- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 minutes 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...
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*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 - 41 minutes ago
My 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 - 49 minutes 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 ...
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A 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 - 1 hour 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! - 1 hour ago
I 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
The 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 - 1 hour ago
A 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 - 1 hour ago
One 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 - 1 hour ago
For 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours ago
A 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 - 2 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...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 ...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOur moon may be 60 million years younger than we thought.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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! - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 16 hours agoWatching Piers Morgan and Christine O'Donnell duking it out and trying to establish moral and intellectual supremacy is like watching a more boring Freddy vs Jason matchup. On the left, you have a Simon ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 17 hours agoTwitpic - Share photos and videos on Twitter
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- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours agoRudy arrested/Photo by Ethan Sing Press Release *Coconino County Sheriff: "I'm arresting you for talking"* By Rudy Preston Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com San Francisco Peaks, Snowbowel Roa...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*With all that taxpayer moolah we're shoving directly and indirectly into Taliban piggybanks, can't we at least try to persuade them to "Buy American"? Or is this what's meant by "globalism"?* *by Ken* ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 17 hours agoArt from Macho Response. Sold down the river: America and the big lie By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / August 17, 2011"Tell big lies. Do not qualify or concede a point, no matter how wrong you may...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Irrawaddy dolphin population in the Mekong River is at high risk of extinction, with numbers estimated at 85 and the survival of new calves very low, WWF said on Wednesday. Fishing gear,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoQ&A with NRDC senior scientist Lisa Suatoni How closely is ocean acidification related to global climate change? Ocean acidification and global climate change are two -- independent -- impacts of rising...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEffects on different species would vary, and even researchers hope the situation won’t be as bad as the data suggest. When Seth Wenger and Dan Isaak release a scientific paper that predicts hard times for...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn all the latest bad news about bacteria becoming highly resistant — through carbapenem resistance, or the “Indian supergene” NDM-1 — there has been one hopeful thread: All of the organisms have remained ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe U.S. automobile industry has come a long way since the 1970s. Today’s vehicles are safer, more fuel-efficient and more comfortable. Yet public policy toward cars is marred by standards set in 1978 that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAbout half the recent record loss of Arctic sea ice can be blamed on global warming caused by human activity, according to a new study by scientists from the nation's leading climate research center. he ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRoyal Dutch Shell Plc was silent yesterday on the status of an oil leak of unspecified size in the North Sea and authorities said they had no information on whether the leak had been stemmed, provoking ang...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe NYPD is hunting for a vicious trio who have been robbing folks along Creston Avenue in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx. The brutes are described as African Americans, aged 16-20. They may ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSome people in Lakewood are worried after a series of mysterious cat disappearances. About a dozen cats have vanished over the past few months near the Denver Federal Center and neighbors are worried ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA key measure of wholesale inflation rose in July by the most in six months. The measure, called core wholesale inflation, excludes volatile food and energy prices. It surged 0.4 percent last month. Bu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo suspects have been arrested in connection with Monday's home invasion and robbery on Altoona Drive. With assistance from the Virginia State Police, Christopher Kyle Deviers, 25, and Chad Wallace Lump...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPolice in Delaware are searching for seven suspects who robbed and attacked a food deliveryman, leaving him unconscious. The attack happened at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of W. 26th Street...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Georgia teen killed his great-grandmother and wounded his grandmother with a sword before cops took him down with a stun gun, officials said. Cops in Douglasville arrived at the home Monday afternoon to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLondon Eley and Timothy Bynum insist they were just blowing off steam when they posted a Facebook exchange about a plot to kill the father of Eley's baby. But target Corey White's family saw the posts th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, may not, as is sometimes alleged, be trying to recreate it. But he is pursuing a different project – to build a “q...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Monroe County Sheriff's Department is working to solve a case of vandalism that turned life-threatening. John King was shot in the arm last week when he surprised a man trying to slash the tires o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn Oregon woman who tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son at home after reading the Old Testament and watching YouTube videos has been sentenced to five years of probation. Keemonta Peterson pleaded gu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThieves determined to reap value from scrap metal have pried storm grates from streets, sliced catalytic converters from cars and trucks and stripped copper downspouts from churches. Now they’ve sunk to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIf you’re one of millions of dog owners in the Los Angeles area, be sure to keep an eye on your beloved four-legged friend. Dog thefts are up 32 percent this year, according to the American Kennel Clu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoObama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: "Well, obviously, it's putting people to work. Which is why we're going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this mor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSwedish police say unrest erupted overnight in Goteborg, the country's second largest city, as several officers were attacked by youths hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails. Police say no one was seriousl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDo you want flies with that? A Burger King on the city’s South Side has been closed by the city, after inspectors found so many insects buzzing around that they were “afraid to open their mouths.” As W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA U.S. supercomputer laboratory engaged in classified military research concluded a recent deal involving Chinese-made components that is raising concerns in Congress about potential electronic espionage. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSyria is taking its war against President Bashar al-Assad's political opponents global, using diplomats in Washington, London and elsewhere to track and intimidate expatriates who speak out against the Dam...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: I wanted to talk to you about the recent news about Pakistan and China. But first I want to ask you about your tweet. I can'...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours agoRush Limbaugh: "This Ron Paul is going to destroy this party." Rush Limbaugh is defending the party that destroyed America and bashing the man who is trying to save America. He knows exactly what he is...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 19 hours agoBigCityLib Strikes Back: In Case You ARE Wondering Don't know why BCL isn't on the Tweeter, but that's up to him. In the meantime, seems the Venomous LoserTM is perfectly happy to use Toronto's firefight...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoSewage is to blame for a disease that is killing an endangered coral.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours ago[image: seastead1-400x300] The great benefit of living in society is the enormous boon we all enjoy in a free society from the Division of Labour: the multiplication of knowledge; the benefits from geni...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Also see: Nigeria Experiences Exxon Valdez Size Spill Every Year * "Oil spills devastate Nigerian delta, UN says" August 05, 2011|Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria - A region of Nigeria’s oil-rich southern...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours agoAs Angela Merkel and Nicholas Sarkozy cobble together a deal that no-one believes to save a currency union that no-one respects, I figured I’d see what one of modern Europe’s great statesmen thought abou...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*I'm not even going to go in the water.* Swimmer *going ‘strongly’ *in attempt through Florida Straits Woman *ends record attempt* to swim from Cuba to US *Back on the beach already?*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Inquiry into diamond field abuses urged" August 09, 2011|New York Times LONDON - Britain has urged authorities in Zimbabwe to investigate a BBC report that its *security forces* are *beating and raping pr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Military said to impede Congo rape inquiry" July 23, 2011|Associated Press KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo - The United Nations yesterday named two Congolese Army colonels who appear to be blocking...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoMonday we took a look at what a real jobs agenda to put America back to work would look like and how this has to be handled politically by independent-minded progressives like Norman Solomon. Jan Schakow...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Ghana conquers worm after 23-year fight" July 29, 2011|Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana - Jimmy Carter watched in horror as the inches-long worm emerged from the breast of a woman in remote northern Ghana. T...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Assassins fail in bid to kill Guinea leader" July 20, 2011|Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinea’s president survived an *assassination attempt*yesterday after *gunmen encircled his home* overnight an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CJ Stone) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 21 hours agoAs Above So Below. The Empire of Things. On The Social Psychology of Looting.: "That is what deficit reduction means. It means privatisation: not by the back door, but by the front door. Financial looting....
- ‘Exceptional’ Oklahoma drought has killed 16, burned 250 million acres, and broken 1,400 water mainsposted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: The Cimarron River south of Freedom, Oklahoma, June 2011. The 'exceptional' drought has dried up the river, and there is no water, except for a very small pool along the bank, but plenty of salt....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Jet crashes, splits in Guyana, but none die; Plane from JFK overshot runway, dozens injured" July 31, 2011|By Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A Caribbean Airlines jet from New York t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Chained Australian woman, 18, freed after 10-hour bomb scare in her home" August 04, 2011|Associated Press SYDNEY - A *suspicious device* that had been attached to a Sydney teen’s neck contained *no expl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago"Wayward penguin waddles into Web fame" August 05, 2011|Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A wayward emperor *penguin* dubbed Happy Feet is now a creature of the Internet age. The penguin, discover...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*It's no mystery to me*: "McAfee did not say who may be behind the attacks but says the *culprit* is likely a *nation state*....* * *Then it is Israel; otherwise, they would be named.* --more--"
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA rodent weighing somewhere between 100 and 120 pounds was spotted hanging out in Paso Robles.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours agoMyanmar urges dissident party to register Myanmar opposition leader tests limits of freedom with political foray
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 22 hours agoConnecticut is out of cleanup money. By Duane Craig Connecticut has its own money woes when it comes to environmental problems. A fund that is used to remedy underground storage tank contamination has ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoPrivate donors raised $200,000 in 45 days to get SETI's premier ET signal-hunting telescope system back online.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThere are far more vampires than most Americans are familiar with. Here are a sampling from around the world.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours agoUploaded by PowerinNumbers2012 17 August 2011 Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks. The cooling system a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA barricaded gunman in a hotel in San Rafael closed down the Richmond San Rafael Bridge Wednesday. No vehicles were getting across the Bay in either direction. Specifically, the CHP closed I-580 from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoReader Contribution; Japanese citizens have shown incredible honesty in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to its knees. It emerged yesterday that the Japanese returned...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoHere are some of the profound thoughts of those highly professional BBC employees, naturally these are their private thoughts and of course are NEVER reflected in their professional output. Oh no. [imag...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoA Biased BBC contributor observes that you may listen to a BBC radio or TV programme knowing that you are being preached at. However it is only later that you realise exactly what that subtle message migh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeeking to jolt the economy, President Barack Obama will propose new ideas to create jobs and help the struggling poor and middle class in a major speech after Labor Day. And then he will try to seize poli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a move that has shocked fashion onlookers, scantily-clad young girls wearing make-up and sporting voluminous up-dos are promoting a new range of lingerie that is targetted at girls as young as four year...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite the official end of the recession in June 2009, the labor market remains stagnant. Employment has fallen by nearly 7 million jobs since the recession began. Unemployment remains above 9 percent. Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPost-apocalyptic worlds may exist on the big screen and in sci-fi novels, but that's where the similarities between a disaster-ravaged planet and daily life in America end. Or so you may think. A new T...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRecession loom everywhere you look. Let’s look at France: French growth sputters to a halt in 2nd quarter The French government was put under further pressure to cut deeper into spending after figures Fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerica is in shambles from sea to shining sea. Unemployment is at Great Depression levels. Real Estate is collapsing. The stock market is crumbling. Retail sales are vanishing. Consumer confidence is plum...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean shares have fallen after talks between French and German leaders did little to calm investors' fears that the debt crisis could spread further. The two leaders agreed to press for closer economi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agollegal poaching accounts for over half of all deaths of Swedish wolves, suggests a new study. Basing their estimates on long-term wolf counts, the researchers reveal that two-thirds of poaching goes unde...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told parliament that the hunger strike by anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare is "totally misconceived". He said the 74-year-old was trying to circumvent democrac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA suspected US drone attack has killed four militants in north-western Pakistan, local intelligence officials said. The drone fired a missile, destroying a house in a market in Miranshah town in North Wa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans is suing Apple for $26 million for what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Each person in the suit is seekin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRestoring the "royal" designation to Canada's air force and navy has been praised as a nod to Canada's military history, but some critics argue the move is regressive and unnecessary and will backfire on t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMillionaires and billionaires just aren't feeling the love in the U.S. these days. With constant talk about the perils of deficits and debt ceilings, the super well-off have become the targets of much rese...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 19-year-old woman is missing and presumed dead after falling over Niagara Falls, Aug. 14, 2011. (View entire photo gallery here)
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian troops left the embattled eastern city of Deir Ezzor after "ridding the city of the armed terrorist groups," government-run media reported Wednesday. The claim came shortly after another report th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA few years ago I came across a newspaper article about illegal human trafficking into the EU. It was a number of personal anecdotes of people who had left their country of origin; mostly citing politica...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new maternal blood test can determine a fetus' sex as early as seven weeks into a pregnancy. This achievement, reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is a potential boon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe figured tourist lodgings in expensive cities couldn't get more "basic" than capsule hotels. We figured wrong. A Moscow company is now marketing "Sleepboxes" -- freestanding, mobile boxes with beds i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United States is stepping in to help bail out another American industry - chicken farmers and meat processors. The nation's chicken industry is having a difficult year. Chicken producers are struggli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHTC sued Apple over mobile patents today. Again. Pretty soon Apple will likely sue them back. Again. Shrug. Throw it on the pile. And while the patent Cold War continues to heat up, weep for the real casua...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA few months ago, a friend in the entertainment industry told me of a new business model in Hollywood: hoarding videotapes. Apparently, the earthquake in Japan knocked offline a Sony factory that makes cer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEconomists have warned that food, transport and energy prices will soar in the next few months after record increases in the cost of clothes, shoes, alcohol and tobacco lifted inflation to 4.4pc in July. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInheritance Tax (IHT) receipts have collapsed by 29pc since the credit crisis began and married couples have been allowed to automatically transfer nil rate bands between them. New research also suggests...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis from the excellent Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s new chief. Her warning that fiscal tightening in a string of countries is now going beyond the therapeutic dose entirely reflects my own view. She writ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNews that Germany recorded only marginal, 0.1pc, GDP growth in the second quarter is not just an economic event; it is a political one too, for the German economic “miracle”, with output rebounding from it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 89.3 km ( 55.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:32:40 UTC Wednesday 17th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman has died and a man has been injured after they were attacked by a swarm of wasps. The woman, who was in her 70s and named locally as Janette Duncan, suffered a heart attack following the incident...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe wayward Emperor penguin "Happy Feet" that washed up in New Zealand will be shipped back to sub-antarctic waters on Aug. 29 aboard a scientific research vessel.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou may have seen the scary headlines. You may have read those alarming emails. But do you believe it? Just in case, NASA has issued the facts about a comet called Elenin.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago"*Let's wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened? Did, did your balls drop off? Hm?*" - The Joker, *The Dark Knight* The terrorists have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA shark chewed off the arm of a Russian swimmer in an extremely rare attack in the waters off its Far Eastern coast, news agency Interfax reported Wednesday. "The 25 year old was admitted in critical cond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs many as 114 cattle died of an unknown disease in the Kankada, a remote VDC of Makawanpur district within a week. According to Sukbahadur Chepang, a local resident, a total of 11 buffaloes, 22 cows and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the twisted paedophile who almost succeeded in abducting a 12-year-old girl from a trailer park. Sick Philip Garcia, 29, snatched the girl from the park in Alberquerque, New Mexico and bundled her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe mother of a disabled seven-year-old boy whose head was chopped off with a meat cleaver had previously warned police that his father - who has confessed to the killing - wanted him dead. Wheelchair-bou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpanish police have arrested a chemistry student suspected of planning a gas attack against protesters opposing to a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. A demonstration against the pontiff's arrival is planned for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA new species of eel has been discovered which is so old that it retains its dinosaur-era characteristics and has been branded a 'living fossil'. The eel was found in a cave beneath the Pacific Ocean in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt’s a sight that will either amaze you – or send a slight shiver down your spine. Scientists have built a robot – called MABEL – that is able to run at a speedy 6.8mph, which is a world record for a two...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorwegian gunman Anders Breivik called police in the middle of his bloody rampage to surrender after phoning police and telling them 'mission accomplished'. The 32-year-old - who eventually murdered 69 pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man has died after being arrested by police who used a Taser on him. The man, named locally as Dale Burns, died after being taken to hospital following an incident in Barrow, Cumbria. He is believed to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA top police officer in the force investigating the deaths of three men who tried to defend shops during last week's riots has said looters should be shown compassion. Chris Sims, chief constable of West ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Last night's 2 biggest losers weren't on the ballot in Wisconsin or Maine* Last week Wisconsin Democrats climbed a very steep hill by defeating incumbent state Senators Randy Hopper and Dan Kapanke, two r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents in the Walkaih area along the Pearl River are being asked not eat fish they get from the river. Advisories against drinking tap water will not be issued. On Friday, some residents along the rive...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoContorted is the single word that best describes the spin that emanates daily out of Syria I mean we get twisted news reports. Distorted commentary from bought and paid for spooks and shills. Convoluted...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe finding in dogs identifies a possible link between weight gain and cooler body temperature.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe British tourist was taken to shore following the attack but died from blood loss.
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