- posted by PC at Not PC - 23 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 environment mi...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhile much of North America was roiling in the summer heat over the weekend, the search for the elusive Higgs boson was also heating up.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Scandal? What scandal?* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *"No one at this network would ever hack into someone's voicemail in pursuit of a news story . . . because we're not a news organization! I me...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThey're not more intelligent, but the bigger brain (and eyeball) size permits better vision in areas with less sunlight.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoHere’s something to ponder. Why is it that it is apparently okay for folk to yell “Godwin’s Law!” at people who compare them to Nazis, or who call people Little Hitlers, but those same folk have no prob...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHer "teeny, tiny" wedding dress is on display -- but will images of the thin Duchess lead to an epidemic?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) work under the assumption that there is, in fact, intelligent life out there to be found. A new analysis may crush their optimism. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou disappeared from Youtube and we're concerned as to why; if you're able, send us an email at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com and let us know what's up. Thanks!
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWH Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer: "We are seven days away from an unprecedented financial event in this country's history. One that could potentially put us towards a depression because the House Re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHedge-fund titan George Soros's firm plans to stop managing money for outside investors and is returning less than $1 billion to clients, according to a letter his firm sent to shareholders and a person fa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith global markets on edge, congressional Democrats and Republicans struggled through another day of difficult talks but failed to agree on cutting U.S. spending and raising the debt limit. That has to h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has warned the "clock is ticking" on a deal to tackle the US deficit and raise its debt ceiling. Unless politicians agree a packag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPhysicists have confirmed the ultimate speed limit for the packets of light called photons - making time travel even less likely than thought. The speed of light in vacuum is the Universe's ultimate speed ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOil giant BP is back in the black, announcing profits of $5.3 billion just a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster left it facing heavy losses. The company said rising oil prices had helped it record...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoErekat says he doesn't know when the PA request will be submitted to the UN, there is no deadline for filing such a request. The Palestinian Authority leadership is scheduled to meet in Ramallah on August...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman was slashed and cut in a Fairfax County shopping mall Monday evening in what may be the latest of a series of similar incidents, Fairfax County police said. The woman, whose wound was not consider...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFollowing through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe dollar fell against all of its major counterparts as politicians struggled to agree on raising the U.S. debt limit and reducing its deficit. The greenback slid below 78 yen for the first time since Mar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, who admits carrying out Friday's mass killings in Norway, says his client is probably insane. However he added it was too early to say if Mr Breivik would plead...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 35 Taliban militants from Pakistan have been killed and several wounded by Nato-led forces inside Afghanistan, officials say. The militants are said to have crossed over into the Afghan province o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeventy-eight people were killed and three injured Tuesday when a Moroccan military plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in the country’s south, the Moroccan military said. The Hercules C-130 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoClashes in Syria's streets have led to the deaths of 11 civilians since Friday, according to Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a dissident group. The organization said the deaths came during the vio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBakhsh Ali Lashari has spent the last year living in a tent since floods devastated a third of Pakistan. His home is no longer under water, but death threats mean he’s never going back. The monsoon-trigge...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman was slashed and cut in a Fairfax County shopping mall Monday evening in what may be the latest of a series of similar incidents, Fairfax County police said. The woman, whose wound was not consider...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFollowing through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe dollar fell against all of its major counterparts as politicians struggled to agree on raising the U.S. debt limit and reducing its deficit. The greenback slid below 78 yen for the first time since Mar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEVER before has a US president felt compelled to give a nationally televised speech on a matter usually so routine or esoteric. But these are desperate times: the US government is at grave risk of defaul...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll eyes remain on the debt ceiling debate. While glacial like progress continues to be made, the probability still remains high that an agreement will be reached by the final hour. With this in mind, it i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, who admits carrying out Friday's mass killings in Norway, says his client is probably insane. However he added it was too early to say if Mr Breivik would plead...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 35 Taliban militants from Pakistan have been killed and several wounded by Nato-led forces inside Afghanistan, officials say. The militants are said to have crossed over into the Afghan province o...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoYou have to give it to American and European governments: their bumbling incompetence at paying their own way makes Bill English look like a competent manager of government finances. Making Bill Englis...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBuoy-equipped arms connected to a generator could produce cheap electricity at sea.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Peru-Ecuador Border Region at a depth of 124.2 km ( 77.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:58:29 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 266 km (166 miles) East fr...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Boehner's House plan] The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation with the intention of aims to avert a threatened national defaulting, a pre-emptive strike issue as ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Anders Breivik.* There would appear to be no evidence against Anders Breivik. *1.* *We have seen no photos of him on the island. * We have seen some blurry pictures of unknown people. *2.* *We have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 91.3 km ( 56.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:08 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 317 km (196 miles) Southwest of Severo-Ku...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Note: Ed is the Blue America endorsed candidate running in New Jersey for the House seat currently held by conservative hack Leonard Lance. If you'd like to contribute to Ed's campaign, you can do it thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 12.5 km ( 7.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:28 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Southwest from Los ...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoChris Waddell became the first paraplegic to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and tells his story in a new film.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 11.5 km ( 7.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:11 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) Northeast from La P...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoMy husband and I like to make a little bit of everything for dinner. We added this simple curry dish to recipe box a few years ago and never looked back. You will need: 3 chicken breasts, diced into smal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 85.2 km ( 52.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:24:38 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) WNW of Ternate, Moluccas, Ind...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn light of the discovery of a fourth moon orbiting Pluto, Mark Thompson ponders what it takes to be called a "planet."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile waiting for Congress to make its next move, the Obama administration today threatened to veto the two-step debt reduction plan put up by House Speaker John Boehner -- though they're pretty sure it wo...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* A coal mine owner in Alabama has decided to go Galt. He's had enough. “Nearly every day without fail…men stream to these [mining] operations looking for work in Walker County...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*US Ambassador Barry White and host of the day, MP Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Center Party) visit Rena. (Ambassador White visits Rena.)* *Rena is the site of Anders Breivik's farm* where police believe he pl...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"Newspapers seek to inform their readers quickly rather than to inform them well. Truth is not the beneficiary in this setting of priorities." - Albert Camus, "Critical Journalism." September 8, 1944. Fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:44:21 UTC Tuesday 26th July 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) Southwest from Los M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA military transport plane flying in bad weather has crashed into a mountain in Morocco killing 78 people. It is the country's worst ever air disaster. The C-130 aircraft had been carrying 60 members of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThese incredible images show a waterspout touching down on Lake Erie on Monday morning, before thunderstorms ripped through the area. The nonsupercell tornado, which appears as a funnel-shaped cloud that o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 19-year-old college student was kidnapped and raped in broad daylight in Moses Lake, Washington, say authorities. The victim told police that she had been walking to her car at approximately 10am when ...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe reasons for the large increase include older women having children as well as the overall convenience of being able to schedule delivery.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. has been given an ultimatum by the International Monetary Fund that politicians simply must find a solution to the country's debt crisis for the sake of the global economy. Pressing for tax incre...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOn this week's Friday News Feedbag, James, Will and Jorge play 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' for the entire show. Who wins? Who loses? Who keeps choosing 'rock'? Also, Jorge finds out why medieval warriors would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGermany's federal disease control institute declared on Tuesday that an E. coli outbreak which killed more than 50 people is now over and no cases have been reported in the past three weeks. More than 4,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTerrorism experts have called on U.S. authorities to refocus their attention on domestic right wing terrorism after it emerged the man behind the atrocities in Norway last week took inspiration from Americ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt sounds like the plot from the TV series CSI - a jilted ex-boyfriend builds a 'master plot' of fake crimes which he pins on his ex-girlfriend and gets her jailed for seven months. But rather than being ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA pioneer of the cryonics movement which advocates freezing the dead in the hope that medical technology will enable them to live again in the future has died at the age of 92. Robert Ettinger, from Clint...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThis morning, after the President's speech to the nation last night, the *Washington Post* and ABC News released a poll showing that 77% of Americans think the Republicans aren't willing enough to compro...
- *Things went quiet lately about Windows 8*. But developments go on and we gradually start to see the outlines that Microsoft has set for its release somewhere in late 2012. There is a lot of 'commotion' a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew images have revealed a curious 'hot spot' on the far side of the moon to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma, according to scientists. The unusual location of the pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA prison for Britain's most dangerous young criminals, including teen murderers, is being turned into a 'holiday camp' with more than £16,000 being splashed out on video games. Inmates at the notorious Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA kite flyer who died after being swept 50ft into the air by his power kite and plunged to the ground has been named as Marcus Garwood. The 27-year-old died on Sunday after a freak gust of wind at Dunstabl...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAuthorities fear that the lethal Hendravvirus has jumped species.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the shocking moment a Jaguar driver, furious after being given a £60 fine, knocked down a parking warden. Martin Takle has been jailed for six months after his moment of road rage, which was captu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama on Monday called on divided congressional leaders to compromise and break a deadlock over raising the debt limit that he said risked a "reckless" national default. Obama made the ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day agoThe PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley *“Along with the known health hazards, the unwarranted and unlawful surveillance and inflated energy rates after installation of a SMART METER, is the threat of compromised na...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoLulzsec*Hacktivists expose Operation Gunrunner's weapons of choice* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com PHOENIX -- When the ATF Operation Gunrunner's Fast and Furious allowed ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSenate Democrats want to cut an eye-popping $1 trillion in war spending over the next 10 years. The proposal is part of the plan Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday to raise the debt ceilin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThey say in politics that you know you’ve become a statesman when you’ve been on almost every side of an issue at one time or another. When Washington politicians draw lines in the sand, those lines are al...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan announced Tuesday that all beef detected with radiation higher than government safety standards will be destroyed as the probe into beef contaminated from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFirefighters battled a blaze caused by NATO airstrikes at a food-storage complex Monday in Zlitan, increasingly a front-line city in the conflict between Libyan government troops and rebels fighting to ous...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Africa risks witnessing mass uprisings if it doesn't act urgently to deal with rampant youth unemployment, the leader of the country's trade union movement has warned. As general secretary of the ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ Permalink Redacción Chile Iceland, a country that wants to punish the bankers responsible for the crisis *Since 2008 the vast majority of the Western population dream ab...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThe Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cNorwegian Muslish Gunman's Islam-Esque Atrocitywww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogVideo Archive
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWe all knew this was coming, ever since former BBC North America editor Justin Webb fretted that the US was in denial of our massive debt and that we were veering dangerously off the cliff of default. Last...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day ago(Starbucks: Where Young, Smart Americans Find Jobs Today!)One final comment on from whence this Congressional madness emanates:A lot of people were alarmed Monday - with good reason - to learn that the Hou...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA giant spinning metal rototiller shreds bombs without flinching.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant position concrete slabs to reduce the plant's radiation leakage. AP] By David McNeill 26 July 2011 Atsushi Watanabe (not his real name) is...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoThe massacre in Norway brought to mind a past incident in Pakistan. Some interesting parallels................. The background- Quetta, in Baluchistan province, a peaceful pro-Palestinian rally is taking ...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA mousepad-thin indoor antenna streams high-def signals to your television.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago-by Jersey Jim When 22 Democrats in the New Jersey Legislature-- eight in the Senate and 14 in the Assembly-- joined their Republican colleagues in voting yes on S-2937, a bill to eliminate collective b...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Living and dying under Arpaio* Censored News *TUCSON: Pan Left members Jason Michael Aragón and Mary Charlotte Thurtle have produced the documentary Under Arpaio that deals with the effect Sheriff Joe ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoOK, perhaps Stan Lee didn't coin the phrase and put in Spider Man's Uncle Ben's mouth the phrase, "With great power comes great responsibility." That was originally coined in 1892 by Thomas Gilroy when he...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoJeremy Paxman’s behaviour on last night’s Newsnight was staggering. Perhaps his astonishingly aggressive demeanour was his way of bluffing the audience into thinking that social media gossip was a credible...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoCorps officials whine about surprise inspections, after debris is found in their levees ~Monday, corps officials pointed out, the Westwego levee is still under construction, and some areas analyzed could h...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe Czech president is a source of some fun in the Australian media. For example, he canceled one of the numerous interviews because he refused to go through a metal detector in the Oz Parliament. :-) ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHere's an interesting catch from a Biased BBC reader. "An excerpt from BBC Radio 4 -- '*Norwegian philosopher Lars Gule *believes he argued with Anders Breivik on an online forum, and he "did not stan...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAs the BBC continues to push the threat of the vast Christian right wing terror threat across Europe, it was interesting to also hear it also advance the other side of the coin on Today this morning. It s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoYou have to laugh at the bias oozing from this piece on the looming US debt crisis from Mark Mardell. The poor BBC just cannot get their mind around the simple fact that Obama - the original man without a...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoA most peculiar Thought for the Day on the Today programme this morning from *Rev Dr Giles Fraser *which seems to suggest the seeking economic growth is akin to original sin! Then again maybe this is not t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoAs far as I remember, this 65-minute talk by Jasper Kirkby that he gave on March 23rd, 2011 at SFU in Vancouver hasn't been embedded on TRF pages yet. Here it is: Kirkby is the lead scientist in the ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Attending Bilderberg in 2011: H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. * Norway has experienced the 'Strategy of Tension'. The CIA and its friends employ the Strategy of Tension in order to control the pu...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: Andy Tinkham / cc via TreeHugger I have only just blogged about 2011 setting a new record for Arctic ice melt when a study is released that states the melting ice is releasing toxic chemic...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Yes, tonight Jack shares big news with his friend Al. * *"Up to a week ago Sunday I had won eleven straight. I have lost a couple since then, but one day I wasn't feeling good and the other time they kic...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoHere’s the note from our friends at the Auckland Uni Econ Group about this week’s meet-up : *Hello Everyone.* This week we will be looking at the way in which capital and interest are interrelated and ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Plus the real Charles Comiskey* *Charles Comiskey c1910:* *Since tonight's You Know Me Al installment is relatively brief (the next letter is longish, so I'm reserving it for Part 4), I thought this woul...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Steve Campbell, sfcampbell@star-telegram.com, 817-390-7981 24 July 2011 The ferocious Texas drought is clobbering crops, thinning out cattle herds, decimating wildlife, and drying up streams and rese...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Forest Fire Across Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park is ablaze. A huge heat-formed cloud rises above the smoke from this lightning-started forest fire across the beautiful Yellowstone L...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Mike Kirschner and his son Zachary, 10, of Bel Air, Md., fish below the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Annapolis, Maryland. Ricky Carioti / THE WASHINGTON POST] By Darryl Fears 24 July 2011 A giant u...
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