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Residents of a town in southern Yemen say it has been seized by Islamists connected to al Qaeda. People in the town of Shaqra contacted by phone said al Qaeda fighters drove out local tribesmen defending... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Europe and America are on the brink of recession. Or at least they are according to Morgan Stanley. In a rather ominously-titled research note - 'Dangerously Close To Recession - the investment bank cut ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Going through A level clearing? Here are the universities with the best prospects of getting a job at the end of your degree - and the worst. Statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
The price of gold hit a record high above $1,816 an ounce Thursday, as demand for the safe haven investment rose on resurgent worries about a possible new recession for the global economy, analysts said. ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
When markets oscillate wildly, investors don't know whether to get out or hunt for bargains. nvestors' nerves were tested again last week. Stock markets around the globe plunged dramatically, then swung ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
One of the annoying things about writing for the print editions of newspapers is that there is never enough space for graphics. The online edition suffers no such constraints, so I’ll air here instead a co... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
British retail sales barely grew in July as cash-strapped shoppers cut spending, a further sign of the headwind facing the country's fragile recovery. The Office for National Statistics said sales volume... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
Parts of Missouri affected by serious flooding in recent months are having to contend with a bizarre new natural hazard, swarms of bugs that appear in the shape of tornado funnels. The large bug vortexes... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km, the quake hit at 02:49:39 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 64 km East of Kashi, China No Reports of Da... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 106.3 km ( 66.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:50 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) Northeast of K... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
*"It's so rare to see [Count Dracula] around this early. In fact I can't ever remember seeing him around in the daytime."* *-- the Mayor, in tonight's conclusion of "Count Dracula"* *by Ken* Vampires ... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 54 minutes ago*Saman Mohammadi The Excavator August 18, 2011* "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As th...
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*The media-reform advocacy group Free Press has written a letter urging congressmembers who signed a letter to the FCC urging approval of AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile to reconsider based on the known facts.... - posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 hours ago
Later this month I'll be heading to Washington (as Mothra!) to protest the Tar Sands Oil pipeline with all the other dignified participants, including this lone, brave climate scientist (may he inspire man... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Maybe I should stop buying the Globe. * "Paper sales receipts slowly fading away" August 08, 2011|By Stephanie Clifford, New York Times NEW YORK - To the* rubbish pile* that the* Internet is creating*, a...
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Increasing solar activity and the threat that coronal mass ejections (CME) pose to Earth has prompted NASA to convene a news briefing at its Headquarter building in Washington on Thursday afternoon. Thur... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIt sounds like something from a bad sci-fi movie. People report the sensation of creatures crawling under their skin, mysterious moving fibers appear, and finally bugs and worms pop out. Unfortunately, the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSome soldiers serving in the Middle East who develop difficulty breathing — but whose chest X-rays show nothing out of the ordinary — have constrictive bronchiolitis, a kind of lung damage virtually unknow...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOn many outlet sources and social media outlets on the internet some general agreement is surfacing that the Atlantic Tropical Season is about to unleash its rage. Although seven storms have formed already...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday he will nationalize the gold industry, including extraction and processing, and use its output to boost the country's international reserves. The move f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA U.N. fact-finding mission announced Thursday that it has found Syria guilty of human rights violations in its months-long crackdown on protesters and that it may be time for the International Criminal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPope Benedict XVI headed to Madrid on Thursday for a million-strong Catholic youth festival after Spanish riot police swung batons in clashes with anti-Church protesters over the cost of the visit. Bened...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn American family of fortune tellers has been charged with cheating $40 million (NZ $48 million) out of customers looking to cure illnesses, end spells of bad luck or mend broken relationships. For almo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Florida babysitter was arrested yesterday for felony child neglect after she loaded a stroller containing an eight-month-old boy into the back of a Dodge Ram pickup truck which then drove around on two o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhat began as a goodwill trip to China for the Georgetown men’s basketball team turned violent Thursday night, when its exhibition game against the Bayi Rockets deteriorated into a melee during which playe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoReporting from Beijing— Vice President Joe Biden's famously loquacious style has now become the source of some international tension. At the senior levels, the American and Chinese delegations actually s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMore families than ever are struggling to get by. Shelter workers in Maine’s largest city are scrambling to accommodate record numbers of homeless people this summer. Today, shelter workers gathered a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoKarla Washington worries how she will afford new school uniforms for her five-year-old daughter. Washington, an undergraduate student, earns less than $11,000 a year from a part-time university job. Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAuthorities shut down a Massachusetts barbershop after finding evidence of animal sacrifices, and the owner is claiming his religious freedoms have been violated. New Bedford barber William Camacho told ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAmericans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the United States has fallen back to 11%, the lowest level since December 2008 and just four percentage points above the all-time low recorded in Oc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCases of Legionnaire's disease have tripled in the last decade, U.S. health officials said Thursday, but the risk of dying from it is lower because of more effective treatment. Legionnaire's most often s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA new video has surfaced showing a group of teen girls attacking a worker outside City Hall in Philadelphia, myfoxphilly.com reports. The video, shot in May, shows a woman being attacked in broad dayli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFirefighters are used to dealing with threats from smoke and flames, dangerous footing or beams falling from above. But Waterbury firefighters checking an abandoned building recently encountered a smaller ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Air Force said Wednesday it is discharging a hero of the so-called birther movement who refused to report to duty in Germany for a few days earlier this month because he doubts President Barack Obama's...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSeven people were killed and at least 26 people were wounded Thursday in a series of terrorist attacks on Israeli targets approximately 20 kilometers north of the southern city of Eilat, close to the borde...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMorgan Stanley slashed its global growth forecast for 2011 and 2012, saying the U.S. and the euro zone were "dangerously close to a recession", and criticized policymakers in Washington and Europe for not ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMore Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, signaling the labor market is struggling two years into the economic recovery. Jobless claims climbed by 9,000 to 408,...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 4 hours agoThe real flag of israhell First came the Temple Priests, then the Goldsmiths and the commercial bankers of today. The first use of the fractional reserve system was in the Temple of Shamash under Hammura...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoHere's one for you: Proud to be American With a sister who wears the hijab and a cowboymad Muslim father who dresses like John Wayne, Seema Jilani enjoys a diverse family life. The Texas-based paediatr...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 6 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 *Syria Under Fire: Zionist Destabiliza...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*A.k.a. the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.* Pelosi names final members to debt supercommittee Pelosi’s selections complete key debt panel (By Robert Pear and Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Ti...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours ago*[image: _richardmcgrath]Guest post by Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath* *The 2011 Libertarianz conference and AGM was held last Saturday, at Mac’s Brewbar in Wellington. This is the speech he del...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe dangerous amoeba has killed three people this summer. Here's what you should know about it.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoAs we push deeper into space, will we be seen as a threat? If so, would an advanced alien race consider a preemptive strike?
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Romney stands firm amid Perry whirl" August 17, 2011|By Glen Johnson and Matt Viser, Globe Staff PLYMOUTH, N.H.- Texas Governor Rick Perry *caused a furor* Monday when he strongly *criticized Federal Res...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoPhoto Ben Powless, Mohawk *Native Americans, climate scientists and Hollywood actors prepare for civil disobedience in DC to halt dirty tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline* Censored News http://www.bsnorr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: International Atomic Energy Agency fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman inspects the damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in May, 11 weeks into the disaster. AP] By David McN...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoWhile Matt Taibbi, on this side of the Atlantic, asks the question we all know the answer to-- Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes?-- and an increasingly uncomfortable English public on the other s...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: A barren and dry Lake E.V. Spence is at 0.7% capacity and was once a busy recreational getaway, but now provides a small trickle of drinking water to nearby town Robert Lee, 13 August 2011. Micha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*And look who is also picking up the tab for the vacation:* "An Obama staycation this year would better suit his critics President Obama is set to begin a *10-day retreat* tomorrow at a 28-acre Martha’s V...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoAccording to a new report from an industry trade journal, 1 billion vehicles are now on the road.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*Republic of Lakotah:* http://www.lakotafreedom.com/ Native Sun: Russell Means has terminal cancer: http://64.38.12.138/News/2011/002686.asp Rapid City Journal: Russell Means fighting esophageal cancer ht...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoOh no, I turn my back and what happens?* "Israel pounds Gaza after attacks". *Those pesky Jews once again up to their old tricks. Happily the BBC is there to record that.... The Israeli military has carri...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoToday is "A" level results day and the BBC was able to provide their usual unique coverage of this annual debasement of standards,tribute to the excellent unionised teaching profession. So many happy kids,...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoIt's interesting to compare how the BBC and Sky cover the same story. Take the visit by *Prince Harry to Salford* today, for example. As I was driving home from work this evening, I had the great misfortun...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoAstronomer Mark Thompson argues that we need only apply some common sense to know UFOs probably don't originate from space.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoMany of the world's creatures are migrating north up to three times faster than previously believed.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoAnna Politkovskaya was a brave, honourable and talented Russian journalist who exposed the truth behind Russia's war on Chechnya. She was assassinated on October 7, 2006, at the age of 48, by the Putin reg...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 hours agoTalk about a nation of comedians (caught unawares undoubtedly), but real jokers nevertheless. FBI Brags About Chasing Down Mortgage Fraudsters But Big Banks Are Left Untouched By Ben Hallman and Michael Hu...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoAs easy as most programs make it to turn photos black and white and sepia, I still make my special effects from scratch. Why? I think the images are clearer and you have more control over the final outcome...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least four people have been killed after a storm hits an open air music festival, according to reports in Belgium. High winds and heavy rain struck the Pukkelpop festival near the town of Hasselt in ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 9 hours agoThe international group of hackers known as “Anonymous” continued to target the Bay Area Rapid Transit District Wednesday, hacking the agency’s Police Officers Association website and leaking the names, a...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon increased by 15 percent during the past 12 months.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 15.7 km ( 9.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:18 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 381 km (236 miles) ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe US bank Morgan Stanley has worsened the forecast for the world GDP growth: in 2011 it will go down from 4.2% to 3.9% and in the future from 4.5% to 3.8%. The bank states that the USA and Europe are clo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe world economy is in crisis because of too much debt. But underlying the debt is the problem of imbalance. The distinction between financial strength and weakness has become stark between different cont...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHackers have launched another attack on a transport agency that cut off mobile phone services at San Francisco stations last week to prevent protests. Hacking group Anonymous announced on Twitter that th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn oil refinery outside the Libyan town of Zawiya, just 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, has been taken by opposition forces, according to reports. A Reuters news agency reporter said rebels were in the c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a study from Senegal says. In recent years the nets have become a leading method of preventing malaria, especially in Afric...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe UK will "not tolerate" corruption hindering efforts to tackle the famine in Somalia, a senior minister has said. Andrew Mitchell said he had raised the issue with the Somali prime minister on a visit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJuan Rivera couldn't believe his luck when he was taken to Russia with the promise of a guaranteed job and a monthly pay of $2,500 (£1,550). The 35-year-old Bolivian was among hundreds who replied to an a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIBM has developed a microprocessor which it claims comes closer than ever to replicating the human brain. The system is capable of "rewiring" its connections as it encounters new information, similar to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers. The study found a steady rise in those claiming no religious affiliation. The team's mathe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoForty years ago a group of students hoping to make a bit of holiday money turned up at a basement in Stanford University, California, for what was to become one of the most notorious experiments in the stu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn a case that has drawn international attention, jurors on Wednesday watched video showing an Alaskan mother squirting hot sauce in the mouth of her adopted son. Her attorney said it was punishment f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurmoil returned to the stock markets on Thursday, as renewed concerns about the U.S. and global economies sent major indexes plunging and pushed gold to a new record high. Investors rushed to move their...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoU.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday issued his first direct call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. Obama said Assad must go "for the sake of the Syrian people." P.O.V.: Should Syria...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA string of vandalism attacks have hit the German capital, with vandals burning dozens of cars so far this week, including an additional nine overnight, authorities said Thursday. For the past three nigh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA truck bomb ripped through the main security gate of a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least two local guards and injuring nine others, the International Security Assista...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith people in the streets of India in support of graft-buster Anna Hazare, where does India rank among the world’s major economies in terms of corruption? Moreover, is there a correlation between str...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoImages of Ethiopia's leafy, green vegetation may not match everyone's idea of what a drought should look like but this is the other face of the catastrophe affecting millions in the region. Long-anticipa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThey call it battling ghosts: The incredibly tricky task of using satellites to track the invisible airborne pollutants that determine the air quality and health of our major cities. But as concerns m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHe wears only khadi, a simple garb of homespun cotton, and lives in a small room off a temple in a remote, drought-prone western Indian village. A veteran of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, he retired from th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPublic health officials say nearly 500 people have died of cholera in Cameroon this month, and 13,000 cases have been reported in the country this year. More than 50 of this month's deaths were in the Fa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least eight soldiers died after an apparent ambush took place on a highway in a restive part of south-eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolian Agency reported Wednesday. Anatolian reported the troo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt's eerie but it's true: Three people have died this summer after suffering rare infections from a waterborne amoeba that destroys the brain. This is the time of year when there is an uptick in cases....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoTwo weeks ago, my coffee maker broke. It was a electric percolator (I wrote about my preference for it here), made by Cuisinart. It's the third such percolator I've had in a six-year span. One day they jus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*A shark mauled a 16-year-old boy a day after a young man lost his forearms in a similar attack that stunned Russia. * Scientists thought a white shark measuring some four metres might be responsible for...
- posted by Raed Jarrar at Raed in the Middle - 10 hours agoMy most recent IPA press release "The coordinated wave of attacks that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqis this week were not religious, sectarian, or ethnic in nature. And unlike what many U.S. pundit...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoGraeme MacQueen, a retired professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, is one of the organizers of the Toronto Hearings, which will take place from September 8 - 11, 2011, at Ryerson University ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 124.2 km ( 77.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:39:42 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) Northeast o...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThe BBC College of Journalism - the fulcrum of BBC indoctrination of its reporters - has recently undergone a re-vamp of its website. At the heart of this vastly expensive concatination is a section which ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI bet Obama wishes he could campaign on the health care reform bill, ACA. But does anyone feel great about it? Even the most determined Obamabots can barely muster a less than rousing, "it's better than ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: A Pacific oyster releases its cloudy sperm at Oregon's Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery. In some coastal waters acidification is already severe; here it has cut production in half by stunting oys...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe Irrawaddy dolphin, considered sacred to many people in Cambodia and Laos, is at high risk of dying out altogether.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Israeli military has confirmed carrying out air strikes over the Gaza Strip following a deadly series of attacks in southern Israel. At least six people were killed in the air strikes, Palestinian sou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands region, Off the Coast of Canada at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:32:40 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter w...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoOne aim of the 'CIA-MOSSAD-NATO toppling of Mubarak' may be to allow Israel to retake the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. Of course, Israel might need a false flag terror attack to justify such an invasion...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours agoFor any of you who are following the Tala saga in detail, I now have a clearer picture of the diagnosis. (I certainly don't expect the majority of wmtc readers to follow this closely, but since some frie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoReader Contribution; BP PLC said Thursday it was investigating the potential source of a "sheen" observed in the Gulf of Mexico by the U.S. Coast Guard last week, but added there was no immediate indic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Georgia (Sak'asrt'Velo) at a depth of just 2 km, the quake hit at 13:55:11 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) NNE of K'ut'aisi, Georgia ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands region, Off the Coast of Canada at a depth of 13 km ( 8.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:35:47 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter w...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoScientists found that if they changed a particle's shape, they could change the way it dries.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours agoThe Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, 1964. Image from the New SDS Website. From 60's Berkeley to the London 'riots': A word from our sponsorsWhoever controls the media contro...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoMarchers in 1970 want ROTC removed from the campus of Ohio University. Image from Cape Girardeau History and Photos. ROTC resurgent Part I: ROTC and the anti-war movement They held regular drills on an open ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoOur moon may be 60 million years younger than we thought.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA group of foot-bots, hand-bots and eye-bots work collectively to snatch books from shelves and win a video competition.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA mid-summer monsoon caused flash flooding across the South today as a fortnight's worth of rain fell in just 30 minutes leaving homes, shops and roads underwater. The force of the rainwater caused huge ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAs any school child will know, the Black Death that killed half of Europe's population in the early Middle Ages was caused by plague-spreading rats. But now an eminent archaeologist, has cast doubt on this...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours agoDear Danny Boy: Man, you sure know how to pick 'em. Like, wow. How much positive publicity will your new client, masturbation Nazi Christine O'Donnell's ghost-written book, *Troublemaker*, get after sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe FTSE 100 plunged more than five per cent today as world markets tumbled against a backdrop of fears over the eurozone debt crisis. The index slumped badly during the morning but by mid-afternoon had f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA former NBA referee shot and killed himself on the same day his wife was found strangled at their Houston area home, according to police. Police found Troy Raymond in a suburban New Orleans hotel room wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA pregnant woman who was mauled to death by one of her pet pit bull terriers belonged to group campaigning to convince people that the animals aren't dangerous, it has emerged. Darla Napora, 32, was bitt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSevere flash flooding has hit Dorset, with the fire service having to rescue people from cars floating down streets. The worst of the flooding was in Bournemouth, which was hit by a sudden downpour of to...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe imaging technique has been compared to determining a rock's shape in the ocean.
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours agoI overheard a line of dialogue on television a few nights ago. It went something like "we've reached the age when life starts taking things away from us, instead of giving us things." My apologies to...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoAngela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are going through another wave of their radical inventions and assorted ideas in order to show how creative and ingenious they are. To stabilize the fiscal discipline of...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*By Noah* I make it a point to answer back when it comes to the pleas for money from people who have repeatedly demonstrated that they care a whole more about my money than they care about either me or...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoTaking a break from Syria to focus on the planning for war on China.Seriously. It appears that Pentagon plans are full steam ahead! Despite the fact, as the articles I will quote from make clear the US ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA former federal lawmaker is among at least 33 people killed in a fresh spate of violence over the past 24 hours in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police officials said Thursday. Several gunmen opened fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTurkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq's rugged mountains Wednesday night, hours after an ambush on a southeastern Turkey highway killed eight soldiers and a government-e...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThis is the first new treatment for melanoma in 13 years.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Georgia (Sak'asrt'Velo) at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:57:43 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) NNE of K'ut'aisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA third person has died after being infected by brain-eating amoeba. Health officials in Louisiana are linking the June death of an unidentified man in his early 20s to the infection that has killed a boy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA giant South American rodent weighing at least 100 pounds is captured on camera at a waste-water treatment facility in California recently before disappearing in the brush. The animal, identified as a ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn award-winning Hollywood-based News of the World reporter was today being questioned by police about phone hacking allegations. James Desborough, who was the paper's U.S. editor, and based in Los Angeles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Japan nuclear disaster is the worst catastrophe in the history of mankind, but little is discussed about documented radioactive impacts to U.S. air, water, and food. A U.S. nuclear engineer calculated ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago*Former MP John Corrie, who says the West is making a big mistake in Libya.* UK journalist *Stuart Gillespie* has a scoop on Libya, but you won't find it on the internet or in any of the big news outlets....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.5 km ( 20.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:30 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 159 km (99 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIndonesia's Mount Lokon, which is located on the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, erupted again on Wednesday, local authorities said. Farid Ruskanda Bina, the Mount Lokon and Mahawu Kakaskaben moni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIsrael Radio reports explosion in southern city of Beer Sheba, about 150 miles from bus attack. Update: Israel's military spokesman has said that several people were killed in an attack on a bus in the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Obi, Indonesia at a depth of 51.4 km ( 31. 9 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:33 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) North of ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*This is the same guy who has agreed to slash social spending, huh?* *"A three-day bus tour of the Midwest that provided him campaign-style opportunities.... The president is traveling in a new $1.1 millio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Northwest of Kuril Islands at a depth of 354 km, the quake hit at 09:10:52 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 133 km South of Vostok, Kuril Islands No T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHealth officials say a radioactive form of hydrogen that leaked from a Vermont nuclear plant into soil and groundwater has reached the nearby Connecticut River. State Department of Health Commissioner Dr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA shark mauled a teenager in Russia's Far East in the second shark attack near the Russian coast of the Sea of Japan in 24 hours, a local emergencies ministry spokesman said on Thursday. He said the shar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Under the helmet first*: "The hidden problems began when he returned home.... --more--" * * *Also see*: Clergy play key role in veterans’ mental health "Mass. services for HIV face cuts; Agencies fear r...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"1 dead, others hurt in Malawi protests" July 21, 2011|Associated Press BLANTYRE, Malawi - One person died and several others were injured as *antigovernment demonstrations * turned violent yesterday and *p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn less than a week Shimla’s IGMC hospital has confirmed at least 25 cases of scrub typhus,of these nine were found positive on Wednesday alone. These patients have reported sick from rural areas of Shiml...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Several areas of south Trinidad, including Tarouba and Debe, were inundated by flood waters following heavy mid-day torrential rains yesterday.* The heavy rains caused a nearby stream to overflow it’s ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAs of yesterday's official count, 29 people had drowned and 200,000 had been affected by lingering floods in 12 provinces. One person was missing in Mae Hong Son province, while Phrae has suffered the he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPublic health officials say nearly 500 people have died of cholera in Cameroon this month, and 13,000 cases have been reported in the country this year. More than 50 of this month's deaths were in the Fa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"Morocco moves up its election date" August 17, 2011|Associated Press RABAT, Morocco - The North African kingdom has seen *frequent protests over the past months*, with demonstrators calling for a new parl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMore than 35 firefighters from Larimer County Emergency Services and the Canyon Lakes Ranger District are battling a fire burning west of Fort Collins in Poudre Canyon. Reghan Cloud, a public information...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThey came to Kentucky to compete in a clogging competition. However, hundreds of people went back home with a mysterious illness. They came to Kentucky to compete in a clogging competition. However, h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe baffling mystery of a vast arrow-shaped cloud on Titan looks to have been solved after scientists attributed the phenomenon to giant atmospheric weather waves. The 'arrow' is bigger than the U.S state...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoThis, of course, was inevitable. The BBC were never be happy about thugs being actually sentenced for their crimes looting and rampaging through our streets, but they are so subtle and so the new agenda it...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoA B-BBC reader notes... "Can't give you the precise date I am afraid, but listening to Radio 3 (a saving grace generally of the BBC) one morning shortly after the rioting, a new bulletin at 8.00am or 8.30...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA team of scientists have described how they came face to face with... The Blob. It may sound like the title of a B-movie, but astronomers have captured rare images of a space object called a Lyman-alpha ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe moon could be younger than previously thought, according to scientists. The prevailing theory of the moon's origin is that it was created by a giant impact between a large planet-like object and Earth....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe body of missing three-year-old Breeann Rodriguez has been discovered dumped in a drainage ditch. The little girl was believed to have been snatched by a neighbour while she was riding her bicycle outs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice have thwarted what they called a 'catastrophic' plot by an expelled student to set off a bomb at his former high school. Jared Cano, 17, had threatened to plant a device at Freedom High School in n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA U.S. tourist detained in Aruba after the suspected death of his travel companion took out a $1.5 million accidental death policy on the Maryland woman days before they travelled to the island, it has bee...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoThe head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced plans to team-up with the Russian space agency in an effort to get mankind to Mars.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA British kickboxing champion has died after collapsing during a fight in Australia. Mark Fowler who was nicknamed Sharky, was defending his World Boxing Council (WBC) Muay Thai Lightweight title in Sydne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 14-year-old boy found stabbed to death in a park in Enfield, north London, has been named as Leroy James. The youth was discovered at Ponders End recreation ground at 5.30pm on Wednesday. "He was fou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe mother of a former Olympic ambassador who turned in her daughter after she claimed she saw her on television during the London riots left court in tears today after seeing her sent down to the cells. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA policewoman's sister has been charged with looting during last week's riots. Laura Foley, 21, is accused of stealing a flat-screen television from Argos. Her sister Lisa, 28, is an officer with the Metr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBillions of extra-terrestrial rays and particles could shower the Earth threatening the safety of planes and passengers, an expert has warned. Dramatic changes in solar activity could raise the risk of can...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThe Lepton-Photon 2011 conference begins on Monday, Aug 22nd, and ends on Saturday, Aug 27th in Bombay. The ATLAS blog suggests that their collaboration will present experimnetal results based on 2 inve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFrance and Germany yesterday demanded a £13billion a year tax raid on Britain to bail out the euro. But a leading think-tank branded the plans ‘economic suicide’ for the UK. German Chancellor Angela Merke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSuspected terrorists are complaining about a fence around the exercise yard in their high-security prison which restricts their view of the horizon. The alleged extremists are locked up while the Governmen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 9.7 km ( 6 miles), the quake hit at 06:32:23 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 195 km (121 miles) Southeast of Aca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 20.5 km ( 12.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:54:25 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) Southeast of Guatemala, Guat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast Ecuador at a depth of 35.5 km ( 22.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:23:44 UTC Thursday 18th August 2011. The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) North of Macha...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoWUWT brings us some good news and the final version of the Lindzen-Choi 2011 article published in the *Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences*: On the Observational Determination of Climate Sensitivi...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoOn Friday, BBC astronomer Mark Thompson will use a multi-million dollar telescope to zoom in on an object chosen by Discovery News readers.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 22 hours agoSooey Says : "The good widow taking our government to task for exporting asbestos to the third world – without warning labels on the bags of death dust – should just tell the bastards threatening to sue...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago[image: satisfy markets] Global stocks fell Wednesday in a downbeat assessment of a Franco-Germansummit that failed to persuade investors that a convincing attach to the eurozone's spiraling debt crisis wa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmericans 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 - 1 day agoHuge 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistani 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSomali 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 - 1 day agoIn 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChinese 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 - 1 day agoReaders 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoAmerican 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 - 1 day agoBritain'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 - 1 day agoOfficials 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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