- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 24 minutes ago
Champions of the European Project can claim a dubious vindication. They never wavered in their faith that EU states would yield sovereignty to save the euro if push came to shove, that monetary union would... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 24 minutes ago
Britain is facing a decade of hyper-weak growth as the result of the 20-year credit boom that saw the nation and households build up unsustainable levels of debt, one of the UK's leading economists has sai... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Tens of thousands of Israelis marched in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state, an AFP correspondent said. Brandishi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Top Israeli officials were gathering Sunday to discuss relations with Turkey in the wake of the Turkish prime minister slamming Israel's "spoiled" and "inhuman" actions. The Israeli government forum of ei... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
U.S. taxpayers likely lost $1.3 billion in the government bailout of Chrysler, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. The government recently sold its remaining 6% stake in the company to Italian aut... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 26 minutes ago
I ain't had no fair deal Al and I ain't going to no Frisco. I will quit the game first and take that job Charley offered me at the billiard hall. *-- from Jack's April 29 letter, the last of Chapter I* ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
America risks a major backlash from financial markets unless the outline of a deal to prevent a government default is agreed in the next 24 hours, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has warned. Tensions w... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
University students in London face the prospect of increasing rents on top of rising tuition fees as the gap between accommodation and student numbers grows. More than 7,700 new bed spaces are under const... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
The far right in Europe has enjoyed a renaissance over the past 30 years, driven by resentment of the growing powers of the European Union and by rejection of the "multiculturalism" that has accompanied ra... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
House Speaker John Boehner told Republican lawmakers they need to provide a positive signal on a plan to avert a U.S. default before Asian financial markets open tomorrow, Republican congressional aides sa... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
Armed men attacked a demonstration heading from Tahrir to the Ministry of Defense on Saturday leaving over 55 injured. A crowd estimated at around 10,000 people set out from downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Germany announced Sunday it has agreed to lend 100 million euros ($144 million) to the rebels in Libya for "civilian and humanitarian purposes" despite staying out of NATO's bombing campaign against Libyan... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours agoWatch this awesome video about President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney testifying together in secret about the 9/11 attacks before the 9/11 Commission, and without a transcript. The video...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 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...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 2 hours ago
*HUMOUR:* *THE** WAY IT GOES:* ** **Another winner from the pen of Stephanie McMillan*.* - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
Hot, hot, hot. Not a fun weekend weather-wise, especially for those of us who participated in the New York Transit Museum's Coney Island Nostalgia Tour on Saturday (traveling on authentic restored 1930s I... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoAs usual, new evidence and new information is emerging about the terror attacks in Oslo, Norway on Friday, July 22, that raises suspicions that the event was orchestrated by secret Mossad, CIA and NATO for...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 4 hours ago
Over the last couple of stifling, suffocating days, two of my chickens keeled over and died. It was really creepy to dredge the first out of the coop, grabbing her by her feet, stiff with rigor mortis - a... - posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 5 hours ago
22nd July 2011 will go down in history as the day that a lone gunman murdered up to 100 people on the Norwegian island of Utoya after bombing central Oslo, killing others. The man who has claimed responsi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting their son's military service because it violated subdivision covenants. The Times reports that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn a milestone year, Nigel Richardson retraces the armed struggle of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and their comrades – and along the way meets generations of people eager for change. The 10 whirring ceiling ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOrganisers of next year's Olympics believe there is a greater threat of disruption to the Games from anarchist protesters than Islamist terrorism, The Independent on Sunday has learned. Boris Johnson and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFirst came the Biden talks. When those blew up, the Obama-Boehner talks took center stage. And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid talks looked promising. And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe sordid details of Amy Winehouse's final hours emerged today, with claims that she bought a cocktail of narcotics including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. Although the exact cause of death has not yet ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThose looking for some kind of a break from the heat of the last week got it overnight -- a rainstorm that dropped temperatures into the low 70s. But like the heat wave that preceded it, this rainstorm ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn Africa, access to water is one of the most critical aspects of human survival. Today, about one third of the total population lack access to water. Constituting 300 million people and about 313 million ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThere has been a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the debt crisis, most recently about what it might mean for the U.S. military and for U.S. foreign policy. House Armed Services C...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe South African clothing industry is seriously concerned about the growth in illegal Chinese imports. Research by the Apparel Manufacturers of South Africa (Amsa) indicates that there are an estimated 6...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAct 48, the Hawaii Mortgage Foreclosure Law became effective in May of this year and in less than 3 months, we are beginning to see some indication of the impact of this new law. At this point however, no-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe nationalization of a major Spanish bank and the first euro zone debt default underscore the major challenges still facing the region even after this week’s major aid package for Greece. European Union...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA year after lawmakers approved the biggest financial overhaul since the Great Depression, changes are starting to creep into our wallets and neighborhood bank branches. And there's a lot more coming down ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe government's debt ceiling has been the focus of heated debate in Washington, as many economists, politicians, and pundits buy into the notion that the debt ceiling must be raised to avoid economic disa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIT was the hot new thing on Wall Street — one of those exotic investments that seem to promise untold riches for the lucky few. And, like so many hot new things, it went cold fast. Such was the fabulous s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEurope's new bailout plan for its weakest economies finally recognizes the brutal reality of the developed world's financial woes: Many governments simply can't pay what they owe — or will reach that point...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAmerica's political leaders are paralyzed. The government is reeling from debt. Corrupt bankers foreclose on people's homes as a brutal recession sweeps the land. We're talking, of course, about the great...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least 80 militants were killed in a series of operations involving Afghan and NATO forces during a day-long firefight last week in the country's restive southeast, Paktika provincial governor Mukhlas Af...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEurope's second bail-out for the crisis-hit Greek economy risks undermining the foundations of the European Union, the president of Germany's Bundesbank has warned. ens Weidmann detailed his concerns in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn a milestone year, Nigel Richardson retraces the armed struggle of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and their comrades – and along the way meets generations of people eager for change. The 10 whirring ceiling ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOrganisers of next year's Olympics believe there is a greater threat of disruption to the Games from anarchist protesters than Islamist terrorism, The Independent on Sunday has learned. Boris Johnson and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFirst came the Biden talks. When those blew up, the Obama-Boehner talks took center stage. And when that failed, the McConnell-Reid talks looked promising. And after they faltered, the Obama-Boehner talks ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA south Bossier City homeowners association has sued to force a family to remove a front yard sign supporting their son's military service because it violated subdivision covenants. The Times reports that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe sordid details of Amy Winehouse's final hours emerged today, with claims that she bought a cocktail of narcotics including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. Although the exact cause of death has not yet ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThose looking for some kind of a break from the heat of the last week got it overnight -- a rainstorm that dropped temperatures into the low 70s. But like the heat wave that preceded it, this rainstorm ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn Africa, access to water is one of the most critical aspects of human survival. Today, about one third of the total population lack access to water. Constituting 300 million people and about 313 million ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThere has been a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the debt crisis, most recently about what it might mean for the U.S. military and for U.S. foreign policy. House Armed Services C...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAct 48, the Hawaii Mortgage Foreclosure Law became effective in May of this year and in less than 3 months, we are beginning to see some indication of the impact of this new law. At this point however, no-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe nationalization of a major Spanish bank and the first euro zone debt default underscore the major challenges still facing the region even after this week’s major aid package for Greece. European Union...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA year after lawmakers approved the biggest financial overhaul since the Great Depression, changes are starting to creep into our wallets and neighborhood bank branches. And there's a lot more coming down ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe government's debt ceiling has been the focus of heated debate in Washington, as many economists, politicians, and pundits buy into the notion that the debt ceiling must be raised to avoid economic disa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIT was the hot new thing on Wall Street — one of those exotic investments that seem to promise untold riches for the lucky few. And, like so many hot new things, it went cold fast. Such was the fabulous s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEurope's new bailout plan for its weakest economies finally recognizes the brutal reality of the developed world's financial woes: Many governments simply can't pay what they owe — or will reach that point...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAmerica's political leaders are paralyzed. The government is reeling from debt. Corrupt bankers foreclose on people's homes as a brutal recession sweeps the land. We're talking, of course, about the great...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least 80 militants were killed in a series of operations involving Afghan and NATO forces during a day-long firefight last week in the country's restive southeast, Paktika provincial governor Mukhlas Af...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEurope's second bail-out for the crisis-hit Greek economy risks undermining the foundations of the European Union, the president of Germany's Bundesbank has warned. ens Weidmann detailed his concerns in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn a milestone year, Nigel Richardson retraces the armed struggle of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and their comrades – and along the way meets generations of people eager for change. The 10 whirring ceiling ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 6 hours agoThis pretty much sums it up. MacLeod Cartoons
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: European bond spreads, January 2010 - July 2011. Bond spread to German bonds shown for Italy, Spain, Ireland, UK, Greece, Portugal, and Belgium are shown. Bloomberg / calculatedriskblog.com] By ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Trial fitting of the cover for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, at Onahama port, 24 June 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 19 July 2011 That's an amazing reduction from th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoAnd speaking of callings, Perry went on the record to say, perhaps a tad condescendingly, that "our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the s...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoRadio astronomers have longed for a telescope with a full square kilometer of collecting area. Now, as it comes closer to reality, they are trying to decide where to put it.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoFox News (I,II) presents a sensible update about the new developments 9 days before a conceivable conflict between the U.S. government and the U.S. debt ceiling. While there exists no clear glimpse of...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Anders Behring Breivik, sister Elisabeth and mother Wenche Behring. * *Wenche Behring*, after divorcing Anders Breivik's father, married a captain in the Norwegian Army. Anders has written about his rela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Mongolia - China Border Region at a depth of 15.3 km ( 9.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:30 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 284 km (176 miles) SSW fr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: Wave overtops a sand berm at Hartlepool, UK. HR Wallingford / floodsite.net] By EVAN LEHMANN of ClimateWire 22 July 2011 CHICAGO -- A three-year study to determine the possible impacts of climat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.6 km ( 22.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:51:25 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 79 km (49...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 9 hours agoI once again had the pleasure of being interviewed by Scott Horton on *Antiwar Radio* about some of my recent articles about Iran, namely those dealing with the "Iranian weapons in Iraq" propaganda, the ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice are trying to piece together a care worker's last hours after her body was found in an Nottingham alleyway. Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after mother-of-two Caroline Jane Coyne was fo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: The sun sets behind an American flag on Thursday, 21 July 2011 in Lawrence, Kansas. ASSOCIATED PRESS] WICHITA, July 23 (AP) — The drought that has hit sections of Kansas this year has also affe...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoIt's time we stopped treating religious fundamentalists - Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, whatever - as essentially benign and off limits under our democratic notions of freedom of religion. Religious...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 19.4 km ( 12.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:43:46 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) Southwest from ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Website for this image* Arnt Breivik was the World Food Programme's Country Director in Liberia. ( Cached) *Anders Breivik reportedly visited a Serbian 'crusader commander' in Monrovia, Liberia.* There ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoThese have been hugely hectic days in particle physics during which the particle physicists have been drowning in a greater sea of new empirical information than at any 3-day period during the last 35 year...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago[image: Link]A police guard had been due to be on the Norwegian island where a gunman massacred at least 86 people but detectives do not know where he was, they reveal. "There was supposed to be a police...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoAs a proud blindly reactionary, anti-liberal, borderline racist Republican like my enviably bloated father Harold, I do the right things, hold the right positions, think what I'm told to by the right peop...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*From the Fischer-Dieskau Mahler performances we've heard the last couple of days, you might reasonably conclude that the guy was a blustering hack. And for me that's not *entirely *untrue, at least some ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 92.8 km ( 57.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:49:017 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) WSW from Puquio, Peru No dama...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA boat carrying six people celebrating a weekend wedding collided with a speedboat along a western Wisconsin river, leaving two people dead and two others missing, officials said Saturday. Both boats were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA McDonald's manager in Atlanta is accused of punching a mother after she brought her autistic twins sons and a service dog inside the restaurant, police said. Tiffany Denise Allen is charged with simple ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] 1. Hello everyone, we hope you're all doing well and enjoying the week. The heat seems to have finally broke, at least where we are! 2. July dollar drive progress: So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA woman was knifed to death in a double stabbing after a row over noise at a house party early yesterday morning. Heather Dyer, 22, is believed to have been stabbed in the chest after she and other revell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA mother got so drunk after putting her 18-month-old daughter to bed she fell asleep and failed to wake when the girl climbed out of a window and fell off the roof The child used a toy box to climb out of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRescuers just about to leave the wreckage of the devastating China train crash discovered an unconscious toddler in the wreckage. The toddler has been taken to hospital and it is not clear if the youngst...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 11 hours agoSo, with the crazy hot weather this week (which I refuse to complain about because I would much rather have this than Michigan winters), I have been a little bit stir-crazy not being able to run outside. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Anthony Martinez plays in the fountain in Manhattan's Washington Square Park on July 21, 2011 in New York City. An extended heat wave has descended on the city with the heat index expected to rea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 21-year-old man and an eight-year-old girl have died and two others are in hospital after a flat fire in Scotland. Police confirmed they are investigating the cause of the fire and would not rule out su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSuspected members of the Taliban hung the eight-year-old son of a police commander after ordering his father to surrender, it was claimed today. The Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency reported that the yo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Western Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.6 km ( 26.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:32:12 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (60 mil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOntario is still struggling to contain at least 111 forest fires that have forced the evacuation of almost 3,600 people. Thirteen new fires were detected Friday and more than 5,000 square kilometres of la...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA high-speed bullet train collision in eastern China's Zhejiang province left 35 people dead and 210 injured, state-run news agency Xinhua reported Sunday. Witnesses told China National Radio that a bulle...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe human recipe just got complicated: It turns out there are more ingredients in us than we thought. In high school science, we were taught of the four basic units that make up DNA -- adenine, guanine, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWith the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years. The chal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUS President Barack Obama and top Congressional leaders are scrambling to agree a deal to raise America's $14.3 trillion (£8.8trillion) debt ceiling before financial markets open on Monday. The stakes hav...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe man blamed for twin attacks in Norway that killed 93 people and wounded nearly 100 said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday. Anders Be...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoToronto's public health department is asking anyone who dined at Ki Restaurant at 181 Bay Street between July 7 and 18 to watch for symptoms of mumps. Four employees at the restaurant have been diagnosed ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBelgium became the second European country to ban the burqa, or Muslim face veil on Saturday. The decision was widely criticised, especially by Muslim groups outside of Europe. It comes after France intro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Texas man who reportedly claimed a $300,000 home for $16 through an obscure legal maneuver known as "adverse possession" is drawing attention to a practice that isn't new and isn't limited to the Lone St...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNorwegian police were urgently trying to piece together the movements of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right activist responsible for the murders of almost 100 people, amid fears he may have been part of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: It's decision day on Greece, and no matter what the deal, the experts are predicting it will involve some sort of default. A visiting senior OECD official told economists in Sydn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPortions of the Federal Aviation Administration will shut down at midnight — putting nearly 4,000 people temporarily out of work and allowing airline passengers to buy tickets without taxes — unless Congre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNew York City may be frying in near record temperatures but Wall Street has been feeling the heat for months. Wrangling over the debt ceiling and questions marks over corporate earnings mean markets are un...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDuring a 2½ year period starting at the end of 2007, the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in secret bailouts to banks and other companies around the world, according to a government audit of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFor a quick-read on the U.S. economy, review General Electric (GE). Economists, journalists, and public policy professionals, among others who closely follow the U.S. economy, often get asked questions at ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe powerful Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC), in southwest Colombia, has called a "minga" or protest march to "curb the militarisation driven by the army and the FARC," the main guerrilla group...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDebate over the debt ceiling has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, with each side trying to outdo the other in a game of political chicken. If you believe some of the things that are being written, th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHuge increases in deportations of people after they were arrested for breaking traffic or immigration laws or driving drunk helped the Obama administration set a record last year for the number of criminal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*A case of anthrax has been discovered at a cattle farm outside Örebro, in central Sweden. The diagnose was set on Sunday by the National Veterinary Institute (Statens veterinärmedicinska anstalt *The Swe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 49.8 km ( 30.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:07:10 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 123 km (7...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago*On the Little Bighorn, in the land of Plenty Coups, on the land of Wellknown Buffalo* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photos: Plenty Coups as as a young man, and as ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 12 hours agoWant to know one more reason it was so important that Ronald Reagan (specially selected as "the" candidate of the Rethugs because George H. W. Bush was too unpopular to win at that time) had to be the "It's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLink sent in by Reader: Authorities say seven people were wounded, at least two critically, when a gunman opened fire at a casino near Seattle. Auburn Police Commander Jamie Sidell says the shooting happe...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoToday in New York City, some families will celebrate their love and commitment, because the law has finally caught up with reality. 2 Dads, 2 Daughters, 1 Big Day by Frank Bruni Even in a city as diverse...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoExcerpts of Corps of Engineers email traffic shows Corps officials as clueless bullshitters in MO River flooding Levees: Gov't repeating a mistake ~Clarion Ledger ~Recall that New Orleans should have been ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPolice in the North East say they have serious concerns for the safety of a teenage mother and her seven-month-old baby who have been missing since Friday night. Natalie Foster, 18, and her baby Robert,...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoBy way of diversion from Hackgate and Oslo, let's review BBC incompetence. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoBy showing a single photon cannot travel faster than the speed of light, scientists prove time travel is impossible.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Conspicuous by his absence, Christie's legislature has cramped his style* Ken Quinnell posted a fantastic crowd-sourced feature at AlterNet yesterday that delineates the 10 craziest legislatures in Americ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoRemember we like lists?? It's been a long time! This list will answer the burning question: *What's up?* What's happening in your life? Doing anything interesting? Enjoying doing something mundane? Readi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCases of the crippling children's bone disease rickets are being seen in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned. Caused by a lack of vitamin D, the disease can lead to deformities like bowed legs and stunted gro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLink sent in by reader: A car bomb blast has killed at least five Yemeni soldiers in the coastal city of Aden, officials say. Several others were injured in the blast which hit as troops with supplies w...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago*Norwegian special forces by PRT Meymaneh at ** http://flickr.com/photos/45287393@N05/4463622495* Breivik once lived in London. *His father worked in the Norwegian embassy. * (Norway attacks: London link....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice have arrested six more people following an armed raid launched in connection with the Norway twin attacks, Sky sources say. Officers from the police's counter-terrorism force, known as Delta, swoop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 24.9 km ( 15.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:38:56 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) SSW from Kalat, Pakistan No damage...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 128.4 km ( 79.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:09:47 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 159 km (99 miles) Northeast of Ternate...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 17 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Yahoo In New Zealand, there will be no little Lucifers on the playground. Nor will there be any Messiahs. Choosing a name for an unborn child is no simple task. But for some parents, the...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoArctic sea ice, seen by satellite. Photo courtesy: NASA. This year could be well on its way toward earning a dubious spot in the record books. Arctic sea ice has melted away with astonishing speed in the...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoGamera the tortoise has been a bionic animal since a surgery in April removed his left front leg. Photo courtesy: Henry Moore, Jr. BCU/WSU A tortoise that had to have its leg amputated is now getting aroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA husband shot dead five people including his wife before turning the gun on himself in front of their son at the boy's eleventh birthday party. The shooting spree happened as the couple quarrelled at Foru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe suspect accused of the Norway attacks has confessed to police that he carried out the killings but says he did not break the law. Police said 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik also revealed to detect...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Peter Blanchard, Flickr/cc BY-SA All hail the rise of super-weeds! TreeHugger has already thanked Monsanto for helping a tenacious, fast-growing, brand new kind of plant evolve. But the la...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoMany BBC presenters not only deliver their masters' Pravda-style pronouncements about climate change,the EU, the middle-east and immigration, they are also - it seems - corporate whores, available to hire ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoThe Andrew Marr show was a strange one this morning. We have BBC favourite cop, Hugh Orde talking about integrity. The adulterous Orde is the man the BBC want to become next Met Chief. Then we had the econ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 56.3 km ( 35 miles), the quake hit at 08:23:36 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) SSW from Sukabumi, Java, Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe heatwave is now covering a million square miles and affecting 141 million Americans as the temperatures stayed above the 100 degree mark yesterday. However forecasters asy theheat will begin to ease t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*The Canary Islands Government has said it is monitoring an earthquake swarm on the small island of El Hierro where in excess of 400 tremors of low magnitude have been recorded in the past four days.* On...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoPhoto courtesy: greengulchranch Japan's government said the number of cattle fed with hay contaminated by radiation has doubled, two days after shipments of beef from cows raised near the wrecked Fukushim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo sisters cleaning out their elderly father's house about noon today could have used a hand from Superman when they came across a box of apparently radioactive rocks. However, the Indianapolis Fire Depa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnother line of storms is moving east through the area. A flash flood warning has been extedned for Cook, DuPage and Will counties until 1:30 p.m. A River Flood Warning has been issued for the Des Plaines ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn investigation is underway after a four-year-old boy accidentally shot himself dead at a liquor store. The body of Ash Wimbey, from Indiana, Illinois, was discovered on Thursday morning at Tubby's Wine ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists believe they are one step closer to cornering the elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle' - a tiny but fundamental element in the construction of life as we know it. Research being carried out d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA gasoline tanker truck exploded in flames as it crashed just north of Boston early Saturday, setting three nearby buildings ablaze and leaving the truck driver dead and four motorists injured, state polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEight people were injured in a shooting at a car show at a crowded Seattle shopping centre after a fight reportedly broke out after a man insulted another car owner's paint work. Several gunshots were fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA man who was found stuck head-first inside a storm drain in a residential street early Thursday morning claims that he wasn't drunk and was the victim of a gang attack. Jared Medeiros, 21, of Ceres, Cali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA teenager has spoken of his horror after he said he was doused in petrol and burned alive by his mother's boyfriend while he was sleeping. Antoine Willis, 19, said that his mother's boyfriend, Curtis Reed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Rev Geraint ap Iorwerth cut up pages from the King James Bible and burnt the ‘negative, nasty bits’. The artwork was then mounted on a 9ft-by-7ft board and displayed in church. Mr ap Iorwerth, 60, of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoExtreme weather has been battering Australia this week. Winds have become so strong that waterfalls have been blown upwards. The strong winds, which are seriously affecting the waterways of southern Austr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA British woman who started a new life abroad after her divorce has been found murdered at her home in Malta. Karen Cheatle was found in her Malta flat hours after local police found her 'possessive' boyf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe man who reportedly shot dead at least 85 people at a youth camp and killed another seven with a car bomb in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, released a YouTube video calling for conservatives to 'embrace...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 36.9 km ( 22.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:54:23 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA British woman who started a new life abroad after her divorce has been found murdered at her home in Malta. Karen Cheatle was found in her Malta flat hours after local police found her 'possessive' boyf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA nurse accused in connection with the Stepping Hill Hospital deaths sobbed in the dock yesterday as she heard the string of charges against her. Looking pale and drawn with her maroon-tinted hair scraped ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe man who reportedly shot dead at least 85 people at a youth camp and killed another seven with a car bomb in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, released a YouTube video calling for conservatives to 'embrace...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago[image: Link]A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 36.9 km ( 22.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:54:23 UTC Sunday 24th July 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) West...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Norway 2010. US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead speaks with Sailors aboard the Skjold-class corvette HNoMS Skudd* There would appear to be two Anders Breiviks. A school friend told Norweg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 20.6 km ( 12.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:21 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) West of Iquique...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 22 hours agoUpdate: Blogger has introduced an easy export and import functions for you to easily save a backup copy of your blog in xml format and easily import it back into Blogger. Sign into Dashboard > Settings > ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoDamascus 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 - 1 day agoTwo 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 - 1 day agohe 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agohe 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 anythin...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoIt's all been said. Nothing to add. How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead? *Related posts:* - From the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg - A word from the Norwegian Party - Norway a...
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