- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 28 minutes agoMy home town council looks like it was hand picked by the Rotary Club. My provincial government is a self-proclaimed agent of free enterprise, everything from developers to fish farmers to Big Oil and Big...
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[image: towns battle floods] The full determine of Hurricane Irene's fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods and millionsfaced the disappointing pr... - posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour agoIf you’re wondering, just like I was, what was happening tonight with the group, I’ve just had this message from the organisers: Hello all. Due to the mid-semester holiday the university economics group ...
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Syrian security forces have killed at least six people and wounded dozens in raids across the country, as tanks and armoured vehicles rolled into various flashpoint areas, according to human rights groups.... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Chinese rescuers have pulled 22 coal miners from their flooded pit after being trapped underground for a week. State television showed the men being brought slowly to the surface on Tuesday with all appa... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*AS I WROTE ORIGINALLY, IN DECEMBER:* "A Ride With Olympy" first appeared in the *New Yorker* of April 30, 1938. It was collected in *My World and Welcome to It* (1942) and then appeared in *The Thurb... - posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours agoI’ve never quite understood why the Prime Minister, John Boy Key, is considered some sort of economic guru. I’ve seen no evidence of it, despite his predilection for meddling. He’s certainly got no han...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoGuest contributor Adam Crowl, investigates how the development of a starship will ultimately transform the way we build things on Earth.
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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 *The Rothschild Formula ~ link ~... - posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 3 hours ago
*Fullarton U.S.S.A - Pigs Beat a man to Death and Walk!* * * *Local Citizens Step Up Against Arrogant Crooked City Hall!* *FREE PALESTINE!* *TRUTH IS NOT YIDDISH | FACTS ARE NOT ASHKENAZIM* - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago
*Plus a final note of apology re. Hurricane Irene* *From the HuffPost World report:* *"With its panoramic views and opulent furniture, the seaside home of Hannibal Gaddafi more closely resembles a luxury... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago*America is Lost in The Land of Oz* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 29, 2011* "There is an apathy that is running rampant in this country that is deadly. We are truly now, at this moment, a na...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 4 hours agoSo what does it mean when the religion of global warming goes from insane to batshit insane? Amy Peikoff reckons it means they’ve jumped the shark. If an idea’s proponents grasping at ever more implaus...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoWhy he must never be considered for the White House - NEVER!! From the ALEC 2000 Annual REport Well over 100 ALEC members hold senior leadership positions in their state legislatures, while hundreds more h...
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Yoshihiko Noda, whose election Monday to lead Japan’s ruling party means he will become prime minister, campaigned for the job by comparing himself to the loach, an unattractive, bottom-feeding fish. “My... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
For years, national security experts have warned that Mexico’s drug violence could send a wave of refugees fleeing to the United States. Now, the refugees are arriving — and they are driving BMWs and snapp... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
In 2008, a secret State Department cable warned of a growing chemical weapons threat from a Middle Eastern country whose autocratic leader had a long history of stirring up trouble in the region. The leade... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A Puerto Rico lawmaker has resigned following reports that explicit photos of him surfaced on an iPhone application for gays and bisexuals, the head of the U.S. territory’s Senate announced Sunday. Sen. ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was given a presentation on the new project to expand the mataf (the circumambulation areas around the Holy Kaaba). The project, which will be completed in... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIsrael would not be able to halt Iran's reported quest for atomic weapons with a single strike, a senior Israeli defense official said on Sunday. Israel and the West suspect Iran is trying to use its nucl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoShe was expected to wreak havoc on Manhattan, wrecking homes, flooding cars and toppling trees as she roared across the city. But while Hurricane Irene did not strike New York with the ferocity many expe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSomalia, a nation that has endured two decades of civil war, has fallen deeper into an abyss. This time the culprit is famine. The Islamist militia al-Shabab has prevented international aid from reaching t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoChairman Ben Bernanke is not calling for another fix to the economy by the Federal Reserve because he's already used up all the quivers in the Fed's bow, Rep. Ron Paul said Sunday. Paul is a 2012 Republi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA former federal security officer has admitted helping a man accused of running a drug ring evade security and smuggle money through the Buffalo Niagara Airport. Minnetta Walker was arrested in March. Sh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoForget the moral rights and wrongs. Forget, too, talk of a woman’s right vs a baby’s right. Britons should see abortion as a consumer issue. Then they ‘ll cheer Nadine Dorries MP for ending the monopoly en...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe last bastion of silence in Britain has been breached. As today’s Telegraph reports, publishers are now producing the first “enhanced e-books”, where soundtracks are provided along with the text. The fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoChina’s maverick artist Ai Weiwei has spoken out directly for the time about his 81-day incarceration at the hands of China’s secret police, likening his experience to a Kafkaesque nightmare. In an emoti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTerminally ill patients who want to commit suicide should be able to receive medical help to die, a government adviser on care for the elderly has said. Martin Green, a dementia expert for the Department ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFor the television reporter, clad in his red cagoule emblazoned with the CNN logo, it was a dramatic on-air moment, broadcasting live from Long Island, New York during a hurricane that also threatened Manh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOne day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore. In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Proj...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCopper wire thieves have left a 33 mile stretch of I-95 in Palm Beach County in the dark. More than 175,000 feet of copper wiring needed for the overhead lighting has been stolen from 18 sites in the las...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Texas power grid operator said electric usage this week could break the all-time peak seen earlier this month and urged consumers to reduce power use to avoid rolling outages. A brutal heatwave now e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoI'm sitting in the expansive spaces of Renzo Piano's four-storey airport outside Osaka, sipping an Awake tea from Starbucks and waiting for my bus home. I've chosen to live in Japan for the past 20 years, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDisney's best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law, according to an investigation. One wo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA former Webster University student who was studying to be a family counselor says in a lawsuit that he was dismissed from a master's degree program after it was determined that he lacked empathy. The su...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSome people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000 — what would have been his compensation for the next three ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCornelius Osborne may not seem like baby-sitting material. He was convicted of raping two women. A succession of felonies, from robbery to failing to register as a sex offender, repeatedly sent him to pri...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe United Nations warned of a possible major resurgence of bird flu and said a mutant strain of the H5N1 virus was spreading in Asia and elsewhere. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Mon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTripoli's sole psychiatric hospital, already unable to cope under Kadhafi, struggled Sunday with a flood of new cases brought on by the revolution's battles, as well as a lack of drugs, staff and space. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Gee, we made the regional and national news because of the floods 'round h're. State big wigs have been up in the air all day, and I saw their procession down the main street of town (technically city now...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoHow Congress Rewarded the Corps of Engineers for Drowning New Orleans ~Sandy Rosenthal, Huff Post ~Sandy hipped us to this gallery of 6th Anniversary pics and captions.Personally I'm not into it, slamming ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoWe have it reconfirmed this morning, as if we needed reconfirmation, that earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are not good for economies, or for people. First of all, we’re now...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours agoNew Orleans after Katrina. Image from Slate. Six years after Katrina: The battle for New Orleans continuesPolitical power has shifted to whites, but blacks have not given up their struggle for a voice -- and...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoWe'd be very grateful if commenter *Terminal* could get in contact with one of the Biased BBC administrators: *David Vance* via here or *All Seeing Eye*through here. We have a favour to ask, please! Clic...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoTwo illumination modes -- steady glow and flash -- make it hard to miss you during those nighttime rides.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA high-tech 'kitchen garden' may be the answer to the worry about what astronauts may eat on a long journey to Mars.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoNon-dairy ice creams can be disappointing, but a new, plant-based ice cream promises a better taste and the creamy texture of milk.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours ago*Authoritarian religion & fascism: a match made in Heaven* Although the right-wing/Know Nothing faction of the Republican Party has traditionally been not just Protestant but vehemently anti-Semitic and a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoTop scientists arrested/Photo by Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action By Tar Sands Action http://www.tarsandsaction.org WASHINGTON, DC – America’s top climate scientist and a large group of religious leaders were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis incredible cosmic image shows a nebula with an open cluster of stars inside it. Described by Nasa as 'a busy workshop of star formation', NGC 281 is better known as the Pac-Man Nebula due to its dist...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 9 hours agoIt would be easy to dismiss the failures in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in New Orleans six years ago today on Monday, August 29, 2005, thusly: It was a storm of virtually un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice have arrested six people after an explosion ripped through a kebab shop, destroying it. Passers-by were 'incredibly lucky' to have not been hit by flying debris from the blast which rocked the buil...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoClick here to read the text of the speech. And click here to listen to the speech.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago*“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoBecause of noise pollution, some birds are forced to sing at higher frequencies making them less attractive.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago"In the last several months there have been reports about Libya that have turned out to be part of the stunningly foreign-orchestrated regime change agenda... "One example that comes to mind is British...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 204.2 km (126.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:39 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 127 km ( 79 miles) Southeast of Santo (Luganvill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMajor South Korean news outlets, commenting on the expected elevation of Japan's Yoshihiko Noda to prime minister this week, expressed concern Monday about Noda's "far-right and militaristic view of histor...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 9 hours agoBy Duane Craig I only thought this kind of problem happened in rural areas where people have more land than they know what to do with. But apparently no matter where you are buying property, you have to b...
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 10 hours ago*Malaria 2007* Global warming will put millions more people at risk of malaria and dengue fever, according to a United Nations report that calls for an urgent review of the health dangers posed by climate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLibya's de facto government considers Algeria's sheltering of members of fallen strongman Muammar Gaddafi's family an act of aggression and will seek their extradition, a National Transitional Council spok...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRebel commanders say Khamis Gaddafi, one of Colonel Gaddafi's most feared sons, has been killed in an air strike 60km south of Tripoli. He is said to have been in an armoured Toyota Land Cruiser when it w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA day care worker in Shanghai attacked eight children with a knife Monday, sending five boys and three girls to the hospital with cuts on their necks and faces, Chinese state media reported. The reports ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRaised in a $1.5 million Barrington Hills, Ill., home by their attorney father, two grown children have spent the last two years pursuing a unique lawsuit against their mom for "bad mothering" that alleges...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe F word is back. Back in the financial markets, back in the conclaves of central bank governors, back among the manufacturers and the high-street retailers. The four-letter word is fear. Back in the s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUnless you are a multi-millionarie or even billionaire, you will be damaged by the coming economic collapse. I think those that thought they were Rich are quickly finding out they are not so...Charles Ar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLast month’s 117,000 expansion in nonfarm payrolls wasn’t even strong enough to meet population growth — and the August report may even be worse. Economists polled by MarketWatch are expecting the Labor D...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEconomic inequality has grown across Massachusetts, but no one has to tell Mindy Shoestock that. Laid off several years ago from a $12-an-hour job as a housekeeping supervisor at a ski lodge, she took a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoI WONDER whether President Obama, vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard, read last Sunday’s front-page story about conditions in North Adams (“Between haves, have-nots, an ever greater gulf’’). How would he rea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice are investigating after a male motorcyclist's neck was slashed when he rode into a thin wire on an east-end street Sunday afternoon. The motorcyclist was on his way to work when his neck caught a l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA British manufacturer will build a fleet of airships for Yellowknife’s Discovery Air to supply remote communities and enterprises in the North, the two companies say. The futuristic giant blimps from Hy...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq in a series of air strikes last week which killed up to 160 rebels, Turkish officials say. There has been an increase in attacks by the Kurdistan W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Palestinian man has wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub, ramming a car into a checkpoint and stabbing five people, police say. The man drove a stolen taxi into the checkpoint, injuring two ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAvian flu shows signs of a resurgence, while a mutant strain - able to sidestep vaccines - could be spreading in Asia, the United Nations has warned. The variant appeared in Vietnam and China and its ris...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEuropean Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet has called for swift action to help Greece. He urged eurozone governments to rapidly implement the 21 July agreement, which allows for a second b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRebel fighters gave loyalists in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown a Monday deadline to disarm or face "liberation," an opposition spokesman said. Thousands of rebels gathered Sunday on the outskirts of the f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn environmental group on Monday urged the incoming Japanese prime minister to delay the start of school near a nuclear plant crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami six months ago. Fukushima city s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA day care worker in Shanghai attacked eight children with a knife Monday, sending five boys and three girls to the hospital with cuts on their necks and faces, Chinese state media reported. The reports ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOn Oyu Tolgoi -- "Turquoise Hill" -- the biggest business venture in Mongolia is taking shape. The copper resources aren't new to locals -- after all, for thousands of years locals dug out copper to m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(click picture to enlarge) THE Arab Spring is a hopeful chapter in Middle Eastern politics, but the region’s history points to darker outcomes. There are no recent examples of extended power-sharing or p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe hardline Chinese official removed last week as Communist Party chief of restive Tibet has been made head of the province in the centre of contention over China's Catholics, giving him an influential ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith British Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water canons in wake of the turbulent London riots spreading through Britain, questions have been raised about how aut...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn this following PDF published by the Asian Developing Bank, hidden away on pages 119-120 of this behemoth report is a small section called, "Roles of Crises in Shaping Regional Integration". This mostly ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith the cost of filling a family car rising by almost a third in a year, many Britons have opted to ditch a vehicle rather than bear the cost, according to a YouGov survey of 2,000 adults. Almost 20 per...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoImagine if long-term drought were to strike a part of the rural United States, Wyoming say, or Montana. There would be bank foreclosures as the price of cattle would fall because there was too many of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA STATION was evacuated and 15 people needed emergency treatment after a train on line 1 of the Madrid metro caught fire today. When the fire broke out at Alvarado station, all passengers were forced to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOne in seven people are convinced that the U.S. government was involved in a conspiracy to stage the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people. A survey, which interviewed 1,000 people in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 173 km (107.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:37:06 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 62 km ( 38 miles) ESE of Pucallpa, Peru No r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: San Francisco's Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Plant, sludge digesters. Paul Cockrell / wp.cwea.org] By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News 19 August 2011 Ten of the nation's largest water utilities ha...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 11 hours agoWe've All Gone Saucer-Happy! by Manuel Carballal There can be no doubt that the UFO phenomenon is a fascinating subject. Some of us are so enthusiastic about it that it drives us crazy. Intoxicated b...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Two Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority trains sit in water on flooded tracks at Trenton train station Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, in Trenton, N.J., as rains from Hurricane Irene are ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe wife and three children of Moammar Gadhafi are in Algeria, the state press agency said on Monday, citing the nation's Foreign Ministry. His wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, two of his sons, Hannibal an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA nanny who worked for one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons has told how boiling hot water was poured over her head after she refused to beat his daughter. Shweyga Mullah's entire body is covered in weeping scab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 605.7 km (376.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:28:33 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 79 km ( 49 miles) Sout...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe three-man crew was to return on Sept. 8, but due to a Russian cargo ship crash, they will now likely return in mid-September.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: A crane is used to sample dust at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3, 24 August 2011. TEPCO] By David McNeill 29 August 2011 Soma City (The Independent) – Yoshio Ichida is recal...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoThese Twisted Ribbon Roses are no sew, easy to make, pretty and different. Add them to a hair clip or glue them directly onto a bag to create a perfect accent. You will need: Three Paper Clips A length o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoI knew my old pal Denise Sullivan has been working on a book about Black music as a part of political expression in America and I knew she's been working on it for at least 4 or 5 years. So when I got a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:19:58 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 114 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours agoLa Araña – When Time Stood Still... By Luis Burgos, Fundación Argentina de OvnilogÃa Introduction While the return of a considerable portion of unidentified craft to the “scene of the crime” (based on ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Cover of 'A Climate of Suffering: The Real Costs of Living with Inaction on Climate Change', published 26 August 2011. climateinstitute.org.au] By Erik Jensen Health 29 August 2011 RATES of me...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 12 hours ago*Just following up on the NEW FIELD OF MEDICINE* Mutated by the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics, Clostridium difficile — a bacteria that can take over the intestines and destroy the bowel — kills ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago***Ronald Lauder, David Rockefeller, George Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg * It has been said that the the most powerful person in the world is David Rockefeller. Some researchers say the Rockefeller family is...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoAccording to *Asia Times*, the Libyan rebel commander now in charge in Tripoli and his colleagues elsewhere throughout the country are al-Qaeda assets. *His name is Abdelhakim Belhaj. Some in the Middle E...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThis app graphs and analyzes your run, while comparing it to other users.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Rapid spread: a bushfire races through small farms in the north-west Sydney suburb of Ebenezer, August 2011. Nick Moir / smh.com.au] By Nicky Phillips 29 August 2011 A THICK blanket of grass sp...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoBREAKING NEWS: 143 ready to be arrested, biggest crowd by far yet! Big crowd ready to be arrested at the White House. Halt the Tar Sands Pipeline. Already 381 people arrested. Hello President Obama! (Are ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThe Australian government is moving to protect steelworkers' jobs against the impacts of its own carbon pricing regime at a cost of $36,000 per year per worker. *In a report to be released today, the inst...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoKarl Marx had a theory of capitalism that few of us have managed to understand and fewer still accept. We wrote him off as a communist agitator, an enemy of democracy and our economic model. In that, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoFrancis Emule News (Spanish) direct our attention to a very interesting conference that took place in Madison, Wisconsin last week: String Phenomenology 2011 (talks) There are many interesting talks in ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoAn upcoming book about a girl who goes on a diet is being widely criticized, but the book's threat is likely overstated.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoI get an awful of of email to B-BBC and 99.9% of it is a pleasure to read and I regularly post some of the numerous excellent observations. However every now and again I get mail from deep inside Arkham ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoThis is just one of many action items that I have done in relation to trying to educate people about ALEC. This Saturday - September 3 until noon, max. I am looking for three volunteers to help at the M...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe response likely evolved from when we had to run after -- or from -- animals for survival.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe's revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eru...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours agoAfter a week of tributes and mourning, the talk in Ottawa is sure to turn to "what now" this week, as the NDP begins the process of replacing Jack Layton. Of course, some did not wait that long. Anonymou...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoI just finished reading Glen Yeadon's fantastic book, *The Nazi Hydra In America* I've been quoting at such great length for the last couple months. Towards the end is the story of the CIA assassination...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours agoI have to wonder about the increasing "news" of space aliens and visitations? Hell, Paul Krugman even suggested that an alien invasion, even a fake one, could help the ailing economy. What nonsense!...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours agoAs goes the quotes by Maxwell “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”The best example for these quotes is MR Frank Delape the CEO of benchmark equity group and he is the real ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago[image: IMG_0055] Nothing remains to be said about Jack Layton, the man and the leader. I certainly can't say anything that hasn't been said so many times already. I can only continue to miss him, and to...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 16 hours ago...and debt ridden country's "news" uses propaganda to trick its people to think otherwise, using "HUMANITARIAN REASONS" as the usual FAKE reason...the truth is: Ghadaffi sounds like a better leader than B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Admiralty Islands Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:31:04 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 121 km ( 7...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 172 km (106 miles), the quake hit at 10:50:09 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 290 km ( 179 miles) North of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:56:57 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 114 km ( 70.7 miles) South of Banjar, Indonesi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwenty-two bodies have been exhumed and over 30 people are still missing after heavy rain caused a series of landslides in the mountainous eastern Ugandan district of Bulambuli on Monday morning, local and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAs Libya leans towards a democratic leadership after more than six months of battle to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Al Qathafi from power after a 42-year rule, the atrocities committed by the fugitive lead...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 16 hours agoNathanael Kapner sums up the whole Libya lie in just over five minutes: Nathanael Kapner was raised Jewish but turned to Christianity and fights to expose the Talmudic menace. His style is certainly unusua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA cold glacier-rimmed ocean may have covered the northern lowlands of Mars early in its history, scientists believe. The coastline may have resembled that of Greenland or Norway, according to a study. Sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA pilot and his wife crash-landed in a suburban street in Germany which was barely wider than their plane's wingspan. Remarkably the couple escaped from the Cessna unharmed after clipping a house and a la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA grandmother has lost her leg after a freak fun fair accident in which she and her four-year-old granddaughter were 'flipped' out of a log flume ride when it jammed. The woman, who is in her sixties, an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn environmental group on Monday urged the incoming Japanese prime minister to delay the start of school near a nuclear plant crippled by a massive earthquake and tsunami six months ago. Fukushima city s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAt least 48 bodies have been recovered after they were swept away during the Kohistan floods and 15 people are still missing. According to DCO Kohistan, the search for those missing continues. The adminis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTraces of a ‘smoking’ volcano, appearing in the famous picturesque Leepa Valley and adjacent Kayserkot rural belt confirmed by a team of geological experts of AJK university that had alarmed the local popu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJapan's ruling party has elected a new prime minister - the country's sixth in only five years. Yoshihiko Noda inherits the enormous task of rebuilding Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami ami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo men have been arrested for having a 'lack of common sense' after they tried to paddle down a Philadelphia street in an inflatable raft. The pair, only identified as Pete and Pat, were stopped by polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAlmost 6 million U.S. homes and businesses were without power as a weakening Tropical Storm Irene moved into New England and utilities began assessing damage in the wake of the storm. Power disruptions a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThree people were killed and a pilot was badly injured when two small planes collided Sunday afternoon in an Austrian town. The accident occurred in Salzburg, a western state of Austria, Xinhua reported....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHazmat crews were cleaning up tonight after 150 to 200 gallons of sulfuric acid spilled at a sewage treatment facility on Deer Island, Boston fire officials said. Firefighters received a report of the sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe former boss of MI5 has said Iraq was a "distraction" that posed no threat to the UK when Tony Blair took the country to war. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said intelligence suggested the domestic threa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago[image: Link]DNA testing has confirmed that bones found recently in an area of swampy marshland are those of a missing Australian teenaged boy. *Daniel Morcombe*, 13, disappeared in 2003 while waiting for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIraqi officials say Khalid al-Fahdawi, a Sunni member of the Iraqi parliament, was among those confirmed dead. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque last night, killing 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTyphoon 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 project...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA series of bomb attacks throughout Iraq left 35 people dead and scores injured, officials with Iraq's Interior Ministry and police said Sunday. At least 28 people were killed in a suicide bombing attack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:06:51 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 113 km ( 70 miles) Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Admiralty Islands Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 8.3 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:03:49 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 115 km ( 72 ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWell, we've managed to survive the hype spewed out by the BBC concerning Hurricane Irene and made it to the start of a fresh week! Here is your NEW Open Thread and I trust you will fill it with examples o...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours ago"The BBC's lack of self awareness, or its solid brass neck, is apparent in this piece about one of its new stars *Professor Brian Cox....* 'Prof Cox said the BBC had put science centre stage and had be...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe BBC sustained *hatred *towards Israel is one of the most disfiguring facets of the DState Corporation. I am advised by a Biased BBC contributor that Jeremy Bowen is doing his best to discredit Israel a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice say an Army captain being sought in the deaths of four people in Pennsylvania and Virginia has been found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pennsylvania State Police spokesman Dav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn actor who appeared in the first Austin Powers film is facing a life sentence after being convicted of taking part in a brutal rape. Joseph Son, 40, was found guilty of raping and torturing a 20-year-old...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWonder if you caught this gem brought to us by the Muslim-adoring BBC? A B-BBC stalwart notes; "The BBC launches yet another attempt to persuade us that even though Muslims think our culture is depraved, ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoIt grates on the BBC that Northern Ireland is still British so it never misses the opportunity to pretend otherwise; A Biased BBC reader points out that they have watched a BBC programme entitled "Timothy ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWhen he took over BBC1, Controller Danny Cohen said the Corporation was overrun with middle-class programmes. In his first speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival since moving to BBC1 from BBC3 in Nov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of just 5.1 km ( 3.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:50 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) ESE of Charlottesville, Virg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDestruction: Route 12 on Hatteras Island, North Carolina today after Irene swept through the area, cutting the roadway in five locations. Whole neighbourhoods lay submerged underwater and millions were wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPolice searching for the killer of a frail pensioner battered to death in a hammer attack have mounted a nationwide hunt for a rapist with a history of violence. Graeme Jarman, 47, disappeared from his h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFirst you see her large brown eyes and rosebud lips, framed by a pink headscarf. Then you notice that her bruised feet are secured by manacles to the foot of her bed. Nisreen Mansour al Forgani is a prett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoBritain stepped up the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi yesterday as mystery continued to surround his whereabouts. RAF spy planes, crack SAS troops and MI6 intelligence experts all joined the search for the tyra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago'The only way out of the window is to climb out... or be pushed': Witnesses heard British wife arguing before she fell to her death from third-floor window. The owner of the third-floor Moroccan flat from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe family of the Lockerbie bomber has told Sky News that he is slipping in and out of a coma and that his cancer drugs have been stolen. In an email from Tripoli, the son of *Abdel Basset al Megrahi** *s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoIsn't it inspirational the way the BBC spends OUR cash? The BBC has used licence fee payers’ cash to buy hundreds of tickets to the 2012 Olympics for staff and guests, writes Jon Coates. Despite receiving...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Alaska at a depth of just 0.9 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:01 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 311 km ( 193 miles) ESE of Chiniak, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 37.5 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:08:55 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 243 km ( 150 miles) Southea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 147.6 km (91.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:07:31 UTC Sunday 28th August 2011. The epicenter was 141 km ( 87 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu Sa...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoAll the MSM were as bad, but the BBC, as usual, was a cheerleader in whipping up a major storm in a teacup over hurricane Irene. Of course severe bad weather on the eastern seaboard of the US is potentiall...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Indonesians.* One after another, the moderate Moslem countries are being attacked. *If* you believe a report by AFP, on 28 August 2011, the CIA-MOSSAD 'bad guys' and their Saudi friends, are winning t...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours agoVideo from: *Sherrie Questioning All** * *Sherrie Questioning All** *
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Irene: Wet, deadly] Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene exhausted the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions devoid of power but an unfazed New York and re...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*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...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*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...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*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...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"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...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoPecos 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...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago** *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...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"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--"
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoI 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:
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAll 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhy 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritish 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFresh 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYemen'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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForget 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRare 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmericans 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...
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