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- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 20 minutes agoDarcus Howe, writer and broadcaster living in London for over 50 years had this analysis to share with the BBC: This is a rare occasion where the role of state media is most clearly exposed. Up there with...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 35 minutes agoRight now you can get the best out of your Perseids experience by participating in #MeteorWatch -- an international social media effort to create, what I like to see it as, a worldwide virtual observatory.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 43 minutes agoThe NFL hopes a new HGH testing program will cut its use but critics say the test is easy to cheat.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
The makers of Sesame Street say characters Bert and Ernie will not marry in a same-sex ceremony despite an online petition calling for the union. Campaigners say the best friends should marry as a way to ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Syrian forces moved into the town of Khan Sheikhoun on Friday, extending their crackdown in a province that has been one of the flashpoints of anti-government protests, opposition activists and human right... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
An explosion Friday at an gas pipeline that runs from Iran to Turkey has disrupted gas exports, Iran's semi official Fars News Agency reported. The explosion occurred early in the morning in a part of the... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
British Prime Minister David Cameron thinks he's found some culprits to blame in the recent riots that have rocked London and other cities -- Facebook and Twitter. Saying the "free flow of information" c... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Syrian soldiers opened fire on protesters in several cities after Friday prayers in an attempt to crush a five-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime. More violence was reported in Ha... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is building a huge tent to cover one of the worst-hit reactors, officials said Friday. Officials hope the cover will keep radioactiv... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
A total of 22 fake Apple stores have been uncovered in one Chinese city. Authorities in Kunming began searching out the copycats after pictures of one convincing replica were circulated on the web. An e... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
The harsh criticism leveled at the Syrian regime by Saudi Arabia and Turkey last week could prove a turning point in the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Until now Western sanctions ha... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Regulators imposed a temporary short-selling ban in four European nations, effective Friday, in order to tame the wild market volatility that has taken markets throughout the world on a roller coaster ride... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes agoWest or East, Christian, Jew or Muslim, we are all united in our quest for peace and prosperity, and must never let the voices of hatred triumph. If anyone is interested in reading an English translatio...
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Users of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), could see their access to services blocked if they are “plotting violence, disorder and criminality”, David Cameron told MPs... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
Weaker eurozone members face the prospect of being left with no domestic banks in future as market resistance to funding lenders in peripheral countries grows. Equity analysts at Standard & Poor's, the c... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
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New recession worries and market havoc posed the toughest challenge yet this year for the US Federal Reserve as its policy board met Tuesday holding a near-depleted box of stimulus tools. Economists said... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
China's politically sensitive trade surplus expanded to $31.48 billion in July as exports rose by a fifth to hit a new record high, the customs agency said Wednesday. The trade surplus -- a major point o... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoSome state and local governments that issue debt could face “significant stress” if market instability continues and see credit downgrades, Moody’s warned Wednesday. Although most municipal issuers are “...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoGrowing international instability and economic crisis are placing greater demands on UN peacekeeping even as it tries to wind down operations, the outgoing head of the 120,000-strong global force said. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoThe U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly increased in June to the highest level since October 2008 as a slump in exports exceeded a decline in shipments from overseas. The gap widened 4.4 percent to $53.1 bil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoThe number of Americans claiming new jobless benefits dropped to a four-month low last week, a sliver of hope for an economy that has been battered by a credit rating downgrade and falling share prices. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoAt a time when many more cash-strapped Americans are stuck at home instead of vacationing at the beach, President Obama next week will lead an entourage of several dozens to exclusive Martha's Vineyard isl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoThose of you following the barbaric rioting in Britain will not have failed to notice that a sizable proportion of the thugs are white, something not often seen in this country. Not only that, but in a t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoPolice departments in several cities around the country are investigating what appear to be incidents of "flash mob"-generated violence, in which packs of dozens or even hundreds of youths appear seemingly...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoA few weeks after the U.S. city of Detroit was ravaged by 1967 race riots in which 43 people died, I was shown around the wrecked areas by a black reporter named Joe Strickland. He said: ‘Don’t you belie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoStatement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, on the global economy: Mr Speaker, people will be concerned about the turmoil in the world’s financial markets and what it means fo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoBritish Conservative prime minister David Cameron made himself judge, jury and Lord High Executioner this week when he pronounced that anyone charged with rioting should be remanded in custody and anyone c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:30:36 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 212 km (132 miles) Sout...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoFor all the fascination with Hitler and Nazis and World War II on the History Channel and History International, Americans are reticent to engage in a serious discussion of what fascism is and how danger...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoIt's like a geo-political take on one of those slasher movies in a haunted house. Danger lurks behind every door. The haunted house is Pakistan. Danger lurks everywhere - along its border with Afghanist...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours agoI confess my husband went back to work this week. I thought he would ease back into the craziest. Nope. He left at seven yesterday mornings and didn't get home until 9 at night... and people wonder why tea...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) "I'm not going to eat Barack Obama's dog food, all right?" - Mitt Romney, August 11, 2011 To paraphrase that immortal line in *The Beast...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoTo Conservative Brit prime minister, David Cameron, the masses of youth who took to Britain's streets this week for four consecutive nights of rioting are nothing more than common criminals. Then again, ...
- posted by allan at wmtc - 2 hours agoBrian McFadden, *New York Times*, August 6, 2011. Click to enlarge.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoPrivatization frenzy threatens and destroys our quality of life in so many ways. Health care, public transit, libraries, sanitation, day care, recreation, parks - these are services that should *always* be...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoNon-believers are really nice people. In fact, studies are finding that secularists are often better educated, more tolerant and more knowledgeable about God than supposed true believers. This, accord...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agoNavajo uranium workers exposed to radiation. *Chevron gains access to sensitive data on* *Navajo soil and water* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com MARIANO LAKE, N.M. -- T...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours ago*Riots are the voice of the unheard. Martin Luther King, Jr.* A comrade and friend posted this on Facebook: I just watched BBC coverage of [Edward] Miliband, leader of the British Labour Party, blaming th...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness- 3 hours ago*Cop Block* by Bill Ruppert *“I said to (Haynes) that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process.”* *“At which point, his eyes got wide and he sai...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Wildlife mitigation netting surrounds a holding pond that stores waste water from a hydraulic fracturing site at Piceance Basin Natural Gas Operations, 15 April 2009. EnergyTomorrow / Flickr Crea...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours agoProf Willian Jefferson Clinton, one of the greatest scientists alive and the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, gave an important talk in Davos earlier this year. It contains some spectacular news about scien...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoYesterday I touched on the news that Israel is readying the IDF for engagement in September with Syria and is land mining the border. The Israel Defense Forces is readying for possible engagement with the...
- posted by derekshowerman atContaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 5 hours agoBy Duane Craig Uranium mining locations near the Grand Canyon Determining the long term impact of any industry on the environment has to fall somewhere between a crap shoot and a reading from a clairvoya...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 hours agoLast month, I looked at ridings where the Liberals exceeded expectations. Today, a look at ridings where the Tories did better than we would have thought given what was going on around them. If you're conf...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoI missed the raucous 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. I was living up in Afghanistan's remote Hindu Kush and no one in the village that had taken me in had ever heard of electricity. But I remember r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA bus driver ignored signs telling him to avoid a low bridge and injured 18 schoolchildren when the roof of his double decker was sliced off. Wayne Oliver, 38, was slapped with an £85 fine for the March 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA Pakistani soldier has been sentenced to death and five others given life sentences after an unarmed man was shot dead in an incident broadcast widely on TV, Sarfraz Shah, 18, pleaded for mercy before b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA major hunt is underway after a tugboat overturned in Greenwich this morning and a male crew member has gone missing. The Port of London Authority says the tug, known as the Chieftan, was towing a crane ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThousands of workers, soldiers and volunteers fanned out across Sri Lanka on Friday to begin the country's first national elephant survey despite a boycott by some wildlife groups.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe U.S. Department of Labour fined three strawberry growers $73,000 after finding children between the ages of six and 11 working in their fields. The children were found working in fields of George Hoffm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA boy aged just eight, who saved a 21-month-old baby from drowning in a swimming pool, has been hailed as a hero and decorated for his quick-thinking. Life-saver Jesus Lara, who had only started to learn ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA 17-year-old student charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Christian school principal told investigators he had planned to stab the woman on the third day of classes, when he knew he would ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA mechanic accused of murdering prostitutes and other women is being investigated further after police announced they are reviewing cold cases. Lonnie Franklin Jr, 58, is accused of being responsible for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStrumming along on a makeshift toy guitar wearing his favourite Spiderman pyjamas, little Timmothy Pitzen looks like any normal carefree young boy. But since this home video footage was taken, the youngste...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 6 hours agoCryptozoology: Chupacabras in Spain? (Not!) By Javier Resines Criptozoología en España presents a curious photo that reminds us of those which have – on occasion – appeared in the United States or other ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoI hate being away from wmtc for so long! Between Tala and my mom's visit, it's been quite the week. Yesterday we went back to the OVC in Guelph for a consult with a neurologist. He feels the most likely d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe ‘Butcher of Brooklyn’ who has been charged with the killing and dismembering of Leiby Kletzky, 8, says it ‘hurts too much’ to think about the slaughter. Levi Aron, who has been found fit to stand tri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe battle for the Republican Presidential nomination exploded into life last night as the eight confirmed contenders united in launching scathing attacks on Barack Obama in a fiery television debate. Mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBlack planet: This artist's impression shows TrES-2b, a planet so hot it glows red like embers, but is also officially the darkest known planet. Astronomers have discovered the darkest known planet. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA BBC sound recordist died from inhaling mustard gas 27 years ago while investigating the use of chemical weapons in the Iran Iraq war. Cyril 'Roy' Benford, 78, had travelled to the border between the cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA girl chosen as an 'Olympic ambassador' was turned in to police by her mother who saw her among rioters on television. An emotional Adrienne Ives, 47, said the decision which led to the arrest of her 18...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoJapan will set up a new nuclear regulator under the environment ministry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, in a bid to give the watchdog more teeth.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 51 km ( 31.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:29 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice are disappointed with sentences being handed out to the rioters that have brought chaos to England's streets, senior chiefs have revealed. David Cameron has insisted that anyone involved in the vio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe man beaten and robbed by thugs during the London riots died in hospital late last night as it emerged he had suffered at the hands of yobs for years. After three days spent on a life support machine R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice officers are combing through rubble and mud under the scorching heat around an elementary school here in a desperate search for schoolchildren and other local residents missing since the March 11 ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe operations of United States military bases in Japan that trained personnel in waging nuclear war will be revealed by a television documentary set to air on Aug. 13. Tatsuo Sekiguchi, 61, who covered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJapan will set up a new nuclear regulator under the environment ministry in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, in a bid to give the watchdog more teeth, media reported Friday. The existing Nuclear and In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThousands of Chinese took to the streets of a southwestern town on Thursday, with some smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 57.4 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:35:19 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) Southeast of Iraklion, Cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 129.7 km ( 80.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:27:32 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 276 km (171 miles) NNE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:12:00 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) NNW of Arequipa, Peru No Rep...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoAccording to RSS AMSU, the first 7 months were the 2nd coldest January-July period in this century so far (second among 11 candidate years). The top 15 ranking of the years 1979-2011 according to the av...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago* London Rioters.* *Paul Ray*, an anti-Jihad Englishman, is alleged to be the mentor of *Anders Breivik*. According to Paul Ray ( http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/2011/07/conspiracy.html): Right-wing E...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoWell, we have reached Friday and it's been another rollicking week here on Biased BBC with more and more people visiting us and more and more comments appearing! Last night, we had our busiest EVER Questi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoBBC keen to give *Ed Miliband* the prime time slot on Today this morning. 8.10am .Not only did he get the usual soft shuffle interview in which he was allowed to waffle about the "complex" reasons behind ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoI noticed the BBC covered the imminent announcement by Texas Governor Rick Perry that he will be running for the GOP Presidential nomination. Now, I am quite a fan of Perry (along with Palin/Bachmann) but ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoI know I've been banging on about this but the BBC really is using *Sir Hugh Orde t*o undermine David Cameron's authority. This morning, the BBC's official candidate for next Met Chief, was to the fore in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA volcano that has been erupting for several days in Alaska's Aleutian Islands may be preparing for a more explosive event, scientists said on Wednesday. Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak located on C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA girl was in an Orlando hospital Thursday after an amoeba infected her brain when she went swimming in North Brevard, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner Local 6. The incident occurred in the Indian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt promises to revolutionise air travel, slashing the flying time from London to Sydney to just an hour. Yesterday the 13,000mph aircraft of the future took off for a crucial test flight. Within hours h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAs thugs have wreaked havoc with riots throughout the UK, many have speculated about what authorities should have done to put the violence to a swift end. And it appears the U.S. has already got detailed ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoSean Carroll reasonably discusses the tension between "rationalism" and "empiricism". These are two competing philosophical paradigms when it comes to the question what we need to acquire new knowledge. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA 15-year-old South Carolina boy has been jailed for six years for planning a Columbine-style attack on his school. Christian Helms pleaded guilty to adult charges of attempted murder and carrying pipe b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe first images of the Chinook wreckage were revealed today, at the same time five more American troops were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb that exploded in the southern part of the country. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCasey Anthony has escaped being punished for the death of her daughter, despite a child welfare report finding she failed to protect two-year-old Caylee. The report by Florida's child welfare agency publ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoCompleted project. All photos courtesy: visiondivision Sometimes something comes along that makes us all go "Wow!" Chop Stick is such a project. If we all used our resources as thoughtfully and thorough...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA woman and her son have been jailed for plotting to murder an 89-year-old relative to get their hands on his money. The pensioner's adopted daughter, 49, was sentenced to 17 years and her 19-year-old son...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoConvicted looters and rioters could be stripped of benefits and council houses after David Cameron warned they would ‘pay’ for their behaviour. A fresh wave of councils yesterday announced that they would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrench farmers have begun attacking shipments of fruit and vegetables from Spain as an international crisis rips through the European agriculture industry. The problems stem from the lethal E.coli outbrea...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoPanellus stipticus, one species of glowing mushrooms. Photo courtesy: Wiki Commons If you think glowing mushrooms are the figment of some trippy imagination, think again. After its initial discovery back...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDavid Cameron may have sounded tough this week, promising night curfews, tougher sentencing and new police powers in response to the outbreak of almost untrammelled anarchy in several of our cities. Poli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAmerica's most fearsome policeman has been appointed David Cameron's top adviser on gang warfare. Bill Bratton, who introduced zero-tolerance policing to New York and turned around crime-ridden Los Angele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoImage: Laura Johnson, left, and friend in a photo posted on Facebook last year. Balaclava. Gloves. Bandana. Could the ‘evidence’ allegedly in the car Laura Johnson was found driving be more sinister? The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoImage 'Hate crime': Larry King was shot dead three years ago by a classmate. A police detective stood by his testimony that a California teenager charged in the shooting death of his gay classmate was in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPeace talks between American and the Taliban, which were being held in secret, have been 'blown out of the water' after details - including the identification of the Taliban's negotiator - were leaked. In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMonths after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin has reached the rim of a vast crater to begin its final and most important exploration. Opportunity will now examine rocks older than ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt was a claim that was handled with a certain amount of scepticism - that two men dressed as TV's Mork and Mindy had come to investigate a UFO. A woman complained to police that the mystery pair came to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 29.9 km ( 18.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:21:57 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 199 km (124 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 67 km ( 42.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:37:26 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) West of Rivas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 243 km ( 151 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:12 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) Southeast of Ndoi Island...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 218.7 km ( 135.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:29:34 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) West of Calapan,...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 91.3 km ( 56.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:55 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WSW of Riva...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 10.3 km ( 6.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:32:18 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) Northwest of Shahrud, Ira...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Xizang at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:01:27 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) WNW of Xigaze, Xizang (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic Region at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:56:03 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) ENE from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic Region at a depth of 9 km ( 5.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:17:32 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) ENE from H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 33.3 km ( 20.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:39:24 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) South of T...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago[image: gopdebate obama] Minnesota rivals Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann sparred bitterly Thursday night through an eight-candidate Republican debate, looking for to break out of the GOP presidential p...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago* Tonight Nat Ackerman's drawing and discarding for his life. * *NAT*: You want to play a tenth of a cent a point to make it interesting? *DEATH*: It's not interesting enough for you? *NAT*: I play bette...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 14 hours ago"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Af...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoWestern governments are responding to the global economic collapse and calls for revolution against the private central banks, Wall St. investment banks and global hedge funds with repression, terror, inte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoRichard Mannington Bowes, 68, who was set upon as he tried to stamp out a fire during riots in Ealing, west London, has died, Scotland Yard has confirmed. Mr Bowes, of Haven Green, Ealing, suffered serio...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoRattlesnake Island Press Release Aug 2011 Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 17 hours agoYesterday in Colombia, Harper attacked the critics of his Canada-Colombia free trade investment agreement who object to the deaths of a couple hundred unionists and the displacement of 4.9 million people ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*I found this painting, "Optimism," by John Slaby, illustrating an October 2007 blogpost by John Fenzel called "Your Brain on Optimism. . . "* *"I do know that when I want to have good time at a party, o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSyrian forces killed five people Thursday as they stormed another two towns in pursuit of anti-regime protesters, defying Western calls for action after a "chilling" UN Security Council briefing. The ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAs you can see from the chart below (or perhaps not given the quality of the reproduction, for which apologies), UK government bond yields have fallen to historic lows the depths of which even six months a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAuthorities involved in the arrest of a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint at Richmond International Airport were doing their jobs and acted appropriately, a government atto...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the doomed Navy SEALs mission that claimed 30 American lives was intended to stop fleeing Taliban fighters and not necessarily a rescue mission as ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFor Karrell Johnson of Dallas, a painful brush with a carbuncle started as a seemingly benign knot on his back. “I went out and played golf, “ said the UNT music instructor, “only nine holes because o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoItalian police have arrested 20 gladiator impersonators in an undercover sting aimed at ending a violent racket operating around Rome's most famous tourist sites, Italian press reported on Thursday. Poli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIllinois State University police are investigating the theft of more than 50 central air-conditioning units from an ISU warehouse. ISU facilities management staff contacted campus police about 11:30 a.m. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThieves who aren't afraid of a little heavy lifting made off with more than $7,000 worth of galvanized stainless steel. The theft happened overnight Tuesday at H3 Steel in Peoria. The items reported ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIt was plane madness. Chaos erupted on JetBlue's red-eye flight from Portland, Ore., to JFK yesterday when a drunk allegedly urinated on a sleeping 11-year-old girl. The youngster was traveling with her...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Swedish family described their shock Thursday after their eight-year-old son was given a swastika tattoo as a free gift with a fast food meal. Eddie Hagglund was pleased when he found his kids meal from...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn 83-year-old Santa Ana great-grandmother is making national headlines for having work done on her headlights. And we’re not talking about her car. Marie Kolstad, of Orange County, is the mother of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLondon is burning. The violence and looting have spread to other English cities. Thieves outnumber police. The situation appears to be beyond control and its growth contagious. Throughout the rest of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWhen the unexpected strikes, most Americans aren't prepared to pay for it. A majority, or 64%, of Americans don't have enough cash on hand to handle a $1,000 emergency expense, according to a survey by th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe risk of double dip recession is rising. And while economists disagree on just how likely the U.S. economy is to fall into another downturn, they generally agree on one thing -- a new recession would ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe chances of another U.S. recession are rising and Europe's recovery is also at risk, according to the latest Reuters poll, taken during the worst stock market selloff since the nadir of the financial cr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSyrian security forces have reportedly killed seven civilians in a town in the province of Homs, as the authorities try to quell protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Communications and elec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoUS-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made the first compensation payment to Nigerian families affected by a controversial drug trial 15 years ago. It paid $175,000 (£108,000) each to four families in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoChinese artist Ai Weiwei believed he was "close to death" during the more than 80 days he was held in a secret police detention centre, a source close to the artist told the BBC. Beijing has banned him f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCentral American migrants heading north to the United States fear that they are increasingly in danger of being kidnapped and murdered by drug gangs expanding their criminal operations south from Mexico. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoScientists say that there has been a mysterious decline in the growth of methane in the atmosphere in the last decades of the 20th century. Researchers writing in the journal Nature have come up with two ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSeven per cent of all homeowners with mortgages are now in negative equity – owning houses that are worth less than the loan that they still have against the property. The Council for Mortgage Lenders sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBen Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, was able to deliver something to turmoil wracked markets; he promised to keep the fed funds rate close to zero until mid-2013, the first time, as far as I ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA glance at teen stars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber's letters to their younger selves makes one thing clear: their handwriting is terrible. In the letters, part of the Habbo Celebrity "Advice to My Teenag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe cash register receipts that people place near paper money in billfolds, purses, and pockets has led to a worldwide contamination of paper money with bisphenol A (BPA) — a potentially toxic substance fo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCasey Anthony is responsible for the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, a report released Thursday by Florida's Department of Children and Families concludes. A month after a jury acquitted An...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 19 hours agoI have been contacted by the Unity Productions Foundation regarding a short film they have made regarding Muslims in the USA. In the spirit of open discussion, I have agreed to post a brief item to make ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 20 hours agoI have been contacted by the Unity Productions Foundation regarding a short film they have made regarding Muslims in the USA. In the spirit of open discussion, I have agreed to post a brief item to make ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours agoThat is the question I've been asking myself for the last several weeks. About that length of time ago, I've been pursued (ironically through Brilliant at Breakfast, a forum to which I no longer post) by...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoHow did it all get so scary that it became painful even to write about it? How did it all go so wrong? We're confronted by a bucketful of challenges today, some existential, the rest mere crises. But ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoUsing the collective power of the world's home computers, the conditions immediately after the Big Bang may be modeled, ultimately helping physicists unravel Nature's mysteries.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours agoWelcome to the Church of Noise ~moosedenied
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours ago"The most abundant" source of antimatter particles have been discovered trapped in the Earth's magnetic field, but can it be used for advanced propulsion?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe fossils of the huge fetus provide the first evidence that the animal gave birth to live offspring rather than laying eggs.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoLately there has been a spate of reports about the rich flocking to high end shops and indulging in the sort of luxuries reminiscent of the days before the Great Recession. Even as the working classes st...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoBob Perry is a well informed activist who always attends political events, respectfully asks politicians tough and honest questions, and volunteers on campaigns. In 2006, he decided to run for New Hampsh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:37:44 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter 43 km (26 miles) Southeas...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours agoYou may have heard by now that at the Iowa State Fair today, my former Governor Mitt Romney, a man who makes vinyl seem organic, said to liberal hecklers that "Corporations are people, my friend." I've s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) atBroken of Britain - 23 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 38 km ( 23.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:22:04 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) ES...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours agoTIME claims to "sneak" into Syria, still bases entire report on "witness" accounts. Land Destroyer Report Bangkok, Thailand August 11, 2011 Claiming to be written in Hama, Syria, TIME's latest article...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoWonder what you make of this? Cllr Brian Silvester, a Conserative councillor in Cheshire East, is calling on the BBC to hand over unbroadcast footage of the recent riots to the Police if it can be used to...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoA Biased BBC reader draws this to our attention; "I've noticed something for a long-time that is clear evidence of bias - and that really gets on my nerves, but easily slips one's mind because it's so inc...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoA B-BBC reader writes; "Simon Kelner, editor in chief of the Independent, is not in the BBC but is of the BBC, someone with a mindest firmly in line with the BBC....and it seems quite happy to defend the...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIt must be the unique way they are funded.... Chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, one of the corporation's biggest cab users, claimed £2,814 on cars in a three-month period - £100 up on the previou...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day ago(A guest contribution by Graeme Thompson, who posts as ‘hippiepooter’) "Firstly, I’d like to say, that from what I have seen of BBC coverage of the riots (mainly BBC News24 and R5L) I would say that on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMark Zuckerberg and the millions of people that use his social networking site Facebook can breathe a sigh of relief, because hacker collective Anonymous don’t want to destroy it after all. The secretive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Northern Qinghai, China at a depth of 33.1 km ( 20.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:06:18 UTC Thursday 11th August 2011. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) ESE of Da Qai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit were found tied up in a windsurfing bag, according to a man who saw the body. The remains of the five feet tall man found in Lewisham, south east London are t...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFord thinks cars cold become the next Internet.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLCD screens eat a lot of a phone's battery power, but now the screen may be a source rather than a drain.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe ultrathin device can stick to skin like a temporary tattoo and is powerful enough to read brain signals.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn alien world reflects less than one percent of the starlight that falls on it, making it the blackest exoplanet known.
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome Somalis have fled to Ethiopia for fear their children may be forcibly conscripted by Islamist insurgents, a UN refugee official has told the BBC. The UNHCR's Alison Oman said some mothers at refugee ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPCs are going the way of typewriters, vinyl records and vacuum tubes, one of the engineers who worked on the original machine has said. The claim was made in a blog post commemorating 30 years since the l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSir Max Hastings, in an article for the Daily Mail, focused on "a perverted social ethos, which elevates personal freedom to an absolute, and denies the underclass the discipline - tough love - which alone...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. President Barack Obama is preparing to explicitly call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, fresh on the heels of new sanctions against the troubled country, White House officials say. Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Stop spying." That's the message from OpenMedia.ca, a Vancouver-based internet advocacy group, to government and law enforcement officials. They've set up an online petition at stopspying.ca to protest ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEarthlings' search for extraterrestrial life will soon be back on! The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced this week it has raised enough money to bring the Allen Telescope...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the Horn of Africa struggles to deal with its worst drought in more than half a century, rising food prices are adding to growing hunger in Kenya. Wolfgang Fengler, the World Bank's lead economist for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDing! Gold broke yet another record Wednesday, reaching as high as $1,801 an ounce, as investors keep fleeing from the volatile stock and currency markets. In midday trading, the precious metal surged $5...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTrading in equities and derivatives has hit record levels this week as investors traded frantically in response to a tumult of factors such as the US Federal Reserve’s decision to stick with near-zero inte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Chinese government has announced measures to slow down bullet trains nationwide and halt approval for new construction, a move that comes amid increasing public scrutiny on the country's railway saf...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea Monday urged South Korea and the United States to cancel their upcoming annual joint exercise if they want to see a thaw in relations as well as denuclearisation. The exercise is preparation ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLarge portions of London and other British cities are continuing scenes of raging, mindless violence amid the worst wave of rioting in recent European history. Gone for good is the image of Britain as a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShundure Tekamo faces a tough choice -- stay with her severely malnourished son in hospital, or return home in the desperate search for food for her five other children. "I cannot think of anything, beca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia cautioned the US and its NATO allies Monday against plans to extend an anti-missile shield into northern European seas. On a visit to Norway, Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin deplored th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLong known for its fake designer handbags and watches, China is now battling a flood of counterfeit vintage wine amid a growing zest for bottles from famed wineries as a sign of social standing. With ave...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHong Kong's biggest teachers' union on Wednesday called on city officials to block a proposal to usher in mandatory classes about Chinese patriotism. Earlier this year, the city's top education officials ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe West has reached an impasse with its military intervention in Libya, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says. Salehi, speaking during a news conference Saturday with Beninese Minister of Forei...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRadical anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called for US forces to return home to their families in a rare English message that threatens violence but also appeals to Christian sentiment. "Go forth from ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsrael has deployed drones to keep watch on gas fields off its northern coast, fearing attack by the Hezbollah militia from neighbouring Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post daily reported on Tuesday. The fields ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA telegram was issued on July 10th by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the International Astronomical Union announcing that the Earth got impacted for a few hours by a stream of dust from a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSubsidence caused by drought now costliest natural hazard in some parts of Europe News reports on climate change have focused on dire predictions of more hurricanes and increasing flooding due to rising ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen it comes to oil and gas news, it's hard to beat 'fracking' for a more buzz-worthy topic. Add 'hydrogen sulfide gas' to the headline, though, and and expect eyebrows to rise. A Sunday report in the G...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOnly a year ago Russia was overwhelmed by an exceptional heat wave, triggering hundreds of fires that destroyed thousands of hectares of woodland. Burning peat bogs around Moscow stifled the city in a thic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWould you drink recycled urine? Residents of Big Spring, Texas may not have a choice--the local water district is breaking ground this year on a $13 million treatment plant that will direct 2 million gallo...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoFollowing is a post by Dr. Burt Folsom, author of New Deal or Raw Deal?* and professor of history at Hillsdale College. It is reprinted in its entirety from Prof. Folsom's blog by his kind permission. Th...
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