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A replica of a 1910 aircraft built by flight pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright crashed Saturday in a field near Springfield, Ohio, killing the two men aboard, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported. The ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
A growing number of children are entering the education system with such poor communication skills that they do not even know their own name, teachers have warned. Parents are failing to teach their child... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Almost 600 children below the age of 13 have been treated in hospital for eating disorders in the past three years, new figures have revealed. The statistics include 197 children between the ages of five a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
UK households are suffering a tighter squeeze on disposable incomes than either the US or the rest of Europe, due largely to the weakness of sterling. According to research by Haver Analytics, real dispos... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
It is unclear if the United States will be able to pay troops on time in the event of a debt default, the top U.S. military officer told troops in Afghanistan on Saturday. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel was attacked Saturday, as witnesses said they heard heavy gunfire at the gas station that was destroyed in an attack earlier this month. Witnesses said the station had not b... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes agoFour people were killed and 16 others injured during a fight between two groups of workers after one faction detonated explosives in northwestern Gansu Province on Friday. The blast occurred at around 2:3...
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Two Yemeni army colonels, five soldiers and seven Islamist militants died overnight in fighting in southern Yemen, while artillery and air raids killed 15 pro-government tribesmen by mistake, local and tri... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
In his first media interview, Brigadier General Mohammed al-Sawmali, commander of Yemen’s 25th Mechanized Brigade spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat from the heart of the Yemeni forces siege of the city of Zanjibar,... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 54 minutes ago*DG herewith shares two minutes' worth of Plácido Domingo singing the * Improvviso* from Andrea Chénier (at the Vienna State Opera, 1981, Nello Santi conducting) from its Domingo 70th-birthday audio-and-vi...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoIn case you haven't already, you can send Jack Layton your good wishes.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours agoHere’s a nice hymn for a Sunday: by Ben Hillman Here’s another: ‘by Monty Python’s Flying Circus [HT Linda K.] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Japan has banned beef cattle shipments from areas nearby the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as consumers and lawmakers accused the government of negligence in its handling of the crisis as more...
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*Andrew Cuomo after being sworn in as governor of New York, with his daughter Cara at left and his parents, Mario and Matilda Cuomo, at right -- it's a shame the boy doesn't seem to be nearly as smart as h... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRadiation fallout from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant poses a growing threat to Japan’s food chain as unsafe levels of cesium found in beef on supermarket shelves were also detected in more vegetables...
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North Korea said Wednesday, ahead of landmark talks with the United States, that a US missile defense shield will set off a new nuclear arms race. The new diplomatic attack on the United States came as the... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
As more of the Arctic Ocean becomes open for shipping, the United States isn't prepared for potential disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, top U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Stat... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Organized Central European cybercrime gangs are a security threat to the United States and have been targeted in a new U.S. strategy released this week. U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled his Strategy t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHere is a document the USDA doesn't want you to see. It's what the agency calls a "technical review"—nothing more than a USDA-contracted researcher's simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFaced with a natural gas drilling boom that has sullied the air in some parts of the country, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed for the first time to control air pollution at oil and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Sea Shepherd director has been convicted in absentia in Norway, spent 80 days in a Dutch prison, and has had the Japanese, Icelandic and Danish navies trying to arrest him for trying to defend whales, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAmerican shoppers use an estimated 102 billion plastic shopping bags each year — more than 500 per consumer. Named by Guinness World Records as "the most ubiquitous consumer item in the world," the ultrath...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDuring the industrial boom of the mid-twentieth century thousands of man-made chemicals were created to make chemical processes and products stronger and more durable. The substances became useful in pest...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA new report says groundwater contamination from coal ash has been found at Gallatin and eight of the nine other Tennessee Valley Authority fossil power plant sites where testing is being done. Levels of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBaby boomers -- those born between 1946 and 1964 -- have been described as "the pig in the python" and the "sandwich generation." They lived well, grew up in relative abundance and, some say, expected thei...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th birthday looking ahead to months of cancer treatment. Chavez rallied a cro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHonduras authorities say they have recovered 7.3 tons (6.6 metric tons) of cocaine from a semi-submersible craft seized off the country's Caribbean coast. Presidential guard chief Col. Rene Osorio says of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCops have busted a group of oddball poachers in Prospect Park — a band of vagrants that was trapping and eating ducks, squirrels and pigeons. Parks officers wrote four tickets — two for killing wildlife an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA sleepy Home Counties market town has become the first in Britain to have every car passing through it tracked by police cameras. Royston, in Hertfordshire, has had a set of police cameras installed on e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoReporting from Yosemite National Park -- National parks tend to be a tree hugger's paradise. Layers of federal laws, strict park service rules and even the disapproving scowls from some visitors prohibit s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoYou go to the cinema or the theatre to see the stars perform. What happened on Thursday in the US House of Representatives was that hardly any of them turned up, the real drama was all offstage and the pla...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe "limited magnitude" of both debt plans put forward by congressional leaders would not put the nation's AAA credit rating back on solid footing, Moody's Investors Service announced Friday. "Reductions ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe hottest day in the D.C. region in 10 years broke heat records at all three area airports. The heat index reached 107 degrees Friday, mirroring the dangerous heat levels the Washington, D.C. region saw...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThere are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border. "It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoScientology operates more as a business than as a church, relying on techniques perfected by car salesmen to attract new members and celebrities to its rolls. That's just one of the takeaways from Janet R...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoYou could call it "My Big Fat Computer Geek Wedding." After a Houston couple couldn't get a friend to serve as the minister at their wedding, they decided to create their own. When Miguel Hanson and his f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Las Vegas police officer under investigation for the videotaped beating of a man in March violated several Metropolitan Police Department policies, an internal investigation found. Mitchell Crooks' co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBoston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 ½ years to free money for new investments, the Natick medical device maker’s second major r...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoTrees are dying so quickly that I am weary of taking their pictures and writing the same thing over and over. Eventually people will have to notice - or they will refuse to see. One thing I am sure of. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: University of Wisconsin geologist Anders Carlson surveys an outlet glacier in southwestern Greenland. Robert Hatfield / Oregon State University] By John D. Cox 28 July 2011 Before the last ice ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoThe Norway attacks are “from the same Gladio-type stable” – former European MP *By Richard Cottrell EndTheLie.com* My name is Richard Cottrell, journalist, author and former European MP. My new book *Gla...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoNew discs could have the storage capacity of 20 single-layer Blu-ray discs, 100 DVDs or the hard drives of most laptops.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*Frank Guinta is a dangerous kook; the other guy is dressed up as a Revolutionary War general* If you've been following Bernie Sanders' heroic efforts to refocus Congress on what the American people are a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTwo mothers and a friend allegedly left ten children in a sweltering car for two hours while they drank in a bar. Witnesses told police they saw the car parked outside Alibi Lounge in Springfield, Missour...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThree companies have invited six-year-old Bailey Duran to join their teams and will be sponsoring her with gear.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIraq is more dangerous than it was just a year ago, after a surge in bombings, assassinations and violence by Shi'ite militias, according to a report released today. In his quarterly review to Congress, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British man who fell from a third-floor holiday apartment in Ibiza has died of his injuries. Samuel McCaugel, 23, was rushed in a critical condition to the holiday island's main Can Misses hospital yest...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 9 hours agoHEALTH - Malaria is a crippling disease in part of the world. But there are people like Inder Singh who are working to stop it. Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease and is widespread in tropical ...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 9 hours agoThere has been, circulating on the Internet, a story that a crashed flying saucer has been found in 300 feet of water in the Gulf of Bothnia. That is, in the ocean between Finland and Sweden. It was found ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoIn a previous blog entry, I encouraged you to notice that HadCRUT3 has released the (nearly) raw data from their 5,000+ stations. *Temperature trends (in °C/century, in terms of colors) over the whole...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 43.5 km ( 27 miles), the quake hit at 18:53:52 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) ESE...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoLast Monday, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision reaffirming there is evidence that war resisters are targets of punishment because of their political beliefs if forced to return to the United ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Guam Region with a depth of 128.8 km ( 76.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:48:52 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 183 km (114 miles) WSW from Hagatna, Gu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRead Contribution; More than two dozen assault rifles have been stolen from a Southern California military base, and investigators sought the public's help as they looked to arrest suspects and recover th...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoI am buying my daughter's Christmas presents from the thrift store this year. Yup, the thrift store. What I really want to give my daughter for Christmas this year is a big box of dress up clothes. After ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe most important thing in the fight against Gaddafi was the one we ignored - getting the job done quickly. Time was very much of the essence in this one. In neighbouring Egypt, Mubarak had only recentl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJITTERY investors pushed gold to a record as it stood as a beacon of safety amid a US crisis accelerating to financial disaster. GDP growth figures in the world's largest economy that were weaker than exp...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe world markets are still hoping for a last-minute deal to save the day, but the fronts on the US Capitol seem entrenched. So what happens now? Will the world economy collapse if the US defaults on Augus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFor many, the global financial crisis and the meltdown in value of money and wealth, the increasing shortage of funds in government treasuries, banks and corporate coffers, the bailouts of Ireland, Portuga...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe high value of the yen, which has been pushed higher over the past weeks as the European Union and the United States try to stave off full-blown financial disasters, is hitting Japan's exporters hard. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Republican Party and their Tea Party zealots are taking this country to financial disaster. They are not students of history; they write and rewrite the facts of history to suit themselves. We are in t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoYou’ve probably heard this line dozens of times in the seemingly endless debate over deficits and taxation, and chances are you’ll hear it many times more during the campaign of 2012, regardless of the fin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA fox, rescued as a cub in east Yorkshire, thinks it is a dog after being brought up with a Jack Russell. Tod, the fox, and Eva, the dog, go for walks together around Beverley. Phil and Georgina Walker ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in northern California have uprooted 460,000 plants and made more than 100 arrests in a major operation against illegal marijuana cultivation. Authorities said they had seized 1,500 pounds (680kg) o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe stage appears set for behind-the-scenes negotiating in Washington this weekend as congressional leaders try to reach a deal to raise the U.S. government's debt ceiling. The Republican-controlled House...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMinister of International Co-operation Bev Oda says she was struck by the devastation wreaked by famine during her visit to East Africa last weekend, where she saw the damaged feet of people who had walked...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least 17 people have been killed in a fire at a shoe factory in northern Vietnam, police and local media say. Some 21 other people were injured in the blaze at the plant in the port city of Hai Phong, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man whose son died after playing video games for long periods is campaigning for greater awareness of the risk posed by their excessive use. Chris Staniforth, 20, who would play his console for up to 12 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChina extracts and produces about 95% of the world's rare earth minerals, and since last year it has cut its exports. The World Trade Organization recently ruled China's export quotas on certain raw materi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least 23 people died Friday when demonstrations across the country were met by a fierce government crackdown, activists told CNN. Seven fatalities occurred in the suburbs of Damascus and two in the city...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe killing on Thursday of the top rebel military commander shows that those forces are in disarray, a spokesman for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Friday. Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis and two other reb...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Turkish government moved Friday to resolve a crisis that erupted earlier in the day when the country's top four military officers left their jobs en masse in the latest power play between the governmen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCristiano Ronaldo, the most expensive footballer in history, has joined the European Central Bank (ECB) on a free transfer. Sources say the authorities want his help on the sovereign debt crisis – by kicki...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSavers are abandoning the stock market at a rate not seen since the financial crisis of 2008 amid fears that another global recession is looming, The Daily Telegraph has found. High inflation, the US debt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIf America's debt crisis is not solved in Congress, Barack Obama must take a tip from Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact and deploy the nuclear option. Anyone with a healthy appetite for transient terror loves...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoTired of handing out all the many details of your online presence? With Skanz, all you need is a single QR code.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAsk and answer questions about consumer electronics at gdgt.com.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northwest Territories, Canada with a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:00 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) South of Wr...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoCOLLive.com - Dershowitz Speaks to Oslo Jews - Website for this image In March 2011, at Oslo's *Chabad House*, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz told leading members of Norway's Jewish community to learn f...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 12 hours agoTalmudism is alive and well in San Francisco. The hotbed of decadence has added to its notoriety by becoming the first City in the USA to make the genital mutilation of infant boys a 'right'. Using the ex...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoI often go to sleep watching MSNBC. The other night I turned off the TV right after Ed Schultz's show, where he had Bernie Sanders on as a guest. Bernie's the greatest, a national treasure. We need more ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoWhen we listened to his stirring speeches on the campaign trail, Barack Obama sounded genuinely progressive. Then he won the presidency and got down to business - Wall Street business. *In a campaign a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA helicopter crash in southwestern Nigeria has left three people, including the pilot, dead, an emergency official said Saturday after a six-hour search in a wooded area to locate the wreckage. The privat...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoOne of the few, coherent voices on America's political-economic morass has been Robert Reich, the U.C. Berkley public policy professor who earlier served three White House administrations. Reich has argu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoToday 30th July 2011 it has gone calm under El Hierro with just ONE 1.7 Magnitude earthquake registered so far. Lets look at the previous months and see what have got the experts frantically monitoring the...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 12 hours ago...to gloat over most massive failure in American history. Maybe this time, Bush and Obama will actually stay long enough to hear the reading of all the 9/11 victims' names.
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 13 hours ago*Alt. Market.com* By Brandon Smith As we look back on the horrors of the dictatorships and autocracies of the past, one particular question consistently arises; how was it possible for the common men o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA mother who left her two young children 'home alone' surrounded by excrement and rotting food has avoided jail despite an appalling case of child neglect. Emily Harbour, 22, left her 14-month-old baby bo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Large cracks form as Brady Creek continues to bake in the sun, Tuesday, 26 July 2011, near Eden, Texas. The area has received less than three inches of rain this year and 60 100-degree days. Eric...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 39 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:35 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga Region at a depth of 39.9 km ( 24.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:24 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) South of Nulu'Alofa, Tonga ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Bonin Islands, Japan Region with a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:01:47 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) East of Chic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoReader contribution: All 154 passengers and eight crew members on board Caribbean Airlines flight BW523 survived after the plane crash landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana in the ear...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 14 hours ago7/30: What: Non-Violent Direct Action Training Session When: Saturday, July 30, 3-6pm Where: First Unitarian Church, 5212 Claiborne, New Orleans 8/1: What: Creative banner/visual making prep for Aug. 4th n...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 14 hours agoMaybe it was Karl Rove, that old kidder (or a Rover-wannabe) who, by the way, has also distinguished himself by lecturing his enabling audience about Obama's owning the poor economy now, and not fixing it ye...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 15 hours agoAnti-Muslim Blogger: Slain Norwegian Teens Were ‘Hateful, Privileged Brats’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center Another look at the far right in all its glory.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoBy now you already know the whole sorry Boehner bill story, which was like a Frankenstein monster that finally passed late Friday, without a single Democratic vote (not even a stray Blue Dog-- not even...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoAs explained by a globalist. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand July 30, 2011 - The mechanics of world empire, in particular the current corporate-financier oligarchy has been examined in great detail....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoReader Contribution; Unknown gunmen killed 11 people Saturday in an attack on Shia Muslims in southwest Pakistan, police said. A local passenger van was transporting Shia Muslim passengers in the outski...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoReader contribution: All 154 passengers and eight crew members on board Caribbean Airlines flight BW523 survived after the plane crash landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana in the ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoVideo is from July 19th 2011, I have been unable to find a more recent video. If anyone can find it please let us know. AP released a photo about 2 weeks ago of flooding in North Korea which turned out t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAt least 17 people have been killed in a fire at a shoe factory in northern Vietnam, police and local media say. Some 21 other people were injured in the blaze at the plant in the port city of Hai Phong,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA landslide triggered by torrential rain has killed four children who were playing under a cliff in western Indonesia. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the government's Disaster Management Agency says the children...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoVentnor residents were advised to boil their water Friday, after test results showed fecal coliform traces — E. coli bacteria — in the city’s drinking water. That boil-water advisory will continue throug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 14-year-old girl died and 51 others were taken ill, 24 of them seriously, after they had soaked gram during a religious ceremony at Mohkhuwa in the Rajgarh area of Dibrugarh district on Thursday. Along...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA violent storm passed through the Hudson Valley Friday evening, downing trees and leaving thousands without power. Though heavy rain and high winds blanketed Rockland and Putnam counties, the areas near ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoColonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime has taunted Britain over the death of rebel commander General Abdel Fattah Younes. Tripoli said the killing showed that Britian was wrong to declare the *National Transit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe death toll from a tropical storm that battered the Philippines earlier in the week rose to 50, as rescuers and aid workers penetrated hard-to-reach areas inundated by floods and blocked by landslides, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNearly 190,000 people had been evacuated till Saturday morning from China’s southern island province of Hainan after a tropical storm hit the area, the authorities said. The storm brought strong winds an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOne man has been killed and several other people reported missing after torrential rain hit Japan's central Niigata region and tsunami-hit Fukushima. Rivers overflew their banks at several points overnig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIran may release US citizens detained on charges of espionage, their lawyer Masoud Shafiee said today, a day before a scheduled court session for the two coinciding with the second anniversary of their det...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHundreds of dead fish washed ashore Friday stretching miles down St. Augustine Beach to Crescent Beach. "I suspect that these (fish) were just fish that were by-catch," said Joy Hill of the Fish and Wild...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLike wildfire, last week's fish kill on the Kissimmee River was part of a natural process, Highlands County lakes manager Clell Ford said Friday. The kill was first reported by boaters in Pool C, who saw ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA largemouth bass apparently choked to death while trying to make a meal out of a large sunfish in the pond on the property of Rita Adams of Wauseon. Rita Adams of Wauseon owns a one-acre pond full of lar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSeveral hundred fish are dead after a power outage disrupted pumps that cool the water leaving the Oyster Creek Nuclear plant. The fish were found in the canal that runs along the plant in Lacey Township....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCommunities along the tsunami-devastated northeastern coast of Japan, facing thick swarms of flies since the March 11 disasters, are getting help from the Self-Defense Forces to exterminate the pests. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA new mud volcano was discovered on the Cheleken peninsula in Turkmenistan, the Neytralniy Turkmenistan newspaper reported with reference to local scientists Anatoly Bushmakin and Aman Nigarov. Mud volca...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Anders Breivik.* One of the friends of Anders Breivik told Dagbladet newspaper that Anders"has never had a girlfriend, as far as I know." There is reportedly a photo of him dancing at the 2004 gay pride...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 15.4 km ( 9.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:46 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) East of Chic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSeventeen people - including two U.S. citizens - were killed when inmates at a Mexican prison opened fire with automatic weapons. Violence broke out at the jail in the border city of Ciudad Juarez after p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA sheriff's deputy missing since he swam into a swollen eastern Wyoming river to help a struggling girl was hailed as a hero Friday, as the search continued and an official revealed the girl had jumped in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPresident Barack Obama alienated 37,00 twitter followers last night with scores of tweets urging followers to contact their local Congressman over the debt deal. With his approval rating sitting at an al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAs the search for missing 11-year-old Celina Cass enters its fifth day, police are now turning their attentions towards her computer as it has been revealed that her stepfather has a troubled past filled w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoCBS News chose this title - with an extra "Face It" at the beginning - and it is true. It's true that he has not only borrowed nearly 5 trillion dollars in his first three budgets. We can see it's true be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA drunk who killed a promising footballer with a single blow while high on the drug Meow Meow has been jailed for less than two years. Samuel Binning, 21, knocked talented sportsman Jim Hewlett, 24, to th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoClimate change is far less serious than ‘alarmists’ predict, an eminent NASA scientist has said. Dr Roy Spencer, who works on the space agency’s temperature-monitoring satellites, claimed they showed ‘a h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe military commander of Libya’s rebels has been killed in mysterious circumstances, fuelling fears of a rift among opposition forces. Initially, rebel leaders claimed that General Abdel Fattah Younes had...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoEuropean markets spiralled downwards today over concerns American lawmakers will fail to raise the government's debt limit in time. A U.S. ratings downgrade or default would damage an already fragile globa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMinisters have abandoned an inquiry into the rise of secretive Sharia councils that deal in Islamic justice – because the Muslim courts refused to help. The failure of the Ministry of Justice probe has ge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA judge has let a paedophile teacher walk free after telling him she did not criticise him for being attracted to children. Supply teacher David Armstrong had admitted hoarding more than 4,500 indecent im...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 21 hours agoPOLITICS - The United States has never before defaulted on their debts. If they do it will signal a huge change in US economic policy and make it increasingly difficult for the USA to get future loans. Th...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 22 hours agoAvi Lewis interviews MP Scott Reid, Chair, Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism; Jonathan Kay, Editor, National Post; Irwin Cotler, Chair, International Coalition for Combating Anti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFacebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated expo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 18 km, the quake hit at 03:36:26 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 76 km Southeast of Kuche No damage or injuries re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 10 km, the quake hit at 22:34 NZST Friday 29th July 2011. The epicenter was 70 km West Northwest of Hunterville, New Zealand No damage or inju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 66.7 km ( 41.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:08:23 UTC Friday 29th July 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) East of Sary-Tash, Kyrgyzstan No...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*The Speaker in the video is brilliant, he is Alexandre Yemeck, co-founder of JorYan and Brothers.org: I will be putting up more of his toobs over the next few Posts.* http://www.joryan.org/News.html ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoJoint Onslaught by US and Russian Oligarchs by Michèle Brand On June 29 and 30, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Vilnius, Lithuania to participate in a meeting of the “Community of Democracie...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"From the very beginning, the Powers that Be have treated the Warren Report as if it is the word of God, come down from on high, etched in stone. In the picture above, that big book almost looks like a s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats and Republicans to take the lead in the congressional debt ceiling talks Friday -- one day after House GOP leaders temporarily pulled their plan back from co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe personal data of about 35 million Internet users in South Korea was stolen from popular websites in a cyber attack. The theft is believed to have originated in China. South Korea's Communications Comm...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Ministry of Defence is to axe a further 7,000 civilian jobs as the department attempts to bring its budget under control, the Guardian said on Friday. The paper reported that a letter signed by the de...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConsumer sentiment fell back in July towards the two-year low seen earlier this year, a survey showed on Friday, fuelling concerns that cash-strapped consumers will continue to cut back spending and hamper...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFalling breast cancer death rates have little to do with breast screening but are down to better treatment and health systems, scientists said on Friday, in a study likely to fuel a long-running row over t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA U.S. serviceman is in custody after he allegedly admitted he was planning an attack on his fellow servicemen at the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where 13 people were killed in a 20...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVery soon, Congress will raise the debt ceiling. If it does not, it would be the greatest unforced error in American history, a self-inflicted wound that is as disastrous as it was avoidable. Suppose, how...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnions reacted furiously to government proposals to raise the level of pension contributions for public sector workers, accusing ministers of “playground” tactics. David Cameron was warned that talks to r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerican and French peacekeepers were told to fire their weapons in defence if attacked at border posts on Kosovo's northern boundary with Serbia, a day after the crossings were set ablaze by Serbs armed w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCivil servants are making tens of thousands of visits to betting, shopping and ‘role play’ websites while at work, official figures reveal today. Freedom of information laws have forced the release of a li...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agomali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital Mogadishu in efforts to secure aid routes for drought victims. At least 27 civilians were in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Cypriot cabinet resigned on Thursday to try to damp down public fury over a fatal munitions blast that destroyed the island’s largest power plant and compounded its economic woes, possibly forcing an E...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe last time anyone asked an Indian woman what was on her mind, I don’t think she said she was dying to dress like a slut without attracting a single male glance. So when women turn out dressed like slag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"We were in prison for three days in Mexico," Amarilis Rodríguez from Guatemala says between sobs. "When we crossed the border at Piedras Negras, in Tamaulipas, into the United States, we were chased by th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA team from the University of Alaska Museum of the North has succeeded in excavating the fossil of a rare, ancient marine reptile from rock that's usually covered by the tide. Eugene Primaky, working for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLike many of its inhabitants, the Earth is getting thicker around the middle -- that's what a new study out this week says. The increased bulge is due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice shee...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf Larry Flynt has his way, Casey Anthony could reintroduce herself -- nude -- to America on the pages of Hustler magazine, and make well over $500,000 in the process. The pornography magnate told HLN's "...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYes. You read that right. A social media background check is now possible thanks to a recent ruling by the Federal Trade Commission. That ought to provide us parents with further reinforcement that it's in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists are recruiting thousands of armchair archaeologists to help them decipher a "lost" gospel and other fragments of texts from ancient Egypt. The Ancient Lives project draws upon the same type of p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHow much space do you really need to live? No more than 128 square feet – about the same footprint as the trailers lawn care companies use to haul their gear, according to a team of college students and re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new ultra-powerful Russian space telescope has been launched into orbit by a rocket that blasted off from Kazakhstan on the 18th of July. The 3.8 tonne RadioAstron uses a 10 metre antenna to send back h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorkers on Istanbul’s new metro system, the Marmoray project, have unearthed a more ancient form of transport. They have discovered an intact wreck of a ship, complete with its cargo, believed to be from ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn Homestead, Florida, Posse Comitatus is dead. The Air Force now responds to civilian crime in the small city, population around 30,000. “Here at Homestead Air Reserve Base we have the Crime Stop hotline ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"America is simply not set up to handle one political party that bases its political organizing on an alternate reality and the raw power of propaganda. The U.S. government, and our public debates, are or...
- Senate Democrats block Boehner debt ceiling plan after House approval -- "We're headed for disaster"posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHouse Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling and slash government spending narrowly passed his chamber on Friday and then was blocked by Senate Democrats, setting up a weekend of ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoSomeone suggested during yesterday's marathon that the Fords can't help being ignorant and stupid. They are what they are. But this guy, by contrast, does it on *purpose*. [<a ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoA few of the more enthusiastic students from the Auckland Uni Econ Group and beyond have been hooking up on Sundays to work through George Reisman’s *Program of Self-Education in the Economic Theory and ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*SCHEDULING NOTE* I'll explain in a post at 9pm PT why tonight's scheduling has been reversed. *-- Ken* * Before Boston, the White Sox played a series in Cleveland. * *"I got a letter from Hazel in Cle...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agohe federal government is planning to introduce new behavior detection techniques at airport checkpoints as soon as next month, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said Thursday. TSA ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. military commanders in Iraq say Iranian-made weaponry is killing American troops there at an unprecedented pace, posing new dangers to the remaining forces and highlighting Tehran’s intensifying push ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man shot dead on a Tehran street by motorcycle-riding gunmen last weekend was a scientist involved in suspected Iranian attempts to make nuclear weapons and not a student as officially claimed, a foreign...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCME Group Inc. is evaluating whether to move some operations to other states from Chicago to reduce its taxes, but it has not decided on an exact timeline, CEO Craig Donohue said Thursday. "Our tax situat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoParents who let their kids under 12 stay out past 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends will pay a heavy price beginning Sept. 18, under a City Council crackdown launched Thursday at the urging of M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe unemployment situation across America is bad, no doubt. But for African-Americans in some cities, this is not the great recession. It’s the Great Depression. Take Charlotte, N.C., for example. It is a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe days of hotel guests helping themselves to towels and robes when they check out could be a thing of the past as high tech gets in to the linen. One company has come up with a way of adding miniature ta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agonternet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn underground gay group in the military wants recruiters to reach out to the gay community in the same way they target blacks, Hispanics and women. The Pentagon’s ban on openly gays members is due to be l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen the English Defense League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members - a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a street corner about what they viewed as uncontroll...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSometime over the next three months, if all goes according to plan, Cuban workers on a Chinese-built, Spanish-owned rig will start drilling for oil in the mile-deep waters just off the north coast of Cuba,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEmergency managers along the Gulf Coast typically don't welcome severe weather, but with more than 90 percent of Texas in extreme or exceptional drought, there's barely concealed excitement for Tropical St...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDrivers nailed for talking on cell phones, running red lights Metro has fired 20 bus drivers in the past five months after new cameras filmed them using cell phones while behind the wheel. The Metrobus ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLos Angeles County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating the theft of more than 100 bronze vases from gravesites at a local cemetery. According to authorities, at least 113 bronze flower vases, which we...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCopper theft is nothing new in the Bay Area. But thieves have been particularly busy in Vallejo, where several schools were stripped of the valuable metal in recent weeks. The problem has become so bad,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDistrict firefighters have been deployed to street corners to help protect high-crime neighborhoods. They may need to begin patrolling their firehouses. Early Tuesday morning, Engine 33 firefighters retur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided offices at the University of Northern Virginia's Annandale campus Thursday. The University of Northern Virginia is an unaccredited, for-profit pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agof warring politicians in Washington are somehow able to join hands in a rousing verse of debt-ceiling kumbaya, Pennsylvanians might be tempted to breathe a collective sigh of relief. But experts say that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe've all heard money can't buy you love. It looks like money can't buy happiness, either. New research unveiled this week in the journal BMC Medicine reveals that not only does money not create happiness...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt was an exciting trading session Wednesday to say the least… With all the uncertainty floating around it is causing the stock market to be more volatile than normal. It seems like every other day there i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBeing the world reserve currency is something that obviously Congress does not comprehend. About two-thirds of central bank reserves are in US treasury paper. What is going on in Washington right now demon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Saudis and Iranians don’t agree on much, but they do share a deep dislike for Muammer Gaddafi. In fact, outside of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez, there really is no one in the international communi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) abruptly withdrew from the debt talks with the White House last Friday, the latest development is the dueling proposals from the Republican leader in the House and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe numbers of US women having a stroke during pregnancy has surged, according to doctors. The incidents increased from 4,085 in 1994-5 to 6,293 in 2006-7, the journal Stroke suggests. It is thought othe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoS economic growth is much weaker than first thought, government figures show. The economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.3% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said. Economists had forecast gr...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Permalink* *July 28, 2011* *Richard Wolff: Debt Showdown is "Political Theater" Burdening Society’s Most Vulnerable* Republicans have agreed to a vote today on a b...
- *The word is seldom heard*, yet it appears to me that the evolution of society his heading towards the '*ochlocracy*'. The over-democratized and over-ruled western world and its neighbours (North-Africa, S...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThat's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoNow that the evidence is flooding in that the "austerity" demanded by the world's financial overlords (and well-endowed, shadowy right-wing front groups) is failing miserably in the U.K., the American rul...
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