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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
It is the much-hyped Government website bringing democracy directly to the people - but the project crashed as soon as it was launched today. The new site for e-petitions allows members of the public to ha... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
A British student murdered in Poland was beaten to death by a bus driver after a row over a missed stop, police in the country have said. The body of 21-year-old Catherine Zaks was discovered lying next t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
The President of the European Commission has warned that the eurozone debt crisis is spreading. In a letter to European Union leaders, Jose Manuel Barroso said: "Whatever the factors behind the lack of su... - posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 minutes agoSpeed hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis covered an average of 47 miles a day on the Appalachian Trail.
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 minutes agoMillennials who exhibit high levels of narcissism don’t update their status more than anyone else.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 36 minutes agoMy hometown soccer team, Viktoria Pilsen, the winner of the Top Czech Gambrinus Soccer League (Gambrinus, the sponsor, is the most widely drunk beer in Czechia, one produced in Pilsen as well, of course, a...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 51 minutes ago
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
*Leonard Peltier imprisoned in small cell, dangerously hot* *Wednesday, 27 July 2011 By Leonard Peltier* Dear Friends, For over 35 years I have been in federal prison for crimes I did not commit. Since ... - posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAt last, a way to see who else is viewing your Facebook profile.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoTuesday the Senate took a big giant bite of the Satan Sandwich. Once the phony-baloney teabaggers agreed to the unanimous consent to bring it up, here was never any doubt they would. Only 26 Senators vot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 50.4 km ( 31.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:48:44 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Ra... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 hour agoGeorge Carlin knew exactly what was coming up for U.S. taxpaying citizens. He said years ago that "they are coming for your Social Security!"He wasn't kidding.The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can't Pi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Hawaii Island’s east rift zone has an active lava flow once again, according to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists. The following media release was just issued: HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawaii — At 2:05 p.m.... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A growing lava dome has been spotted in the summit crater of an Alaska volcano, leading officials to raise the alert level.The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the observation increases the possibility but ... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago
Mrs Simona Monyová (44) was the most successful Czech author of romance novels. Nicknamed "Viewegh in the skirts", after a bestselling male author, she has been a compulsive writer since her childhoo... - posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoI notice whenever I do a "we like lists" post that I'm never satisfied with my own list. On our hanging out in history list, I forgot Clarence Darrow. In our all-time celebrity crushes, I forgot Bruce Spri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A Jaguar fighter plane of Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed 50 miles south-east of Gorakhpur in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday morning. At least three persons including the pilot died in the accide... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*A TWO-year-old boy from Western Sydney is currently being treated for meningococcal disease at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. * The Children’s Hospital at Westmead issued a statement to remind all ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFront doors were like oven doors across Clarksville Wednesday as record heat and relentless humidity baked the city all afternoon. The city reached 102 degrees Wednesday, breaking a 100-degree record set t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHOMES were flooded after torrential downpours hit parts of East Yorkshire last night. Emergency services were alerted to flooding in Goole and its surrounding area after a heavy storm in the afternoon. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHundreds of firefighters Wednesday evening were battling a forest fire in northeastern Mendocino County that had grown to 800 acres. The fire was reported just after noon in the Hull Mountain area northe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoTexas broke its power use record for the third day in a row on Wednesday as intense heat continued to grip most of the state. In Houston, where the high reached 101 Wednesday, the city activated its heat ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoTen people were killed after a Bell-412 helicopter crashed on Thursday in mountains in the north of Indonesia, the country's national news agency Antara reported. The helicopter, which belonged to an Ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*Three patients have been diagnosed with cholera, while hundreds of others are suffering from gastroenteritis in different parts of Mansehra district. These reports emerged from a pathological analysis car...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago*A WOMAN was last night being treated in Cairns Base Hospital for a meningococcal infection and health officials are investigating two other possible cases.* It comes as the meningococcal outbreak in Tow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA forgiving youngster has begged the authorities to spare his father from jail - even after he was burned and stuffed into an oven by him. James Moss, 53, launched the terrifying attack on his nine-year-ol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe U.S. is to spend $23billion on a fleet of drone spy planes - despite facing economic turmoil and crippling debts. Fifty-five Global Hawks are to be built over the coming years, with each aircraft cost...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA disabled man was found dead in a van having been left there for more than six hours in the middle of a stifling New York heatwave. Police say they found Eason Alonzio, 48, unconscious inside a Ford van ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe FBI wants to search a landfill in the hope of finding college student Lauren Spierer who has been missing since June 3. The FBI wants to search Sycamore Ridge Landfill with a hope to find Indiana Univ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA classmate of a Mercer University law school graduate has been charged with killing her. Police in Georgia have charged Stephen Mark McDaniel, 25, with the murder of fellow graduate Lauren Giddings, 27. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMeat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others. Illnesses in the out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPolice desperate to catch a serial buttock slasher have released a new video of the suspect. Police in Fairfax County have appealed for witnesses after a string of brazen attacks on young women out shoppi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe sweltering summer heat has taken a deadly toll with two football players and a coach dying after practising in scorching temperatures. Donteria Searcy, 16, died yesterday after passing out following a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA pick-up truck thought to belong to the troubled stepfather of the 11-year-old girl whose body was mysteriously found in a river has been hauled away by investigators. Celina Cass, of New Hampshire, was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoCasey Anthony's once mysterious whereabouts have been revealed less than a month after she walked out of jail a free woman - but whether or not she'll stay there is up for debate. In response to a judge's...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 3 hours agoART HISTORY - Three "dumb thieves" tried to steal an $1-million sculpture by famed Canadian abstract artist Jean-Paul Riopelle ended up ditching the pricey sculpture in the Quebec woods. The sculpture was ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours agoPeople, due to their lack of time stay away from philanthropic activities, but being a busy entrepreneur, *Frank Delape* the Chairman of benchmark equity group does lots of philanthropic activities along w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCapital Punishment - E-Petition Coming Crisis Responsible department: Ministry of Justice In 1986 David Richard Taylor killed Andrew Williams unknown to the police David R Taylor already carried out a str...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Healthy Stuff/Press Photos via TreeHugger We can't breathe the air, drink the water, or eat the food without being exposed to toxins beyond our wildest dreams. Just when we thought we might...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn ominous display of clouds billowing over New Brunswick in the shape of a face has sparked debate over whether it was just a a spooky coincidence - or a message from God. Amateur cameraman Denis Farmer ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn Australian thrill-seeker got a close glimpse at why they call it the 'Death Swing' as a BASE jumping stunt gone awry nearly cost him his life. The daredevil Down Under, who calls himself Lucky Chance, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA quangocrat was given a golden goodbye payment of £11,000 for every month she held the job. Charlotte Cane, the director of resources at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment -known a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe House of Commons has gone on a recruitment splurge, despite the recession and anger over the MPs’ expenses scandal. Official figures show that the number of Commons staff has increased by 10 per cent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA massive £35billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s biggest companies yesterday as the global economy sunk deeper into crisis. Stock markets around the world fell as the debt storm in America blew ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe 'collar bomb' that was strapped to an Australian schoolgirl's neck contained no explosives and appeared to be part of an 'elaborate hoax', Australian police have revealed. In a scene that could have c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMPs face being forced into a landmark vote on restoring the death penalty. Capital punishment is expected to be the first subject debated by Parliament under an e-petitions scheme. The initiative allows ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours agoA few days ago, I analyzed the warming trends at all stations included in the HadCRUT3 zipped data that were recently released. *Click to zoom in. I chose high contrast colors to make the picture nice....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwo members of staff at a magistrates' court have been suspended amid allegations of bribery, the Ministry of Justice confirmed today. The action came after an investigation by The Sun newspaper, during w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoReader Contribution; The rebel fighters of the Tripoli Brigade have one goal -- to be among the first to enter the Libyan capital and kick out Muammar Qaddafi and his cronies. They say their intimate kn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoI have searched the European and American Seismic Networks to see if maybe by chance I missed this earthquake as with many Quakes in Japan recently they seem to show them at a lesser Magnitude than what th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBritain is now at greater risk from terrorist attacks than any other Western nation, according to research. The heightened threat in Northern Ireland has resulted in the UK being ranked higher than the U....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA married teacher, loved by his students has died in a strange, heated suicide that has left many questioning and confused. History teacher Mark Raab, 32, killed himself in a tense, armed stand-off with ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoParrots do not imitate sounds in the wild. It is not until they are caught and live in captivity with humans that they begin to imitate the sounds around them. Here's something we can all feel good abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThree members of a British family have been killed in a road crash in Jamaica, police said today. The family was travelling in a minibus which collided with a pick-up truck in the Trelawny parish between ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe niece of a Cleveland man convicted of killing 11 women and stashing their remains in and around his home testified yesterday that he began sexually assaulting her when she was 10 and he was 11. The wo...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoThis is the parrot Kea using a ball shaped tool at the Multi Access Box. (Alice Auersperg). Photo courtesy: The Epoch Times Scientists have been testing the problem-solving skills of members of two of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Giunea at a depth of 91.9 km ( 57.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:41:16 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 196 km (121 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 613.4 km ( 381.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:47:43 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 308 km (191 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Panama-Costa Rica Border Region at a depth of 18.5 km ( 11.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:12:33 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Southea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35.7 km ( 22.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:20:06 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) WNW of Luganville, Espiritu Sant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10.8 km ( 6.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:13:10 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) WNW of Diyarbakir, Tu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:35:05 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 861 km (535 miles) North of Fern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck near Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 37.8 km ( 23.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:16:08 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) Nort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.7 km ( 32.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:51:51 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 26.8 km ( 16.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:52:16 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 186 km (115 miles) South of Manado, Sulawesi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Giunea at a depth of 23.9 km ( 14.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:48:12 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 194 km (120 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Giunea at a depth of 8.2 km ( 5.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:39:22 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 196 km (121 mile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Fiji Region at a depth of 500.1 km ( 310.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:44:10 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, Fij...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 307.4 km ( 191 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:19 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) WNW of Fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 164.8 km ( 102.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:33:55 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) SSE of Bucaramanga,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 191.7 km ( 119.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:39:39 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Southeast of Luganville, Esp...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe solar-powered probe will have some company when it begins to explore the Jovian system in 2016.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago"In the award-winning documentary *Children Full of Life*, *a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion* from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro K...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoAs you may have noticed, the wealthy island of Cuba lost its glamorous adjectives in 1959 when a group of criminals and murderers around Fidel Castro and Che Guevara overtook the country and changed an oas...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: OC Fisher, a reservoir in West Texas, has turned blood-red as drought has left it stagnant and full of dead fish and Chromatiaceae bacteria, 2 August 2011. Texas Parks and Wildlife Inland Fisheri...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Satellite image of floodwaters from the Fitzroy River, central Queensland, Australia, shows a substantial plume in the GReat Barrier Reef on 11 January 2011. Pia Harkness and Michelle Devlin, Jam...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: A dust storm blows as newly arrived Somalian refugees settle on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp, which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 23, 2011 in Dadaab, Keny...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced Wednesday. Mogadishu, the Afgooye corridor and the Shabelle regions west of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFor the third time in a year, Japan's government has intervened in the yen, its unit of currency, according to Japan's finance minister. "While Japan is dealing with the reconstruction of the tsunami zone,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMembers of the U.N. Security Council have put together a compromise draft statement on the crisis in Syria, various Western diplomats told CNN Wednesday. The breakthrough comes amid talks that began Mon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEarlier today Politico broke the astonishing story of Joe Biden supporting the charge by Democrat Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania that Tea Party Republicans had “acted like terrorists” over the debt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSpain and Italy's soaring borrowing costs are of "deep concern", EC president Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday, fuelling speculation that policy makers may be forced to take drastic action to quell th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBrazilian police say a newborn girl was saved from being buried alive when she started crying at a funeral home where she had been taken after doctors declared her dead. A police statement says that the 1...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*"I have got it figured that Hazel is fixing to surprise me by dropping in on me because I haven't heard nothing yet."* *-- Jack, October 3* *READY FOR JACK'S BIG NEWS? CLICK HERE* *YOU KNOW ME AL: Our s...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoA profile in duplicity. by Tony Cartalucci Bangkok, Thailand August 4, 2011 - Just how badly compromised is the mainstream media? Frequent readers will undoubtedly know it is pretty bad. Entire editing st...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoLethal radiation levels of more than 10,000 millisieverts per hour raise the need for caution to even greater extremes that workers at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant must take.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoBy Ben Dimiero August 02, 2011 In a *700 Club *segment rehashing climate science pseudo-scandals, Cato Institute climatologist Patrick Michaels had a peculiar observation for someone appearing on tel...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Banri Kaieda, the minister of economy, trade and industry lost his composure, convulsing in sobs after Liberal Democratic Party politician Ryosei Akazawa berated him over the government’s energy ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago"I have no intention for the next weeks and months to be talking about this committee." - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi when asked by reporters at a press conference about the new Super Congress. (S...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Monthly July ice extent for 1979 to 2011 shows a decline of 6.8% per decade. Arctic sea ice extent averaged for July 2011 reached the lowest level for the month in the 1979 to 2011 satellite reco...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Indices of Adélie and chinstrap population responses. Closed circles (●) indicate chinstrap penguins at Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Open circles (○) indicate chinstrap penguins at Cape Shi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Yesterday this seemed like a pretty trenchant cartoon from the great Monte Wolverton. Now it turns out he's got it all wrong, the problem is us liberals -- for not doing a fervent enough selling job on th...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoDeep ocean searchers have found what some are calling a UFO on the ocean floor. But are there other explanations?
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoIs Eureka's "Higgs field disruptor" a realistic interpretation of physics? Probably not, but it makes for some great sci-fi.
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report- 14 hours agoHere's a link to a documentory based on Tom Ferguson's book This film is based on Thomas Ferguson's book Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Sy...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGlobal stock markets fell after a report showed that the pace of growth in the US services sector expanded at its slowest pace in 17 months, stoking fears that the world's largest economy could slip back i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe largest shipment of cocaine ever seized in Britain has been uncovered in a yacht in Southampton docks, it was revealed today. The 1.2 tonne haul has a street value of £300 million. Officers believed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwenty Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers died and another 30 were injured yesterday in El Geneina, West Darfur, when two buildings where they were staying in collapsed as a result of heavy rain storms. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe footage, posted on YouTube on Sunday, has garnered over 1.8m views in the short time it has been online. Simply entitled Cat gone, the video, which originated from a user in Russia, shows a ginger f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEurope is a "train wreck" and on the "brink of a major financial crisis," Scott Minerd, CIO of the fixed-income firm Guggenheim Partners, told CNBC Tuesday. "The way Europe is operating right now, it's wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoChina, the largest foreign investor in U.S. government securities, joined Russia in criticizing American policy makers for failing to ensure borrowing is reined in after a stopgap deal to raise the nation’...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Congressional melodrama is over, for now, and in Washington they are tallying up winners and losers, in the insiders' calculus of electoral opportunism. The rest of the world, meanwhile, can only shak...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoProsecutors say they will ask for the maximum sentence allowed by law for a New York City man who admitted throwing his son naked in the oven as punishment. James Moss of Staten Island is scheduled to be ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoElk Creek, Neb. (population 112), may not be so tiny much longer. Reports suggest that the southeastern Nebraska hamlet may be sitting on the world’s largest untapped deposit of “rare earth” minerals, whic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Hamburg data protection authority on Tuesday ruled that Facebook’s facial recognition feature, which attempts to identify people in photos uploaded to the site, violates German privacy laws. Johannes ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Bloomington man is facing possible jail time, accused of breaking a city ordinance that prohibits residents from feeding wild animals. In Bloomington, it is legal to use bird feeders — as long as they ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIn one of the biggest banks in the centre of Athens a clerk is explaining how his savers have been thronging to pull out their cash. Wary of giving his name, he glances around the marble-floored, wood-pane...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoInvestors fear the United States may be headed for a credit ratings downgrade even if the Senate approves a $2.1 trillion package of spending cuts later on Tuesday. Though the bill removes the threat of i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPennsylvanians on public assistance now have a new 'civil right' -- free cell phones. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay higher cell bills as a result. Recently, a federal government program called the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAs far as summer fashion goes, clothes with built-in electric fans leave a little something to be desired. But Hiroshi Ichigaya has managed to turn his breezy invention into the must-have item of the summ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRaising interest rates would leave millions teetering on the brink of financial disaster, leading economists warn today. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research says a rise from 0.5 per cen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe US yesterday stepped back from the brink of financial disaster as a bitterly contested deal to raise the debt ceiling was passed by the US congress, enabling Barack Obama, the US president, to sign it ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has described the bond markets' treatment of Italy and Spain as "a cause of deep concern". Yields on Spanish and Italian bonds have hit euro-era records t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA typhoon some 1,600 kilometers (994 miles) from the Philippine capital is supercharging summer monsoon rains, which have flooded parts of Manila and could trigger flash floods and landslides across other ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe president of Niger announced that 10 people have been arrested in connection with an attempted coup last month, the first time the nation has confirmed the failed plot. An additional suspect is on the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSouth Korea has proposed sending aid to North Korea to assist with damages caused by torrential rain that hit the peninsula last week, the South's Ministry of Unification said. Seoul has proposed to send ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThey descended by the hundreds — black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBMW, the world's largest luxury car maker, has reported a record second-quarter profit after a boom in the Chinese market saw sales reach an all-time high. The German manufacturer generated the highest pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPART ONE: PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtbpcJt1w1o&feature=related PART 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcQLRg0lTs&feature=related PART 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wS8aJF68DI&feature=re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPART ONE: PART 2: http://youtu.be/deMPlC1rc7U PART 3: http://youtu.be/4kePDAAEZ_s PART 4: http://youtu.be/Yf49V9QYU-k PART 5: http://youtu.be/ILIRSsGyXKM *Bathroom break* PART 6: http://youtu.be/zy0KBzipGK...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Diagram showing the main exhaust stack of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1/2, where ultra-high radiation fields in excess of 10 sieverts/hours were discovered by TEPCO on 1 August 2011. Yomiuri Shimbun]A...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Family says FBI agent was prejudiced toward Native Americans and failed to adequately investigate the murder of their son* . By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com SEATTLE -- ...
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoDuring a three-week trip to South Africa, Nicole Gugliucci helped to build an exciting astronomical experiment in the desert.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoWhy settle for the usual humdrum vehicle when you could tour the course in style?
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoYou can display them with pride -- just don't try to wear them.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe splendid lantern shark glows in the dark to create a cloak of invisibility to protect itself from predators.
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 16 hours agoIt's summer here in my hemisphere, and around here, that means some unpredictable weather. Actually, every season in Utah means unpredictable weather. The only predictable condition is the road conditio...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoIf you've been thinking your Internet provider has only been serving up traffic jams online, a new FCC study may have numbers to prove it.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 80.1 km ( 49.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:02:18 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (48 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours agoRemember what an amazing job Obama was doing when the voters gave the Democrats an overwhelming majority in the House and a veto-proof Senate? No? I don't either. He was already defining himself as a det...
- Jason Owen the Lodger who allowed Baby P to die could be released from jail this week - 3rd Aug 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOne of the trio jailed over tragic north London child Baby P's death could walk free from prison this week. Jason Owen, 39, is serving a six-year sentence for causing or allowing the death of 17-month-old... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA group of holidaymakers were forced to make a dramatic escape just before their car burst into a fireball in the middle of a busy motorway. The family abandoned their Renault Scenic in the middle lane of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe 19-year-old son of a Thames cruise boss was killed today when he fell from a ferry and under its propeller. Ben Woollacott, of Kent, died in the horrific accident after falling from the Woolwich Ferry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoEarth may once have had two moons - the one that shines at night today and a smaller companion, according to a new theory. A slow-motion collision between the two is believed to have created the mountaino...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 52.3 km ( 32.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:23:15 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 115 km (72 miles) ESE from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUS officials have broken an international child porn ring that elevated members to 'Super VIP' when they uploaded images considered to be the most depraved. Authorities said 72 bulletin board members of D...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoStarting next year, many health insurance plans will be required to cover contraceptive services without charging patients a co-payment.
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoWe all know what happened yesterday in the United States Congress, and that the President signed a debt relief bill that nobody really likes. We all know how the BBC spun it, and they continue to spin it t...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 hours agoLevees.org is guest on NPR today! They beg to differ with recent Corps of Engineers' Awards for "protecting" New Orleans ~Members of the Army Corps of Engineers, the subject of emotional criticism after Hu...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoWarfare Without Limits: A Darkening Human Horizon ** *By Richard Falk Published: July 27, 2011 Richard Falk's Blog: Citizen Pilgrimage* There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the abs...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 19 hours agoWe all knew the NDP’s flirtation with the separatists would emerge as an issue at some point during the 41st Parliament. I just don’t think anyone expected it to move to the forefront quite so rapidly: In...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA beluga whale named Juno intensely watches a mariachi serenade him at the Mystic Aquarium. Check out the video.
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoVampire bats locate their blood meals with the help of three heat-sensing organs in their faces.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 4.8 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 16:32:27 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) ENE o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJapan-based Hitachi is known by global customers for making TVs. But on Wednesday, the company said it is considering ending its television production operations in Japan. "We are considering ending produ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe jobs recovery slowed for a third month in a row, according to two reports out Wednesday. Private sector employers added 114,000 workers in July, marking a decrease from the 145,000 jobs added in June,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWorld stocks fell Wednesday as relief the U.S. averted a debt default gave way to increasing pessimism over prospects for the world's biggest economy. Oil extended losses, trading near $93 a barrel amid ex...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe United Nations and international aid agencies are warning that the famine in Somalia will grow in size and severity unless the world community responds with more aid. Oxfam said Tuesday that Somalia f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnyone who thinks we can just walk away from a crisis like the famine in Africa because these things are too overwhelming and commonplace should think again. Put bluntly, natural disasters have the world b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNorth America is gradually losing its native ladybugs. Three once-common domestic species are becoming rare as foreign breeds introduced decades ago — which have different habitats and diets — take over. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGovernment tanks in Syria have reportedly advanced deep into the besieged central city of Hama to put down opposition protests. Residents who spoke to Reuters said tanks had reached Orontes Square in the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIT security firm McAfee claims to have uncovered one of the largest ever series of cyber attacks. It lists 72 different organisations that were targeted over five years, including the International Olympi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax. A number of media organisations, including the BBC, repo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere is a serious new threat to the eurozone after Italy and Spain's borrowing rates hit their highest level since the single currency was established. It comes amid fears that a global economic slowdown...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Japan Fukushima: update (The ending is Just Unbelievable...) - July 31, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBargain chain Poundland is to expand into the eurozone after today announcing plans for a number of new stores, starting in debt-ridden Ireland. The new venture will shun the "Euroland" label - thus avoid...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDieters struggle to lose weight because a lack of nutrition forces their brain cells to eat themselves, making the feeling of hunger even stronger, scientists claim. Like other parts of the body, brain ce...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoArgentina has announced it is developing a nuclear-powered submarine, leading to fresh warnings that Britain would face an "insurmountable" task if the country invaded the Falkland Islands again. Arturo P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSaudi Arabia is set to start work on building the world's tallest skyscraper in a bid to outdo Gulf neighbour Dubai, which inaugurated its own record-breaking skyscraper less than two years ago. he Saudis...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Japan Fukushima: Facing Continued Nuclear Difficulties - July 29, 2011*Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCrop circles are now made using lasers, microwaves and GPS technology to create ever larger and more elaborate patterns, scientist claims as days of using planks and rope long gone. Crop circles have conf...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe first close-up pictures of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal a northern hemisphere littered with craters including a trio nicknamed "Snowman" and a smoother southern half, researchers have reported. ...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSpace may be the final frontier, but Mars should be the next one. At a spaceflight propulsion conference held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on Tuesday, Elon Musk -- the billiona...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoU.S. special operations forces have regularly and “surreptitiously” slipped into Pakistan in recent years, raiding suspected terrorist hideouts on Pakistani soil. The team that killed Osama bin Laden — tho...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe find could shed light on the region's evolutionary history.
- posted by derekshowerman atContaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 21 hours agoBy Duane Craig Honeywell International Inc., PPG Industries Inc. and Occidental Chemical Corp. have agreed to repay New Jersey $15 million for cleanup at multiple sites with hexavalent chromium contaminat...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 21 hours agoFrom Defend Free Speech: Help CAF beat Jason Kenney in federal court! An urgent appeal for support. Please make a donation today. Over two years ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo top police chiefs have been suspended by Cleveland Police following their earlier arrest on suspicion of misconduct, abuse of position and corrupt practice. Chief Constable Sean Price and Deputy Chie...
- posted by DownWithTyranny atDownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoLooking for the silver lining in the passage of the Boehner debt ceiling bill? There is none. Okay, okay. There are some bright spots we can look to amid the current Tea Party madness. That's what Blue ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA 40-year-old New Zealand man was decapitated in front of horrified family and friends while testing a hovercraft he built at home Dr Alastair Kenneth Senior was on Muriwai beach in Auckland when the prop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFears intensified today that the deal to raise America's debt ceiling will not stave off a credit rating disaster after the leading Chinese credit agency downgraded U.S. sovereign debt. As an official do...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Jonathan Kay - Canadian journalist and friend of Israel and Mossad.* From where did the spooks get their inspiration for the Norway Attacks? *Jonathan Kay*, at National Post, reminds us that *we've heard...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSecurity experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organisations including the United Nations, governments and companies around t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA chief constable and his deputy were arrested today by detectives investigating allegations of corruption. Chief Constable Sean Price and Deputy Chief Constable Derek Bonnard of Cleveland Police were hel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoUp to 50,000 families face having no summer holiday this year, after the travel firm Holidays 4U went bust this morning. The budget Turkey specialist, which also traded as Aegean Flights, went into admini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn Australian schoolgirl who spent more than 10 hours with a bomb strapped to her by a hooded intruder who broke into her house was reunited with her parents tonight after a dramatic rescue. Police bomb d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 182.9 km ( 113.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:23:24 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 105 km (66 miles) West of San Salvado...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness- 22 hours ago*Health Freedom Alliance* Submitted by Lois Rain on August 2, 2011 13Share * * *What is the slingshot that will bring the mighty Goliath down? What is Monsanto’s Achilles heel; the two things it does not ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago[image: Mubarak trial] An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed within a metal defendants cage with his two sons position protectively beside him in white prison uniforms,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours ago*Bush Greeting ALEC, 2007* State legislators from every corner of America are flocking to New Orleans today, summoned to the Big Easy by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is the clear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 9.3 km ( 5.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:00 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 252 km (157 miles) W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 35 km ( 21.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:32:50 UTC Wednesday 3rd August 2011. The epicenter was 122 km (76 miles) WSW from Ternate, Moluccas, ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Indigenous Peoples gather to halt devastation from mining, tar sands, oil and gas wells and other environmental destruction now causing global warming and climate change* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSydney police have safely resolved a situation in which an 18-year-old woman was attached to what was thought to be a bomb. After the incident on Sydney's lower north shore entered its 10th hour on Wedne...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe family of a man who died in a Sept. 11 plane crash is asking to be paid for her son's fear and suffering, but what's it worth?
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTo help you avoid repetitive strain injury, this keyboard subtly moves as you type.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhy throw your caps away when they could create a unique work of table lamp art?
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBy feeding just below the ocean's surface, North Atlantic right whales are at high risk of colliding with ships.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Verhalen, Texas — Dry weeds surround a wooden cross in a field near the town of Verhalen, in May 2011. The state is suffering from a severe drought that is causing wildfires and hardship for ranc...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoNow here's some economic (bankstering) dissection that you can lap up and rate easily.Funny how little of this there seems to be outside of Krugman, Reich, Baker and Warren, isn't it? (And for very good reas...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: World map of natural disasters, first half of 2011. Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Geo Risks Research, NatCatSERVICE] US contact: Terese Rosenthal, Tel.: +1 609 243 4339 12 July 2011 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVIDEO: UPDATE Bomb strapped to teenage girl
*THE investigation into a Mosman bomb incident is now be... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA RADIO 5 Live sports presenter claims he spotted a UFO circling near to Stansted Airport this morning (Wednesday, August 3). Mike Sewell told the breakfast show that he saw a "disc-shaped" object hoveri...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Parched and cracked soil is prevalent throughout the Minqin Oasis, Gansu province, China, making the growing of crops and plants increasingly difficult. Sean Gallagher] Analysis by Lester R. Bro...
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