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Chinese authorities have evacuated more than 200,000 people from its east coast as the region braces for its most powerful typhoon in years. More than 7,000 fishing vessels have been called to harbour, wit... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, demanded Saturday that America tighten its belt and confront its "addiction to debts" in the wake of Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
1. The Bankers/Wall Street own the False Left Right Paradigm: View the rest of the cartoons here. - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
The latest jobs report changes nothing. We had no engine of economic growth when we all woke up on Friday morning, and we still don't have one. We have no operative plan to fix what ails us. We are in a ba... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
A plant has killed and "eaten" a great tit at a garden nursery in Somerset. Nurseryman Nigel Hewitt-Cooper, from West Pennard, was inspecting his tropical garden when he discovered one of his pitcher plant... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
The downgrading of America is a humiliation for a nation constantly fretting about its potential decline. It reinforces a very common belief here, that the squabbling politicians in Washington are to blame... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
A NATO helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan has killed 31 U.S. troops and seven Afghan soldiers, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. The death toll would surpass the worst single day loss of life for th... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
Like deep-fried butter, cheeseburger in a bag and chocolate-covered bacon before it, the latest artery-clogging menu item to hit the Canadian National exhibition already has people talking! The Doughnut B... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes agoA senior Obama administration official is calling Standard & Poor's move to downgrade U.S. credit "a facts-be-damned decision," saying the rating agency admitted to an error that inflated U.S. deficits b...
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Typhoon Muifa is set to bring gusty winds and rainfall to coastal areas of China late Saturday or on Sunday, after drenching the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. The typhoon -- the ninth to hit China ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
The European Central Bank has abandoned Italy and Spain to their tortured fate. Its refusal to act in the face of an existential threat to monetary union has set off violent tremors across the global fina... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
Somali government soldiers shot dead seven civilians as a riot broke out at a refugee camp in the capital Mogadishu. Witnesses claimed the chaos erupted when the soldiers tried to steal some of the 290 to... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
Buddhist monks offer prayers for victims of the world's first atomic bombing in 1945 during World War Two in front of the A-bomb Dome at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. (view entire photo gallery here) - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes ago
Taking regular exercise, drinking only in moderation and watching what you eat makes no difference to one's chances of reaching 100, research has found. Those who are lucky enough to qualify for a telegra... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes agoThe New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. There is no useful information ...
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It promises super-cheap motoring at less than 2p a mile. But as Jeremy Clarkson and the chaps from BBC TV’s Top Gear have shown with electric cars – if only you could find somewhere in town to charge it up... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes agoEuronews’ exclusive interview with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came on the day that the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, went on trial. Afterwards, euronews interviewed Ahmad Salamatian, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes agoChina has arrested around 2,000 people and closed nearly 5,000 businesses in a major crackdown on illegal food additives, the government said, after a wave of contamination scares. China launched the camp...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes agoWhat do you do when the target you’re spying on slips behind his home-security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially equipped WASP drone — short for Wireless Aerial Surveillance Pla...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes agoDespite eons of mingling inside our cells, gene networks we’ve inherited from primitive, singled-celled ancestors have stayed separate. Our cells remain chimeras, a hybrid fusion of unrelated creatures. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 44 minutes ago[image: Link]A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 38.9 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:17:22 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter wa...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoWhile I was asking if America is ready for a Mormon president yesterday, most commentators were poking around Mitt Romney's outrageous and clearly unethical, if not illegal, campaign finance practices. Al...
- More Than 20 Navy SEALs From Unit That Killed Bin Laden Died in Afghan Chopper Attack -- Convenient?
posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The operators from SEAL Team Six were f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThree teenagers were plotting ‘an incredible and devastating’ attack at their high school during the first day of classes, authorities have revealed. The 15-year-old boys, self-titled ‘Day Zero’, had plan...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoWe have to choose - will it be the survival of mankind or will it be whatever wealth we can extract from the Athabasca Tar Sands? It seems to be an "either-or" proposition, at least according to a leading...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Brown runoff is visible at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River in Summer 2011. This year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly equal to the land area of the state of New Jersey, scientists ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoA British school party goes on an outing to a part of Norway where there are polar bears to study the effects of global warming. It's so cold up there that the trip wires meant to protect campers from the ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 2 hours agoHere is the great irony with regard to the deficit reduction process that we have just gone through: In poll after poll, the American people have made it clear that they believe in shared sacrifice. Instea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Mean duration of U.S. unemployment, 1948-2011. US Dept. of Labor; BLS; research.stlouisfed.org (August 2011)] By Joe Weisenthal 5 August 2011 We used to say that the chart showing the pace of th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoSome people want to blame Boehner and Cantor. Others say it's McConnell's fault. Or the GOP's or the screwed up political system, or the fault of the out-of-whack social system that's become less and less ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:04 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 390 km (242 miles) ESE ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe cargo has yet to be opened, but funder Captain Morgan USA hopes it's rum.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoDavid Cameron made a bid to get a former American 'supercop' to head up Scotland Yard - but Home Secretary Theresa May blocked the move insisting a British citizen should be in charge. Downing Street is u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoArmed with a white marker pen and a determination to preserve the English language, a new caped crusader has emerged in the fight against society's ills. The mystery superhero, dubbed Grammar Man, has bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoOut of all the phones that appear to have been hacked into by rogue reporters at the News of the World elusive graffiti artist Banksy was probably not one of them. So it is perhaps no wonder the notorious...
- Lakshmi Mittal, Stelios and Mike Ashley see their wealth shrink by billions in a WEEK - 6th Aug 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBritain's richest man became the nation's biggest loser this week as £164bn was wiped off British shares in a single week. The world's largest steel maker Lakshmi Mittal lost £2.16bn following a calamitou... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 22.9 km ( 14.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:14:36 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) North of Concepc...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoVictims of BP oil spill still need health care: A guest column by Kerry Kennedy BP: talk to Feinberg, Feinberg: they did, and the answer is no… ~Disenfranchised Citizen Laid-off Groton artist puts skills ...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoWho says all good things must come to an end? With this kit you can boldly go to your heart's content.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck offshore Maule, Chile at a depth of 22.4 km ( 13.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:22:36 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) North of Concepc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAt least seven Somali refugees have been killed after government troops opened fire during a handout of corn rations in the famine-stricken country. Soldiers have been accused of sparking the chaos by tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 188 km ( 117 miles), the quake hit at 12:40:10 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) WSW of Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Fiji Region at a depth of 566.2 km ( 351.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:30 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) SSW of Ndoi Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 37.6 km ( 23.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:23:31 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) NNW of L'E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 114.7 km ( 71.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:57:43 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoYesterday *Politico* published a scorching OpEd by neo-liberal economist Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs isn't a one-dimensional drooling right-wing ideologue and, although his overall theme is anti-Keynsian claptra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoReader Contribution; Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist rebels have pulled out of all positions in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, government and rebel spokesmen say. President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed declared th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoArticle link sent in by reader: More than two dozen American troops are believed to have perished in the deadly helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, a U.S. military official told CNN. Ma...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 5 hours agoA Letter to a US-funded "Independent" Newspaper Foreword by Tony Cartalucci: Prachatai is just one of many so-called "independent newspapers" funded by the US government to propagate US State Department t...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 6 hours agoFor good or for ill, there is a tendency for people to be labelled and categorised. I am not speaking of natural categorisation which is self-evident to all but politically-blinkered oafs; rather I am spea...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoAs esteemed B-BBC contributor David Preiser has repeatedly noted, one of the main BBC denigrators of the Tea Party movement is the US bureau's Katty Kay. See here for an explanation of her venom. Ms Kay, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:57 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago*Gulen and friend.* On 6 August 2011, The Economist reports on *a Moslem who is friendly towards Israel* (*A hard act to follow*). *This Moslem reportedly has links to heroin.* (Funded by Heroin Via the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA popular visitors attraction in East Yorkshire has closed its doors for the last time after an outbreak of E.coli. Cruckley Animal Farm at Foston-on-the-Wolds, near Driffield, has been a favourite for f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLightning sparked three wildfires in the Bitteroot National Forest after Thursday night's storm. A fire burning in the Sapphire Mountains is about 10 miles northeast of Corvallis. Two engines and 26 fire...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoState and federal scientists are trying to identify a mysterious orange substance that washed up on the shore of a village in northwestern Alaska this week. Residents on Wednesday noticed an orange sheen...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoBrookings' Shaikh: BRIC Nations are Spoiled Brats by Tony Cartalucci Citing the ongoing UN sanctioned, US, UK, and French led crime against humanity in Libya and the predictable revulsion it conjures up in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThough it fell apart in the high mountains, Tropical Storm Emily’s passage across the island of Hispaniola proved deadly and destructive — but not as devastating as feared. Authorities were still surveyin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFlood waters from a river in China's southwestern province of Sichuan forced thousands to evacuate on Friday, while residents in nearby Hunan province face severe shortages of water for drinking and crops,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMaybe the guest filming this should have just got out, but a dramatic video was taken of a hotel ceiling collapsing during serious flash flooding. Erik Slemon and his dad Allan Goldberg, of Miami, Florida,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSome people say it’s a dog, others think it’s a badger and one has even suggested it could be the result of secret government animal testing. But this roadkill found in Alexandria, Minnesota, has baffled l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Navy drone that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi's forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded. According to Lieutenant Comander Mar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA pervert with an 'uncontrollable obsession with child pornography and torture' has had his sentence slashed by the Court of Appeal. Anthony Martin Milsom, 62, had newspaper cuttings relating to high-prof...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P* Anonymous said... Keiser report that financial oligarchies are playing financial terrorism with USA economy, banks are actually making profit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA father-of-four accused of stabbing his wife and four young children before setting fire to their house and killing all five victims has been jailed on a charge of aggravated murder. Jordan Adam Criado, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been found guilty of sexually abusing girls aged 12 and 15 among his two dozen child ‘wives’. Warren Jeffs, 55, faces a possible life sentence. The self-proclaim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Royal Navy commander has been jailed for six months for swindling £53,000 of taxpayers’ money to send his children to an exclusive boarding school. Commander Anthony Gray, 49, was told ‘the clang of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFive current or former police officers were convicted on Friday over the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe panel set up to reform human rights laws was denounced as a ‘stitch up’ last night after it refused to confront the key issue of the power over British cases wielded by European judges. The commission...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 2 km ( 1.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:42 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (13.5 miles) Southwest of Masjed-e Soleyma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Royal Marine was blown up in Afghanistan by a 14-year-old boy who was promised just $80 to set off a roadside bomb. Father-of-one Stephen Curley, 26, was killed instantly when the bomb was detonated in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGordon Ramsay yesterday declared war on his wife’s family by suing her father, mother, sister, brother, brother’s wife — and even her father’s alleged mistress. All six were named in an explosive writ lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoExactly 80 years ago, international capitalism stood on the verge of meltdown. The collapse of the banking system in the summer of 1931 sent shockwaves through Europe, bringing governments to their knees ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMinisters admitted the British economy was in peril yesterday amid warnings that the new global financial meltdown will cause a double dip recession. Another £38billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoIn November 1917, the Bolsheviks ignited their October Revolution and overtook Russia. They were ultimately successful despite the attempts of some forces that tried to stop them. *Czechoslovak Legion...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Dominican Republic at a depth of 125 km ( 77 miles), the quake hit at 04:30:59 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) East of L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 30.9 km ( 19.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:45:54 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.7 km ( 26.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:03:47 UTC Saturday 6th August 2011. The epicenter was 278 km (172 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:39:14 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 638 km (396 miles) North of Santa ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoIt's happened. Standard & Poor's has downgraded the United States' credit rating to AA+ for the first time in history. Worse still, they have a negative outlook on the country fixing things in the near fut...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoRFID tags could soon eliminate cash -- and attendants -- at parking garages.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*Leonard Peltier attorney claims solitary confinement a ‘setup’* By Jeff Armstrong Contributing Writer *Published with permission* Imprisoned American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier has be...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCredit rating agency Standard and Poor's has downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings. The country's top AAA rating - which it has held since 1917 - now ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGlobal financial markets could face further turmoil in the wake of the US credit rating downgrade. Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's said early on Saturday morning they had downgraded the country ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEuropean policymakers tried to turn a more powerful fire hose on the euro zone debt crisis on Thursday but financial markets were unimpressed with their response. The European Central Bank resumed buying ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSyrian human rights activists said Thursday that Syrian government forces had killed more than 100 people in the rebellious city of Hama in the first 24 hours since seizing control of its central square wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoShe reclines among leopard print pillows, her rouged lips pouting at the camera. But shockingly the model in these highly sexualised pictures is only 10 years old. The provocative images of Thylane Lena-R...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA professor at Chestnut Hill College dove over a second-floor railing inside a building on campus during his class, killing him, police say. Rudolf Alexandrov, 71, an adjunct professor teaching mathematics...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe man who jumped a White House fence Tuesday night talked to us Wednesday after a court appearance. James Dirk Crudup told 9NEWS the move was a cry for help because he can't find a job in this economy...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPresident Barack Obama and many Democrats are talking about raising taxes on the wealthy, and new data released this week by the Internal Revenue Service reveals new details about the number of Americans w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNearly 15% of the U.S. population relied on food stamps in May, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The number of Americans using the government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance P...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*I should probably have called attention sooner in our second You Know Me Alseries to the remarkably perceptive appreciation of the "completeness" of Jack and the people around him offered by Virginia Woolf...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Standard & Poor's rating agency announced Friday that it has downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA. "The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan th...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 17 hours agoWhile in Roswell I had a chance, brief though it was, to talk to Stan Friedman. He had come up to me as I ate breakfast and suggested that I was probably correct about Robert Willingham which is surprising...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Aerial view of Governors Island, off the southern tip of Manhattan (with the Brooklyn waterfront off to the right)* *by Ken* Rain, rain, stay away! For this weekend I've had a couple of Municipal Art Soc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMarkets could rebound after Thursday's global market sell-off, but investors should see any bounce as a selling opportunity, as the world economy rolls towards total collapse, Mark Faber, editor and publis...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMortgage finance giant Fannie Mae said it would ask for an additional $5.1 billion from taxpayers as a weaker housing market causes continued losses on loans made prior to 2009. The largest U.S. residenti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Denver couple has filed a formal complaint with the Transportation Security Administration after a pregnant woman's insulin and ice packs were confiscated by screeners at Denver International Airport. T...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCity staff are exploring authorizing a "tent city," a move that would make the Beach the first community in the state to sanction a homeless encampment - if the City Council approves the idea. Mayor Will ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThere was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSen. John Kerry (D-MA) told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday that the media has the responsibility to not give equal time or credence to the Tea Party's views: SEN. JOHN KERRY: "And I have to tell you, I s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTwo Border Patrol agents were indicted on Thursday on charges of forcing accused drug smugglers to eat marijuana and flee barefoot and nearly naked into the chilly Arizona desert. Dario Castillo, 23, and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 79-year-old Oak Cliff woman succumbs to the North Texas heat and dies in her home just two days after reporting to police that her central air conditioner had been stolen. Dolores Grissom’s home sits ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSkippy the dog was an ambassador for the Marin Humane Society. Just weeks after his death, a bronze statue donated in Skippy’s honor has gone missing. Before his death on July 17th, the Jack Russell terr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 40-year-old New Hampshire woman has been charged with robbing a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint in a dispute over a bicycle. Officers say the teenager was riding a friend’s bike on Ash Street in Manchester...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice say a series of cartoons mocking officers and other city workers are criminal, and the people who posted them online are guilty of cyberstalking. One member of the police department has already been...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIn Pyongyang, jittery government minders keep a vice-like control over the few journalists who make it inside and discourage them from meeting or photographing its citizens. So the true picture of life in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWitnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY'S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLibya's rebels said Friday they have reports that Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son, who commands one of the regime's strongest military brigades, was killed in a NATO airstrike in the western town of Zlitan....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIt’s like something out of the movies. But, in this case the guns are real and the victims are SEPTA passengers in the wrong place at the wrong time, although remarkably no one was hit. In court, author...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBank of New York Mellon Corp. on Thursday took the extraordinary step of telling large clients it will charge them to hold cash. The unusual move means some U.S. depositors will have to pay to keep big ch...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThursday, August 4 was a black day on world stock exchanges. In New York, Dow Jones fell by 4.3 percent and Nasdaq closed at minus 5.3 percent "and all gains that have occurred since year-end were deleted ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Japanese yen is now being chosen as a safe haven. But the currency is about as safe as standing under a cliff in the way of a landslide in the pouring rain. Japan is on the verge of a financial collap...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe new slash and burn paradigm of American politics is going to be costly for the U.S. economy, and time is running out to put an end to the madness. The recent drama of our nation’s debt/deficit “crisis”...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA joint undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that the Ethiopian government is using billions of dollars of development aid as a tool f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSouth Korean police arrested five men Thursday for allegedly collaborating with North Korean computer experts to hack into online game systems to generate millions of dollars in illicit gains. Their inves...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe US, Britain, and Europe are together embarking on a sudden and severe tightening of fiscal policy, in unison, before economic recovery has reached safe take-off speed. The experiment was last tried in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLittle over a fortnight ago, leaders claimed they had found the recipe to cure Europe's ills. Serving up a second bailout for Greece worth £96bn was supposed to calm the turmoil afflicting the eurozone. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMonkeys at Colchester Zoo have invented a unique do not disturb sign that has amazed experts. The mandrills - the largest member of the monkey family - put their hands over their eyes when they want to be...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoScientists have found new evidence for possible saltwater flows on Mars. The discovery was announced at a NASA news conference Thursday. Alfred McEwen, lead author of the Science journal study showing thes...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 19 hours ago...and all the anonymous news reports that come with it: *NDP 'unease' surrounds Turmel's Bloc secrecy *There's a serious unease in the NDP over interim leader Nycole Turmel's memberships in two Quebec so...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 19 hours agoPhotography by Nicola Krebill Photography by Charles Taylor
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 20 hours agoSearch string of the day: doctors told me to get an abortion to save my life what should i do This is what you should do: GET AN ABORTION. Your life is more important than a fetus. You can get pregnant ag...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoNot all people who are serious evangelical church goers are right-wing fanatics. An old friend of mine structures much of her life around her church and she takes it really seriously. Mostly what she take...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours agoA Bad Week for the Army Corps of Engineers~Sandy Rosenthal
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoAnders Breivik is condemned by an author he once admired, as well as by a survivor of his attacks.
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoBecause there's more to life than Shark Week...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours agoIt's been well over a year since I did this feature and I thought it was high time to resurrect it. And what better reason to blow the dust off this Pottersville staple than to concentrate on the impact P...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoTests that normally require a full-sized lab and days to complete can now be performed in real-time on a computer chip.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA fatal polar bear attack remains a relatively rare event, at least for now.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOfficials in China concerned by a recent drought in parts of the country are firing rockets towards clouds in a bid to spur artificial rainfall. Workers with the Meteorological Authority in Qingzhen city, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA German tourist has died after collapsing following a lightning strike at Grand Canyon National Park. Park rangers said emergency medical responders performed CPR but couldn't revive the 64-year-old woma...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 23 hours agoThis blog began over two years ago as a vehicle to share and preserve photographs of the trees I saw dying all around me, and also as an archive for links to research and articles. Since the decline of tr...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA trove of small figurines and jewelry that was illegally taken from King Tut's tomb has been returned to Egypt.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWhile the numbers remain stable, a new report highlights the need to target certain groups more than others in the fight against infection.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexican town following a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months. The officers' desertion on Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThis 12-year-old Chinese boy has been chained up by his uncle for the past two years. It’s claimed that this is for his own safety because he’s mentally handicapped – but most people will find these image...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoElectricity officials in heatwave-hit Texas have warned of impending rolling blackouts from power shortages as the U.S. state struggles to cope with the relentless scorching temperatures. Texans have turn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOne of the worst droughts in Texas history has unearthed a chilling discovery, a graveyard for freed slaves.. While the heat may be taking a toll on crops, livestock and people's livelihoods, it has helpe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Philadelphia college was rattled Wednesday by the suicide of a math professor who leapt to his death as his wife and horrified class looked on. Adjunct professor Rudolf Alexandrov was about to start his ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoSuper Congress: A 12 member line-up, President Obama as the head coach, and the American people as the turf. The goal posts will be military cuts on one end, and Social Security/Medicare cuts on the other ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs he rode the bus late one afternoon, Lefenus Pickett suddenly realised he could not stand by any longer. A mother was spanking her child for running in the aisles so the 37-year-old intervened and told ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA polar bear clawed through a tent and mauled to death a British teenager and left four others seriously injured in a horrific attack in Norway today. The starving animal killed Horatio Chapple, 17, as he ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsrael has carried out a second night of air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip. Palestinians say one of the targets was a training facility for the military wing of Hamas, and smuggling tunnels al...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCall it technology in reverse: Thousands of people are lining up online to have messages they could send in an instant delivered far more slowly. And according to the creator of Snail Mail My Email, a mont...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoViolence raged across the Syrian city of Hama as anti-government protesters in other cities took to the streets on Friday against the embattled regime. Hama endured steady shelling and bombing Friday mor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHeavy rain and potential flooding threatened hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in temporary quarters early Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily made a final stand across the central Cari...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFinancial anxiety gripped the globe Friday, as stock markets worldwide saw steep declines amid worries of a widening debt crisis in Europe and a stalling economic recovery in the United States. Stock mark...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTurbulence and uncertainty dominated the global financial markets on Friday as a lack of investor and trader confidence continued to drive share values downward. The global equity sell-off and subsequent ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe front lines of Libya's grinding war weave through the western mountains and around Zlitan, the last city east of Tripoli still under the grip of strongman Moammar Gadhafi. In many places that Gadhaf...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnother day, another assault on the air conditioning systems of America. A spell of suffocating heat will grip much of the South again Friday. Heat advisories are in place for parts of 14 states. People fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the longest oil pipelines in Iran exploded Friday and burned for 10 hours before firefighters were able to extinguish it, Iranian media reported. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina has relaxed its strict birth-control restrictions for families that lost children in a mudslide that killed hundreds in the northwest last year, state media reported Friday. Women in the Zhouqu area...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Japan radiation causes possible rice contamination - August 2, 2011* Vidéo mirrorthis2010 sélectionnée dans Actualité
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government is planning to draw up a map showing concentrations of radioactive substances in farmlands and conduct a study on contaminated debris. The measures are to be implemented before the end of t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNov 9, 2011 the earth will supposedly cross the threshold of the debris tail of *ELENIN* on the same plain (assuming *ELENIN* is a real object that would be catastrophic). This is a cool interactive NASA ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo some extent, my feeling has lately been that the information age of the internet, Wikileaks, etc. is kicking away the ladder of government secrecy. Reading through this recent ACLU report on secrecy law...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWho knows what medicinal secrets lurk in a pot of honey? Scientists in Wales intend to find out and are asking beekeepers throughout the United Kingdom to send in their honey for inspection. They are espec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe warming of the Arctic is releasing toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered. Researchers warn that the amount of poison in the polar region is unknown...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA California company is developing a new type of airship for transporting cargo and, possibly, passengers. It is not an airplane and not a blimp, but has elements of both. The vehicle uses new technology a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan expressed concern on Tuesday over the Chinese military's recent maritime activities in its annual defense report, a week after Beijing officially announced its aircraft carrier program. "Given the m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf the United States is downgraded over its vast debt and widening deficits, Americans may be cheered by the examples of Canada and Australia, which both restored lost "AAA" credit ratings. But others tha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn normal times, Lake E.V. Spence is a teeming 14,600-acre reservoir with a maximum depth of 108 feet, just west of the town of Robert Lee, Texas. In normal times, the reservoir serves not only the 1,000 o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA gap year student brutally beaten by a gang while travelling in Australia is now being forced to pay £650 for the two-minute ambulance drive to hospital. Angus Paskin Orr, 19, was kicked unconscious when...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity experts have uncovered a five-year-long hacking scheme, believed to be from China, which targeted U.S. government and U.N. computers. The country is accused of systematically launching huge cyber ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA horrific scene unfolded in Berlin in broad daylight yesterday morning when a gunman fired a volley of shots into a car, killing two women and seriously injuring the man driving it. The execution-style m...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPlenty of app developers seem to have trouble supporting Apple's tablet.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA robotic explorer named Juno has launched and is on its way to Jupiter.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe sensor has accurately detected date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRacing's top drivers host a new action sports fantasy camp for hard-core competitors.
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: Stocks turn lower] A stronger jobs report wasn't enough to quiet *financial markets* or stem concerns that the debt crisis in Europe can threaten the fragile *U.S. economy* the Dow Jones industria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 24 km ( 14.9 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:48 UTC Friday 5th August 2011. The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) Southeast of Raoul ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI've finished reading *Moby Duck* by Donovan Hohn, one of the very best books I've read in some time. In earlier posts about this book (here and here), I said it is about the permanence of plastic and the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoReally pathetic to read this on the White House Blog yesterday: Myth: President Obama caved. Even sadder that they're still defending the Satan Sandwich that has caused the stock market to crash. Sadder s...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUpdate on Baluchistan Violence by Tony Cartalucci The George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch (HRW) is pulling out the stops to portray the latest spat of violence in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan provi...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 1 day agoFurther to yesterday's blog post, the Down's Syndrome Association has issued the following statement: DSA make official complaint following Richard Bacon's Radio 5 Live Show The Down’s Syndrome Associati...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAdapter connects four devices using your home's existing electrical lines.
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoRicoh Europe's 'eco-board' powered by five turbines and 96 solar panels.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoRyanair 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 - 1 day agoI 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day 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 to t...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day 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?") - 1 day 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 day 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 day agoThe 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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