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A chorus of policy-makers from Europe and across the world have denounced Moody's drastic downgrade of Portuguese debt as an act of financial vandalism, accusing the "Anglo-Saxon" rating agencies of drivin... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 minutes agoYesterday-- loosely speaking-- I woke up at 4am to catch a plane from Bangkok to Hong Kong, where I waited around for 4 hours for my 13 hour flight back to L.A. It was worth it; I'm home! I watched 6 episo...
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* The Heidelberg Man * *"The Piltdown Man's skull was twice as thick as an ordinary Englishman. It is in small pieces which can be fitted together in various ways after choosing sides. This is called Badmi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Governor Brian Schweitzer vowed on Tuesday to cling to Exxon Mobil like "the smell on a skunk" for as long as it takes to get the company to clean up a weekend oil spill that fouled an otherwise pristine s... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Sky News has been given rare access to the vehicle Nasa believes could be the shuttle's replacement, ahead of the space shuttle Atlantis' final mission. Ever since that "one small step" America has had a ... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
*Reno Gazette Journal joins the copycat reporters, copying* *Censored News articles* By Brenda Norrell. Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ The Reno Gazette Journal joined the copycat crew to... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: North Sea oil rigs. More than 100 potentially lethal oil and gas spills took place on rigs in the North Sea in 2009 and 2010. Alamy] By Rob Evans, Richard Cookson, and Terry Macalister, www.guard...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoRichard Silverstein, publisher of the blog Tikun Olam, wrote an important article yesterday, July 5th, called 'September Surprise: Israel Attack on Iran?' about the very real possibility of an Israeli atta...
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*The "menace" of voter fraud is another of those "truthy" things that soundslike it could be true, maybe even oughtta be true, but alas isn't. Funny how the right-wing apostles of "urban" voter fraud never ... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[It would be very wrong of Desdemona to connect this with the largest wildfires in Arizona’s recorded history.] By MARY HUDETZ, Associated Press 6 July 2011 PHOENIX – The air around the Phoenix area was...
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Tonight on this special impromptu episode of *Perigo!* Lindsay’s special guest is the admirable Roger Kerr. Executive Director of the Business Round Table, tireless and oft’ derided defender of free-mark... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoBritain's climate secretary, Chris Huhne, will deliver a blunt message in his next meeting with his country's defence experts - climate change could reverse the advances in democracy and prosperity we've a...
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*By Owe Aku International Justice Project* http://www.oweakuinternational.org/ Published at Censored News Owe Aku International Justice Project is celebrating its first anniversary of working for the Blac... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoAvaaz, the Council of Canadians, and other concerned groups are alerting Canadians to a threat to Ontario's farmland and fresh water supply. Please read, sign the petition and circulate it in any way you c...
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In George Orwell's 1984, we are treated to a nightmare vision of the future as seen through the eyes of an individual living in the 1940s. The distant future of the book is the time we live in now. Describ... - posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoAfter months of James Webb Space Telescope mismanagement accusations, a U.S. House subcommittee has recommended the $6.5 billion project's cancellation.
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*SHTF Plan* Brandon Smith July 6th, 2011 *Brandon Smith of Alt-Market has generously contributed this missive for your reading pleasure and educational enlightenment. Somewhere along the way, no doubt wit... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
The seventh ministerial meeting of the Arctic Council in May looked like it would be a mundane affair with its focus on signing a new search-and-rescue agreement and handover of the chairmanship to Sweden.... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoShaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter. "They just said 'Oh, wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFriends and classmates of a Chicago-area high school senior were tight-lipped Tuesday evening as they walked into a service to pray for a teen left on life support after a brawl on an Indiana beach. The 1...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIn the video at the end of this post I speak to RT Television about fiscal austerity in the UK and the likelihood of fiscal austerity in the US. A few thoughts here: Barack Obama says: Government has to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoColumnists occasionally suffer from a bias against the obvious. For writers with lots of space and an expectation to surprise their audience, there arises a natural prejudice against simple explanations. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoParty rulers in China are trapped in a position that chess players deeply fear — zugzwang — where any move made puts you at disadvantage. In China, the potential cost of both action and inaction is economi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can. Darbe Pitofsky, 83, sai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAcross Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets. Area super...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe Mile High City is getting higher all the time. There are now more medical marijuana dispensaries in Denver than there are Starbucks. Glossy guidebooks list nearly 300 locations where Colorado’s 125,00...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoAh, the delight of that little watched late evening programme "Newsnight". It's a full on attack on the evil Murdoch Empire with intellectual heavyweights such as John Prescott weighing in. Also gushing pr...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*STOP THE PRESSES: 9th Circuit panel lifts injunction that permitted DoD to continue enforcing DADT (see below)* *Our Davy Brooks:* *Does the fact that he has a career prove that there truly aren't any di...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSlated for this fall, DeLorme's inReach personal communicator promises two-way worldwide texting capabilities.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoHP's new TouchPad tablet looks like the iPad and costs the same -- and that's a problem right there.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoGovernment safety administrations have granted special exemptions to the Transition car-plane.
- posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSomali piracy is taking a toll on climate research, especially studies related to the Indian Ocean monsoon.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoTaking a non-invasive look at how a tarantuala's heart beats revealed an unexpected rhythm.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of Just 1 km ( - .0 .6miles), the quake hit at 07:03:15 UTC Wednesday 6th July 2011. The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) East of Ra...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe fossil of the largest marsupial that ever roamed Australia could offer insight into climate change.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoJon Stewart answered the question in the simplest possible way: he looked into the two future parallel worlds according to Everett's Many-Worlds Interpretation where the debt ceiling was either raised or...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA jilted husband built an electric chair in his garage in an attempt to kill his wife after she shocked him by asking for a divorce. Andrew Castle, 61, was so furious at the crumbling of his 18 year marria...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists are monitoring unusual underground activity that could signal an eruption at the Hekla volcano in southern Iceland. University of Iceland geophysicist Pall Einarsson said Wednesday that magma a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNorth Dakotans like to think they feed the world. But right now they are being encouraged to feed themselves. Aided by its recent oil boom, North Dakota has weathered the recession better than many other ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 9 hours agoFor those of us who pay attention to dates, today happens to be the 65th birthday of not only Sylvester Stallone but also that of another mush-mouthed right wing idiot: "Former President" George W. Bush. ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoWebsite for this image *US spy bases in the UK "intercept British and European business design ideas - in other words, the Americans are practising industrial scale espionage." **Protests in UK against A...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoIt seems like a good moment to update David's excellent post below about the ongoing voicemail hacking *change my password? Meh, why bother?* nonsense in the news at the moment. Compare and contrast what ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSecurity at airports across the world is to be beefed up because terrorists may be using bombs surgically implanted inside their bodies to try to blow up planes, officials have warned. Until now, terroris...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe 32,000-year-old human remains reveal incriminating cut marks on the bones.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoSeptember Surprise: Israeli Attack on Iran? ** *By Richard Silverstein Tikun Olam Published: July 5, 2011* A retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat, and with extensive senior intelligence so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCasey Anthony's defence team have been branded insensitive and loutish after they were spotted celebrating their court victory with a lavish champagne party. In an unapolagetic display many have slammed a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoDuring the most recent 24 hours, I spent a few hours by looking for some additional anomalies in the long form Obama certificate. And I have spent a very similar amount of time by trying to look for altern...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago[image: Obama] The White House is counting on Republican lawmakers to hold new tax revenues as part of an overarching plan to reduce long-term deficit and pave the way to add to the government's borrowing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*High-hazard fragments of reactor fuel have been discovered on the seabed off Dounreay.* The latest trawl of the contaminated seabed recovered 38 high-hazard fragments of reactor fuel. Each has over one...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Good morning, children!* [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* We've been encountering a lot of grim prognosticating from worryworts like Ian Welsh and even that normally reasonable E. J. Dionne...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago[image: uk phonehacking] Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal conquered the airways Wednesday as it swelled to allegedly involve extra not there schoolgirls and the families of London terror victims. L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 18.2 km (11 miles), the quake hit at 15:15:01 UTC Wednesday 6th July 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) South...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago*vpgain0* ------------------------------ *How the West Was Lost* *The American West in Flames* By Chip Ward Posted 9:04am, June 16, 2011 PERMALINK Arizona is burning. Texas, too. New Mexico is n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSyrian security forces may have committed crimes against humanity during a deadly siege in May, Amnesty International said Wednesday, citing witness accounts of deaths in custody, torture and arbitrary det...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA necropsy at Charlottetown's Atlantic Veterinary College has been unable to determine why a pygmy sperm whale beached itself and died in Nova Scotia last week. The whale was found high and dry on a beach...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHopes that 2011 would see the US recovery strengthen have so far been dashed as higher gasoline and food prices erode the spending power of millions of Americans. Here are the five biggest threats faced by...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn Ontario cancer researcher is concerned that the Canadian Cancer Society has proportionally shifted funding away from research and is spending more of its dollars on fundraising and administration costs....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Mauritanian army responded to an attack Tuesday by a terrorist group aligned with al Qaeda by mounting a counterattack in northeastern Mauritania that killed about 20 members of the group and captured ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoProducts containing a silver antimicrobial agent helped kill bacteria at a Leicester nursing home, studies have shown. A series of tests at Arbour residential home compared the amount of bacteria found in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA new anti-microbial treatment that can make clothing - including smelly socks - permanently germ-free has been developed by US scientists. The spray-on solution can be applied to existing garments, accord...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDon't be surprised if Casey Anthony walks out of jail a free woman after her sentencing Thursday, legal experts say. And, they add, there is nothing stopping her from cashing in on book or movie deals -...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoStronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe South China Sea -- a 1.3 million square mile patch of the Pacific Ocean bracketed by China and several Southeast Asian nations -- is dotted with hundreds of largely uninhabited islands and coral atolls...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIndian doctors have been accused of conducting sex change operations on young girls whose parents want son to improve the family's income prospects. Madhya Pradesh state government is investigating claims ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSwarms of venomous jelly fish and poisonous algae are migrating into British waters due to changes in the ocean temperatures, a major new study has revealed. Warming ocean waters are causing the largest m...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours agoWhat is going on with Greece? I mean beside the financial issues, why the cooperation with Israel on the flotilla. Might it have something to do with the construction of underwater pipelines connecting Gre...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 12 hours agoThe EDL was created to herd the lumpenproleterian goyim into supporting the architect of global serfdom - Zionism. EDL members are beer swilling imbeciles. The fact that they proudly wear t-shirts proclaim...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoIn the Open Thread, Anthony Masters calls our attention to Jonny Dymond's hate-mongering piece about an alleged "explosion" in hate groups in the US because we have a black President. Stop me if you've h...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoBroadcasting Live with Ustream Gaza Freedom Flotilla II: The Juliano boat of Greek, Norwegian and Swedish activists was live, and went offline with boats approaching them. A member of Sweden's Parliament...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoDespite public opinion on the verdict, the scientific evidence presented by prosecutors was portrayed as fallible by the defense.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours ago'Sound Charge' shirt uses piezoelectric materials to save us all from the low-battery blues.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoUnless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (*ha ha ha*!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election. So for kicks this summer, I'm looking back at life in the old ridings over...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoDuring his campaign for the Senate last year, Wisconsin right-wing extremist and multimillionaire Ron Johnson made it clear his vision of America was made in China. And, as you can see here, after China i...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 17 hours agoType 091 was the first Chinese nuclear-propelled submarine design. Type 091 also known as Han class were produced by the Huludao Shipyard in Liaoning Province. First two submarines Han class may no longer ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 17 hours agoDespite strong protests by the common Pakistanis and half hearted requests by the Pakistani Federal Government, United States shows no signs of decreasing the pace of drone strikes against the targets in F...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 18 hours agoExercise would help in identifying hazardous zones, availability of fresh water Vijay Mohan/TNS Chandigarh, July 5 Precision maps of the vital road axis, mountainous topography and the amount of snow cover...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoQuite the red carpet treatment from the BBC for Arianna Huffington as she launches the UK version of the Huffington Post this week. Last night Newsnight: This morning BBC Breakfast and an interview for ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.* (News of the World phone hacking- Daily Mail) There are reports that people working for Rupert Murdoch's *News of the World* hacked the telephones of: *1.* Victims of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:04 UTC Wednesday 6th July 2011. The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) W...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoBBC and others celebrate a great new paper in PNAS that claims to finally explain why there hasn't been any warming in the last decade or so. How did the research start? *China is considered by Al Gore ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMeters around Mt. Hekla in southern Iceland have shown “unusual activity” in recent days. The Public Safety Commission has been alerted. According to RÚV Public Radio there is no reason for action as of n...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe BBC agenda is clear. Rebekah Wade must be sacked, Andy Coulson should be imprisoned, NOTW should be shut down and NewsCorp must NOT be allowed to take 100% shareholding in BSkyB. Oh, and David Cameron ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA council is firing all 6,500 of its employees, with a promise to re-hire them if they agree to a pay cut. Dismissal letters have been sent by Shropshire Council informing all staff they will lose their j...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn 18-year-old student cut his ex-girlfriend's throat, strangled her with a bungee chord and dumped her body in a marsh, according to authorities. Nathaniel Fujita, 18, from Wayland, Massachusetts, has bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt should have been a time for celebration when people across the nation were proud to say they were American. But instead the July 4 weekend was plagued by spates of violence all over the country. Six m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAmerica's success with unmanned military drones has sparked a 'global rush' for weaponised and surveillance aircrafts, according to a new report. Over 50 countries have purchased surveillance drones or sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnother power station was shut down by jellyfish today amid claims that climate change is causing a population surge among the species. A huge swarm clogged up the Orot Rabin plant in Hadera, Israel, a day...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA former state prosecutor has claimed the jury in the Casey Anthony murder trial 'failed' to reach the right decision - just like in the infamous OJ Simpson case. Former Michigan Prosecutor Carl Marlinga ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPet lovers were warned yesterday to be on the lookout for snakes after two dogs died from adder bites. Vets have reported an increase in attacks, saying the hot weather has encouraged adders out into the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFines for failing to display the EU flag and logos should be scrapped, a government minister said yesterday. Brussels has imposed financial penalties of almost £500,000 on councils, museums, universitie...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoIn an interview with Paul Jay, founder of The Real News Network, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, said that the American empire is rotting at the core...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian tanks surrounded the southern city of Hama Tuesday, a day after hundreds of troops and security police killed at least three people in raids in the city that has witnessed some of the biggest demons...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWestern powers attacking Libya have made themselves "legitimate targets" for retaliation, the son of Muammar Gaddafi has warned. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi rejected calls for his father to quit Libya as the pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPortugal's debt has been relegated to junk status after Moody's Investor Services warned that the country's prospects had been damaged by the international efforts to rescue Greece. The credit rating agen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn Washington they are arguing about a debt ceiling; in Brussels they are staring into a debt abyss. But the basic problem is the same. Both the US and the European Union have public finances that are out ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* The Peking Man * *"We do not know whether he was religious or promiscuous or both. He did not have love as we understand it because he had no gin."* *by Ken* After the preface to *How to Tell Your Frien...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn this rainy spring morning, the Pic de Bugarach in southern France is completely shrouded in mist. But though the peak, at 4,000 ft., is invisible today, its rugged outline is known all over the world. H...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSudan will drop in size by one quarter and lose 8 million people from its population when the state of South Sudan comes into being in a few days, a Sudanese official said Tuesday. "Sudan has lost a quart...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSir Richard Dearlove, Britain’s former chief spymaster has said the country should start spying on its Eurozone neighbours to protect the economy as the common currency is wracked by national defaults. Si...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"The problem is at the consumer level, confidence is low and that is because, as you showed, showed we had underemployment with one out of every six Americans. The worst element of that is that among the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShe holds the dubious honour of being the Guinness Book Of Records' fattest woman ever to give birth, requiring a team of 30 medics to deliver her daughter during a high-risk Caesarean birth. Now, four ye...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPortugal's debt has been relegated to junk status after Moody's Investor Services warned that the country's prospects had been damaged by the international efforts to rescue Greece.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMany Americans expect that almost all crimes -- especially sensational murders -- will be solved. But often, as in the case of Caylee Anthony, they're not.
- Japan citizen groups alarmed by radioactive soil, call for evacuation of children and pregnant womenposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A child is screened for radiation exposure at a testing centre in Koriyama city, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 after a nuclear power plant on the coast of the prefecture wa...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe first documented cookiecutter shark attack on a live human resulted in crater-like wounds.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSoil radiation outside the nuclear evacuation zone is above levels that prompted resettlement after the Chernobyl disaster, citizens' groups said Tuesday.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoDon Brash has been a disappointment. In recent weeks he’s been talking up the problems created by the National Party’s Resource Management Act (RMA), and talking down the ability of people to do busines...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"Some sentences in the brief," writes *Metro Weekly*'s Chris Geidner, "will become staples of every filing in every lawsuit attempting to advance sexual orientation nondiscrimination."* *by Ken* No, the...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoThis is not exactly a new flash to those of us who live in the Barnett Shale Gas Patch. What is a surprise is that our Attorney General Greg Abbott is doing anything about it. But, it's not a surprise, reall...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA man's facial bone structure can predict unethical behavior, according to new research.
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day agoTruthout Tuesday 5 July 2011 by: Gerald Friedman, Dollars & Sense Why only a single-payer system can solve America’s health-care mess. America’s broken health-care system suffers from what appear to be t...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThat was Harper's dig on Paul Martin four years ago, after turning down a meeting with Bono. Since then, Harper has been a bit more *hot and cold *on the issue.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo years ago, officials said, the worst recession since the Great Depression ended. The stumbling recovery has also proven to be the worst since the economic disaster of the 1930s. Across a wide range of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPetzetakis likes to call itself the first Greek multinational. The company began making plastic pipes and hoses in the early 1960s and grew steadily over the next couple of decades, opening a plant in Port...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBaltimore’s Inner Harbor fireworks were rocked by fighting and gunfire Monday night. After the Fourth of July fireworks show ended, violence erupted all around the area. It left a child shot, a man dea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMac McClelland, a civil rights reporter who has seen the impact of sexual violence around the globe, couldn't shake the image of Sybille, a woman who said she had been raped at gunpoint and mutilated in th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe European Central Bank will continue to accept Greek debt as collateral for loans unless all the major credit rating agencies it uses declare it to be in default, said a senior finance official. The EC...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn his numerous fund-raising and policy speeches around the country these days, President Obama often bemoans the difficult economic times and uncertainties afflicting millions of Americans, including the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGermany's top court began hearing legal challenges on Tuesday against the country's role in last year's bailouts of debt-stricken euro zone peers, just as a second Greek rescue is being drawn up. The Karl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere is only one real law of economics: the law of supply and demand. If the quantity supplied goes up, the price goes down. Back in the third quarter of 2008, the public held about $5.3 trillion of U.S....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA breastfeeding D.C. police officer was forced to take leave without pay after the department refused to bend a new policy and allow her to work a desk job. Officer Sashay Brown returned to work in May af...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA K9 officer in Greenville has died. The Greenville Police Department is grieving over the loss of one of its two police dogs. Her name was Liberty, but she died trapped in the back of a hot squad car. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Miami photographer was escorted off a US Airways plane and deemed a “security risk” after she snapped a photo of an employee’s nametag at Philadelphia International Airport Friday. Sandy DeWitt said th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice say a woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit. A spokesman for police in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo says sta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAuthorities have called for parties promoted on the social networking site to be prohibited in advance if police believe they pose a threat to law and order. Last month 100 Hamburg police offers made 11...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoFrom teh Tumblr. Lives on the line. Sudden tragedy. A sobering reminder. Heroes in blue. Gave his life in the performance of his duty. Officers coming from all over to pay tribute to a fallen comrade. ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 day agoCANADA - According to a new study by Statistics Canada 28% of the 7.5 million eligible voters who did not cast a ballot in the May 2 federal election said they were not interested in voting or felt their v...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith some Lego building blocks and a little math knowledge, you can create amazing sculptures.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoConcept bicycle would use a neurotransmitter helmet to measure brain waves and a transmitter to send that info to a gear shifter.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoReporters keep asking NASA managers how they feel about working this last shuttle launch. "Bittersweet" is a word that comes up often. "Honored" is another.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe new averages will soon be incorporated into an updated climate zone map of the United States for distribution on the back of seed packets.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*After wielding his powerful veto cleaver, Governor Christie announces the conclusion of the NJ state budget process.* *by Ken* One thing that you and I may not have known before last Thursday, when NJ G...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoA globalist rat's nest amidst the rise of Asia. by Tony Cartalucci Addendum: A description of Lowy Institute's involvement regarding the formation of a planetary regime, as illustrated in selected articles...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoPhil Goff has pledged to deliver a Capital Gains Tax if elected in November,partly to fill the multi-billion dollar gap between his promises on spending and what he can steal from taxpayers,and partly to...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Interested in 9 11? Here's a Porsche 9 11 by **Charles01* The internet is becoming good at hiding stuff. "Call a friend ... and ask them to Google something at the same time as you. "The results will be ...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe research could help create a screening tool to determine which dental patients may be most at risk.
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago"Nano islands" keep coal fuel cells clean and functional.
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