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*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 - 1 hour ago
Residents 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 - 1 hour ago
Contorted 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 - 1 hour agoThe finding in dogs identifies a possible link between weight gain and cooler body temperature.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe British tourist was taken to shore following the attack but died from blood loss.
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Montana 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 - 1 hour ago
The 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour 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...
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Residents 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 - 1 hour 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 ...
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Officials 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 - 1 hour ago
Excessive 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe $1.5 billion park will feature technologically advanced attractions, five-star accommodations, theatrical productions and nighttime spectacles.
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Happy 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 - 2 hours agoThe main challenge lies in making them quiet flyers.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 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...
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A 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours agoZebra finch moms favor their sons over daughters despite the baby bird's similar plumage.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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!) - 3 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 - 4 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours agoInside the most massive neutron stars, matter may take on a more-exotic-than-usual quantum characteristic.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours agoThis is a positive statement, however. :). Tonight, I started working out at a studio again (this does not mean the rest of my workouts will end, I just want something to build and tone muscle more than ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Western U.S. trout habitat loss projected to 2080s. Projected stream length of suitable habitat for trout under current conditions and climate change scenarios. Whiskers show 90% confidence inter...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 16, 2011* *1.* Ron Paul is a honest and humble man who keeps his word. Barack Obama is an egoistic liar, a traitor and a betrayer who will say anything to get el...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 15 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Iran urges West to avoid interfer...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 15 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Navy and Air Force to be Roy...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 15 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Franco-German call for 'true euro...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Tea Party Tim and Plutocrat Pete* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *by Ken* As happens so often when Tom Tomorrow is on the job, I really don't have much to add. I'm just pleased ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFitch confirmed on Tuesday its triple-A rating of the United States, 10 days after rival Standard & Poor's dealt the country its first-ever downgrade due to Washington's huge deficits and debt. "The affirm...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoI might have missed it, but I don’t think anyone has noticed this simple truism: The structural causes that led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 are identical to the structural causes that are lead...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWho will escape the new harsh economic realities place upon us by our leaders? If my insight is correct and if our illustrious superiors get their way, then the answer is no one will escape. In my introduc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWhat began as a financial crisis four years ago has now developed into a full-blown fiscal crisis in the rich nations. The wild gyrations in the global stock markets this month are enough indication that t...
- 10 Signs That Economic Riots And Civil Unrest Inside The United States Are Now More Likely Than Ever
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoYou should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy contin... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 5.7 percent, due to international sales growth and cost cutting. But the world's largest retailer still wasn't able to reverse a two-y...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIn Iowa's Ames Straw Poll this weekend, Michele Bachmann bested 2nd place Ron Paul by less than 200 votes. And yet, in the immediate spin cycle at least, pundits talked about Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Ba...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWith the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1 percent as of July 31 and a fragile economic recovery underway, many workers feel they are left with no choice but to take their careers into their own hands. Emplo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWatching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer's life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia. The AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population He...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNeighbor chases Kidnapper, saves girl: krqe.com The 6-year-old girl was taken by a stranger from a playground right outside her South Valley home. The girl lives at the Vista Del Sol mobile home park ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDetroit police are making some changes regarding burglar alarms in what appears to be an attempt to keep more officers on the streets. A memo, obtained by WWJ Newsradio 950, says the Detroit Police Depart...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSwitzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIRANIAN snipers are being used in Syria to put down the growing tide of demonstrations against president Bashar al-Assad, claims a member of the regime's secret police who has fled to Turkey. The 25-year-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThis guy is the poster boy for why cell phone usage in cars should be banned in more places. According to press out of the United Kingdom, a man who was driving at 70MPH while texting on one phone and ta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMoody’s Analytics said its near-term outlook for the U.S. economy has fallen significantly in the past month wake of the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling and the downgrade of the nation’s credit ratings b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBond was denied for a Chicago man arrested for the 99th time and charged with drug possession after he allegedly used his 3-year-old child as a ruse to beg for money in west suburban Riverside. At about ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA marble statue of Hercules from the second century CE has been uncovered in Israel in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at Horvat Tarbenet, within the framework of the Jezreel Val...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Woodridge man faces first-degree murder charges for allegedly striking his father in the head multiple times with a weed trimmer. Yashesh S. Desai, 21, of 3 Plover Court in Woodridge was charged Monday ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWhen graffiti artist Shepard Fairey turned his talents to US politics, his reward was international acclaim and a letter of thanks from Barack Obama. When he employed a similar tactic in Denmark, however, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWe don't envy public school teachers and administrators. They have trying jobs, and nobody seems to give them enough credit. Maybe it's no wonder that schools sometimes go a little crazy and traumatize stu...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe recently discovered eel living in a remote submarine cave has evolved out of step with the rest of the world.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours agoYet more numbers emerges from the Making-Shit-Up file, this time from a report on “fast broadband” written by BERL at the instruction of the Auckland and Bay of Plenty Councils. The report purports to...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoThe impressive gateway to the Old City, has regained its magnificent crown, which was destroyed in the Six Day War.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 19 hours agoSteve was evidently so pleased with ShamWow Tony Clement's ability to put one over on Auditor General Sheila Fraser by leaving no paper trail of the funneling $50M of our tax dollars through his own ridi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern primates has been discovered on a tiny lemur-like animal.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours agoTonight, FC Victoria Pilsen was the only team that won on a hostile stadium. Clinical Plzeň stun København (UEFA) The adjective "clinical" for the Pilsner play is kind of amusing; not sure whether it's th...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours ago*[image: _Kris_Sayce_headshot_thumb[2]]Guest post by Kris Sayce of Money Morning Australia* *“Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in the midd...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe Virtual Co-driver System reads drivers' emotions by the tone of their voice to help overcome car problems.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoPaddy Power, founded in 1988, is Ireland’s biggest bookmaker best known for publishing odds for horse racing, football betting, rugby, cricket, as well as for its online poker and casino operations. But ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours agoAs much of the country lies blanketed in several inches of global warming, the result of the coldest day ever recorded in these parts (with snow even on the hills of *Dargaville!*), it’s worth noting tha...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 20 hours agoHEALTH - When you live a balanced life style it can make huge differences in the quality of life and overall happiness. #1. Moderation and balance. Both metaphorically and physically. You need to balance ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 20 hours agoby Duane Craig Radium Contamination in NJ Sparks are flying in Hammonton, New Jersey, since the state department of environmental protection has fined the community $2,000 because it hasn't addressed ra...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 20 hours agoIt seems to me that if a skeptic writes something that is anti-UFO, it is accepted as fact immediately. If a proponent writes something that is pro-UFO, it is rejected immediately. There is no criticism of...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoChupacabras have been reported in three U.S. states so far. Here's why.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoTexas colonizer Stephen F. Austin (with his father, Moses Austin, inset on right). Painting from the Fort Bend Museum / Wikimedia Commons. The hidden history of TexasPart 2: The 1821-1826 years under Mexican...
- *Peculiar things are happening* regarding Gnome 3 and Ubuntu Unity (and Oneiric 11.10). Now and then I check on developments and believe to see significant changes. Nevertheless I stick to my viewpoint fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoReader Contribution; An Afghan official says a bomb has exploded in a vegetable market in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people. Uruzgan provincial council director Amanullah Otaq says the explosiv...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoTourists to Thailand died from chemical exposure thought to be linked to bed bug pesticides.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe body of the identified man is found by police who had been looking for a 19-year-old Japanese woman.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSpaceX's next mission is to the International Space Station. The Hawthorne, California-based private rocket maker said yesterday that its Dragon capsule will launch on November 30 on a cargo test run to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt seemed far-fetched on the silver screen. But the European Space Agency is planning to launch a mission similar to the plot of Hollywood movie Armageddon, in which Bruce Willis and his intrepid team at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt might look like a poorly drawn picture of an alien, but this is actually one of the most advanced types of skin ever made - that can even stop bullets. Researchers genetically engineered goats to produ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWhen immigration officer Julia High came back from a night out at the Royal Albert Hall she might have expected to enjoy a nightcap before retiring for the evening. Instead she discovered a family of Roma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt may look at first like this scooter rider is simply trying to negotiate his way through a busy High Street. But once it becomes clear the rider was weaving his way through a crowd of looters in Croydon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTulsa Police have identified the man involved in the department's longest standoff ever, who refuses to come down from the Clear Channel radio tower at 27th and Memorial. William Sturdivant II, 25, ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago"My car broke down once here, I had to wait three days to be rescued without food or water," says Tomas Jimenez as we speed along an endless, deserted dirt road. This is the Chaco in Paraguay, a vast low...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIndia has denied it is stifling democratic protest after police arrested 1,300 people to halt a hunger strike by an anti-corruption activist. Prominent campaigner Anna Hazare was arrested hours before his...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoChina is sending a team of medical experts to try to save the crushed leg of a two-year-old girl pulled from the wreckage of a high-speed rail crash. A railways ministry spokesman has been sacked after fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAverage home prices in July were lower than they were in June, but sales numbers and average prices are still up sharply compared to the same month a year ago, new data showed Tuesday. The Canadian Real ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe United States and South Korea on Tuesday began joint war games that North Korea has warned would choke off budding diplomacy and drive the Korean peninsula to war. After months of hostility and threa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoGerman economic growth slowed to a near standstill in the second quarter of this year, dealing a further, unexpected blow to the crisis-hit eurozone. The surprisingly-sharp deceleration in activity in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe leaders of Europe's two most important economies meet Tuesday to try to help the battered euro, even as new figures show economic growth on the continent is stalling. German Chancellor Angela Merk...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 7-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and other disabilities including not being able to speak was decapitated, and his biological father has confessed to the killing, police in Thibodaux, Louisiana, said M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn the summer of 2001, Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, the eldest son of a large family, left Kuwait to travel to Afghanistan. His stated purpose was to do charitable work, assisting with the reconstructi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLeo Durocher was right: Nice guys finish last. Or at least they earn less, according to a new study. "'Niceness' -- in the form of agreeableness -- does not appear to pay," the authors conclude starkly....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn New Delhi's upscale diplomatic district, Ram Dhan lives in a parallel world. For years, his home has been a rickety shanty that he shares with his ailing wife, a young son, a daughter-in-law and two g...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe strategic partnership between the United States and Pakistan appears once again to be careening toward the brink of self-destruction. Reports that Pakistan may have given Chinese engineers direct acces...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWhen I saw that Scientific American was carrying a web story by a regular SciAm blogger determined to bust some of the “myths” surrounding organic farming, I was excited. I hoped the article would be somet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSinking manufacturing confidence is driving a sharp slowdown in the labour market recovery and exacerbating the North-South divide over jobs, according to a new study which reveals more employers are set t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe leaders of Germany and France have three bad choices as they decide whether to save EMU this week, or pretend to do so. They can agree to fiscal fusion and an EMU debt union, entailing treaty changes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe number of pensioners relying on financial assistance from family members has more than doubled to a quarter of a million since last year because of rising inflation. Millions of pensioners are seeing...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoParents are responsible for a quarter of the online abuse of teachers with one headmistress left feeling suicidal after she became the target of a parent's internet hate campaign, a study has found. Teac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHigh blood pressure could be caused by a common virus, according to a study carried out by a team of Chinese doctors which has possible implications for millions of people around the world. The human cyt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAccording to research, taking a holiday – particularly a sunny one – can lower your IQ. If your neurosurgeon announces that he has just returned from two weeks in Cancún, you may want to postpone that cr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPeak petroleum-the point at which the maximum rate of global oil extraction is reached, after which the rate of production begins to decline-is a hot topic in scientific and energy circles. When will it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMany adults hoping to receive an inheritance from their parents could be in for a shock as rising numbers of baby boomers are making ends meet by "spending the kids' inheritance". Two thirds of adults ag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA government cut in police funding will see 16,000 frontline officers axed with neighbourhood teams worst affected, according to a study. The report by Cardiff's Universities Police Science Institute stat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNew research suggests one in four young people is 'bored' with 'superficial' social media, but more than a third are more enthusiastic than ever. A key group of young users of Facebook, Twitter and YouTub...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours ago(Dedicated to constant reader Dee in New Jersey, because she asked.) When I was younger, politics bored me. By early middle age, politics fascinated me. Now, politics scare me. And nothing scares me p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.1 km ( 24.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:57:02 UTC Tuesday 16th August 2011. The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFrance and Germany have proposed "collective economic goverment" for the eurozone after European investors sought reassurance from the two countries' leaders. Details of French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWhat secrets does a quasar from the dawn of the Universe hold?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 day ago*Marxists are behind the Genocide of Europeans* by *an anonymous contributor* (for News From Atlantis) Right across the Western world the unemployment rate is high due to outsourcing labour to ch...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 opini...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago[image: Temporary tide barrier at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station 1, 30 June 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 16 August 2011 China sent a survey ship and took seawater samples off th...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe people of Australia had been annoyed by the pissing contests between Melbourne and Sydney - both of which had the potential to become the capital of the continent - so they built Canberra as a compromi...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*For Timster and me cuzzie muzique!* *TRUTH IS NOT DEMOCRATIC | FACTS ARE NOT POLICY*
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 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 Please forward this site to several ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoAfter scouring through ancient trash heaps, bioarcheologists have reconstructed the intense agricultural history of the Peruvian Ica Valley.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoAt least four airstrikes hit Gaza early Tuesday, leaving two people critically wounded and a third on life support, Palestinian medical and security sources said. All three injuries occurred in a strike ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoU.S. and South Korean troops began a 10-day military exercise around Seoul on Tuesday, maneuvers the U.S. commander called "defense-oriented" during a period of heightened tensions with the communist North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations. No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war." - Sun Tzu *UPDATE*: Let's compare and contrast the common sense and sound reason of L...
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