe three-year-old son of a police officer accidentally shot and killed himself with a gun he found in a bedroom at home - and his father responded to the emergency call. Daniel Metz died in hospital afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo New Jersey teenagers face registering for life as sex offenders under Megan's Law for what their lawyers claim was horseplay. An appeals court agreed the boys, who were 14, engaged in sexual contact w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA teenager knocked off his scooter during a crash in New York could have been saved if onlookers had not been distracted by an NBA star in one of the cars involved. Awsaf Islam, 15, lay dying in the roa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThree hikers who jumped a guard rail at Yosemite National Park were playing close to a massive waterfall before being pulled by raging water. Hormiz David, 22, Ninos Yacoub, 27, and Ramina Badal, 21, all f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe blistering heat wave sweeping east across the U.S. has killed at least 22 but utilities are urging customers to turn down their air conditioners to prevent a devastating stress on the nation's power gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago'Frankenstein' insects dating back 120 million years have been discovered among fossils from Brazil. The monster bugs had the wings and body of a dragonfly, wing veins like those of a mayfly and a prayin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCatholic Bishops flouted Irish law and were encouraged by the Vatican not to tell police about suspected paedophile priests, it has been claimed. The astonishing accusations were made by Ireland's lawmaker...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA wild leopard which mauled six people after wandering into a village in deepest India has died from injuries sustained during the attack. The fully grown beast savaged several policemen and forest rangers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoColonel Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government conceded yesterday. In a statement which is likely to infuriate Britain, France’s foreign minister, Alain Juppe, suggested...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNASA has announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has found a fourth moon circling the icy dwarf planet, Pluto, but it is just eight to 21 miles wide. Until astronomers decide upon a name, this moon will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNOTE: Yesterday 20th July it was reported that the person killed by this car bomb was a Dutch National - this is an updated article A British expat was killed by a suspected terrorist car bomb in Yemen ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAs an aid worker who spent time in Iraq, Noelle Berney would have had her fair share of close calls. But nothing prepared her for the crashing down of her own house - which has left her with no hot water,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBritain's weather took a strange turn today when this mini twister appeared over a UK town. The tornado-like cloud was seen racing through the sky above Leamington Spa, Warkwickshire, just after 2pm. It ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThey lived in a magnificent £5million listed mansion built by royalty, complete with 200 acres of land stocked with sheep and cattle. Pamela Palmer and her son Joseph told neighbours they came from a wealt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Japanese man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker in 2007. Tatsuya Ichihashi admitted killing the 22-year-old but said her death was accide...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Russian army is blowing up everything in sight - from rocket launchers to radar stations, fighter jets and arms factories. But those fearful of a new world war need not worry as the Red Army has simpl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 31.6 km ( 19.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:05 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) Southwest of Si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoInflation could soon hit levels not seen for two decades, the Bank of England warned yesterday. Prices are already rising at a crippling 4.2 per cent, more than double the 2 per cent target the Bank is su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA truck overloaded with sand has caused a bridge to collapse in China - leaving a scene that looked like the aftermath of an earthquake. The vehicle, which was weighed down with 160 tons of sand, crushed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEurozone leaders will later meet for an emergency summit to thrash out a solution to the Greek debt crisis that threatens to bring down the euro. The 17 leaders of the eurozone countries have been urged t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 31.6 km ( 19.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:05 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) Southwest of Si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoInflation could soon hit levels not seen for two decades, the Bank of England warned yesterday. Prices are already rising at a crippling 4.2 per cent, more than double the 2 per cent target the Bank is su...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*Update:* ATLAS at 1.02/fb saw no ZZ events near 325 GeV, among the 12 in general, which - as far as I can see - largely falsifies any theory starting with the assumption that the CDF signal reported bel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoInterpol and Greek police have launched a fresh investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Ben Needham 20 years ago. A retired Greek doctor has come forward claiming he saw a blond-haired tod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe alert level for an Alaska volcano is being raised after officials say persistent thermal anomalies have been spotted in satellite data. The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday raised the level Cle...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoI wrote yesterday that the BBC Trustee's report into science coverage is a travesty. It is worse. Professor Steve Jones says that too much space is given to climate "deniers". Yet at least five years ago t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 87.2 km ( 54.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:11 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) West from Happy Valley, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.1 km ( 21.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:45:53 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) South of Semisop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:09:24 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) Southwest of Iranshahr, I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 33.5 km ( 20.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:55:37 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) East of Raoul I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:51 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) East of Raoul Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 11.4 km ( 7.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:03:28 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) ESE...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResearchers from Texas A&M University have returned from a trip to examine the scope and size of this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and have measured it currently to be about 3,300 square miles,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBritons love to lecture the world about integrity and the rule of law, but the News of the World phone hacking scandal has laid bare a web of collusion between money, power, media and the police. Far from...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWhen former astronaut Story Musgrave addresses an expected huge throng of UFO believers in California next week, he'll delight the crowd when he tells them he believes we're not alone in the universe. But...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAt first glance, that may sound like a crazy question. The two giants of the global economy appear to be heading in opposite directions. China is the world's up-and-coming superpower, propelled forward by ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoPC World and many others bring us some great news about the future methods of transportation. Cars have become obsolete and they consume too much energy. So the EU has started an official EU project MyCo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Fish and Wildlife Service determined Monday that whitebark pine, a tree found atop mountains across the American West, faces an “imminent” risk of extinction because of factors including climate change...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLamb, beef and cheese generate the most greenhouse gases of 20 popular meat, fish, dairy and vegetable proteins, according to a new study from the Environmental Working Group. The Meat Eater's Guide, relea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMassive global greenhouse gas pollution is changing the chemistry of the world's oceans so much that scientists now predict it could severely damage shellfish populations and the nations that depend on the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSuzanne B. McLaren, the collection manager in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's section of mammals, extends the wing of an approximately 3-inch specimen of a Seminole bat, rare in Pennsylvania, whic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDiscovery Channel is set to announce a potentially controversial new series: A docu-soap reality show set in the country’s largest medical marijuana distributorship and starring a pot reform activist. This...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly into Berlin today for a summit with Angela Merkel aimed at forging a common stance on the Greek rescue package as the eurozone lurches closer to collapse. Chancel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThieves made off with more than $20,000 worth of copper wire from two far southwest suburban businesses sometime between Monday afternoon and early Tuesday. The theft happened sometime between 4:30 p.m. o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA family friend has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl while living with the victim's uncle. A family friend, 50-year-old Johnny Connor, is suspected of performing a lewd act that c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLee Lewis, the owner of the tricked-out hearse loaded with an arsenal of fake weapons and abandoned in Miami Gardens, was slapped late Monday with an additional felony charge. The count: a rarely used stat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRiots have broken out in cities in Malawi as opposition groups protest against President Bingu wa Mutharika's government. At least one person has died in the northern city of Mzuzu and protesters are bur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Prince William county man openly admits he shot at a neighborhood dog in front of other neighbors. Some of those neighbors say they support the man’s actions. The 59-year-old man says he did it to pro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe global economic crisis which originated in the sub-prime debacle in the United States, and has been characterised by stagnation or anemic economic growth in Europe and Japan, remains in contrast to the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEurope is now burning. FIRE is the combination of the initials of the three words - Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. The cradle of the large-scale finance and real estate accident is the United States, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPartisan tensions could hardly be worse in the House, but on Friday afternoon Speaker John Boehner walked into Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol suite for a cordial session with his Democratic counter...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWonder why the Greek 2 Year bond just plunged, sending its yield to a laughable all time high 39.09% (a 312 bps move today alone)? Wonder no more. According to the ECB’s Ewald Novotny the central bank has ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Middle-Man and the Debt Ceiling Debacle* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* Well, Tom, that's pretty much where I am on the Events of the Day. Sick to death, tired of it all, and . . . and . ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe Empire State Building will be decked out in red, white and blue lighting tonight to welcome home the last space shuttle, NASA said Wednesday.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoRelated: America Is A Failed State The erosion of the American republic has been a long historical process that has reached its final stages. The erosion didn't begin with President Barack Obama, or Geo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoHere is an interesting question; "Does the BBC DG have knowledge of and take responsibility for the BBC journalist who has been barred from Parliament? 'Gobby (Paul Lambert) has had his Pass withdrawn, re...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 17 hours ago*INTRODUCTION: How to roll back the state using environmental judo* *When New Zealand first announced it had made up the new position of Minister for the Environment, his professor at UC Berkeley told him...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck Solomon Islands at a depth of 54.5 km ( 33.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:02 UTC Wednesday 20th July 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) ENE of Kir...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEvery child has written their names on the beach at some point. But whereas most people's 'sandwriting' is washed away, one super-rich Arab sheikh has ensured that his doodles will last a little longer. H...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoParts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a UN official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation. The Horn of Africa is s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged eurozone leaders to take immediate action over the region's debt crisis, warning it could prove "very costly" for the world. Europe's policymakers must pres...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 18 hours agoAlarmist editorializing about Iran, its regional influence, and its nuclear energy program has picked up considerably in the past few weeks. In the wake of the latest IAEA report this past Spring which rev...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 18 hours agoStolen from that Well-Armed Lamb! (Do yourself a favor and watch this very short, smart video.)There Are 630 "Private" Contractors, & 170 "Mercenary" Companies At Work In IraqWhen you outsource your military...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFor millions of people enduring this week's extreme heat and humidity, it feels like they're living in a pressure cooker. And in a sense, they are. Much of the United States is trapped under a heat "dome" ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFalling mail volume and soaring red ink may soon doom Saturday mail delivery and prompt three-day-a-week delivery within 15 years, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warns. Donahoe's forecast is based o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to approve an ordinance giving animal control officers the right to declare a dog “vicious,” a designation that can potentially lead to the animal being euthani...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago"When a country is indebted to the degree that we’re indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable," Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the House floor today. "If we d...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company's already controversial iris- and facial-scanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track crimina...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRecent protests in Israel highlight the differences between the country's religious and secular Jewish communities. Hundreds of right-wing Jews have taken part in demonstrations outside Israel's Supreme ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOntario forest fires may force as many as 7,000 First Nations people from their homes as Canadian Forces hurry to get people out of their remote communities before the flames arrive. "There are worries th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHurricane Dora grew stronger offshore on Wednesday as it brought rain to the Mexican coast. The fourth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season was forecast to move parallel to the shoreline for several d...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAstronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified another moon around the dwarf planet Pluto. It becomes the fourth object known to be circling the distant world after the long-recognised Charo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIran has brought down a U.S. "spy drone" flying near its Fordo nuclear enrichment plant in Qom province, state-run media reported Wednesday. The date of the incident has not been disclosed, and three U.S. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPlans to get people to adopt healthier lifestyles will not work unless the government is more prepared to use legislation, peers believe. The House of Lords science and technology committee said ministers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn the nine years Mark Stroman has been on death row in Texas, he says he has watched 208 people walk past him on the way to be executed. This week it is his turn. But fighting to save his life is the man...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNearly everything that eurozone leaders have done in response to the euro crisis has been done in the name of preventing contagion. But guess what. It's already here. Because (nearly) everything those lea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago"We are heading towards fiscal union or break-up," said David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC. "Talk is no longer enough as the fire threatens to leap over the firebreak into Spain and Italy. "What the mark...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 19 hours agoNY Cop Says Murdoch Tabloid Offered Her Cash For 9/11 Victims Phone Numbers Murdoch Won't Deny 911 victims Were Phone Hacked - NOTW Phone Hacking ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe technique could create replacement organs faster than previously tested methods
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe vehicle is designed to protect against terrorists posing as recreational watercrafts or swimmers.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoYes I know this is a bit overdue but better late than never! Off you go.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoOn Today we had 'Thought for the Day' presented by Abdal Hakim Murad, a Muslim. He's a regular, unsurprisingly. A reader writes; "As usual with nearly all Muslims he slips in a bit of anti Christian rhet...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Website for this image* On 14 July 2011, Wayne Madsen suggested that the *Christopher Shale "murder" could be linked to that of Dr. David Kelly** *"A well-placed UK source has informed Wayne Madsen Rep...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoThere hasn't been a poll, at least as far as I know, that asks Americans if they think life imprisonment for banksters who, carried away with greed and avarice, tanked the economy, is too lenient. Nor ha...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoSome interesting observations here from a B-BBC reader.... "Anyone hear John Pienaar on the BBC this morning getting over excited and giving us his version of events?Cameron says he had no inappropriate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 51 km ( 31.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:18:14 UTC Wednesday 20th July 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) from Naha, Okinawa,...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 19 hours agoIt's summer... so who wants to be inside on the computer when we can be outside enjoying the sun? Or at least enjoying the sun as long as it stays tolerable... so in the mornings and evenings... Anyway, i...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoResearch suggests that we no longer remember facts, because we know the web will do it for us.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoWhen you've got a device to unload, uSell will search multiple buyer sites for the best offer.
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoHere's one for you: Report: Obama top recipient of News Corp. donations Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with Presid...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago[image: Democratic leaders] President Barack Obama summoned top Democratic lawmakers back on the way to the White House Wednesday to resume negotiations on prevention a potentially crippling government de...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoDespite nearly a half-century of intensive exploration by human and robots, the moon still has strange secrets for us to solve.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 22 hours agoBy Duane Craig Perhaps it is time for Asarco to catch a break on the environmental front and its latest action of filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for lying under oath about le...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoScott Walker and his army of right-wing zombies in the Wisconsin Republican Party were eager to accomplish several things affecting elections before the recall votes expected to end his absolute power in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA nurse held on suspicion of murdering patients at a hospital in Stockport has been named as Rebecca Leighton. The 27-year-old was arrested at her home in Heaviley, Stockport, at 6am. Crime scene investi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe US Air Force is ready to switch to biofuels to help power its warplanes but the price of alternative fuels remains too high.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA female skeleton, also known as "Ötzi’s girlfriend," has been lying on her side for 5,000 years in the Italian Alps.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoPluto may have been demoted to dwarf planet status, but it's queen bee to a clutch of moons that now number four.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: A KWS ranger stands guard next to the ivory pile that was set ablaze at the Tsavo West National Park on 20 July 2011. Amos Rono / kws.org] July 20 (KWS) – Lusaka Agreement Task Force and Kenya Wi...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoI have often wondered about the tone to adopt in writing posts here about the BBC's reporting of climate change. Are my thoughts about Richard Black and Roger Harrabin too waspish, and should they be toned...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoMuch of Iceland's controversial whale hunt is driven by tourism, which is why anti-whaling activists are demanding the country ban the practice.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Map of countries' actions and commitments on climate change. The Smith School at Oxford has rated each country's actions and commitments on climate change. Dark green is ‘Very good’, dark orange ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*A Victory for Protection of Sogorea Te* *July 20, 2011* *http://www.protectglencove.org* ** After 98 days and nights of a continuous prayer vigil, the Committee to Protect Glen Cove is pleased to announce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Lion Fire burning in the Golden Trout Wilderness of Sequoia National Forest has grown to approximately 3,000 acres. A plume of smoke could be seen east of Porterville again Tuesday afternoon. As the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA federal team has taken over management of a wildfire burning more than 8 square miles in northeast Wyoming. The Whoop Up fire is burning on federal land 10 miles south of Newcastle and has prompted the ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Apa Sherpa, world record holder for climbing Mount Everest 21 times, at the inauguration of an artificial climbing wall on the eve of the 10th Girimitra Sammelan (mountaineer’s meet) in Mumbai on...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Fetching water in the Borena zone in Ethiopia's Oromiya region. For Abdha Aso, a 20-year-old mother of five, it involves a four-hour round trip to a muddy pond. Only a year ago, she could reach a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 17.6 km ( 10.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:51:30 UTC Wednesday 20th July 2011. The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) South of David, Panama ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United Nations declared a famine Wednesday in parts of southern Somalia as the east African nation suffers the worst drought in half a century. Thousands of Somalis have fled in search of food and wate...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt a morgue in Pakistan's largest city, five linen pouches -- each the size of a loaf of bread -- line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each small sack is the corpse of an infant. The babi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe people out here are tough, and so are their animals. But there is a limit to how much any human can take, and people like Alfon Abdulahi Mohamed have reached it. We met Alfon as we drove towards wha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Chinese government, the top international investor in U.S. Treasuries, urged the U.S. government to get its debt under control or its credibility will suffer. "We hope the U.S. government will take re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean officials are scrambling to resolve the debt crisis in Greece amid signs the contagion is spreading, but a comprehensive solution remains elusive ahead of a crucial summit on Thursday. The leader...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTim Kelsey, No 10's director of transparency, said that schools and doctors should use the web to cut down paperwork and reduce their costs. Mr Kelsey said: "We don’t want to have schools spending money on...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibyan government forces in trucks disguised with rebel flags have shelled opposition positions near the strategic eastern oil town of Brega, killing 13 rebel fighters and wounding dozens more, officials s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian troops and armed groups described by one resident as "death squads" have laid siege to the city of Homs since Monday night, sources said. Syrian rights activist Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Lon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwenty protesters from China's minority Uighur community were killed in a clash with police in the ethnically tense northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Uighur exile group has said. State media quoted an of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRepublicans and Democrats are still debating a deal to lift the US debt ceiling in order to avoid defaulting on its payments. Congress must raise the $14.3 trillion limit on US borrowing by August 2 or t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears are growing that Italy could become the latest victim of the Eurozone's debt crisis. Worries over the euro currency are growing and plans for a second Greek bailout remain deadlocked. Also the Eur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe eastern state of Odisha in India is pitting small farmers against international business interests in a battle that threatens the Indian government's idea of development. "POSCO go back!" is a common ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistani spies have been operating a front organisation in London to exert political pressure on the government, it was claimed on Tuesday. Details of the organisation emerged as two alleged spies were ch...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of millions of dollars in urgently-needed US aid for Somalia are being withheld even as parts of the country are set on Wednesday to be declared a famine zone. Conditions in the country, hit first by...
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