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President Obama signed a hard-fought, last-minute compromise bill to avert economic catastrophe Tuesday, saying the deal to cut spending and increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit marked an "impor... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne today shocked Twitter followers by offering £50,000 to anyone who could identify - and break the arms of - a sinister tweeter who threatened to harm his daughter. The se... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Chinese police have shot dead two men suspected of mounting a fatal attack in Xinjiang region on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports. The two ethnic Uighur men, Memtieli Tiliwaldi and Turson H... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street in Richmond, Calif., an internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonp... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes agoPressure at the United Nations and world capitals mounted on Tuesday on Syria's government as a fierce security crackdown on peaceful protests overnight left dozens of deaths, injuries and arrests. At l...
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The deal to raise the debt ceiling may remove the risk of a 2008-like meltdown in financial markets that had made employers very nervous in recent months. But even if the debt deal is passed by Congress, ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
HSBC is planning to hire up to 15,000 people in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America over the next three years even after confirmation of the bank's plans to cull jobs elsewhere. Stuart Gulliver... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Imagine your paycheck gets slashed by 99.4%. That would make me, and pretty much everyone I know, weep with sadness. Well, that’s essentially what Toyota says has happened to its net income for the period... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
John Beaucage has given the heartbreak he sees around him a name: the Millennium Scoop. The First Nations leader was recently hired by the Ontario government to look into aboriginal child welfare and what... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
At least one person has drowned in waist-deep floods that swamped the streets of the Philippine capital after a night of monsoon rains in Manila closed down schools and government offices. Nearly 800 peop... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Global stock markets tumbled Tuesday after downbeat U.S. data fuelled fears the world's largest economy might be sliding back into recession. Oil prices fell to near $94 a barrel on expectations slowing gl... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital, lies down and stretches her body across the rails to seek electric therapy. Like ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Just under 600 were aged 12 or under, with 98 aged between five and seven, 99 aged eight or nine and almost 400 between 10 and 12. The figures came from 35 NHS trusts in England and were released as part o... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
For all the international condemnation, the calls for restraint and the threats of increased sanctions, the Syrian regime is still attacking and killing its own people. Syria Violence: 'No Lines Regime Wo... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
South Korea's central bank has confirmed it has made its first purchase of gold in 13 years. The purchase of 25 tonnes of gold shows the bank is diversifying its foreign exchange reserves away from the US... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has bowed to US pressure by agreeing for the first time that a Palestinian state should roughly follow the contours of the 1967 ceasefire lines separating th... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
The raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan was a mission to kill him, and there was “never any question” he would be captured alive, one of those directly involved has claimed. The most detailed ac... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Fears of a double-dip downturn on both sides of the Atlantic have set off fresh mayhem in Southern European bond markets, dashing hopes that Europe's summit deal in late July would contain the escalating c... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
America's inability to address its fiscal challenges – Sunday night's "bipartisan debt deal" offers only a temporary, sticking plaster solution – has raised afresh an old conundrum. If even US Treasuries ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
American spies are trying to develop a computer system that can identify where in the world any photo was taken, in a research programme that could help track down terrorists in remote regions of the Middl... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoVenezuela's new prisons minister believes that 40% of the country's inmates do not belong behind bars, the El Nacional newspaper reported. The newspaper published an interview with Iris Varela on Sunday, i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoFactories in Asia and Europe expanded in July at the weakest rate since major industrial powers were struggling through the 2009 recession, adding to concerns over world growth. While stock markets rose o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoManufacturing activity barely grew in July, falling to the weakest level since just after the recession ended. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said Monday that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoThe tentative deal to avoid a crushing debt default is at best a mild relief for the U.S. economy that nearly stalled in the first half of the year and has yet to show signs of any realistic pickup. The p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoNestled in a sleepy southern district of Kunming city in southwest China, is a 10,000 square meter, four-story building that could make Swedish furniture giant Ikea uneasy. 11 Furniture, as the store is k...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 minutes agoEncounters between humans and sharks are common this summer, but it's unclear which species is becoming more brazen.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 minutes ago*Why 1850? What happens with altitude and variations in the grid?* In the previous postings, I discussed the local data extracted from the "raw" HadCRUT3 dataset that was just released. Annual mean temp...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 33 minutes agoIn just over 15-months Americans will choose their next president. At this point Barack Obama's future hinges on the Republicans fielding a really terrible candidate, somebody like Michelle Bachmann. In...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 45 minutes agoBy Duane Craig Industrial contamination has left its mark on NJ. While political pundits banter about a legacy of debt being left to future generations, the country's industrial past has already left a leg...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 hour agoFollowing the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher, another courageous activist is arrested. Becks Kolins, a young woman who graduated from Haverford High School and is a student at Skidmore, began training la...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Children play during an unusual snowfall in the Atacama desert, near Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday, 31 July 2011. Alex Fuentes / AP] By EVA VERGARA 2 August 2011 SANTIAGO, Chile — This has been the...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*Native communities in Alaska and Louisiana devastated by oil spills and climate change* Article and photo by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Faith Gemmill/Photo NorrellNEW T...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoPower four devices and organize your cords in a convenient, compact pouch.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoStay one step ahead of trouble by monitoring your skin between checkups.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoComputerized car systems are doing a better job avoiding common low-speed crashes than human ones.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoHe started life as a white science geek living with his uncle. But now to reflect the racial changes in America Spider Man has been given a makeover - as a half black half Latino teen. Miles Morales has r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFederal officials say that one person has died from salmonella poisoning that appears to be linked to eating ground turkey. Seventy-seven people in 26 states have been sickened by the same strain of the d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe first close-up images of the massive asteroid Vesta have revealed a northern hemisphere littered with craters - including a trio nicknamed 'Snowman' - and a smoother southern half. Running along the a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago*They haven't been held accountable in the past... so why not try it again?* For many of Wisconsin's most vulnerable people, those thrown out of work by the failure of economic bets by Masters of the Unive...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 hour ago[image: Senate debates] Emergency legislation to permit the government to borrow more money headed toward passage in the Senate Tuesday with just hours to spare previous to the national debt bumps against...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA quadriplegic man died in a weekend skydiving accident, Flathead County officials said Monday. Zack Fogle, 27, who had five years of skydiving experience died Saturday afternoon when his parachute did no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA policeman caught with a child porn stash after bragging about it online has been spared jail. The Metropolitan Police sergeant was trapped in an online sting by an Australian officer, but walked free fr...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago...wakes up with equally rabid fleas. If you still want more of a daily dose of right wing lunacy after reading the comments section of my post about Pam Geller, then this is your lucky day, Potterites! ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSyrian troops advanced through the central city of Hama in a fresh crackdown a day after government forces killed 24 people. Machine gun fire rang out through the city as a fresh onslaught against protest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Government drugs counsellor who became a key player in a multi-million-pound heroin smuggling operation after falling on hard times has been jailed. Law graduate Mahfooz Ahmed, of Halifax, West Yorkshir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA man has been jailed indefinitely after he severely beat a toddler leaving the child with two skull fractures, 68 bruises and swelling of the scalp. Dean Cochrane, 24, refused to accept he had attacked t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDrought has left 4.28 million people in China suffering from drinking water shortage, the country's drought relief authority said Monday. Hot temperatures and lack of rainfall that have persisted since Jul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoWaist-deep floods have swamped the streets in the Philippine capital after a night of monsoon rains closed down schools and government offices. Authorities mobilised emergency personnel to ready evacuation...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoHow does somebody who has been a Dipper for six months get to lead the NDP? Better yet, how does someone who was a separatist supporter just six months ago rise to NDP leadership? Is the NDP so bereft of...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoSpecialist: Stigma on seafood lingers Scientists convene to solve Gulf problems An Uneasy Future for Tropical Storm Emily ~Wunderblog Sheriff Gusman disputes inmate's claim of attack Bob Barker gives $23...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoWhen a social network shuts down, your profile may be sold or recycled.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOn this week's Friday News Feedbag... James stops by for 15 seconds minutes to discuss the imperiled state of the world's slimiest fish; Jorge checks his smart phone one app at a time; and Will spends some...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoThere are two types of economists at work today. There's the A Team, guys like Krugman and Stiglitz. There's the B Team, guys like Harper and the people advising American politicians. The A Team win N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoReader Contribution: Joining a slew of other big banks, Barclays (BCS: 14.52, +0.17, +1.18%) revealed plans on Tuesday to cut deeper into its workforce as the big British bank suffered a 38% decline in fi...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA federal appeals court ruled that genes can be patented, overturning a lower court decision that had shocked the biotechnology industry.
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- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoLetter to the *Globe and Mail*, July 30: It's remarkable how in the current debate about the U.S. debt ceiling, the extravagance of American military spending is seldom even mentioned. In its fiscal 2010 ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoSeven months after she was shot in the head, US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords made a dramatic return to the House of Representatives on Monday.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago*Rep. John Conyers Calls for Protest on White House on Jobs, Says "We've Had It" * *Permalink* *laurenburke007 * Uploaded by laurenburke007 on Jul 27, 2011 07.27.11: At a press conference held by the H...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago*Indian country targeted: Carbon credits and waste incinerator scams* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Protecting Mother Earth Gathering Photo Brenda NorrellNEW TOWN, North D...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 5 hours agoIt's official. The liberal democracy the founding fathers of the United States of America established is officially gone. What do you call a system wherein citizen voters can only chose between candidates...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoHere is some food for thought. Following along on the theme of the previous post. Massive vaccination programs and the consequences of such programs? SV40/Polio vaccine = increased cancer. A pill for every...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 hours agoWe're getting a lot of stories lately from our media who are at pains to assure us a Canadian equivalent to Rupert Murdoch scandal of cozy incestuous relationships with British politicians and illegal phon...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoConservationists believe many of the criminal networks targeting wildlife are also involved in illicit arms and drug smuggling.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoThe ruling elite didn't even have the decency to throw in an extension of unemployment benefits as a sweetener to cowed Democrats in Congress. I guess they figured they could use that as a backup if too m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA fraudster has been excused from working in a charity shop for her community service after claiming she can only work sitting down. Hayley Wilkins, 48, plundered more than £13,000 from cash-strapped Patch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA tropical storm has formed in the Caribbean and could develop into a hurricane before hitting the U.S. coast, experts warned today. Emily is currently travelling north and west and could eventually have w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt's one of the country's top tourist destinations, its winding blue waterways attracting thousands of day-trippers and holidaymakers. However, as these stunning aerial images show, toxic algae is turning ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 53 km ( 32.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:32:15 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) North of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu No...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Witnesses* "I believe that there were TWO PEOPLE who were shooting," VG newspaper quoted 23-year old Alexander Stavdal. Several of the youths who were on Utøya told VG that they are convinced that ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 48.2 km ( 30 miles), the quake hit at 09:00:24 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 147 km (92 miles) ENE of Calbayog. Samar,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFormer MP Jim Devine has been released from prison after serving a quarter of his sentence for fiddling his parliamentary expenses. Mr Devine was jailed for 16 months in March but has now been freed from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThousands of dead fish have surfaced at Corporate Lake due to high heat and lack of rainfall, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. Water temperatures exceeded 90 degrees in the man-made l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNearly 300 dead striped bass have been found since Friday in Lake Norman near the McGuire nuclear plant, Duke Energy reported Monday. The fish kill follows the 7,000 stripers that died on the lake last su...
- Piles of dead fish have once again started surfacing along the Rio Grande, New Mexico - 1st Aug 2011posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSomething killed a lot of fish in the Rio Grande River overnight Sunday and New Mexico Game and Fish officers believe it had to do with heavy rain and forest fires upstream. Carp, catfish and white suc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTropical Storm Emily is located at 15.5° N, 63.5° W with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, gusting to 50 mph Hurricane Eugene is located at 13.2° N, 106.8° W with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, gusti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Egyptian army deployed troops in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday and fired shots in the air to disperse remaining pro-democracy protesters. A few hundred demonstrators were staying put, state televisio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWe're tracking Tropical Storm Emily every step of the way here in the StormTrack 3 Weather Center. As of right now, Emily is still a weak storm - but there's reason to think she could strengthen and threat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThis has been the wettest winter in decades for Chile's arid northern desert, where fractions of an inch of rain have done major damage in some areas and set the stage for spectacular floral displays in th...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago[image: http://news-updations.blogspot.com/] It is a fact that *outdoor kitchens* is becoming one of the most popular home improvement projects as more and more people want to expand their living space to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe combined death toll from Tropical Storm Nock-ten and Typhoon Muifa in the Philippines has risen to 70, with threats of yet another storm in the rain-battered country, the government said Tuesday. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUkraine is donating radiation measuring devices and gas masks to Japan as it battles the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl explosion in the former Soviet territory 25 years ago. Ukraine’s ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChina’s naval forces are likely to step up their activities in waters around Japan, Tokyo’s annual defence report said on Tuesday, the latest expression of regional security concerns about China’s military...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussia is planning to procure 120 Iskander-M tactical missile systems, Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov has said. Russian news agency Ria Novosti quoting Bulgakov said, "We purchased six Iskan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*Nearly two months after ash and steam began spewing from a fissure in Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex, the volcano continues to erupt.* On Sunday 31 July, SERNOGEOMIN, Chile’s geology and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs the Mt. Etna volcano came to life again and started erupting in the southern Italy on the island of Sicily, inhabitants were not worried but rather bemused. The volcanic eruption took place as on July...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago* 3103 Eger* is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid that was discovered in 1982, by Miklós Lovas. It was named after the city of Eger, Hungary. It makes eight approaches to Earth less than 30 Gm (0.2 AU)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFour labourers were exposed to low levels of radiation at an Indian nuclear plant at the end of May after an error in the control room, a report said Tuesday. The Times of India, quoting the director of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSEVERE storms sweeping across the province of Barcelona have brought down 50 trees and caused flash floods. At the same time, gale-force winds reaching at least 90km per hour, together with rain and hail...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFirefighters battling a seven-alarm vegetation fire in the Cordelia area just outside of Fairfield have brought the blaze to 100 percent containment by Monday evening, according to CalFire officials. The ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley* is an English model and actress. She was voted No.1 in *FHM's World's Sexiest Woman* 2011 poll.[30] Her paternal great-great-grandfather was politician Sir Herbert Hunti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHe is one of America's most notorious criminals - a cold-bloodied serial killer who brought terror to the streets of New York. Now, 35 years since the first of the so-called Son of Sam murders, the man se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Catamarca, Argentina at a depth of 118.5 km ( 73.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:44 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) Northwest of La R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe idea that there is no water on Mars is something most scientists dare not contemplate for fear of tempting fate. After all, should the Red Planet have been dry for billions of years then there is zero...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoU.S. spies are developing technology that would allow computers to pinpoint where in the world a picture was taken. The system would be used by the military to track down terrorists who are in hiding in r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCasey Anthony has been ordered back to Florida to serve a year’s probation in a sensational twist caused by a probation bungle. The 25-year-old, who fled into hiding last month following her surprise acqu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoOnce you convert the HadCRUT3 raw data into a format you can deal with - using a programming language that is able to compute things - it is straightforward to draw various graphs. A few days ago, I ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice are today launched a criminal investigation into how 11-year-old Celina Cass went from playing on her computer in her family home to being found dead at the bottom of a river less than half a mile f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJuly was officially a scorcher – breaking heat records across the country. High temperature records were broken or tied a staggering 2,676 times last month - almost double the number of a year ago, accordi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHolidaymakers heading to Gatwick Airport by train faced massive delays after a burst water main caused a mini landslide dumping tons of silt and sand on to the tracks. With water cascading down an embankm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA series of ‘puppet master’ genes that control the growth and spread of prostate cancer have been discovered by scientists. Drugs that home in on these genes could slow down or even stop the march of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 100.8 km ( 62.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:43:34 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) Northeast of Hagatna, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA teenage girl could have brain damage after a man attacked her while trying to force his way into her family's home. PR worker Charlotte Barber, 18, was in her home when something was thrown through a do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA British university student has been bludgeoned to death while working in Poland, police said yesterday. The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, was found next to a railway embankment in Krakow. The private...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNews International faced added pressure today after an Indian IT firm told MPs that it had been asked nine times over the past 15 times to delete emails at the media company. HCL Technologies wrote to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA carer suspected of stealing £35,000 from a vulnerable old woman, a scammer said to be raising money for a young cancer patient and a man thought to be behind a holiday booking hoax. These are just three...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWilliam Hague has said there was 'not a remote possibility' of UN-backed military action against Syria despite the violence that has left up to 140 protesters dead. President Bashar al-Assad’s tanks yeste...
- Jake Davis charged with global hacking spree from his bedroom in the Shetland Islands - 2nd Aug 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn autistic teenager appeared in court today accused of masterminding a global internet hacking spree from his bedroom in the Shetland Islands. Jake Davis, 18, is charged with accessing a confidential syst... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis is the amazing moment a hero policeman is thrown through the air after a collision with a stolen car - before getting up to chase down the criminal on foot. Police Constable Dan Pascoe had stopped hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAmerican lawmakers passed an 11th-hour bill last night to raise the U.S. lending limit and avoid a calamitous debt default, but Barack Obama still faces an angry backlash. Despite successfully passing the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDangerous Sex Offender: Safara Salami A dangerous sex offender whose claim for asylum was thrown out eight years ago is still living in Britain – and costing the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Banda Sea at a depth of 125.6 km ( 78 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:26 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) Northwest of Saumlaki, Kepulau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 74.7 km ( 46.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:37:43 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) Eas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Britain Regio, Papua New guinea at a depth of 45.8 km ( 28.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:44:17 UTC Tuesday 2nd August 2011. The epicenter was 200 km (124 miles) ES...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 12 hours agoWhilst browsing youtube, I came across an interesting video regarding the origins of Political Correctness. Quite rightly going into detail about the Frankfurt School, this video itself falls into the trap...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 12 hours agoLegendary comic genius! *FREE EVERYONE!** * *veritas6464* * * *TRUTH IS NOT HUMBLE | FACTS ARE NOT TIMID* *The filthy rothschild yiddish khazar occupation of Palestine is not legitimate, so fuck off yids!*
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has detected the highest radiation levels at the facility since the initial earthquake and tsunami five months ago, a company spokesman said...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTropical Storm Emily formed in the Caribbean Monday, prompting area governments to issue warnings and watches, the National Hurricane Center said. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for Dominica, Puer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoClashes erupted overnight at a West Bank refugee camp, authorities said Monday. Official accounts of the fighting at the Kalandia refugee camp differed. The Palestinian Authority said two Palestinians wer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMount Etna volcano on the island of Sicily, southern Italy, started erupting again at the weekend, sending flames and sparks shooting 250 metres into the air, and flows of lava down its slopes. Etna is one...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab launched a Ramadan offensive Monday amid spreading famine in Somalia, the African Union said. Heavy fighting was reported in the Wardhiigley district in northeast Mog...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA NATO airstrike targeted a police station in a remote district of Afghanistan's Nuristan province early Monday morning, killing at least four police officers and wounding eight others, officials said. A ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEgyptian security forces moved into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday, dispersing the protesters gathered there and beating those who did not leave voluntarily, according to a witness with activists in the s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAn Indian farmer and father of two had a hysterectomy after doctors discovered a "full female reproductive system" in his lower abdomen. The Indian man, identified as Ryalu, was admitted to a hospital near...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOfficials are trying to determine why an NJ Transit bus with a dead driver inside idled for nearly five hours at the Port Authority terminal in New York. Thomas Truex was found slumped in a passenger sea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPrince William County police say several commuters have returned to their cars this month to find that the tires and rims have been stolen from their vehicles. The most recent thefts were discovered at a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent. Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with prote...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*"They was a letter here from Violet and it pretty near made me feel like crying. I wish they was two of me so both them girls could be happy."* *-- Jack, in Philadelphia (September 19)* We have two lett...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 14 hours ago8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | AlterNet #facepalm just isn't strong enough for this.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago"A sovereign nation can always find the money to pay debts owed in its own currency. The U.S. could, if it wished, pay its bills using debt-free U.S. Notes or Greenbacks, just as President Lincoln did to...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoTropical Storm Emily is moving west quickly. Ladder Up!
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Roughly 55 kilometers (35 miles) south of Laverton, Western Australia, lies the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine. A gold deposit was discovered in the area in 1988, and by 1995, the mine was open for busine...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoSerge Halimi: Europe’s wakeup call - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition When the balance that keeps labour and capital in relative equilibrium gets trashed (or more likely in this context, sold off to...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 16 hours agoHuffington Post 7/30/11 Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON -- With just three days left until the country is set to begin defaulting on its debt, the House rejected a debt proposal by Senate Majority Leader...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Both while Hank (Dean Norris) was still in the rehab facility (above) and since he's been home, Marie (Betsy Brandt) has been going the extra mile to try to boost his morale. (Unfortunately I wasn't able ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 18 hours agoIn Pam Geller's case, it's not only unleashed but given a literary agent and book contract with a major publisher for the intention of sowing fear, hatred and distrust of our President and a religion comp...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMost municipal authorities have declared a one-day strike scheduled for Monday, in sympathy with popular protests spreading throughout Israel. Municipalities will not be giving services to government offic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRelentless and punishing, July’s heat was unrivaled in 140 years of Washington, D.C., weather record-keeping. The July temperature averaged 84.5 degrees at Reagan National Airport — Washington’s official w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWhen David Kelley saw the bumper — headlights and all — lying in the roadway, it clicked that something was wrong. The gray smoke rolling up from the highway embankment cemented his worry. His buddy, Mark...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt a press conference held by the House "Out of Poverty Caucus", Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) lambasted President Obama over the debt ceiling deal and called for people to march on the White House in protes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoYou can always trust the Americans, Winston Churchill said, because in the end they will do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. For the last 18 months, this has been Europe’...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThere are many economic challenges around the world today. The US teeters on the brink of default, deleveraging continues across the west, cracks are appearing in China’s fixed asset investment boom, Japan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFrom the US to Europe to Japan there is a panic in the echelons of power. The strategists of capitalism are frantically trying to avert a US default, collapse of the Euro and bankruptcy of Japan. The dange...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA country where a plutocracy is firmly in control. A country that has racked up whopping trade and budget deficits over the past quarter century. A country where the tax system is biased towards the rich a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAmerica could soon lose its much-coveted triple-A credit rating, possibly by the end of this week, as politicians in Washington race to clinch a deal to solve the debt crisis in what is likely to be a vola...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGary Johnson is an unusual politician. Contrarian but constructive, Johnson hopes to move the Republican Party in the direction of being a socially “tolerant” party that emphasizes limited government above...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWith the deal reached Sunday night, the United States has a good chance of escaping the debt limit showdown with its credit rating intact. The United States government may not be so lucky with its reputati...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe nation’s political leaders agreed on Sunday to spend and invest less money in the American economy, a step that economists said risks the reversal of a faltering recovery, in the hope of improving the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter paying workers just half their normal salaries for the month of June, the Palestinian Authority is hoping to avert a threatened general strike by paying full salaries for July. However, PA Prime Mini...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoArab governments in the Middle East are preparing for increased tensions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which may reignite the smoldering flames of uprisings that swept the region this year. "Thr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFaced with increases in the price of flour on the global market, a group of Cameroonian farmers proposes to make bread with cassava root flour. The Citizen’s Association for the Preservation of Public Inte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSouth Korea's consumer prices jumped at a faster pace in July, raising concerns that inflationary pressure is building up despite the government's anti-inflation efforts, a report showed Monday. According...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Korean government is set to face an uphill battle in keeping the Korean won from appreciating at a rapid clip as the U.S. debt crisis is sending ripples throughout financial markets across the world. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPeople around the world who have admired the United States for its economic vigor, its inventiveness, its open society, its great universities, its leadership in world affairs and even its popular culture ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJews rather than Muslims would have been the focus of Anders Behring Breivik’s hatred had he lived seven decades ago. Mr. Breivik’s choices would have been easier than. The young Norwegian with the good A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIsrael’s government hit back on Sunday at protests against the rising cost of living, saying some reforms being demanded might lead to economic crises like those besetting parts of Europe and the United St...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe United States plans talks with Saudi Arabia on civilian nuclear cooperation, people familiar with the plans said, in a step that has already set off fierce criticism on Capitol Hill. With the United S...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSaudi Arabia’s economic power is more fragile that it looks. High energy inefficiency and public sector spending are two trends which, left unchecked, will start eating into the kingdom’s petrodollar reser...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPolitics have long skewed oil supply lines, but this year’s confluence of events have bent the route from the well to the gas tank so far out of shape that West African oil is going to a refiner in Taiwan ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe obsession and addiction in playing online games via international networks led a Chinese couple to selling their three children for less than $10,000. They used that sum to cover the costs of using com...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAS THE August 2nd deadline for a resolution of America’s debt-ceiling row approaches, other news is being drowned out. America’s debt debacle provokes rubber-necking fascination but the euro crisis is stil...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 18 hours agoOnly 660 signatures so far in support of Canadian artist Franke James - whose tour Steve is trying to shut down? Seriously? That's all the support we can muster? "The Government of Canada is trying to s...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA tomb believed to be that of St. Philip the Apostle was unearthed in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis and not without controversy.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 20 hours agoI have taken many photographs of dying and dead trees and posted them here at Wit's End, as well as pictures of damaged leaves. From what I have read, it is apparent that toxic tropospheric ozone is a gl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoAs far as I can tell, rape has been used as a weapon of terror going all the way back through history and was at one time considered a property crime against the man to whom the victim belonged, typicall...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoAn in-depth investigation of what lives inside the human belly button uncovers hundreds of organisms.
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoSummer is anniversary time for many shark attack survivors, including Discovery News guest commentator Debbie Salamone.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Western Xizang, China at a depth of 13.6 km ( 8.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:40:53 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 364 km (226 miles) ENE of Lumaringbo, ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoI was going to leave this alone today, but it's just too egregious to resist. Check out the BBC's Q&A page for the debt crisis. We'll just go Q by Q, as it were. What is the proposed deal? Under the the ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 23 hours agoThis week's sign of the apocalypse - an e-mail sent out today by Craig Chandler to all PGIB members: From: "PGIB Head Office" Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 11:33:02 -0600 To: Craig Chandler ReplyTo: "PGIB Head Of...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoPeatlands are often used as an alternative fuel to wood, but their carbon value is as competitive as forests if not more so, according to scientists studying peatland biogeochemistry.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAvailable for iPhone and iPad, these apps deliver synchronized, behind-the-scenes material while you watch.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEnvironment Centre, poisonous blue-green algae is present on most public beaches in Helsinki. The amounts of blue-green algae have mostly remained small, while in some places the occurences of algae have b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Fox Island, Aleutian Island, Alaska at a depth of 39 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:05 UTC Monday 1st August 2011. The epicenter was 205 km (127 miles) ESE f...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*At the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota, **First Nations activists announce civil disobedience t**o halt dirty **Tar Sands pipeline in US* Article and photo by Brenda Norrell Censored Ne...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe great thing about the BBC is that provides all shades of opinion.....get this catch from an eagle eyed reader! "America is apparently on the brink of economic armageddon and about to bring the next ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNASA has unveiled the first close-up image of the asteroid Vesta, the second largest body in the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReader Contribution; Get ready for more hot weather this month. Meteorologists are saying that August is expected to pick up where July left off. The most intense heat will remain over parts of Texas, Ok...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDOCTORS in Wales last year gave out more prescriptions for depression than there are people in the nation, according to startling new figures. Experts fear the current economic climate may be tipping peopl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestor concerns over Italy and Spain are complicating efforts to deliver Greece its next chunk of rescue aid, underscoring the increasing difficulty Europe faces in reining its more than year-old credit ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA government’s credibility is founded on its commitment to honour its debts. As a result of the dramas of the past few weeks, that crucial commodity is eroding in the West. The struggles in Europe to keep ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA suspected leader of the Juarez drug cartel told authorities he had ordered the deaths of about 1,500 people, a Mexican federal police official said Sunday. Federal police detailed accusations against Jo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWeekend violence in northwest China left at least 14 people dead and more than 40 injured as authorities searched for additional suspects in a pair of attacks, a government official said Monday. Local off...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAny large-scale massacre, especially of young people, generates shock and horror. How could this be possible? The temptation is to dismiss it as the act of someone who is insane. Attributing mass murder to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian security forces shelled the central city of Hama on the second day of a fierce assault aimed at crushing the anti-government protests against President Bashar Assad's regime as Muslims began their m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHealth officials in Vancouver say they will launch a pilot project later this year to distribute clean, unused crack pipes to drug users. While heroin users can pick up clean needles from needle-exchange ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian military opened fire on the flashpoint city of Hama on Monday and at least five people were killed in violence nationwide, a human rights organization reported. Three people were killed in clas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in Argentina are investigating the slaying of two French tourists who were found dead near a hiking trail, authorities said. Other tourists found the bodies of the female victims, who were both arou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the summer of 1998, Americans raced into movie theaters for not one, but two major Hollywood productions featuring giant asteroids about to smash into Earth. The films – "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt feels like that ominous summer of 2008 all over again. Few are predicting another financial armageddon just yet, but a number of portents are adding to the general sense of economic foreboding. First o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHSBC will on Monday say it is planning to cut 10,000 jobs despite making a pre-tax profit in the first half of the year of nearly $11bn (£6.7bn). Stuart Gulliver, chief executive of HSBC, is expected to gi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe taxman is threatening entirely innocent householders in a show of incompetence that could undermine the whole taxation system, MPs have warned. A damning report from the Treasury Select Committee said...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe have a glimmer of hope. The key indicators of the US money supply are at last firing on all cylinders, a dramatic turn for the better that would normally signal recovery or even a mini-boom within the n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDeprived areas in England will lose out to affluent parts of the country under health spending reforms, Labour has claimed. Changes to funding formulas means poor health rates will be given less conside...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and tossed discreetly onto the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands of famine-stricken Somali refugees were cold and drenched after torrential rains pounded their makeshift structures in the capital, leading to appeals for aid. Rains are needed to plant ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe BEA released the "official" growth story for the United States today. You might not hear about it because this story, like every other important thing, is likely to be drowned out by the debt ceiling f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHundreds of thousands of men have been raped by other men. Some of them have been gang-raped repeatedly and over a period of many years. It is a sex crime that is so common the numbers almost equal that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 1,500 women whose husbands have disappeared but have not yet been declared deceased are in a precarious and dangerous position in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to a new report. The 48-p...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoRead this very important article by Kevin Gosztola called, "The US Drone Program, Terrorism & the Debt Ceiling Talks," about how Adm. Dennis Blair's statements on reducing government spending for counter...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoInteresting catch from a Biased BBC reader here; "Piece on 5Live today about the Hight Speed Train line to Manchester. We were treated to the views of a 'businesswoman' from Manchester who told us how ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI seem to have missed the announcement that Keith Vaz is back in the government. You too? The reason I assume Keith is back in Government is that the BBC couldn't get enough from him. During the TI frenz...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Bipartisan deal] The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise among President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a historic accomplishment of separated government, with all...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoThe Norway Attacks look like an inside-job, involving, among others, fascist elements within the Norwegian police, military and security services. On 1 August 2011, *James Petras* writes about Norway (*Or...
The latest from Blogger Buzz
Latest updates, August 1st
August 1, 2011 — permalinkPosted by Brett Wiltshire, Product Operations
Hello Bloggers!
Over the last few days we’ve rolled out a handful of updates, all of which are available to everyone right now. Here’s the rundown:
Favicon graduates from DraftAs we announced on the Blogger in Draft blog earlier this month, we now offer an easy tool for creating custom favicons on your Blogger blog. We’re happy to announce today that this feature is now available to all Blogger users.
Since the initial release to Draft, we’ve added support for all image types (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc) and will now automatically resize the image to the correct favicon specifications. You can add a custom favicon to your blog right now on the Design | Page Elements tab, via the new favicon element shown below:
Swipe navigation for Mobile views
Adding to the featureset of our new mobile templates, you can now navigate through your mobile view with swipe navigation. This new navigation option lets you swipe through individual blog posts in a way that should feel very familiar for mobile and tablet users.If you are viewing this post from a mobile device, you can give this a try right now!
Support for +1 on Pages
A few weeks ago we announced the +1 button on Blogger, and now we’re happy to expand coverage to individual pages as well as blog posts. The +1 button will now appear on Pages as an option on the sharing widget just as it has appeared for individual blog posts.
That’s it for now, more to come soon! Happy Blogging.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
2 August - Blogs I'm Following
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