- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 minutes ago* the**REALnews Permalink* August 31, 2011 * * *Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer* Jeff Thompson: New research shows that as wealth increases at the ...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 minutes agoFacebook has revised its privacy options. Yes, again. Here are some things to watch out for and settings to change.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 minutes agoRobot avatars will provide a new level of freedom and interaction for the disabled, elderly or bed-ridden, say inventors.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 25 minutes agoA girl born in Japan today can expect to live to age 86. Japanese life expectancy has increased 30-years since 1947. A series of papers in the British medical journal, *The Lancet,* finds the Japanese s...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 40 minutes 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 fourth part of a se... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 48 minutes agoLook out Apple, the new Galaxy S II is finally coming to the United States with the bite to back up its bark.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 48 minutes agoThe New Jersey Supreme Court has revised its handling of eyewitness IDs, citing evidence that many eyewitnesses are simply wrong.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 48 minutes agoA durable, fully adjustable rig on your handlebars holds, protects and displays your mobile device.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Aerial view of flood damage to the cemetery with uncovered coffins on 30 August 2011 in Rochester, Vermont. Toby Talbot / AP] August 31 (MSNBC) – Hurricane Irene's rampage up the East Coast has b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*And here I didn't think it was that bad.* "Perils lurk in Irene’s wake; Flooded rivers, downed wires still plague parts of region" August 30, 2011|By Peter Schworm and Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff The ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*I've been stuck in a Boston Globe rut for a long time now, but that seems to be changing. No paper purchase today, readers. * "Rocket failure could prompt evacuation of space station; New crew on hold as...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Judge rules against man accused in fatal fires" August 23, 2011|Associated Press NORTHAMPTON - A superior court judge rejected yesterday a* plea to suppress evidence* in the case of a Northampton man acc...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoWhat could be better then waking up to find that all of your devices are fully charged and ready to use?
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoBecause creative ideas are also new, they give rise to discomfort for others who depend on tried-and-true ways of doing things.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*It's a service, right? * "Coast Guard upgrade goes slow; Only 2 new ships added in 10 years" August 22, 2011|By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Nearly a decade into the 25-year, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Logan adding a $65m runway fail-safe; Extension into harbor stirs multiple concerns" August 22, 2011|By David Abel, Globe Staff Logan International Airport has launched a *$65 million project* that will ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Fund has paid $5 billion in claims from BP oil spill" August 24, 2011|By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. - The fund set up to compensate victims of last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of ...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 hour agoMother & Daughter, raped and killed by "rabbles" *If you actually lost someone in the Towers on 911, you have my deepest sympathy: However, many of the names on the manufactured passenger lists, alleged ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Muslims are to blame for everything in this world.* "Muslim rebels reject Philippine peace proposal" by Oliver Teves, Associated Press / August 23, 2011 MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines' largest Musli...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Good friend to have if you are under threat*: "North Korea considers nuclear testing moratorium, leader says; Agreement comes during visit to Russia and could jump-start stalled talks" by Choe Sang-Hun ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Biden tells China its US assets are ‘safe’" August 22, 2011|Associated Press CHENGDU, China - An official Xinhua News Agency commentary on Vice President Joe Biden’s visit said China would be looking for...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Suu Kyi meets Myanmar’s president" August 20, 2011|Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s government invited democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to a meeting yesterday with the president, state-run tele...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Banished Bengali woman kills self, children" August 17, 2011|Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh’s High Court launched an inquiry yesterday into the *death*s of a woman and two of her childre...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"An Indonesian militant who allegedly made the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings was escorted home under tight security yesterday, more than six months after he was captured in northwest Pakistan.....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours agoVietnam jails French-Vietnamese teacher over blogs *I trust that will never happen in Amerika. *
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBritons are notoriously obsessed with the weather, especially rainclouds. Now, according to scientists, it seems they will soon be able to create their own washout conditions. Using a powerful laser, res...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe sense that organic fruits and vegetables are safer because pesticides increase risks for cancer has no scientific support, argues an expert.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoPreserving just 4 percent of the ocean habitat could help 84 percent of marine mammals.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA clever group of bottlenose dolphins in Australia has created a tool that both captures fish and functions as a food bowl.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:22:30 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km ( 68 miles) South of T'ai-tung, ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago(If you don't know what ALEC is - please see the links at the end of this diary.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) admits that 1/3 of state legislators belong to their organization. ALEC...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Researchers and US officials say they are seeing a wave of people with dual citizenships, at a time when students are coming to US universities at record levels, more households have members from more tha...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoLinda McQuaig's appraisal of Stephen Lewis's beautiful eulogy of Jack Layton is worth reading. It will probably be a while before a Canadian prime minister again offers a state funeral to someone on the l...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoAs I've said before, when Democrats and left-leaning independents decided to show their disappointment in Obama's timidity to fight for working families and their anger with DEmocratic acquiescence for g...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoEnvironmental activists in the US see an opportunity for real action against the tar sands pipeline. Since the oil-friendly and environment-hating Harper government won't listen to us on this issue, we owe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 49.4 km (30.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:50 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 167 km ( 103 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFive people are still missing after a typhoon smashed down the walls of a rubbish dump and sent tons of garbage spewing down a city's streets. These pictures show the devastating aftermath of Typhoon Nanma...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours agoI've noticed that many Americans - members of the nation that dominates TRF visits - tend to extrapolate the events in the U.S. to the whole globe. And because the U.S. has seen a pretty warm weather, ma...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours agoThe Estancia La Dulce Case(Argentina) A UFO Encounter with the Presence of Amorphous Entities By Guillermo Daniel Giménez The year 1978 marked some significant chapters in the UFO chronicles of the Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:56:20 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 145 km ( 90 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWildlife officials say about 30 ducks have died in a Salt Lake City pond because of a potential outbreak of avian Botulism. many of the dead ducks were pulled from the Liberty Park pond over the weekend ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe Popocatepetl (po-po-ka-TEH-peh-tel) volcano south of Mexico City is shooting blasts of ash from its crater. Mexico’s national disaster prevention agency says the volcano has spewed ash more than a ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwo people were dead and six were hospitalized Tuesday, apparently poisoned by carbon monoxide from generators that were providing power to homes left without electricity by Tropical Storm Irene. The dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThis incredible image that looks straight out of Star Wars shows how smoke from a raging marsh fire in New Orleans has surrounded the iconic Superdome, as an emergency is declared in the city. Helicopter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLast week, Namibian authorities discovered four unguarded barrels of radioactive uranium oxide on a beach near the coastal town of Swakopmund. Each barrel is estimated to contain between 150 and 180 kilogr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwo light commuter trains collided Tuesday in the southern part of MexicoCity injuring 20 people, the municipal government announced. The crash, which occurred about 7 a.m., apparently resulted when one of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:32:51 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 30.4 km ( 18.2 miles) Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.5 km (33.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:12:53 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 82 km ( 52 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe activity started in the evening of 23 August and is almost continuous till now. Almost 10 000 events were recorded in total up to now. Already six M>3.0 events and hundreds of M>2.0 events occurred. Vi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago*Right wing 'Loyalists' in the UK are linked to child abuse rings and to Israel. (**Website for this image**) * Journalist Chris Moore wrote *The Kincora Scandal* an investigation into the Kincora Childr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA 15-month-old girl was last night in intensive care with suspected scarlet fever complicated by chickenpox and septic shock, the Centre for Health Protection said. The girl was admitted to Princess Marga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoActress Daryl Hannah was arrested Tuesday during a sit-in in front of the White House protesting a pipeline expansion project that would significantly increase the amount of oil the United States imports f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo blasts -- the second coming after police and passersby had gathered at the site of the first -- killed seven people and wounded 18 Tuesday evening in the Russian republic of Chechnya, according to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoChina remained quiet Tuesday as a recently leaked video of a Chinese general's candid remarks -- apparently made at a corporate event in March -- on sensitive spying cases continued to draw internationa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree fighter pilots had a miraculous escape after a mid air collision during a routine Nato training exercise. Two jets, a French Mirage 2000c fighter and a Lithuanian L-39 Albatros combat trainer, coll...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA uniformed police officer was caught on CCTV having sex with a woman on the hood of a car. The bizarre scene, which was witnessed by a nearby chihuahua, was filmed by a hidden camera set up by New Mexico...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoDid you see the BBC running with the faux outrage from the usual suspects that it could take..gasp..almost another HUNDRED YEARS before UK women managers are paid the same as their male colleagues? Here's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPresident Robert Mugabe's government on Tuesday said the Libyan ambassador to Zimbabwe must leave the country because he has switched his allegiance to the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council. "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe NTC seems to think that appointing Albarrani Shkalil as Head of Security in Tripoli would be a good idea. After all, his CV in controlling things appears to be quite good. He helped Colonel Gaddafi con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:52:37 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 148 km ( 91 miles) South of Severo-Ku...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Jamaica Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:30:02 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km ( 67 miles) Southwest of Montego...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Cabinet minister risked a diplomatic row yesterday by accidentally revealing a secret Government memo welcoming the departure of Afghanistan's president. Andrew Mitchell was photographed clutching a con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCash-strapped shoppers are being short-changed by web vouchers which promise cut-price deals on everything from restaurant meals to beauty treatments. Advertising watchdogs are becoming increasingly alarme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn ex-soldier who tried to kill his model girlfriend by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a Rambo-style hunting knife was today jailed for 15 years. Vicious Scott Smith, 21, knifed Kirsty Holmes se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA prime suspect in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher has been found alive by Libya’s new rebel leaders, it has been claimed. Matouk Mohammed Matouk, the only one of three main suspects known to be still ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoMid Week, end of month, and time for a new Open Thread. The site's been buzzing, let's keep it that way, the floor is yours... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoSo, let me see if I get this right. When some Irish Gypsies decide to go ahead and build despite planning permission, and the Council moves to evict them, the question we must ponder is; "Does evicting peo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoThe BBC has been running with Saint Vince's latest diatribe against the evil banks. Don't get me wrong, as a businessman I have plenty of dealings with banks and they are certainly* no angels* but to sugge...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoThe BBC has been hyping up the lack of houses in England. But what could possibly be the cause? A Biased BBC observer notes; "Personally I thought it might be connected to the couple of million immigrant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:16:38 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 161 km ( 100 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:02:31 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 161 km ( 100 miles) South of Severo-K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA theme park was forced to shut its gates to visitors yesterday when a mass brawl broke out after Muslim women were banned from rides unless they removed their headscarves. Two park rangers were hospitali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA woman was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries last night after a fairground ride became stuck, trapping 22 people for more than an hour. Firefighters used ropes and ladders to rescue passe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe number of career criminals being spared jail has soared since the Coalition took office. An astonishing 4,000 offenders have been handed community sentences, despite each totting up at least 50 convi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNine out of ten people who joined the workforce last year were foreign nationals, official figures revealed yesterday. The number is far higher than had been previously thought. British nationals account...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 25.8 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:09 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 144 km ( 89 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 31 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:35:19 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 552 km...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThere’s no way out of Prattsville, New York. The small town of only about 650 people in the Catskill Mountains has nearly been wiped off the map after Hurricane Irene tore through the area, taking out bri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA doctor has been accused of stabbing her adopted daughter almost 100 times with a screwdriver for failing to wash her dog's clothes properly. Dr Sylvia Lee is alleged to have chased her 13-year-old daught...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA mother of two is being treated in hospital after bludgeoning her young daughters to death with a hatchet before attempting to kill herself, police said today. Naiyana Patel, 33, is said to have killed ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoA Biased BBC obeserver notes the State Broadcaster rushing to defend the honour of single mums 'stigmatised' by Tory politicians as having caused the recent riots. Joint BBC/Guardian effort (as with Toynb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 41.5 km (25.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:29 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 282 km ( 175 miles) WNW of Sibolga,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA former Roman Catholic priest exposed as a serial child sex abuser today claimed he posed no 'threat or danger to children' - despite living by a playground. Bill Carney was defrocked in 1992 after he wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 131.7 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 00:53:18 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km ( 52 miles) ENE of Tacna, Peru ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA father-of-two plunged 150ft to his death as he shared a tandem parasail trip with his daughter during a holiday in Turkey. Glenn Hudson, 50, fell onto a beach in front of hundreds of holidaymakers when ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA schoolgirl has drowned and her boyfriend is missing after the pair went for a late-night swim following a music festival. The body of Hayley Holmes, 17, was found washed up on a beach early on Monday m...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago* Raffles* Sir Stamford Raffles, of the East India Company, brought death and destruction to Java in Indonesia. He sacked and looted cities. He supported slavery. He promoted the trade in Opium. H...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago[image: Helicopters rush food] National Guard helicopters rushed food and water Tuesday to a dozen cut-off Vermont town subsequent to the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene washed out roads and bridges in ...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 11 hours ago<img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAfQAAAHBCAIAAAAQA97DAAAgAElEQVR4nOy9P4gk23U/ftyJAo1RoAYFGlCgAQdmUPBGKNAaB2+MA69RoAEH9uJAAwo04EAsDt4aBW8HB3LhQNso0BYKvIUDbaHA2zh4WzgQhYK3FwWuxYH...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours agoA 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! - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 12 hours agoAll of us have a reason to go to New York City on September 17th: to occupy Wall Street. As of October 2008, over two million quality jobs were outsourced between 2004 and now; racial economic disparitie...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours agoAt 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 *Israel and Iran both sending warsh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoBeautiful words. Beautiful thoughts. Beautiful spirit. Beautiful mind.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 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 - 14 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! - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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! - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 hours agoSize is a determining factor for skink species.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 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 - 19 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!) - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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) - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoNASA's James Hansen was arrested yesterday during a protest against a Canada to US tar sands oil pipeline.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoBut other forms of the deadly pathogen still plague victims today.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 co...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThis novelty ice tray is sure to strike up a conversation at your next party.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Mt. Erebus ice caves in Antarctica present surprising and under-explored landscapes.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn addition to synching and storing files, this small, multipurpose device offers emergency power.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 of Syria, that started in March, is still ongoing. Chaos is bei...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA sleek new boat uses a gaseous layer to skim over water with 900 times less friction.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNuclear fission reactors in space? Think less "building sized" and more "suitcase sized."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 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 Please forward this site to several ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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.
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