- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 minute ago[image: Drought across the United States, July 2011. More of the United States was in exceptional drought in July 2011 than in any other month in the past 12 years, according to the National Climatic Dat...
- Warnings of Africa drought came early from climate scientists – ‘No one can say that we didn’t know’posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 minutes ago[image: An Ethiopan boy works a field of crops that's been withered by the 2011 drought, 21 July 2011. USAID / wikipedia.org] By Joe DeCapua 17 August 2011 Experts say there was plenty of warning that t...
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The dust may only have just settled on the last freak weather phenomenon to hit Arizona. But yesterday a third giant dust cloud in less than two months rolled over Phoenix, causing widespread disruption.... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
The drought continues in the State of Texas and Brazoria County is under a Heat Advisory. Currently, 90 degree temperatures are a thing of the past and an 85 degree day seems almost like a cold front. Th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
The Environment Agency (E.A.) and local angling groups suspect poachers may be responsible for the death of around 1,500 fish on a stretch of the River Lark near Mildenhall, Suffolk. Distressed and dead ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
*"Fisherman's Paradise" faces another major environmental disaster, a Fisherman's Hell* In one of Earth's largest and last remaining virgin Cypress stands, health and Earth rights in Louisiana are again ... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 50 minutes agoEast Bank N.O. levee board calls for more study of Corps plan to "armor" levees While the Slabbed Nation awaits the coming statement from Slabbed New Media LLC… ~Editilla Crowtellas~ Thanks yous all for ...
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------------------------------ August 18, 2011 at 11:59:59 *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/18/11:* Permalink *Is Globalism Reversing?* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* Globalism is a con... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 hour ago
We're under a month away from the first round of voting in the PC leadership race, and it's still difficult to get a handle on the contest. I'd assumed it was Ted Morton's race to lose, but the media has... - posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 hour agoUrl movie: http://youtu.be/SI9ke2Ju7XY Enjoy your weekend. What's that title? Lesbian sons of gay mo...? Noo! She is special anyway. John
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 hour agoI think Kevin Barrett is one exceptionally courageous journalist in the public eye today (as he continues to document evidence that flies in the face of belief acquired from authority), but did you know he...
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By Duane Craig Contamination on properties is not always as obvious as this site was. Poor cow! I only thought this kind of problem happened in rural areas where people have more land than they know wha... - posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoNarcissism gives young adults the self-agency to develop personalities independent from their parents.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThat mystery orange goo that invaded a town in Alaska by wind and water has been identified as spores of a rust fungus.
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A woman jailed for accepting a pair of shorts stolen during the Manchester riots has been freed from prison after appealing her sentence. Magistrates jailed Ursula Nevin, 24, for five months last week aft... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
*We hope you can help organize a demo at the Regional Forest Service office in your area. Please let us know. We may have other supporters in your area and can connect you. * *NATION-WIDE Protests Planned... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 hours ago
*Some people can see what the elite are really like?* Brainwashing is not new. The elite in Ancient Greece came up with a form of pretend Democracy. This democracy allowed people to keep slaves. In ... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Bruce Bartlett: "Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that"* Wednesday Texas Congressman Ron Paul (R) told a gaggle of libertarians in New Hampshire that the Republican gov... - posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 3 hours agoOr maybe she's lying, or batshit crazy. But there is no way that she can possibly cut gasoline prices to $2/gallon, as she said she would if elected, without some massive collapse in demand (like a collapse...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoObviously over the last few days the great and the good at the BBC have become rather unsettled as control over the urban mob violence and looting narrative began slipping through their fingers. Shocked...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 31.1 km ( 19.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:39:46 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 441 km (274 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kur...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe Welsh government wants to attract aviation firms to test experimental drones to fight fires and count whales.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe FTSE 100 took another battering today dropping 3% in early morning trading and slipping below 5,000 points, after a disastrous day which saw £62bn wiped off the value of leading shares. The tumbling f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo women from Northern Ireland were stabbed to death in Turkey last night. The women, described as being middle aged and from County Down, have not been named. A 17-year-old Turkish man has been arreste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe water level in Lake Somerville is breaking a record every day because of the ongoing Texas drought. Levels are currently eight-feet below where they should be, hitting 229.87 feet Thursday morning. Wat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOfficials continue to be frustrated by just exactly what caused a fish kill at the Gateway Island Reception Center pond this morning but a wide range of theories have been looked into. “Early Thursday mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThings are looking better on the Pearl River, but the smell is just rotten. St. Tammany fishermen are helping clean up the fish kill there. A paper mill in Bogalusa admitted a spill there on Saturday caus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThousands of fish went belly-up in a local pond, prompting call after call from concerned residents. Gateway Pond is a city-owned pond that sits adjacent to Middle Tennessee Medical Center, and just off ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBridge construction caused massive fish kill on the banks of Fuhe River in Nanchang city, capital of East China's Jiangxi province, Aug 17, 2011. Two temporary barrages were constructed in the river channe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCause of death not yet determined; he had been conducting count. A man working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was found dead Thursday afternoon in the upper Wind River near Beaver Campground, seve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA 7-year-old Mingo County boy is recovering after being bitten by a shark. Media outlets report Rudy Varney was bitten while wading in the Atlantic Ocean at Myrtle Beach, S.C., earlier this week. An a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCrews continue to battle a large wild fire between Gold Hill and Rogue River. Officials say there were six fires along Interstate 5. The largest fire has burned 400 acres and is still not contained. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOfficials at Eppley Airfield said they've shut down the airport as crews work to determine the status of planes and equipment following a storm that brought large hail through parts of the Omaha area.As of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA shark is believed to have attacked a tourist swimming in Mosquito Bay, along the coast of Vieques, Puerto Rico. The woman, idetified as Lydia Strunk, from Idaho, was kayaking in the bioluminescent bay of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHeavy rain has caused flash flooding across Berkshire, causing traffic problems in Reading and in the borough of Wokingham. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue attended a flooding incident on the A33 in Read...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe number of people who have become infected with a super bug at Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has risen to 98, according to press reports on Wednesday. Last week the number of infections since the out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA video of the wife of a police officer squirting tabasco sauce into the mouth of her adopted son has been shown to jurors. Jessica Beagley stands accused of child abuse after she was filmed by the Dr Phi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe young husband of a 91-year-old socialite who was found slain in her Washington home forged inheritance documents to try to claim $200,000 from her estate, court papers allege. Viola Drath was found un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA radioactive form of hydrogen has leaked from a U.S nuclear plant into soil and groundwater has reached the nearby Connecticut River, according to health officials. State Department of Health Commissione...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA barbershop has been closed down after health officials found evidence of ritualistic animal sacrifice in the basement. Five caged birds and a dead rooster were discovered during a search of the propert...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJoran van der Sloot - the Dutch man accused of bludgeoning and strangling to death a young woman and the principal suspect in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway - may be out of Peruvian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA woman the FBI believes robbed as many as 20 banks throughout the West worked as a nurse at an Idaho state prison facility where she likely met the convicted forger who investigators say drove the getaway...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCasey Anthony’s attorney is coming under the microscope again in another issue regarding his handling of the high-profile defendant. The Florida Bar said last night that it was investigating defence lawyer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGraphic, disturbing and 'beyond pornographic' images are believed to have been found on Gary Giordano's camera of missing Maryland woman Robyn Gardner, calling into question the relationship between them, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHuge rivers of ice that flow into the sea from deep within Antarctica have been mapped for the first time. The breakthrough could be crucial in tracking future sea levels as part of the battle against cli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFour people died yesterday and 71 were injured after a huge storm hit a Belgian Music festival, causing a stage to collapse. The victims were all attending the Pukkelpop festival near the town Hasselt, ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFor anyone hoping that the first spaceman to land on Earth is as friendly as E.T., they could be in for a shock. In the latest bid to get us to cut greenhouse gases, scientists have decided that aliens lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoScientists have undone the progress made by evolution by altering chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead of beaks. Experts changed the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEcstasy could be used to treat cancers of the blood, according to scientists. Modified versions of the dance club drug may help to fight leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Six years ago researchers found t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours ago*And aliens came to exterminate the deniers* The media interest in global warming has dropped to about 1/3 of the peak traffic we saw around early 2007. The people's desire to search for global warmi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoNever mind Celebrity Big Brother, with the BBC operating 24/7 across the globe, we have a much more dangerous broadcasting big brother to worry about. Please detail your observations here as I declare thi...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoI always enjoy listening to Israeli spokesman Mark Regev and he was on Today this morning. Following the deplorable attack at Eilat, I was pleased to hear Regev make several references to the terrorists fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA hapless drunk who helped himself to doughnuts from a looted Krispy Kreme shop was jailed for 16 months yesterday. Serial offender Thomas Downey had been released from prison only hours before he was ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 223.1 km ( 138.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:09 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 211 km (131 miles) ENE of End...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA mother yesterday allowed her teenage son to be jailed over rioting allegations rather than run the risk of being evicted from her £1million council house. Della Collins refused to let the family home b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSuicide bombers have attacked the British Council offices in Kabul on the public holiday marking Afghanistan's independence from Britain. At least three people were killed in an initial attack from a car ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 32.7 km ( 20.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:51:03 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) Southeast of Mori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:53:46 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) Southwest of Escuintla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.9 km ( 13 miles), the quake hit at 00:42:21 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 313 km (194 miles) Eas...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoIt's interesting to consider how the BBC* frames a debate *and how in doing so it carefully ensures the required conclusion. Iain Duncan Smith suggests (rightly, in my opinion!) that those thugs involved i...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago** *A * Abu Nuwas Abu Nuwas, born around 756, is one of the greatest writers of classical Arabic literature. The caliph, Muhammad al-Amin, shared Abu Nuwas's love of boys. Chad Allen, the classic chil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:36:32 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) South...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoI confess that I buy Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and dried cranberries in bulk. I also confess that if I don't buy these items in bulk, we usually run out of them during the week. I confess that my daughter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 413.2 km ( 256.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:54:27 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 283 km (175 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile F...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResidents 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 hours agoEurope 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 hours agoGoing 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 hours agoThe 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 hours agoWhen 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 hours agoOne 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 hours agoBritish 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 hours agoParts 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 hours agoA 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 hours agoA 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! - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago################################################################################ # ANTISEC LEAKS PRIVATE DOCUMENTS FROM MILITARY CONTRACTER VANGUARDDEFENSE.COM # ###########################################...
- *Linux is a flexible Operating System, isn't it?* To test how flexible that is I went to SUSE STUDIO to build my own Linux distro in minutes. To be frank, not precisely Ubunto or Mint, but OpenSUSE. That ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*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 - 15 hours agoLater 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 - 16 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIncreasing 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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! - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 hours ago*"I've told people after I die, I'm coming back as lightning," he said. "When it zaps the White House, they'll know it's me."* *Republic of Lakotah:* http://www.lakotafreedom.com/ Native Sun: Russell Me...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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!) - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon increased by 15 percent during the past 12 months.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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! - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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....
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