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*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 - 5 minutes ago
The 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 - 11 minutes 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 - 21 minutes 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...
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DOCTORS 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 - 21 minutes ago
Investor 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 - 21 minutes ago
A 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 - 21 minutes ago
A 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 - 21 minutes ago
Weekend 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 - 21 minutes ago
Any 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 - 21 minutes ago
Syrian 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 - 21 minutes ago
Health 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 - 21 minutes ago
The 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 - 21 minutes ago
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Police 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 - 21 minutes ago
In 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 - 21 minutes ago
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It 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 - 21 minutes ago
HSBC 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 - 21 minutes ago
The 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 22 minutes 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 - 27 minutes 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 - 32 minutes 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 - 35 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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! - 1 hour ago[image: Goal Thermometer] I knew Raúl would come out fast against the Conservative Consensus mem that was all over Talking Heads TV yesterday and has been all over the Twitter Machine since rumors started...
- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln Respond to Obama's Capitulation
posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoWhat startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning. - posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoBluetooth wirelessly connects your iPhone or Android device to any FM stereo.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoEasily take accurate blood pressure readings at home and store the results digitally.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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?") - 6 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 - 6 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! - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 hours agoUnderwater photographer Francis Perez captured detailed images of the rarely seen enigmatic smalltooth sandtiger shark.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 8 hours ago
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 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 Memories
posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 16 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours 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 - 17 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! - 17 hours 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSenate 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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?") - 20 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 - 21 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! - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 hours ago
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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, Veizer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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