- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 53 seconds agoNational Flood Insurance Program lapses may happen again ~Also~Editorial: Progress on flood insurance In the Flood Zone, but Astonished by High Water Rodeo features a lot more than fish ~John DeSantis, Dai...
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Washington's Iraq Special Inspector General for Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, has taken the measure of Iraq today and laments the deterioration of security in the country. *"Iraq remains an extraordinar... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
A big hailstorm has destroyed property worth millions of shillings in Nakabugo and Bulaga villages in Wakiso district. Reports from Bulaga indicates that over 20 houses have had their roofs blown off and... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region with a depth of 53.9 km ( 33.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:29:36 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) ENE of L'Esperan... - posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 26 minutes ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The office of President is connected to the electorate 'metaphorically' but not in fact. The very method by which the President is elected is complicated by party ... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The new generation of Eco Warriors at the Indigenous Environmental Network's Protecting Mother Earth Gathering, in the land of the Mandan,... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*Remember when he used to talk about "adult moments?"* S&P still says it's serious about a downgrade. *Economics Weekly* looked at it from their perspective: S&P have recently revised its outlook for the ... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoAnnika Tabovaradan is an awesome force in the world. She is a girl willing to overcome her fears to defend her rights and the rights of others, a girl who sees herself as part of a community, who underst...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoDual USB charger quickly powers up high and low-current devices at once.
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands with a depth of 531.3 km ( 330.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:47:09 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 646 km (401 miles) SSE from S... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn explosion rocked the far-west Chinese city of Kashgar Sunday, killing at least three people including a policeman in the latest in a series of attacks in the region this month, the state-run news agency...
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia with a depth of 26 km ( 16.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:49:20 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Huge Typhoon Muifa revealed a large area of powerful, High thunderstorms with cold cloud tops, East and West of the Center where cloud temperatures were colder than -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius). Muifa ...
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The right-wing extremist who massacred 77 people during a twin terror attack in Norway had plastic surgery to make him look more Aryan, according to a intelligence official. Anders Behring Breivik, 32, ha... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Syrian forces killed at least 45 civilians and wounded dozens in a major tank assault on the city of Hama to crush pro-democracy demonstrations, activists have said. Witnesses reported that there were 51 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA tornado ripped through the Town of Goshen during Friday's heavy wind and rainstorm, National Weather Service officials confirmed Saturday. The twister left a track of 2.1 miles on the ground, leaving two...
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More than 34,000 Wisconsin Public Service Corp. customers from Green Bay to the north and west were without electricity on Saturday night after thunderstorms and high winds swept through the area during th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 47.7 km ( 29.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:46:29 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) So... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoNINETEEN of the 32 fishermen aboard a fishing boat which capsized off the waters of Masbate and Sibuyan island have been rescued, even as authorities are set to probe reports that the vessel had and procee...
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A rescue crew on Saturday located the bodies of two men in the burned wreckage of a small aircraft that went missing while flying near the Grand Canyon the night before, authorities said. The single-engi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFour people died in a midair Alaska plane collision Saturday afternoon, officials said. One plane landed safely; the other crashed to the ground and burned. The two Cessna float planes collided at 2:14 p...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 5 hours agoThey have murdered our children in Norway and they are going to get away with it again! I am angry and I want pay-back! Dead yids! Once more the evil yiddish khazars blow their "zionist" smokescreen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOne university student is dead and a second is in hospital after an outbreak of meningococcal disease in the north Queensland city of Townsville. An 18-year-old medical student was found dead in his bedroo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPetroleos Mexicanos, Latin America’s largest oil producer, said today that two workers died and one was seriously injured in a fire at the Tula refinery today in the central state of Hidalgo, according to ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago*Anders Breivik* On 31 July 2011, the UK's Sunday Telegraph claims to reveal *the real Anders Behring Breivik*:* * *1.* A schoolfriend says of Breivik: "What he doesn't admit is *he informed on his frien...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo aviation enthusiasts were killed in Ohio on Saturday while testing a newly produced replica of a Wright brothers biplane. The fabric-covered aircraft went down three to four miles south of the Springf...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoAlison Hastings, ex editor of the Newcastle Chronicle and former member of the Press Complaints Commission, is BBC trustee for England. She is also chairman of the BBC Trust's editorial standards committe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than two dozen assault rifles have been stolen from a Southern California military base, it was today reported. But the incident, in which 26 AK-74 assault rifles and one Dragunov sniper rifle were s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo rewards are being offered in the disappearance of a New Hampshire girl as police say they’ll do 'whatever it takes' to find her. The FBI announced Saturday that it was offering a $25,000 reward for in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe husband of a missing mother-of-four has been charged with murder after her body was found at the bottom of a well next to their home. Police said they were led to the body of Tonya Faye Lynn, which was...
- Leanne Suter hospitalised as she is shot by teens with BB gun during live broadcast - 31st July 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA California TV reporter became part of the news after she was shot with a BB gun pellet during a live weather report. KABC-TV’s Leanne Suter was reporting from Fontana at about 6 p.m., when she and her c... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe FBI today revealed that it believes it has America's most elusive fugitive finally in its sights 40 years after famed hijacker DB Cooper disappeared when he jumped out of a plane over Washington. Inve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe first major tropical storm of the year fizzled out into little more than summer thunderstorms last night, dashing hopes in Texas for some substantial rain to help ease the state's extreme drought. Coa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe sun set as the Land Cruiser entered the rebel camp in the dunes between the Libyan coastal town of Ajdabiya and the Brega front line. It was time for the Isha or ‘nightfall’ prayer. Against dark velvet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGemma Hayter loved animals. She shared her chaotic flat in a tower block with a hamster and a noisy cockatiel called Jasmine and she would talk to every dog or cat that came her way. But Gemma would talk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region with a depth of 59.3 km ( 36.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:20:26 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) NNE of Hachinohe, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAmerican soldiers in Afghanistan have been warned they may not be paid after President Obama failed in an 11th-hour attempt to reach a settlement over the U.S. deficit. In a crisis that has potentially d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA British businessman on holiday in Singapore faces being lashed with a cane after being accused of squeezing a woman’s bottom in a nightclub. Austin Cowburn, a recruitment consultant, is alleged to have p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHackers who posted a story on Jenson Button's official website claiming that he had been seriously injured in a car crash carried out a "distasteful hoax", his spokesman has said. The story appeared on S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe former Army intelligence officer at the centre of the latest hacking inquiry has told Sky News police tried to sweep his case under the carpet and accuses the Metropolitan force of endemic corruption. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSyrian forces killed at least 24 civilians and wounded dozens in a major tank assault on the city of Hama to crush pro-democracy demonstrations, residents said. Witnesses reported that there were 51 peopl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near South of the Fiji Islands with a depth of 167.1 km ( 103.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:08:57 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 301 km (187 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near South of Java, Indonesia with a depth of 34.2 km ( 21.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:27:39 UTC Saturday 30th July 2011. The epicenter was 280 km (173 miles) South ...
- * Frying your eggs* on a laptop or netbook, or whatever small computers are called today, may be a hidden feature for some. Many however already discovered that these small computers can get hot, in fact ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoMartial is coming to America and Canada in slow motion. The train left the station a long time ago. And the cunning conductors are not going to lose their nerve as their train of evil approaches the final ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 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 - 10 hours agoA 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 - 10 hours agoAlmost 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 - 10 hours agoUK 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 - 10 hours agoIt 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 - 10 hours agoEgypt'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 - 10 hours 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo 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 - 10 hours agoIn 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! - 10 hours 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 - 11 hours agoIn case you haven't already, you can send Jack Layton your good wishes.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 13 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 - 13 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...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*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 - 14 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNorth 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 - 14 hours agoAs 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 - 14 hours agoOrganized 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 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! - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoAsk and answer questions about consumer electronics at gdgt.com.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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! - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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?") - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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