Image via Wikipedia- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoWARNING AREA AND DURATION: Norway and Europe, until Friday, Midnight EST EVENT INFORMATION: A major bombing in Oslo, Norway, followed by a mass shooting spree at a Children's Camp indicates that Norway i...
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I've known Alan Grayson for quite a few years and one thing I can say about him is that he is refreshingly consistent. He's been a dedicated fighter for working families-- on a Bernie Sanders/Raúl Grijal... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
At least two people have been killed in a massive explosion in Oslo and four are killed in a shooting at a youth meeting 500 miles from Oslo. Police in Norway say the blast - which happened just after 2.30... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Norwegian police have said that an explosion in Oslo this afternoon was caused by a bomb, and has led to "deaths and injuries" - while there are reports that shots have been fired at a nearby children's ca... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 35 minutes ago
* Oslo* *1.* Norway is ending its involvement in Libya. As of 1 August 2011, its air force will no longer be involved. (Norway leaving Libya) *2.* March 2011 -"the junior partner in the Norwegian govern... - posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 43 minutes ago
[image: Explosion rocks gov't HQ in Oslo] A powerful blast tore open more than a few Oslo buildings including the prime minister's office on Friday. One person was reportedly killed and several were injur... - posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 44 minutes agoWhen media mogul Rupert Murdoch got "pied" this week, he was hardly the first political figure to take one in the face.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 44 minutes agoNASA has decided on where the Mars Science Laboratory, or 'Curiosity,' will land on Mars next year.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 44 minutes agoRestrictions in electricity use are creating a demand in clothing that cools.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 44 minutes agoAround the world, governments are taking stock of oil submerged aboard long-sunk, deteriorating vessels.
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A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Russia - Northeastern China Border Region at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:52:59 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 94 km ( 58 m... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Nato is investigating claims that its computer network has been infiltrated after a group of hackers boasted they had breached the organisation's security. Hacking group Anonymous bragged that they had 'b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
The U.S. National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings for a huge section of the country, from Kansas to Massachusetts, forecasting temperatures near or at triple digits today and into the we... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
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This ape made a monkey of Chinese villagers who feared it was a visitor from another world. Locals panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
I confess I have been lost in thought all morning, like the kind of lost in thought where people can't get your attention. I confess I have been lost in thought because I don't think I am very good at the... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 hour ago(Please donate to this effort to penetrate the darkness with some little-known truths if you can. It's 106 degrees in the shade here. And I'm working hard.) Dennis Kucinich for President! Listen to why he s...
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People living in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida are most at risk in the United States from toxic emissions spewing from coal and oil-fired power plants, two leading American environmental groups said in a ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
I don't usually post twice in one day, but there is a story which requires our immediate attention (hat tip, Mish). This post's title is riff on Arthur Fullerton's Only poor people can be allowed to fail. ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A group of Filipino lawmakers landed on China's Zhongye Dao Island in the South China Sea Wednesday and raised their national flag as a means of further asserting their country's claim to the region. They... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFast food giant McDonald's has seen its quarterly profits soar 15% on higher sales across all its global regions. Its net profit for the three months to 30 June totalled $1.41bn (£866m), compared with $1...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoRussian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill that officially classifies beer as alcoholic. Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff. The move,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBetter regulation is needed to govern rapidly expanding research in animals containing human tissue or genes, the Academy of Medical Sciences says. It said such studies were necessary for medical research...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA heat wave blamed for as many as two dozen deaths settled over portions of the East Coast as the National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning for much of the Mid-Atlantic, saying Friday would...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA group of Filipino lawmakers landed on China's Zhongye Dao Island in the South China Sea Wednesday and raised their national flag as a means of further asserting their country's claim to the region. They...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoIn 1922 Greek armies trying to conquer western Anatolia were routed by Turkey’s military leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks were uprooted from Ionian coastal areas.After ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe IDF’s Iron Fist armored brigade held a bilateral tactical war exercise in the Golan Heights in recent weeks -- the first time the exercise took place in the North, where the brigade will probably be st...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoRetired Egyptian general Samach Sif Alizal said Thursday that Israel is planning to carry out a plan soon to disrupt and harm shipping in the Suez Canal in order to establish a rail line to bring freight t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoCash-strapped governments have long wanted to grab a bigger share of the wealth we hold in housing, now the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says Britain should adopt a Contine...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe world’s biggest McDonalds is on its way to London. The fast food behemoth will seat 1,500 and take up 3,000 square metres of the Olympic village, selling a whopping 1.75 million meals to greedy custome...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoItalian MPs sent themselves bogus death threats in order to qualify for bodyguards, a whistleblower has claimed, amid a furious backlash over parliamentarians' cushy lifestyles. The claim – which has not ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEthel Gist bought her dream house and planned to retire to Antioch, Calif. Instead, the 70-year-old lost the house during the height of the foreclosure crisis, and now rents a place with her daughter and t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA small Arkansas town of 850 is attempting to ban groups from meeting to talk about the city without first getting permission from the city itself. In a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Gould, Arkan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAmerica will never recover if we outsource everything, including our public infrastructure. Bloomberg made the excellent video above about California outsourcing the construction of a portion of the San Fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe United States is so far lacking a strategy for managing future Chinese investment. With Beijing pushing for more access to its high tech sector, it needs one. The United States and China have long lob...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAs small towns suffer from a continuing flight from rural toward-more urban living, some economic development groups and governments in these troubled areas have chosen to stay and fight. The Homestead Ac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoHas America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoLike insects trapped in a spider's web, these bright blue stars sit in our own Milky Way, between us and another spiral galaxy. Captured in infrared light by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope, this spectacul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA householder who was arrested on suspicion of murdering a burglar is to be released without charge. Peter Flanagan, 59, was held after the death of John Bennell, 27, who died from a stab wound to the che...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoLined up standing on buses in front of a baying mob with their necks tied to a bridge, these are the final moments of three men subjected to a public hanging. But rather than originating from decades ago,...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoOn Monday's open thread (Pg. 9, comment @ 10:09:20pm GMT), I mentioned that there was a question about whether or not the President violated federal lawby filming a political campaign ad in the White House....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAt least 41 people have died after an overcrowded bus carrying hazardous goods burst into flames on a motorway in China. The fire happened early on Friday morning on a motorway in Xinyang in Henan provin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 32.2 km ( 20 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:43 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 92 km ( 57 miles) SSE of Salina Cruz, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 51.5 km ( 32 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:32 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 131 km ( 81 miles) WSW of Chinande...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 48.2 km ( 30 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:42 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 102 km ( 63 miles) WSW of Tapachula, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador of 62.2 km ( 38.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:31 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) Southwest of Guayaquil, Ecua...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSeeing chimps in entertainment may jeopardize their endangered status.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe unique up and down motion of the sharks allows them to access prey at different depths.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoAll eyes are on the PC and Liberal leadership races this summer in Alberta. Well, all eyes are on the PC leadership race, and a few eyes are glancing over at the Liberal one every now and then. Still, th...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours agoBad news first: I got a call yesterday from the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue and they told me my appeal to get back the $753 the DOR stole from my bank account last month had been turned down. Accordin...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 2 hours agoDuring *Bloggingheads*' latest installment of "What Do White, Jewish Think-Tankers in Washington D.C. Think the U.S. Should Do About Iran?" , former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block, now a fellow at the bizarrel...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoLevee armoring plans challenged by East Bank levee authority members ~Mark Schleifstein ~Very Special Thanks to Sandy Rosenthal and Levees.org New Orleans City Council adopts new district boundaries Tu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn explosion in Oslo has blown out most of the windows of a 17-storey building in the centre of the capital. Early reports suggested it happened at a government building which contains the offices of the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoAs you can imagine, I spent hours watching the updated documents on the conference website of EPS-HEP2011. There's a lot of great work but no new physics. And no discovery of a Higgs so far. See a list...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoForget those wimpy plastic substitutes -- this is the only straw you really need.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoMIT researchers develop tracking system that shows paths of discarded, recycled electronics.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoMissing the rain? Meteorologists are too.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 hours agoThis week saw our federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, minus Ontario, trot out a joint communique describing the tarsands as "sustainable and responsible", even as the Cons were simultan...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe Salomon line aims to improve posture, muscle performance and recovery.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoSpoofing and old-fashioned techniques borrowed from computers can give anyone access.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoWednesday one of Raúl Grijalva's most important points in his press conference about the Republican threats to force the treasury into default was that "The people we represent cannot simply be collatera...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 5 hours agoSource: Diario Impre Date: 21 July 2011 UFOs Represent “A Real and Serious Threat” By Luis Jaspe Yet again we come across the subject of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and cannot find a...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoLooks obviously influence viewers' perceptions of candidates. But some are easier to charm than others.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoSo far, the two-seater, electric-hybrid has only made some short hops over the Mojave Airport runway.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoOnce again, videographer Noe Castillo has captured space shuttle history through his camera lens.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoHelpful site finds the best time to buy devices based on their life cycles.
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 5 hours agoBureaucracy is a tool to keep the world as it is, not to change it. So, in perfect Tainter-style, the system works hard to avoid innovation, not to promote it. It is almost impossible to be financed to stu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 41.6 km ( 25.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:43:12 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Sand Point, Alask...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe parents and grandmother of a toddler found dead in a garden pond have avoided a prison sentence despite admitting child neglect. Parents Charlotte Rees-Smith and Andrew Marshall, and grandmother Hilary...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLibyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has ruled out any negotiations with rebels over the future of the north African country. He said there would not be any talks between him and the opposition until wh...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 7 hours agoWe are constantly told of the threat of war in the Middle East. From stories of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq to Iranian use of enriched Uranium for nuclear weapons, we are told on a near daily basis...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoI found this 35-minute debate with Larry Summers at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference entertaining and thought-provoking. *Shift-click here to play the video: I disabled the embedding.* *The Facebook p...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe BBC has done everything possible to relegate focus on the ongoing meltdown of their beloved eurozone but they are quick out of the traps this morning to join in the faux celebration now that the "leade...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoRobert Peston and Nick Robinson have been central to the two week long prolonged BBC assault on the Murdoch empire. After the Murdochs and Brooks gave a reasonably credible account of themselves at the Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe number of prions that perished on the west coast of the North Island in last week's stormy weather could be in the tens of thousands. Though the species was not endangered, the birds might have "taken ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFive children of the indigenous group Chimila died of a mysterious respiratory infection in the department of Magdalena, reported Radio Santa Fe Thursday. According to the department's governor, Manuel J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*TORRENTIAL rain is still causing chaos along the NSW coast, while conditions appear to have eased for residents evacuated along the Traralgon Creek overnight after a three-day drenching in Victoria's east...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago------------------------------ *July 22, 2011 at 00:12:16* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/22/11:* * * *Permalink* *An Economy Destroyed -- The Enemy Is Washington* *By paul craig roberts (a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago***SIX BEACHES were closed to bathers this week after a plague of jellyfish resulted in no less than 90 casualties suffering with stings. The beaches at Punta Prima, La Mosca, Playa Flamenca, Cala, Zenia a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Fiji Region at a depth of 599.4 km ( 372.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:56:40 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji No T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been observed by the Herschel Space Observatory. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWildlife officials manage to capture a 12ft alligator found on a footpath in Florida this morning, according to a spokesman. In Royal Palm Beach, agents from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 66.3 km ( 41.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:39:04 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 91 km ( 57 miles) Southwest of Mapa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUtilities threat: The Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station (L, dome) and cooling tower (R) seen in the distance in Lower Alloways Township, New Jersey. The Department of Homeland Security has warned that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt is an image like none ever seen before and it is only fitting it should be saved for the final, historic voyage. Astronauts at the International Space Station captured a breathtaking image of Atlantis ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mother was left heartbroken when she called for police to help her to deal with her distraught son, and officers gunned him down as she watched. Alma Chavez, from Las Vegas, Nevada, called for a police t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUtilities across the U.S. have threatened rolling blackouts to cope with high demand due to this week's heat wave as temperatures climb near 100 in the northeast. Con Edison is warning customers to expect...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA hate campaign is believed to be underway in Mississippi after a black pastor's home was shot at in the middle of the night and the letters KKK were sprayed over a black sheriff candidate's sign. Reveren...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThis is the shocking video of a vicious fight between two women on a New York subway train. What appears to begin as an argument over a seat quickly escalates into a vicious fight, with one woman losing h...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Boy by Lucian Freud. * On 20 July 2011, Artist *Lucian Freud*, died of a 'mystery' illness, aged 88. Lucian Freud was the brother of *Clement Freud* and uncle of *Matthew Freud*and *Emma Freud.* * L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA dangerous fugitive who was left free to kill a defenceless pensioner in her own home was jailed indefinitely today. Kuba Dlugosz, 33, was wanted on a European arrest warrant for skipping a prison senten...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA young model was left fighting for her life after her boyfriend stabbed her in the neck with a Rambo knife, a court has heard. Scott Smith launched at his sleeping girlfriend with the knife, plunging it ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMore than 130 people have fallen ill with salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated eggs imported from Spain. It is the latest in a line of food poisoning outbreaks associated with Spanish eggs which da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe trial of a suspected 14-year-old American citizen hitman started in Mexico today under tight security. Edgar Jimenez, known as 'El Ponchis' -The Cloaked One - is suspected of the gruesome murders and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA boy aged ten has accidentally shot and killed his five-year-old brother with a gun he found at his home in Belleville, Illinois. The brothers were being looked after by a male babysitter while their par...
- 120 million-year-old fossil is the ‘world’s oldest pregnant lizard’, say scientists - 21st July 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA fossil from north-eastern China is the oldest terrestrial reptile to give birth to live young ever found - at least as early as 120 million years ago. The fossil of a pregnant lizard proves some lizard... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGlobal warming fears were heightened today as it emerged that the Arctic is facing record levels of melting ice this year. A warm spell gripping the region has melted a staggering 46,000 square miles of i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA boy aged ten has accidentally shot and killed his five-year-old brother with a gun he found at his home in Belleville, Illinois. The brothers were being looked after by a male babysitter while their par...
- 120 million-year-old fossil is the ‘world’s oldest pregnant lizard’, say scientists - 21st July 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA fossil from north-eastern China is the oldest terrestrial reptile to give birth to live young ever found - at least as early as 120 million years ago. The fossil of a pregnant lizard proves some lizard... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoGlobal warming fears were heightened today as it emerged that the Arctic is facing record levels of melting ice this year. A warm spell gripping the region has melted a staggering 46,000 square miles of i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA flu vaccine given to millions of Britons as recently as a few months ago will no longer be used after watchdogs found it increased the risk of children developing a serious sleeping disorder. Pandemrix ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt sounds like something from a Hollywood science fiction film: a race that is half human, half ape. But leading scientists are today demanding tough new rules to prevent the nightmare scenario becoming a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAs the toll in the saline murder inquiry rose to five yesterday, detectives were set to review dozens of other deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital. The inquiry escalated as another of the 14 patients whose sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Near Islands, Alaska at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:24:11 UTC fRIDAY 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 203 km (126 miles) WSW of Attu, Alask...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChilean officials have declared a "catastrophe" in eight southern districts where heavy snowfall over four days left thousands of people isolated. Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said the declaration w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 23.4 km ( 14.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:56:27 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Ecuador at a depth of 161.6 km ( 100.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:23:48 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) East of Riobamba, Ecuador No d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Balleny Islands Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:01:42 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 453 km (281 miles) NNE of Young Island...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck of the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.4 km ( 31.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:48:41 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) SSE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 161.5 km ( 100.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:45 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) Northeast of Pucallpa, Per...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agof journalism is the first draft of history, the current phase of journalism with blogs, tweets and miscellaneous bells and whistles is once-over-lightly history that bears little relation to reality. Merc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwelve people have died in national protests that erupted in Malawi, government officials said as demonstrations continued for a second day Thursday. Nine people died in Mzuzu, in the northern part of Mal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe state of Florida made $63 million last year selling what many think is personal information. Local 10 has learned the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is selling people's names, address...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe burst of enthusiasm for the "Gang of Six" debt reduction plan as a way out of the debt ceiling crisis has appeared to fade as Democratic and Republican lawmakers studied and found fault with the detail...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAs Congress and the President wrangle over who will pay for the New Austerity—guess who!—and Larry Summers seeks a guarantee that no big financial institution in any country should be allowed to fail, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAs Congress and the President wrangle over who will pay for the New Austerity—guess who!—and Larry Summers seeks a guarantee that no big financial institution in any country should be allowed to fail, the ...
- 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!* *"The Lemur sleeps all day long and nobody tells him that he is a tramp. When disturbed he sort of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town that had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Before dawn Wednesday, workers exhumed Hess's ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTexas inmate Mark Anthony Stroman was executed Wednesday for the killing of a man from India in what Stroman believed to be revenge for the September 11, 2001, attacks, a spokesman for the Texas Departme...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTWO people are confirmed dead after a helicopter crashed in bushland in a northern Sydney suburb this morning. About 9.15am, police responded to reports the Bell 206 helicopter had crashed into bushland a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Mexican Attorney General's Office says 111 of its officials have been charged with fraud, embezzlement and abuse of power and 192 others have been fired for botching investigations. Inspector General ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said that about 16,200 police officers - more than one in ten - will be axed by 2015 amid fears crime could go up by 3 per cent. Up to 1,800 community support of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoLawmakers in Washington are racing to reach a deal to save the country from defaulting on its debt, but on Wall Street, financial players are devising doomsday plans in case the clock runs out. These comp...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIran must respect its borders with Iraq, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said on Tuesday, after Tehran's forces clashed with Iranian Kurdish rebels leaving several people dead. Iranian security officials, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAnonymous said Thursday morning that it had breached the databases of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and was sitting on about 1GB of data. "Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of res...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt is obviously good news, if true, that Republicans and Democrats may be approaching compromise in the negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling. Yet one has to wonder whether the so-called Gang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA female polar bear swam for a record-breaking nine days straight, traversing 426 miles (687 kilometers) of water—equivalent to the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston, a new study says. The pre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWe're seeing records fall in all directions this year—wettest, driest, warmest, coldest, snowiest, stormiest, fieriest—across the globe. In the US alone, in the month of July alone, 1,079 total heat record...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA jury has decided that a set of rare gold coins found in a bank deposit box rightfully belongs to the U.S. government. The decision, made on Wednesday, caps an unusual civil case that combined history, c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoRecent heavy rains in North Korea have slightly injured 96 people and destroyed thousands of houses in a border city alone, an international relief agency said Thursday. Among the injured people, 14 patie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn enraged, barking chihuahua succeeded in foiling a robbery attempt by two armed men at Ace Gifts and Tobacco, in Altadena, California. You read that right! The attempted robbery took place around 7:30 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km, the quake hit at 05:39 Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 40 km West of Christchurch No damage or injuries reporte...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours agoWhich Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke *A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.* *– Winston Churchill* So over at his place, @cityslikr's on...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoJim Hansen is my hero. Besides being the visionary who foresaw the perils of climate change decades ago, he is the only scientist who has had the moral courage to incur condemnation, vilification, and eve...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours agoCenk Uygur, host of the popular show, "The Young Turks," decided to leave the not so popular MSNBC channel after experiencing what can only be called a "Howard Beale moment" with MSNBC's corporate executiv...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Why Cenk Uygur Left MSNBC, Part 1* *"I'm holding onto the story that I've been talking about the whole time on The Young Turks, about how the problem with the mainstream media is they're desperate to get...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoPolitical excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario. Among this week's highlig...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoThe remains of Rudolf Hess have been exhumed in Germany and his grave destroyed after it became a shrine for neo-Nazis.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago* Imagine a ‘Party X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environmen...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoHome to the biggest counterfeit market in the world, China appears to have moved from forging products to forging stores.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoTwo boats equipped with sonar monitor open-water swimmers.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours ago*A post from the archives offering advice for any putative Party X wanting to roll back the state.* Two bakers are talking politics. "How do you roll back the state?" asks the first. "One roll at a time...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAngela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy held crisis talks in Berlin amid warnings that a failure to break the debt crisis deadlock within 24 hours would send shockwaves around the global economy. Early on Thurs...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn Oklahoma City man who wore diapers as part of a con was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. Mark Anthony Richardson II also must serve five years on probation after his release and register a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn Indiana couple is facing public indecency charges after they allegedly had sex for 30 minutes Sunday afternoon in a community pool while dozens of witnesses, including children, watched the illicit aqua...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFor 17 days straight, the Dallas-Fort Worth Area has reached triple digit temperatures. With the hot weather and lack of rain, nearly the entire state remains in a serious or severe drought. Currently, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI recently visited Garissa, Kenya -- a city of at least 180,000 people not far from the border with Somalia -- and areas to the north to see how this year's drought has impacted families in the area. From...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBlood tests designed to detect active TB are inaccurate and should be banned, the World Health Organization has said. More than two million such tests are carried out annually, but the WHO says they are ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoStony Stratford calls itself the jewel of Milton Keynes, a real corker of a catchline, a bit like rebranding Nunhead the pearl of Peckham. Yet putting aside jokes about applying lipstick to a pig (and then...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA New Zealand newspaper group is reporting that the deadly February earthquake in Christchurch unearthed a suspected Israeli spy ring. Three Israelis died in the quake that killed 181 people. Other Israeli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs the eurozone lurches from one crisis to the next, UK gilts have become seen as something of a safe haven asset. The yield on ten year gilts is not quite at Germany or US levels, but it’s not far off. Ev...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin La...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA new promotional video released by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, as Big Sis continues its relentless drive to cement the m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoUnhappy that a Lafayette Road car dealer wouldn't take back the van he bought on Monday, David Cross drove "the lemon" back after the dealer closed on Tuesday and crashed it into six cars parked on the lot...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTHE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion. In a report by its governing bo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoConsumers in the U.S. are increasingly using credit cards to pay for basic necessities as income gains fail to keep pace with rising food and fuel prices. The dollar volume of purchases charged grew 10.7 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSome 141 million Americans over nearly 1 million square miles were under a heat alert on Wednesday, the result of a heat "dome" that's only slowly moving away from the central U.S. — and into the East Coas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFor aid donors and humanitarian agencies, it is a Faustian bargain: reach and save tens of thousands of people on the verge of starving to death. The price: come to an "understanding" with one of the mos...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin La...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoUnhappy that a Lafayette Road car dealer wouldn't take back the van he bought on Monday, David Cross drove "the lemon" back after the dealer closed on Tuesday and crashed it into six cars parked on the lot...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTHE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion. In a report by its governing bo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAl-Qaeda supporters say they are making an animated children's film aimed at inspiring them to take up armed struggle with the militant group. Stills were published on the Arabic-language al-Shamouk jihad...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 19 hours agoI love this man! He speaks to my heart and my heart is on the street again.(Desperately need donations now!) July 21, 2011Welcome to the RecoveryCompanies Step Up Layoffs.In Washington-speak, coming from bo...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 20 hours agoWhile sitting at my table in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, I heard a woman behind me say, “That was my father.” She was pointing to a picture of one of the soldiers assigned ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoLast month I was in Nepal and writing about how deplorable their system of aviation is... as well as their environmental controls and food safety regulatory systems. Their capital, according to the UN, is...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 20 hours agoGuardian Sunday 17 July 2011 Syria• Troops backed by tanks entered the town of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon and are carrying out a campaign of arrests, according to activists, the Independent r...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoFuck MSNBC. Fuck CNN. Fuck Fox News. Fuck CBC. Fuck BBC. Fuck Them All. Establishment Media = Enemies of Mankind, Enemies of The Truth, Enemies of Justice And Enemies of Freedom. The U.S.-Israeli State T...
- *The word is out!* Meteorologist *James Madden* from Exacta Weather UKpredicts a prolongation of the Winter 2010-11, worse so: an even harsher one. He writes: *"It is therefore vital to start preparing now ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWhistleblower* Sean Hoare* is believed to have died some time around *17 July* 2011. On *17 July* 2011, *three* men fled from the scene of a road crash, 'less than two minutes drive' from the premises of...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe system electronically measures the antioxidant powers of juice, fruit and fruit puree.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce national water quality standards, giving upstream states greater authority over rive...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 21 hours agoMakes a whole lot more sense than most academics I have ever heard, and explains why.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 51.5 km ( 32 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:00 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) from Raoul Island,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 8 km ( 5 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:23 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSW of Kalamata, Greece No Tsun...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoHere's Jonnie... The poor lad is a victim of the Murdoch spin machine, apparently. He's on R5L tomorrow (Victoria Derbyshire's show, he thinks). It's a pre-recorded job - let's them cut out any mention...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers onboard, had a mid-air scare over Lucknow today, triggering panic aboard, passengers said. Sources say the Boeing 737 Jet aircraft - flight number 9W 2280 - from N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours ago12 million people are battling hunger and disease as the worst drought for 60 years grips the region.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHealth and fire officials are looking into what caused a dozen people to become sick at the Ronald McDonald House in downtown Baltimore on Wednesday evening. Fire officials said nine adults and three chil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTrees fallen on railway tracks caused disruptions and significant delays on several rail lines due to the heavy storm and rain overnight, the communications office of Hungarian State Railways (MAV) told MT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*AT least 80 cars have crashed in Sydney's torrential rain, with the city bracing for the wettest July in more than 50 years, as a severe weather warning is issued for coastal areas. * Torrential rainfal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... This diver almost got sucked into the mouth of a massive whale shark while it fed on thousands of plankton. The shark, the sea's largest fish, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoTwo minutes ago, the Fermilab has released a new press release: Fermilab experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range (interactions.org) ------------------------------ Science Daily, Phys ORG, NewsTV....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA six-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a shark in 18 inches of water off the coast of North Carolina. The unidentified girl was playing on a bodyboard in shallow water on Ocr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA five-year-old girl was found weighing just 19lbs - half the average weight for her age - after her mother allegedly forced her to live in a closet because she looked too much like her father. Asusena Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAl Qaeda sympathisers are planning to produce a children's cartoon film to inspire young Muslim viewers to take up armed violence against the West, security specialists who monitor militant websites say. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA penny-pinching council left a shopkeeper stunned when it refused to hand over CCTV crime footage... because it would cost too much. Amanda Wright, who runs Wright's Family Bakers in Walton on the Naze, E...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYet another in the long list of negative health effects of secondhand smoke.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoExtensive sailing experience and tons of preparation allowed a family with two young children to enjoy a three-week trip across the Atlantic.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMice from different countries have likely interbred, producing a super mouse, resistant to a common poison.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 20.2 km ( 12.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:35:29 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 330 km (205 miles) South of Nuku'Alofa, Ton...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree adopted children 'rescued' from their drug addicted parents went on to suffer a decade of systematic abuse and neglect at the hands of two doctors which was 'predictable' and 'preventable', a serious...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI have no idea if wine drinkers or beer drinkers-- or non-drinkers-- are more or less likely to favor marriage equality. But the new issue of *Out*has a cute survey by the World Wine Guys Mike DeSimone a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists today revealed the mathematical formula for a perfect slice of toast, showing that it is best cooked for exactly 216 seconds. A team of researchers carried out a study which found the optimum th...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAfter years of delay, Spotify is available and a great way to discover new music -- if you can get an invitation.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: long-term debt deal] One of the most influential Republican operatives on Thursday give conservatives in Congress a loophole on their "no tax" pledge that can keep prospects alive for a long-term ...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 1 day agoThere are a lot of companies and websites who want space on your sidebar. I've received dozens of requests for link exchanges over the years. I've turned them all down, not even putting my blogroll there...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* From English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor: Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state,...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoI was reading a mainstream business author who was writing about the Greek debt crisis. He mentioned that Greece "cooked" their books for admission to the EU. He forgot to mention who the chefs were, of cou...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoLouisiana lawmakers evaluate progress of Federal Flood/Katrina recovery Class-Action Suit Filed After Katrina Hospital Deaths Settled for $25 Million ~ProPublica Corps decides on armoring for New Orleans ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoccording 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 - 1 day agoThe 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWhy do some missing persons cases stay in the news, while others fade away?
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe WattStation is capable of fully charging a 24 kWh battery in just 4 to 8 hours.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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,...
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