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*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... - Syrian 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...
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A 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 - 11 minutes ago
Hopes 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 minutes ago
An 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 minutes ago
The 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 minutes ago
Products 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 minutes ago
A 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 minutes 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 -...
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Stronger 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 minutes ago
The 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 minutes ago
Indian 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 minutes ago
Swarms 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 - 36 minutes ago
What 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 - 37 minutes ago
The 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours ago'Sound Charge' shirt uses piezoelectric materials to save us all from the low-battery blues.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 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! - 3 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 Gor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 11 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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! - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoThe first documented cookiecutter shark attack on a live human resulted in crater-like wounds.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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! - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours agoA man's facial bone structure can predict unethical behavior, according to new research.
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 19 hours agoWith some Lego building blocks and a little math knowledge, you can create amazing sculptures.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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! - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours 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 - 20 hours 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 - 20 hours ago"Nano islands" keep coal fuel cells clean and functional.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 15.9 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:09:11 UTC Tuesday 5th July 2011. The epicenter was 193 km (119 miles) WSW of Sibolga, Suma...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 21 hours agoFrom the best writer on the internet(s) today. Read it and heed it, friends, as he exposes all the so-called commentators (not journalists by any stretch of any imagination), this time in the guise of DFB, w...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWet Circuits power strips have outlets that work even when wet or prodded with foreign metal objects.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoNoninvasive implant could also help diagnose epilepsy and help control artificial arms and legs.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 22 hours agoWhen will T. Boone Pickens go home?
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoThis is a great article. *Netanyahu, Nasrallah and their words of death* *By Hamid Dabashi Al Jazeera Published: June 25, 2011* As with the two households of fair Verona, where from ancient grudge breaks...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours agoJohn Taylor Gatto has done another interview with Jan @ Gnostic Media. The two previous ones were so enjoyable and informative I just had to post this third one! "This episode is an interview with John Tay...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt's been ravaged by the worst wildfire in its history, with more than 123,500 acres of land scorched in little more than a week. But now devastated New Mexico is bracing itself for a new threat as foreca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA female body found by police floating in a creek in Indianapolis is not missing student Lauren Spierer, it emerged today. Dental records showed the corpse was not that of the missing Indiana University ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*THE outbreak of Hendra virus that has killed six horses and exposed 26 people to infection has reached the outskirts of Brisbane and is the most virulent in the known history of the fruit bat-borne diseas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe computer giant Apple is the latest major corporation thought to be hit by hackers. A hacking group has claimed it breached corporate security at Apple and has published what it said were two dozen adm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 13-year-old boy was killed and 28 other people injured when an escalator at a Beijing subway station suddenly malfunctioned. The rising escalator reportedly changed direction, sending more than 20 passe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAnother patient linked to a *C. difficile* outbreak in Ontario's Niagara Region has died, bringing the total number of deaths in recent weeks to 16. The deaths have been reported at three hospitals in the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photo by Brenda NorrellSASABE, Ariz. -- A self proclaimed, heavily armed assassin told agents on the Arizona border in March that he is b...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*If you click on this printed version of the Declaration of Independence, and your eyesight is good, you'll be able to read the start of the list of accusatory "he has"es listing the intolerable "repeated ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoThis is one of my husband's favorite meals from his childhood. It is a fun and delicious recipe, the one downside to it is that you need a pressure cooker to be able to make it. I finally just bought a pr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham. Photo Brenda Norrell*Arizona police e-mails reveal Border Patrol agents failure to respond to calls, and lies of Border Patrol agents in high speed chases resulting in c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHundreds of people evacuated a high-rise shopping mall in Seoul Tuesday morning as it began shaking for unknown reasons, fire authorities said. Between 300 to 500 people fled the 39-story TechnoMart mall i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsraeli forces have killed two Palestinians and wounded another in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and Israeli sources say. The incident took place near the border fence with Israel after a two...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIndia's health minister has derided homosexuality as an unnatural "disease" from the West, drawing outrage Tuesday from activists who said the comments set back the country's campaign for gay rights and it...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's been more than 300 months since the average global average temperature was below average, scientists and the U.S. government said in the annual State of the Climate report released Tuesday. The exper...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor California native Elaine Cali -- yes, that's her real name -- the best thing about growing up here was the smell of orange blossoms. Her mom used to take the family on drives through Orange County's c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs America in denial about the extent of its financial problems, and therefore incapable of dealing with the gravest crisis the country has ever faced? This is a story of debt, delusion and - potentially...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOh say can you see…the end of American independence? This Fourth of July, the United States celebrates its 235th year of freedom from British rule. That’s emancipated us from yeasty marmite, pesky ‘u’s in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA supermarket in Trois-Rivières, Que., is now the temporary home of a rare orange lobster that looks fully cooked. The lobster came with a regular shipment two weeks ago. Ghislain Renaud, who works at the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBad debts held by local governments in China are a far bigger problem than first estimated, ratings agency Moody's has warned. Chinese banks had lent 8.5tn yuan ($1.3tn; £820bn) to the local governments ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in Australia's New South Wales state have been given more powers to remove burkas and other face coverings to identify crime suspects. Anyone who refuses to show their face could now be jailed for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnother patient linked to a C. difficile outbreak in Ontario's Niagara Region has died, bringing the total number of deaths in recent weeks to 16. The deaths have been reported at three hospitals in the re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFootage shot inside North Korea and obtained by the ABC has revealed the extent of chronic food shortages and malnutrition inside the secretive state. The video is some of the most revealing footage ever ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMichel Laberge quit his job to invent a "glorified jackhammer" that he hoped would save the planet. That was 10 years ago. Now, investors are betting more than $30 million on that jackhammer idea, which ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOh say can you see…the end of American independence? This Fourth of July, the United States celebrates its 235th year of freedom from British rule. That’s emancipated us from yeasty marmite, pesky ‘u’s in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA supermarket in Trois-Rivières, Que., is now the temporary home of a rare orange lobster that looks fully cooked. The lobster came with a regular shipment two weeks ago. Ghislain Renaud, who works at the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBad debts held by local governments in China are a far bigger problem than first estimated, ratings agency Moody's has warned. Chinese banks had lent 8.5tn yuan ($1.3tn; £820bn) to the local governments ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in Australia's New South Wales state have been given more powers to remove burkas and other face coverings to identify crime suspects. Anyone who refuses to show their face could now be jailed for ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoAttention Gas Patch Breathers!July 14, 2011Come help us get relief for our BAD GAS problem.TCEQ Public Hearing on the New DFW Smog PlanThursday, July 14, 2011 at 6:30 PMArlington City Hall101 W. AbramJoin us...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI had some fun last fall comparing the elections of Naheed Nenshi in Calgary and Rob Ford in Toronto. Fairly or unfairly, it appears the two will be forever linked. We got yet another example of that this...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Teachers see children onto a bus after the end of lessons at Oguni Elementary School in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, on 30 June 2011. The school has instructed children to wear masks, hats and lon...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Update on Wednesday:* *democracy in America may still be operational. A Hawaii court has ordered a new investigation into the certificategate and asks the Hawaii Department of Health to produce the origin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A technician holds a radiation monitoring device used for detecting exposure in residents of Fukushima Prefecture. darkminighflour.blogspot.com] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 5 July 2011 The Nucle...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI have been asked to write the final report for my portion of the research project that I've been working on this summer. There's a strict deadline - the grant ends on July 23 - and many, many loose thread...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe room, decorated with hieroglyphs and Egyptian gods, reveals early Europe's fascination with ancient Egypt.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Wrong hat, asshole* Over the last several months, *DWT* has been featuring a series of posts about financial and conservative political elites making common cause with European fascists in the 1930s and ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoWhile some parts of the U.S. bake in some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, the Southern Hemisphere is facing a savage winter. Contributing editor Guillermo Gimenez writes: "After many days of mu...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoIn 1982 the Thatcher regime sent men to die in the Falklands in order to ensure that her hated government was re-elected. Now, nearly 20 years after the Falklands Conflict, those who lost relatives are bei...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBananas will need sex if they are to survive into ripe old age, research concludes.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe behaviors seen in the animals include rocking back and forth and pulling out hair.
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoCompare and contrast the way that Richard Black - the current BBC so-called environment correspondent- and David Whitehouse, a former BBC science reporter who, unlike Richard, actually has a science degree...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoSource: www.analuisacid.com and Diario Vanguardia Date: 06.29.11 Mexico: Chupacabras? A Report from Parras, Coahuila By Ana Luisa Cid According to the Diario Vanguardia newspaper, a mysterious...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIf I were writing this story, the headline would be clear: "Tory eurofanatics kill UK train-building industry". For the BBC, however, the real meat is little more than a footnote in a quote from a union sp...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoI have also been pleased by climate activist Mark Lynas' article in the Daily Mail: You mustn't believe the lies of the Green zealots. And I should know - I was one Well, I surely agree with both points ...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoMy husband and I have a standing "thing" that we do: when I first log in to my email for the day, he guesses how many new emails I will have. He always guesses what he thinks is high. And his guess is almo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDead seaweed and rotting fish in the water around Nanhuangcheng Island in Shandong province, which is close to the site of a recent oil leak, suggest the local waters were polluted by the incident, say obs...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*The Newburgh Four* ** The FBI and CIA recruit criminals. They recruit criminals to take part in 'terrorism'. *The Newburgh Four. * In June 2011, three men were convicted of trying to blow up synagogues...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least six people were killed and 20 others reported missing in a landslide caused by heavy torrential rain in the past few days in Bukidnon province in Mindanao, military and civilian officials reported...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecent probing into the age of volcanoes has verified that Western Victoria and South Australia are overdue for an eruption that could potentially affect thousands of local residents. Using the latest dat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA shopkeeper has become a worldwide hero after rushing underneath a shopping mall escalator and catching an out-of-control four-year-old, who fell 15ft into his guardian angel's hands. Without Ali Apari's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man suspected of shooting dead a two-year-old boy and his stepfather in a holiday massacre killed himself during a tense stand-off with police, law enforcement sources say. Two 30-strong SWAT teams surr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA police officer has been brutally shot dead along with another man after responding to a domestic call on the holiday weekend. Authorities have launched a major investigation after the double shooting at...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoTexas Senator John Cornyn has opened direct negotiations with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton over the release of a long-delayed report to the US Congress on the state of Taiwan’s air force.Th...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoIsrael and Germany are jointly developing a smart missile that could be sold together with the Eurofighter currently in service worldwide, including in Saudi Arabia. The air-to-ground missile, called PILUM...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPhysicists continue to close in on the mystery of neutrino oscillation -- the process by which one type of neutrino morphs into another as it travels through space.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoMumbai/Bangalore: Securing contracts to build warships has emerged as an option for local shipyards seeking to sail through a global downturn in the industry. ABG Shipyard Ltd, India’s largest shipbuilder ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoRussian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has said that RSM-56 Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is ready for serial production. Russia had successfully test fired Bulava SLBM from the ne...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUnited Kingdom is using its Sea King AEW7 (also known as ASaC7) helicopter for the intelligence, surveillance, early enemy detection missions against the land targets for supporting ground forces in the He...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Secret Service will investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account after updates were posted claiming President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoDirector General of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)m V.K. Saraswat has said that India is all set to test new short range, quick-reaction missile on July 17. This new quick respons...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoTaiwanese Main Battle Tank (MBT) during the Lan-Yuon Military Exercise near Baoli mountain in Pington,southern Taiwan.Click Here To Continue Reading
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoChina has signed an agreement purchase 123 Russian Lyulka-Saturn AL-31FN turbofan engine to continue the production of the J-10 Fighter Jets. Read More
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCasey Anthony’s six-week murder trial finally rested today as jurors were sent away to decide whether her two-year-old daughter was the victim of an accidental drowning that she covered up out of fear and ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistani officials has confirmed that Pakistan Navy has so far not received any official word from the United States about the replacement of the two P-3C Orion maritime surveillance aircrafts which were ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoFour Turkish Naval warships of the Turkish Maritime Task Group have reached Pakistan on a three day visit. Turkish Maritime Task Group (TMTG) will also participate in the bilateral naval exercise during it...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoPakistani Security Forces has launched and operation against the Taliban terrorists in the Kurram agency. Thousands of Pakistan army and FC troops are taking part in the action against the Talibans in Kurr...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUS officials have been pressuring Pakistan to approve their request of a United States’ Security Liaison Officer (SLO) at every corps headquarters of the Pakistan Army. Pakistani English language newspapae...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoIn the post-Osama scenario, taking cognisance of the recent major terror-events such as militants’ assault on Pakistan’s naval base, cross-border attack of 500 heavily armed militants who entered Pakistan’...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDistraught tourists spoke today of their horrific ordeal at sea after getting caught in a violent electrical storm off the coast of Mexico, which capsized their fishing boat in the pitch black of night. O...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe $1 billion deal to purchase new basic trainers for the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been put on hold after serious allegations have surfaced about discrepancies in the procurement process. The defence mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man charged with stabbing his mother to death called police to say he had committed the crime, then changed his mind and called back saying she had 'committed suicide'. Jonathan Schwartz, 41, made the b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlmost 2,000 beach-goers were stung in a mass jellyfish attack over America's big holiday weekend. Crowds of swimmers suffered painful stings after being hit buy the sea creatures as they celebrated Indep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA female body has been found by police floating in a creek in Indianapolis, raising the possibility that the hunt to find missing student Lauren Spierer might be nearing its end. While it remains unconfi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's rapid industrial expansion may have halted global warming for much of the last decade, climate scientists claimed. They said sulphur pollution from China’s coal-fired power stations helped to keep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the dramatic moment a father-of-two wrestled a gun from a pair of hooded men who burst into his home and were caught on camera. Adrian Draper, 43, grappled with two gunmen after they forced their w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe stepson of notorious former gangster Dave Courtney has been shot dead in a suspected gangland assassination over a drugs debt. Genson Courtney, 23, was ambushed as he got into his VW Golf outside his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teenager was electrocuted on a railway line after he ran on to the track to retrieve a ball. Dale Fleckner, 16, died on the tracks between Rock Ferry and Green Lane stations in Wirral, Merseyside, at 6....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's unlikely to impress Jamie Oliver. Far from discouraging pupils from a junk food diet, a council is making it even easier to indulge – by spending £100,000 on a footpath from their school gate to McDon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe family of a teenager killed by her boyfriend in a car crash have criticised the ten-month suspended sentence he received today as 'disgusting'. Ashley Millar, 19, was driving a Citroen Saxo registered...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA green sea turtle washed off dead on far North coast of New South Wales beach in Australia with over 300 pieces of plastic debris lodged in its guts. “Unfortunately we counted 317 pieces of plastic from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 161.3 km (100.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:25 UTC Tuesday 5th July 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) South Wes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt a NATO-Russia Council meeting in Sochi, the Kremlin warned the Western military alliance against unilaterally building a defense shield in Eastern Europe. The two also remain at loggerheads over the con...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs America celebrates its birthday on July 4, the timeless words of Thomas Jefferson will surely be invoked to remind us of our founding ideals -- that "All men are created equal" and are "endowed by their...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIllustration by Jacks *"The Java Man had immense supraorbital ridges of solid bone and was conscious in spots. Does that remind you of anyone?"* *-- from Will Cuppy's "The Java Man"* *by Ken* As promised...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoELENIN Is Just A comet, We Think??? This video was made June 29, 2011 using all of the STEREO AHEAD (A) H1 images from June 5 to June 27, 2011. Motion Tracking was used in Adobe After Effects to stabili...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea is closely watching North Korea's military after it warned of "merciless" retaliation for anti-Pyongyang slogans displayed by Seoul's frontline troops, the defence ministry said Thursday. The ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBuoyed by French arms drops and intensified NATO air strikes on the regime's frontline armour, Libya's rebel army said it is poised for an offensive that could put it within striking distance of Tripoli....
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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"We praise our Founders annually for revolting against royal rule and for creating an exceptionally durable system of self-government. We can wreck that system if we forget our Founders’ purpose of creat...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoHappy (Safe) Fourth of July, E!Reporting from Home Base (Starbucks, Friendly Center).CEO Pay In US Soared 23 Percent in 2010By Barry Grey4 July 2011While US unemployment remains at near-Depression levels an...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago"This is the Freedom Ride of this era - to get on this boat, make it to Gaza, to join our stories to their stories, to know that these oppressions can be ended." Toronto Star reporter Jim Rankin is fili...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThey call themselves "The Final Four" -- a diminutive crew slated to launch Friday on NASA's last space shuttle mission, a cargo run to the International Space Station.
- A hidden risk of climate change: More property damage from drought-induced soil subsidence in Europeposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Cracked mud is pictured at sunrise in the dried shores of Lake Gruyere affected by continous drought in Europe. AFP/ Fabrice Coffrini] Zurich, July 4 (Swiss Re) – Europe is witnessing a dramatic ...
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