- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 minutes agoAdapter connects four devices using your home's existing electrical lines.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 minutes agoStill mourning the real thing? There's nothing like shiny plastic bricks to make it better.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 minutes agoRicoh Europe's 'eco-board' powered by five turbines and 96 solar panels.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
An engagement party ended in horror when a two-year-old boy drowned in a neighbour's swimming pool after wandering off. Toddler Ryan Pearman was found lying face-down under the pool's cover by shocked fam... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
The part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland today reported a half-year loss of £794 million. It compares to last year's profit of £1.2 billion. RBS, which is 83 per cent state owned, also announced that ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A three-year-old British girl has died after falling from a high-rise apartment block in Singapore. The girl, who has not been named, was reported to have been in a 13th-floor apartment in Fraser Residenc... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 37.2 km ( 23.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:10:07 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 375 km (233 miles) WNW of Coos Bay,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
Ryanair staff tried to treat a passenger suffering cardiac arrest with a sandwich and a fizzy drink - before billing him for the food, it has emerged. Per-Erik Jonsson, 63, was on a flight from England to... - posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 34 minutes ago
I confess oftentimes I go running in the morning just so I can tell myself I won't have to run for another 24 hours when I am done. I confess my husband has one more week left of summer. That means I have ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes ago
A polar bear clawed through a tent and mauled to death a British teenager and left four others seriously injured in a horror attack in Norway today. The starving animal attacked the group of 13 young explo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes ago
The first of the three people jailed over Baby P's death has been released from prison, according to reports. Jason Owen, 39, was serving a six-year sentence for causing or allowing the death of 17-mont... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 43 minutes agoThere are lots of interesting articles on Anthony Watts' blog but when I saw the text by Ric Werme Andrea Rossi’s E-cat fusion device on target and noticed that it has a perfect, 5-star rating, I had t...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 44 minutes agoHonestly, the BBC's refusal to countenance the serial failure of Obama's policies just continues in every manifestation imaginable. This afternoonthey intone, *"Instability on the stock markets has continu...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 51 minutes agoPresident Obama announced that he has averted a crisis with more than a trillion dollars in immediate spending cuts, a number much higher than the value of the stimulus package passed at the beginning ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoA nonlethal electronic shark-deterrent will be used for an attempt at a record-breaking swim through shark-filled waters.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
The backed by NATO Libyan "rebels" are falling apart at the seams, but, that doesn't give NATO even a moments pause for thought in their civilian death campaign. Image borrowed from here As has been exp... - posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe drought-stricken town is taking a page from NASA, which developed a urine recycling program for astronauts.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 hours agoWhile we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite poggeand thwap. They've already said it better than I can. From pogge: Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan's post on t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Is Argenziano a Democrat now?* Florida has a history of electing very conservative Democrats to office who reflexively vote with the GOP. The highly dysfunctional state party there, working closely with ... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 hours ago<a href="http://storify.com/orwellsbastard/this-is-where-we-juxtapose-part-godknowswhat-jerna" target="_blank"&amp...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe African crested rat is the only other mammal besides humans to strategically use plant poisons.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoAn analysis of fossil soils indicates grasslands dominated East Africa for 7.4 million years.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNasa is launching a mission to Jupiter that aims to uncover the giant planet's secrets. Weeks after *Nasa ended its space shuttle programme* due to budget cuts, it is sending out a probe to the solar sys...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.7 km ( 18.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:16:05 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) West of Iwaki, H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55.5 km ( 34.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:53:22 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) ESE ...
- *Who cares about memory management?* For computers I mean, in particular Linux computers. This should be taken care off most assume when installing a Linux distro. True! Yet, there are some situations tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 229.2 km ( 142.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:38:23 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 200 km (124 miles) West of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoChina has called more than 7,000 fishing boats back to port in preparation for Typhoon Muifa, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in recent years, according to state media. Authorities in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoChina is known to have told Korea that it does not know about a reported leak of radioactive materials to the Yellow Sea from a Chinese nuclear submarine moored in the Chinese port of Dalian in Liaoning Pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Four people, including three children were killed and several people injured after a four-story building collapsed in the Lyari area of Karachi on Thursday.* *Express 24/7 *correspondent Ahmed Jung repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoColonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime has accused Nato of bombing civilian targets in the western town of Zlitan, the scene of battles between rival Libyan forces. Western journalists were shown the remains o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoColonel Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son has been killed by Nato strikes in Libya, according to reports. Rebel forces have said the Libyan leader's son Khamis was among more than 30 people dead following a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMarkets around the world have fallen further as London's leading shares index suffered more heavy losses this morning. The FTSE 100 opened at more than 2.5% down, and markets in Paris, Frankfurt, Milan an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA British tourist has been mauled to death and four other people have been injured in a polar bear attack in Norway. The attack happened today in the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard. "One perso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe mother of a three-year-old girl, who was beaten to death by her own father, has admitted allowing her boyfriend to beat their children - in return for a light prison sentence. Kimberly Cantos, from Br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Celebes Sea at a depth of 371.2 km ( 230.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:44 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 148 km (92 miles) Northwest of Manado, Sulawe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 67.5 km ( 41.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:04:21 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 108 km (67...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe U.S. claims Syria has caused the deaths of more than 2,000 of its own people in attacks on peaceful protesters during the five-month uprising. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Syrian governm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA boy whose obesity struggles led him to a school famous for helping kids lose weight was gunned down by his own mother before she killed herself. Maryland police made the discovery Tuesday after a co-work...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoStock markets plunged today and experienced their worst day since the banking crisis began. Panic tore through global financial centres as fears grew that the U.S. is staring at another recession and that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA fugitive sex offender who police want to question over the disappearance of a young nursing student Holly Bobo has been arrested. Victor George Wall, 43, who was convicted of molesting a child in Washing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe full extent of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs's underage sex ring was exposed by prosecutors today after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old and 15-year-old girl. As the Texas court...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA crazed woman ran over her boyfriend twice leaving him brain damaged because she thought he'd cheated her at a computer game. Erin Slingsby, 20, ploughed into boyfriend Kane Charles as he stood in front ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA suspected gang member was killed last night in a shootout with police which left an officer seriously wounded. The victim, believed to be in his thirties, died from gunshot wounds in the back of a taxi ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAround 100 Libyan refugees are believed to have died after a boat carrying them got into difficulties off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Reports from the area say that the dead were among more than 300 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA cleaner battered a vulnerable pensioner to death after befriending him to get her hands on his £250,000 fortune, a court heard yesterday. Ann Browning, 54, bewitched Bill Williamson, persuading the lonel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund suffered a fresh setback today after an inquiry was launched into its new boss Christine Lagarde. A French court ordered the investigation into her role in a huge settlement...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFinger-like features visible in images from Mars may be streams of salty water spilling over the rims of craters, scientists believe. The puzzling clusters of dark lines fade in winter and reappear in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe death penalty, pulling out of Europe and withdrawing from the European Human Rights Act topped the agenda as the public yesterday got the chance to decide what Parliament debates. The Government launc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA School with more than 400 pupils has only four for whom English is their mother tongue. In one of Britain’s most extreme cases, it has emerged that less than 1 per cent of pupils at Bradford Moor Commu...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoWell then, the BBC has a problem. Despite Obama's heroic raising of the Debt Ceiling and despite the best efforts of our wise rulers in the EU, financial markets decided yesterday that they no longer can t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPiers Morgan today faced calls from the Culture Committee chairman to return to the UK to answer 'very serious questions' over allegations of phone hacking. Conservative MP John Whittingdale said the CNN ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLeaning across the bus seat, these teenage killers shake hands in a sickening moment of self-congratulation. One is heard to say to another: ‘You’re the new young boss.’ [image: Font size] Just half an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA paedophile tried to rape a schoolboy after bosses at the secure unit where he was held allowed him unsupervised day release. Shaun Tudor lured his ten-year-old victim into woods and molested him after b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoActor Rowan Atkinson cheated death last night after careering off the road in his 240mph supercar. The £650,000 McLaren F1 spun several times, smashing into a tree and ploughing into a road sign before ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoStock markets plunged yesterday in the biggest rout since the height of the financial crisis three years ago. Panic tore through global financial centres, raising fears of a new world recession. This mor...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours agoIn June 2010, *George Soros* said (full transcript/summary Seeking Alpha): *1.* The current economic situation is like the 1930s. Governments are under pressure to cut spending. At the same time the econ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 42.3 km ( 26.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:26 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) West of Lata, Santa Cru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 42.5 km ( 26.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:18:23 UTC Thursday 4th August 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles)...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThose who the BBC labels climate deniers have been saying it along: we do not have enough accurate data to decided with certainty whether recent low levels of arctic summer ice are unusual. Richard Black, ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoSheriff Joe poses holding the pink underwear he forced 700 male convicts to wear while parading from their old jail to their new one. Photo courtesy: reason If you are thrown in the slammer by Maricopa Co...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 9 hours ago*"One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propert...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 10 hours ago*Interrupting Your Regularly Scheduled Programming.* WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SOME VIEWERS. IT PRESENTS A RATHER UNPLEASANT SEQUENCE OF IMAGES OF SOMETHING MORE OF US NEED TO GET ...
- posted by coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 10 hours ago*The Elite and Their Political Servants* *"Senator Hutchinson,* *You are not my friend, nor that of the American People."* * * * * *My Exercise In Futility* Over the past several months I have been enga...
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoOnce the awe of realizing we are not alone in the universe has settled in, there will be a spirited debate over whether we should send a response to an alien interstellar message.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoWill Iran and Saudi Arabia become friends? On 3 August 2011 it was reported that, according to Iranian MP Hossein Sobhaninia: "*Certain Western countries are concerned about the development of* *a stron...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoAnyone else remember Imelda Marcos and HER shoes? It has been said that you can never have too many shoes; but, you can have more shoes than anyone else in the world. Now, I'm not sure whether having a ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoThe hoppy couple: John and Gilly Hughes on their wedding day with pet kangaroo and bridesmaid Zoe in Deans Marsh, Victoria, Australia. Photo courtesy: dailymail When Gilly Richardson and John Hughes took...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoWe should've known way back in December, if not sooner than that, what we'd elected as President. You may remember that chilly month when a lot of 99ers were waiting to see if their unemployment benefits ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe 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 - 11 hours agoThe 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 - 11 hours agoHackers 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours agoA 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours agoNATO 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 - 11 hours agoActivists 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 - 11 hours agoNorwegian 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 - 11 hours ago*Flashpoints - August 4, 2011 at 5:00pm* Click to listen (or download)
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours agoCherri 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 15 hours agoPresident 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 - 15 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 game of power politics. But ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*"This Sharia law business [i.e., that it has anything to do with lawyer Sohail 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 u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 hours agoComputer-based brain training looks to be effective for treating some symptoms.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 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 - 18 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! - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 hours ago*Police in the Chilean capital Santiago fired water cannons and tear gas on Thursday to disperse hundreds of student protesters calling for education reforms, and detained at least 130 people.* * * *Stud...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoAn orbiting camera spies evidence of seasonal water on Mars' surface.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWhy tote around multiple devices when you could have it all in one?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 23 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! - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA fuel tank from the crashed shuttle is found in a lake in drought-stricken Texas.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new theory suggests the two moons then crashed together, forming our current moon.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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