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Breaking News By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Eight Snowbowl Ski Resort protesters locked down to barrels at 5 am, protesting the destruction to sacr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
Violence erupted for the first time in broad daylight this afternoon as rioters surrounded police vans, looted lorries and attacked shops. Scores of police raced to Hackney as a mob of hooded youths began ... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 30 minutes agoSchoolyard Bully. Photo by Igor Dutina /New York Times. Defeating the political and economic bullies that are destroying AmericaWhen Barack Obama was elected president, many of us thought that here, finally ...
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Yesterday we looked at Drew Westen's analysis of why Obama is such a disastrous disappointment. That's not to say that any Republican wouldn't be incalculably worse nor that Obama has failed to achieve ... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 44 minutes ago
-by Jersey Jim Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker-- one of a cohort of rightwing Republican ideologues elected to Congress, state legislatures and governorships in 2010 (largely as a result of apathy among ... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 52 minutes agoGlobalization has always been a scam. It has always been a trade of something very valuable for a vague and quite unenforceable promise of enormous benefits for all. What we traded away was sovereignty...
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(Late, but interesting due to the fact that the "rebels" are deliberately damaging their country's energy export infrastructure. Does this sound like a group with their nation's best interests in mind?) ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Kodiak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 22.1 km ( 13.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:48 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) Northea... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago
More than £46bn has been wiped off the value of the FTSE 100 on a day that saw stock markets take a battering across Europe. London's FTSE closed down 3.4%, Germany's DAX slumped by 5.0% on the day and t... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 hour ago
*The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman, Hugh MacDonald, Raj Sherman, Bruce Payne, and Bill Harvey. To vote, simply register here as... - posted by Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 1 hour agoSo the First Lady was a conspiracy theorist. Not a huge surprise, nor is it a surprise that the media is focusing instead on sexual revelations rather than the important news that Jackie believed a conspirac...
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Barbados Region, Windward Islands at a depth of 6.5 km ( 4 miles), the quake hit at 14:42:48 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) NNE of... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Dump trucks unload bags containing radioactive dirt at a temporary disposal site in Fukushima Prefecture on 28 July 2011. Satoru Murata / Asahi Shimbun] By Noriyoshi Otsuki and Satoru Murata 5 A...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoNo celebration here. Image from the Atlanta Post. The new unemployment numbers are nothing to get excited about By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / August 8, 2011 The U.S. Labor Department released its unem...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 hour agoBarney Frank: Military spending behind credit downgrade Report: Rebekah Brooks still on Murdoch payroll Second U.S. recession may be worse than the first Have you started to miss educated people making our ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A female refugee passes a kettle of tea to her husband in preparation to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at a camp for flood victims in Nowshera, northwest Pakistan on 2 August ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A herd of goats at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The current drought conditions have been caused by successive seasons with very low rainfall. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters] By Duncan Green 8 August 2...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoModern, consumer economies are essentially a confidence game. When confidence is high, money flows; goods are produced, sold and bought; and we all (sort of) enjoy the boom. When confidence is low, tha...
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This is the moment a group of teenage thugs ran over and killed a terrified black car worker after savagely beating him on a mission to find and hurt a black person, according to prosecutors. Eighteen-yea... - posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 hours agoBy Duane Craig Industrial legacy in Michigan continues to produce surprises as the Cliffs Dow site, formerly a Superfund site, recently caught the attention of Marquette Michigan's Planning and Communit...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Aerial view of a blue-green algae bloom in Ranworth Broad, 31 July 2011. Mike Page / BBC] August 3 (BBC) – Holidaymakers have been warned to avoid contact with the blue-green algae which is turn...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoForget the old 3,000-mile rule -- this gadget tells you when you really need an oil change.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoA computer program uses publicly available information and images from social networking sites to dig up private data.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: A group of newly arrived Somali refugees listens to instructions from a security officer in Dadaab, Kenya, October 2008. The conflict in Somalia has forced many people to seek refuge in northeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA besieged Syrian city came under fresh artillery fire early today as a deadly military assault left President Bashar Assad's regime increasingly isolated, with Arab nations forcefully joining the internat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 98.3 km ( 61.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:23 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (42...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTime is running out for a massive baby humpback whale which took a wrong turn at an Australian beach - and lost his mother. The not-so-little lost boy, who weighs 1.5 tons and is thought to be just a week...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoDoug Stanhope is encouraging his adoring fanbase to contact the BBC to defend Richard Bacon. In trademark foul-mouthed style he rants against the "fuck-mouth" at the Down's Syndrome Association who wrote F...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoEven without a moon, the tilt of Earth's axis would be stable enough to support life.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLooming ominously over the mid-west American sky threatening to destroy everything in their path, these dramatic 'tornado-scapes' provide a close-up account of the most deadly U.S. storm season in living...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA cleaner who beat an 82-year-old widower to death before burying him in the garden so she could get his money was jailed for life today. Ann Browning, 54, was ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years for th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoWim van der Bijl, Owner of a stamp Trading company in Utrecht, has gone missing while in North Korea. He was supposed to return to the Netherlands on July 30th 2011, but never arrived. Since then there has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 93.4 km ( 58 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:23 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) Southwest of Obihiro...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 4 hours agoIf you have been following along here, oh since about mid March/11, then you will understand that Syria has been under attack. I'm not about to rehash the whole sordid affair, take the time to read all abo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoIn terms of crucial votes taken in their entire congressional careers, only three Democrats-- Dan Boren (Blue Dog-OK), Jason Altmire (Blue Dog-PA) and Joe Donnelly (Blue Dog-IN)-- have voted more consist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA lightning strike has resulted in power outages at data centres belonging to Microsoft and Amazon, leading to disruption for users of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform and Microsoft’s Business Product...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours agoOn 8th August 2011 we learn that in the London *Tottenham riot: the Bullet fired at a police officer 'belonged to the police'.** *The riots in London started after the shooting of Mark Duggan by the po...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoLa Niña over the Pacific Ocean results in stronger winds and less rainfall over East Africa.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe FTSE is on unsteady ground as the world's economic confidence falters after the downgrade of the US credit rating and renewed eurozone fears. The FTSE 100 opened 1.2% down but bounced back to around 0...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoRecently, I talked about a few states in the US that had actually taken strong steps towards fixing their own economies, even moving into surplus, by decreasing spending, entitlement reform, and tax breaks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA flaming meteor streaked over Hungary late Friday evening, according to eyewitness accounts on several websites. Weather portal Idokep hu put the meteor over Western Hungary at 9:46pm, based on eyewitne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAccording to the report, Iran's total oil exports to China stood at 13.47mln tons during the same period. China's General Administration of Customs also announced that the country's total oil imports in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn aircraft worker in New Zealand has been killed after he was sucked into a plane engine during 'routine maintenance'. The 51-year-old engineer was working at an aircraft testing centre when the tragedy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn investigation has been launched after a 62-year-old worker became the third person to be killed at a 'cursed' factory in under a year. James Kay had been working on a cherry picker crane over the weeken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPolice have arrested a man on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two women were discovered inside a burning house. The arrest comes after officers were called to the property in Fulwood, near Presto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA British soldier fighting in Afghanistan has been accused of cutting off the fingers of dead Taliban fighters - which he then kept as 'macabre' souvenirs. The squaddie, from the Argyll and Sutherland Hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOfficials at Constellation Energy are investigating a leakage in a containment structure that caused the shutdown of the Nine Mile Point Unit 2 reactor on Lake Ontario over the weekend. The Oswego Pallad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA young child has reportedly died from meningococcal disease, one week after Fulton Hogan chief executive Bill Perry was killed by the aggressive bug. The child – whose age and gender have been withheld -...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTowering waves from a tropical storm threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city, raising fears it might lead to a toxic chemical spill, a Chinese state media report said Monday. Waves as hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOne worker died, while eight others were affected after leakage of gas at a chemical unit at Sachin industrial estate here, police said on Sunday. "Sandeep Karve, a worker at Anupam India Rasayan Ltd, die...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHeavy rain has caused localised flooding and led to disruption across Scotland. Downpours forced the cancellation of a Highland games in Montrose, north east Scotland. Roads were closed and firefighters ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA sudden storm that whipped through the metro area Sunday knocked out power to more than 50,000 electrical customers as it tore down power lines and knocked over trees. Skies that had blazed with another ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago*A VOLCANO that has been spewing lava and clouds of searing gas high into the air has let out a new, powerful burst, sending panicked villagers streaming down the sides of the mountain. * A man who fell ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThey have become sad summer rites in local waters that feed the Chesapeake Bay: algae blooms, also known as red tides or brown tides. And once again, they have arrived to stain creeks and rivers, frighten ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA state of emergency has been declared in a district in the Krasnodar Region in south Russia over a swine fever outbreak, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday. The swine fever virus was found i...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 7 hours agoMulti-culturalism has yet again shown its ugly face in once English London.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA student has died after being shot with a Taser by campus police. Everette Howard, from Cincinatti, went into cardiac arrest after being struck by the stun gun after police were responding to reports of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMembers of the Disabled American Veterans Department in Indiana are outraged after discovering ten convicted sex offenders are working at a local medical centre where student volunteers and veterans are tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIt's the kind of news that would have a President calling his defence staff to the White House Situation Room. A Mexican military helicopter packed with soldiers has landed on United States soil, uninvite...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhen police stormed a home in Canada last month, they were prepared to face a man who had killed his mother and was threatening to kill his sister. But instead they found Jason Myles, a software consultant...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoJust another manic Monday and a fresh Open Thread to accompany it. World financial metldown, London aflame, how is the BBC doing in terms of balanced coverage? This is where you get your say... Click th...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoI try to avoid BBC 5 LIVE on the basis that listening to Today is as much as I can stomach but thankfully other B-BBC readers do tune in... "BBC 'Weekend Breakfast' happy to have a 'local resident' tell u...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoDid you catch this interview this morning with the omnipresent on the BBC *Claudia Webbe* on Today? If I heard it correctly, she appeared to suggest that whilst all violence is utterly repellent (wait for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWidow Kimberly Vaughn saw television reports of the helicopter downed in Afghanistan on Saturday morning, before her doorbell rang and Navy officers told her that her husband was killed in action. Aaron C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe miners rescued after 69 days trapped underground in Chile have become the targets of anti-government protesters. Demonstrators threw fruit and stones at the group as they commemorated the first annive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA senior U.S. military commander who led the investigation into UFO sightings in Suffolk has spoken out about the incident for the first time in 30 years. The incident in 1980 was dubbed Britain's Roswell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBritish aid cash is being given to the families of suicide bombers, it was claimed last night. The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year, has authorised payments of almost £5m...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoAn eagle eyed B-BBC reader notes; How odd....an article in the Guardian by one of Ken Livingstone's matesechoes precisely a BBC article: Both suggest it was Tory cuts wot done it....to youth clubs, jobs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe rifle used to kill a polar bear which mauled an Eton schoolboy to death failed to fire four times, investigators revealed last night. The news paints a dramatic picture of expedition leader Mike Reid’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoViolent foreign criminals have been wrongly freed into the community after a series of blunders by the Home Office. The eight foreigners – including at least one killer – had been convicted of sexual or ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoImage: Although George Osborne is on holiday, he has launched an attack on indebted countries George Osborne called on France, Germany and America to act now to prevent further financial carnage last nigh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe bullet which lodged in a police officer’s radio in the gunfight which led to Mark Duggan being shot dead was police issue ammunition, it was reported last night. The revelation will fuel the fury in T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLondon endured a second night of violence last night as questions were raised about the shooting by police of a suspected gangster. In Enfield, South London, a mob of 200 anarchists smashed their way into...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 71.8 km ( 44.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:34:12 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoThe problems of the economy in the USA, and elsewhere, are easy to solve. Think of France facing bankruptcy in 1789. The problems of France in 1789 would have been solved if the rich had paid their fair ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Java Sea at a depth of 505.6 km ( 314.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:35:04 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) Northeast of Semarang, Java, I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 53.1 km ( 33 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:33 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 194 km (120 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kuril Islands at a depth of 47 km ( 29.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:18:30 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 396 km (246 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk, Kuril Islan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kepulauan, Indonesia at a depth of 9.2 km ( 5.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:11 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Northwest of Dobo, Kepu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Molucca Sea at a depth of 56.3 km ( 35 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:53 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) WSW or Ternate, Moluccas, Indone...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago*Published in "Hospodářské noviny" (an economics-oriented daily), August 8th, 2011. Via klaus.cz, Czech president's personal website.* *May a bill save a country from bankruptcy?* Initially I didn't w...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago[image: Asian stock markets] Asian stocks nose-dived Monday as the first-ever reduce of the U.S. government's credit rating jolted the global financial system, reinforcing fears so as to the world economy...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA dwarf galaxy called Segue 1 is hard to see. Why? Because it contains the highest concentration of dark matter found in a galaxy to date.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoHalloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. What's not to like? Candy corn, pumpkins, corn mazes and, of course, dressing up. My little girl started early this year, changing her mind every othe...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago"Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the worl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoStocks on key Asian exchanges dropped modestly early Monday on what is likely to be an eventful day in world markets, following Standard and Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. In early Tokyo tr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSeven people, including an 11-year-old child, were shot and killed in a small town in northeastern Ohio on Sunday in a rampage that ended when police killed the suspected gunman, authorities said. The sho...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBritain's economy is set to slow in the wake of the US's credit rating downgrade, says the Bank of England. Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's governor, is expected on Wednesday to reduce its "target range" for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe European Central Bank will decide tonight whether to start buying Italian debt to calm eurozone bond markets, while finance ministers from leading economies hold emergency talks about how to limit the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoMy pal Andy, a CEO who does tech support for *DWT* in his spare time, sent me the above video clip (along with Hippy Fiasco) to watch, just as I was getting all worked up about the mayhem in London and r...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 13 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Dominic/CC Pandas and tigers make better poster children for human impacts on biodiversity. But in the face of news like the massive recall of turkey meat with antibiotic resistant salmone...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 14 hours ago[image: UoA-RBNZ] Here’s the note from our friends at the UoA Economics Group for their talk tomorrow evening: Hello Everyone This week we have Rodney Dickens coming to speak to us further about the r...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 15 hours agoOh, please tell me how I can help give her access to the launch codes.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*by Ken* So Wikipedia has troubles. No, founder Jimmy Wales isn't talking about passing the hat, at least not just now. He told the AP Thursday ("Wikipedia Says It's Losing Contributors"), during the we...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Mucia Dovalina, the uniform public affairs of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe apparent shooting down of a Nato helicopter by the Taliban, killing 37 people, was most likely a "lucky shot" rather than marking a new insurgent ability to destroy aircraft, military officials believe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIran will need some $40 billion (24 billion pounds) this year to spur the development of oil and gas fields it shares with neighbouring countries, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said in his first interview sin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBusiness minister Vince Cable on Saturday backed China's call for a new stable global reserve currency in light of the United States losing its AAA long-term credit rating from Standard & Poor's, but said ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoLibyan opposition fighters have captured a strategic town in western Libya, as they intensify a push towards the coastal city of Az Zawiyah. Hundreds of rebels fought Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the batt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIn the UK, emergency services are dealing with a large number of incidents after heavy rain caused flooding in the north east of England and the North. Durham and parts of Northumberland are the worst hit ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIt has been a bittersweet anniversary for Chile's rescued miners, who were honoured as heroes in their home town only to come under attack by anti-government protesters. It has been a bittersweet annivers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Russian stock market dropped sharply on Friday morning as Moscow’s traders caught a dose of the international jitters. The MICEX index fell 4.07 per cent to its lowest point since Dec. 2010, while the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoReal estate prices were skyrocketing in the mid-2000s, and Vladislav Vorontsov was delighted at the opportunity to buy an apartment at half the market price in a building under construction just outside Mo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe United Nations children’s agency called on Australia Friday to scrap “inhumane” plans to send unaccompanied minors to Malaysia as part of a refugee swap. Canberra has refused to exempt children from t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA bomb destroyed at least 13 tankers on Saturday carrying fuel for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, Pakistan police said, the latest in a string of attempts to disrupt supplies. A total of 28 Nato...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe image remains chilling nearly eight years later: a pizza deliveryman sitting cross-legged on the pavement with a homemade bomb clamped around his neck, surrounded by nervous police who crouch behind ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 17-year-old Bel Air, MD, boy has been charged with murder in connection with the Friday night stabbing death of a blind man. Donnell Graham of the 200 block of Fairwood Road has been charged with first-...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoStandard & Poor's US debt downgrade was a wake-up call for the world, a commentary in a top Chinese state newspaper said, adding that Asian exporters faced special risks. Citing economist Sun Lijian, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTel Aviv shares closed 7 percent lower on Sunday in the first response of a developed market to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States' credit rating that has sparked fears of another global rece...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Standard & Poor's official says there is a 1 in 3 chance that the U.S. credit rating could be downgraded another notch if conditions erode over the next six to 24 months. The credit rating agency's mana...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoContemporary proverbs exist because of humankind’s understanding of past human-life experiences. In China, wisdom is passed on through sayings such as ‘a single grain of rice can tip the scales’ and ‘to in...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago*[image: _richardmcgrath]Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath invites you down to his surgery for an inoculation against this week’s stories and headlines on issues affecting our freedom.* *This week:...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com** *Photos: Navajo Klee Benally attacked and arrested by Flagstaff, Arizona, police. Photo by Youth of the Peaks.* Updated Sunday night ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoI don’t know about you, but we had a ball at Eden Park on Saturday night. It wasn’t the MCG—we sat on scaffolding five miles in the air whose shaking quelled the staunchest stamping—and instead of built-...
- posted by Phil at A Very Public Sociologist - 20 hours agoFormer regulars still knocking about may be disappointed this place has been left to the tumbleweed. On the other hand, some might find the lack of blogging a big improvement. Unfortunately, my inclinati...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 20 hours agoA Sequel to Still Positive After All These Years! Tony Robbins’ message of hope is just as relevant now in 2025 as it was then in the days of phoney debt-fuelled, energy-cheap prosperity, when as a young ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoTo combat President Obama's goal of bringing down unemployment, the Republican party has systematically-- both in Congress and on a state basis in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Georgia, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoJust a link. The near side and the far side of the Moon look very different - something people have known from the beginning of the space age. An amusing new article in Nature offers a theory explain...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours ago*“**Malinvestment is always the result of the inability of human beings to foresee future conditions correctly. However, such human errors and the resulting malinvestments are most frequently compounded...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours agoWhen I was a quality control inspector, we'd have regular MRB meetings, sometimes with executive management. MRB stands for Material Review Board and whenever our products got RMA'd (or rejected and retur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoChinese acrobat Saimaiti Aishan, 27, set a new national record while preparing for a world record attempt at 650 feet above the ground. Aishan, the nephew of Adili Wuxor, who is better known as 'Prince of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA bizarre plan to tow giant icebergs thousands of miles from the polar ice caps to drought-ridden hotspots in the Third World could soon become a reality. Eco-entrepreneur Georges Mougin was dismissed as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSecret tapes made by Jackie Kennedy are said to contain 'explosive' contents which will lift the lid off the private life with her assassinated Husband President John F Kennedy. The tapes, which are to be...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoIn recent months and especially weeks, the radical leftists in the U.S. became fond of bashing Barack Obama. And I surely don't mean just Al Gore who is "disappointed" that Obama doesn't actively spread Go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA young British honeymooning couple were killed in an horrific quad bike smash on a paradise island in the Indian Ocean. Jonathan and Emma Gray from Halifax in West Yorkshire, died yesterday as they were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoReader Contribution; Nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) Test Introduction FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 73.1 km ( 45.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:46:42 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles)...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWe’ve long reported about the training of US military personnel for domestic deployment in the event of large scale economic breakdown, civil unrest, terrorism, and catastrophic natural disasters like as...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Triple-A debt club just got even more exclusive: Late Friday, the United States was booted out of a prestigious group of countries that boast a spotless credit rating. Now only 15 countries (and the v...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Syrian human rights group says eight premature infants dependent on incubators died after authorities cut power to a hospital in the embattled city of Hama as part of a renewed crackdown on anti-govern...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA hacking group said it has retaliated for the arrests of its members by attacking the websites of more than 70 U.S. law enforcement institutions and releasing 10 gigabytes of information. The cyberterror...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSome quarter of a million Israelis took to the streets Saturday night in protests against the mounting cost of living for the middle class in one of the largest social outcries in Israeli history. Demonst...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSyrian troops attacked the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, just before dawn Sunday, killing at least four people, in a bid to quell a five-month-old uprising against the government of President Bashar Assad,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEmergency talks focused on the debt crises in Europe and the United States are planned Sunday for G7 finance ministers before Asian markets open, while the European Central Bank will consider buying Italia...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) will monitor blogs, social media, public forums, message boards and keywords to create a “real time” estimate of the U.S. national thr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso joined the fight to lift the region out of its financial pit, calling for expanding the EU bailout fund to help deal with the crushing debt borne by the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the Halkitis shipyard in Perama, the Azul dwarfs everything. Four decks tall, it is just five metres shorter in length than the 3,000-tonne cargo ships that were once the staple of the Greek yards that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNorth Las Vegas, once one of the fastest-growing cities in the country and a symbol of Nevada’s boom and sudden economic collapse, now faces the real possibility of vanishing as an independent entity, an e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoStorms are brewing about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, and if one of them reaches Earth, it could knock out communications, scramble GPS, and leave thousands without power for weeks to mo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTerrorists strike the world's largest oil production facility in Saudi Arabia, sending global oil prices skyward: What should the U.S. president do? For three hours Wednesday, a group of former high-ranki...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe world's largest nuclear energy producer, the United States, Tuesday aired its first detailed public examination of whether stronger safety standards are needed in light of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOur children will grow up with ebooks and they'll always view printed books as a less convenient relic, writes Shane Richmond. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to a senior executive from a big Silicon Valley...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFor too long, copyright laws have been manipulated as a cheap way of making money. Congratulations – you’re no longer a criminal. At last, it will become legal to copy a CD you’ve bought on to a computer,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March were so strong that their vibrations almost reached space, a new study says. The vertical motion of the ground shaking and swelling tsunami w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoOne in four teenagers are "depressed" about their job prospects, researchers have claimed. Almost half of the 1,500 young people questioned in the O2 Youth Matters survey said they were not confident of f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he's not the sort of man to sugar the pill. An imposing figure in black robes and white clerical collar, Mr Hendrikse...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhat if for a moment we looked at the climate change debate from a completely different perspective? Let’s take a wider view and move away from local earth bound data to what is happening in our solar sy...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's crunch time for America. China is getting tired of picking up America's bar tab and has put the US on notice that the days of cheap booze may soon be over. No more bad cheques, thank you very much ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Ken* I think I mentioned awhile back that one of the sudden onslaught of Sony BMG "big boxes" I ordered was a reissue of the late Günter Wand's 1974-81 traversal of the nine Bruckner symphonies wit...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago. Photo copyright Destini Vaile, Blackfeet Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Destini Vaile, Blackfeet: "This well is visible from the road between East Glacier and Browning. I found Bison h...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoMore than 300,000 people took part in demonstrations across Israel last night to protest the high cost of living. The largest was in Tel Aviv, where an estimated 280,000 participated in one of the bigges...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA thin band of antimatter particles called antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time. The find, described in Astrophysical Journal Letters, confirms theoretical work that predic...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoIn 1896, chemist Svante Arrhenius of Sweden became the father of global warming, the grandfather of climate change, and great grandfather of the climate disruption when he proposed a quantitative relatio...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Joe Romm 4 August 2011 In light of the sustained drought, Governor Mary Fallin today asked all Oklahomans to set aside time this Sunday, July 17, to pray for rain. That was two weeks ago. The resul...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoOn 6 August 2011, a helicopter crashed on a NATO mission in Afghanistan, killing all 38 personnel on board. The dead included approximately 22 SEALs from the SEAL Team Six, the unit whose members carri...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI'm reposting in its entirety a terrific article found at the Daily Impact last week, followed by the most recent drought index. Lake Ray Hubbard, a reservoir of drinking water for the city of Dallas, Tex...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoFor a slain innocent on the Danziger Bridge, justice and tears~Jarvis DeBerry Natural and Political History ~Judyb54, NOLAFemmes River Commission meetings set for this month Later Gator...~American Z...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Soil caked into a crust of dried crude oil, Ogoniland, Niger Delta. Pollution from over 50 years of oil operations in the Ogoniland region of Nigeria is poisoning communities by contaminating the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5.6 km ( 3.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:34 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Northeast of Patrai, Greece No damage...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 day ago*Practical Populism* April 19, 2009By Rady Ananda Posted on June 13, 2009 by Rady [image: pink_ak ArmedFemalesOfAmerica]April 19, 2009 *I am a progressive populist. As a progressive, I value, work toward,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy www.IndigenousAction.org *Protect the Peaks! Week of Action Takes to the Streets* By IndigenousAction.org www.IndigenousAction.org On Friday, August 5th, more than 50 people marched through the stree...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Donate to The Coming Crisis] Hello everyone! 1. August Dollar Drive progress: So far we've had six donations, and are under 10% of our goal for August. If you haven't donated a dollar yet and ar...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 day agoI'd like to send out a big "Thank you!" to my girlfriend, Tricia (Ph.D. psychologist in Brooklyn!) for sending along (Ah! The pleasures of the morning email) this timely study of how American presidents of t...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoA leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMean Jean Schmidt wasn't born with that name. Her parents christened her with the far more ladylike Jeannette Marie Hoffman. The Schmidt part came in when she married shady stockbroker Peter Schmidt, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 247.3 km ( 153.7 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:57 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) Northwest of Neiafu, Tonga No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe self-proclaimed 'Crossbow Cannibal' who boasted of eating parts of his victims is on the brink of death after spending ten months on a hunger strike, prison sources claim. Stephen Griffiths, 41, is un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwenty-six police officers were being treated in hospital today following riots which broke out two days after a man was shot dead by police. Scotland Yard said at least one of the officers had suffered he...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoStrange Coincidence Surrounding a Known Conspiracy by Tony Cartalucci What is a known fact is that Osama Bin Laden was not killed earlier this year during the hyped-Pakistan raid, but rather died nearly a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dead Sea Region at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:25 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Northwest of Tel Aviv-Yaf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 250.5 km ( 155.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:41 UTC Sunday 7th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) South of Wakkana...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoBBC coverage of the Tottenham thuggery has been utterly appalling. I note they have virtually lionised the "young man" Mark Duggan tragically killed whilst...erm...trying to murder a Police Officer, allege...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disrupti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHigh waters and heavy surf battered China's northern port of Qingdao as Typhoon Muifa approached Sunday on its way up the coast. Authorities closed beaches and piled sandbags along Qingdao's waterfront, a...
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