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*I suppose an industry that is getting its ass kicked by the Internet would feel that way. * "Pleasing Mr. Postman; In digital age, still savoring pen, paper, and stamp" August 27, 2011|By Anna Marden, G...
*Maybe you can gain some insight** from the Globe. * "New evidence cited in British hacking scandal; Letter shows practice known at newspaper" August 17, 2011|By
Alan Cowell and Ravi Somaiya, New York Tim...
*What else? Politics!* "Japan likely to replace unpopular PM Kan next week" August 23, 2011|Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Former Foreign Minister
Seiji Maehara said Tuesday night he wants to *take ove...
"An man with a prolific cattle rustling history spanning more than a decade was sentenced Wednesday to 99 years in prison for swindling bovines from a Mississippi rancher.... --more--"* * *Also see*: Tex...
Pecos Perry? Art from vintage childrens book via saltycotton /
Flickr. 'Emperor in a fig leaf': Rick Perry's tall tales of Texas By Michael Winship / Truthout / August 28, 2011 Although born and raised in...
** *Some nights she threw them all.* *by Ken* We eventually covered most of Thurber's 1933 fictionalized autobiography *My Life and Hard Times* (see the series index), starting with the "Preface to a Li...
"A former Delaware pediatrician will spend the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing scores of young patients over more than a decade, a judge ruled yesterday.... --more--"
I was in
London Drugs a couple of weeks back and on the shelves I spotted a new product, "Fresh Balls." Here's their ad, courtesy of YouTube:
A more severe crash than the one triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers could be on the way, according to alarm signals in the credit markets. Insurance on the debt of several major European banks ...
China has said it will vote in favour of Palestinian statehood when the matter is presented to the UN Security Council next month, the official Palestinian news agency said on Friday. A message to that e...
All eyes will be on Marks & Spencer for its fourth-quarter trading update on Wednesday for a glimpse of what's happening at one of the coal faces of the UK economy. Long gone are the days when M&S was th...
The 79-year-old Yevdokia Matushkina struggles to remember. Her memories often fail her. Except one. Sitting in her tiny room at a home for the elderly in the eastern Kazakh city of Semey, Matushkina re...
The United States and Israel are monitoring Syria's suspected arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, fearing that terror groups could take advantage of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad to obta...
The supply chain for British forces in Afghanistan is at risk of failure because information technology equipment that manages it is inadequate, a Parliament committee has warned. If the system broke dow...
Why didn't Ben Bernanke signal a third round of quantitative easing on Friday at the long-anticipated Jackson Hole summit? After all, at the same event last year, the US Federal Reserve chairman made it ...
Thousands of fishermen and business owners in a multi-billion-dollar legal battle with BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have won the right to sue for punitive damages, in a fresh defeat for the oil maj...
British trade with Libya could resume at pre-war levels as early as next week, with both BP and Royal Dutch Shell hoping to renew contracts with the rebel-led National Transitional Council (NTC) “as soon a...
New York has declared a state of emergency as hundreds of thousands of Americans were told to evacuate their homes in anticipation of Hurricane Irene. Governor Andrew Cuomo gave the order which allows him ...
A fall of $170 in two days has made investors nervous. Does it mark the end of the bull run or a buying opportunity? Gold's thunderous bull run came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday, raising questions abou...
Fresh fears that the UK’s education system is not “fit for purpose” have emerged after a number of studies reveal employers are increasingly put off hiring young people directly from school. Just 12pc of...
Some calcifiers (mussels, gastropods and corals) protect their shell or skeleton from the corrosive effects of increasing ocean acidification. They can therefore resist some of the damaging effects of incr...
For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas. As frustration builds among scientists, some of them hav...
Yemen's navy has foiled a suicide bomb attack on one of its warships off the coast of the Al-Qaeda stronghold of Abyan province in the south, the defence ministry said on its Internet site on Sunday. "A ...
Forget the wind and fury. Hurricane Irene's most worrisome weapon is water. There's just way too much of it: storm surge pushing seawater ashore and heavy rainfall causing flooding. That's not unusual wit...
The vice president of Abkhazia, Alexander Ankvab, won the presidential race in the breakaway Georgian region on Saturday, a victory that is likely to keep the territory in Russia's sphere of influence. F...
A convoy of six armored vehicles that could be carrying senior Libyan officials, maybe even fugitive leader Moammar Gaddafi, crossed from Libya into Algeria on Friday, Egypt's official news agency reported...
The secret door in the corner of the nondescript office swung open and I was ushered through. The walls were hung with pictures of Tripoli’s beautiful old city because the former primary school was servi...
Rare overtures by Myanmar’s reclusive, authoritarian rulers towards liberalisation and reform suggest change could be afoot in the isolated nation. The sudden stream of conciliatory gestures by Myanmar’s...
Americans are plenty angry at Congress in the aftermath of the debt crisis and Republicans could pay the greatest price, a new Associated Press-GfK poll suggests. The poll finds the tea party has lost su...
Standard & Poor's said it was an "oversimplification" to blame its stripping the US of the top AAA sovereign rating for recent market volatility, adding that many investors agreed with its action. Markets ...
Tropical Storm Jose formed near Bermuda on Sunday, becoming the 10th named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, U.S. forecasters said. At 11 a.m. EDT, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Jose ...
House Republicans maintain that NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is a huge waste of money. In fact it's such a huge waste of money they're planning to force through cuts that wo...
A suicide bomber has killed 28 people and wounded 37 others at a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, according to reports. The attack on the Um al-Qura mosque in the Al-Jamiaah district happened at 9.40pm d...
In 2008, Politico reported that "96 percent of black voters supported Obama and constituted 13 percent of the electorate." What did black people receive from President Barack Obama in return for their pol...
Had a good chuckle at Sunday Morning Live earlier today. The BBC provided lefty philosopher king Mehdi Hasan with a little film opportunity to put forth his view that the UK needs MORE rather than LESS im...
*Pick your poison* Forget for a moment that there's an on-going bloodbath in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, and that last week alone over 100 people were killed-- not in the tribal badlands but in the ...
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Not PC - 8 hours ago
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Manhattan appears to have escaped the worst of Hurricane Irene, with deserted city streets already drying off from amounts of rain and wind far less extreme than expected. After hundreds of thousands fled...
Libya will not extradite Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, a minister in Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday. "We will not giv...
A big h/t to Carey over at Finding Clarity for posting this Carlin sketch. And they called Carlin a "comedian." I'm reposting the clip because it needs to be disseminated as broadly as possible.
Wyoming *Secrecy is another red flag. * *Illoway, a Cheyenne Republican, refused a Star-Tribune request for a list of * *Wyoming legislators who are ALEC members. * *The next question is obvious: What do th...
Utah The 13th Article of the Mormon Faith begins with: *“We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, * *and in doing good to all men;”* How do these people sleep at night if they belong t...
In ancient Japan, early agriculturists worshiped mountains as the givers of life and fertility. As clouds gathered at the mountaintops, rain filled watersheds carrying nutrients from rich mountain earth d...
To D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Sunday that he expects damages from Hurricane Irene to run into the billions of dollars along the state's Atlantic coast and from inland river flooding. "I've got t...
New York is deserted today on what should be one of its busiest weekends for tourism of the year, as businesses count the cost of a four-day city shutdown after Hurricane Irene forced people indoors. But...
Delaware was pounded by Hurricane Irene on Saturday night, but Vice President Biden got in one last round of golf in his home state before the heavy stuff started coming down, Fox News has learned. Biden...
It is becoming abundantly clear that the rioters that took hold of the streets of Birmingham, London and Manchester two weeks ago show little remorse for their criminal behaviour. The actions of the riot...
When I was growing up, finance was mother’s milk to me, especially as I was a bit of a math geek. But for my formal education, I was trained—rather rigorously, and in spite of my laziness—as a philosopher ...
A new batch of economic figures released this week confirms a renewed economic downturn, amidst an intensified assault on jobs and living conditions internationally. The Organization for Economic Coopera...
The United Nations has warned that about 12-million people across the world have no citizenship of any country and consequently suffer from a denial of basic human rights. The problem is growing worse be...
Muslim women without headscarves are a common sight on the streets of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. But engaging them in a discussion about the hijab is difficult. Norhayati Kaprawi is a Malaysia...
A subterranean river said to be flowing beneath the Amazon region of Brazil is not a river in the conventional sense, even if its existence is confirmed. The "river" has been widely reported, after a stu...
More Chinese books need to be translated and more thought-provoking ideas need to be used in novels to elevate China's literary standing in the world, some of the country's top writers said Friday. Speak...
An Indian anti-corruption activist ended his hunger strike Sunday, a day after parliament resolved to accept his demands to tackle chronic corruption in the country. Anna Hazare, 74, has been fasting sin...
Typhoon Nanmadol reached the southern coast of Taiwan early Sunday, according to the Central Weather Bureau there, after killing at least seven people in the Philippines. The slow-moving storm is proj...
A man born without functioning legs ran the 400 meters in 45.07 seconds on July 19, 2011, the fastest time recorded by an amputee. The ripple effects of this historic achievement may initiate a paradigm sh...
Two children, aged four and six, have been filmed apparently shoplifting while being encouraged by their mother. CCTV footage appears to show the girl jumping onto a fridge in Muskars newsagent on Dale S...
As I write this, Hurricane Irene is on its way up the U.S. East Coast and, if the storm follows the current path projections, one thing is certain. Many buildings are soon to be destroyed -- perhaps number...
The East Coast of the United States was shaken up by a moderate earthquake on Tuesday that was felt from Maine to Florida, Virginia to Illinois. On TV we saw people run out of buildings, thinking it might ...
Up to a fifth of first class letters arrived late in parts of Britain over the three months to June, with half of UK postcodes missing their delivery targets as a result of Royal Mail cost-cutting. The p...
When Donald McAlpine and his colleagues broke through a snow barricade at the entrance to a cave in New Brunswick this March, bat carcasses covered the floor. The biologists had been conducting winter surv...
The State Department will remove a major roadblock to construction of a massive oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas when it releases its final environmental assessment of the project as soon as Fr...
Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found. Data recorded by the European Space Agency's (Esa) Envisat shows both Canada's Northwest Passage and ...
Scientists have named, cataloged, and described less than 2 million species in the past two and a half centuries, yet, according to an new innovative analysis, we are no-where near even a basic understandi...
McHenry County Department of Health officials have confirmed that the West Nile virus is in the area. A trap of mosquitoes in Woodstock tested positive for the virus, the health department said in a news...
South Africa's foreign minister said Monday she is hoping for compromise but expects only incremental progress in climate change talks she's hosting, further lowering hopes the Durban meeting will produce ...
*And the word is.... "eat?* "India to review anticorruption bill; Pressure builds to accept fasting activist’s draft" by Muneeza Naqvi, Associated Press / August 25, 2011 NEW DELHI - Indian lawmakers agr...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:16 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 54 km ( 33.5 miles) South of Garmsar, Iran ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.9 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:58 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 7.6 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:53 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
It looks like train journeys are about to get a whole lot noisier. The success of the e-book is to be expanded on this week when publishers add music and sound effects to novels. One of the first multim...
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ - Crews are monitoring a 30-acre fire that sparked inside the Tonto National Forest Saturday afternoon. Forest officials said the lightning-caused Mud Fire was reported around 1...
CCTV footage has been released today of a shaven-headed man hunted by police over the killing of a pensioner bludgeoned with a hammer in her own home. Three forces in the north east are searching for miss...
*Quite a difference from the full meals the agenda-pushing media was presenting a few weeks ago.* "FLEEING FROM FAMINE -- A family from southern Somalia sat yesterday in a makeshift shelter in a refugee c...
*Carlos Kleiber conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the first movement of the Beethoven Fourth Symphony, here "analyzed with the assistance of Robert Greenberg's Wordscore Guides."* *"The Fourth Sy...
The glamour model ex-girlfriend of Colonel Gaddafi's playboy son has told of the terrifying moment she was captured by rebels who threatened to 'burn her alive'. Talitha van Zon had been with Mutassim Gad...
One of Britain's most notorious paedophiles - dubbed the Beast of Sligo- is back on the streets and free to mingle with children and families. Irishman Joseph McColgan, 69 was spotted among families at a ...
In handing Libya to Al Qaeda, the line has been forever crossed. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci First - let's not labor under any delusions. Obama, Cameron, and Sarkozy are heads of state in name only. ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 75 km (46.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:09:54 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 204 km (126 miles) ENE of Manado, Sulawesi, Indo...
*And I'm hungry!* "Food fundamentals; In Lawrence, grocery stores are only one part of the puzzle when it comes to promoting healthy eating habits and curbing obesity" by Neena Satija, Globe Correspondent...
[image: Change in ocean pH, preindustrial-2100 CE. NRDC / Virginia Institute of Marine Science] The pH of ocean waters has decreased by about 0.1 since preindustrial times. Each tenth of a pH point repr...
Personally, I would've preferred impeachment but as long as we got Rep. Pete King out of Congress... Consider this an open thread. Tell me about your Hurricane (or tropical storm) Irene stories. Postin...
Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month. More than a million people are expected t...
Nothing would please me more than the implementation of an entirely conservative policy platform. The conservative was US President Theodore Roosevelt. The policy platform was Roosevelt's "Square Deal...
*Now that the news coverage has again diminished to nearly nothing.* "Massacre suspect returns to scene" August 15, 2011|Associated Press OSLO - Held tightly on a police harness, the Norwegian man who con...
I was up much of the night, listening to the wind whistle, worried about the creek flooding and trees crashing. I heard four of them in the dark, but none close by. As soon as it was light I looked out th...
*Then they can use the health care. * "Medicare gives state hospitals $275m lift; Other regions rip change in rules" August 05, 2011|By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff Massachusetts hospitals will get *$275 mi...
*And we all know who** calls Congre$$ home. * "Home care cutbacks put strain on elderly; Plans sacrificed to trim budgets" July 17, 2011|By John Seewer and Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press TOLEDO, O...
*I only use cash.* "More using credit to pay for basics" July 22, 2011|By Bloomberg News US consumers are *increasingly using credit cards* to *pay for basic necessities* as income gains fail to keep pace...
*Good thing you can get bulk at less cost. * *Now on your knees! * "Big payouts promised for BJ’s executives" July 22, 2011|By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. chief executive Laura Sen...
"Eric Beyer named CEO of Tufts Medical Center" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff Tufts posted a *profit* of *$5.3 million* *last year*.... But like other hospitals in Boston and across the state, Tufts will ...
*A far cry from Braveheart.* "Former legislator Wallace indicted; He is accused of failing to report political donations" July 22, 2011|By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff A Suffolk County grand jury yesterday fi...
"Gun control advocates encouraged by recent court rulings" August 21, 2011|By Robert Barnes, Washington Post WASHINGTON - A funny thing has happened in the three years since gun rights activists won their...
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wmtc - 14 hours ago
I missed this song in the 80s, along with the video, filmed on the streets of Toronto. Perhaps it was a Canadian thing that didn't cross the border very much, but I only know "Rise Up" from the 2011 NDP ...
Friday evening, when everyone was freaking out about Irene, Chris Hayes was freaking out about something more *directly* man-made, the Ohio Republican Party's latest plan to kick the unemployed while th...
*Let the Globe be your umpire*: "Tennis star trailed by allegations of abuse; After a Hall of Fame playing career, Bob Hewitt became a coveted coach. But some young girls he taught say he preyed on them s...
Five police officers were killed and 7 more wounded in a twin bomb attack in Baghdad on Sunday, an Iranian Interior Ministry spokesman said. He added that the bombings took place in the Iraqi capital’s Gha...
Two suicide bombers hit a military barracks in Algeria on Friday, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the North African country in recent years. The attackers arrived by motorbike near t...
The United States has so far stopped short of commenting on a Taliban claim that they killed scores of American forces in Afghanistan on Saturday. The Taliban claimed on Saturday that 64 US-led troops wer...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:19 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 1432 km (890 miles) East of...
POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland are searching the area around a leisure centre in Co Antrim after they received a warning that a bomb had been left there this morning. The Sixmile Leisure Centre on the Ballynu...
ANKARA, Turkey - A news report says a small bomb has exploded on a beach in a Mediterranean resort, slightly injuring six people and causing panic. NTV television says the bomb went off early on Sunday on...
*Much the way I ignore most of the Boston Globe these days. * Looming large The rain should arrive first, beginning late tonight. By early tomorrow afternoon, Hurricane Irene’s winds are forecast to pick u...
A DECADE of clinical animal mutilations in Wales is being investigation by pathologists who suspect aliens may be to blame. The organisation, called the Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU), was set up in ...
*A huge locust swarm invaded the city yesterday shortly before 4pm. It came from the northwest and northeast directions. It was several miles long, and hovered over Karachi for at least two-and-a-half hour...
CNN is reporting that *Maryland nuclear reactor automatically* went *offline * on Saturday *due* to the wind *gusts*. Officials say the power station is safe.
Municipalities looking to clean up radiation "hot spots" caused by the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power plant are facing stiff local resident opposition as they search for temporary disposal s...
Experts say there is no technology or machinery available that can quickly remove radioactive substances from soil. Steady and repeated efforts are required to gradually reduce radioactive substances by re...
The amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, Japan's nuc...
B.C. applied at the Cohen Commission on Friday to keep private a database of its audits of dead fish at salmon farms. Environmental groups are fighting the suppression effort at the inquiry, which is exam...
So, maybe there were some local victims of Tuesday's earthquake after all. That's a possibility Loganville resident Carl Wiessel can't help but wonder about. Wiessel woke up Wednesday morning to find 60 o...
Although the storm is now far north of the Sunshine State, Hurricane Irenemay have claimed two lives in Florida on Saturday, both involving deaths in rough coastal surf. Saturday morning, a local teacher ...
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Europe - 20 hours ago
Holy 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 *China expanding its nuclear stockp...
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Europe - 20 hours ago
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several ...
Lord Stirling's News Blog Europe
Holy Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several f...
At least five people were killed and 53 were injured when a tourist tram was derailed in Brazil's second largest city of Rio de Janeiro, health and rescue officials reported. The accident occurred in the...
As many as 21,590 hens infected with bird flu were culled at a poultry farm in Chuadanga. With assistance from the district administration, Rafid Poultry and Hatchery on Saturday killed and buried all th...
17 people, including children, were rushed to hospital after being overcome by chlorine fumes at a public swimming pool at Markt-Indersdorf in Bavaria, Germany. The children were evacuated after experienc...
There has been another shocking twist in the death of Russell Armstrong. Alan Schram, a business associate and friend of the late Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star, also killed himself just 24 hour...
posted by Robin Horbury at
Biased BBC - 21 hours ago
I love this one. According to BBC eco-warrior Matt McGrath, the number of mosquitoes is in sharp decline in parts of Africa because "climate change" has (without question) changed rainfall patterns and "di...
A paediatrician who decorated his office with Disney characters and miniature amusement park rides has been convicted of abusing scores of young patients over more than a decade and will spend the rest of ...
A 15-year-old girl has been paralysed as 11 people were gunned down in a Wild West-style shoot-out at a teen house party. Eleven people were shot at the going-away party for one of the teens, in the ear...
The owner of a frozen yoghurt shop has been accused of attacking an employee, removing her clothes, binding her with tape and locking her in a box. Robert Yachen Lee is being held on $10m bail charged wit...
When a local television reporter became covered in a mysterious foam while reporting on the hurricane he said, 'it doesn't taste great'. But what he did not know that he was actually being immersed in the...
Hurricane Irene began to batter New York City in the early hours of Sunday morning as heavy rain caused fears of severe flooding after the city had been reduced to a ghost town. As the city nervously awai...
A 10-year-old boy collapsed and died in front of his twin brother after his parents refused to let him drink water for five day, it is claimed. Jonathan James died from dehydration in Dallas after his fat...
Areas around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant could remain uninhabitable for 20 years, Japan warned yesterday. The plant is still leaking low-level radiation nearly six months after the earthquake an...
Another week, another crisis in the eurozone and another heart attack in the markets. The FTSE is yo-yoing around the 5,000 danger mark in febrile trading and there has been a rush for safe havens: the S...
*Website for this image** *On 28 August 2011, in the UK's top-selling Mail On Sunday, *Peter Hitchens*writes: (We're cheering on a football crowd with AK-47s, who could be worse than Gaddafi ) *1.* "I...
The bodies of up to 150 Libyan civilians were found yesterday near Tripoli after allegedly being massacred by pro-Gaddafi forces. Journalists said they counted as many as 53 executed bodies in a burnt-out...
The destructive power of Hurricane Irene was revealed tonight as at least nine people, including two children, were dead as the storm lashed North Carolina and Virginia as it charged up the East Coast towa...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 11.9 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:30:32 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) WSW of Valpara...
*Dick Cheney's Heart of Evil, Psychopathic Political Systems, And The Correct Uses of Social Stigma* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 27, 2011* "Ponerology was born in the crucible of attempts ...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of just 240.6 km (149.5miles), the quake hit at 04:24:36 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 217 km (134 miles) SSE of Lata, ...
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:03:22 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 9 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinnacl...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of just 46.2 km (28.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:52:04 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) South of Miyazaki, Kyu...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Offshore Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of just 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:44:52 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) WSW of Manza...
In the wake of the Russian Progress vehicle crash, a chain of events has been set into motion that could result in the decision not to fly astronauts into orbit.
*In the piano reduction we can see just how short the magical introduction to Beethoven's First Symphony really is. The performance is by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by its then-music director, our...
summersk The ponzi scheme is coming down. And yes time will fix it, after the Great Depression all will be fine again. We created bubbles to keep the music playing. We relied on housing because banks cre...
Officials in the mid-Atlantic states and southern New England on Saturday sounded fresh warnings about Hurricane Irene and told residents they were nearly out of time to leave for safer ground. "Even if ...
Photo copyright Stop the Tar Sands/Keepers of the Athabasca *Native American and Canadian First Nations To Take Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline* By Indigenous Envir...
*Sure, it's a matter of appearance rather than reality, but Governor Cuomo conveys the appearance of a mealy-mouthed bureaucrat. (He's surrounded here by National Guardsmen because he was announcing a doub...
The right hook for a northern hemisphere hurricane is the most dangerous, but the location varies depending on the path the hurricane is traveling.
Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered six "Y dwarfs"-- star-like bodies with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hunted these dar...
August hasn't been a happy month the for the Monsanto public-relations team. No, I'm not referring to my posts on how Gaza and Mexico don't need the company's high-tech seeds—the ones it will supposedly be...
All the excitement about nanotechnology comes down to this: Structures of materials at the scale of billionths of a meter take on unusual properties. Technologists often focus on the happier among these ne...
Sheri Stewart didn't know what to do when a crop duster soaked her and her home with pesticide recently. "What she should have done was call us immediately," said Dave Scott, manager of the pesticide pro...
This page opposes the building of a 1,700-mile pipeline called the Keystone XL, which would carry diluted bitumen — an acidic crude oil — from Canada’s Alberta tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast. We have tw...
Efforts to feed an extra 2 billion people by mid-century could lead to widespread destruction of forests, wetlands and other natural systems that protect and regulate the world’s water, researchers warn. ...
A Canadian woman was among as many as 50 environmental activists handcuffed and taken to jail Sunday on the second day of peaceful White House protests against TransCanada Corp.’s controversial Keystone XL...
The vultures are startled and take flight as our pickup truck arrives at the giant carcass lying in the lowveld. They have had a week to pick its bones. All that remains of "Izzy", a six-year-old white rhi...
Royal Dutch Shell's North Sea oil spill off the coast of England is just the latest example of oil fouling the environment. Other instances of leaking oil from just the past 30 odd years (millions of gallo...
European Union governments agreed on Friday to broaden their sanctions against Syria to allow for future bans on business with Syrian banks or energy and telecommunications firms, EU diplomats said. Duri...
A six-second clip on Chinese state television has provided a rare glimpse into purported cyber hacking attacks launched by the country’s military, despite long-standing official denials that the governm...
The African Union declined Friday to recognise Libya’s rebel authority as Muammar Qadhafi’s regime is collapsing, and instead called for forming an all-inclusive transitional government. With rebels stil...
Syrian security forces killed at least two people as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters flooded the streets on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramazan, a time that many activists hoped wo...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol investigators said Tuesday that they intercepted a feared nonnative beetle in bags of rice that arrived at O'Hare International Airport from India, the latest in a surge of d...
Phone service often cuts out when it's needed the most – when disaster strikes. That applies to cellphones too, even though they seem independent of power and phone lines. Here are some tips for commun...
Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, n...
About half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese by 2030 if current trends continue, health experts warned today. Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable caus...
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are disappearing in some parts of Africa, but scientists are unsure as to why. Figures indicate controls such as anti-mosquito bed nets are having a significant impact on the ...
A city officer arrested a Spring Creek man Wednesday morning at the Elko Area Regional Airport, where he works for the Transportation Security Administration, on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness w...
The city of Warren is cracking down on those who harbor mosquitoes after the suspected death this week of a Macomb County man from the West Nile Virus. Mayor Jim Fouts said those who have stagnant pools o...
An El Paso County jury on Friday awarded nearly $300,000 to the daughter of a burglar who was fatally shot in 2009 while breaking into an auto lot. Parents of the victim, Robert Johnson Fox, embraced thei...
It looks like the more telling news on Libya has migrated to the business pages. With jubilant reporting of Gaddafi's imminent downfall seizing headlines, it's the financial pages that have the clinical an...
THE Scottish justice secretary said officials are trying to contact Libyan rebel leaders as part of efforts to track down the Lockerbie bomber. Kenny MacAskill said attempts are being made to reach the Nat...
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in...
Please note that this video contains political opinions that do not necessarily reflect those of The Coming Crisis. The sole purpose of publishing this video is to show some previously unseen earthquake...
A *cruel and unusual punisment*, without first being accused, and *convicted of a crime.* *U.S. Constitution: Eight Amendment* Annotations "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines im...
Photo credit to Blackandbrown news If you read the whole story you will find that these rats are out of control, they tried to eat some kids who were on the playground A photo making the rounds ...
Not all that long ago I took on the propaganda phrase “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.” I pointed out that it was used when there was no evidence for a particular theory and it is the last d...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of just 503.7 km (313 miles), the quake hit at 20:31:53 UTC Saturday 27th August 2011. The epicenter was 445 km ( 276 miles) SSW ...
Right in the middle of George Clooney first working on this film centered around a morals-free candidate in a Democratic primary, Obama won and the country-- or at least Clooney's circles-- felt too upb...
At least 6 people have been killed and several others remain missing after Typhoon Mina pounded the northern Philippines with heavy rains and high winds, authorities said on Saturday. Two children aged 5...
Taiwan has issued a warning to residents of its southern and eastern regions as powerful typhoon Nanmadol approaches after hitting the northern Philippines. Nanmadol caused flooding and landslides and kn...
***Website for this image** * The people behind the Norway attacks are: *1.* Very powerful within the police, military, media and government in Norway, and, in a host of other countries worldwide. *2....
** *Some nights she threw them all.* *by Ken* We eventually covered most of Thurber's 1933 fictionalized autobiography *My Life and Hard Times* (see the series index), starting with the "Preface to a Li...
A more severe crash than the one triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers could be on the way, according to alarm signals in the credit markets. Insurance on the debt of several major European banks ...
China has said it will vote in favour of Palestinian statehood when the matter is presented to the UN Security Council next month, the official Palestinian news agency said on Friday. A message to that e...
All eyes will be on Marks & Spencer for its fourth-quarter trading update on Wednesday for a glimpse of what's happening at one of the coal faces of the UK economy. Long gone are the days when M&S was th...
The 79-year-old Yevdokia Matushkina struggles to remember. Her memories often fail her. Except one. Sitting in her tiny room at a home for the elderly in the eastern Kazakh city of Semey, Matushkina re...
The United States and Israel are monitoring Syria's suspected arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, fearing that terror groups could take advantage of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad to obta...
The supply chain for British forces in Afghanistan is at risk of failure because information technology equipment that manages it is inadequate, a Parliament committee has warned. If the system broke dow...
Why didn't Ben Bernanke signal a third round of quantitative easing on Friday at the long-anticipated Jackson Hole summit? After all, at the same event last year, the US Federal Reserve chairman made it ...
Thousands of fishermen and business owners in a multi-billion-dollar legal battle with BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have won the right to sue for punitive damages, in a fresh defeat for the oil maj...
British trade with Libya could resume at pre-war levels as early as next week, with both BP and Royal Dutch Shell hoping to renew contracts with the rebel-led National Transitional Council (NTC) “as soon a...
New York has declared a state of emergency as hundreds of thousands of Americans were told to evacuate their homes in anticipation of Hurricane Irene. Governor Andrew Cuomo gave the order which allows him ...
A fall of $170 in two days has made investors nervous. Does it mark the end of the bull run or a buying opportunity? Gold's thunderous bull run came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday, raising questions abou...
Fresh fears that the UK’s education system is not “fit for purpose” have emerged after a number of studies reveal employers are increasingly put off hiring young people directly from school. Just 12pc of...
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