- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A hunt has been launched for a rogue shark after a British man was killed in an attack while on honeymoon in the Seychelles. The Foreign Office confirmed the death of Ian Martin Redmond, from Lancashire,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km ( 21.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:05:06 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 114 km (71 miles... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 538.1 km ( 334.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:14 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 244 km 151 miles) Southeast of Lamba... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A "flash mob" believed to have been organized on the Internet robbed a Maryland convenience store in less than a minute, police said Tuesday, and now authorities are using the same tool to identify partici... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Fighting between local tribes and government forces in Yemen left at least 26 people dead on Tuesday, eyewitnesses said, confrontations that killed mostly civilians. The battles occurred 40 kilometers (a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Hundreds of troops and police officers headed to northern Honduras Tuesday after at least 11 people died in two days of clashes, authorities said. "Arms will be taken away immediately from people who carr... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
CNN recently listed six jobs that pay six-figure salaries but do not require college diplomas -- fire chiefs, air traffic controllers, nuclear power station managers, directors of security, elevator mechan... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Many outraged parents wrote to Soya Keaveney's mom, Janis, about how her careless parenting is fuellling the teenager's unnatural desire to be a model. At 12, Soya Keaveney was a rather well known bikini m... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
THE high Australian dollar and a slowdown in the non-mining sectors of the economy have claimed their first mass casualties, with Qantas and steelmaker OneSteel announcing job cuts and banking giant Westpa... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
THE Indian government was last night staring down the barrel of a mass democracy protest after police arrested prominent anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare hours before he was due to stage his second p... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Thousands of people living in low-lying areas along the Yamuna are being shifted to safer places, as the river started swelling following heavy rains in north India. Senior Delhi government officials sai... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Libya’s rebel movement said Tuesday that its war against Muammar Qaddafi’s regime had entered a “decisive phase” and that victory was possible within three weeks. “Our forces totally control Zawiyah, whi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Tunisian security forces used teargas and truncheons on Monday to disperse a crowd of protesters in the capital demanding the government step down for failing to prosecute supporters of the ousted presiden... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
Osama Bin Laden is gone, but 10 years after the September 11 attacks the United States is still entangled both by his legacy and the impact of its own avenging actions after the 2001 terror strike. The h... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
How will the IDF confront a likely outbreak of violence by local Arabs after the PA statehood bid at the United Nations in September? By giving the PA more guns. According to reports, the IDF has formaliz... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes agoIn the never-ending battle to remove unsightly hair, some Japanese women opt for a close shave. According to J-Cast, a kao sori (shaved face) boom is gathering momentum across Japan. Specialist salons o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
The economy shrank at an annualized rate of 1.3 percent in the three months through June amid the effects of the March earthquake and tsunami, which significantly slowed the nation's production and exports... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
apan has within its sights the obvious but precarious solution for its fiscal mess: a tax hike. With its debt rising, its population aging and its social security costs set to soar, an increase in the co... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
More than half of 105 leading Japanese companies surveyed are looking to locate more factories and offices overseas to counteract the strong yen, falling share prices and power supply shortages, according ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A four-month slump in foreign orders for Japanese machinery may be the latest sign that waning demand is threatening to derail the global economic recovery. Overseas orders fell 5.9 percent in June for t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes agoWhat's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "shark"? For many, it's a gaping maw of razor-sharp teeth or a dorsal fin cutting ominously through the water behind an oblivious swimmer. John Wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes agoThe U.S. defense budget amounts to approximately US$700 billion a year, 10 times higher than China's. But the U.S. has decided on drastic cuts to its defense spending, which account for around 20 percent o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes agoKorea's dependence on foreign trade has risen to levels not seen since the global financial crisis in 2008. According to the Bank of Korea on Sunday, the ratio of trade to GDP stood at 110.1 percent in the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes agoThe Navy will deploy Korean-made Hongsangeo (Red Shark) "submarine-killer" torpedoes on the Navy's top-end Aegis destroyer this month, it emerged on Sunday. "The Navy installed a torpedo launch system on...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes agoNorth Korean military units talked about the possibility of shooting down a helicopter carrying Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin during his visit to a frontline unit in July, officials here said Monday. Intel...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 minutes ago*Glasgow - **Website for this image** *In August 2011, when there were riots in England, there were no riots in Scotland. The Guardian (Why didn't the riots reach Scotland?) points out that Scotland ha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 24 minutes ago*The ruling military council must be showing too much independence.* "USAID director in Egypt quits amid dispute centered on funding; Military opposes aid being given to activist groups" August 12, 2011|By...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 26 minutes ago*SOMALIA: FAMINE FOR PROFIT AND THE EAST AFRICAN FOOD CRISIS** * ** *MALAYSIA: BERSIH 2.0 MASS DEMONSTRATIONS - FUNDING UNREST. MYANMAR: FERTILE GROUND FOR WASHINGTON SPONSORED REVOLUTION. *
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 39 minutes ago*While confined to a hospital bed.* "Yemeni leader reportedly out of Saudi hospital" August 08, 2011|Associated Press SANA, Yemen - Yemen’s president has left a hospital in Saudi Arabia more than two mon...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 41 minutes agoInside the most massive neutron stars, matter may take on a more-exotic-than-usual quantum characteristic.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 46 minutes ago*"I have been asked if I was aware of the moral implications of what I was doing. As I told the tribunal at Nuremberg, I did not know that Hitler was a Nazi. The truth was that for years I thought he worke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 58.9 km ( 36.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:15:47 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) SSE of Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 27.7 km ( 17.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:24:01 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) ESE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near Islands. Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 50.6 km ( 31.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:24:01 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.5 km ( 51 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:20 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) ENE...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday welcomed constitutional amendments proposed by his hand-picked reform committee, but critics rebuked the changes as insufficient. The 42 proposed changes to the nearly...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Bahrain released two former lawmakers from the Shi’ite opposition yesterday, along with several other detainees who were arrested following widespread antigovernment protests. The lawmakers, Jawad Fairoo...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours agoThis is a positive statement, however. :). Tonight, I started working out at a studio again (this does not mean the rest of my workouts will end, I just want something to build and tone muscle more than ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Western U.S. trout habitat loss projected to 2080s. Projected stream length of suitable habitat for trout under current conditions and climate change scenarios. Whiskers show 90% confidence inter...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 16, 2011* *1.* Ron Paul is a honest and humble man who keeps his word. Barack Obama is an egoistic liar, a traitor and a betrayer who will say anything to get el...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 3 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Iran urges West to avoid interfer...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 3 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Navy and Air Force to be Roy...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 3 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Franco-German call for 'true euro...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* As happens so often when Tom Tomorrow is on the job, I really don't have much to add. I'm just pleased ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFitch confirmed on Tuesday its triple-A rating of the United States, 10 days after rival Standard & Poor's dealt the country its first-ever downgrade due to Washington's huge deficits and debt. "The affirm...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoI might have missed it, but I don’t think anyone has noticed this simple truism: The structural causes that led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 are identical to the structural causes that are lead...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWho will escape the new harsh economic realities place upon us by our leaders? If my insight is correct and if our illustrious superiors get their way, then the answer is no one will escape. In my introduc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhat began as a financial crisis four years ago has now developed into a full-blown fiscal crisis in the rich nations. The wild gyrations in the global stock markets this month are enough indication that t...
- 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest Inside The United States Are Now More Likely Than Ever
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoYou should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy contin... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 5.7 percent, due to international sales growth and cost cutting. But the world's largest retailer still wasn't able to reverse a two-y...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn Iowa's Ames Straw Poll this weekend, Michele Bachmann bested 2nd place Ron Paul by less than 200 votes. And yet, in the immediate spin cycle at least, pundits talked about Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Ba...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWith the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1 percent as of July 31 and a fragile economic recovery underway, many workers feel they are left with no choice but to take their careers into their own hands. Emplo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWatching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer's life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia. The AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population He...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNeighbor chases Kidnapper, saves girl: krqe.com The 6-year-old girl was taken by a stranger from a playground right outside her South Valley home. The girl lives at the Vista Del Sol mobile home park ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDetroit police are making some changes regarding burglar alarms in what appears to be an attempt to keep more officers on the streets. A memo, obtained by WWJ Newsradio 950, says the Detroit Police Depart...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSwitzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIRANIAN snipers are being used in Syria to put down the growing tide of demonstrations against president Bashar al-Assad, claims a member of the regime's secret police who has fled to Turkey. The 25-year-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThis guy is the poster boy for why cell phone usage in cars should be banned in more places. According to press out of the United Kingdom, a man who was driving at 70MPH while texting on one phone and ta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMoody’s Analytics said its near-term outlook for the U.S. economy has fallen significantly in the past month wake of the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling and the downgrade of the nation’s credit ratings b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBond was denied for a Chicago man arrested for the 99th time and charged with drug possession after he allegedly used his 3-year-old child as a ruse to beg for money in west suburban Riverside. At about ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA marble statue of Hercules from the second century CE has been uncovered in Israel in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at Horvat Tarbenet, within the framework of the Jezreel Val...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Woodridge man faces first-degree murder charges for allegedly striking his father in the head multiple times with a weed trimmer. Yashesh S. Desai, 21, of 3 Plover Court in Woodridge was charged Monday ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhen graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWe don't envy public school teachers and administrators. They have trying jobs, and nobody seems to give them enough credit. Maybe it's no wonder that schools sometimes go a little crazy and traumatize stu...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe recently discovered eel living in a remote submarine cave has evolved out of step with the rest of the world.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoYet more numbers emerges from the Making-Shit-Up file, this time from a report on “fast broadband” written by BERL at the instruction of the Auckland and Bay of Plenty Councils. The report purports to...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe impressive gateway to the Old City, has regained its magnificent crown, which was destroyed in the Six Day War.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 hours agoSteve was evidently so pleased with ShamWow Tony Clement's ability to put one over on Auditor General Sheila Fraser by leaving no paper trail for the funneling $50M of our tax dollars through his own rid...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern primates has been discovered on a tiny lemur-like animal.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoTonight, FC Victoria Pilsen was the only team that won on a hostile stadium. Clinical Plzeň stun København (UEFA) The adjective "clinical" for the Pilsner play is kind of amusing; not sure whether it's ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours ago*[image: _Kris_Sayce_headshot_thumb[2]]Guest post by Kris Sayce of Money Morning Australia* *“Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in the midd...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe Virtual Co-driver System reads drivers' emotions by the tone of their voice to help overcome car problems.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoPaddy Power, founded in 1988, is Ireland’s biggest bookmaker best known for publishing odds for horse racing, football betting, rugby, cricket, as well as for its online poker and casino operations. But ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours agoAs much of the country lies blanketed in several inches of global warming, the result of the coldest day ever recorded in these parts (with snow even on the hills of *Dargaville!*), it’s worth noting tha...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 7 hours agoHEALTH - When you live a balanced life style it can make huge differences in the quality of life and overall happiness. #1. Moderation and balance. Both metaphorically and physically. You need to balance ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 8 hours agoby Duane Craig Radium Contamination in NJ Sparks are flying in Hammonton, New Jersey, since the state department of environmental protection has fined the community $2,000 because it hasn't addressed ra...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 8 hours agoIt seems to me that if a skeptic writes something that is anti-UFO, it is accepted as fact immediately. If a proponent writes something that is pro-UFO, it is rejected immediately. There is no criticism of...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoChupacabras have been reported in three U.S. states so far. Here's why.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours agoTexas colonizer Stephen F. Austin (with his father, Moses Austin, inset on right). Painting from the Fort Bend Museum / Wikimedia Commons. The hidden history of TexasPart 2: The 1821-1826 years under Mexican...
- *Peculiar things are happening* regarding Gnome 3 and Ubuntu Unity (and Oneiric 11.10). Now and then I check on developments and believe to see significant changes. Nevertheless I stick to my viewpoint fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoReader Contribution; An Afghan official says a bomb has exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people. Uruzgan provincial council director Amanullah Otaq says the explosiv...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoTourists to Thailand died from chemical exposure thought to be linked to bed bug pesticides.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe body of the identified man is found by police who had been looking for a 19-year-old Japanese woman.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSpaceX's next mission is to the International Space Station. The Hawthorne, California-based private rocket maker said yesterday that its Dragon capsule will launch on November 30 on a cargo test run to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt seemed far-fetched on the silver screen. But the European Space Agency is planning to launch a mission similar to the plot of Hollywood movie Armageddon, in which Bruce Willis and his intrepid team at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt might look like a poorly drawn picture of an alien, but this is actually one of the most advanced types of skin ever made - that can even stop bullets. Researchers genetically engineered goats to produ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhen immigration officer Julia High came back from a night out at the Royal Albert Hall she might have expected to enjoy a nightcap before retiring for the evening. Instead she discovered a family of Roma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt may look at first like this scooter rider is simply trying to negotiate his way through a busy High Street. But once it becomes clear the rider was weaving his way through a crowd of looters in Croydon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTulsa Police have identified the man involved in the department's longest standoff ever, who refuses to come down from the Clear Channel radio tower at 27th and Memorial. William Sturdivant II, 25, ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago"My car broke down once here, I had to wait three days to be rescued without food or water," says Tomas Jimenez as we speed along an endless, deserted dirt road. This is the Chaco in Paraguay, a vast low...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIndia has denied it is stifling democratic protest after police arrested 1,300 people to halt a hunger strike by an anti-corruption activist. Prominent campaigner Anna Hazare was arrested hours before his...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChina is sending a team of medical experts to try to save the crushed leg of a two-year-old girl pulled from the wreckage of a high-speed rail crash. A railways ministry spokesman has been sacked after fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAverage home prices in July were lower than they were in June, but sales numbers and average prices are still up sharply compared to the same month a year ago, new data showed Tuesday. The Canadian Real ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe United States and South Korea on Tuesday began joint war games that North Korea has warned would choke off budding diplomacy and drive the Korean peninsula to war. After months of hostility and threa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGerman economic growth slowed to a near standstill in the second quarter of this year, dealing a further, unexpected blow to the crisis-hit eurozone. The surprisingly-sharp deceleration in activity in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe leaders of Europe's two most important economies meet Tuesday to try to help the battered euro, even as new figures show economic growth on the continent is stalling. German Chancellor Angela Merk...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 7-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and other disabilities including not being able to speak was decapitated, and his biological father has confessed to the killing, police in Thibodaux, Louisiana, said M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn the summer of 2001, Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, the eldest son of a large family, left Kuwait to travel to Afghanistan. His stated purpose was to do charitable work, assisting with the reconstructi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLeo Durocher was right: Nice guys finish last. Or at least they earn less, according to a new study. "'Niceness' -- in the form of agreeableness -- does not appear to pay," the authors conclude starkly....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn New Delhi's upscale diplomatic district, Ram Dhan lives in a parallel world. For years, his home has been a rickety shanty that he shares with his ailing wife, a young son, a daughter-in-law and two g...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan appears once again to be careening toward the brink of self-destruction. Reports that Pakistan may have given Chinese engineers direct acces...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhen I saw that Scientific American was carrying a web story by a regular SciAm blogger determined to bust some of the “myths” surrounding organic farming, I was excited. I hoped the article would be somet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSinking manufacturing confidence is driving a sharp slowdown in the labour market recovery and exacerbating the North-South divide over jobs, according to a new study which reveals more employers are set t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe leaders of Germany and France have three bad choices as they decide whether to save EMU this week, or pretend to do so. They can agree to fiscal fusion and an EMU debt union, entailing treaty changes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe number of pensioners relying on financial assistance from family members has more than doubled to a quarter of a million since last year because of rising inflation. Millions of pensioners are seeing...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoParents are responsible for a quarter of the online abuse of teachers with one headmistress left feeling suicidal after she became the target of a parent's internet hate campaign, a study has found. Teac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHigh blood pressure could be caused by a common virus, according to a study carried out by a team of Chinese doctors which has possible implications for millions of people around the world. The human cyt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAccording to research, taking a holiday – particularly a sunny one – can lower your IQ. If your neurosurgeon announces that he has just returned from two weeks in Cancún, you may want to postpone that cr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPeak petroleum-the point at which the maximum rate of global oil extraction is reached, after which the rate of production begins to decline-is a hot topic in scientific and energy circles. When will it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMany adults hoping to receive an inheritance from their parents could be in for a shock as rising numbers of baby boomers are making ends meet by "spending the kids' inheritance". Two thirds of adults ag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA government cut in police funding will see 16,000 frontline officers axed with neighbourhood teams worst affected, according to a study. The report by Cardiff's Universities Police Science Institute stat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNew research suggests one in four young people is 'bored' with 'superficial' social media, but more than a third are more enthusiastic than ever. A key group of young users of Facebook, Twitter and YouTub...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours ago(Dedicated to constant reader Dee in New Jersey, because she asked.) When I was younger, politics bored me. By early middle age, politics fascinated me. Now, politics scare me. And nothing scares me p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.1 km ( 24.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:02 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFrance and Germany have proposed "collective economic goverment" for the eurozone after European investors sought reassurance from the two countries' leaders. Details of French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoWhat secrets does a quasar from the dawn of the Universe hold?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Those Texan jaw muscles look very much in practice, don't you think?* Judging by the media clamor Monday, Texas Governor George W. Bush Rick Perry won the Iowa straw poll and is the Republican front runne...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 11 hours ago*Marxists are behind the Genocide of Europeans* by *Concerned from Scotland* (for News From Atlantis) Right across the Western world the unemployment rate is high due to outsourcing labour to che...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoHow we explore the heavens is already changing because of a ballooning archive of everything in the universe that has ever been looked at.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResearchers at the University of California San Diego said Monday they have detected small amounts of radioactivity from Japanese nuclear reactors damaged by the Marchearthquake and tsunami. The discl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAbout 40 people were hospitalised following chlorine gas leak at a plant of KMML Company near Chavara here today. Police said all of them complained of breathing problems and were admitted to various pri...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoPeople living during food shortages are often more desperate, and can be more dangerous when they stand up to authority.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUS soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with an apparently untreatable and incurable lung disease are being dismissed as out of shape because tests appear normal, writes Sarah Jones. "What we can...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoI very rarely (all right, never) mention anything emanating from MSNBC Money but the following piece just seems irresistible. Plus it's all about that ladies' man, Nouriel Roubini, and his considered opinion...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Robert Lee High School Superintendent and Athletic Director, Aaron Hood, adjusts the underground sprinkler system that is providing the life support for the school's' dried football field, 13 Aug...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 12 hours agoCANADA - Its sounds like a plot out of a CSI episode. A Toronto man convicted of kidnapping a Hamilton woman years ago and holding her captive has been granted admission to the bar by the Law Society of U...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 12 hours agoENTERTAINMENT - Canadian Mike Myers is reportedly writing on the next installment of his Austin Powers film... possibly named Thunderballs. The randy British super-spy parody of James Bond hasn't been on t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Temporary tide barrier at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station 1, 30 June 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 16 August 2011 China sent a survey ship and took seawater samples off th...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 13 hours agoOn Monday, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were forced to close four train stations during the evening rush hour as free speech advocates attempted to disrupt the evening commute. The pro...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 13 hours agoOn Monday, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were forced to close four train stations during the evening rush hour as free speech advocates attempted to disrupt the evening commute. The pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwo planes carrying 13 people have crashed in the wilds of eastern South Africa with no survivors found. Johnny Smith, of Rescue South Africa, said wreckage has been spotted from a helicopter in a mounta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA schoolgirl miraculously survived being impaled on a metal spike for two hours after she fell from a tree. Caitlyn Brown, 11, dropped six feet from a branch onto a metal railing, with one of the spikes ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoAnd a tip of the ten-gallon hat to the 'Texas Miracle.' Photo by Paul Moseley / Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. The highs and the lows: Rick Perry’s 'Texas Miracle' By Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / August 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA second oil leak has been discovered from an offshore platform in the North Sea. An estimated 216 tonnes - or 1,300 barrels - has already poured into the sea following the initial spill, which began at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA paedophile who kept more than 800 sexual photos and videos of children as young as three while working at a primary school has been spared jail. Christopher Jones, 27, was caught after his flatmate logge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTop executives from Rupert Murdoch down today faced devastating allegations of a phone hacking cover-up at News International, after former Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman sensationally claimed that the ...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 13 hours agoBy Denis G. Rancourt [This is the opening chapter which sets the interpretive framework for Rancourt's tentative new book about the big lies that determine individual self-image in our First World dominanc...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA coating of free radicals could help ensure a person's body does not reject a new implant.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.8 km ( 6.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:42:59 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) E...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: A view from the top of the dam looking down onto O.C. Fisher Lake shows a small area of red-tinted water by the dam's flood gate Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. A bacteria called C...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoDo we still hold these truths to be self-evident? Image from Greenwich Workshop. Why Republicans (and many Democrats) don’t believe in government for the people By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / August 1...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoBill and Melinda Gates Foundation award $3 million to researchers to design safe, reliable and cheap toilets for the developing world.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoThe people of Australia had been annoyed by the pissing contests between Melbourne and Sydney - both of which had the potential to become the capital of the continent - so they built Canberra as a compromi...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 15 hours ago*For Timster and me cuzzie muzique!* *TRUTH IS NOT DEMOCRATIC | FACTS ARE NOT POLICY*
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoUnless you think you'll be winning a lot of lotteries in the future, you're never going to be as rich as Warren Buffett. A significant number of Americans-- rational people in other countries don't think...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPEEurope - 15 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoMechanical engineers are modeling the breaking points of structural materials used in drilling rigs to show when leaks and spills are likely to occur.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoA ceiling full of blinking LEDs could be the key to powering wireless networks in a clean way.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck Ceram Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km ( 24.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:03:57 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) North of Ambon, Mol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.2 km ( 23.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:16:18 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIt hardly needed to be highlighted, but this cosmic exclamation mark is the unfolding collision between two galaxies. VV 340 - also known as Arp 302 and located 450million light years from Earth- provides ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoAfter scouring through ancient trash heaps, bioarcheologists have reconstructed the intense agricultural history of the Peruvian Inca Valley.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThey say beggars can’t be choosers. But in the case of jobless Somali refugee Saeed Khaliif and his family, it seems they can. The Mail yesterday revealed how the Khaliifs have been given a £2million hom...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoOperation Moon: The Unsolved Enigma By Scott Corrales The summer movie-going season has generally been the preserve of action-packed thrillers and buddy movies. This year promises us someth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIt's a bacterial disease that could cause pneumonia and the water at St. Ann's in Rochester along with one of their residents have tested positive for it. It's called Legionnaires’ disease and it's the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTorrential rains have destroyed 42 houses and rendered homeless 20 residents of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Economic trees and livestock, particularly birds, were also destroyed by the heavy downp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMPs have been sent documents that appear to cast doubt on James Murdoch's evidence that he was unaware of wider hacking at the News Of The World (NOTW), according to Sky sources. It follows his appearanc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFire officials say 20 people, including nine children, were taken to hospitals after a high concentration of chlorine was released into the wave pool at Raging Waters, a private water park at the state fai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 18.6 km ( 11.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:22:39 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 402 km (249 miles) SSW of Nuk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAt least two suicide bombers attacked a fuel depot near Kandahar International Airport late Monday evening, leaving at least three people dead and six wounded, officials said. Wearing vests packed with e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSea ice in the Arctic Ocean hit the lowest monthly recorded level for July in more than three decades of record-keeping, while overall global temperatures for the month were the seventh-warmest on record, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:02:11 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 1003 km (623 miles) SSW of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTropical Storm Gert veered away from Bermuda on Monday and was expected to dissipate into the open Atlantic Ocean, forecasters reported. Warnings for the island were dropped as Gert, the seventh named sto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAt least four airstrikes hit Gaza early Tuesday, leaving two people critically wounded and a third on life support, Palestinian medical and security sources said. All three injuries occurred in a strike ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoU.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called "defense-oriented" during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe teenage girl who is believed to have contracted a deadly brain infection from an amoeba while swimming in a river has died. Courtney Nash, 16, died at Arnold Palmer Hospital for children in Florida on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTylar Witt was 14 when she helped her boyfriend murder her mom. And on Friday she got a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against her love-struck accomplice. Witt, now 16, got her conviction re...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*KHOMEINI, Shia supreme Imam, AN AGENT OF THE US AND UK GOVERNMENTS?* *Did a Jew, **Abdullah Ibn Saba, infiltrate Islam and cause it to become divided?* - (Ibn Saba -Wikipedia) Muhammad died in AD 632. ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours ago"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war." - Sun Tzu *UPDATE*: Let's compare and contrast the common sense and sound reason of L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Central Turkey at a depth of 5 km ( 3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:53:30 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4.2 miles) West of Sarioglan, Turke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoArmed police have arrested a man in America at gunpoint, believing he was involved in the fake bomb drama in Australia, which captured the world's attention a fortnight ago. Paul 'Doug' Peters 52, who is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhere once there was bustling life there came devastation, destruction and death. That led to a long and hard road to recovery for the areas of Japan devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. Photogra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoForces loyal to Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi have fired a scud missile near Brega, according to reports. The launch marks the first use of a tactical ballistic weapon by Gaddafi's troops since the confl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnimal rights groups have condemned a ghoulish Cambodian tourist attraction popular with Britons where live birds are 'ripped apart' by hungry crocodiles. The cruel 'entertainment' sees crowds of holiday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA suspected child molester ended up battered and bruised after he was confronted by the mother of girl he planned to attack. Robert Harding appeared for his police booking photo sporting a black eye and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A breathtaking video which shows around 30 people entering a 7-Eleven store and stealing countless items from the shelves is being seen as evidence that flash mob attacks are beginning to spread the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen Iraqi cities yesterday, killing 56 people. The wave of violence shattered what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan. The co-ordinated morning ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFirefighters had to race to rescue two construction workers on Staten Island, who became trapped in a fast-filling hotel elevator during a record downpour in New York. The men, who had been using the elev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA man suffocated a 3-year-old girl he found playing at his backyard swimming pool and then threw her body in a floodway ditch, court documents allege. Shawn Morgan, 43, was charged over the weekend with f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreece and Portugal should quit the euro to help save the currency, George Soros said yesterday. The former currency speculator turned billionaire philanthropist also backed the idea of a euro bond, wher...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn Oxford law graduate hurled bricks at police officers in broad daylight during London’s riots last week, a court heard, while two sons of an evangelist minister have been accused of looting from an Icela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA man accused of torching a 140-year-old furniture shop during the riots made a defiant gesture in the dock yesterday. Father-of-two Gordon Thompson, 33, saluted friends as he was remanded in custody and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDavid Cameron announced a crackdown on 120,000 feckless families yesterday in a campaign to combat the 'moral collapse' which led to the riots. Declaring 'all-out war' on gangs, the Prime Minister vowed to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA judge cut the sentence of an illegal immigrant and drug dealer yesterday to help him escape deportation. Vincent Miller was kicked out of the UK twice but managed to return and stay for more than a dec...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago* Ronan Parke* The average person is not too interested in politics. *Top Search Query for Aangirfan.blogspot.com* - *Ronan Parke * Percent of Ronan Parke Search Traffic going to Aangirfan *9.69%* Ke...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*The catch? They are converting them to Islam.* "United Arab Emirates vows $1m for hard-hit Joplin schools" August 10, 2011|By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. - The United Arab Emirates...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago"Khadafy son, reportedly killed, seen on Libyan TV; Regime dismisses claim of death in NATO airstrike" by Rami Al-Shaheibi, Associated Press / August 11, 2011 BENGHAZI, Libya - Libyan state television bro...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago[image: obama attacks GOP] Hitting back against an emboldened GOP, President Barack Obama launched a rare through attack Monday on the Republican presidential field, criticize his potential 2012 rivals f...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*He swam all the way from the Indian Ocean after the U.S. dumped him.* "The tower will be built by the Saudi Binladen Group construction conglomerate.... --more--"
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*"Alastair Crooke, a former MI6 officer and high-level EU advisor who runs an NGO in Beirut, said the exile groups.... are funded and trained by the US. They pay Sunni tribal chiefs to put people on the st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man accused of chaining a 'collar bomb' to the neck of a teenage girl in Australia earlier this month has been arrested in the US, officials said. The 51-year-old man was arrested near Louisville, Kentu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 16-year-old boy will appear in court charged with the murder of a man attacked during the London riots, Scotland Yard said. Richard Bowes, 68, died on Thursday after being assaulted during disorder in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10.2 km ( 6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:39:47 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 1257 km (781 miles) NNE of Victoria, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 33.8 km ( 21 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:35 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 236 km (146 miles) Northe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called "defense-oriented" during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least four airstrikes hit Gaza early Tuesday, leaving two people critically wounded and a third on life support, Palestinian medical and security sources said. All three injuries occurred in a strike ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBillionaire investor Warren Buffett, saying he doesn't want to be "coddled" by Congress, says that wealthier Americans should pay higher taxes, and that higher taxes do not dampen job growth. Buffett, ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 88.7 km ( 55.1 miles), the quake hit at 03:18:52 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) Northwest of Petersville...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 202.2 km ( 125.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:07:43 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 179 km (111 miles) NNW of Nuku' Alofa, Tonga No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 109.6 km ( 68.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:26:15 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (22 miles) Southwest of...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Turns out that is what the sudden appearance of so many stories** was, and this is the real reason** why. * *What is most distressing is that nothing is done for the greater good as presented by the age...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"While [Rabbi Yisroel] was on his way to synagogue to celebrate the sacred Jewish holiday commemorating God's reneging on every promise, a woman stopped him and asked the following question: 'Rabbi, why...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 53.2 km ( 33.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:24:19 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) South of B...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Video: Wettest day in NYC, 14 August 2011. Torrential rainfall in New York City rerouted subways, delayed commuter trains, flooded low-lying roads, and set records Sunday. AP] By Barbara Goldber...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoEven the front page of the *Royal NZ Herald’s* Business section went gaga this morning over Warren Buffett. Why? Because the billionaire is calling for bigger taxes on billionaires like him and Bill Gate...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 day agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*All the major players in Washington know that AT&T is fabricating its case for the T-Mobile takeover. But it seems that if you spread enough cash around, people are willing to pretend they buy your fairy ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago[image: UoA-DavidSeymour] Here’s the note from our friends at the UoA Economic Group about tonight’s seminar, featuring another guest speaker: Hello Everyone. Hope you’re surviving the wintery blast. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA police dog is recovering after being struck by a brick in the Tottenham riots and suffering a fractured skull. Three-year-old German Shepherd Obi was with trainer Constable Phil Wells in the midst of t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDramatic CCTV footage of two police officers being knocked down by a car as they chased looters during last week's riots has been released. The pair were hit by a green Citroen travelling at high speed in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA pregnant woman who was advised to have a termination after an NHS ultrasound indicated she had suffered a miscarriage only found out her baby was still alive after requesting another scan. Chelsea Muff...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOver the course of one day, during the height of the Niagara Falls tourism season, three incidents have reminded visitors that the famous horseshoe can prove dangerous and deadly. A 19-year-old internati...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLiberia has seized a "worrisome" amount of arms and ammunition in the south of the country near the border with Ivory Coast, an official told a press conference Wednesday. "The Bureau of Immigration with...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korean activists on Friday launched helium balloons across the North's border carrying millions of leaflets calling for the overthrow of leader Kim Jong-Il. A conservative group called National Act...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi are no longer able to launch a credible military offensive, NATO's top Libya commander told AFP Thursday, as rebels look to gain momentum in overthrowing the strongman. "Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerica's covert drone war on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban has killed up to 168 children in Pakistan over the last seven years, according to an independent study released Thursday. The London-based Bureau of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA news website run by China's defence ministry said Thursday the nation's aircraft carrier should handle territorial disputes, despite government assurances the vessel posed no threat to its neighbours. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree days after U.S. Navy SEALs assassinated Osama bin Laden in May, the Americans mounted a major air operation in Yemen to kill a U.S.-born Muslim cleric they've branded one of al-Qaida's most dangerous...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBrazil plans to clean up its notorious favela slum dwellings in Rio de Janeiro and other cities as part of a major security augmentation program before the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe bright red skull-and-crossbones signs are hard to miss and increasingly common on Pacific Northwest beaches. A whole new fleet just popped up along the shores of a small bay between the Pacific Ocean a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor years, Native opponents of a massive strip mine on Black Mesa in northern Arizona have said longstanding extractive practices of Peabody Energy Corp. (formerly Peabody Western Coal Co.) have depleted a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTaiwan is developing a new mobile version of its supersonic "aircraft carrier killer" missile, a legislator said Sunday, after China sparked regional concerns with sea trials of its first carrier. Resear...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's defence minister called on China Friday to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier, after Beijing sparked increased concerns over its military expansion by starting sea trials for the vessel. "A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTechnology has empowered all sides in the London skirmish: the rioters, the vigilantes and the government. Did the youthful rioters who roamed the streets of London, Manchester and other British cities e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHeavy Rain Caused Problems for Drivers, Power Outages: MyFoxDC.com Heavy rain and thunderstorms caused problems for drivers in our area Sunday. In Montgomery County, several people were stranded by hi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew York broke an all-time record for a one-day rainfall Sunday as up to 8 inches of water soaked the city, snarling trains and flooding roadways. By 9 p.m., 7.7 inches of rain had fallen at Kennedy Airpo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA family in Essex says someone killed their dog in the middle of the day, and now they’re trying to find out who and why. The owners of 3-year-old Princess are heartbroken. Their dog was stabbed Wedne...
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