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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 minute ago"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th - malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guil...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 12 minutes ago12 Holberg Suite op. 40 - Sarabande by Orwell's Bastard Some hauntingly beautiful stuff from Grieg, who might be better known for Peer Gynt. If I recall correctly, though, the CBC used to use another p...
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A heat wave that spread from the Midwest to the Northeast tormented millions of people with blasts of 100-degree temperatures and bog-like humidity as blackouts struck neighborhoods and deaths were blamed ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 42 minutes ago
A woman jumped from a pickup truck traveling at high speed on a Southern California freeway after the driver, her husband, splashed her with gasoline and set her ablaze, authorities said Friday. The 23-ye... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
A general strike paralysed India`s Muslim-majority Kashmir valley on Saturday in a second day of protest against the alleged rape of a woman by two soldiers in the revolt-hit region. The strike shut most ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Damascus residents troubled by intensified crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters in the Syrian capital are now staying at home, hoarding money and bracing for violence. “Nobody is shopping anymore or goi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Two gunmen opened fired on labourers building a mosque in Pakistan’s restive southwest on Sunday killing five people, police said. The shooting took place in Naushki district, 180 kilometres west of Quetta... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
he Dominican Republic's death toll in the cholera epidemic that spread from Haiti has risen to 87 out of more than 13,000 suspected cases, health authorities said on Friday. According to the health minist... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
Famine in Somalia will soon expand to more areas as insecurity in the Horn of Africa country has prevented aid from reaching more than 2 million Somalis in need, the head of the World Food Program said Sat... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoUnlike the Internet-based popular protests that have swept North Africa and the Middle East, the biggest threat to embattled Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika may be from Christian churches. With two-...
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So you thought that UK housing was unaffordable. Try Beijing and Shanghai, where as can be seen from the graphic below, prices are off the scale relative to income, the commonly used yardstick for measurin... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
A train carrying 400 passengers derailed on Saturday and its driver was killed when "saboteur groups" dismantled a section of a northern railway, Syrian officials said. The incident occurred near the cent... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoFamine in Somalia will soon expand to more areas as insecurity in the Horn of Africa country has prevented aid from reaching more than 2 million Somalis in need, the head of the World Food Program said Sat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoUnlike the Internet-based popular protests that have swept North Africa and the Middle East, the biggest threat to embattled Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika may be from Christian churches. With two-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoSo you thought that UK housing was unaffordable. Try Beijing and Shanghai, where as can be seen from the graphic below, prices are off the scale relative to income, the commonly used yardstick for measurin...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 49 minutes agoAs I said, not going to jump into that cesspool. Just trying to help make the Norway conversation about something else. Not like the assholes are going to change their minds or their narrative or anything.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 59 minutes agoIt's all been said. Nothing to add. How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead?
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"Anders Behring Breivik from the video he posted on YouTube before his shooting spree": caption for the photo accompanying the Telegraph's Sunday-datelined report, "Norway killings: Breivik posted hate-fi... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: On November 2009, the Santa Isabel glacier in Colombia reached this rock. Since then it has receded about 150 feet. John Otis / GlobalPost]By John Otis, Global Post 22 July 2011 NEVADOS NATION...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Where the shoreline might end up at Washaway Beach, Washington. The red curve shows the 5 March 2004 scarp walk, the orange curve shows the 6 April 2010 scarp walk, and green and blue show the pr...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours agoWelcome to another edition of Name! That! Loon! This week’s installment: What follows below are comments by right winger Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged shooter/bomber in Norway who’s accused of murde...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours agoBy arevamirpal::laprimavera 22 July 2011 This animation was created by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization, a government corporation under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (which r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Melting glacier in the Swiss Alps, 11 December 2005. Ronet / flickr] By Ray Smith for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network, www.guardian.co.uk 22 July 2011 Even though their ice is cal...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: A brown and parched corn field shows the effects of a long Texas drought in Farmersville, Texas, 12 July 2011. Reuters / Mike Stone] By Julie Ingwersen, with additional reporting by Bob Burgdorfe...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoRegarding the horrific massacre in Norway, some people are apparently making statements like this: "If that had happened in Texas, the shooter would have lasted 30 seconds before dozens of regular folks wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIran's president wants to shed the nation's secrecy and forge ahead openly with developing nuclear weapons but is opposed by the clerical leadership, which is worried about international reaction to such a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Federal Aviation Administration faced a partial shutdown Saturday morning as Congress adjourned Friday without approving a routine stop-gap funding measure amid partisan acrimony. More than 4,000 FAA...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoDrought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA’s SMOS satellite shows that the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe economy is closely linked with the physical resources that underly it. Most economists assume debt can rise endlessly, just as they assume GDP can rise endlessly. But if there really is a limit that pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHouse Republicans were cautioned Thursday in a closed door meeting with credit rating agency officials that a “death spiral” in the bond market was one of the possible outcomes in the event of default. On...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAs huge numbers of foreclosed homes continue to work their way through the real estate pipeline, another problem is blossoming — mold. In most homes, as residents go in and out and the seasons change, nat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe impact of famine on the people of Africa has been brought to our attention once again in recent weeks. The continent, however, also boasts seven of the world’s top 10 fastest growing economies over the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGlobalized commerce and finance have taken over the planet and the majority of nations are above all anxious to keep up the pace with the rest of the frightened sycophants to the Empire, anxious not to fal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThink back on what you talked about with friends and family at your last gathering. The latest game of your favorite team? "American Idol"? An addictive hobby? The new movie blockbuster? In a serious momen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAs much of America bakes in some of the highest temperatures ever recorded and while Washington argues interminably over taxes, budget cuts and debt caps, one is struck by the unreality of it all. When the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorway's Prime Minister said 'a youth paradise turned into hell' when a gunman dressed as a police officer killed at least 85 people at a summer camp on an island outside Oslo after blowing up a further se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoForeign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the offices of Israel's prime minister. The three women were tol...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Transportation Security Administration officer has been indicted on five charges in the theft of four watches and a pre-paid debit card from luggage at Los Angeles International Airport, officials announ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe majority of people feel upset and lonely when they are deprived of access to the internet, according to consumer research. A new study has revealed that 53 per cent feel upset when denied access and 4...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCongressman Ron Paul may be a long shot to win the Republican presidential nomination, but he runs competitively with President Obama right now. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Li...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPutting pressure on an already lousy job market, the mass layoff is making a comeback. In the past week, Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Borders announced a combined 23,000 in job cuts. (See: Another Retaile...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA collapse in business and consumer confidence across the eurozone brought a dramatic slowdown in July, with business surveys indicating that the region almost stopped growing. Worries about the sovereign...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGreece is the first eurozone member to default. However, leaders of the 17 members of the zone accepted that the controlled failure was the only option left to prevent the collapse of their currency and le...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHouse Speaker John Boehner walked away from debt talks with President Barack Obama's administration Friday, raising the stakes in the country's ongoing effort to stave off national default. "In the end,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFrom time immemorial, black-tailed gulls have looked for two things in their nesting colonies: rockiness and inaccessibility. Ornithologists wanting to study the birds' breeding habits had to brave windsw...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe soul musician's death is widely assumed to have been caused by a drug overdose, though death by overdose is relatively rare.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA scientist has been assassinated in the Iranian capital, Tehran, the country's official new agency said. The IRNA report gave no other details, but the hardline news website javanonline.ir said the man w...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoSean Duffy, clearly a mindless acolyte of Paul Ryan, himself a mindless acolyte of admitted Jesus-hater Ayn Rand, was reminded, if just subliminally, by the SEIU this week, that Gore, Kerry and Obama all...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRescuers in Scotland say they have guided 44 pilot whales stranded in an estuary back to sea, but 25 other whales from the pod did not survive the incident and died. Many of the animals died overnight aft...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn injured, young sperm whale that beached in Montauk on early Saturday along a rocky strip east of Ditch Plains Beach has died, authorities said. Kimberly Durham, Rescue Program Director for the Riverhea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSAT JUL 23 2011 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM EDT... AT 356 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Chinese bullet train lost power after being struck by lightning Saturday and was hit from behind by another train, knocking two of its carriages off a bridge in eastern China, killing at least 32 people,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMore than 100 dead fish washed up on Naples Beach this morning, with more reported in the water still alive but dying, city officials say. "We probably picked up 100 so far in the Third Avenue South area,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLow oxygen levels at an Oklahoma water body are said to be responsible for another large fish kill. This time, it's happening at a large pond in Muskogee. The pond, located on the west end of Honor Height...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLow oxygen levels at an Oklahoma water body are said to be responsible for another large fish kill. This time, it's happening at a large pond in Muskogee. The pond, located on the west end of Honor Height...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMore than 100 large dead fish of varying species washed up along Collier County beaches this morning, extending a fish kill that experts had considered largely over Wednesday. A non-toxic algae was blamed...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago“By way of deception, thou shall do war." Last night, I posted a quote by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen who says that Israel's Mossad was behind the Oslo attacks along with a post by Washington's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 14 km ( 8.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:41 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) ESE of Hagatna, Guam No Tsun...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoMere hours after the NY Times announced that House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama were to sit down with renewed purpose to hash out differences in the budget, Boehner channeled Eric Cantor and a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoLet me begin with my version of the graph, to be explained at the end. Now, let's talk about the viXra version first. Phil Gibbs has digitized the graphs indicating the cross sections and exclusions f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSinger Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in Camden, north London, at the age of 27, police have confirmed. The London Ambulance Service was called to her flat just after 4pm but were unable t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Congressmen Ryan-- one for the banksters, one for American working families * Wisconsin arch-villain Paul Ryan has become something of a household name this year, as he's worked diligently to gut Medicare...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoCan a planet in a elliptical orbit be habitable if it spends only part of its time in a "Goldilocks" zone?
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 11 hours agoPushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda DEMOCRACY NOW July 22. 2011 President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 47.5 km ( 29.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:13:39 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) SSW of Sand Point, ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 12 hours agoWelcome to the most Christian Nation!Take off your hat, wipe your feet and set a spell.Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerly Middle Class Americans Will Be Sleeping In Their Cars, In Tent Cities ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 12 hours agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* Gabriela Calderon de Burgos writing at Cato gives us the details, and this quote that appeared on the front page of Ecuador's largest newspaper: When you see that trading is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago[image: Link]At least 11 people have died after two high-speed trains crashed into each other in China's eastern province of Zhejiang on Saturday causing two carriages to fall off a bridge, state news agen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe death toll in the mass shooting and bomb attack in Norway rose to 92 Saturday, as leaders and the public alike tried to make sense of what the prime minister called the country's "worst atrocity" sin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLast week brought the unsurprising news that the Transportation Security Administration had terrorized yet another 6-year-old with a humiliating pat-down. Dog bites man, federal agent gropes child — we're ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPresident Barack Obama insisted on Friday he was prepared to make "tough choices" for a sweeping deficit-reduction deal to avert a U.S. default, despite Democrats warning him not to make too many concessio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPrior to Thursday evening's euro-zone agreement on a second aid package for Greece, the demands for action had become deafening. Some were insisting that Athens was doomed if Europe didn't undertake a sign...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA coalition operation against militants in southeastern Afghanistan has left at least 50 insurgents dead as Afghan and NATO forces swept through a "known Haqqani network" area. The encampment was consider...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPerhaps it’s just as well Baby Boomers enjoyed a taste of retirement when they tuned in and dropped out in the 1960s. Most have been working ever since and — apart from the exceptions who enjoy spectacular...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHundreds of thousands of Poles left their country after EU accession in May 2004 to work in the unrestricted labour markets of Britain and Ireland, with some estimates putting the number working abroad at ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAt least two cars of a high-speed bullet train fell off a bridge late Saturday after a derailment in eastern China's Zhejiang province, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing firefighting sources. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe prospect of America defaulting on its debts edged closer last night after the fraught negotiations between President Barack Obama and top Republicans collapsed. John Boehner, the top Republican in Con...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFor much of the Western world, physical pain ends with a simple pill. Yet more than half the world's countries have little to no access to morphine, the gold standard for treating medical pain. Freedom ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEquity markets are bracing for potential debt decisions from the United States and Europe this week, but investors holding their breath for a double dose of good news and a big rally will likely be disappo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNow that Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial is over, what exactly did her publicly funded case cost? Law enforcement, the Orange County clerk and the State Attorney's Office continue to tally their...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCanterbury could be deemed uninsurable as global reinsurers become increasingly alarmed by repeated quakes, a large insurer says. Vero New Zealand South Island manager Bryan Noonan told Christchurch busin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBack in the 1920s, a tourist village was established along the shore of Lago Epecuen, a salt lake some 600 kilometers southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The resort town, named Villa Epucuen, soon had a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe sad truth for ridiculous Web memes is that they have remarkably poor shelf lives. So, farewell planking. Hello, owling. Deciding that striking a "light as a feather, stiff as a board" pose in public,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAustralia will consider beefing up its privacy laws in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire, the government has said. The proposed changes would give Austra...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBritish scientists say a new expert body should be formed to regulate experiments mixing animal and human DNA to make sure no medical or ethical boundaries are crossed. In a report issued on Friday, scie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe cataclysmic extinctions that scoured Earth 200 million years ago might have been easier to trigger than expected, with potentially troubling contemporary implications. Rather than 600,000 years of vol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 153 km ( 95.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:24:43 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 323 km ( 200 miles) West o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 62.1 km ( 38.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:54:19 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27 miles) West of Liberia, Costa Rica N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:53:03 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 451 km ( 280 miles) Northwest of Esmeraldas, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn Iranian nuclear scientist has been shot dead in the capital, Tehran, Iranian media sources have said. The scientist, who has not yet been named, was shot outside his home, the Isna news agency reported...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoThe Norwegian attacks in which over 90+ people were killed had nothing to do with the Muslims. Of course, both attacks on the Labor Party prime minister (who survived) and his soulmates were done by the sa...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoBBC astronomy presenter Mark Thompson forgets the tough astronaut training and ponders the fun and games you can have in space.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoGrand Isle roars back to life, but not without fresh scars~Paul Rioux ~"I Am Grand Pa! Watch Me Roar!" ~Michael Gros, of Thibodeaux, kicked back and enjoyed the sun and the breeze at the town beach in Grand...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoEven if the exact figures aren't in your head, it probably comes as no surprise that Wall Street and the Financial, Insurance, Real Estate sector has poured more legalistic bribes into American politics ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBritish air passengers were left in fear for their lives on Thursday when an engine of a holiday flight from Ibiza erupted into flames. A Jet2 Boeing 737-800, flying from Spain to Manchester, developed pr...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThirty-two-year-old Anders Behring Breivik is a right-wing Norwegian man with no known links to hardcore extremists.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA wildfire burned about 100 acres in the mountains behind Lake Mountain Estates in Saratoga Springs Friday evening. The blaze came within a mile of dozens of homes. Neighbors were nervous particularly beca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA food poisoning has left a five-year-old girl dead and 72 others hospitalised in a village in southwest China's Guizhou Province, reports Xinhua news agency quoting a local official as saying Saturday. V...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 17 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Look up some basic contract law! Social Security is a contract between the government and the people! The GOP wants to BREAK that contract; the GOP wants to 'award...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 17 hours agoCBC Power & Politics at noon Friday , edited Evan Solomon : This raises again.the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day : As recently as July 8 in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda susp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLink sent in by Reader: The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of explosions, thought to be the result of NATO airstrikes, early on Saturday, the Reuters news agency reported. Four blasts rocked the h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHundreds of thousands of Syrians turned out for anti-regime demonstrations across the country on Friday with at least 11 people reported killed by security forces and tensions mounting in the runup to the ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoFirst things first. All decent people will be horrified at what has happened in Oslo last evening. The atrocious terrorist act is beyond words and the loss of so many lives devastating. And now I turn to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoReader Brought this to our attention: Two shallow earthquakes measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale struck the South Island today -- the first in Canterbury and the second in Marlborough. GNS Science said t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 219.1 km ( 136.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:51:54 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 286 km ( 178 miles) WNW from Saumlaki, Tan...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoIn recent months, it has become popular among the climate alarmists to "explain away" the lack of warming in recent 10-15 years. Aerosols have become their best ally in these efforts. A few weeks ago, we ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*Dirty Arab!* Republican Party propagandist, Erik Erickson, was one of the first to try to blame Muslims for the OK City-like mayhem in Oslo today. "It was not Lutherans who did it," he declared on his ex...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago"Norway was prepared to vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN General Assembly and this Mossad terrorist attack was symbolic. The negotiations that led to the international agreement on a future Palesti...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Joi via Flickr The Galapagos Islands is an incredibly sensitive environment unlike no other on earth. Due to its isolation, species have evolved there that have evolved nowhere else. The G...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoThe Steve Jones report, excellently analysed here by James Delingpole, is nothing more than a licence from the eco-loons who run the BBC to allow its reporters to continue their torrent of climate change l...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Anders Behring Breivik* - *brainwashed assassin? *Anders Behring Breivik is the suspect held in connection with the 22 July 2011 attacks in Norway. He describes himself as being a freemason [6] Norw...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau blusters through Mahler's "*Trost im Unglück*" ("Comfort in Misfortune") with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hans Zender, April 1979.* Mahler's unique power as a...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoSee what you've started? Wish I'd been around for this gig.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoDr. Paul Craig Roberts knows that "The Enemy Is Washington."Wish I could disagree after this week's kabuki dramas concerning raising the debt ceiling once under Obama (which was raised 9 times under not-so-D...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoHouse Speaker John Boehner said the White House "moved the goal posts" by demanding an additional $400 billion in revenue during talks over a deal to avoid default. He said he was confident the U.S. will...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhen space shuttle Atlantis fired up its engines on July 8, the bittersweet tears for the end of an era had barely dried when the question: "So, what's next?" was asked.
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day agoSomeone's Nanna? *Israhell says Norway inciting against us!* [yiddish khazarian] Foreign Ministry says Norwegian authorities funding anti-Israel film, exhibition, and play. Norway says: We support freedom ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day ago[image: Photobucket] Posted by David S. D'Amato on Jul 22, 2011 *C4SS* “The euro and stock markets fell,” reports BBC News, “and borrowing costs of indebted countries rose, as worries over debt crises in ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA former Wales rugby star climbed into the record books by becoming the first person to climb the highest mountain on each continent.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*The most censored, most popular, at Censored News * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Remembering migrants by Brenda Norrell The most accessed articles at Censored New...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoTime for a new one of these to take you across the weekend. Enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYour ancestors probably had sex with Neanderthals -- which makes you part-Neanderthal. Now get over it.
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Nick & Marcus* Even people who don't realize that Marcus Bachmann is a longtime closet case who was caught several times frequenting (or doing "research" in) gay macho-man leather bars, might be offended...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Cover of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, By Christian Parenti (Nation Books, Hardcover, 9781568586007, 304pp.)]By ARTHUR WESTING 14 July 2011 Some 200 years ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - If you've been trying to download and share files via the old FrostWire recently you will have noticed only the BitTorrent files are now working. The reason is because FrostWire has shut down...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThere has been a lot of talk recently about an Israeli attack on Iran in September. Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan made headlines in Israel in June when he raised his concerns about a military attack on Ir...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*A maximally accurate Bayesian evaluation of hypotheses in particle physics* Experiments in particle physics usually repeat the same collisions - like the 3.5+3.5 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoU.S. weather experts Friday issued heat alerts for more than half of the 50 states as a blanket of hot air and humidity smothered the country.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe massive methane release led to an increase in atmospheric temperature around the globe.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you think the U.S. manned space program is at an end now that the shuttles are retired, think about who took this picture.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner addresses the UN Security Council Debate on the impact of climate change on maintaining international peace and security, 20 J...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoI can't get this song out of my head. Full song: Stories - Brother Louie
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI'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 Anon at aangirfan - 1 day 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 gove...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNASA has decided on where the Mars Science Laboratory, or 'Curiosity,' will land on Mars next year.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI 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 day 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...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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- 1 day 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 bizar...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoLevee armoring plans challenged by East Bank levee authority members ~Mark Schleifstein ~Very special hat tip to Sandy Rosenthal and Levees.org New Orleans City Council adopts new district boundaries ~...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*ATLAS' and CMS Higgs', a 350 GeV destructive one, went away once CMS updated their graph* As you can imagine, I have spent hours watching the updated documents on the conference website of EPS-HEP2011. T...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day 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 DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 1 day 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 Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day 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 Anon at aangirfan - 1 day 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days 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 Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days 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...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days 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 Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 atDownWithTyranny! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 2 days agoMakes a whole lot more sense than most academics I have ever heard, and explains why.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 2 days 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days 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.US...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 days 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 killing Mother at killing Mother - 2 days 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 The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 Rufus at News From Atlantis - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days 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 éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days 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 Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 2 days 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days 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 My...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America- 3 days agoAlarmist editorializing about Iran, its regional influence, and its nuclear energy program have picked up considerably in the past few weeks. Despite the latest IAEA report this past Spring which revealed ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 3 days 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 Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 days 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.....
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 days 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 Anon at aangirfan - 3 days 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 Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 3 days 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...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 3 days 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 Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days 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 Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days 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 - 3 days 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 New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 days agoCorps of Engineers LA Coastal Area science office to close over a patronage fight with the Jindal admin ~Mark Schleifstein~Hat Tweet and Title @skooks ~Also~Louisiana coastal authority to review status of r...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days ago*His News Corp launched Climategate* Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit has been writing about the links between the University of East Anglia and the recently arrested Neil Wallis, a former editor of the no...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 days agoYup, India and Pakistan have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization! I have lots of ground to cover here, so sit a spell. First, Pakistan and geez I haven't covered that country for a bit.... It is a h...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 3 days agoChandelle is walking the walk she talks in a small house on an amazing acreage somewhere in California. Check out her latest blog post. It is inspirational. http://www.chicken-tender.com/2011/07/mistaken-...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 days agoAs we learned last election, when the political wave rises, it's hard to avoid it. If ever you wanted evidence of just how powerless local campaigns are, look no further than some of the quality men and wo...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 days agoCritics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y | Ford Focus | torontolife.com Writing in Toronto Life, John Michael McGrath draws the comparison but then appears to soften it: ... but given th...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoToronto City Councillor Doug Ford thinks his city has more libraries than donut shops. In fact: When the Urban Affairs branch closes, Toronto will have 3.9 libraries per 100,000 people, which is what Vanc...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoFurther to my last post, how can we build a world without hate when the people in power are moving in the opposite direction? Last year I stumbled on a CPAC broadcast of hearings being held in the Canadia...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoIn Texas, the survivor of a vicious hate crime is campaigning to spare the life of his assailant, who murdered two other people and is scheduled to be executed today. I collect these kinds of stories, and...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days ago------------------------------ Permalink Cherchez la Verite
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days ago------------------------------ Permalink * * *How Your Social Security Money Was Stolen – Where Did the $2.5 Trillion Surplus Go?* July 19th, 2011 Introduction by David DeGraw, Reports by Dr. Allen Smit...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days ago* Sir Clement Freud.* *Sir Clement Freud*, grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, had a holiday home in Praia da Luz, in Portugal. In July 2007, Clement Freud helped the parents of missing child *Madele....
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoPhoto courtesy: Daniel Morrison via TreeHugger I haven't been this grossed out since I blogged about meat being made from the protein in human fecal matter and/or sewage sludge. It's one of those truths ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 days ago*cap·i·tal·ism [ˈkæpɪtlˌɪzəm] [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] noun- an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefl...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 days agoAll photos courtesy: B. Alter via TreeHugger This one of the most delightful cases of recycling I have ever heard about. What a wonderful example of creative thinking. Read on to find out how a small vi...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 days agoCorps of Engineers LA Coastal Area science office to close over a patronage fight with the Jindal admin ~Mark Schleifstein~Hat Tweet and Title @skooks
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 days agoPhoto courtesy: Furryscaly / cc via TreeHugger Ten short years ago, Grand Cayman blue iguanas were on the brink of extinction. Human factors, like habitat encroachment and vehicle strikes, had reduced the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 days agoWe won't ever get to the bottom of the scandal that is evolving day by day around Rupert Murdoch's media empire if we focus our attention on Murdoch alone. Murdoch is just a manifestation of what the moder...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 4 days ago[image: Photobucket] *Uncensored Magazine* *A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ** * *We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, wit...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America- 4 days ago*The Washington Times* has reported that pizza magnate, raging Islamophobe, blithering know-nothing, and Republican presidential aspirant Herman Cain has declared "he would attack Iran to prevent it from a...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 days agoToday, C-SPAN3 covered the British Parliament's Committee hearing into News Corp's business practices. Rupert Murdoch's media empire has been rocked by a phone hacking scandal that involves British police...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 4 days agoAlternet By James Ridgeway July 15, 2011 Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: A Dallas County sheriff's deputy monitors the line for rental assistance voucher applications on the morning of 14 July 2011 outside the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas. Thousands of peopl...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 4 days ago[image: image]*Another guest post from the archives of* The Free Radical*, this time from tennis ace and all-round fine bloke Chris Lewis, on the sort of envy that’s stifling. And everywhere. A post so ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: David Gonzales, of Jackson, Wyoming, examines a dead whitebark pine tree in the mountains east of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Mountain pine beetles killed the roughly 800-year-old tree within the prev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Polar bears like this one are having to spend more time in the Arctic water due to less summer sea ice. Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habita...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) atAMERICAN EMPIRE - 4 days agoMass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English *Drug companies like Pfizer are accused of pressuring doctors into over-prescribing medications to patients in order to increase profits [GALLO/GETT...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 days agoFarewell to a Researcher: Jorge Anfruns Our friend and colleague Quique Mario (CEUFO) has alerted us to the passing of one of Chile’s great UFO researchers, Jorge Anfruns. A publicist, commentator...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 days agoShedding Light on UFO-Related Blackouts By Scott Corrales Joaquin V. Gonzalez lost power at two o’clock in the morning on Thursday, November 26, 2009. No, not a disgruntled utility customer...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 4 days agoMonday, July 18th, 2011A book that delves into the cover-up a film documenting the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been deemed too violent for Google's ...
- posted by derekshowerman atContaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 4 days agoBy Duane Craig Fracking is an environmental risk?Disagreement seems to be brewing among companies involved in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, over how much information about
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