- posted by laura k at wmtc - 8 seconds agoIn September, Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker will reintroduce a motion to ban the for-profit sale of dogs and cats in Toronto pet stores and flea markets. These retail outlets are notorious for se...
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More than a few people were surprised when John Boehner chose Michigan plutocrat Fred Upton for the SuperCommittee. Is he, they wondered, dependable enough to stick with the party's lockstep obstructioni... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 minutes agoGulf weather system likely to bring 10-15 inches of rain to New Orleans over weekend
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A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:29:50 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) East of Christchurch, New ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:29:21 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 749 km ( 465 miles) West of Castro, ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 461.6 km (286.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:02:31 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 232 km ( 144 miles) NNE of Ndoi Isla... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes ago
Defiant Muammar Gaddafi has called on his supporters to fight on and engulf Libya "in flames". Gaddafi's message was broadcast on Syrian TV as it was reported that a deadline for loyalists to surrender p... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 46 minutes agoImagine that you were hired to find some evidence that there is something unusual going on with the climate. There is nothing obviously unusual so you have to search intensely. Finally, you figure out th...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 58 minutes agoImage from Sky Dancing. Shredding the envelope: Healthcare on the ground, Part I By Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / September 1, 2011 [Shredding the Envelope ("Ruminations on news, taboos, and space b...
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What follows is an amazingly brainless series of tweets from Christine O'Donnell's cell phone. She's trying to tell the story of how she got invited, then disinvited, then reinvited and re-disinvited from ... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Map of cesium-137 contaminated soil around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 14 June 2011. The exclusion zone after Chernobyl exposion was set in locations where the cesium-137 level in the soil e...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoNATO and the old narrative. Photo from AFP. The power of a good example: The Arab Spring and the Libyan Fall By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / September 1, 2011 For many years those of us who followed United ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoViola Davis and Octavia Spencer in The Help. The play's the thing: The Help, and fighting the good fight Davis’ amazing, game changing work has made me proud to have been part of a Movement which made it pos...
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By Duane Craig Yellowstone River Oil Spill It is telling to see the reactions to theoil spill in the Yellowstone River. There are always the reactions of disbeliefas people try to come to grips with the f... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours 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. Today, the final part of a ser... - posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoVerbatim's wireless keyboard is a classy and useful travel companion for iOS and Android devices.
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Tuesday we wondered aloud if Rick Perry is too stupid to win the presidency. Many people confuse "cunning" for intelligence. Perry may be lacking in education and even in intellectual capacity but he's a... - posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAs our diets and environments become less diverse, so does the variety of gut bacteria in our intestines.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoA Wikileaks firebomb. This time it's a U.S. diplomatic cable indicating that, in 2006, American soldiers entered a house in the Iraqi village of Ishaqi, near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, and kil...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSaving up for a sports car takes time. This mouse serves as a reminder of what you're saving for.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoResidual heat from fingertips leaves your PIN number visible on ATM keypads.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoIt's smarter, but not perfect. Experts forecast more attacks amid evolving defenses.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoTired of losing your keys? Go towards the light.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThis super-sized platform tablet has 32 simultaneous touch points.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 40.3 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:00 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 127 km ( 79 miles) WSW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu No...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 4 hours agohttp://www.whywefight.net/2011/09/01/tarmageddon-phase-two/
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Gulf of Aden, Yemen at a depth of 33.5 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:13:58 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 254 km ( 158 miles) WNW of Qa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoScores of homes have been destroyed in wildfires that have devastated large parts of Texas and Oklahoma. The Texas Forest Service said it had been the worst fire season in the state's history, with 20,11...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Scotia Sea, South Orkney Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:07:06 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 172 km ( 106 miles)...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 4 hours agoIrene is still making life miserable for those bullet dodgers who were targets of Nature's wrath this time. I had thought Wit's End was unscathed but that's because I huddled in the house all the day afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIlluminated in vivid blue and dwarfing neighbouring buildings, the Eiffel Tower’s impact on the Paris skyline was already dramatic. But Mother Nature clearly felt she could lend the scene a little added ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA soldier who guards the Queen at Windsor Castle and his primary school teacher wife have appeared in court charged with raping a pre-teenage girl. Simon Davies, 37, and wife Fiona, 44, were held by police...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoJust a quick post for the day. What is most interesting about this news is the SIGMA - X Goldman plans to expand its global electronic trading system with the launch of SIGMA-X Canada, a so-called altern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAnti-Gaddafi soldiers have told Sky News two unexploded car bombs were found in Tripoli, amid reports the former Libyan leader is in the desert town of Bani Walid. It comes after funds arrived from abroa...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoGuido is running with this Tweet right now - and it's a sight to gladden the heart of seasoned bias-watchers. Could it be? Or is he just playing hard to get for a salary bump? Who is likely to replace h...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoBlue America doesn't usually ask for contributions because of some phony Inside the Beltway "deadline"-- as if a $20 contribution is any more or any less crucial today or tomorrow or the next day. And y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMahwah residents are being asked to conserve water as two township wells are being shut down while Ramapo River water is tested for contamination from a fuel spill in Tuxedo, NY, Mahwah Police Chief Jam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than 124,000 fish died at Lake Grapevine this week as this summer's nonstop heat severely depleted oxygen levels, an official with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said. "There were lots of de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA hospital here gave at least 84 children doses of radioactive tracer in excess of recommended values over the past 12 years, it has been learned. The errors occurred at Kofu Municipal Hospital. "There ar...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 6 hours agoEL OJO CRITICO is back with sixty pages of controversial and highly interesting information. This collective work by Grupo FENIX tackles the ever-intriguing "Caras de Bélmez" (the alleged thought-p...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 6 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe same genes that make disease-causing bacteria resistant to today's antibiotics have been found in soil bacteria that have remained frozen since woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. “We’ve shown for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCHUGINADAK ISLAND, ALASKA-Mount Cleveland, a strato-volcano perched on Chuginadak island, was downgraded from "watch" to "advisory" yesterday its aviation code was reset to "Yellow." Volcanologists have be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago[image: Link]The Tri-County Health Department confirms Bubonic plague is responsible for decimating prairie dog colonies along Big Dry Creek. The open space is roughly from 112th Avenue and Sheridan Boule...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFlooding has claimed 102 lives in southwestern Nigeria, where a dam burst and a river overflowed near the city of Ibadan, officials said Wednesday. A rain deluge from Friday night to early Saturday caused...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Virginia at a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 09:09:37 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 52 km (31 miles) Southwest of Charlottesville, V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMystery wounds: Experts were baffled by the traumatic chest injuries. State Fish and Game wardens are trying to figure out why so many brown pelicans are appearing along California's Central Coast with hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo of the three nuclear reactors in a southern New Jersey county have powered partway down because debris from Hurricane Irene is blocking cooling water intakes. PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar said o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKatia has become the second named hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Ocean - but nobody yet knows quite where it’s heading. As the areas ravaged by Irene try to pick up the pieces from the destruction...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHypocrite? Jessica Callaway wrote on her Facebook that she was shocked Casey Anthony was found not guilty and could not understand her. A 21-year-old mother has been charged with child abuse after being f...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours agoFrom Infowars.com, journalist Pepe Escobar lays out the reality of the Libyan rebels' Al Qaeda infested leadership, exposing the reckless criminality NATO and its member states have pursued their military ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA mother and her three sons were killed in a horrific head-on collision with a tractor after their SUV careered into the other lane. The deaths of Stephanie Brown, 31, eight-month-old Grayson Brown, Jackso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice were called to New York's Times Square yesterday after an art exhibit turned a model into an exhibitionist. Handcuffs were the only thing Zoe West, of Kingston, New York, was wearing when she was t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA crazed cannibal who ate the brain of one his victims murdered a fellow Broadmoor patient and planned to eat him too, an inquest heard yesterday. Peter Bryan, who called himself 'Peckish Pete', throttled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice were today hunting down the culprit responsible for two bomb hoaxes which paralysed parts of a city centre. Areas of Canterbury in Kent were evacuated on Friday after a suspicious package was found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoComplex tools such as stone axes were being made by humans almost two million years ago - at least 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists have revealed. The discovery of crude, pick-lik...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA British military cadet has died after being critically injured in a skydiving accident, an official confirmed today. The officer cadet died in hospital on Monday, three days after he was seriously injur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThey came in their droves, all hoping to catch a glimpse of what is considered to be one of Mother Nature's more unusual spectacles. However, these spectators unwittingly became part of the show when a hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA cancer-stricken grandfather given just 12 months to live has undergone a breakthrough treatment which killed his tumours - in just two days. Brian Brooks, 72, received a devastating death sentence after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe remains of notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly have been found at a former prison in Melbourne. A DNA sample taken from a Melbourne school teacher, Ned's sister's great grandson, confirmed the rema...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA chemistry graduate student faces up to 20 years in prison after spending his spare time allegedly running a meth factory out of his flat. Randy Lambreghts, 28, who is at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe man accused of framing his ex-girlfriend for robbery in a real-life version of CSI did it to several other people as well, prosecutors have claimed. Jerry Ramrattan is said to have got innocent Richa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoShocking CCTV footage shows missing American tourist Robyn Gardner having a violent fight with her travel companion hours before her disappearance in Aruba, it was claimed today. Prime murder suspect Gar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA man was blasted in the head by a gunman last night in an execution-style city street shooting. The 25-year-old, who has not been formally identified, was found by police in Brayfield Road, Liverpool, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA carer who stole the life savings of a bedridden woman to set up her own sex toy business has been jailed. Kirsty Green, 24, took more than £46,000 from 85-year-old Doreen Harding, leaving the Bristol g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA four-year-old girl was found 'home alone' after her mother reportedly went on holiday. Police found the child on her own at the family home after arresting her 16-year-old brother in a stolen car in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 26 km (16.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:14:38 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 207 km ( 128 miles) SSE of Lata, Sant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of Sumbawa, Indonesia at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:57:57 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 409 km ( 254 miles) SSE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of37.8 km (23.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:44:55 UTC Thursday 1st September 2011. The epicenter was 157 km ( 97 miles) South of Severo-Ku...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoThis is a PBS documentary about Einstein's life. Well, it's mostly about the political background, the violin, his relatives, Einstein as a self-described Jew, Zionist, and - in the last of the 6 parts ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoAn asteroid approaching Earth? You say that like it's a bad thing.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 519.8 km (323 miles), the quake hit at 21:37:57 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 369 km ( 229 miles) SSW of N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Kodiak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:37:57 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 87 km ( 54 miles) ENE...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoIn 1984, in London, Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan people’s Bureau. *In April 1996, Britain's Channel Four programme Dispatches revealed that Fletcher had been murder...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoUsing a multi-million dollar telescope system for one hour, BBC astronomer Mark Thompson captured images of astronomical objects as chosen by YOU.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*BEFORE WE FIRST MET WALTER MITTY, IN DECEMBER --* *I wrote a note about Thurber's considerable displeasure with the making of the film version, in connection with the obvious connection between the fabl...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agotypography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy I'm back (and late!) with the third of my favorite things: BabyCenter Online ! (See favorite thing #1 here and favorite thing #2 here) And remember, I'm not compe...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoNavy ROTC cadets from Florida's Jacksonville University. U.S.Navy photo by Spc. 2nd Class Gary Granger Jr. / 4GWar. ROTC resurgent Part II: ROTC's history and return to campus When the military's 'don't ask,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*And they WANT MORE! * *"To be sure, profits have rebounded from the depths of the financial crisis. All told, the nation’s banks earned $28.8 billion in the second quarter, nearly 38 percent more than a ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Might take you longer if you decide to read them.* AUBURN, Maine Man sentenced for sex assault on girl (Boston Globe) EAGLE LAKE, Maine Police charge man after boat crash (Boston Globe) PORTLAND, MAINE H...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*And they WANT MORE! * *"To be sure, profits have rebounded from the depths of the financial crisis. All told, the nation’s banks earned $28.8 billion in the second quarter, nearly 38 percent more than a ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Might take you longer if you decide to read them.* AUBURN, Maine Man sentenced for sex assault on girl (Boston Globe) EAGLE LAKE, Maine Police charge man after boat crash (Boston Globe) PORTLAND, MAINE H...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago2 dead, dozens of homes lost, but ‘it could have been worse’ Suspect in TD Bank robbery is sought Reports of mountain lions spur a warning in Conn. Judge denies bid to bar victim from trial Conn. man ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours agoPROVIDENCE Jailed ‘Survivor’ Hatch seeks free lawyer (Associated Press) PROVIDENCE Program boosts school attendance (Boston Globe) PROVIDENCE Senator urges repeal of tax on tours (Boston Globe) PROVIDENCE...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoA major ongoing scandal in the US is the revelation that the Dept. of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) deliberately allowed more than 2000 assault weapons to be sold to arms traffickers to sell to Mexican...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 15 hours agohttp://ncnblogger.wordpress.com that's the new address. oh boy, look, I can post! Just this one then.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*The Players of World War Three: Globalists And Zionists Vs. Islamists* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 31, 2011* Globalists, Zionists and Islamists are waging a total war for the heart of the E...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Iowa AG Tom Miller:* *He's shocked, shocked, that anyone could question his toughness with the banks after he raised hundreds of thousands of simoleons from the financial sector upon announcing his intent...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoBy Subcomandante Marcos Photo by Brenda NorrellCensored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com August 2011 I. The Local Mirror. The year 2011, Chiapas, Mexico, the World. And in this calendar and this geo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHere's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAt least 88 people have been tortured and killed in Syrian detention centers over the past five months, including 10 children, according to a new report from Amnesty International. Victims were burned, bea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA faulty pipe, flawed operations, and inadequate government oversight led to the 2010 Northern California natural gas explosion that killed eight people, federal officials said Tuesday. During a public b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA fire that broke out at an oil storage facility containing 800 tons of diesel oil at around 10 am on Monday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, has been put out with no casualties, the Xinhua ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Israeli military is to train Jewish settlers in the West Bank and plans to equip them with tear gas and stun grenades to confront Palestinian demonstrators when their leaders press for UN recognition n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe possible first-ever evacuation of the International Space Station, if a Russian spacecraft is not launched in November, would risk the loss of the orbiting lab, a NASA official has warned. "There is ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe uncle of President Obama arrested here last week on drunken driving and other charges has been a fugitive from deportation since 1992, according to two federal law enforcement officials with knowledge ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAnnouncing it's "not her lucky day," a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has told an eligibility attorney he has dismissed her case demanding information from the Social Security Administration regarding ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMilitary sources say Israeli Navy sent warships to maritime border with Egypt following intelligence indicating viable terror threat. Meanwhile, Iran set to send 15th fleet to Red Sea as well to 'convey me...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoArchaeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a huge amphitheatre used to train gladiators east of Vienna, describing it as a "sensational discovery". They claim that the ruins found th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoForget robbing the bank. These days, the big money is in beauty salons and their stash of human hair extensions. The most recent heist occurred Tuesday when thieves crashed a Jeep into Angie's Beauty Sup...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSan Diego police say a 16-year-old boy throwing rocks at a sport utility vehicle was struck by a crossbow arrow fired by a passenger. Police say the shirtless boy and a friend were throwing rocks at a bla...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice say a Will County warehouse worker partnered with an accused murderer to rip off $60,000 in toilet paper and plastic utensils from his employer. Elwood police Cmdr. Patrick Kerr said Juan J. Hernan...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPolice in Fayette County are looking for a well-dressed burglar. The man, wearing a suit, collared shirt and a tie, climbed on top of the counter at the Family Dollar on Gallatin Avenue in Uniontown on...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA Key West woman is facing charges after she was arrested twice in three days in separate naked, drug-fueled romps on public streets, according to police. Alena Larrazabal, 32, was hospitalized after she...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA divorced man decapitated himself with a cable in Virginia on Tuesday after getting into a dispute with his ex-wife, authorities said. Police arrived at the home in Yorktown after receiving a call about ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDick Cheney is taking a lap around all the talk shows, peddling his memoir while giving his reputation one final spit-shine before he dies and goes straight to hell. Oh—so you actually doubt he’ll go to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe biggest domestic policy failure has been the refusal of top officials in the White House and in Congress to recognize the severity of the employment crisis that has settled like a plague over American ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWe are in the grip of a socio-economic crisis in which the rich and the powerful in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Euro Zone countries and Canada refuse to share the burden of coping with the e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWatching Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York order businesses to close and citizens to evacuate their homes in advance of Tropical Storm Irene reminded me of the actio...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoThere's a lot of talk today about the eventual by election for Jack Layton's Toronto-Danforth seat. Many Liberals are salivating at the prospect of a victory there which would pull them within a mere 67...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 17 hours ago[image: _Ben]You might have noticed US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke clearing his throat recently ready for the release of another monetary tsunami—a flood of counterfeit capital created out of t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*They have other problems** right now. * Vt. family files appeal over killing by police Officers bought guns from Mass. crimes Police say man assaulted 3-year-old Vt. lowering flags for slain Navy SEAL ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 17 hours agoSo, I was arrested at the Tar Sands Action in front of the White House today, along with 110 other people. It turns out to be a rather grueling process, fraught with anxiety, so for now I'm just going t...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 18 hours agoIt's incredibly discouraging to see former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney vituperatively reopen disputes from George W. Bush's administration. His scorched-earth excoriation of critics makes little dist...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoScientists hoping to develop a common language with dolphins may help us talk to extraterrestrials.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoPhotos by Shadia Fayne Wood/Tar Sands Action. On Wed., Aug. 31, 2011, there were 111 people arrested, including a delegation from Appalachia. The total arrests are now 706 people. Stop the dirty Alb...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago[image: SORKIN-tmagSF]Genius has often been described as the ability to enter an existing field and, by your contribution alone, change it utterly. Louis Armstrong did that for jazz. Newton and Einstein ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago** Canadian Embassy DC: Stop lobbying for Tar Sands *Canadian groups to Ambassador Doer: Stop lobbying for Keystone XL pipeline* * * Press statement Published at Censored News *August 31, 2011 (Washington,...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoI thought this was an excellent tour de force on the BBC and wanted to end August by sharing it. My sincere thanks to the contributor; "Watching any BBC programme whether drama, comedy, science or nature ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoNice catch. "Victoria Derbyshire puts John Pienaar on the spot today by revealing the BBC strategy for breaking up the coalition! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b013yx49 1 hr 26 mins in. Talking ab...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoIn 2008, the presidential election results in Dan Lungren's northern California district were very close. It was, in fact, Obama's closest margin of victory in the state. Unlike Gore or Kerry, he took CA...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: Southwest China is in the throes of a persistent drought. Above, a young boy stands in the middle of a dried-out reservoir in Guiyang, Guizhou province, on 2 February 2010. stringer / AFP / Getty...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: A female refugee walks in front of makeshift dwellings in the Dadaab complex on the Kenyan-Somali border. The Dadaab complex was designed to host 90,000 refugees, but is now home to over 440,000....
- *Science is progressing*, earthquake predictions can be made, their places indicated. For many scientists and experts this may seem heresy, but it is no longer. *Prof. Sergei Pulinets* from the Moscow *Ins...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago*Toronto Hearings Represent A Major Step Forward In The Global De-Brainwashing Campaign* *Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *Wednesday, August 31, 2011* On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the Toronto Hearing...
- posted by Raed Jarrar at Raed in the Middle - 21 hours agoYesterday, President Obama repeated his promise to bring all the US troops out of Iraq by the end of this year. During a speech he gave at the American Legion National Convention in Minneapolis, MN he sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThree people became sick and were taken to a hospital on Wednesday after a suspicious package arrived at the mail center of an Air Force base in southern Illinois. The incident prompted the partial evacu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe International Space Station could be left unmanned for the first time in a decade following the decision of the Russian space agency to postpone its next mission. Roskosmos said today that the next ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA man decapitated himself in front of police following a domestic dispute. The Yorktown man was found by police as he sat in a van with a wire tied around his neck and to a nearby tree. As officers tried ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*Guest blog by Prof Nir Shaviv (HUJI), a top expert in cosmoclimatology* *Reprinted from sciencebits.com with author's permission* The CLOUD collaboration from CERN finally had their results published i...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoGuest contributor Greg Fish shares his opinion about the current space funding situation and how ignorance of science may be our ultimate undoing.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe limestone box could reveal the home of Caiaphas, the high priest involved in the crucifixion of Jesus.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe battery-operated LED car sign gives you plenty of ways to express yourself.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA husband stabbed his wife to death with a camping knife because he thought she had been possessed by the devil. Kashif Baig claimed he saw beams of light coming from her eyes and thought he would die if ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe economic slump, combined with Government cuts, is set to increase the number of homeless - and threatens to affect the middle class, a charity warns. A report by Crisis, a charity for the homeless, s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA Tory minister's cleaner who stole more than £90,000-worth of jewellery has avoided jail - because she is a single mother. Barbara Kuligowska, 30, took the jewellery from Sallie, wife of Tory energy min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIt's a scene straight from Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning film Slumdog millionaire, but for these train riding thrill seekers the cost of one wrong move could be their lives! Videos of these 'train surfing' ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA senior officer has blasted the courts system, asking why it could not always process criminals at the same pace used to deal with rioters. Head of Humberside Police Tim Hollis praised the 'rapid and rob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA heavily pregnant woman who took indecent photographs of a friend's naked three-year-old daughter and sent them to a man convicted of sex offences has been jailed for two years. Susan Smith was arrested ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoReader Contribution; Al Jazeera uncovers evidence that influential Americans tried to help the now-deposed Libyan leader cling to power.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA wildfire that sparked in a wooded area forced panicked horse owners to turn their livestock loose as they evacuated the area in Oklahoma City yesterday. Before being contained, the raging fire caused s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCanadian police have a grisly mystery on their hands - over a dozen feet. Yet another human foot washed ashore in Vancouver on Tuesday, the latest in 12 such cases since 2007. The limb, which like the ot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThin-haired with a large nose and deep-set eyes, it is the unremarkable face of a man who may be the most notorious murderer in history. Astonishingly, it is also the first time anyone has attempted to pu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSobering images of Hurricane Irene’s are displaying the storm’s permanent changes to the areas affected by the storm. The photos, provided by GeoEye, show broken sections of bridges, erosion and other da...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoHe might be the world's foremost climate scientist. NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director, Dr. James Hansen was arrested outside the White House today while protesting against the Athabasca Tar Sands a...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours agoNewt on Fox. Image from Keep on Keepin' On. Media wars and manufacturing consent: Getting people to vote against themselvesWhy neoliberals have trouble telling the truth.By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / Aug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSeaside residents risk losing their homes to flooding and coastal erosion - for the sake of 20 tiny sea snails. The owners of 1,350 properties at Pagham Harbour, West Sussex, have been told there is a one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA young couple plunged to their deaths from the 12th floor of a building as police entered their flat. Neighbours said they heard the pair arguing moments before they fell from the window in Wortley, Lee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe husband of an Imperial College academic told his wife to 'get off her phone' moments before she was killed in a crash. Judit Nagy, 47, died when her tiny electric car, a G-Wiz, collided with a Skoda O...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoArrested today at the White House tar sands protest, 111 people, adding to 595 already arrested. Photo Josh Lopez. *Censored news articles on Indigenous Peoples and human rights, August 2011* By Brenda No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA teacher who led a secret double life as a stripper in pornographic films was today sensationally allowed to continue working in the classroom. Benedict Garrett, 31, who moonlighted under the alias Johnn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPolish finance minister Jacek Rostowski has said the EU could "collapse" if leading countries such as Germany mishandle the financial crisis. Speaking in Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Monday (29 August)...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn Crosstown Traffic, Jimi Hendrix sang: "can't you see my signals turn from green to red And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead." In global financial markets, the signals have changed f...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoUp until August, this year had been fairly dull as the S&P 500 was in a trading range somewhere between 1250 and 1350. July ended near the upper end of that range and by August 2nd we were once again testi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAfter four years of fighting crises and pumping money into the financial system, the world's central bankers are concluding that the global economy is still in a precarious position and the policy apparatu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCanada's economy shrank in the second quarter of the year, the first quarterly decline since the recession of 2009. The country's gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent in the April-June period, or 0.4...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA human rights group said it believes that at least 88 people, ten of them children, have died in detention in Syria during five months of anti-government protests. Some of the victims were as young as 1...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn 18-month-old child was attacked by a cougar at Pacific Rim National Park, near Ucluelet on Vancouver Island, Monday evening. Rene Wissink, manager of resource conservation at the park, said the attack ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFirst the dot.com bust, then the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and other targets. The United States economy started the decade shaken to the core, but it responded with an as...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA raging wildfire in parched northern Texas burned out of control early Wednesday, destroying about 30 structures and forcing evacuations, a forestry official said. "I don't think I have my head aroun...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe Sudan government is targeting a border region with airstrikes -- forcing residents to live in caves and under the bushes to avoid the "indiscriminate" bombardments, according to international rights gr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWhat appears to be a human foot and a leg bone have been found in a running shoe floating in a downtown Vancouver waterway, police say. Shortly before 5 p.m. PT Tuesday, police were notified that the gris...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe residents of zoos are often the first to be neglected when cities are hit by man-made or natural disasters. CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson discovered a dire situation Tuesday...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoChina remained quiet Tuesday as a recently leaked video of a Chinese general's candid remarks -- apparently made at a corporate event in March -- on sensitive spying cases continued to draw internationa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFinally, there's a third option to dealing with human remains aside from the age-old choice between burial and cremation. Now, bodies can be liquified as a more eco-friendly alternative. The Anderson-McQ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTHE Ministry of Defence spent £1.7million of taxpayers’ money on helmets and body armour for Ugandan soldiers, its accounts reveal. The gift to the African country’s government came to light as Defence S...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoJapanese rare earth buyers are switching to quarterly sales contracts and looking for alternative sources after China curbed shipments, increasing prices for the materials used in hybrid cars and missiles....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHumans might not be living on Mars or the moon anytime soon, but scientists might have just overcome one major hurdle on the route to interstellar habitation: electricity. Scientists at the U.S. Departme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoEver wonder how police might be collecting information from your Facebook profile? If recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests [PDF] filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are succes...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn "Secret History of the Credit Card," FRONTLINE® and The New York Times join forces to investigate an industry few Americans fully understand. In this one-hour report, correspondent Lowell Bergman uncove...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours agoOn 31 August 2011 *The Nation* (Pakistan newspaper) reported: *The CIA recruited 1,500 members of Al-Qaeda, from Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, to fight in Libya. * Sources told *TheNation*: "Most of ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEverybody's happy, happy, happy that the Qaddafi's have been overthrown, right? I mean, once it became public, however that happened, that he was personally behind the Lockerbie bombing-- like someone d...
- posted by Amanda Onion at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLetters home after 9/11 bring back the trauma and confusion of the time. Read the letters and send in your own.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:08 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 1350 km ( 839 miles) NNE of Victoria, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the areas ravaged by Hurricane Irene try to pick up the pieces from the destruction and epic flooding, a new threat is slowly gaining steam in the Atlantic Ocean. A new advisory Wednesday from the Nati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 22.4 km (13.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:55:34 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 119 km ( 73 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThese video stills are taken from previously unseen footage showing the devastation beneath the World Trade Center after the September 11 terror attacks. As New York gears up for the tenth anniversary of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:22:42 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km ( 67 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:17:26 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 491 km ( 305 miles) NNE o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Obama administration froze the U.S. assets of Syria's foreign minister and two other senior officials on Tuesday in response to Syria's increasingly violent crackdown against anti-government protesters...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThis map, published in today's Guardian, is an eye opener. It charts how much of the world faces food insecurity. That, by the way, is all of the world except those countries coloured green. Get the...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoJapanese company looks to outfit shipping vessels with wind and solar panels.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA hacking attack involving a fake security certificate and Google services has hit users in Iran.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago* the**REALnews Permalink* August 31, 2011 * * *Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer* Jeff Thompson: New research shows that as wealth increases at the ...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFacebook has revised its privacy options. Yes, again. Here are some things to watch out for and settings to change.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRobot avatars will provide a new level of freedom and interaction for the disabled, elderly or bed-ridden, say inventors.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoA girl born in Japan today can expect to live to age 86. Japanese life expectancy has increased 30-years since 1947. A series of papers in the British medical journal, *The Lancet,* finds the Japanese s...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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. Today, the fourth part of a se...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLook out Apple, the new Galaxy S II is finally coming to the United States with the bite to back up its bark.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe New Jersey Supreme Court has revised its handling of eyewitness IDs, citing evidence that many eyewitnesses are simply wrong.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA durable, fully adjustable rig on your handlebars holds, protects and displays your mobile device.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of flood damage to the cemetery with uncovered coffins on 30 August 2011 in Rochester, Vermont. Toby Talbot / AP] August 31 (MSNBC) – Hurricane Irene's rampage up the East Coast has b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*And here I didn't think it was that bad.* "Perils lurk in Irene’s wake; Flooded rivers, downed wires still plague parts of region" August 30, 2011|By Peter Schworm and Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff The ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I've been stuck in a Boston Globe rut for a long time now, but that seems to be changing. No paper purchase today, readers. * "Rocket failure could prompt evacuation of space station; New crew on hold as...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Judge rules against man accused in fatal fires" August 23, 2011|Associated Press NORTHAMPTON - A superior court judge rejected yesterday a* plea to suppress evidence* in the case of a Northampton man acc...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhat could be better then waking up to find that all of your devices are fully charged and ready to use?
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBecause creative ideas are also new, they give rise to discomfort for others who depend on tried-and-true ways of doing things.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*It's a service, right? * "Coast Guard upgrade goes slow; Only 2 new ships added in 10 years" August 22, 2011|By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Nearly a decade into the 25-year, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Logan adding a $65m runway fail-safe; Extension into harbor stirs multiple concerns" August 22, 2011|By David Abel, Globe Staff Logan International Airport has launched a *$65 million project* that will ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Fund has paid $5 billion in claims from BP oil spill" August 24, 2011|By Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. - The fund set up to compensate victims of last year’s BP oil spill in the Gulf of ...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day agoMother & Daughter, raped and killed by "rabbles" *If you actually lost someone in the Towers on 911, you have my deepest sympathy: However, many of the names on the manufactured passenger lists, alleged ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Muslims are to blame for everything in this world.* "Muslim rebels reject Philippine peace proposal" by Oliver Teves, Associated Press / August 23, 2011 MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines' largest Musli...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Good friend to have if you are under threat*: "North Korea considers nuclear testing moratorium, leader says; Agreement comes during visit to Russia and could jump-start stalled talks" by Choe Sang-Hun ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Biden tells China its US assets are ‘safe’" August 22, 2011|Associated Press CHENGDU, China - An official Xinhua News Agency commentary on Vice President Joe Biden’s visit said China would be looking for...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Suu Kyi meets Myanmar’s president" August 20, 2011|Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s government invited democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to a meeting yesterday with the president, state-run tele...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Banished Bengali woman kills self, children" August 17, 2011|Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh’s High Court launched an inquiry yesterday into the *death*s of a woman and two of her childre...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"An Indonesian militant who allegedly made the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings was escorted home under tight security yesterday, more than six months after he was captured in northwest Pakistan.....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day agoVietnam jails French-Vietnamese teacher over blogs *I trust that will never happen in Amerika. *
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritons are notoriously obsessed with the weather, especially rainclouds. Now, according to scientists, it seems they will soon be able to create their own washout conditions. Using a powerful laser, res...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe sense that organic fruits and vegetables are safer because pesticides increase risks for cancer has no scientific support, argues an expert.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPreserving just 4 percent of the ocean habitat could help 84 percent of marine mammals.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA clever group of bottlenose dolphins in Australia has created a tool that both captures fish and functions as a food bowl.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:22:30 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 109 km ( 68 miles) South of T'ai-tung, ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago(If you don't know what ALEC is - please see the links at the end of this diary.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) admits that 1/3 of state legislators belong to their organization. ALEC...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Researchers and US officials say they are seeing a wave of people with dual citizenships, at a time when students are coming to US universities at record levels, more households have members from more tha...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoLinda McQuaig's appraisal of Stephen Lewis's beautiful eulogy of Jack Layton is worth reading. It will probably be a while before a Canadian prime minister again offers a state funeral to someone on the l...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAs I've said before, when Democrats and left-leaning independents decided to show their disappointment in Obama's timidity to fight for working families and their anger with DEmocratic acquiescence for g...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoEnvironmental activists in the US see an opportunity for real action against the tar sands pipeline. Since the oil-friendly and environment-hating Harper government won't listen to us on this issue, we owe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 49.4 km (30.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:46:50 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 167 km ( 103 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFive people are still missing after a typhoon smashed down the walls of a rubbish dump and sent tons of garbage spewing down a city's streets. These pictures show the devastating aftermath of Typhoon Nanma...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoI've noticed that many Americans - members of the nation that dominates TRF visits - tend to extrapolate the events in the U.S. to the whole globe. And because the U.S. has seen a pretty warm weather, ma...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoThe Estancia La Dulce Case(Argentina) A UFO Encounter with the Presence of Amorphous Entities By Guillermo Daniel Giménez The year 1978 marked some significant chapters in the UFO chronicles of the Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:56:20 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011. The epicenter was 145 km ( 90 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Vanuat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWildlife officials say about 30 ducks have died in a Salt Lake City pond because of a potential outbreak of avian Botulism. many of the dead ducks were pulled from the Liberty Park pond over the weekend ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Popocatepetl (po-po-ka-TEH-peh-tel) volcano south of Mexico City is shooting blasts of ash from its crater. Mexico’s national disaster prevention agency says the volcano has spewed ash more than a ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo people were dead and six were hospitalized Tuesday, apparently poisoned by carbon monoxide from generators that were providing power to homes left without electricity by Tropical Storm Irene. The dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis incredible image that looks straight out of Star Wars shows how smoke from a raging marsh fire in New Orleans has surrounded the iconic Superdome, as an emergency is declared in the city. Helicopter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLast week, Namibian authorities discovered four unguarded barrels of radioactive uranium oxide on a beach near the coastal town of Swakopmund. Each barrel is estimated to contain between 150 and 180 kilogr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo light commuter trains collided Tuesday in the southern part of MexicoCity injuring 20 people, the municipal government announced. The crash, which occurred about 7 a.m., apparently resulted when one of ...
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