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Tropical Storm Emily formed in the Caribbean Monday, prompting area governments to issue warnings and watches, the National Hurricane Center said. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Dominica, Puer... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Clashes erupted overnight at a West Bank refugee camp, authorities said Monday. Official accounts of the fighting at the Kalandia refugee camp differed. The Palestinian Authority said two Palestinians wer... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Mount Etna volcano on the island of Sicily, southern Italy, started erupting again at the weekend, sending flames and sparks shooting 250 metres into the air, and flows of lava down its slopes. Etna is one... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
The Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab launched a Ramadan offensive Monday amid spreading famine in Somalia, the African Union said. Heavy fighting was reported in the Wardhiigley district in northeast Mog... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A NATO airstrike targeted a police station in a remote district of Afghanistan's Nuristan province early Monday morning, killing at least four police officers and wounding eight others, officials said. A ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Egyptian security forces moved into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday, dispersing the protesters gathered there and beating those who did not leave voluntarily, according to a witness with activists in the s... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
An Indian farmer and father of two had a hysterectomy after doctors discovered a "full female reproductive system" in his lower abdomen. The Indian man, identified as Ryalu, was admitted to a hospital near... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Officials are trying to determine why an NJ Transit bus with a dead driver inside idled for nearly five hours at the Port Authority terminal in New York. Thomas Truex was found slumped in a passenger sea... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Prince William County police say several commuters have returned to their cars this month to find that the tires and rims have been stolen from their vehicles. The most recent thefts were discovered at a ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent. Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with prote... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 33 minutes ago
*"They was a letter here from Violet and it pretty near made me feel like crying. I wish they was two of me so both them girls could be happy."* *-- Jack, in Philadelphia (September 19)* We have two lett... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 52 minutes ago8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | AlterNet #facepalm just isn't strong enough for this.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago"A sovereign nation can always find the money to pay debts owed in its own currency. The U.S. could, if it wished, pay its bills using debt-free U.S. Notes or Greenbacks, just as President Lincoln did to...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour agoTropical Storm Emily is moving west quickly. Ladder Up!
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Roughly 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Laverton, Western Australia, lies the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine. A gold deposit was discovered in the area in 1988, and by 1995, the mine was open for busine...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 hours agoSerge Halimi: Europe’s wakeup call - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition When the balance that keeps labour and capital in relative equilibrium gets trashed (or more likely in this context, sold off to...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 hours agoHuffington Post 7/30/11 Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON -- With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majority Leader...
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*Both while Hank (Dean Norris) was still in the rehab facility (above) and since he's been home, Marie (Betsy Brandt) has been going the extra mile to try to boost his morale. (Unfortunately I wasn't able ... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours ago
In Pam Geller's case, it's not only unleashed but given a literary agent and book contract with a major publisher for the intention of sowing fear, hatred and distrust of our President and a religion comp... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMost municipal authorities have declared a one-day strike scheduled for Monday, in sympathy with popular protests spreading throughout Israel. Municipalities will not be giving services to government offic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRelentless and punishing, July’s heat was unrivaled in 140 years of Washington, D.C., weather record-keeping. The July temperature averaged 84.5 degrees at Reagan National Airport — Washington’s official w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhen David Kelley saw the bumper — headlights and all — lying in the roadway, it clicked that something was wrong. The gray smoke rolling up from the highway embankment cemented his worry. His buddy, Mark...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAt a press conference held by the House "Out of Poverty Caucus", Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) lambasted President Obama over the debt ceiling deal and called for people to march on the White House in protes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoYou can always trust the Americans, Winston Churchill said, because in the end they will do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. For the last 18 months, this has been Europe’...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThere are many economic challenges around the world today. The US teeters on the brink of default, deleveraging continues across the west, cracks are appearing in China’s fixed asset investment boom, Japan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFrom the US to Europe to Japan there is a panic in the echelons of power. The strategists of capitalism are frantically trying to avert a US default, collapse of the Euro and bankruptcy of Japan. The dange...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA country where a plutocracy is firmly in control. A country that has racked up whopping trade and budget deficits over the past quarter century. A country where the tax system is biased towards the rich a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAmerica could soon lose its much-coveted triple-A credit rating, possibly by the end of this week, as politicians in Washington race to clinch a deal to solve the debt crisis in what is likely to be a vola...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGary Johnson is an unusual politician. Contrarian but constructive, Johnson hopes to move the Republican Party in the direction of being a socially “tolerant” party that emphasizes limited government above...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWith the deal reached Sunday night, the United States has a good chance of escaping the debt limit showdown with its credit rating intact. The United States government may not be so lucky with its reputati...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe nation’s political leaders agreed on Sunday to spend and invest less money in the American economy, a step that economists said risks the reversal of a faltering recovery, in the hope of improving the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAfter paying workers just half their normal salaries for the month of June, the Palestinian Authority is hoping to avert a threatened general strike by paying full salaries for July. However, PA Prime Mini...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoArab governments in the Middle East are preparing for increased tensions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which may reignite the smoldering flames of uprisings that swept the region this year. "Thr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFaced with increases in the price of flour on the global market, a group of Cameroonian farmers proposes to make bread with cassava root flour. The Citizen’s Association for the Preservation of Public Inte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSouth Korea's consumer prices jumped at a faster pace in July, raising concerns that inflationary pressure is building up despite the government's anti-inflation efforts, a report showed Monday. According...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Korean government is set to face an uphill battle in keeping the Korean won from appreciating at a rapid clip as the U.S. debt crisis is sending ripples throughout financial markets across the world. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPeople around the world who have admired the United States for its economic vigor, its inventiveness, its open society, its great universities, its leadership in world affairs and even its popular culture ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoJews rather than Muslims would have been the focus of Anders Behring Breivik’s hatred had he lived seven decades ago. Mr. Breivik’s choices would have been easier than. The young Norwegian with the good A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIsrael’s government hit back on Sunday at protests against the rising cost of living, saying some reforms being demanded might lead to economic crises like those besetting parts of Europe and the United St...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe United States plans talks with Saudi Arabia on civilian nuclear cooperation, people familiar with the plans said, in a step that has already set off fierce criticism on Capitol Hill. With the United S...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSaudi Arabia’s economic power is more fragile that it looks. High energy inefficiency and public sector spending are two trends which, left unchecked, will start eating into the kingdom’s petrodollar reser...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolitics have long skewed oil supply lines, but this year’s confluence of events have bent the route from the well to the gas tank so far out of shape that West African oil is going to a refiner in Taiwan ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe obsession and addiction in playing online games via international networks led a Chinese couple to selling their three children for less than $10,000. They used that sum to cover the costs of using com...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAS THE August 2nd deadline for a resolution of America’s debt-ceiling row approaches, other news is being drowned out. America’s debt debacle provokes rubber-necking fascination but the euro crisis is stil...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 hours agoOnly 660 signatures so far in support of Canadian artist Franke James - whose tour Steve is trying to shut down? Seriously? That's all the support we can muster? "The Government of Canada is trying to s...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA tomb believed to be that of St. Philip the Apostle was unearthed in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis and not without controversy.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoI have taken many photographs of dying and dead trees and posted them here at Wit's End, as well as pictures of damaged leaves. From what I have read, it is apparent that toxic tropospheric ozone is a gl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoAs far as I can tell, rape has been used as a weapon of terror going all the way back through history and was at one time considered a property crime against the man to whom the victim belonged, typicall...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoAn in-depth investigation of what lives inside the human belly button uncovers hundreds of organisms.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoSummer is anniversary time for many shark attack survivors, including Discovery News guest commentator Debbie Salamone.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Western Xizang, China at a depth of 13.6 km ( 8.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:53 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 364 km (226 miles) ENE of Lumaringbo, ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoI was going to leave this alone today, but it's just too egregious to resist. Check out the BBC's Q&A page for the debt crisis. We'll just go Q by Q, as it were. What is the proposed deal? Under the the ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours agoThis week's sign of the apocalypse - an e-mail sent out today by Craig Chandler to all PGIB members: From: "PGIB Head Office" Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:33:02 -0600 To: Craig Chandler ReplyTo: "PGIB Head Of...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoPeatlands are often used as an alternative fuel to wood, but their carbon value is as competitive as forests if not more so, according to scientists studying peatland biogeochemistry.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoAvailable for iPhone and iPad, these apps deliver synchronized, behind-the-scenes material while you watch.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEnvironment Centre, poisonous blue-green algae is present on most public beaches in Helsinki. The amounts of blue-green algae have mostly remained small, while in some places the occurences of algae have b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Fox Island, Aleutian Island, Alaska at a depth of 39 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:05 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) ESE f...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago*At the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota, **First Nations activists announce civil disobedience t**o halt dirty **Tar Sands pipeline in US* Article and photo by Brenda Norrell Censored Ne...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe great thing about the BBC is that provides all shades of opinion.....get this catch from an eagle eyed reader! "America is apparently on the brink of economic armageddon and about to bring the next ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoNASA has unveiled the first close-up image of the asteroid Vesta, the second largest body in the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoReader Contribution; Get ready for more hot weather this month. Meteorologists are saying that August is expected to pick up where July left off. The most intense heat will remain over parts of Texas, Ok...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDOCTORS in Wales last year gave out more prescriptions for depression than there are people in the nation, according to startling new figures. Experts fear the current economic climate may be tipping peopl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoInvestor concerns over Italy and Spain are complicating efforts to deliver Greece its next chunk of rescue aid, underscoring the increasing difficulty Europe faces in reining its more than year-old credit ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA government’s credibility is founded on its commitment to honour its debts. As a result of the dramas of the past few weeks, that crucial commodity is eroding in the West. The struggles in Europe to keep ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA suspected leader of the Juarez drug cartel told authorities he had ordered the deaths of about 1,500 people, a Mexican federal police official said Sunday. Federal police detailed accusations against Jo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWeekend violence in northwest China left at least 14 people dead and more than 40 injured as authorities searched for additional suspects in a pair of attacks, a government official said Monday. Local off...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAny large-scale massacre, especially of young people, generates shock and horror. How could this be possible? The temptation is to dismiss it as the act of someone who is insane. Attributing mass murder to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSyrian security forces shelled the central city of Hama on the second day of a fierce assault aimed at crushing the anti-government protests against President Bashar Assad's regime as Muslims began their m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHealth officials in Vancouver say they will launch a pilot project later this year to distribute clean, unused crack pipes to drug users. While heroin users can pick up clean needles from needle-exchange ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Syrian military opened fire on the flashpoint city of Hama on Monday and at least five people were killed in violence nationwide, a human rights organization reported. Three people were killed in clas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in Argentina are investigating the slaying of two French tourists who were found dead near a hiking trail, authorities said. Other tourists found the bodies of the female victims, who were both arou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn the summer of 1998, Americans raced into movie theaters for not one, but two major Hollywood productions featuring giant asteroids about to smash into Earth. The films – "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt feels like that ominous summer of 2008 all over again. Few are predicting another financial armageddon just yet, but a number of portents are adding to the general sense of economic foreboding. First o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHSBC will on Monday say it is planning to cut 10,000 jobs despite making a pre-tax profit in the first half of the year of nearly $11bn (£6.7bn). Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, is expected to gi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe taxman is threatening entirely innocent householders in a show of incompetence that could undermine the whole taxation system, MPs have warned. A damning report from the Treasury Select Committee said...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWe have a glimmer of hope. The key indicators of the US money supply are at last firing on all cylinders, a dramatic turn for the better that would normally signal recovery or even a mini-boom within the n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDeprived areas in England will lose out to affluent parts of the country under health spending reforms, Labour has claimed. Changes to funding formulas means poor health rates will be given less conside...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and tossed discreetly onto the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTens of thousands of famine-stricken Somali refugees were cold and drenched after torrential rains pounded their makeshift structures in the capital, leading to appeals for aid. Rains are needed to plant ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe BEA released the "official" growth story for the United States today. You might not hear about it because this story, like every other important thing, is likely to be drowned out by the debt ceiling f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHundreds of thousands of men have been raped by other men. Some of them have been gang-raped repeatedly and over a period of many years. It is a sex crime that is so common the numbers almost equal that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMore than 1,500 women whose husbands have disappeared but have not yet been declared deceased are in a precarious and dangerous position in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to a new report. The 48-p...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoRead this very important article by Kevin Gosztola called, "The US Drone Program, Terrorism & the Debt Ceiling Talks," about how Adm. Dennis Blair's statements on reducing government spending for counter...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoInteresting catch from a Biased BBC reader here; "Piece on 5Live today about the Hight Speed Train line to Manchester. We were treated to the views of a 'businesswoman' from Manchester who told us how ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoI seem to have missed the announcement that Keith Vaz is back in the government. You too? The reason I assume Keith is back in Government is that the BBC couldn't get enough from him. During the TI frenz...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago[image: Bipartisan deal] The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise among President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a historic accomplishment of separated government, with all...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoThe Norway Attacks look like an inside-job, involving, among others, fascist elements within the Norwegian police, military and security services. On 1 August 2011, *James Petras* writes about Norway (*Or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA respected teaching assistant at a Catholic high school was jailed for eight years today for leading a secret double life as a gangster's moll. Kimberley Bray, 45, was arrested after police seized an arse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIn scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from Manhattan. More than 50 ho...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoToday's *New York Times* editorial isn't pulling any punches about Obama's debt ceiling deal, calling it precisely what it is - a capitulation. *...The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoUFO fanatics clinging to the belief that extra-terrestrials are responsible for crop circles sometimes like to echo the X Files catchphrase: ‘The truth is out there.’ But, as it turns out, the answer migh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens. Researchers have claimed the fuzzy outline is a flying saucer that e...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe idea that there may be a stellar twin patrolling the outermost regions of the solar system, scattering Oort Cloud objects, may be the result of statistical error.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago[image: Goal Thermometer] I knew Raúl would come out fast against the Conservative Consensus meme that was all over Talking Heads TV yesterday and has been all over the Twitter Machine since rumors starte...
- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln Respond to Obama's Capitulation
posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoWhat startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning. - posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoBluetooth wirelessly connects your iPhone or Android device to any FM stereo.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoEasily take accurate blood pressure readings at home and store the results digitally.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoMimicking your interviewer during a job interview may not be the best way to enhance your chances for the job.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoListen to internet radio with Brenda Norrell on Blog Talk Radio Tom Goldtooth/Josephine Mandamin/Photo NorrellLISTEN (15 minutes) At the Protecting Mother Earth Conference in North Dakota, Josephine Mand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTwo teenagers in Afghanistan face being hanged or stoned to death for the 'crime' of falling in love and trying to get married. When the pair met for their wedding ceremony, they were ambushed by a mob of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDespite the police insisting they will not retain the information, campaigning groups argue they have no legal right to ask for fingerprints. Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 21-year-old British art student has been discovered bludgeoned to death while on a college course in Krakow, Poland. The student - identified only as Katherine Lucy Z - had been in the city for a month ...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoToo bad "geotagging" still works poorly on new cameras; it's the one feature cameras have over cell phones.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoBBC and the world's best feminist scientists have spent decades by the search for a social explanation why the percentage of women in natural sciences is well below 50 percent. Finally, they have found ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWARNING AREA AND DURATION: Pacific Ocean, with extra attention on Japan, until Tuesday, August 2, 2011, midnight EST. EVENT INFORMATION: Japan has received three 6+ magnitude quakes in the past three day...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 12 hours ago*Transcend Media Service* *by Gary D. Barnett - LewRockwell* *“I am an anarchist. I suppose you came here, the most of you, to see what a real, live anarchist looked like. I suppose some of you expected t...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 12 hours agoAlthough there certainly wasn't a lot of merriment around the gravy fountain at my election night party last October, the one consolation I took from Rob Ford's victory was that the next four years would b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: The exhaust stacks of the Fukushima Daiichi plant tower, seen above the surrounding woodland. AP Photo / Kyodo News]August 1 (Bloomberg) – Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan's crippled F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Honshu, Suruga Bay, Japan with a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:58:11 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 34 km (21...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolice searching for a teenager feared dead after his canoe capsized on the Thames have found a body this afternoon. The 17-year-old had been taking part in a race yesterday on the river near Richmond, in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA scientist at one of the world's leading medical research institutions smuggled a young woman from Africa to work in the UK as her house slave, a court heard today. Rebecca Balira, 47, forced 21-year-old...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoA visit to *Orwell's Bastard* motivated me to seek out the wisdom of Orwell himself, to find guidance to our troubled times. Revisiting the wisdom of great people long past is a sure way to recalibrat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Chichijima, Japan with a depth of 40 km ( 24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:05 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. No Tsunami Warning Issued - No damage o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck South of near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 40 km ( 24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:49 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 94 km (58 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia with a depth of 57.5 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:38:23 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) Northeast...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Kiyoko Okoshi with a dosimeter she uses to test for radioactivity at her home in Iwaki, near the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By KEN BELSON 31 July 2011 IWAKI, Ja...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 14 hours agoBack in August of 2008, an obscure right winger named Marie Jon wrote a hilariously off-the-mark and anti-prescient article entitled, "Americans will reject the fifth column Democrats, and Obama" (A bigge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSince mid-June, thousands of dead fish have been rotting along the banks of the Moulouya River, in north-east Morocco. While tests are being carried out to establish the cause of death, environmental activ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago[image: Link]LSU rebuked for violating Ivor van Heerden's academic freedom ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~Good news for Maria Garzino. Those blowing the whistle on Army Corps of Engineers can and do prevail See WaPo...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago*Permalink* ------------------------------ *Don’t Fall for the GOP Lie: There is No Budget Crisis. There’s a Job and Growth Crisis.* Thursday, July 28, 2011 A friend who’s been watching the absurd ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Ogiek man, Kenya. Virginia Lulling / Survival] July 27 (Nairobi Star) – ABOUT 2,000 Mau Forest evictees have asked the government to give them land. They said they preferred being given land and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA public holiday was declared on Monday for Baghdad and southern Iraq as the mercury hit 50 degrees Celsius at the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The head of Iraq's Meteorological Offi...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 14 hours agoBy Duane Craig In Hyattsville, Maryland, at GallatinStreet where 42nd Place dies into it, and just a stone’s throw from Hyattsville Elementary School and Saint Jerome School, there’s a small park that occ...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 15 hours agoby Konstantyn Sceglikov (for Prvada.ru) (Reprinted here because I am in absolute agreement with what he has written) A few words to the killers from NATO I reiterate my appeal to NATO pilots: How many chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoRCMP confirmed that a pilot and two passengers died in a helicopter crash on the Nelson Glacier in northern B.C. Sunday. The helicopter, owned by Vancouver Island Helicopter Ltd., was reportedly on a geol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwenty-five men were apparently asphyxiated by motor fumes and died in a small boat crammed full of African migrants which arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Monday, port authorities said. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAbout 1,000 workers of a chemical company at the Malaysian Technology Park in Bukit Jalil were ordered to evacuate the building, after chemicals used for insect control, leaked. Bukit Jalil Fire and Resc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHigh street bank HSBC is to axe tens of thousands of jobs worldwide despite unveiling a multi-billion pound profit for the six months to June 30. *As exclusively revealed by Sky City editor Mark Kleinman,*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 97 km, the quake hit at 10:12:22 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 47 km Northwest of Chitral, Pakistan No dam...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 15 hours ago. Five-part talk. Why we are all fast becoming absolute slaves to bankers. Worth 45 minutes of anybody's time. ONE TWO FOUR THREE FIVE .
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoScrubbing wastewater of nitrogen is a potential business boon waiting to happen; it would help reduce energy use as well as air and water pollution.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoFemale southern elephant seals from an island between South Africa and Antarctica are skipping the traditional harems and finding equal opportunity for love at sea.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 15 hours ago*Once more, with his kind permission, I am delighted to share another message of hope exquisitely jaundiced mockery by the very same author who enshrined in unctuous honor so ruthlessly and mercilessly ri...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 15 hours agoAnd it's not going away.Perhaps not in our lifetimes as many studies show it will be 20 years at least before a recovery occurs matching the level of employment and surplus prevailing at the time of the Clin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoReader Contribution; UN official refuses to confirm if Israeli soldiers crossed Blue Line and prompted warning shots from the Lebanese side. The Israeli and Lebanese sides offered different accounts of Mo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoMany progressives, though certainly not all, are disappointed with President Obama for acquiescing to right-wing talking points about deficits and Austerity. It got worse yesterday. But it's still a touch...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours ago"Tegon" glows bright green under ultraviolet light in a feat that could eventually help scientists track diseases.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoUnderwater photographer Francis Perez captured detailed images of the rarely seen enigmatic smalltooth sandtiger shark.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoReader Contribution; Pittsburgh police say a man tried to carjack a plainclothes officer near filming for the latest Batman movie -- and allegedly told him it was part of the script. Detective Robert Di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSome of you may remember this sickening case as it came to light on the 12th July 2011. A mother is facing jail for locking her three children in a sweltering car for 45 minutes as temperatures inside hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThey call it Bula Bakti, the Carcass Dump. Here, in 37-degree heat, we help to dig a grave for Osman, a seven-month old boy, who died of starvation in his mother’s arms the previous night. It is 12.45pm o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFlames and sparks were sent 250 metres into the air when Mount Etna erupted for the eighth time this year. The volcanic blast on Saturday night saw flows of lava trailing down its Sicilian slopes. But as...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoA frustrated B-BBC reader writes; "Is the BBC making no mention of some important protests by large numbers of people all round a country, proof of bias? 24 hours ago, Saturday evening, in Israel 150,000 ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours agoSearch engine genie is a leader in search engine optimization and web promotion industry. Whether it’s search engine optimization or search engine promotion we at *Searchenginegenie.com* will give you the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe baleful effects of the recent attacks in Norway, where Anders Breivik bombed Oslo’s government district and then gunned down teenagers at a Labour party camp, murdering at least 77 people, have not bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSchoolboy murderer Josh Davies acts out the strangling of a girl in a breaktime prank that was photographed and posted on his Facebook page. The chilling picture is one of dozens of the 16-year-old still ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA man suspected of being the leader of one of Mexico's deadliest gangs has admitted ordering 1,500 killings. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, known as 'El Diego,' is believed to be the leader of La Linea g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Obama administration is quietly moving ahead on the groundwork for a possible India-type civilian nuclear trade agreement with its ally Saudi Arabia, according to a news report. According to the repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAround a week after a nuclear scientist, Daryoush Rezaei, was shot dead outside his home on 23 July, Iran has said security officials are taking numerous security measures to protect scientists and intelle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNorth Korea must show it is serious about abandoning its atomic weapons programs before long-stalled disarmament negotiations can resume, South Korea's lead negotiator said Monday. The comments by Wi Sung...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJapan's nuclear power plant utilization rate fell to an average 33.9 percent in July, the lowest in at least 32 years, Reuters calculations from trade ministry data showed on Monday, as public worries over...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSevere thunderstorm is passing through the area and a storm warning is in effect until 6 a.m. for parts of Genesee County. A storm capable of producing damaging winds up to 60 mph is currently centered a...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoSome BBC journos are on strike today so I am following their example. The floor is yours.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours agoScientific progress leads to the discovery of new theories that go beyond the old ones. But the new theories rarely denounce their successful predecessors as pure trash. Instead, they incorporate them as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRain and dust storms hit the Valley, with eastern cities of Queen Creek, Chandler and Gilbert taking the brunt Sunday night. Earlier in the day, the National Weather Service in Phoenix issued a dust stor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTropical Storm Eugene is getting stronger in the open water of the Pacific but remains far from the coast of Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Eugene’s maximum sustained winds have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA thunderstorm rolled in Sunday afternoon, but Bobby Broadus wanted to fish a little longer. That decision cost him his life. Lightning struck and killed Broadus about 3 p.m. on the Pascagoula City Pier o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA powerful typhoon is blowing away from the northern Philippines after leaving at least four people dead despite not making landfall, an AP report said. Office of Civil Defense chief Benito Ramos says slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTen people who were hired by the Sarawak Forest Corporation (SFC) to “save” animals from being drowned, following the impoundment of the Bakun Dam, are now dead. The dam was impounded in October last yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago*The intensity of earthquakes recorded on the smallest of the Canary Islands, El Hierro, has increased slightly during the last 24 hours. However, the total number of earthquakes recorded daily has lessene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWith reoccurring earthquakes, floods and other eruptions many are wondering: When will Katla erupt and if it does, for how long. Katla, the volcano based in Mýrdalsjökull glacier has erupted at least 20 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoResearchers in Michigan's far north are working in South America to investigate the links between small earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that can disrupt global air travel. Michigan Technological Univer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAlberta Health Services has advised residents and visitors of Silver Beach and Pigeon Lake Provincial Park that a bloom of blue-green has been found in the lake. All visitors to the area are asked to avo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSticky heat is expected to smother much of the country's midsection in the coming days as hotter-than-usual temperatures continued to roast parts of the U.S. Midwest and South, forecasters said today. Are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA police officer is being investigated after being caught on tape beating a videographer outside of his home in March. A Las Vegas police department review found that Officer Derek Colling violated police...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSex offenders are being housed with vulnerable young girls in a state-funded residential programme, designed to teach them how to live safely. The nonprofit Ozanam Pathways programme, based in a building o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least 100 Syrians were killed yesterday when the country’s government waged ‘full armed warfare’ on its own people to crush demonstrations. President Bashar al-Assad’s tanks battered the city of Hama, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Ground Zero clean-up worker with throat cancer has received an astonishing compensation cheque for zero dollars. Edgar Galvis, 51, had been expecting $10,005 from a court settlement with Merrill Lynch, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDivers scoured a Northern New Hampshire pond in the hunt for 11-year-old Celina Cass, who has been missing for six days. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said authorities searched Back Pond on...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoIn *1957*, *Norway's spy boss* *Vilhelm Evang*, protested strongly against the *subversion of Norway by the USA and NATO*. (Cached) *Hans Otto Meyer* was a Norwegian shipowner and spy [1] In 1978 the po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA sheriff's deputy who jumped a river to try to save an apparently suicidal teenage girl was found dead yesterday. Bryan P. Gross, of the Wyoming Converse County sheriff's office leapt into the North Plat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 46.9 km ( 29.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:55:00 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 107 km (66...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPresident Barack Obama and congressional leaders announced an historic agreementlast night on emergency legislation to avert the nation's first-ever financial default. The dramatic resolution lifted a clo...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoGreenery continues to infect every part of the BBC. Last night the Dragon's Den was back. The centrepiece project - introduced in awed tones by poisonous host Evan Davis - was an eco-conman from Halifax, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn autistic teenager was last night accused of masterminding a global internet hacking spree from his bedroom in the Shetland Islands. Jake Davis, 18, was held as part of an international crackdown on hack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFour people have been killed today as fighting broke out between rival Libyan rebels. One rebel group overran the base of another faction in the opposition stronghold of Benghazi after they suspected that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWe've invented penicillin, space shuttles, computers and even artificial hearts, among many other wonders. So where will human intelligence go from here? The answer, if certain scientists are correct, is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMass killer Anders Behring Breivik is unlikely to be declared legally insane according to senior officials in Norway. The decision will determine whether Breivik, who massacred 77 people, can be held cri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNearly 500 holidaymakers have been evacuated from a Spanish hotel after a tourist died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Dozens of Brits were among those moved from the three-star Tropical Park Hotel in Maj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThey are an elite cadre of EU immigration guards sent to police border hotspots with hi-tech surveillance equipment. But officers in the multi-million pound Rapid Border Intervention Team are in fact powe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBritain admitted Colonel Gaddafi will be toppled only when his inner circle turns against him. Amid calls for a ‘wholesale’ rethink of strategy in the Libyan conflict, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea with a depth of 35.7 km ( 22.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:09:20 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 143...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan with a depth of 29 km ( 18 miles), the quake hit at 04:29:20 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 mile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Offshore Bio-Bio, Chile with a depth of 34.9 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:39:44 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) Northwest of Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Guatemala with a depth of 90.1 km ( 56 miles), the quake hit at 03:28:39 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) Southeast of Escuintla, Guatemal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands with a depth of 56.4 km ( 35 miles), the quake hit at 03:13:58 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 159 km (98 miles) South of Kuril'sk, Kuril Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia with a depth of 40.1 km ( 24.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:03:43 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 195 km (121 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region with a depth of 423 km ( 262.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:48:04 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 261 km (162 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile Fut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands with a depth of 34.4 km ( 21.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:09:45 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (75 miles) South of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia with a depth of 81.5 km ( 50.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:56:36 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles) South of Padang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea with a depth of 16.8 km ( 10.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:38:57 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 134 ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoRussia will transfer the Akula-II class 'Nerpa' nuclear attack submarine to India on a 10-year lease by the end of 2011, Russian Naval Chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky has said."There are no obstacles for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia with a depth of 55.3 km ( 34.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:36:46 UTC Sunday 31st July 2011. The epicenter was 316 km (196 miles) Northeast ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoStrengthening its strike capabilities, the Indian Navy will commission its second indigenously-built stealth warship INS Satpura on August 20 in Mumbai.The second of the three-ship Project-17 Shivalik Clas...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoIn anticipation of winning the Indian Air Force's $10.4 billion tender for 126combat jets, European consortium EADS has offered India a choice to pioneer a project for a naval version of theEurofighter Typ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoChina's neighbors are worried its aircraft carrier program may in time intimidate regional rivals but its military on Thursday defended the plan as vital for maritime security. A day after China confirmed ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 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 ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoFor the first time, India’s frontline fighter aircraft, Sukhoi-30-MKI, will be based very close to the Indo-Pak border, only around 150 km away, at Halwara, near Ludhiana. Sources in the IAF said the runwa...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoSouth Korea's first surveillance airplane to be deployed this year arrived at an Air Force base on Monday, the country's defense procurement agency said. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAP...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday his government would buy 36 F-16 fighters from the United States, doubling the number it had initially planned to purchase to strengthen its weak air de...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoSometimes I read about suicides by Indian Army soldiers posted at the frontier divisions in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, North East etc. Everytime it happens the media creates a big hue and cry about the ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoAce fighter pilot Air Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne today took over as the 23rd chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik, who retired after putting in 42 years of s...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoChina's neighbors are worried its aircraft carrier program may in time intimidate regional rivals but its military on Thursday defended the plan as vital for maritime security. A day after China confirmed ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 23 hours agoDuring the last two decades, political experts have already been saying that the US which is acting upon a secret strategy, wants to make India the superpower of Asia in order counterbalance China, while t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoTata Cecilio Sucuc*Maya describes true work of mathematician, connecting with the natural energies* Article and photo by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com NEW TOWN, North Dako...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoBeing 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 - 1 day agoSyrian 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 - 1 day 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'...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 Memories
posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWe 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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