- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
The screens are red and the FTSE is down 2.6pc so far today, at the tail end of what is already a terrible week. Jose Manuel Barroso has said that the euro crisis is spreading inwards from the periphery, a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued a recall notice on four varieties of Kettle Chips, while the company itself said: "As a precautionary measure, we are asking customers not to eat the product and ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Hackers breached security on the website of the American chocolate giant Hershey's and changed a baking recipe, it has emerged. They recently targeted the firm, the United States' largest chocolate manufa... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoThe top share index fell more than two percent on Wednesday, driven lower by uncertainty over global growth, with commodity stocks heading the list of fallers. The FTSE 100 sank to its lowest closing leve...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
A southern Chinese city has banned pet dogs, leaving tens of thousands facing a cull unless they can find new homes. Authorities in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, say they are concerned about rabies cases ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoThe U.N. Security Council on Wednesday issued a statement condemning the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters and calling for an immediate end to violence by all parties. "The Security Council co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
NATO vowed to continue its air assault on Libya over the holy Muslim month of Ramadan unless Libyan dictator Mommar Qadhafi agreed to a `verifiable and credible` ceasefire, a spokesman for the western mili... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Activists from Israel’s social protest movement reacted furiously on Wednesday after parliament passed a housing bill that they say will favour the rich and endanger the environment. Police said that hund... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Norwegian police will track funds used by anti-immigration zealot Anders Behring Breivik as part of a year-long probe into his killing spree that left 77 people dead and the nation stunned. A specially cre... - posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 23 minutes ago*Flashpoints - August 4, 2011 at 5:00pm* Click to listen (or download)
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 37 minutes ago
*"I have lost all interest in the game and I don't care if Callahan pitches me to-morrow or not. My heart is just about broke Al."* *-- Jack, in his letter of October 9* *by Ken* Tonight, for a change, Ja... - posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 hour ago
Cherri Foytlin, Gulf Mom and Activist from Louisiana held a demonstration today at the New Orleans BP Headquarters to call attention to the plight of Gulf residents and wildlife that continue to suffer p... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A mussel shell lies on the bank of a dried-up creek bed near Lake Arlington in Arlington, Texas, 1 August 2011. REUTERS / Tim Sharp] By Michael Hirtzer with additional reporting by Julie Ingwerse...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
*Corporate destruction of Mother Earth most censored issue in Indian country * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photo: Marisa Joseph, Yankton Sioux, stands with Gerald Dan... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: The remains of a catfish decay in a dried up lake in San Angelo, Texas, on Monday, 27 July 2011. news.blogs.cnn.com] By Eileen O'Grady, with additional reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York, e...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours ago
President Obama was back in Chicago last night celebrating his 50th birthday with a few of his well-heeled liberal friends -- the kind of leftist elites who can afford to shell out $35,800 to attend a pa... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoFor most of human history, empires and rulers have made a killing in the business of war, land grabs, territorial conquests, natural resource exploitation, and the high stakes games of power politics. But...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"This Sharia law business [i.e., that it has anything to do with Mr. Mohammed's suitability to be a judge] is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies. . . . It's just unnecessary...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSeventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network that prosecutors say used an online bulletin board called Dreamboard to trade tens of thousands of imag...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBritons' appetite for Facebook and social networks on the go is driving a huge demand for smartphones – with 60% of teenagers describing themselves as "highly addicted" to their device – according to new r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe city council of South America's biggest city has adopted legislation calling for a Heterosexual Pride Day to be celebrated on the third Sunday of each December. Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab must si...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA mother accused of punching her toddler son in the mouth on a city bus and shouting expletives at him was surrounded by a "hostile" crowd of passengers until police arrived, authorities said Wednesday. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMany House and Senate conservatives are reviving their battle against federal regulations, claiming that the president hasn't stopped issuing job-killing rules during the debt ceiling fight. "While Washing...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA German court on Thursday awarded a man convicted of murdering an 11-year-old boy euro3,000 ($4,290) in damages because a police officer had threatened violence during an interrogation. The Frankfurt sta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago"Now, they've been around for a while, but they are spreading far and wide and more people are getting involved. We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it is...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA California desert school's aluminum baseball field bleachers have been stolen. Students returned Monday to Apple Valley's Academy of Academic Excellence campus and learned a large section of the bleache...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBreath mints are usually refreshing, but a Knoxville legislator believes a University of Tennessee bookstore's selling of novelty candies mocking President Barack Obama stinks. UT officials pulled the min...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoU.S. debt shot up $239 billion on Tuesday — the largest one-day bump in history — as the government flexed the new borrowing room it earned in this week’s debt-limit increase deal. The debt subject to the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Department of Health (DOH) has noted a rapid growth in the number of typhoid fever cases in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental. From June to July 2011 alone, there were already 78 recorded typhoid fever ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, has come up with an unusual solution to solve the problem of illegal parking: Frustrated by the behaviour of luxury car owners, the office of Arturas Zuokas relea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice arrested more than 1,000 people and seized millions of dollars worth of illicit goods during a massive anti-crime joint operation by Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese police, authorities said Thursday. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWe are now being asked to "share" in the hardships that are admittedly the result of the greed of powerful and unrestrained world "owners." The corruption and greed that preceded this most recent world-wid...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFor several GOP lawmakers, the decision on whether to vote for the debt deal hinged on how the prescribed cuts will affect defense spending. In the end, enough Republicans in the House put their concerns a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOh what a tangled web we weave… The deal is done. The House passed it, the Senate passed it and the president signed it. Done deal, debt ceiling raised. So, we can all sigh a huge relief right? Er, not re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAfter the 2008 financial collapse and Barack Obama’s election, millions of Americans hoped that our country would create a New Deal for the 21st century. Instead, it feels like we are getting a Raw Deal, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn a post to the Buzz & Banter, published Monday afternoon, I wrote the following: Putting all of this together, my take on the most likely scenario going forward is the following: After a relief rally as...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCombine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 -- a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to fully recover from oil spills, a UN report says. The long-awaited UN study says environment restoration could prove to be the world's "most wide-ranging a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo instances of glass falling off highrise buildings in Toronto this week have people wondering whether it's pure coincidence or a sign of some pervasive construction flaw. Similar incidents have occurre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSix-year-old Karina Ricci doesn't ever have a typical day. She has no schedule to follow, no lessons to complete. She spends her time watching TV, doing arts and crafts or practicing the piano. She learne...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoComputer-based brain training looks to be effective for treating some symptoms.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoMale túngara frogs attempt to woo females with calls reminiscent of at least one 70's disco song. See if you can hear it.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoMale túngara frogs attempt to woo females with calls reminiscent of at least one 70's disco song. See if you can hear it.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoThe National Conference of State legislators leadership has proposed a resolution in support of repealing the Dodd Frank consumer protection bill be voted on at their annual meeting next week in San Anton...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago20.53 A new watershed moment, the Dow is down 513 points. US must just be praying for the bell to close trading. 20.50 NBC is to air a special report on the US markets when they close at 4pm Eastern time....
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 8 hours ago*13 years old boy beeing arrest because he protest for his rights* *Police in the Chilean capital Santiago fired water cannons and tear gas on Thursday to disperse hundreds of student protesters callin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Mentawai Region, Indonesia at a depth of 36.6 km ( 22.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:34:03 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 226 km (140 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 117.3 km ( 72.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:09:43 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 56 km (34 miles) Northwest of Miyazaki, Ky...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla* On 3 Agust 2011, it was reported that US government agents brought several tons of cocaine into the United States from Mexico. These federal agents then 'allowed' Mexico's...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThis bothered me greatly earlier today. It concerns the whinging of a bunch of lefties who the BBC alleges have dealt the a blow to the government's inquiry into allegations that British security services...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoThe other morning, when the BBC was on strike and there was no Today, I watched instead a film about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, on the channel known as ‘Yesterday.’ The film began with the birth o...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoFrom up to 30 feet away, send high-def video and 5.1 surround sound audio from your laptop to your television.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoAn orbiting camera spies evidence of seasonal water on Mars' surface.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoWhy tote around multiple devices when you could have it all in one?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoI've never quite figured out how evangelical Protestantism and extreme fiscal conservatism are entangled. But they are, at least here in the U.S. Apparently, the God worshipped by the most fundamentalist ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTropical Storm Emily caused flooding and damaged hundreds of homes in Haiti on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of vulnerable earthquake victims around the capital waited nervously in flimsy shanties and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThis video shows images of protests in Syria, captured by a foreign journalist who managed to gain rare access inside the country. CBC News has agreed not to identify him because he fears for his safety. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIf you're a longtime AT&T iPhone user whose unlimited data plan was grandfathered in when AT&T stopped offering unlimited plans last year, a brand new twist on your plan might seem like a pretty significan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending "code war" in which hackers will tamper not just with the Internet but with technology that runs real-w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoForty years ago the Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild. Today this large antelope, native to the Arabian peninsula, is back from the brink with 1,000 animals across five Middle Eastern countries, thank...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRoyal Dutch Shell faces having to pay compensation of potentially more than £250m ($410m) after the Anglo-Dutch oil group admitted liability for two spills in Nigeria following a legal claim brought in the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Japanese government said Thursday three top nuclear officials will be let go following their handling of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, which has eroded public confidence in the country's nuclear policy...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned that the sovereign debt crisis is spreading beyond the periphery of the eurozone. In a letter to European governments, he called on them to give...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits fell last week, but remained at a key level signaling that the job market remain sluggish. There were 400,000 initial unemployment claims filed in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOur food-club, Rawesome, was raided by federal, California State and Los Angeles County Health Officials and Police with guns drawn and threatening. They unplugged our surveillance camera to hide their act...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radiu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in time to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPopular energy and environmental programs should prepare for a decade of spending cuts under the debt deal reached late Sunday between the White House and congressional leaders. Less clear, however, is th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday. "In th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo University of Manchester academics have attempted to rewrite the meteorological manuals by claiming that the way the world learns about the weather is wrong and has been wrong for 90 years. Dr David S...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOnly small amounts of subsurface warming of water is required to trigger a rapid collapse of ice shelves, according to a new report to be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe oceans cover 71% of our planet, with over half with a depth greater than 3000 m. Although our knowledge is still very limited, we know that the deep ocean contains a diversity of habitats and ecosystem...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart was behind the counter of the Square Deal, his “old-time country store,” as he calls it, o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFreshwater fish are the most endangered group of animals on the planet, with more than a third threatened with extinction, according to a report being compiled by British scientists. Among those at the gr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGold at $2,000? I didn’t used to think so – but now I am not so sure. In fact, I’m almost convinced it will happen before the year is out. Last week’s events on Capitol Hill in the US were very damaging. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAlgae and pond weed have become the scourge of the summer taking over swimming ponds, canals and reservoirs around the country. British Waterways is attempting to clear out canals in London by hauling scu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA battle of the colonels is brewing on the Pacific island of Fiji after fast-food chain KFC was forced to close three of its outlets due to a dispute with the government over ingredients vital to its famou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBut despite months of patrolling their local seaside resorts, the pair – in real life a financial adviser and a shop worker – have failed to find any trouble at all. In fact, police say they are more worr...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 10 hours ago*Do not be afraid to ask for a radical change of system. The country is not owned by corporations. Enough. CHANGE NOW.*
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoAll was quiet on the Syria news front, for a time anyway. This week that all changed. Most of the action has been taken place in Hama. Hama is not too far from Lebanon, and also near Tartus. (Russia's naval...
- The first ever video of a comet crashing into the sun. "Don't Blink you will miss it" - 4th Aug 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoYou wait roughly 4.55billion years for something to happen and then it's over so quick you could blink and miss it. Until the early morning of July 6 this year no-one had ever managed to capture footage o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGigantic insects including a dragonfly with a wingspan of 75cm died out millions of years ago due to a lack of oxygen which had made them giant in the first place. The emergence and decline of gigantic fl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA TV news report on an assault has sparked an internet sensation – because the journalist presenting it looks almost identical to the police artist’s sketch of the suspect. The CBS Baltimore broadcast by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs the devastated family of a missing New Hampshire girl found dead struggles to come to grips with their loss, the girl's grandfather is speaking out. The body of Celina Cass, of New Hampshire, was found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA widow charged in her husband’s murder has admitted she married the man 16 years her senior for his money, only to find out he was a con artist, police have revealed. Raelynne Simonin, 23, is charged wit...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe voluntary recall comes after one person died and 76 others were infected with the drug-resistant strain of salmonella.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoAndrew Dessler is employed as a climate alarmist in Texas (at Texas A&M). He recently expressed his opinion about the new paper by Spencer and Braswell (reactions in the media via Google News). Accordi...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoHere's Richard Bacon introducing one of his guests this afternoon: "Doug Stanhope is here. Just a remarkable stand-up comic. If you haven't seen him and want a flavour of what he's like go to YouTube now a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Centre has warned of an imminent 'code war' where hackers target technology that runs real-world infrastructure such as power stations and water plants. Cof...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoStone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed. German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTumbling energy and materials stocks launched the markets to session lows, with the Dow sinking more than 200 points and the broad S&P 500 shedding 2.2%, as traders grappled with economic fears and a soari...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Here's a reason for this!* Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousands words and the one above, should get across the point we're making this morning. Wednesday night, Sioban Hughes, writing for the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*This is the guitar* The trigger got triggered and we've now collected over $2,000 for Ilya Sheyman's campaign. So, like we said yesterday, at 6pm today, we'll be randomly choosing one contributor-- regar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA council has come under fire for planting one of the world's deadliest flowers right next to a children's park. The purple-flowered Monkshood can be deadly to humans and animals if eaten, despite its col...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAthlete Liz McColgan appeared in court today charged with attacking her estranged husband at her home. The 47-year-old, from Carnoustie in Angus, Scotland, denied repeatedly punching Peter McColgan on his...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago[image: Syrian city] Syrian authorities kept the agitated city of Hama under a blackout Thursday, cutting phone lines, Internet and electricity as division of a brutal, five-day-old crackdown on anti-gove...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoOver on Autonomous Mind, we have an excellent exposure of more *bias by omission* by the State Broadcaster. It concerns the *Duncan Bannatyne* story and the parts of it the BBC decided not to run! Make s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoOK, what is concerning you about the BBC today? Here is your new Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoThe BBC is always keen enough to advance the Nanny State. Take this interview on the BBC earlier concerning the wheeze by *Centre Forum think tank *that the State should be providing lessons in how to be a...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoIf just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will be adopted by the majority, a new study says.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe man contacted Sweden's nuclear authority and asked if it was permitted for an individual to build a nuclear reactor.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA fuel tank from the crashed shuttle is found in a lake in drought-stricken Texas.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoA new theory suggests the two moons then crashed together, forming our current moon.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoYou know, when you listen to this biased trash masquerading as Thought for the Day, it enrages you. The politicising is not very subtle! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoAlthough we concern ourselves most frequently with BBC news, I though this was an interesting tour de force commentary from a B-BBC reader. "I'm concerned not so-much by the News Content (which, whilst bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA gunman is reported to have been spotted at Virginia Tech university - scene of the worst college shooting in US history. "Person with a gun reported near Dietrick," the university said in a bulletin on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen yesterday said he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl said he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium i...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoBeen busy hence lack of posts! Anyway, catch up time. First this...with regard to Cleveland Police Authority. "I wonder why the BBC neglects to mention the party affiliation of the Chairman in its report ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours agoDesperate Lakeview gardeners rebreach 17th Street Canal! ~The New Orleans Levee ~ReTweet @theharryshearer~#HappyBdayMrPresident Why not read Maria Garzino's letter to you as a gift to yourself? About Floo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA teenage boy survived being buried alive on a California beach for half an hour after a tunnel he built in the sand caved in. In a desperate scramble, dozens of holidaymakers pitched in to try to dig out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 49 km ( 30.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:51:36 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 230 km (142 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoShares in Britain's top firms plunged even further today after the FTSE 100 slumped to its lowest close for nine months last night. The stock market, which lists the UK's 100 biggest public companies has ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours ago*Navajo Nation government caters to coal mines and power plants, while Navajo elderly go without water* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photo: Navajo elderly drinking co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIt 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 - 14 hours agoA 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 - 14 hours agoThe 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours agoMillennials who exhibit high levels of narcissism don’t update their status more than anyone else.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours 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 brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours agoAt last, a way to see who else is viewing your Facebook profile.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours agoA 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?") - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours agoHawaii 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 - 16 hours agoA 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 - 16 hours agoMrs 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 childhood....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 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 - 16 hours agoA 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoThe solar-powered probe will have some company when it begins to explore the Jovian system in 2016.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 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 - 22 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 o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWhy settle for the usual humdrum vehicle when you could tour the course in style?
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoYou can display them with pride -- just don't try to wear them.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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.
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