- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute ago
A 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 - 1 minute ago
Read 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 - 3 minutes ago
I 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 - 17 minutes 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 - 32 minutes ago
JITTERY 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 - 32 minutes ago
The 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 - 32 minutes ago
For 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 - 32 minutes ago
The 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 - 32 minutes ago
The 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 - 32 minutes ago
You’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 - 32 minutes ago
A 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 - 32 minutes ago
Police 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 - 32 minutes ago
The 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 - 32 minutes ago
Minister 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 - 32 minutes ago
At 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 - 32 minutes ago
A 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 - 32 minutes ago
China 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 - 32 minutes ago
At 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 - 32 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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 - 46 minutes 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 - 46 minutes agoAsk and answer questions about consumer electronics at gdgt.com.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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! - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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?") - 4 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 - 4 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours ago"We were in prison for three days in Mexico," Amarilis RodrÃguez 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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! - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 21 hours agoThat's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 10 km, the quake hit at 19:52:26 UTC Friday 29th July 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (5 miles) North of Patrai, Greece No damage or injuries reported...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoSpace Exploration Technologies plans to park its second Dragon capsule at the space station.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: In the summer of 2007, more than 1,000 sq km of Alaskan tundra burned near Anaktuvuk River, putting as much carbon into the air as the entire Arctic tundra absorbs in a year, scientists say. BLM ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Paul Lumley of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and Gerald Lewis of the Yakama Tribal Council. They say that they're seeing climate change affect food sources that are vital to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan of 42.4 km ( 26.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:27:49 UTC Friday 29th July 2011. The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) ESE of Iwaki, H...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoStudying dolphin blubber may yield insights into better treatments for skin injuries in the future.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe crack appeared on 13 July in Santa Maria Huejoculco in Chalco, State Mexico, land has now reached 500 meters long and authorities have not taken preventive measures, warned James Espinoza Hilario, resp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBarack Obama says there are "plenty of ways" out of America's debt ceiling crisis - but the politicians in Washington are having trouble locating one. *The US president says he is confident a deal will be...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*"**The Money Trail: The idea that Breivik acted alone is absurd**" * Was Anders Breivik financed by the security services? According to the Norwegian newspapers, Anders Breivik claimed he syphoned more th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoApple now has more cash to spend than the United States government. Latest figures from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn). Apple's most re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands of Egyptians filled Cairo's central Tahrir Square for a rally Friday that turned into a show of force for ultraconservative Salafi Muslims and other Islamists in their growing rift with l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMoody's Investors Service downgraded six regions of Spain on Friday, and warned that other regions could also face a downgrade. The credit ratings agency issued the downgrade because of the regions' disma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a new ordinance requiring cell phone retailers to display and distribute a state-produced fact sheet that explains radio frequency emissions from c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA blast at one coal mine in eastern Ukraine and an elevator collapse at another on Friday killed at least 18 people, officials said. Rescuers were still searching for a total 20 miners missing at both mine...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfricanized honey bees have invaded Central California, and a 70-year-old man became the region's first ever victim. The killer bee attack occurred July 5th while Jack McBride was walking his dogs alongsi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA New York City hospital has stopped asking many patients to dig out health insurance cards and fill in endless forms, instead identifying them by scanning the unique lattice of veins in their palm. The n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists may have just found a lost 1967 spacecraft that took “the picture of the century” before crashing on the Moon. The Lunar Orbiter 2 was sent to the moon to map out possible landing sites for the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPam and Warren Adams aren't so lonely in Gilchrist, Texas, anymore. In September 2008 they became known as the owners of the "last house standing," the only structure on Gilchrist's Gulf Coast side to have...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe top commander of U.S. special operations forces said Wednesday that Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda is bloodied and "nearing its end," but he warned the next generation of militants could keep special opera...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFinance Minister Jim Flaherty said Tuesday he is "very concerned" about the debt crisis in the United States, warning Canada would feel an impact if Washington defaulted on its loans. But Flaherty also sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's state-run news agency has lobbed a broadside at Washington, criticizing the United States for playing a dangerous game of chicken with a fragile global recovery in the current debt ceiling debate. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe head of the Libyan rebel armed forces was shot and killed Thursday just before arriving for questioning by rebel authorities, their political leader said in a carefully worded statement to reporters th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Tea Party contingent of the Republican Party won’t like it. But, if President Obama and his minions have their way, U.S. taxpayers may soon be paying a new tax – one based on their net worth. Such “we...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDoctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families. Many families ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEvery morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts. With tears ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrom flyers warning troops the post office will shut soon to disused housing units waiting to be dispatched to their new destination, the signs are everywhere: US forces are packing up to leave Iraq more t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs possible financial Armageddon looms in the shape of warring American politicians, many are asking what happens if the worst - a default by the US on its debt - is avoided, but the country still loses it...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor less than the price of a one bedroom apartment in much of Manhattan, you can buy a whole town in South Dakota. The catch: it's right on the edge of the remote Badlands, 50 miles from the nearest town o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe advance of 'lifestyle' health problems like heart disease and diabetes has fuelled a dramatic rise in prescriptions, new figures indicate. The number of prescriptions made outside hospitals in England ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe German finance minister has warned that he will not bail out every troubled eurozone country in a move that rattled confidence in Europe's response to the debt crisis. n a strongly worded report to Ge...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDespite earlier comments indicating the station would be sunk by 2020, a spokesperson says they hope to extend the station's life.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRefugees seeking food security from drought and civil-war ravaged Somalia find floods instead.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Permalink* *July 28, 2011 at 18:21:22* Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/28/11: *Disastrous Outcomes From An Orchestrated Crisis* *by paul craig roberts (about the author)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA boy locked up for trying to murder his own sister with a hammer, has vowed to carry out a ‘campaign of killing’ when he is released. A judge heard that the 16-year-old, from Oxfordshire, had drawn up a ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Permalink* *July 27, 2011 at 00:04:48* Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/27/11: *Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap?* by paul craig roberts (*about the author*) oped...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussian air traffic controllers have been blamed for the plane crash which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. A Polish report has stated they gave incorrect and confusing landing instru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen police heard reports of a baby trapped in a car, they rushed to rescue it. And on realising that the only way to get into the car would be to break a window, they quickly did their duty. But moments...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - A young bank robber, between the ages of 23 and 33 and between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-9, had robbed 8 Toronto banks according to police. Sometimes the bank robber has a note saying: “This is a robber...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Total cost of new policies under Bush and Obama, with projections to 2017. Bush: $5.07 trillion. Obama: $1.44 trillion. The New York Times] By James Fallows 25 July 2011 The Chart That Should Ac...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A polar bear walk across melting sea ice. Charles Monnett's co-paper on the risk of polar bears drowning due to melting Arctic sea ice galvanised campaigners concerned about climate change. Subha...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIn state after state, ALEC has plans for those with Republican-controlled legislatures and ruthless, fascist-minded GOP governors (obviously Scott Walker stands out, but Wisconsin is far from alone). 117 ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*The company thanks* Two days ago, James Delingpole discussed the topic how the environmentalists abuse little children. I agree with his important words but let me look at it from another perspective. ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoNo seriously, just bear with me for a moment. Tea Party members of America's House of Representatives appear intent on bringing their government down. These excerpts from *der Spiegel* illustrate what's...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRussia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone.
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