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SpaceX'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 - 2 minutes ago
It 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 - 2 minutes ago
It 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 - 2 minutes ago
When 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...
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It 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 - 18 minutes 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...
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"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 - 18 minutes ago
India 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 - 18 minutes ago
China 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 - 18 minutes ago
Average 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 - 18 minutes ago
The 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 - 18 minutes 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 - 18 minutes 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...
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A 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 - 18 minutes ago
In 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 - 18 minutes ago
Leo 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 - 18 minutes ago
In 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 - 18 minutes ago
The 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 - 18 minutes ago
When 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 - 18 minutes ago
Sinking 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 - 18 minutes ago
The 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 - 18 minutes ago
The 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 - 18 minutes ago
Parents 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 - 18 minutes ago
High 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 - 21 minutes 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 - 21 minutes 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 - 21 minutes 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 - 21 minutes 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 - 21 minutes 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 - 46 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoWhat secrets does a quasar from the dawn of the Universe hold?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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!) - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 taking seawater samples off ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 compro...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 5 hours ago*For Timster and me cuzzie muzique!* *TRUTH IS NOT DEMOCRATIC | FACTS ARE NOT POLICY*
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 hours ago"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war." - Sun Tzu Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Burger Bar Boys. The Cash or Slash Money Crew. The Bang Bang Gang. These names sound straight out of a dime-store novel, but they're real-life Birmingham gangs — some of the underground armies that spe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe District of Columbia is not thrilled that its residents are traveling to Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia to gamble in casinos. Starved for cash, like states across the country, the district wa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoust a month before the Berlin state elections, the German capital has been flooded with posters issued by the far-Right National Democratic Party (NPD) with the shocking slogan: "Step on gas." The electi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoKansas City Mayor Sly James vowed Sunday that he’d take steps to end large, nighttime gatherings of unsupervised teenagers and preteens on the Country Club Plaza by holding parents to account. How, he di...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFormer U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a bipartisan message, urging Republicans and Democrats to find common ground to solve the nation’s economic woes and to address other critical policy issues. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoI wrote an article called 5 Places NOT To Be When The Dollar Collapses. In it I wrote that societies that benefited the most from the dollar would be the worst places to be when it fell apart. While the...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours agoI’ve read a lot of cant about the “riots” in the UK [and Philadelphia and Washington DC and…]. So I had to post a comment of my own. The most apposite comment I’ve seen however came from one of the riote...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago*Saman Mohammadi * *The Excavator* *August 15, 2011* "It may be that the present system, with no modifications and no experiments, can survive. Perhaps the money-making machine has some kind of built-in ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoFrom a government that increasingly believes in style over substance comes two announcements making clear that image is more important, to them, than reality. At least in their minds. We have the report...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours agoExpat Canadian Eric Crampton—from a place where they get *real *snow—muses on supply and demand in a time of snow. Where are all the rosy-cheeked youngsters when you need them to shovel the stuff? *Rea...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA Swiss astronomer made headlines in 1884 when he claimed to have discovered a cubical planet in an orbit beyond Neptune.
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPEEurope - 20 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 f...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours ago“That's right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos in markets in recent weeks, it is anyone's guess how much longer it will last…” *R...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours agoAs the world's economies slip into the Greater Recession from which they had “emerged” only by massaging their numbers, the man who called for a housing bubble to "fix" the American economy during its las...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoA few days ago I let loose with a provocative and kind of random tweet based on something I was reading about the post World War II American national security state in Glen Yeadon's book *Nazi Hydra In ...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoWillow Garage recently announced the availability of a more affordable, single-arm version of their PR2 robot platform.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoOnce completed, travelers to Rome will get to see the square fully restored to its 17th-century Baroque glory.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 22 hours agoWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a far...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours agoChuckyman and I were discussing the allegations made by the peaceful activists regarding the Port city of Latakia/Syria. As mentioned in the comments section here, there are mixed messages with regard to t...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours agoI curse them all now, but particularly Leon Panetta and the powers-that-be that sit in the control seat(s) of this Bush-agenda reinforcing/enhancing administration. (Not for not having an easy 60 votes to ef...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago25 cases of Buruli Ulcer have been recorded in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo region. The District so far is the first to record the disease in the region. The disclosure was made by the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoShell has revealed that a leak at one of its North Sea platforms has pumped more than 200 tons of oil into the water. Five days after it first learned of the leak, Shell has revealed that 1,300 barrels w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA killer bull has claimed another victim after fatally goring a 29-year-old man during festivities in Spain’s eastern Valencia region. The man, whose name was not released, died at a hospital in the town ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoBrian Greene's first popular book, *The Elegant Universe*, has been a bestseller and PBS/NOVA shot a $3.5 million TV program with the same name. His second popular book, *The Fabric of the Cosmos*, was als...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it. A passing motorist saw the decapitated hea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVictims: Izabela Rzeszowska, top left, the couple's two children daughter Kinga and son Kacper, alongside Damian Rzeszowska, who has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder. These are the fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMagistrates have been ordered to send all those involved in last week's riots and looting to jail, a court heard today. Chair of the bench at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court, Novello Noades, revealed ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe most recent man-made crisis of having to raise the debt ceiling lest the government default can be likened to a runaway spending train, speeding toward inevitable economic disaster. As we whiz by and i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe margin of error for the world's economic managers is shrinking. The United States is on the cusp of a double-dip recession, the eurozone flirts with collapse, Japan continues to struggle with deflation...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInsiders may be buying stocks at the fastest pace in two years, but consumers’ wallets aren’t convinced that the recovery has taken hold (because, of course, it hasn’t): Confidence among U.S. consumers p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNearly one-out-of-two Americans (48%) think that cuts in government spending are at least somewhat likely to lead to violence in the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmidst a lot of indicators that say we could be heading for another round of recession—before the so-called recovery even reaches most people, let alone our millions of unemployed—June saw a jump in consum...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoncompatibility between our big aspirations and the reality of life is bound to disappoint unless we learn to be a bit more gloomy, says Alain de Botton. Today I want to advance the unusual idea that we'd...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHuman Rights Watch has said all sides in Somalia's conflict are guilty of serious breaches of international law. The campaign group says civilians are bearing the brunt not just of a famine but also a fa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Tibetan monk has burned himself to death in China's Sichuan province, in an apparent anti-Beijing protest. Activists said the monk, whom they named as Tsewang Norbu, had shouted slogans including "long...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReports indicate well-known B.C. gang member Jonathan Bacon — the eldest of the notorious Bacon Brothers — was killed in a brazen daylight shooting outside a Kelowna hotel on Sunday. Police say one perso...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Maltese dog that disappeared more than a year ago after a fatal car crash in New Mexico has been returned to surviving family members in Michigan. The crash in June last year killed Gary Benson and his ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI've met and interviewed more than a few Hezbollah men over the years. They are ascetics — a dour, mirthless lot, utterly convinced of their moral superiority, as religious fanatics so often are. Still, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged supporters to take up arms and battle rebel forces Monday, the country's interior minister arrived in Cairo amid rumors that he had defected, Egypt's state-run Al-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi urged supporters to take up arms and battle rebel forces Monday, the country's interior minister arrived in Cairo amid rumors that he had defected, Egypt's state-run Al-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than a dozen bombing and shooting attacks struck Iraq Monday, killing at least 74 people and wounding 247, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry said. It was the worst wave of violence to strike t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFarida Singh had not checked her e-mail in a few days and had no idea a life-changing letter awaited her until news of it appeared in an Indian newspaper. The man who had shot down her father's civilian ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhat struck me this past week was China's reaction to our credit downgrade. Its state-run media thundered that America needed to "cure its addiction" to debt. A Hong Kong newspaper widely read on the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he said Monday. Cameron listed problems including "Ir...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBrace for more turbulence. This week could be just as bumpy as last week's wild ride, as Wall Street continues to deal with the fallout of S&P's downgrade, the problems in Europe and the fate of the U.S....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt started with such a simple concept: A solar light bulb that charges up during the day and lights the night when the sun sets. Inventor Steve Katsaros perfected his design in June 2010, and four days l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoParents fleeing drought-stricken Somalia are abandoning their children at the world's largest refugee camp, Save the Childen has warned. There are currently around 400,000 people in Dadaab in northeast Ke...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA week after its historic downgrade by Standard and Poor's, investors have been piling their money into US bonds. 'It's a fantastic auction," exclaimed Bill O'Donnell from his desk on Royal Bank of Scotl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNuclear weapons are a waste of money, according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president. Mr Ahmadinejad, who was preparing to receive a top Russian security official, said he was looking to build a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRoll out the bunting. Tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of the modern global economy. That's right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoNorthern Paiute Kwassuh, Wesley Dick/Censored News *SUMMARY – NEED FOR JUSTICE* *By Kawssuh Wesley Dick* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* *Aug. 15, 2011* *Northern Paiute traditional g...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe second-most important election in human history is a mere 445 days away, and the BBC is already focused on informing you how awful the President's potential opponents are. They're especially focused on...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo-called nonlethal weapons can be lethal.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWant to hire a hacker? It's easier -- and cheaper -- than you think.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPeople with a natural knack for sensing number quantities tend to perform better in math.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI really did like Bill Clinton on a personal level. His love of music and the music business was completely endearing to me at the time and, although I assiduously avoid Washington, was happy to come to ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI recently read a few unrelated items that dealt with racism, equality and civil rights in the US, which raised some thoughts I want to share. This time I'm purposely burying the lede, putting the easy stu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:56:44 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI always find myself making new journals at back to school time. I have always loved a cute journal and at this time a year, you can get the spiral bound notebooks for about .20 a piece. They make thoughtf...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 1 day ago. Quote from Peter Hitchens article in yesterday'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....
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAgriculture and hunting appear to be the main culprits in the animals' steep decline.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoVirtual model of healthy rat physiology will help researchers study cardiovascular disease.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:56:44 UTC Monday 15th August 2011. The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Louis S. St.-Laurent breaks its way through Arctic sea ice in the once-treacherous Northwest Passage. NPR] *The Arctic may be the world's next geopolitical battleground. Temperatures there a...
- WHOSE Prosperity?? David and Charles Koch are bigots promoting racial and class warfare...Call Them!posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice Officials in San Francisco have come under scrutiny after it emerged that they shut down underground mobile access, in order to prevent protests over the death of a homeless man from spiraling out o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teenager suspected of looting during last week's riots was out on bail over a murder at the time. The 18-year-old had previously been arrested after a 21-year-old was chased down and repeatedly stabbed...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy Duane Craig Twenty seven years ago the Environmental Protection Agency made a deal with Colorado's health department that is playing out in lawsuits and potentially threatening the future of Colorado's...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoRicky Perry, Cadet, 1972... President Ricky? Cadet, cheerleader... Aggie By Common Dreams / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2011 Sure Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin are batshit crazy. But Rick Perry as a brown...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. To vote, simply register here as...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCapturing ammonia as opposed to scrubbing it from feedlot waste could provide farmers a local source for fertilizer.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFlorida Power & Light employees heard a "loud bang" Thursday at the utility's Turkey Point nuclear plant near Miami when a large valve carrying water unexpectedly closed, turning off a system that cools eq...
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