Image by pricerelli via Flickr- As a proud reactionary, anti-liberal, borderline racist Republican like my father Harold, I do the right things, hold the right positions, think what I'm told to by the right people and there's no one rig...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 33 minutes 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 ...
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A 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 - 51 minutes ago
A 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 - 52 minutes 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 - 52 minutes ago
A 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 - 52 minutes ago
A 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 - 52 minutes ago
Rescuers 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 - 59 minutes ago
So, 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 - 1 hour 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...
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A 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 - 1 hour ago
Suspected 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour ago
Ontario 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour ago
The 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 - 1 hour ago
With 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour 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?") - 1 hour 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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! - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 Anon at aangirfan - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago*The Higgs mass is more likely than not to be between 110 and 120 GeV* Let 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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?") - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoNASA has decided on where the Mars Science Laboratory, or 'Curiosity,' will land on Mars next year.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days 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?") - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days agoAll eyes are on the PC and Liberal leadership races this summer in Alberta. Well, all eyes are on the PC leadership race, and a few eyes are glancing over at the Liberal one every now and then. Still, th...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 days agoBad news first: I got a call yesterday from the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue and they told me my appeal to get back the $753 the DOR stole from my bank account last month had been turned down. Accordin...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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! - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 - 2 days 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 at DownWithTyranny! - 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...
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