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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Ecuador at a depth of 166.8 km ( 103.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:53:18 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 183 km (113 miles) East of Riobamba, Ecuador N... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 46.1 km ( 28.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:26 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 196 km (121 miles) South of Lata, Sant... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.8 km ( 17.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:42:03 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) ES... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*Plus: A heartfelt ta-ta to T-Paw!* WASHINGTON -- As the economy worsens, President Obama and his senior aides are considering whether to adopt a more combative approach on economic issues, seeking to h... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoSheila Phipps with some of her work from the exhibit, "Every Portrait Tells a Story." Photo from Loop21. A mother's art: Every portrait tells a storySheila Phipps does portraits of young men she believes wer...
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[image: The dragonfly garden - Libélula - Caballito] - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
Two days after warning the public about the theft of electronic devices on Green Line trains, police arrested four suspects Thursday, the youngest being a 10-year-old boy. On Tuesday, Harrison Area detec... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
State police in Uniontown said a 29-hour loss of landline phone service was caused by an act of criminal mischief when someone went into locked underground Verizon vaults and shut off the power. Trooper ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoItalian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti stepped up calls for a more coordinated response to the euro zone debt crisis, including the creation of euro bonds, ahead of a crucial Franco-German summit next we...
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An illegal, Orwellian violation of free-speech rights? Or just a smart tactic to protect train passengers from rowdy would-be demonstrators during a busy evening commute? The question resonated Saturday ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A shortage of engineering skills in the UK could hamper growth at BP's North Sea operations, an executive has said. In July, BP announced plans to invest £3bn in redeveloping two oil fields in the North ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
World markets have entered a "new danger zone", the president of the World Bank has warned. Robert Zoellick said investors had lost confidence in the economic leadership of several key countries. Speak... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRebels in Libya are fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces for control of the center of the third-largest city in western Libya and have cut a critical supply line to the west, rebels claimed Sunday. Force...
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It was 9.30 p.m. on Friday last week, and the Syrian capital Damascus was a ghost town. There were few cars on the streets, and even fewer families enjoying the warm Ramadan evening. Still, the streets wer... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
The riots had little to do with politics and an awful lot to do with acquisition. We had heard so much about the presumed nature of the rioters and looters last week – that they were everything from fera... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
One Sunday afternoon in May, some 75 people of various ages watched a film in a hired room at the Captain’s Club, a riverside hotel-restaurant in Christchurch, Dorset. A Small Act is a moving documentary a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
Five months ago today, the nuclear crisis began in Fukushima, and the government began lying about the threat and the dangers to its people. Now they are beginning to build a gigantic tent over reactor num... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
Leave it to Monsanto to take a good thing and corrupt it for financial gain. According to a recent report in Forbes, the multinational biotechnology-slash-agriculture-manipulating monolith has developed a ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
The mainstream media is extremely one sided with its vaccine reporting. It is a PR outlet for the pharmaceutical industry, especially when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry's sacred cow - vaccines. ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo, who was subjected to an armed SWAT team assault on her home during an attempted kidnapping by Child Protective Services, has been found in neglect today by a Wayne County juv... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste: these are the now-infamous words uttered by former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during the early days of the currently-in-motion financial meltdow...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSri Lanka has conducted its first ever nationwide survey of elephants in which more than 2000 wildlife department staff, volunteers and soldiers took part. But wildlife conservationists have boycotted...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoProtest leaders have called on participants to "get out of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem" on Saturday to bolster demonstrations in other locations. "We want to strengthen the movement in the periphery, where ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoDhaka, Bangladesh is one of the world's fastest-growing cities, with a middle class quickly on the rise among its 13 million residents. But the infrastructure is not able to keep up with the growth, ma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIn February 1949, members of the Karen ethnic minority launched an armed insurrection against Myanmar's central government. Over 60 years later, the conflict continues, with more than a dozen ethnic r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIt has been nearly eight months after the Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi made himself the fuse for the Arab Spring. His self-immolation not only toppled Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's presi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agonever thought the next big international story I would cover would be on the streets where I live. Al Jazeera in London has not shied away from covering the underbelly of UK society, but this was different...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFifty years ago today, the Berlin Wall was erected in haste across the bleeding heart of Germany's capital. The sudden and speedy construction of this East-West divide on the night of August 13, 1961, caug...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThere are battles being fought on two fronts in the five months since a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. On one front, there is the fight to rep...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has been marked by an outcry in Japan over radiation leaks, contaminated food and a government unable to put the public's fears to rest. Perhaps the ...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 4 hours ago. Quote from Peter Hitchens article in today's 'Mail On Sunday': ".....The real danger from some of the defendants is emphasised by the floor-to-ceiling armoured glass which now surrounds the dock. Our...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Part of the Great Barrier Reef reflects on the underside of the ocean's surface, Updated August 13, 2011. An environmental spokesman says recent Queensland floods are carrying pollutants through ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 4 hours ago*Zero Gov.com* July 15th, 2011 by Bill Buppert *“Death solves all problems – no man, no problem.” *- Joseph Stalin Government is a death cult. It is the most profound mechanism outside of planetary ext...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Indictment: U.S. v. Frank Scaccia and Theresa Neubauer, two former water department officials have been indicted in an investigation of a Chicago suburb that for decades drew drinking water from ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: More dugongs (Dugong dugon) have died in Australia this year (August 2011) than in all of 2010. Photo by Julien Willem via Wikipedia] By John R. Platt 13 August 2011 More dugongs (*Dugong dugo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours agoThe ivory trade has doubled in Guangzhou and Fuzhou, a study has found, adding to fears for Africa's elephant and rhino populations [image: A Kenyan wildlife official, who asked not to be identified for ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoCelebrating our Young: The path to drugs and alcohol for Indian youths in Taos, N.M., and the way back. "Tell our youths we are in love with them," is the message after three youths in Taos commit suici...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: This is leaf litter around the buttress roots of a tropical tree at the study site in Panama. The study shows that as climate change enhances tree growth in tropical forests, the resulting increa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Destruction in Somawathiya National Park, Sri Lanka, for Dole and Letsgrow plantation. Photo by: Anonymous Source via mongabay.com] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com 14 August 2011 Dole Food Com...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoA day or two ago I was driving along listening to NPR and suddenly I was listening to an old guy in West Virginia talking about the struggle to save his home from the coal company's plans for removing t...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at Wallpapers para pc, laptop y netbook - 7 hours ago[image: Hermoso Bentley Continental Flying Spur]
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago*New at Censored News*** *August 14, 2011* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Special thanks goes out to the courageous ones who continue to risk their lives for truth and justice, and the Native American ...
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- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 7 hours agoWonderful thing, the Tweeter. Keeps things lively, and keeps you on your toes. So apparently there's some question over what I wrote about the Globe's ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon and h...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 8 hours ago. Very strong new video from Ryan Dawson adding his own commentary to excerpts from a previous documentary, "One Third of The Holocaust" and other rare footage. His closing statement says the followin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 2.5 km ( 1.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:02 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) West of Trin...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA sudden gust of 60-70 mph winds toppled a concert stage in Indianapolis Saturday night, leaving 5 dead.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoAstronaut Ron Garan captured a dazzling -- and unique -- view of a meteor flashing through the Earth's atmosphere.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours ago"Celebrating Global Warming." Art quilt by Laura Wasilowski / PAQA. Nature bats last: Notes on revolution and resistance, revelation and redemption By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2011 [An edi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 22.7 km ( 14.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:20 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 553 km ( 343.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:38:44 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 533 km (331 miles) WSW of Nuku...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe homes of three teenagers were raided today as police continued their crackdown on the suspected 'looters' who are believed to have taken part in the London riots. One 17-year-old boy and two 15-year-o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoI will never forget holding my newborn baby in my arms watching a television report on the 1987 famine in Ethiopia -- hearing the haunting cries of babies whose hunger could not be met by their anguishe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Montreal company says it's confident a plan to revive one of Canada's last asbestos mines will go ahead. The owners of the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Que. were given until Monday to raise $25 million fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA team of six suicide bombers launched a co-ordinated attack on a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 19 people, authorities said. The Afghan Interior Ministry said t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSuspected Islamist militants fired rockets at a military camp in Pakistan's northwest on Sunday, killing three soldiers and wounding 23 others. Officials said the soldiers had just finished raising the Pa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice in Calgary have a man in custody following a slashing attack on a six-month-old infant early Saturday morning. Police discovered the injured baby after receiving a 911 call from a man inside a hou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA church and a carpet store were among the structures damaged by three suspicious fires in downtown Kelowna between Friday night and Saturday morning. Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Doherty said that a church ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSyrian warships have joined a military assault targeting protesters in the northern port city of Latakia, activists say. At least 19 people have been killed in the operation, the UK-based Syrian Observat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAgricultural pesticides are causing significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef, according to a new Australian government report on water quality at the site. The report says some farmers must be more c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbout an hour and a half into his trip from the Tunisian border to Tripoli on Saturday, CNN photojournalist Craig Johnston sensed something was about to change. "The two government drivers -- they wouldn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAlabama's Jefferson County on Friday held off from filing for bankruptcy over a $3.14 billion bond debt and allowed more time for talks with creditors to try to thrash out a restructuring agreement. The ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA legacy of industrial agriculture, energized by climate change, a continent-sized explosion of toxic algae blooms is besieging the freshwater lakes of North America, sickening people, killing animals and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIf you liked what investment bankers and hedge-fund managers did to our economy in recent years, you’re going to love what water banks are doing to our ecosystem. The same, time-tested methods are in play:...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAccording to last Sunday’s Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram, “Lee Weaver knew he was facing a serious problem when he watched his lawn sprinkler dwindle to a meager squirt at his home south of Fort Worth.”...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe electric power grid in Texas is at the crisis point, its managers on the verge of having to impose rolling blackouts on a sweltering population, and is providing a leading indicator for the rest of the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDespite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world war currently unfolding. An all-pervasive corporate and government propaganda campaign has effectively ob...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHydraulic fracturing---or fracking---is the latest example of making things worse in the name of saving the humans, and it looks to have a date with Nova Scotia. Just before Christmas, the department of en...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBurma will have to abide by the conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if it expects to receive any assistance from the global financial organization, the US said on Tuesday amid reports that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn February, as the navy's new patrol ship Wellington hammered through mountainous seas off Antarctica, New Zealand was sending a message to the world: we're here, and we intend to stay. But some of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 25-year-old mom who clerked at a check cashing store. A former head cheerleader at Booker T. Washington Senior High. A middle-aged man who worked mowing lawns with his friend. A distraught U.S. Air Force...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The Free Palestine Movement announces the Nour al-Haqiqa (Light of Truth) Flotilla vessel and its goal of reaching Gaza. American Indian Movement representat...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoFollowing today's post on the Balen report, it's interesting to note the connections of the BBC to Muslim-related causes. Take BBC trustee Mehmuda Mian, for example, who is a member of the Editorial Standa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSix people, including two children are dead after a knife attack at a house on Jersey. A 30-year-old man is in police custody in hospital after undergoing surgery. Officers have launched a murder invest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWith his hands held in a shooting motion, these are the chilling pictures of Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik retracing his murder spree. Breivik, 32, was taken back to Utoya island by police for a reconstr...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours agoRising Tide VI: Nominations still open for the Ashley Award~Get your registration on here ~Poster by Greg Peters~ Geaux New Orleans! London's Katrina moment: James Gill ~There is little room for debate ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*The set of variations by Mozart is so well known that Adolphe Adam, composer of one of our other sets of variations on the theme, seems to have thought the theme was Mozart's -- or at any rate his publi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Peter Ward tells the crowd at TED 2008 about the perils of hydrogen sulfide, which he says wiped out 90 percent of Earth's species during the Permian period. Courtesy Ted Conferences] By Scott T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWillem van der Bijl, the stamp dealer who went missing in North Korea, landed safely in the Netherlands on Saturday 13th August, according to his business partner Ronald Green. Willem has visited the cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:00 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 1324 km (822 miles) Southea...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoI've always loved Paul Krugman's ability to pinpoint common sense solutions pretty easily (even in hot crowded rooms of the badly confused and dithering), call 'em as he sees 'em, and have no care about who'...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoOr how Reuters slit its legitimacy's wrists. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci Often cited as a reliable, reputable news source, Reuters is in actuality nothing more than another den of duplicity bought an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 68.9 km ( 42.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:27 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) Southeast of Retalhuleu, Retalh...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: A woman packs shiitake mushrooms at the Anzai family farm near Fukushima, northern Japan. The Anzai family grows their mushrooms indoors, as a way to reduce the contact with high levels of airbor...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: School of fish in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California. The no-take reserve at Cabo Pulmo now is full of fish schools. Octavio Aburto / nationalgeographic.com] [About ten years ago, Desdemona snorkled at...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe extremely mediocre but profoundly radical Michelle Bachmann defeated her Republican presidential nomination rivals to win yesterday's Iowa straw poll. The unwittingly amusing Bachmann proclaimed her w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn unemployed couple and their family have been moved into a luxurious London home worth £2million - and pay it with a monthly £8,000 housing benefit funded by the taxpayer. Unemployed Saeed Kahliif, 49, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTerrified shoppers watched as an armed officer held a gun over the head of a 15-year-old boy in a Manchester high street. This dramatic picture shows the officer standing over the boy with the semi-automa...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours ago*Arizona Daily Sun's pitiful explanation for censorship* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Today, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff makes a pitiful explanation for its cen...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 12 hours agoOur Climate Of Extremes | ThinkProgress Yep. They're in the middle of their worst drought ever, heat records are being broken every day, but they're going to deny the scientific evidence of climate change...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe enormity of the changes underway is finally settling in. We're coming to realize that the 21st century will not be a mere successor to the 18th, 19th and 20th. The old economics, the old industriali...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoIn the morning, I suffered from one of my bad habits - visiting the blog of Capitalist Imperialist Pig, something that I have done many times since the first moments when the anonymous far left alarmist ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Youth Riots -- Ravenous Hunger for Freedom* *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. August 9, 2011. People and animals don’t live or breed well in captivity, unless they think they a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoJuveniles found guilty of criminal activity may lose their anonymity, Home Secretary Theresa May has warned. She told Sky News that guidance should be given to prosecutors as a way of stamping out gang c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA number of people have been hurt when a bus toppled over close to Belfast's Central Station. It is thought around 30 people were injured when the double-decker vehicle overturned in the citybound lane of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMount Soputan in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, emitted a cloud of ash on Sunday morning, reaching 1 kilometer in height. The volcanic eruption drew the attention of residents of Tompaso district in Minahasa, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA friend emails from secure, sanitised Singapore: "What the hell is happening over there? Will it be safe to come to the Olympics?" A good question, and one that I would have answered in the affirmative t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoFederal FinMin Tiny Jim Flaherty seems to be breaking ranks with his American and European cousins and says that the federal government would consider another round of stimulus spending if Canada slips bac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAt least 21 people were killed in a Syrian military crackdown on anti-government protesters in the northwestern port city of Latakia Sunday, an opposition human rights group said. Tens of people were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoProudly posing with their stolen spoils, this bunch of thieves embody the greedy nature of looters who snatched whatever they could while ransacking England's streets. Peeking from behind their obligatory...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 568 km ( 353 miles), the quake hit at 12:58:26 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 472 km (293 miles) WSW of Nuku'A...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 14 hours agoThe American population has been lulled into a trance-like state. Once upon a time, we were a nation of activists. Our founding fathers were anarchists of the highest order. But then, they didn't have tel...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoThursday Elizabeth Warren did a guest post for Blue Mass Group, which has led a lot of people to assume she's running for the Massachusetts Senate seat currently held by wish-washy GOP flip-flopper Scott...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoIs the staid cosy world of Radio 4 topical comedy really being forced into a tokenistic gesture to fend off criticism of its blatant political bias? I don't know how truthful that tweet is but it would ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 16 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Here's what Mitt recently puked up: "Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck West of Macquarie Island at a depth of 14.3 km ( 8.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:30:10 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 1350 km (839 miles) SSW of Hobar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSuccumbing to mass protests, Chinese authorities today ordered an immediate shut down of a chemical plant in northeastern Dalian city after a toxic pollution scare sparked urgent evacuations. The authori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA bomb ripped through a two-storey hotel in Pakistan's restive southwest on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 20, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Dera All...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNorth Korea on Sunday lashed out at South Korea for accusing Pyongyang of hacking Seoul online game sites and stealing prize money, rejecting the allegations as an "unacceptable provocation." Seoul police...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMushrooms joined the threats to Japan’s food chain from radiation spewed by Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, as the country expands efforts to limit the effects of the disaster....
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoToday’s Telegraph reports that Steven Sugar’s widow is to take on his battlewith the BBC over the Balen report. In the article a BBC spokesman is quoted as saying: “If we are not able to pursue our journal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 26-year-old man and a teenager appeared in court today charged with the murders of three men who died after being struck by a car during this week's riots. At Birmingham Magistrates' Court today, Joshua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoDavid Cameron has said it is time for a "zero tolerance" approach to street crime after Britain experienced its worst rioting for decades. The Prime Minister's comments, made in The Sunday Telegraph, foll...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 17 hours agoGulf Rescue Alliance Public Health Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico as a Direct Result of the Inadequate Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout Disaster Descriptions and contact information for 34 cas...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoBBC running with the story that " UK police chiefs have reacted sceptically to plans for US "supercop" Bill Bratton to advise the government. David Cameron has called for the former New York police chief t...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 18 hours agoAnd that's just what they did. On August 10th I noticed some Privy Council Office googling for "suncor third largest investor in Syria" that landed on the June 1st Creekside post *Ethical oil in Syria e...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago*Photos copyright Outta Your Backpack Media/Censored News. Thanks to Outta Your Backpack Media in Flagstaff for photos!* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com French transla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 491.6 km ( 305.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:01:57 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 355 km (221 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 18.5 km ( 11.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:38:03 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) Northwest of Roxa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe vandals/critics/guerrilla artists who do not like the official civic statue along Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea are at it again. Officially named “Magic Carpet Ride,” the statue has provoked contr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMany schools in Fukushima Prefecture are at a loss over what do to with their swimming pools, which can't be used or drained because the water is tainted with radioactive materials from the Fukushima No. 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTHE NUMBER of E-Coli cases in a bacterial outbreak in South Wales has risen to seven after two more cases were confirmed by Public Health Wales. Of those cases, three victims are said to have been hospita...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMultiple environmental agencies from Louisiana and Mississippi are investigating the cause of dead fish and other water wildlife in Washington Parish along the Pearl River. The environmental investigator...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe continuous heavy rainfall for the past one week that submerged vast swathes of several districts, resulted in breaches in embankments of various rivers and caused a “flood-like situation” in a couple o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn a suspected case of food-poisoning, 15 persons, including 5 children and 5 women, were admitted to Chhatrapati Shivaji Civic Hospital at Kalwa here today, civic sources said. They were taken to hospit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA 19-year-old migrant worker from Mexico has become the first person in the U.S. to die of a vampire bat bite. The unnamed man died just two weeks after he was bitten in his native Michoacan before leavi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAround 50 teenagers have been arrested for violating a newly enforced curfew in Philadelphia. The stay-at-home rule for those under 18 is part of a police crackdown on mobs, who they say are responsible ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Saturday, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people, authorities said. Twe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere was panic and fear when a massive search operation was launched after Jared Ropelato went missing during a camping trip in Utah. But the plucky 12-year-old used the survival skills he learned as a bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice in Mississippi were left baffled when a man arrested for a traffic violation confessed to killing 11 women - at least three of whom turned out to be alive. Charles Krauss from Tennessee was caught...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAuthorities in south-east Missouri today charged a neighbour of the family in connection with the disappearance of a toddler last seen riding her bicycle in front of her home last weekend. Shawn Morgan, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe East Coast is shaping up to experience another heat wave late this month as states including Texas continue to suffer a devastating drought, analysts warned today. Experts at Earth Risk technologies ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThese images capture the horrifying moment as four people were killed and a dozen injured as a stage collapsed during a storm last night at the Indiana State Fair. Strong winds caused the stage rigging fo...
- Bad Hair Bandit strikes again! Woman is wanted for 19 bank robberies in three states - 14th Aug 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA woman dubbed the Bad Hair Bandit, who is wanted for 18 bank robberies in two states, has struck again, police believe. The robbery of a bank in Butte, Montana, on Thursday morning was similar to several... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCars registered to the Russian Embassy were spotted near the home of a British spy just days before his body was discovered in a locked holdall at his London flat. The unexplained presence of Russian dipl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBritish tourists were yesterday warned by a senior Tory MP to steer clear of euro notes from Greece and other failing European economies. John Redwood raised the spectre of Greek euros plummeting in value ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOil titan Royal Dutch Shell faces a bill for hundreds of millions of dollars for two big 2008 oil spills in Nigeria's main oil-producing zone, a region devastated by 6,800 recorded spills over the last hal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn oil slick measuring 50 square miles is heading for the British coastline after a North Sea pipeline started leaking. Crude oil has been spewing from the pipe on the seabed, at a depth of 300ft, sparkin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA man and a 17-year-old boy were last night charged with murdering three Asians who died while protecting shops from looters. Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, suffere...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago* the**REALnews* * * *Massive Jobs Program Only Way Out* Tom Ferguson: Only a 1930s New Deal style jobs program can deal with the crisis More at The Real News *Bio* Thomas Ferguson is Professor of Poli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe acting head of the Metropolitan Police has clashed with the Prime Minister over a suggestion that the Army could be deployed to quell rioting in London. Tim Godwin told David Cameron he would agree to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe acting head of the Metropolitan Police has clashed with the Prime Minister over a suggestion that the Army could be deployed to quell rioting in London. Tim Godwin told David Cameron he would agree to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe mother who faces being evicted from her council home after her teenage son was arrested over looting spoke out, insisting parents are not responsible for decisions made by their children. Charity work...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA man has been charged with the robbery of a young Malaysian student that shocked the world. Mobile-phone footage of the callous attack, branded ‘disgusting’ by David Cameron, showed a gang of looters pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:06 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 114 km (70 miles) Southwest of Chania, Crete...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 582.4 km ( 361.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:04 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) Southeast of Ndoi Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck North of Ascension Island at a depth of 11.8 km ( 7.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:29:39 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 731 km (454 miles) North of Asc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.9 km ( 18 miles), the quake hit at 01:26:18 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:02 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) NNW of Kalamata, Greece ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Andrew Breitbart* *Andrew Breitbart* was raised Jewish His adoptive mother had converted to Judaism when marrying his adoptive father.[5][6] Breitbart has launched a number of websites, including *B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 95.5 km ( 59.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:55:46 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) NNE of Salina Cruz, Oaxac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:45:32 UTC Sunday 14th August 2011. The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) WNW of San Ant...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 23 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago[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...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*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...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoToronto 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...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe Next Inside Job: A Nuclear 9/11 * * *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 13, 2011* "Tonight, I'm going to talk about two big ideas. First, the proposition that on the current course, if we conti...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoAmerican 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...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSelina 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBay 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOver 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFarmers 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan'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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetroit 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHow 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwenty-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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOh 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTexas 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSomalia 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...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoColor 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...
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