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A 30-year-old man was killed and two people were wounded during a shootout with police at Toronto's Caribbean Carnival parade, medical officials said Sunday. Toronto police told Radio-Canada and CBC televi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago
Being declared a safe zone may amount to becoming a danger zone. A powerful Taliban car bomb killed as many as 12 Afghan police officers and a child Sunday in a southern town where Afghan forces took over ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago
Syrian security forces loyal to the embattled regime of President Bashar Assad launched a major military assault on opposition strongholds Sunday, using tanks and gunfire in authorities' latest attempt to ... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 23 minutes agoThe President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com OK, can we do a couple of things for starters? 1. Lose the illusion that Obama's got any balls, or that he's in any way "progressive," or that there'...
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*"I run into a couple of the ball players and they took me to what they call the Garden but it ain't like the gardens at home because this one is indoors."* *-- from Jack's letter of September 16 from New ... - posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoSo the US Congressional leadership has agreed to a budget deal - the first real one since the President took office, as it happens - to temporarily stave off a default and financial ugliness. The agreement...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 1 hour agoI'd like to call attention to the article with the above name (about 7 years old now) hosted at The Center for Reactor Information. It lays out the brief history of the Integral Fast Reactor, including how ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 hours agoIt has just been announced that Republicans, Democrats and and President Obama have reached a deal to raise the US government's debt ceiling. Bugger. Because as Peter Schiff said last week, “The real cr...
- Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil on the Gulf Raises Concerns and Haunting Memoriesposted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 2 hours ago
[image: Stuart Smith] Stuart H. Smith Stuart H. Smith is an attorney based in New Orleans fighting major oil companies and other polluters Jul 25 Is BP’s Macondo Well Site Still Leaking? Fresh Oil o... - posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours ago
We have a new addition to the family! I would like to welcome Lucie Bella Haskell to our family. Lucie was a stray kitty. We have tons of stray cats that come to our yard to eat and sleep (Kurt ha... - posted by PC at Not PC - 2 hours ago*IMAGINE A ‘PARTY X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environment mi...
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Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt ce... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours agoPresident Obama at the chum line, feeding the Republican Party. And what is he feeding them? More scraps from the hale and healthy body that used to be Social Security (Soon under new management as the "L...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
The Congressional Progressive Caucus and lots of Democratic candidates and activists have called on President Obama to invoke section 4 of the 14th Amendment to prevent the United States from going into d... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: At Tom's Point in Marin Co., California, the exotic grass Holcus lanatus is common. California's native grasses, already under pressure from invasive exotic grasses, are likely to be pushed aside...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Workers move a load of radioactive sludge. Nearly 50,000 tons of sludge at water treatment facilities has been found to contain radioactive cesium as the result of the accident at the Fukushima D...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoUS Senators are expected to vote within the next few hours on a last-ditch deal to avoid a default, but America is unlikely to avoid a major blow to its economic dominance. If the deal passes in the Sen...
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Senate leaders scrambled to finalize an emerging compromise on the debt ceiling Sunday, with pressure building to produce a bill that can somehow sail through both chambers in the next two days. Congress ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSpain has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, with one in three young people out of work, and there are few sectors of society that have managed to escape the global economic downturn. Unemployment...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIt is clear we must enter an age of austerity," House minority leader Nancy Pelosi mourned as she endorsed Harry Reid's proposal for raising the debt ceiling. Austerity? Really? The Reid plan would theore...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn March, as a government crackdown on pro-democracy protestors intensified in Bahrain, curious advertisements started appearing in Pakistani media. "Urgent requirement - manpower for Bahrain National Guar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDemonstrators nationwide call to reduce cost of housing, food and education; protesters take to streets in TA, J'lem, Haifa, Beersheba. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took part in protests held in citie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe crisis lies in the debt, not the ceiling. Kicking the can with a six months' ceiling increase is the worst possible alternative because it allows the politicians of both parties to continue making the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCancer-stricken Ground Zero worker Edgar Galvis has finally received a compensation check -- for zero dollars. The 51-year-old Queens man, who suffered sinus problems and then throat cancer after months o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn a possible world-first, Iceland’s citizens have helped draft a new constitution via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The draft document has been presented to Iceland’s parliamentary speaker...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoInternational relief efforts for the starving people of Somalia are being hindered by tribal conflicts. The former head of the United Nations environment program says it's high time for the UN to intervene...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Bangalore police claimed to have recently busted a human trafficking racket with the arrest of two person and rescued 13 children from their possession. Acting on a tip off, the police raided a luggag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA serving Chinese military general is citing India's capabilities in his efforts to edge the government to have more than one aircraft carrier. General Luo Yuan, a senior researcher with the Academy of Mil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHas a central tenant of global warming just collapsed? Climate change forecasts have for years predicted that carbon dioxide would trap heat on Earth, and increases in the gas would lead to a planetwide ri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFrequent bombings, assassinations and a resurgence in violence by Shiite militias have made Iraq more dangerous now than it was just a year ago, a U.S. government watchdog concludes in a report released Sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal, according to a former Afghan prim...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA few hundred miles north of here, politicians are fighting over debt. It is a spirited debate, full of discussions about what kind of country will be left for future generations and pledges not to kick th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) president, Joseph Kanyekanye, has launched at veiled attack on the government's Look East Policy, saying Chinese imports were now the single largest threat to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFOR Japan's high-speed rail industry, last weekend's crash in China was no real surprise. Those behind Japan's Shinkansen, which has not had a single fatality since it began in 1964, had their fingers bur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe debt ceiling fight has been long and exhausting, but it will have a big payoff. After it's finally resolved — with the Boehner plan or the Reid plan or something else — we will have confronted our budg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAfter the Second World War, returning veterans were welcomed home to two of the most successful government initiatives ever - the FHA and VA housing programs - which put millions of them into their own hom...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoI was curious as to what the world would look like if we didn’t have lobbyists. We are one week away from announcing here the formation of a third party that has just one platform issue, the refusal of our...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago*1.* The bigness of the lie. Adolf Hitler said: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." William Hazlitt said, "the greater the lie, the more enthusiasticall...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 6 hours agoBreaking News!! Big-Time Scary Politicos“The biggest threat to the world financial system comes from a few right-wing nutters in the American Congress.”That may seem harsh, but only to someone that’s not fam...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours ago*[image: _richardmcgrath]Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath invites you down to his surgery for an inoculation against this week’s stories and headlines on issues affecting our freedom.* *This week:...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*We have our own brand problems now* Earlier today, Digby started a brilliant post explaining what's gone down in the debt ceiling kabuki by quoting a jubilant George Will: *"Conservatives are saying it's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Zealand with a depth of 100 km, the quake hit at 02:07 am (NZST) Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 50 km Northwest of Te Anau, New Zealand No damage or inju...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours agoThe US Government Blockade on Information on Investigations into Torture ** *By Kevin Gosztola FireDogLake.com Published: July 31, 2011* For the past months, I have hosted a show called “This Week in WikiL...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 52.4 km ( 32.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:33:50 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (80 miles) EN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Bonin Islands, Japan Region with a depth of 30.8 km ( 19.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:29:40 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) East of Chi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Image from:* *Why the West Can’t Resist This Norway Massacre Psy-Op* *Richard Cottrell* is a TV journalist and former UK Conservative Member of the European Parliament. On 25 July 2011, Richard Cottrell,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThere were concerns that the ash could block flights out of nearby Catania airport, but the winds were blowing the ash away from the airport and no flights had been cancelled. The volcanic activity sta...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*Henrik Svensmark on climate change* If you have 53 spare minutes and you haven't seen the 2007 Danish documentary (in English) yet, here it is: You will see Svensmark, his collaborators, Shaviv, Veiz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne person was killed on Sunday when a rare tornado hit the Russian far-eastern city of Blagoveshchensk, officials said. Dozens more were injured. The tornado hit the city of Blagoveshchensk, which is ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Black bear at West Texas deer feeder, 28 January 2008. wildlifemanagementpro.com] By Benjamin Wermund; Editing by Karen Brooks and Jerry Norton 29 July 2011 MARFA, Texas (Reuters) – A historic ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoFrom time to time, I sell things on Craigslist and Kijiji. I've given away scads of things on Freecycle, including, when we were packing up to move to Canada, a huge air conditioner, bedroom furniture, a c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Catamarca, Argentina with a depth of 166.2 km ( 103.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:36:29 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) Northwest from C...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region with a depth of 30.5 km ( 19 miles), the quake hit at 17:35:57 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) SSW of Obihiro, Hok...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoInjuries sustained from wood splinters or other materials triggered a rare fungal infection that may have contributed to the deaths of five people in the May 22 tornado in Joplin, Mo., the Centers for Dise...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSyrian tanks stormed the flashpoint city of Hama early Sunday in one of several clashes nationwide that left at least 67 dead and more than 100 injured, human rights groups said. At least 49 people were k...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA rally has taken place in India's capital inspired by the "Slutwalk" protests held in a number of countries. The protest is to challenge the notion that the way a woman looks can excuse sexual abuse or ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEconomists have their standard definitions. They work their numbers and proclaim when we are in a recession, out of a recession, when an economic recovery is taking place, and when that recovery is merely ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 14-year-old male student last seen two months ago being beaten and dragged into a white van by Syrian security forces; a 13-year-old boy arrested with his friends and bleeding badly from his ears, nose a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNATO warplanes bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli overnight, targeting facilities that have been used to incite violence and threaten civilians, the military alliance said Satur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCan you speak Christian? Have you told anyone “I’m born again?” Have you “walked the aisle” to “pray the prayer?” Did you ever “name and claim” something and, after getting it, announce, “I’m highly bl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agof you think voters are in cranky mood over politics, a new poll suggests that some of the dissatisfaction may run deeper. God’s job performance has trouble measuring up to many Americans' expectations, ac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOne of Egypt's ruling generals took great pains this week to reassure his American audience: the military-led caretaker government has no intention of mending ties with Iran, a longtime foe and regional ri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChicago’s budget deficit for fiscal 2012 is projected to be $635.7 million, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today, and could approach $800 million by 2014. The gap is almost $50 million wider than the city’s estim...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSovereigns that bailed out banks are saddled with much greater government debt than before the crisis. In the spring of 2007, the Fed and the U.K.'s FSA reported that the degree of leverage in the global f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhile Washington sets itself on fire, the economy is frozen stiff. GDP has grown 1.6% in the last year, a third lower than analysts had thought as early as yesterday. Between January and March this year, i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Channel 2 Action News investigation found U.S. senators spending more tax dollars traveling the globe than ever before. Despite fierce budget cuts, congressional records show elected officials are rackin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGermany's Africa policy coordinator on Thursday blamed China's practice of buying up land in the Horn of Africa for contributing to the devastating drought ravaging the region. Guenter Nooke told the dail...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe economy stumbled badly in the first half of 2011 and came dangerously close to contracting in the January-March period, raising the risk of a recession if a standoff over the nation's debt does not end...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhenever China suffers a major disaster, a visit from Wen Jiabao, or "Grandpa Wen", is usually enough to comfort the victims and reassure the country that its Communist leaders are looking after them. So ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn a significant escalation in the battle of rhetoric against Iran, the United States Treasury Department on Thursday accused Tehran of having forged a "secret deal" with al-Qaeda to allow it to use Irania...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith East Africa facing its worst drought in 60 years, affecting more than 11 million people, the United Nations has declared a famine in the region for the first time in a generation. Overcrowded refugee ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe sometimes overlooked danger of domestic terrorism hit home last week when a man went on a killing spree that left 76 people dead. Anders Behring Breivik, whom authorities said confessed to the shooting...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice say a northwestern Pennsylvania woman tried to smother her adult son then attempted suicide after setting fire to her home with a foreclosure notice. The Erie Times-News reports 47-year-old Eve Shr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe United States on Thursday pressed North Korea to take "concrete and irreversible" steps to give up its nuclear arsenal at talks on how to improve hostile relations. The US State Department said the fi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Most threatened freshwater fish species. IUCN / telegraph.co.uk] By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent 30 July 2011 Freshwater fish are the most endangered group of animals on the planet, with ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Mountains in Antarctica. Lost ice due to climate change and left-over momentum from the end of the last big ice age mean the buoyant continent is rising. Gordon Wiltsie / NGS]July 31 (New Scienti...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Mukombero (Mondia whitei) for sale in a Kenyan market. It goes by many names in Africa, most notably mukombero in Kenya, where it is said that chewing the root of the plant or drinking it in tea ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoIt seems like we're about to get a deal of some sort to temporarily alleviate the debt crisis. I say temporarily, because there's no telling how it's all going to work out over the next two years. In any c...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago*The Tea Party Caucus, left to right: (Back row) Allen West, Paul Ryan, Dan Webster, Joe Barton, Jeff Duncan. (front row, l-r) Joe Walsh, Louie Gohmert, Michele Bachmann.* President Obama nailed it when h...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Last night we heard two minutes' worth of Plácido Domingo singing the * Improvviso*. It seemed only fair to let him get through the whole thing.* *by Ken* As I explained in last night's preview of Chénie...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoYou can't hope to change much when control of the narrative is what really matters. In the United States today, it's not actions but perceptions upon which elections are won. Many Americans, enough to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] Hello everyone: 1. July Dollar Drive results: 19 out of 5000 people made a donation to this month's dollar drive, with total donations coming in at under 10% of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu Region with a depth of 19.4 km ( 12.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:34:49 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 363 km (226 miles) ENE of Port-Vila, Vanuat...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoIt's often called the 'biggest democracy on earth' and it is, sort of, but India remains one of the five worst countries in which to be a woman - right alongside Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Congo and Somali...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 13 hours agoGiants in the Americas: Yesterday and Today By Scott Corrales Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser, the first explorers to venture into the pathless northwestern areas of Canada, were cautioned by the...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours agoNational Flood Insurance Program lapses may happen again ~Also~Editorial: Progress on flood insurance In the Flood Zone, but Astonished by High Water Recent floods shatter U.S.’s false belief in taming riv...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoWashington'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 - 14 hours agoA 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 - 14 hours agoA 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoBy 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! - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours agoDual USB charger quickly powers up high and low-current devices at once.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 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 - 17 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 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 - 18 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe 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 - 18 hours agoSyrian 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 - 19 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMore 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 - 19 hours agoA 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 - 19 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day ago*DG herewith shares two minutes' worth of Plácido Domingo singing the * Improvviso* from Andrea Chénier (at the Vienna State Opera, 1981, Nello Santi conducting) from its Domingo 70th-birthday audio-and-vi...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIn case you haven't already, you can send Jack Layton your good wishes.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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