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TECHNOLOGY - Remember to check your bill. Your cell phone company may be defrauding you. This doesn't just apply to Virgin Mobile customers either. Rogers, Bell,
Telus, AT&T... they're all overcharging cu...
[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] Hello everyone, 1) August Dollar Drive progress: So far, just 10 generous individuals have donated in August, putting us at under 10% of our monthly goal. If you'r...
*Mystery variation A* *by Ken* What we have here is a *variation* -- for piano and orchestra, as you can hear -- of a theme I'm pretty sure you know. In a moment we're going to hear another variation...
Toronto News: Retiring deputy chief calls G20 reaction overblown - thestar.com You know where I'm going with this, so I'll just let thwap and Lorne carry the ball on this one. They say it better than I ca...
"Tonight, I'm going to talk about two big ideas. First, the proposition that on the current course, if we continue on the present trajectory, I believe the likelihood of our seeing a nuclear weapon explo...
American man kidnapped by assailants in
Pakistan 13 Aug 2011 15:48 | Source: Reuter * Warren Weinstein taken from his residence in Lahore * Anti-U.S. sentiment running high in Pakistan * Weinstein w...
*Modern-day social conditions and tools will naturally produce a more modern approach to ruthless state repression -- but the basic strategy is the same. * *"[T]here will be a renewed, and successful push...
If you've spotted similar posters in your city, take a picture and mail them to us: thecomingcrisis@gmail.com A reader who introduced us to Google (which we've never seen before and now marvel at due t...
A severe thunderstorm rolled through the Louisville area Saturday evening, leaving behind broken limbs, downed trees and power lines. Tens of thousands of area residents lost electricity. Shortly after ...
China has deployed an elite police counter-terrorism unit to the restive northwest region of Xinjiang after a series of deadly attacks there, state media reported Saturday. The Snow Leopard Commando unit...
The military and intelligence services of Russia and China are conducting a sustained campaign to steal American commercial and military secrets through cyber espionage, according to the chairman of the Ho...
Selina Ye is a 34-year-old Human Resources manager in the bustling southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. I went to Hong Kong last September to give birth to my son. I know most people go there to have a se...
The following is a partial transcript of a recent speech delivered by Noam Chomsky at the University of Toronto at Scarborough on the rapid privatization process of public higher education in the United St...
The continuing financial uncertainty looks set to have a bearing on what is traditionally one of the busiest weekends of the year for real estate agents in Sweden. "It is going to be tough for vendors. A...
Bay City State Recreation Area features a one-mile beach that runs south from its visitors center along Lake Huron's western shore. In reality, you can enjoy about 500 feet of it. Just south of the park's ...
A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favo...
Over on the Atlantic site, the food politics writer Jane Black has a thoughtful post on farmers market sticker shock in brownstone Brooklyn. Confronted at her neigborhood market by the spectacle of $8/doz...
Farmers have begun to turn away from organic food production in the face of waning interest from the big supermarkets. The amount of land being converted to organic cultivation across the UK has dropped ...
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The speed of the disintegration said everything. It took less than 48 hours for London to descend from self-styled capital of the world into a circuit of burning dystopian hells. The speed of BlackBerry me...
A Brevard County teen was hospitalized after an amoeba is believed to have infected her brain while she was swimming in a local river. The young girl, identified in numerous reports as 16-year-old Courtne...
An analysis based on U.S. Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) shows that the average unemployment rate for teens ages 16 to 19 in the District of Columbia was 50.1 percent as of J...
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced a painful mix of tax increases and spending cuts on Friday to meet European Central Bank demands for action on shoring up Italy's strained public finances. At a...
Japan's Honda is hoping to retool its humanoid robot ASIMO for a nuclear mission so it can join emergency work inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, a press report said Friday. The company aims to...
Detroit Police say they’ve conducted dozens of raids in the last six weeks netting them millions of dollars in drugs. Since July 1st, Detroit police have raided more than 90 homes, in one of the city’s big...
How far does the stock market have to go down before we officially call it a crash? The Dow is now down more than 2,000 points in just the last 14 trading days. So can we now call this "The Stock Market Cr...
Twenty-one months after Greece triggered financial and political turmoil by admitting it was broke, the eurozone still can't fix its debt crisis. The reasons: intractable disputes over who will ultimately...
Oh thank you, Wikipedia, for this definition: “Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given th...
Texas Rep. *Ron Paul *has long been regarded as a somewhat entertaining distraction in his two presidential races over the past four years. But, on the eve of the Ames Straw Poll, the first major organizi...
A U.S. law enforcement expert who has agreed to help tackle gang violence in Britain in the wake of recent riots in urban centres says the government cannot "arrest their way out" of systemic problems faci...
The spark that lit riots in Britain last week is rooted in the government's radical alteration of the social contract with its citizens, says a Toronto psychiatrist who was born and raised in the U.K. Pe...
Somalia is known to most Americans as the setting for the book and film "Black Hawk Down" and as the world center for modern-day pirates. It is the poster child for failed humanitarian interventions and fo...
*Coupla gay blades at the faire-- one works for Karger & one for Bachmann* As expected, they went for The Crazy. Final results: Bachmann 4823 (28.55%) Paul 4671 (27.65%) Pawlenty 2293 (13.57%) Santorum...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 57.5 km ( 35.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:13 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) West ...
Color Revolutions & Geopolitics: covering a new weapon in the neo-imperialists' arsenal. There is a well-researched new blog titled "Color Revolutions & Geopolitics" run by Eric Pottenger and Jeff Friese...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Ceram Sea at a depth of 38.3 km ( 23.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:17 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 307 km (190 miles) South of Sorong, Papua, In...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Banda Sea at a depth of 177.3 km ( 110.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:20 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) Northwest of Saumlaki, K...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 62.6 km ( 38.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:30:57 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) West ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 63 km ( 39.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:22:10 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) SSE from B...
Oh boy... 2,000 extra bonus points from Delta, the airline that doesn't let their customers use frequent flier miles! The above ad came as an e-mail yesterday, the same day Delta threatened to follow Bla...
Anthony Watts' blog has become the world's most progressive website that promotes alternative, carbon-free energy sources of the future. And when I say "alternative", I mean really, really alternative! :...
Desperate Bid To Sideline Texas Congressman As Fringe Candidate *Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones* Infowars.com Saturday, August 13, 2011 The Republican establishment, spearheaded by neo-con talking hea...
SOMALIA: FAMINE FOR PROFIT AND THE EAST AFRICAN FOOD CRISIS *Written by Nile Bowie* *Photographed by James Nachtwey * Few parts of the world aptly fit the description of hell better than Somalia’s crum...
Blogger Dumb Jon, commenting below on David Starkey : I could almost put up with the whole BBC collapsing with a fit of the vapours over Starkey's comments, except that in almost any other context these ...
*Protect the Peaks, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. The ongoing efforts are to halt the desecration of sacred San Francisco Peaks. Photos by Youths of the Peaks/Censored News* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored N...
A mother-of-ten who nets more than £30,000-a-year in benefits has begged for charity donations to help raise her brood - because her state 'wage' is not enough. Moira Pearce, 34, has insisted her weekly ...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with a massive fire that engulfed a furniture store in Croydon during the riots. The 33-year-old man is accused of starting the blaze at the Ree...
The alert level of Mount Papandayan in Garut, West Java has gone up a notch to alert level 3 — just one level below eruption. According to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitiga...
Famine-hit Somalia is facing a cholera epidemic amid poor sanitary conditions, World Health Organization officials say. A majority of randomly collected samples of acute watery diarrhea collected from 4,...
Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters shouted for President Bashar Assad's death Friday in a dramatic escalation of their rage and frustration, defying bullets and rooftop snipers after more than a week o...
Frogs with fangs abound with astonishing diversity on a tropical island in Indonesia, a Canadian-led team has found. Ben Evans, a zoologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., and his Indonesian an...
Hacktivist group Anonymous on Saturday (Manila time) called for "attacks" on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) for blocking cell phone service in some of its areas to thwart civil distur...
According to former child star Corey Feldman, child molestation is rampant in the entertainment industry, as he told Nightline in an interview. "The No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will b...
Loud explosions and gunfire were heard Saturday in the Syrian port city of Latakia, signaling a possible crackdown, according to opposition and activist organizations. Security forces were deployed ac...
A drug-smuggling tunnel nearly 300m long which stretches from the Mexican city of Tijuana into the US has been discovered by soldiers. Mexico's army, which found the passage, said it was incomplete, but h...
Philadelphia police picked up 50 juveniles for violating the city's beefed-up curfew which took effect Friday night, authorities said Saturday. The City of Brotherly Love is cracking down after a rash of ...
Hayao Miyazaki is regarded by many as the world's greatest living animator and an icon of Japanese popular culture. In 2002, his work burst onto international screens with the ghostly animation "Spiri...
Global stocks are rallying as a partial short selling ban helps European banks rebound – reducing financial system contagion fears – while an in-line retail sales report lifts some of the gloom about the U...
Students starting university next year can expect to graduate with debts averaging almost £60,000, according to research published today. Undergraduates enrolling on courses in England – where costs are h...
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Americans are lining up to go under the knife to mimic the derrière of Pippa Middleton, a US plastic surgeon has said. The 27-year-old has sparked a wave of surgery requests since appearing in a figure-h...
Young offenders who took part in the rioting and looting that blighted Britain’s streets this week are walking free from court without facing significant penalties. Despite David Cameron's promises that ...
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and the entire British political class came together yesterday to denounce the rioters. They were of course right to say that the actions of these looters, arsonists and muggers ...
Switzerland is mulling drastic measures to fend off safe-haven flows from Euroland and stop the relentless rise of the Swiss franc crippling large parts of the country's economic base. The franc retreate...
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...
Honest energy customers are footing the bill for nearly two million households that have not paid for their gas and electricity usage. New figures from Moneysupermarket.com show that the potential cost of...
A judge said today that he had no powers to jail a 13-year-old boy who went into a riot-hit city with a hammer strapped to his leg. The boy visited Manchester with the weapon in response to a Facebook in...
Sir Hugh, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said the role of politicians in dealing with the trouble had been an “irrelevance”. He was speaking after David Cameron criticis...
The federal deficit averaged $110 billion per month through the first 10 months of fiscal year 2011, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest budget review. The figure comes from the C...
A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The mic...
On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government p...
O glorious day! Another boilerplate email containing good news from our Chairman, Rinsed Penis, Rice Plebe, the former stimulus hog who replaced the black guy. Dear , The Republican Party won a great...
Even the *Wall Street Journal* is starting to toss around the idea that Marx might have been right - capitalism will destroy itself. Economist Nouriel Roubini warns the self-destructive transfer of income...
They were destined to be cooked and eaten, but these suffering dogs luckily escaped their gruesome fate. Police in Thailand rescued more than 1,000 of the animals from tiny cages when they intercepted fou...
A serial killer who buried his victims alive was caught yesterday after one of his captives managed to dig himself out of his grave and call the police. The victim said he had been lured into the woods b...
Intelligence officials have warned Barack Obama that a dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce the deadly poison ricin to use in attacks against the United States. Al Qaeda's affiliate in ...
Clutching a bottle of drink, grinning broadly and struggling to carry an armful of shoes, this woman was today one of many new riot suspects being hunted by police. In another image a man in Hackney stan...
By DOROTHY SPEARS 12 August 2011 During the shooting of his 2010 documentary *Climate Refugees*, the Irish-American filmmaker Michael Nash visited nearly 50 countries in about 18 months, interviewing p...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 38.7 km ( 24 miles), the quake hit at 16:12:01 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) WSW of Ben...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 82.1 km ( 51 miles), the quake hit at 15:42:21 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) NNW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami W...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:00:57 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) ...
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 56.6 km ( 35.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:27:54 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) WSW of Tapac...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Mariana Islands at a depth of 33.2 km ( 20.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:27 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 293 km (182 miles) Sout...
*Right-Wing con-artist Grover Norquist* Sometimes I mention something I got from "my financial advisor." If he sounds like a conflicted mess, it's because "he's" half a dozen different people from 4 diffe...
A link to this incredible mashup was posted in the ever-ebullient comments at Decline of the Empire. It's a scathing indictment of the malevolent corporate control over American society, tracing the growi...
The second largest city of Czechia, Brno, has already survived its first "gay pride" (even though it did lead to some battles). However, today's happening was the first time when the march came to the Czec...
Thailand's "Red Shirts" boast of NED, Fortune 500 Washington D.C. Visit by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand, August 13, 2011 - While it is well established that Thailand's "red shirt" street mob is work...
Washington State Health Department officials say they have the first case of a strain of shellfish poisoning making a people in the United States ill. Samples in a small bay on the Strait of Juan de Fuca ...
I shall be sorely grieved when the inevitable occurs and the publicity vortex subsides forever. News Corpse had the most lucid analysis as to why we can expect to lose her when she can no longer pretend t...
Pyramids and "Ancient Astronauts" By Scott Corrales “Ancient astronauts” – a term that conjures up the covers of dozens of paperbacks in the mid-Seventies, juxtaposing advanced technical machinery, huma...
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piecefrom the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who's arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have kn...
If you don't study this chart for a few quiet moments, you do not care what Congress and the President have decided to do with your future. (And, no, these people are not your friends.)[Welcome to Pottersvil...
I missed the Republican debate in Iowa. I hear I didn't miss much. Instead I was at a gathering of future progressive leaders (Young People For). It was very inspiring to meet some of these idealistic yo...
. An interesting exchange on Facebook is reproduced below regarding some Councils' determination to evict persons convicted of involvement in the recent UK riots. Wandsworth Council want to evict an ent...
Iran reiterated to China on Saturday it could take back control of a gas field being developed by its national oil company unless it speeds up investment, one week after the new Iranian oil minister said n...
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has admitted it may have mistakenly given "misleading" information to journalists in the wake of the Mark Duggan shooting, it has emerged. The body admitted t...
*Devastating rains in Pakistan killed at least 21 people overnight, destroying crops and houses in the flood-prone south of the country, a government official said Friday.* “At least 21 people died, most...
Syrian firefighting teams have made no effort to control a forest fire that broke out on the Turkish-Syrian border late on Thursday, the Cihan news agency reported. The fire, which started on the Syrian ...
A 23-year-old firefighter was killed and four others were injured fighting a lightning-sparked blaze on U.S. Forest Service land in western South Dakota's Black Hills, officials said Friday. Trampus Hask...
In a move to prevent the dreaded yellow fever entering Sri Lanka, a special Quarantine Unit (QU) has been set up at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to monitor passengers especially those arriv...
The Beale fire 11 miles north of Parks, which dropped smoke into Flagstaff this morning, is now at 3,042 acres. According to information from the U.S. Forest Service, the fire is being managed within a d...
Washington State Health Department officials say they have the first case of a strain of shellfish poisoning making a people in the United States ill. Samples in a small bay on the Strait of Juan d...
ABOUT ten seal pups have been found dead on Northumberland beaches, but officials say there is no cause for alarm. Concerned Hadston resident Janette Govia said she has noticed an unusually high number o...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has said it is working to stop a leak at one of its North Sea oil platforms. The leak was found near the Gannet Alpha platform, 180 km (113 miles) from Aberdeen, Scotland. Sh...
Police were in open conflict with the Government yesterday over who can claim credit for turning the tide against the rioters. Officers at all levels denounced criticism by the Prime Minister and claims b...
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money could be ending up in the pockets of Taliban insurgents and corrupt Afghan officials, a damning report has revealed. The International Crisis Group warned that up t...
Reader Contribution; Communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime, the prime minister's new crime adviser, US "supercop" Bill Bratton, has warned. The former New York police chief meets Davi...
Image: Far left, Shonola Smith provided by JP's Photography. Young and attractive, they hardly conform to the identikit image of the violent looter. But the 22-year-old model and two teenage girls pictu...
A Paratrooper who fought in Afghanistan faced court yesterday accused of stealing a £1,900 guitar during the riots. The serving soldier was among the mobs which trashed shops in Manchester on Tuesday – h...
Reader Contribution; An American citizen has been abducted by gunmen from his house in the Pakistani city of Lahore, police say. The US embassy confirmed the abduction but has not identified the man. Re...
The exhausted secret intelligence officer was heading home after a heavy session analysing reports from Iraq. As he stepped out through the high-security air-lock exit from MI6’s grand headquarters beside ...
A shock investigation of possible insider trading at Standard & Poor's has reportedly begun, with the country still reeling from the rating agency's historic downgrade of U.S. debt. Authorities want to kn...
Two police officers have been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the street while they were on duty. The officers went to speak with a man who was acting suspiciously in a back street in Darlington...
The father of a 23-year-old university graduate who went missing more than a year ago while hiking in Nepal, says he is organising a new investigation into her disappearance because he believes she is aliv...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 40 km ( 24.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:57 am (NZST) Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) Northeast of Matawai, N...
President Barack Obama's healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when a U.S. appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty. The U.S. App...
Ten employees of a cellular phone company in were hospitalized on Friday after a powdery substance was released from a package containing two phone batteries. On one of the two batteries sent to Pure Talk...
A baby-faced 16-year-old, who had acquired the chilling nickname 'Uzi', has been charged with the brutal killing of a gang rival. The school girl, who is thought to have been named after the sub-machine g...
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OK, I didn't see it or hear it but the BBC has been making much if David Starkey's comments on Newsnight (and 5live?). Did you catch these? Opinions? Click through to read and contribute comments on this p...
Shell have confirmed a leak in a pipeline serving one of their North Sea platforms. Photo courtesy: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Who would have guessed it? Yet another oil leak from a company which has ...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck North Pacific Ocean at a depth of 33 km ( 20.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:22:00 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 2005 km (1248 miles) Southeast of Sen...
Photo courtesy: I'll Never Grow Up via Flickr/cc Researchers have been looking for better alternatives for providing skin grafts to wounds, and it turns out they need look no further than the animal king...
*Stand By Me (1986) River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman (Directed by Rob Reiner) *Former child star Corey Feldman says Hollywood's biggest problem is child abuse. Corey Feldman blames the death o...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 32 km ( 19.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:33:10 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles) SSE ...
*Hey there, pacifists and atheists, get some scriptures up ya! Here's the NEWS!* *DIRTY YIDDISH KHAZARS WANT TO KILL! KILL! KILL! YOUR CHILDREN!* *FREE EARTH!* ** *TRUTH IS NOT YIDDISH | FACTS ARE NOT...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 12.8 km ( 8 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:40 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 191 km (118 miles) Southeast ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Cordoba, Argentina at a depth of 167.5 km ( 104.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:04:55 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) ENE of Chepes, L...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.9 km ( 22.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:47:34 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles)...
The parents of a three-year-old girl who vanished without a trace while she was playing outside her house with her brother have admitted they failed polygraph tests. Edgar Rodriguez revealed that he and h...
A judge has ordered that Casey Anthony must emerge from hiding and return to Florida to serve a year's probation for cheque fraud. The 25-year-old, who fled into hiding last month following her surprise a...
Syrian soldiers opened fire today on tens of thousands of protesters who flooded the streets shouting 'We will not kneel!' in a strong show of defiance against President Bashar Assad. At least eight prot...
The family of teenager Madeleine Pulver, who was at the centre of the 'fake bomb' drama last week, has been told that an arrest is imminent. Detectives have identified a suspect after 18-year-old Miss Pul...
These Italian sunbathers seem to be making the most of their summer holidays So determined are they to enjoy their time on the beach, they don't even turn their heads to the sight of Europe's largest volca...
Glowing: The artificial protein scientists introduced into the worms' DNA contained a fluorescent dye that glows cherry red under ultraviolet light. The world’s first animal with artificial information in...
A student accidentally buried himself alive in the sand and died whilst playing a ‘childish beach game’. The horrific incident saw the unnamed 18-year-old suffer a cardiac arrest as he desperately waved ...
The prime suspect in the brutal double knife murder of a young couple was under arrest in hospital today after apparently trying to take his own life. Police say a 31-year-old man has been arrested on susp...
A tycoon’s drunken son mowed down and killed a wealthy couple after choosing to drive just 300 yards home. Jonathan Knowles, 33, who had been drowning his sorrows a day after being made bankrupt, stagger...
A suspected looter in this week’s riots and his mother are being thrown out of their council home. In the first case of its kind, Daniel Sartain-Clarke, 18, and his mother have been served with an evictio...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 96.5 km ( 60 miles), the quake hit at 00:53:53 UTC Saturday 13th August 2011. The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) Southwest of San M...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 34.6 km ( 21.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:43:34 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 381 km (236 miles) SSW of Nuku...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Triple Junction Region at a depth of 35.1 km ( 21.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:26:17 UTC Friday 12th August 2011. The epicenter was 1188 km (738 miles)...
*Hemingway in the '20s:* *His 1923 passport photo* *"I kidded Hemingway about his forthcoming novel and we laughed a lot and had fun and then we put on some boxing gloves and he broke my nose."* *-- from ...
.. *Protect the Peaks Week of Action Photos by Youths of the Peaks. Thank you from Censored News!* *Please join us for weekly gathering in prayer on Holy San Francisco Peaks* Every Saturday at 11 am Dr...
This video was made in October 2008. It was posted by the YouTube user aenfroy87. Read: *PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power* ** *Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, Ja...
Honestly, where do you begin? First, Mayor Stupid's dismissing all the folks who spoke at last month's city hall all-nighter as left-wing, NDP, special-interest types trying to protect their free money. N...
*BART's shutting off of cell service to clamp down on demonstrations raises the question of whether this is legal.* *"This may be the first time a government agency in the United States has ever delibera...
Suzanne Harrison, 35, who last month quit a director of the Suffolk One sixth form centre in Ipswich, previously taught her victim at a 1,500-pupil secondary school in Colchester, Essex. She admitted two...
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables. The oversight was an expensive one that ...
He probably just pissed away his Olympic dreams. The drunken JetBlue passenger who treated a sleeping 11-year-old girl like his personal potty is a member of the US Ski Team who refused to apologize yest...
The city of Rockford is getting a little darker under a plan to save $500,000 by removing 2,400 streetlights. The Rockford Register Star reports that city officials and ComEd crews have already removed m...
In past few decades, the U.S. Air Force has spent untold billions researching and developing a family of stealth fighter jets that are supposed to be generations ahead of any dogfighters in the sky. But ...
Facial recognition technology being considered for London's 2012 Games is getting a workout in the wake of Britain's riots, a senior police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday, with officers feedin...
Millionaire's daughter Laura Johnson, 19, was charged with stealing £5,000-worth of electronic goods, including a Toshiba TV, Goodmans TV, microwave and mobile phones. The goods were allegedly found in a...
Gov. Pat Quinn has expanded the number of places where parents can safely give up their newborns in Illinois to include more police stations. Under the current Illinois Safe Haven Law parents can relinqui...
The investigation into 11 of the violent incidents on the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair has resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old African-American who reportedly told investigators he targete...
Senate Democrats are charging taxpayers for a trip to Hawaii, The Daily Caller has learned. The entire press staff of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is in Maui, even though a field hearing there won’t...
Police in Spring Hill arrested a local music teacher Thursday morning after he was caught engaging in a sex act with a doll outside a local elementary school. Officers were called to Allendale Element...
The state of Illinois has reached a new level of broke. Come Monday, it won't have enough cash to bury its indigent dead. Illinois officials sent a letter to more than 600 funeral directors around the st...
A rash of storm grate thefts have struck the Tumwater area. As many as 100 might have been stolen in the last month, and it's getting worse. In fact, 13 were just stolen Thursday afternoon. That's on top o...
A family dog in Mission brought home a severed human hand Thursday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected unauthorized immigrant, police said. Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called...
This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin held a press conference with members of the mainstream media to talk about the downgrade crisis. But the Senator’s scripted storyline veered off-course when a conservativ...
Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench. T...
No sooner had President Barack Obama signed the bitterly contested federal budget deal than financial markets gave their verdict by nose-diving. The best that America’s reviled politicians could say was th...
This vast, pulsating city of ten million seems to have doubled in size since my last visit ten years ago. Dynamic, optimistic, high-tech South Korea is flying at Mach 9: it reminds me of Japan 25 years a...
The recent downgrade of America’s credit rating should be no surprise. The surprise is that there is still some “A” in the rating at all. If an American citizen had the same debt to earnings ration as the ...
People living in rural areas should hang up their smartphones if they want to actually make phone calls, new research from communications regulator Ofcom suggests. New models, such as Apple’s top-selling...
If these riots had taken place in America, the outcome would have been very different. America has the intellectual and emotional tools necessary to deal with this kind of social disaster: Britain doesn’t....
This week, the United States nearly allowed itself to succumb to economic disaster. Increasingly, the divided country has more in common with a failed state than a democracy. In the face of America’s appar...
The 100pc mortgage is back. After becoming extinct in the wake of the credit crisis, one bank is now offering borrowers the chance to buy a property without a deposit. Northern Bank, which operates in No...
When ever I give a presentation, I always try to leave time for questions because I know there will be people whose interests are different than my own. I want to give them an opportunity to seek additiona...
Washington is controlled by crooks. Wall Street is controlled by crooks. America is controlled by crooks. Hollywood is controlled by crooks. ABC Interview of Randy and Evi Quaid in November 2010: CBS: ...
Last weekend, at the 14th International Mars Society Convention in Dallas, Texas, the message was clear: it is imperative that we send a manned mission to Mars.
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*It's already a long time ago* that I flew myself and ventured from a small German airfield to Valencia, Spain, to see if I had locked our house properly. Yes, that went faster than by car and it made gre...
Some famous actors, directors, musicians, and celebrities in the entertainment business who have publicly stated that the official 9/11 story doesn't add up and that there needs to be a new 9/11 invest...
A drowned boy's miraculous recovery sheds light on how miracles are very much in the minds of those who see them.
Discovery News readers had a knack for finding conspiracy theories in just about everything this week -- from orange goo to dancing squid.
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Antiwar.com (August 10, 2011): Scott Peterson, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses his article “Iranian group’s big-money push to get off US terrorist list;”the dozens of top former ...
*Phillip Hinkle (R-IN), count down to resignation has begun* The message "I Need A Sugga Daddy" always drives rightists into a feeding frenzy-- especially when they're homophobes and it comes from a young ...
Antiwar.com: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the MEK’s rightful place on the State Department’s (admittedly flawed and politicized) terrorism list; why a lack of determined opposition (unlike...
*5) Andrew Orlowski: Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling* The Register, 5 July 2011 The refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. "The ...
*Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com August 12, 2011 On August 6, a Lebanese newspaper, *The Daily Star*, reported three men were charged by Lebanon’s Military Prosecutor General with smuggling weapons into Syri...
We at The Coming Crisis decided to delve deep into our photography archives in order to find photos of the UK London Riots that match their absurdity. Believe us when we say it's a tremendous challenge to ...
Photo taken by: *JP's Photography* As magistrates and police work tirelessly to track down and punish those who were involved in the rioting, one pretty model is already facing the consequences. Shonola...
Maybe Nycole Turmel has a friend who'd be willing to step in and help the Bloc out: *Bloc faces growing pressure to delay choosing Duceppe replacement * There is growing pressure within the Bloc Québéco...
The technique could do away with the need for green screens or full-body leotards affixed with reflective markers.
Ancient bronze coins dating back to 241 BC, were discovered by chance during a survey to create an underwater archaeological itinerary.
Software engineers have built a tool that makes time-lapse movies of your face in just a few seconds.
The social networking site says the feature has been available for months and people are only just noticing now.
Groupon and sites like it can offer amazing deals, but they can't repeal basic economics.
Arctic summer ice coverage may hold strong for a decade, despite global average temperatures rise.
For most of us, differentiating between being in flight at 20,000 feet versus 30,000 is impossible. Scientists might be onto why.
Head unit lets you talk hands-free, get text-to-speech navigation guidance, watch videos and -- oh yeah -- listen to audio.
It's long been considered that education dulls one's belief in a higher power. Not so, says one researcher.
[image: Aerial view of a member of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, January 2011. This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the community's garden, surrounded by banana plants and annat...
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Did I mention how long I've been unemployed, and how long it's been since I've even had any interest at all shown by an employer in o...
Dear Rep. Phil Hinkle: I have read with some consternation your recent difficulties regarding a barely-legal male hooker of 18. Naturally, this is the sort of thing the sex-obsessed left wing latches o...
Darcus 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...
Right 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.
The NFL hopes a new HGH testing program will cut its use but critics say the test is easy to cheat.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
West 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Some 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 “...
Growing 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...
The 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...
The 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. ...
At 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...
Those 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...
Police 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...
A 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...
Statement 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...
British 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...
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*Mystery variation A* *by Ken* What we have here is a *variation* -- for piano and orchestra, as you can hear -- of a theme I'm pretty sure you know. In a moment we're going to hear another variation...
*Modern-day social conditions and tools will naturally produce a more modern approach to ruthless state repression -- but the basic strategy is the same. * *"[T]here will be a renewed, and successful push...
If you've spotted similar posters in your city, take a picture and mail them to us: thecomingcrisis@gmail.com A reader who introduced us to Google (which we've never seen before and now marvel at due t...
The military and intelligence services of Russia and China are conducting a sustained campaign to steal American commercial and military secrets through cyber espionage, according to the chairman of the Ho...
Selina Ye is a 34-year-old Human Resources manager in the bustling southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. I went to Hong Kong last September to give birth to my son. I know most people go there to have a se...
The continuing financial uncertainty looks set to have a bearing on what is traditionally one of the busiest weekends of the year for real estate agents in Sweden. "It is going to be tough for vendors. A...
A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favo...
Over on the Atlantic site, the food politics writer Jane Black has a thoughtful post on farmers market sticker shock in brownstone Brooklyn. Confronted at her neigborhood market by the spectacle of $8/doz...
Farmers have begun to turn away from organic food production in the face of waning interest from the big supermarkets. The amount of land being converted to organic cultivation across the UK has dropped ...
The speed of the disintegration said everything. It took less than 48 hours for London to descend from self-styled capital of the world into a circuit of burning dystopian hells. The speed of BlackBerry me...
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