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Americans like to think of themselves and their country as a model for the world. Indeed, this attitude of self-congratulation is one of the least attractive aspects of US culture when viewed from abroad, ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
Huge protests have taken place across India in support of a jailed anti-corruption campaigner who has been demanding a tough anti-graft law. Thousands of protestors turned out on Wednesday after Anna Haza... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
The three young men were running to the Horany hospital to give blood when several shots rang out and 18-year-old Talha Khamees [WARNING: graphic video] fell to the ground, his own dark blood spilling from... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds agoAlmost five years ago, Mexicans watched their President Felipe Calderon send soldiers out onto the streets of cities like Ciudad Juarez, announcing an unprecedented frontal attack on the country’s drug ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago"If you want to see the inner workings of the drug trafficking business, Honduras is the country," says Victor (not his real name). He was a major drug trafficker before he became a born-again Christian...
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Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on con... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds agoIn 2012 Mexico will elect a new president who will need to decide whether to continue the crackdown on the country's drug cartels. Current president Felipe Calderon is under pressure with no end in sig...
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Somali government troops and African Union peacekeepers have advanced on rebels in northern Mogadishu, prompting one hospital caught in the crossfire to be evacuated. Doctors and patients fled an SOS hos... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
In early July, the US Congressional Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence held a hearing entitled "Hezbollah in Latin America - Implications for US Homeland Security". The line-up of witnesse... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds agoThe Philippines government has been accused of failing to prevent killings and human rights abuses by its military, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Authorities say they have launched a ne...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds agoThe UN World Food Programme is investigating the possible theft of food supplies meant for Somalia's famine victims. But it has denied reports that half of all its aid is being stolen and sold on the bl...
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Chinese security forces have launched a two-month “strike hard” crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regi... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
Readers have asked for a quick verdict on the Merkel-Sarkozy deal. I have nothing to say. There was no deal. It was a vacuous restatement of clauses that already exist in the Lisbon Treaty, or an attempt ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
The Swiss franc jumped on Wednesday after a failed attempt by the Swiss National Bank to stem a rise in the currency triggered by a flight to safety from the eurozone debt crisis. At one stage the euro t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
American companies paid higher prices for tobacco, pharmaceuticals and light motor trucks last month, driving wholesale inflation up by 0.4pc, official statistics show. Inflation in the core Producer Pri... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
Britain's economic recovery hopes were dashed today as official figures showed unemployment rose by 38,000 in the three months to June to 2.49m and the number of people working part-time because they could... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 seconds ago
Officials say gunfire and grenade attacks have killed at least 10 people, including a former national lawmaker, in Pakistan's largest city. Senior government official Sharfuddin Memon says former lawmaker... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoA senior U.N. official earlier this month briefed the Security Council on reports that Syrian security forces had opened fire on defectors within their ranks and executed troops who refused orders to kill ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoFirearms illegally trafficked under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program turned up at the scenes of at least 11 “violent crimes” in this country in addition to being involved in the death of a U.S. Border Pa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoPolice could be handed new curfew powers to clear the streets of rioters, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said today. The Home Office are discussing how to give forces the powers they need to tackle ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoOne day after insurgents unleashed the most lethal series of attacks in Iraq this year, political tensions flared as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki appointed a member of his governing coalition as act...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 minutes ago*Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 17, 2011* "The “war on terrorism” is a classic simulacrum. A global political script written by secret elites is now running on automatic. Triggered by the event...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 minutes ago*Generaloberst Heinz Guderian (1888-1954)* *Chief of mobile forces for the Wehrmacht* *"When General Guderian heard [that Hitler, "in part on the advice of Goebbels," was dealing with his "dry, unruly hai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Hindu Kush Region at a depth of 31.8 km ( 19.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:52:03 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) Southwest of Feyza...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours agoWatching Piers Morgan and Christine O'Donnell duking it out and trying to establish moral and intellectual supremacy is like watching a more boring Freddy vs Jason matchup. On the left, you have a Simon ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 2 hours agoTwitpic - Share photos and videos on Twitter
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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agoRudy arrested/Photo by Ethan Sing Press Release *Coconino County Sheriff: "I'm arresting you for talking"* By Rudy Preston Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com San Francisco Peaks, Snowbowel Roa...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*With all that taxpayer moolah we're shoving directly and indirectly into Taliban piggybanks, can't we at least try to persuade them to "Buy American"? Or is this what's meant by "globalism"?* *by Ken* ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours agoArt from Macho Response. Sold down the river: America and the big lie By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / August 17, 2011"Tell big lies. Do not qualify or concede a point, no matter how wrong you may...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Irrawaddy dolphin population in the Mekong River is at high risk of extinction, with numbers estimated at 85 and the survival of new calves very low, WWF said on Wednesday. Fishing gear,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoQ&A with NRDC senior scientist Lisa Suatoni How closely is ocean acidification related to global climate change? Ocean acidification and global climate change are two -- independent -- impacts of rising...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoEffects on different species would vary, and even researchers hope the situation won’t be as bad as the data suggest. When Seth Wenger and Dan Isaak release a scientific paper that predicts hard times for...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn all the latest bad news about bacteria becoming highly resistant — through carbapenem resistance, or the “Indian supergene” NDM-1 — there has been one hopeful thread: All of the organisms have remained ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe U.S. automobile industry has come a long way since the 1970s. Today’s vehicles are safer, more fuel-efficient and more comfortable. Yet public policy toward cars is marred by standards set in 1978 that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAbout half the recent record loss of Arctic sea ice can be blamed on global warming caused by human activity, according to a new study by scientists from the nation's leading climate research center. he ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRoyal Dutch Shell Plc was silent yesterday on the status of an oil leak of unspecified size in the North Sea and authorities said they had no information on whether the leak had been stemmed, provoking ang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe NYPD is hunting for a vicious trio who have been robbing folks along Creston Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx. The brutes are described as African Americans, aged 16-20. They may ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSome people in Lakewood are worried after a series of mysterious cat disappearances. About a dozen cats have vanished over the past few months near the Denver Federal Center and neighbors are worried ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA key measure of wholesale inflation rose in July by the most in six months. The measure, called core wholesale inflation, excludes volatile food and energy prices. It surged 0.4 percent last month. Bu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo suspects have been arrested in connection with Monday's home invasion and robbery on Altoona Drive. With assistance from the Virginia State Police, Christopher Kyle Deviers, 25, and Chad Wallace Lump...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice in Delaware are searching for seven suspects who robbed and attacked a food deliveryman, leaving him unconscious. The attack happened at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of W. 26th Street...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Georgia teen killed his great-grandmother and wounded his grandmother with a sword before cops took him down with a stun gun, officials said. Cops in Douglasville arrived at the home Monday afternoon to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLondon Eley and Timothy Bynum insist they were just blowing off steam when they posted a Facebook exchange about a plot to kill the father of Eley's baby. But target Corey White's family saw the posts th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, may not, as is sometimes alleged, be trying to recreate it. But he is pursuing a different project – to build a “q...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Monroe County Sheriff's Department is working to solve a case of vandalism that turned life-threatening. John King was shot in the arm last week when he surprised a man trying to slash the tires o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn Oregon woman who tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son at home after reading the Old Testament and watching YouTube videos has been sentenced to five years of probation. Keemonta Peterson pleaded gu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThieves determined to reap value from scrap metal have pried storm grates from streets, sliced catalytic converters from cars and trucks and stripped copper downspouts from churches. Now they’ve sunk to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIf you’re one of millions of dog owners in the Los Angeles area, be sure to keep an eye on your beloved four-legged friend. Dog thefts are up 32 percent this year, according to the American Kennel Clu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoObama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this mor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSwedish police say unrest erupted overnight in Goteborg, the country's second largest city, as several officers were attacked by youths hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails. Police say no one was seriousl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDo you want flies with that? A Burger King on the city’s South Side has been closed by the city, after inspectors found so many insects buzzing around that they were “afraid to open their mouths.” As W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA U.S. supercomputer laboratory engaged in classified military research concluded a recent deal involving Chinese-made components that is raising concerns in Congress about potential electronic espionage. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSyria is taking its war against President Bashar al-Assad's political opponents global, using diplomats in Washington, London and elsewhere to track and intimidate expatriates who speak out against the Dam...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: I wanted to talk to you about the recent news about Pakistan and China. But first I want to ask you about your tweet. I can'...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoRush Limbaugh: "This Ron Paul is going to destroy this party." Rush Limbaugh is defending the party that destroyed America and bashing the man who is trying to save America. He knows exactly what he is...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 5 hours agoBigCityLib Strikes Back: In Case You ARE Wondering Don't know why BCL isn't on the Tweeter, but that's up to him. In the meantime, seems the Venomous LoserTM is perfectly happy to use Toronto's firefight...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoSewage is to blame for a disease that is killing elkhorn coral, listed as endangered several years ago because of a massive die-off.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: seastead1-400x300] The great benefit of living in society is the enormous boon we all enjoy in a free society from the Division of Labour: the multiplication of knowledge; the benefits from geni...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Also see: Nigeria Experiences Exxon Valdez Size Spill Every Year * "Oil spills devastate Nigerian delta, UN says" August 05, 2011|Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria - A region of Nigeria’s oil-rich southern...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoAs Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy cobble together a deal that no-one believes to save a currency union that no-one respects, I figured I’d see what one of modern Europe’s great statesmen thought abou...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*I'm not even going to go in the water.* Swimmer *going ‘strongly’ *in attempt through Florida Straits Woman *ends record attempt* to swim from Cuba to US *Back on the beach already?*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Inquiry into diamond field abuses urged" August 09, 2011|New York Times LONDON - Britain has urged authorities in Zimbabwe to investigate a BBC report that its *security forces* are *beating and raping pr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Military said to impede Congo rape inquiry" July 23, 2011|Associated Press KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The United Nations yesterday named two Congolese Army colonels who appear to be blocking...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoMonday we took a look at what a real jobs agenda to put America back to work would look like and how this has to be handled politically by independent-minded progressives like Norman Solomon. Jan Schakow...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Ghana conquers worm after 23-year fight" July 29, 2011|Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana - Jimmy Carter watched in horror as the inches-long worm emerged from the breast of a woman in remote northern Ghana. T...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Assassins fail in bid to kill Guinea leader" July 20, 2011|Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinea’s president survived an *assassination attempt*yesterday after *gunmen encircled his home* overnight an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CJ Stone) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 7 hours agoAs Above So Below. The Empire of Things. On The Social Psychology of Looting.: "That is what deficit reduction means. It means privatisation: not by the back door, but by the front door. Financial looting....
- ‘Exceptional’ Oklahoma drought has killed 16, burned 250 million acres, and broken 1,400 water mainsposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: The Cimarron River south of Freedom, Oklahoma, June 2011. The 'exceptional' drought has dried up the river, and there is no water, except for a very small pool along the bank, but plenty of salt....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Jet crashes, splits in Guyana, but none die; Plane from JFK overshot runway, dozens injured" July 31, 2011|By Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Chained Australian woman, 18, freed after 10-hour bomb scare in her home" August 04, 2011|Associated Press SYDNEY - A *suspicious device* that had been attached to a Sydney teen’s neck contained *no expl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Wayward penguin waddles into Web fame" August 05, 2011|Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A wayward emperor *penguin* dubbed Happy Feet is now a creature of the Internet age. The penguin, discover...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*It's no mystery to me*: "McAfee did not say who may be behind the attacks but says the *culprit* is likely a *nation state*....* * *Then it is Israel; otherwise, they would be named.* --more--"
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA rodent weighing somewhere between 100 and 120 pounds was spotted hanging out in Paso Robles.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours agoMyanmar urges dissident party to register Myanmar opposition leader tests limits of freedom with political foray
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 8 hours agoConnecticut is out of cleanup money. By Duane Craig Connecticut has its own money woes when it comes to environmental problems. A fund that is used to remedy underground storage tank contamination has ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoPrivate donors raised $200,000 in 45 days to get SETI's premier ET signal-hunting telescope system back online.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThere are far more vampires than most Americans are familiar with. Here are a sampling from around the world.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours agoUploaded by PowerinNumbers2012 17 August 2011 Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks. The cooling system a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA barricaded gunman in a hotel in San Rafael closed down the Richmond San Rafael Bridge Wednesday. No vehicles were getting across the Bay in either direction. Specifically, the CHP closed I-580 from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoReader Contribution; Japanese citizens have shown incredible honesty in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to its knees. It emerged yesterday that the Japanese returned...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoHere are some of the profound thoughts of those highly professional BBC employees, naturally these are their private thoughts and of course are NEVER reflected in their professional output. Oh no. [imag...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoA Biased BBC contributor observes that you may listen to a BBC radio or TV programme knowing that you are being preached at. However it is only later that you realise exactly what that subtle message migh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSeeking to jolt the economy, President Barack Obama will propose new ideas to create jobs and help the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech after Labor Day. And then he will try to seize poli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn a move that has shocked fashion onlookers, scantily-clad young girls wearing make-up and sporting voluminous up-dos are promoting a new range of lingerie that is targetted at girls as young as four year...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDespite the official end of the recession in June 2009, the labor market remains stagnant. Employment has fallen by nearly 7 million jobs since the recession began. Unemployment remains above 9 percent. Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPost-apocalyptic worlds may exist on the big screen and in sci-fi novels, but that's where the similarities between a disaster-ravaged planet and daily life in America end. Or so you may think. A new T...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRecession loom everywhere you look. Let’s look at France: French growth sputters to a halt in 2nd quarter The French government was put under further pressure to cut deeper into spending after figures Fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAmerica is in shambles from sea to shining sea. Unemployment is at Great Depression levels. Real Estate is collapsing. The stock market is crumbling. Retail sales are vanishing. Consumer confidence is plum...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEuropean shares have fallen after talks between French and German leaders did little to calm investors' fears that the debt crisis could spread further. The two leaders agreed to press for closer economi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agollegal poaching accounts for over half of all deaths of Swedish wolves, suggests a new study. Basing their estimates on long-term wolf counts, the researchers reveal that two-thirds of poaching goes unde...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told parliament that the hunger strike by anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare is "totally misconceived". He said the 74-year-old was trying to circumvent democrac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA suspected US drone attack has killed four militants in north-western Pakistan, local intelligence officials said. The drone fired a missile, destroying a house in a market in Miranshah town in North Wa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans is suing Apple for $26 million for what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Each person in the suit is seekin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRestoring the "royal" designation to Canada's air force and navy has been praised as a nod to Canada's military history, but some critics argue the move is regressive and unnecessary and will backfire on t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMillionaires and billionaires just aren't feeling the love in the U.S. these days. With constant talk about the perils of deficits and debt ceilings, the super well-off have become the targets of much rese...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 19-year-old woman is missing and presumed dead after falling over Niagara Falls, Aug. 14, 2011. (View entire photo gallery here)
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSyrian troops left the embattled eastern city of Deir Ezzor after "ridding the city of the armed terrorist groups," government-run media reported Wednesday. The claim came shortly after another report th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA few years ago I came across a newspaper article about illegal human trafficking into the EU. It was a number of personal anecdotes of people who had left their country of origin; mostly citing politica...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA new maternal blood test can determine a fetus' sex as early as seven weeks into a pregnancy. This achievement, reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is a potential boon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWe figured tourist lodgings in expensive cities couldn't get more "basic" than capsule hotels. We figured wrong. A Moscow company is now marketing "Sleepboxes" -- freestanding, mobile boxes with beds i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe United States is stepping in to help bail out another American industry - chicken farmers and meat processors. The nation's chicken industry is having a difficult year. Chicken producers are struggli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHTC sued Apple over mobile patents today. Again. Pretty soon Apple will likely sue them back. Again. Shrug. Throw it on the pile. And while the patent Cold War continues to heat up, weep for the real casua...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA few months ago, a friend in the entertainment industry told me of a new business model in Hollywood: hoarding videotapes. Apparently, the earthquake in Japan knocked offline a Sony factory that makes cer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEconomists have warned that food, transport and energy prices will soar in the next few months after record increases in the cost of clothes, shoes, alcohol and tobacco lifted inflation to 4.4pc in July. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoInheritance Tax (IHT) receipts have collapsed by 29pc since the credit crisis began and married couples have been allowed to automatically transfer nil rate bands between them. New research also suggests...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThis from the excellent Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s new chief. Her warning that fiscal tightening in a string of countries is now going beyond the therapeutic dose entirely reflects my own view. She writ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNews that Germany recorded only marginal, 0.1pc, GDP growth in the second quarter is not just an economic event; it is a political one too, for the German economic “miracle”, with output rebounding from it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 89.3 km ( 55.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:32:40 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA woman has died and a man has been injured after they were attacked by a swarm of wasps. The woman, who was in her 70s and named locally as Janette Duncan, suffered a heart attack following the incident...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe wayward Emperor penguin "Happy Feet" that washed up in New Zealand will be shipped back to sub-antarctic waters on Aug. 29 aboard a scientific research vessel.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoYou may have seen the scary headlines. You may have read those alarming emails. But do you believe it? Just in case, NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours ago"*Let's wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened? Did, did your balls drop off? Hm?*" - The Joker, *The Dark Knight* The terrorists have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA shark chewed off the arm of a Russian swimmer in an extremely rare attack in the waters off its Far Eastern coast, news agency Interfax reported Wednesday. "The 25 year old was admitted in critical cond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs many as 114 cattle died of an unknown disease in the Kankada, a remote VDC of Makawanpur district within a week. According to Sukbahadur Chepang, a local resident, a total of 11 buffaloes, 22 cows and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThis is the twisted paedophile who almost succeeded in abducting a 12-year-old girl from a trailer park. Sick Philip Garcia, 29, snatched the girl from the park in Alberquerque, New Mexico and bundled her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe mother of a disabled seven-year-old boy whose head was chopped off with a meat cleaver had previously warned police that his father - who has confessed to the killing - wanted him dead. Wheelchair-bou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSpanish police have arrested a chemistry student suspected of planning a gas attack against protesters opposing to a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. A demonstration against the pontiff's arrival is planned for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA new species of eel has been discovered which is so old that it retains its dinosaur-era characteristics and has been branded a 'living fossil'. The eel was found in a cave beneath the Pacific Ocean in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt’s a sight that will either amaze you – or send a slight shiver down your spine. Scientists have built a robot – called MABEL – that is able to run at a speedy 6.8mph, which is a world record for a two...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNorwegian gunman Anders Breivik called police in the middle of his bloody rampage to surrender after phoning police and telling them 'mission accomplished'. The 32-year-old - who eventually murdered 69 pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA man has died after being arrested by police who used a Taser on him. The man, named locally as Dale Burns, died after being taken to hospital following an incident in Barrow, Cumbria. He is believed to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA top police officer in the force investigating the deaths of three men who tried to defend shops during last week's riots has said looters should be shown compassion. Chris Sims, chief constable of West ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Last night's 2 biggest losers weren't on the ballot in Wisconsin or Maine* Last week Wisconsin Democrats climbed a very steep hill by defeating incumbent state Senators Randy Hopper and Dan Kapanke, two r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResidents in the Walkaih area along the Pearl River are being asked not eat fish they get from the river. Advisories against drinking tap water will not be issued. On Friday, some residents along the rive...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours agoContorted is the single word that best describes the spin that emanates daily out of Syria I mean we get twisted news reports. Distorted commentary from bought and paid for spooks and shills. Convoluted...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe finding in dogs identifies a possible link between weight gain and cooler body temperature.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe British tourist was taken to shore following the attack but died from blood loss.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMontana wildlife officials say dozens of white-tailed deer have been found dead or dying in northeastern Montana's Milk River Valley and surrounding areas since the beginning of August. Montana Fish, Wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Iowa Department of Natural Resources on Monday investigated reports of dead channel catfish in the Shell Rock River, but officials suggested little cause for alarm. The situation developed from the M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA number of geese have been found dead at two Chicago parks over the last two days, and poisoning is suspected. Eighteen have been found at McKinley Park on the Southwest Side. Six were found Tuesday near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSeveral guests and employees injured when lightning struck at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove water park on Wednesday have been released from medical care, a park official said. Orange County Fire Rescue sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoResidents voluntarily evacuated as a wildfire sent plumes of smoke shooting into the air and forced the closure of a highway in Nevada. The blaze near Gardnerville that began Tuesday afternoon* *burned at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA sightseeing boat capsized on a popular river in central Japan Wednesday, leaving one person dead and five others missing, officials said. Most of the 23 passengers and crew on board reached the banks of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoOfficials say at least 20 people are missing after an overcrowded boat they were traveling in capsized in a rain-swollen river in southern Nepal. Police official Bikash Shrestha says the exact number of m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoExcessive levels of radioactive cesium were found in sludge in a ditch at a district court branch in Fukushima Prefecture, about 100 kilometers west of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man has died after police shot him with a Taser during an arrest. *Cumbria Police* said officers were called to an address on Hartington Street in Barrow on Tuesday evening following reports of a man ca...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe $1.5 billion park will feature technologically advanced attractions, five-star accommodations, theatrical productions and nighttime spectacles.
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agoHappy Wednesday! My little bundle of joy arrived this weekend, so while we're adjusting to our new addition (and kissing her little cheeks all over all the time!), I though it would be fun to share some of...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe main challenge lies in making them quiet flyers.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: High tides by the Agriculture building in the Embarcadero in San Francisco splash onto the sidewalk. As climate changes progress, high tide events like this are predicted to become more common. D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA fresh flood warning has been sounded across Punjab province in the wake of possible massive deluge, as India spilled more than 70,000 cusecs of additional water into River Sutlej without prior informatio...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: An Turkana woman sits in north-western Kenya. The price rises of food have been particularly severe in Africa. Dai Kurokawa / EPA via The Guardian]By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspond...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours agoThe team at Suspicious Deaths has done an outstanding job on this one. You want twisted real life drama? You got it! Read all about it!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA second child died this month from a deadly parasite that grows in stagnant waters, health officials confirmed Tuesday. Bonnie Strickland, the aunt of 9-year-old Christian Alexander Strickland, told ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThis is the moment an enormous storm cloud unleashed more misery on the sodden New York City area as it began to recover from an incredible three days of solid rain. New Yorkers have been soaked by record...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDeluded: Yvonne Stern arrives at the police station with her husband Jeffrey as he hands himself over to officers investigating three murder attempts on her life. A Texas socialite has spoken in court ab...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA recent firmware update includes Gingerbread and Swype 3.0 implementation, plus power and download management improvements.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoAttach a simple strip of LED lights behind your monitor to improve image clarity and reduces eye strain.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoZebra finch moms favor their sons over daughters despite the baby bird's similar plumage.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*The road into New Town, North Dakota, on the land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations (Fort Berthold, July 31, 2011.) Photo by Brenda Norrell/Censored News* *Media Watch: Indian Country Today hits...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe young husband of a 91-year-old socialite who was found slain in her Washington home has been charged with her murder. Albrecht Gero Muth, who was 44 years her junior, was seized by police on Tuesday e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoImage: London Eley, 20, is accused of offering $1,000 to anyone who would be willing to kill her ex-boyfriend Corey White, Philadelphia police said. A man was shot dead just hours after two people appeare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCasey Anthony and her parents are finally set to break their silence over the murder acquittal that stunned America. The mother who was sensationally cleared of killing her daughter, Caylee, is said to ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA man killed his wife and children after introducing her to a lesbian partner that broke up their marriage, a court heard. According to prosecutors, James Kraig Kahler wanted to introduce another woman in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:07 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 304 km (188 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:49:05 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) SSE of Lata, Santa...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 15 hours ago(My Precious!) All of the written evidence which was made available to the Select Committee of The House Of Commons is now available on this link.From my buddy, Tony, at Wolves in the City we learn the rea...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoYesterday, Peter MacKay (remember him?) announced that the Canadian Navy and Air Force will be adding the "Royal" back to their name. The move is expected to be popular among nostalgic military veterans an...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoLast night voters in Wisconsin's Senate District 22 overwhelmingly rejected the Republican Party's attempt to replace Senator Bob Wirch with Jonathan Steitz, another hapless Scott Walker/Paul Ryan clone....
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 16 hours agoElectoral College map. Image from Wikimedia Commons. A level playing field? The Electoral College and the popular vote By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / August 17, 2011 For the last 60 years or more a maj...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoZebra finch males form strong, non-sexual bonds with other males, and some to the exclusion of females.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 17 hours agoThe lying scum of the British Establishment are claiming that murder squads from the (ashke)Nazi Avaricious Terrorist Offensive, (NATO), are within reach of winning their war of aggression against the fr...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours ago"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom; and, being one's own person is its ultimate reward." - Patricia Sampson "If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called van...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 18 hours agoOn a clear day in New York City, NY, a person standing atop the Empire State Building can enjoy a spectacular view up to 200 miles in any direction. The building was built between 1930 and 1931 and is 10...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA woman killed her husband because he forgot her 45th birthday. Lyalya Tupikova told police that her husband Khalpik failed to remember her special day before going to work in the morning. When he return...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Shell oil rig responsible for the biggest spill in British waters in a decade is still leaking. The oil giant admitted more than 1,300 barrels have so far gushed from a pipe leak connected to its platf...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 19 hours agoBoreal forest and lake. Photo courtesy: Olga Oslina via Flickr CC The Boreal forest is the world's largest land-based biome. Spreading over continents and covering many countries, the Boreal plays a sig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 44.6 km ( 27.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:02:07 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 36.3 km ( 22.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:55:38 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Region at a depth of 60.3 km ( 37.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:37:53 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) ENE of Raoul Isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA teenager who repeatedly stabbed a policeman after he stopped and searched him in the street was jailed indefinitely. Alister Gregson, 19, was told he would have to serve a minimum of six years before he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA 14-year-old boy is in custody after using a sword to stab his 77-year-old great-grandmother to death and injure his grandmother, police say. Family members suggested the suspect, who also allegedly wound...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA convicted hammer killer is facing another jail term today after carrying out a four-month robbing spree while on day release from a life sentence. Joseph Williams, 52, was allowed out of HMP Blantyre Ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA father who allegedly murdered six people, including his wife and two children, was facing financial ruin after investing his life savings in a doomed property deal. Damian Rzeszowski, 30, put tens of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoYesterday’s crisis meeting between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy was arranged before the participants knew of the disastrous growth figures in the Eurozone that emerged in the morning. The background ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThink we need a new one of these! Here you go... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGermany and France have launched a dramatic euro power grab, demanding the right to dictate economic policy to other countries in the single currency. France’s Nicolas Sarkozy announced – at a Paris summi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo Facebook users who tried to kickstart mob violence during last week’s riots were each jailed for four years yesterday. Perry Sutcliffe, 22, and Jordan Blackshaw, 20, were locked up even though their ‘...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.3 km ( 17.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:14:29 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago*Scientific American*, one of the most ideological and most persistent defenders of the dying climate alarm, has decided that John Cook's memes-vs-slogans format of presenting the climate orthodoxy is th...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoNorth of the border, the BBC is also very busy breaching its own guidelines; "A BBC Scotland radio presenter is facing claims he breached the corporation's guidelines on advertising after appearing in an ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoHere is an interesting analysis of a BBC News bulletin provided by a B-BBC reader; "The one o’clock news bulletin on BBC television today, the twelfth August 2011, was merely typical of all BBC news bulle...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoBBC eco-nut David Shukman here waxes lyrical about a new windfarm off the coast of Cumbria that in his eyes is clearly a wonder of the modern world. There's no mention, as usual, about the vast £160m cost ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago[image: Sarkozy and Merkel push] France and Germany unveiled far-reaching plans on Tuesday for nearer euro zone integration and said joint euro bonds may be a longer-term option, exit the currency area vu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 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 - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 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 - 23 hours agoA 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 - 23 hours agoA "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 - 23 hours agoFighting 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 - 23 hours agoHundreds 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 - 23 hours agoCNN 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 - 23 hours agoMany 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 - 23 hours agoTHE 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 - 23 hours agoTHE 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 - 23 hours agoThousands 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 - 23 hours agoLibya’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 - 23 hours agoTunisian 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 - 23 hours agoOsama 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 - 23 hours agoHow 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours agoThe 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 - 23 hours agoapan 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 - 23 hours agoMore 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 - 23 hours agoA 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoInside the most massive neutron stars, matter may take on a more-exotic-than-usual quantum characteristic.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 of the funneling $50M of our tax dollars through his own ridi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 th...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe Virtual Co-driver System reads drivers' emotions by the tone of their voice to help overcome car problems.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 ...
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