- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes agoHello everyone, 1. August Dollar Drive progress: We are currently under 10% of this month's fundraising goal. If you're able to spare just a dollar, consider donating it to this month's dollar drive. Cli...
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 52.1 km (32.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:41:30 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 71 km ( 44 miles) WNW of Curico, Maule, Chil... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:51:00 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 965 km ( 599 miles) West of Castro, Lo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 43.1 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:09 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 122 km ( 75 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:14:40 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 276 km ( 171 miles) East of Brid... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 58.6 km (36.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:19:09 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 72 km ( 44 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuat... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 517.4 km (321.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:17:34 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 181 km ( 112 miles) NNW of Dili, ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 minutes ago
*AGAIN WE BRACKET "A RIDE WITH OLYMPY" WITH THE SEMENTZOFF FAMILY SEQUEL, "JOYEUX NOËL, MR. DURNING"* [*Note*: It's largely on the strength of the "Ride with Olympy" connection that I chose "*Joyeux No... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 minutes agoI'll admit it. I was worried it would be difficult to find blog content in the new majority government reality. And then, this gift from the blogging gods: *Martin may run for NDP leadership in bid for L...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 27 minutes agoSometimes the posts practically write themselves. I'm sure all the obvious Simpsons references have already been made, although the giant Ferris wheel thing does put me in mind of that scene from *The Thi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoI saw this snip on the front page of Think Progress just now: *House Republicans will **introduce legislation** today that would restrict the nation’s U.N. contributions “to only the specific purposes outli...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
*Project Gunrunner explodes: Lies from Arizona* August 30, 2011 at 8:28 pm Narcosphere By Brenda Norrell The head of ATF and the US Attorney for Arizona are suddenly leaving their jobs as Project Gunrunne... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoSetting the Stage for Historic Hearings in Toronto ** *By Mike Bondi AE911Truth.org Published: August 23, 2011* To capitalize on the strategic importance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Internati...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
At least 25 people were killed in flooding that hit the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria over the weekend, the Nigerian Red Cross said Tuesday. More victims could still be found in remote areas that... - posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 2 hours ago"The employer will be relying upon post-dismissal conduct and events... first of all to support the decision to dismiss..." -- Lynn Harnden, hired lawyer for U of O"The state will be relying upon post-incarc...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoLooking back as it zooms through interplanetary space, NASA's spacecraft Juno captured a portrait of the Earth and moon. Yes, that's us. All of us.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Friends don't let friends.... * "Family alerted police on driver; Illegal immigrant charged in death of Milford man" August 23, 2011|By Martine Powers and Maria Sacchetti, Globe Correspondent | Globe St...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Number of extreme storms and floods per year in the United States, 1900–2010. NRDC / Data from EM-DAT: the International Disaster Database (see Appendix A)] According to data collected by the In...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 2 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 *Israel and Iran both sending warsh... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours agoBeautiful words. Beautiful thoughts. Beautiful spirit. Beautiful mind.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Farmers oppose bill on verifying workers’ immigration status" July 31, 2011 |By Jesse McKinley, New York Times PATTERSON, Calif. - Farmers across the country are rallying to fight a *Republican-sponsored ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Octogenarian pleads guilty in Calif. immigrant smuggling case" August 20, 2011|By Julie Watson, Associated Press SAN DIEGO -A *female-dominated ring* that prosecutors say led *80 people a month* to the L...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Sorry about the original title reference to "Mad Men"! Talk about stupid! -- Ken* *Better Call Saul!* *In the AMC interview, Bob Odenkirk tells us that no, the decor of his own office is nothing like th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*He's got a lot of them, and he's gonna have more*: "Romney to nearly quadruple mansion’s size" August 22, 2011|Washington Post WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is planning to ne...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours agoDear Danny Boy: Apparently, you failed to take under advisement some of my suggestions that could’ve delayed the inevitable (That being your client Christine O’Donnell’s ghost-written pissing and moani...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoDozens of people were killed in flooding triggered by monsoon rains in Kohistan, a remote area of Pakistan. Many are still missing. An entire village was all but destroyed after days of heavy rain caus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPalestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRecent turmoil on financial markets is threatening economic recovery in the European Union, the bloc's leading economic official said today. Recent turmoil on financial markets is threatening economic rec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSpanish authorities have warned the country's youth against a homemade drug that has killed two people and put another two in hospital. Two 18-year-olds died and a 20-year-old fell seriously ill after the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMuch of Britain suffered the coldest summer for almost two decades, Met Office statistics show. As Britons return to work today after a soggy Bank Holiday weekend, official weather data reveals that aver...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIf Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top secret, state of the art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists finally discover th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe governor of a state under assault by the EPA takes on the patron saint of climate change over whether "warmers" or "deniers" benefit financially from the debate. Meanwhile, the nation loses. Is Texas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says. The paper, prepared for the Climate Institute, sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoChina’s bear farms, where for decades bile has been extracted from the endangered animals in horrific conditions, have been condemned by eminent Chinese scientists.At a conference in London on Friday, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoKOB Eyewitness News 4 has obtained surveillance pictures of a State Police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car in broad daylight. State Police aren't saying anything about the photos, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoChina wants to cement in law police powers to hold dissidents and other suspects of state security crimes in secret locations without telling their families, under draft legislation released on Tuesday tha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMiami International Airport has led the way in the latest technology for airport security. One airport passenger learned this the hard way when he was trying to sneak seven exotic snakes onto a plane…in hi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA tiny insect that may have caught a ride to Central Florida from Texas is killing thousands of palm trees in the area. A disease carried in the vomit of planthopper insects is what kills the palms. So f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAstronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week's Russian launch accident prevents new crews from flying there this fall. Until o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoConsumers' confidence in August dropped almost 15 points to the lowest level since April 2009 as worries about the economy fueled the wildest stock market swings since the financial meltdown in 2008. At ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLeroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground. When Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLarge Egyptian army forces are battling Jihad operatives in the Sinai Peninsula Tuesday as Israel maintains its heightened alert on the tense southern border with Egypt. Israel upped its military presenc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAfghanistan — August has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, where international forces have started to go home and let Afghan forces take charge of sec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA video has emerged of U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford being assaulted by a pro-regime demonstrator on the streets of Damascus last week. The assault took place before Ford's unapproved trip to th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRelatively speaking, the first months of 2011 have been full of good news for Somalia, the world's closest approximation of anarchy. For two full decades, the majority of the territory in this crescent-sha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe US government has wasted $30bn (£18bn) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission. The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agondian-administered Kashmir's first major literature festival has been cancelled after local writers and artists said it would give the false impression that basic freedoms are allowed in the troubled regio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA bacterial strain that is now extinct has been identified as the cause of the devastating Black Death plague in the 14th century. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 to 50 million Europeans or...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Calif. could be first state to ban foam containers" August 29, 2011|Associated Press SACRAMENTO - Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt says a push in California’s Legislature to ban the plastic foam container...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Police check Facebook posting after killing" August 17, 2011|Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are investigating two theories in connection with the death of a man gunned down hours after a jud...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago"Republican Jesus." Painting by Brett Bretterson / Uncyclomedia Commons. I'm Not Down With Jesus Anymore a response to "The Response" O I'm Not Down With Jesus Anymore – They say He votes Republican and ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*I can't understand them.* "Princeton bars freshmen from Greek system" August 24, 2011|Bloomberg News NEW YORK - Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman is banning freshmen from joining fraterniti...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Who would want to go fishing with them? * Feds to step up hunt for Asian carp near Chicago [image: Page not found] Sorry, the page you have requested does not exist at this address. - If you are try...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Desert searched for missing woman" August 20, 2011|Associated Press ELY, Nev. - Investigators returned yesterday to the remote Nevada desert in their search for a Utah mother missing since 2009, after an ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"A woman who lost her prosthetic leg while swimming in a western Minnesota lake three years ago has been reunited with the limb thanks to an angler.... --more--"
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Wis. justice won’t face choking charges" August 26, 2011|Associated Press MADISON, Wis. - A conservative Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who staved off an unusually intense campaign to replace him t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*It will be easier to rig the machines against Ron Paul. * "Chairman of N.H. Republican party facing pressure to resign" August 24, 2011|By Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent Some* key New Hampshire GO...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*I guess you never reach this point unless its part of your character*: "Khazei OK’d hiring brother at nonprofit; Did not clear payments with board beforehand" August 22, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours agoEvery taxi driver, barber and newspaper columnist is the same. *They* know how the world works. *They* know what needs to be done to fix things. They know, uniquely, what has to happen, *and all they n...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 5 hours agoWarrior for Christ. Image from The Crazy Crusades. A warrior for Christ: The consecration of Rick Perry By Ed Felien / The Rag Blog / August 30, 2011 Governor Rick Perry concluded his prayer in Houston on...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoI have love and respect for Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. He represents the true spirit of the American military. An excerpt from Democracy Now's transcript: AMY GOODMAN: Colonel Wilkerson, we also have Gl...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoAn upstanding Luke asks the traitor Larry Silverstein a tough question about 9/11 and gets thrown out of the room while the cowardly reporters just stand and look. Watch the confrontation:
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoIf the future of the Liberal Party was to be the party that it was under its last two leaders then maybe it would be time to throw in the towel and pack it in. The right and part of the centre wing of th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAt least 50,000 people, civilians and combatants, have been killed in Libya's six-month war to oust Moammar Gadhafi, a rebel military commander told CNN Tuesday. The number was calculated by adding death...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago. NOW 595 arrests! Photos one through six by Ben Powless, Mohawk. Photo 7 by Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. Portraits of arrests at the White House today, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Actress Daryl Han...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago*Operation False Flag: A Modern Primer* ** *Number Six Activist Post Published: Monday, August 29, 2011* *Definition:* When governments or organizations (usually connected to the former) stage highly ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoI first met Barack Obama when he was a lowly, cigarette-puffing state legislator with a reputation for being a convivial poker player with his Republican colleagues in Springfield, Illinois. In retrospec...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoWarm water and cold water marine species are finding neutral territory on shipwrecks from World War II.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA team of about 150 engineers, scientists, astronauts, researchers and students started work this week on the first of several deep-space mission scenarios.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSize is a determining factor for skink species.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 7 hours agofor eternity --------- if this is indeed true Last week, the campaign to recall Republican Governor Rick Snyder in Michigan, Fire Rick Snyder, passed 50% of the 806,522 signatures required to trigger a ne...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoHere's a retweet from the BBC's Nicky Campbell. I wonder WHY the BBC stalwart would seek to retweet this particular essay on the Texas politician who may well become Obama's opponent? A pre-emptive strike ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours ago“Socialize the banks. They have been bailed out over the past 30 years to the point the billionaires are the largest recipient of federal welfare.” (Stolen from a commenter on the essay below. Thank you "i...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours agoFrom The YouTube description for the video: We will not return to 'business as usual'. The Four Horsemen is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works. Deman...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA cannibal has admitted to killing a man and then making sausages and meatballs from his corpse. He was so proud of his culinary achievements, including rib dishes, that he posted short video clips on th...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe Cassini Solstice mission passed by the small Saturnian moon Hyperion over the weekend, soaring as close as 24,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) from the tumbling moon's cratered face.
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 9 hours agoAn email sent me, of a reply to Alan Simpson, of him calling US a milk cow with 310-million t*ts, from an unknown Man from Montana. :::::::: Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoAt long last Lloyd Robertson is stepping down, resigning as anchor of CTV national news. I'll bet Lloyd can't find anyone still in the business who was there when he got in back in the early 50's. Prett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew details of unethical U.S. medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s have revealed that a dying woman was reinfected with syphilis. The experiments nearly 70 years ago are already considered one of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe babies of Roman prostitutes were regularly murdered by their mothers, archaeologists have found. A farmer's field in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, yielded the grisly secret after a mass grave containing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDNA taken from the skeletons of plague victims in medieval London has unearthed a shocking revelation – the Black Death is still present today. Bodies of victims, who were buried in a mass ‘plague graves’ ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The Pope and the heart of darkness: New Wikileaks cables expose rape of nuns by priests, Pope’s reaction to priests sexually abusing minors, secret support ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA top German business leader today called for his country to quit the euro and join richer northern neighbours in a currency block instead. Hans-Olaf Henkel, the well-respected former head of the country’s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew York City and Washington, DC experienced a rather powerful, shallow earthquake this afternoon, just as a category 1 hurricane is making its way towards the Eastern seaboard. While these two events seem...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA crashed Russian cargo ship and delays in the next manned space launch could mean that the International Space Station will be without a crew for the first time in 11 years. Michael Suffredini, NASA's s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIf experience is any indication, many Canadians could find themselves in debt years longer than they originally expected, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted for CIBC by Harris-Decima, reveals th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man who couldn't pay his bill at a North Vancouver restaurant told staff he was going to rob a nearby gas station to get the cash — then was arrested after doing the deed and returning to settle his tab....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTropical storm Katia has formed in the Atlantic and could reach hurricane intensity by late Wednesday or early Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says. Katia is located about 855 kilometres wes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Quebec government is getting ready to launch a campaign this fall against big-box stores and their stubbornly English names. The president of the agency that oversees the province's language laws says...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe post-tropical cyclone that was once Hurricane Irene tore a destructive path through Quebec and the Maritimes, leaving tens of thousands in darkness as police continued the search for a driver whose car...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIndia's economy registered a slight slowdown in its growth in the first quarter (April to June) this fiscal year. GDP figures came in at 7.7% -- roughly in line with expectations, but lower than the 7.8% g...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFor one retired midwife, seeing too many mothers die during childbirth led her to quit her job and take on the third highest infant mortality rates in the world. She could be considered Malawi's own F...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoVeteran sailor Dennis Howard is preparing for one of the most challenging journeys of his life -- a solo voyage around the world. But on top of all the dangers associated with such a trip, including sleep...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTaiwan's health department is investigating how the organs of an HIV-positive donor were cleared for transplant for five recipients at two hospitals. Four patients at the National Taiwan University Hospi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWeeks after muting his public criticisms, Ai Weiwei has broken his silence. In an editorial about China's capital city, published on Newsweek's website on August 29, the country's most prominent contempor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGangs of armed youths in the Nigerian city of Jos attacked Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the last day of Ramadan, killing a number of them and burning their cars, witnesses and the military said. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, which ends in the Gulf on Monday, is meant to be a month of spirituality and generosity towards the poor and needy. But extravagant breaking-of-the-fast buffets i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAfter more than eight hours of deliberations, the African Union (AU) has decided not to throw its support behind the Libyan rebel administration. It is a decision that some see as proof of Muammar Gadda...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAustralia has unveiled one of the world's most ambitious schemes to tackle climate change. From July 2012, Australia's biggest polluting companies will pay $24 a tonne for their carbon emissions, incr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIt is almost two months since South Sudan gained its independence. The focus in the country has now shifted from celebrations to politics. President Salva Kiir has announced the names of the 29 ministe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agondia has produced a female president, a prime minister, business tycoons and countless Bollywood starlets. But becoming a successful Indian woman depends on the caste you are born into and what part of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSeriously injured in a shell attack, his Tamil Tiger comrades dead, Mano (pseudonym) tried to end his own life by biting on the cyanide pill that, like all hardened fighters, he wore around his neck. But a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHome ownership will fall to its lowest level since the mid-1980s over the next decade, a new study has found. The National Housing Federation said the number of property owners will drop to just 63.8% as...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHalf a year after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the Obama administration is set to release a series of reforms to the current gun law, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCuts in retail, cleaning and catering jobs have contributed to the rising number of unemployed women, new research has revealed. A study carried out by analysts SSentif showed that 129,000 female retail ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHouseholds were £11 a week worse off last month, a survey revealed today, as rising transport and food costs continued to put spending power under pressure. The average UK household had £166 a week of di...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours agoVideo: Dr. John says: Bring back Reverend Avery C. Alexander Charity Hospital! Sign the NEW Petition Marsh fire continues to blanket downtown New Orleans with acrid smoke
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Kenya officials walk among dead cattle that were killed by drought, May 2011. Samburu Watch] August 30 (ReliefWeb) – Drought-hit Kenyans are resorting to desperate measures to find water which a...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 10 hours agoEnvironment News Service WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) - NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the propos...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoImage from The Gospel According to Hate. They're at it again: Football for Jesus By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / August 30, 2911 I can’t quite smell football in the air, probably because of our wiltin...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoChristopher Hitchens on the Satanic Verses Affair (1989) - Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4:
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoIt's been more than half a year since the revolts in Egypt and the direction which the country is taking doesn't look pretty. Hosni Mobarak, a guarantor of relative decency in the country, was sacrificed ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoEither MR. Ober is the dumbest person in Indiana OR he is already a member of the American Legislative Exchange council - ALEC. On Ober's campaign site he includes a full page endorsement - with picture ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIncredible amateur footage recorded in the wake of Hurricane Irene shows a US Army vehicle driving through flooding in New Jersey despite being almost totally covered by water. In the short clip two N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:15:51 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 115 km ( 71 miles) West of B...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours agoThis photo headed the same article in Reader Supported News ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Chris Hedges' Columns The Election March of the TrollsPosted on Aug 29, 2011...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours ago"The Ultimate Drive" takes advantage of social technology to make getting lost on purpose more fun
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoActress Daryl Hannah was the first to be arrested today, Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the White House to halt the tar sands and its dirty pipeline. Hannah was among 73 arrested. Photo 1: Indigenous Nations Netw...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Yes, Mitt Romney is clueless* Below is an essay about Norman Solomon I found on the Campaign Watch Facebook page. Virtually every problem facing America today can be traced back to the sell-out of our de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 146.4 km (91 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:34 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 65 km ( 40 miles) SSE of Akita, Hon...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoThe University of Victoria in conjunction with the British Columbia government is releasing online a 4-part course on climate change. The programmes cut through the scientific jargon and present the fact...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNASA's James Hansen was arrested yesterday during a protest against a Canada to US tar sands oil pipeline.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoBut other forms of the deadly pathogen still plague victims today.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 43 km (26.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:00:47 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km ( 47 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 109.9 km (68.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:49 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9 miles) ESE...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoClayton and Healing Walk: Photo Keepers of the Athabasca *Tuesday, August 30, 2011– The Tar Sands Protest:*Listen at 1 pm Eastern, noon Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific: http://www.nativeamericacall...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: image] By Damian Carrington 30 August 2011 If, like me, you think urgent global action is needed to avert the worst impacts of global warming, then you will also agree that global opinion is c...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Grozny, said to be like Sirte.* *NATO commits massacre at Sirte razing the city to the ground* Posted: 29 August 2011 at Mathaba. Originally from Argumenti.ru "For the third day in a row, NATO aircra...
- *Nature still has many surprises* in store for us. What about an F-111 jet seemingly transforming into a '*flying saucer*'? What about a rocket causing ripples in the atmosphere as if it's passing the sur...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Refugees from Eritrea waiting to be screened by the Ethiopian authorities in Endabaguna town, Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 50 km from the Eritrean border. Ethiopia is home to more than 48,000 Eritre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Israeli military said Monday that it has sent two additional warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoHurricane Irene (2011) has killed something like 47 people. Sad. Is that a lot? *NASA's GISS picture of the Earth on August 27th. Can you find Irene? Click to zoom in. Via Andrew Revkin* Google News ...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA handmade stamp has 20 punctuation marks to make more than 2,000 different Japanese emoticons.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThis novelty ice tray is sure to strike up a conversation at your next party.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe Mt. Erebus ice caves in Antarctica present surprising and under-explored landscapes.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIn addition to synching and storing files, this small, multipurpose device offers emergency power.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLibyan fighters are continuing their advance towards Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of his last bastions of support, supported by continuing NATO air strikes in the area. Rebel forces are m...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoWhat's going on with Syria lately? Despite the attack on Libya, slaughter of it's people and plunder of it's resources. The destabilization that started in March is still ongoing. Chaos is being created....
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 13 hours ago*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. Today, the third part of a ser...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoBill Nighy, wooden, crinkled and oozing bus pass angst, meets up with earnest young woman (Rachel Weisz, born 1970!). Nighy, as per usual, autocues his lines in a monotone to nobody in particular, is hardl...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago* the**REALnews Permalink* August 30, 2011 *Hundreds Arrested in Sustained Tar Sands Protests at White House* Protests demand Obama use veto power to halt proposed exp...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: A worker of an office cleaning company monitors the level of radiation at a playground of an elementary school in Fukushima, northern Japan August 6, 2011. Yuriko Nakao / Reuters] By Natalia Kon...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Douglas cutting tree in Papua New Guinea, from the new film 'Bikpela Bagarap' ('Big Damage'). David Fedele] By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com August 29, 2011 In one scene a young man, perhaps n...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoFrom about 1998 - An actual ALEC quote "ALEC is bringing to America a chance to recapture the soul of America ... to allow every single American man or woman, irrespective of their ethnic background- ir...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Orca (Orcinus orca) breaching. Brendan Cole / NPL] By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature 30 August 2011 Killer whales, the ocean's fiercest predators, are easily recognisable by their black and ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe famous castrato singer Farinelli suffered from a thickening of the cranium that is found almost exclusively in post-menopausal women.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWhen residents of some places in this Kerala district woke up Tuesday morning, they were surprised to see red coloured rain water collected in their vessels lying outside. "We normally collect rain water...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoStoking the cravings of Republican primary voters' thirst for victimization of their heroes, Perry's team is encouraging stories like David Frum's wondering aloud whether their candidate is a moron or, l...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoA sleek new boat uses a gaseous layer to skim over water with 900 times less friction.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck North of Macquarie Island at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:51 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 354 km ( 220 miles) WNW of Auckl...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 16 hours agoaccording to this G&M headline yesterday : *Nearly half of Canadians oppose greater integration with U.S. law enforcement.* The headline refers to the Harper government release yesterday of its summary of...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours agoIt was 40 years ago today that Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives swept to power, ending Alberta's third political dynasty, and starting its fourth. Lougheed's slogan was 3 letters long ("NOW") ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA mass murderer faces the death penalty after being found guilty of killing an extended family of five. William Craig Miller, 34, was convicted of fatally shooting Steven Duffy, 30, and Duffy’s girlfriend...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA clinic is trying to track down hundreds of patients after a nurse apparently spent years improperly using diabetic injection devices on them, potentially exposing them to blood-borne diseases such as HIV...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNBA Player Javaris Crittenton, who is wanted for murder in a drive-by shooting, will turn himself in to police in the morning. The 23-year-old's attorney said he will surrender to authorities because he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA mother who videoed herself punishing her adopted son by squirting hot sauce into his mouth and giving him a cold shower has avoided jail. Jessica Beagley, 36, of Alaska, was convicted of child abuse afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIt is just one plight among thousands in New England towns swept away by the unprecedented flooding caused by the rains from Hurricane Irene. Marion Bender's home in Greenfield Massachusets was completely...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFears of a resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus have been raised by the United Nations, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries. A mutant strain of the disea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHighly sensitive government documents have been published by Wikileaks putting hundreds of lives at risk. The anti-secrecy organisation posted 134,000 memos online which included the names of journalists,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Libyan father killed his three daughters after they were raped by Gaddafi's troops to lift the shame on his family, a human rights group said today. The girls, aged 15, 17 and 18 were allegedly assault...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAt least five people were killed and 25 others injured when two trains collided on Tuesday morning in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, reported local Urdu TV channel DAWN. Most of the injured people were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Melbourne man whose body was found mauled by tiger sharks had been holidaying with friends on a Queensland island. The 48-year-old builder, known to his mates as Rooster, was found dead off Fantome Isl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*It was the world lead in my Boston Globe.* "Syria’s WMDs: The Scaremongering Begins Anew (for another war for Israel) August 29th, 2011 | Author: Patriot* * *Syria’s WMDs: The Scaremongering Begins Anew ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:37:56 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) East of Polkowice, Poland No r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThunderstorms sparked nine new wildfires on the Bitterroot National Forest Sunday night, including four that were sending up smoke visible from downtown Hamilton on Monday. The four fires were burning in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA small airplane crashed into an unoccupied home in the Sunset Park neighborhood Monday afternoon, injuring the pilot and a painter who was working on the house at the time of the accident. Osbaldo Audat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 308.5 km (191.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:56:01 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 51 miles) ENE of Jakarta, Java...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 91.1 km ( 57.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:55 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 27 miles) ESE of Tomako...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAt least 40 people have died after Hurricane Irene lashed the east coast of the US. Around five million people are without power while the total cost to country's the economy could reach $20bn. As Irene ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTropical Storm Katia formed over the open Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, becoming the 11th named storm of the 2011 hurricane season, U.S. forecasters said. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Katia was a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*So WHICH American city is GOING UP in a MUSHROOM CLOUD, sir?!!* "President recalls spirit of unity after 9/11" August 28, 2011 President *Obama is calling on Americans to rekindle the spirit of unity*that...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*I give up on him. * "Obama officials back oil pipeline from Canada; Groups warn of danger to environment" August 27, 2011|By John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss, New York Times WASHINGTON - President *Ob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:06:58 UTC Tuesday 30 th August 2011. The epicenter was 175 km ( 109 miles) ES...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSince the beginning of August 2011, fish have been dying in the Wolf river in Oberwolfach. The cause is not yet clarified, and the fishermen are completely clueless. Meanwhile, the fish kill has extended...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 32.2 km (20 miles), the quake hit at 09:26:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 59 km ( 36 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA skin disease is fast spreading among people in the North Central Province. Around 1,170 patients have been reported from Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa districts. The disease is caused due to sand fly bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:16:54 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"An Amtrak train carrying about 175 passengers from California to Chicago derailed yesterday after striking equipment on the tracks in southwest Nebraska.... --more--"
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Why am I wasting time with this front-page filler?* "Debt panel to test Kerry’s diplomacy" August 22, 2011|By Theo Emery, Globe Staff WASHINGTON - Some liberal groups aren’t happy about what they’ve hea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*And now they are coming down*. "Anxiety rises as stimulus dries up; Federal cuts may stall state recovery" August 22, 2011|By Casey Ross, Globe Staff Massachusetts is running low on tools to boost the ec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 47.4 km (29.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:14:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 64 km ( 40 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuatu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA man found dead in Yellowstone Park last week was mauled by a grizzly, a month after officials refused to hunt a bear in another fatal attack. The victim was identified as John Wallace, 59, of Chassell, M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA South Carolina police officer got more than he bargained for when a robbery suspect attacked him before stealing his police car and crashing it in a high-speed chase. And it was all caught on camera. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBarack Obama's 'Uncle Omar' is being held on suspicion of being in the U.S. illegally after he was allegedly being caught driving drunk. Onyango Obama, 67, narrowly avoided crashing his 4x4 into a police c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFour people, including two college football stars, were arrested and at least 10 people hospitalised after a weekend party near Colorado State University that was advertised on Facebook grew to thousands o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA father threw his seven-year-old son off a Southern California sightseeing cruise boat during an argument on Sunday. Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino says 35-year-old Sloan Brile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is in a coma in hospital after reportedly starving himself in his solitary cell. Jeffs, 55, who is serving a 130-year sentence for sexually assaulting two of his many...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOrnithologists have found a new species of bird in the U.S. for the first time in nearly four decades - dead, in a museum collection. Although other examples of what has been dubbed Bryan's shearwater, a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLithuania's Defence Ministry has said that a French NATO jet has crashed in mid-air with a Lithuanian plane. Both pilots survived the mid-air collision in northern Lithuania, according to reports. The N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:52 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 123 km ( 76 miles) WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu No T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA year earlier, he had been injured in a road accident and made a full recovery. So the man decided to make a pilgrimage to a shrine to give thanks for his survival – only to be knocked down and killed b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 539 km (335 miles), the quake hit at 07:28:51 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 317 km ( 197 miles) Northwest of Dili,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA woman was high on a cocktail of illegal drugs when she crashed her car killing two men and leaving five children fatherless. Jessica Reynolds had taken a mind-boggling mix of cocaine, cannabis and meph...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*This may surprise you, reader; however, she** is one of my favorite artists.* * * *The reason you should say a prayer for the Globe is because we are near the end. One can only absorb so much insulting ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoNuclear fission reactors in space? Think less "building sized" and more "suitcase sized."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA cash-strapped council is fitting its bin lorries with iPads so it can monitor households who aren’t recycling. Bury council – which needs to save £18million and cut as many as 400 jobs – is buying 22 of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Sky News investigation has uncovered evidence High Street banks deliberately mis-sold interest rate protection, leaving hundreds of firms struggling to meet repayments. In an interview with Sky News, e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 6.7 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:57:38 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km ( 6 miles) Northwest of Pinna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Offshore San Francisco, Northern California at a depth of 6.7 km ( 4.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:19:18 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was just 3 km (2 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother is to stand trial accused of murdering her 23-month-old son and then concealing his body while pretending he was alive for almost a year. Kimberley Hainey, 36, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, is all...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA generation could be shut out of the ‘dysfunctional’ housing market over the next decade because of higher prices and miserly mortgage-lending, a report warns. Home ownership in England will fall to 63.8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA knifeman seen running from the scene of a stabbing at the Notting Hill Carnival is being hunted by police. Detectives are appealing for anyone who knows the identity of the man in this picture to contac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 8.5 km ( 5.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:48:28 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) ESE of Charlottesville, Virginia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 123.4 km (76.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:47 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 16 km ( 9 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan at a depth of 583.4 km (362.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:42:07 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 134 km ( 83 miles) Northwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Catamarca, Argentina at a depth of 123.8 km (76.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:02 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24 miles) West of Belen, C...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoStill taken from When Lincoln Paid. Photo courtesy: geeksofdoom The only known copy of When Lincoln Paid, a 1913 silent film about Abraham Lincoln, was accidently discovered when a contractor was cleaning...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoWhat's remarkable about the BBC is the way in which their instinctive regard for Labour manifests itself even in the most innocent items. Take the item at 8.22am on how devolution has affected the UK. The ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI'm sure you will be tuning in to "Class Ceiling"...it's on Radio 4 @ 9am. "Polly Toynbee explores the ever-more-pressing question of how possible it is to move up through British society. Who gets to br...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI listened to Jeremy Bowen being interviewed from his perch on Tripoli this morning on Today (8.10am). One of the issues being covered was what united the "rebels". Jeremy came back with the official BBC m...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoThe pyramid of Khafre. Photo courtesy: egypt news Photographer Hassan Farouq Antar wanted a better view of his surroundings so he climbed to the top of the second-largest pyramid in Egypt. The pyramid wa...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 20 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoMr Ladislav Bátora is a conservative man. In the past, he was a candidate in some elections backed by a nationalist party. In February 2011, he was supposed to become the deputy minister of education. A co...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoA flashlight fish comes by its name honestly. It has billions of bacteria that shine like headlights. These fish can turn the bacteria on and off - just like a flashlight - to confuse predators. The bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 465 km (289 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:41 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011. The epicenter was 276 km ( 171 miles) NNE of Dili, East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 21:39:28 UTC Monday 29th August 2011. The epicenter was 220 km ( 136 miles) ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 20 hours agoPhoto courtesy: the epoch times It’s no surprise that Chinese perpetually worry about food safety, especially given the drumbeat of news like this: In Beijing and Hunan it was found that the expiration d...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*The Algerian daily Al-Khabar asserted that young children have been kidnapped from Algerian cities, transported to Morocco, and then sold to Israelis and American Jews who have then harvested their organs...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours 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...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[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 day 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 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian 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 day agoChinese 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 day 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 - 1 day ago*“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practica...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoGuest contributor Adam Crowl, investigates how the development of a starship will ultimately transform the way we build things on Earth.
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 1 day agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *The Rothschild Formula ~ link ~...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYoshihiko 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 - 1 day agoFor 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 - 1 day agoIn 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoCustodian 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoTwo illumination modes -- steady glow and flash -- make it hard to miss you during those nighttime rides.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoBecause of noise pollution, some birds are forced to sing at higher frequencies making them less attractive.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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