- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 minutes agoFrom secret drug tests to nuclear bombs set off in the atmosphere -- you'll wish you never knew, too.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 minutes agoA new study suggests that men may be wired to nurture.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 33 minutes agoThis entry was prompted by a comment left yesterday - on why I refer toALEC members as liars. Maybe the reason is - because most of them are. Today's discerning public, wants it all - without doing the re...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 59 minutes ago
Blood Nation women blockade/Photo Arnell Tailfeathers *Non-Indians target BloodNation, Kawacatoose and Fort Peck* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com By Brenda Norrell Censo... - posted by Matt at An Open Book - 1 hour agoHear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 hour agoYes, we all had a good snicker at last week's Decima poll which showed the Liberals 11 points up in Ontario. But lo and behold, a double dose of polls last night, both showing Dalton McGuinty back on top: ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoAustin skyline dwarfed by Bastrop wildfires. Photo by Deanna Roy / The Rag Blog.Rick Perry and the fires of SeptemberHypocrite or leader in crisis?By Paul Robbins / The Rag Blog / September 13, 2011AUSTIN --...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoLandmark Civil Rights Act Made Racism Slightly Less Overt (Season 1: Ep 3 on IFC)
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoMy opposition to the death penalty is absolute. I have always opposed capital punishment, but reading Helen Prejean's *Dead Man Walking* moved me from an opposition with certain conditional exceptions to a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago
Some of the current Western European leaders try to pretend that they're very important and very creative but they haven't really solved anything. The comparison with those who had to defeat the Soviet b... - posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours ago
You may recall in the last post on Syria I linked to an article that stated Western diplomats were readying to up the ante in Syria and arm the opposition. Since the opposition has been armed from the onse... - posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoBad sound quality has met its tiny match.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoNow through Sep 18th, 150 pairs a day are being auctioned to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe stylish, award-winning and environmentally friendly Swiss MonoTracer MT e150 could be here by spring.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA robot that climbs a wall like Spider-Man and then parachutes to the ground could get to areas that humans can't.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA new DNA-based model suggests coupling between the two happened at a rate of less than 2 percent.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoIt is a stubborn, stubborn fact that Clancy Dubois is a complete sellout like Garlandfill ~Slabbed ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~We just added two more groups to our webpage listing Aliied Orgs - Hike for KaTREEn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 12:27:13 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) Northeast of San Simeon, C... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
At least seven people died when two trains and a bus collided in Buenos Aires Tuesday, police said. About 100 people were injured and two were trapped in the crash, police said. Initial reports of injuri... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A historic drought in southern China has caused billions of dollars in losses to agriculture and left millions of people and animals short of drinking water, government officials said Tuesday. And with n... - posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoBuried 1,000 feet below Mexico's Naica mountain, the "Cave of Crystals" are the slowest growing ever measured.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoSandia National Labs is celebrating a milestone for two particle accelerators.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoLife on Earth 240 million years ago flourished in the seas, on land, and in intricate underground burrows.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoU.S. DOE announced a loan guarantee of $344 million to install solar power on about 160,000 military homes.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoWhat happens when a family of fossil hunters goes on vacation? They find ichthyosaurs and ammonites ruled the sea.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoYou don't have to be an avid marathon runner to reap the benefits of regular exercise, research shows.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Taliban have claimed responsibility for a series of explosions in Kabul - with reports the US embassy and headquarters of Nato have come under fire. Police say insurgents have fired rockets and assau...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*We won't be discussing Geoffrey Conner in this post* Most Texas voters never much cared that Rick Perry used his office to enrich himself. Nor do they seem to mind that his right-wing agenda has impoveri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThai teams on Tuesday captured 22 crocodiles that had escaped from a flooded farm near a popular beach resort and were hunting for more of the missing reptiles. The animals escaped the Million Year Stone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAl Qaeda has marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with an hour-long video released on jihadist websites, an intelligence monitoring service has revealed. U.S.-based Site Monit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFive 'vile' thugs who battered a disabled woman to death and dumped her naked body on a disused railway line were jailed for a total of 85 years today. Gemma Hayter was beaten, stabbed and suffocated befo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe regime of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi and the rebel government -- the National Transitional Council -- have both committed war crimes during the conflict in Libya and someone needs to take control to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA chemical tank truck fell off a 3-meter-high bridge in Lishui City, Zhejiang Province at 2am this morning, spilling 30 tons of toxic methyl acetate into the river. Rescuers pulled two trapped workers to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:10:19 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says two American hikers who have been jailed in the country on charges of espionage for two years will be freed this week, according to NBC News, which was to air an i...
- Gunmen open Fire on School Bus in Northern Pakistan Killing at least THREE Children - 13th Sept 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGunmen have opened fire on a school bus in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least three children, police have said. Officers said the bus driver and a teacher were also killed in the attack, which star... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and residents of the zone between 20 and 30 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant held an emergency evacuation drill on Sept. 12. The drill, held...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAn unidentified boat was found in the Sea of Japan off the coast of the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday morning carrying nine people who said they came from North Korea, the Japan Coast Gua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAt least five people died in an explosion at an Italian firework factory south of Rome on Monday, local authorities said. A sixth person who is still missing may have been inside the factory in Arpino wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoShocking surveillance video from the day before Robyn Gardner disappeared in Aruba shows her being led by the prime suspect to the stretch of beach from which she would vanish a day later. Fresh evidence ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA man accused of trying to take a fake bomb through a security checkpoint at Kansas City International Airport on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks has a history of mental illness and recentl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:27:36 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (76 miles) SSW of Mou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFour U.S. service members arrived on the ground in Tripoli over the weekend. The move comes despite assurances from military leaders and President Obama that the U.S. would not be sending uniformed milit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwenty-three children suffering from a rare genetic disorder have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood in western India, it emerged today. All the children had received free transfusions a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDavid Cameron was told last night Russia will 'never' hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The Prime Minister - making the first visit by a British leader to Moscow for six ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoControversial comedian Jimmy Carr sparked outrage on the anniversary of 9/11 - by making a joke about air disasters. The host of Channel 4's 8 out of 10 Cats caused anger when he made a gag about the Eas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoArctic sea ice is at an all time low and still shrinking researchers have revealed. The area covered in ice is now the smallest it has been since scientists started studying it almost 40 years ago. It fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoStock markets and the euro tumbled yesterday as debt-riddled Greece lurched towards bankruptcy. More than £22billion was knocked off the value of Britain's blue-chip companies on a day of turmoil in deali...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoBrown dwarf "2MASS J21392676+0220226" doesn't only have an epic name, it has an epic storm, the effects of which can be seen from Earth.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:09 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (76 miles) SSW of M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBritain is braced for another day of storms as the remnants of Hurricane Katia continue to batter vast swathes of the country today. Severe weather warnings have been issued for Scotland and northern Engla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThree of the four men who were arrested this weekend on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack in Sweden are of Somali origin, and the fourth is Iraqi, Swedish authorities told CNN on Monday. A court...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA lawyer representing phone hacking victims tried to drag George Osborne into the scandal yesterday by dredging up old sex and drugs allegations against him. The hotly disputed claims that the Chancellor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAt least 26 people were killed Monday in the Syrian government's ongoing crackdown on dissidents, the pro-democracy group Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. Among the dead was a 12-year-old boy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe U.S. is poorly equipped to deal with the dramatic expansion in the capability of cyber attacks, a new study warns. The government must develop cyber intelligence as a better coordinated discipline tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEuropean astronomers have discovered 50 new planets beyond our solar system, including 16 which are a similar size to Earth. This is the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. The big...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTasmania's public health authorities say a 21-year-old man who died of meningococcal disease had an uncommon strain of the bacteria. The Derwent Valley man died on Saturday night at the Royal Hobart Hospit...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoThis blog entry is somewhat analogous to the text about Ten new things modern physics has learned about time. 1. *Matter is made of atoms*. This is the proposition that Richard Feynman would have ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoKenyan police have reportedly arrested a man suspected of being involved in the murder of a British man and the kidnap of his wife from an exclusive beach resort. David and Judith Tebbutt were on holiday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck New Mexico at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:39 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) West of Raton, New Mexico No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:37 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) West of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 18.9 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:38:49 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) West...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*Former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Threatens America With Terrorism, Says Trillion Dollar Pentagon Budget Must Not Be Touched* Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 13, 2011 "My attitude toward al...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago*Trent Mongan* Anonymous left this comment on "BALI BOMB - inside job.": *Mr Trent Mongan*, of the Australian Army , "was in *Bali's Sari club* on the day of the bombing. "He left minutes before a bomb ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago[image: Perry assailed by GOP] Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov Rick Perry soften his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a crackling presidential campaign argue Mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOne of the ‘modern-day slaves’ rescued from a traveller camp insisted yesterday that he was happy living in a grubby caravan on £30 a day. The middle-aged man was one of 24 ‘slaves’ who were found living i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 60.6 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:48:24 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) West of R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:44:31 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*"In fifteen minutes the average child whose parents are at a party can make enough flat statements of fact about one's personal appearance and ask enough pointed questions about one's private life to send...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 47 km (29.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:16:42 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) South of Apartado, Col...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoWhy is Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taking photos of her rock abrasion tool?
- posted by PC at Not PC - 13 hours agoBoth the horror and the loss of that September day ten years ago were brought back to all of us by the recent commemoration. The simple nobility of the ceremony and memorial at Ground Zero made the trage...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Why does this Martian rock have so much zinc? Roughly the size and shape of a tilted coffee-table, this oddly flat, light-topped rock outcropping was chanced upon a few weeks ago by the robotic Opportunit...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“The Problem of Good”* by Chet Raymo (I post today something I wrote a decade ago for the "Orion Magazine" website, as one of a number of invited responses to the events of 9/11.) “I slipped out of bed ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago* "Special Messengers:* * Reconnecting with Friends"* by The DailyOm "When fate brings old friends back into our lives, there is always a reason. Every person that passes through our lives makes a contrib...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoWagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“The Perfect Crime Tool? * *Researchers Work on ‘Event Cloak’”* By Agence France-Presse "Jewelry robbers, magicians, exam cheats and practical jokers everywhere will have an interest in an offbeat idea l...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love anothe...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Neanderthal-Human Sex Rarely Produced Kids, Study Suggests"* by Charles Choi "We may have interbred with Neanderthals in the past, but only rarely was that sex successful in producing offspring, scienti...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago* Say, didn't this guy used to be What's-His-Name? * *"Man, all those other jerkwads, they're all scary crazy."* *-- what lapsed GOP prexy candidate What's-His-Name tactfully refrained from saying in his en...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"The Computer That Predicts The Future"* by Charlie Brooker Hey, wouldn't it be great if we had a supercomputer that could predict the future? By "we", incidentally, I mean "we" as in "the human race", n...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours agoI find the media generally tends to assign too much importance to endorsements during leadership races. After all, Christy Clark came out on top in BC earlier this year with a lone MLA backing her. But so...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMuammar Gaddafi loyalists killed 17 guards outside an oil refinery on Monday in an apparent attempt to disrupt a drive by Libya's new rulers to seize the ousted ruler's last bastions and revive the oil-bas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoOne person has been killed and several injured in an explosion at a nuclear plant in southern France, leading to the potential risk of a radioactive leak. The blast occurred in an oven at the Marcoule nuc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThree people have been jailed for life for the “vile” torture and murder of a disabled woman, whose naked body was found on a disused railway line. Chantelle Booth, 22, her boyfriend Daniel Newstead, 20, a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAt least 2,600 people have been killed in Syria since protests erupted in mid-March, the United Nations said on Monday, as the regime itself admitted around half that number had died. Navi Pillay, the UN'...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHopes for Britain's troubled economy have been dealt another blow after a key indicator suggested growth is slowing at its fastest pace in more than a year. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoEgypt's military leaders have been accused of turning a blind eye to the mob attack on Israel's Cairo embassy at the weekend as it emerged that they ignored repeated telephone calls from the Obama administ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBild Zeitung populism has prevailed. Germany is pushing Greece towards a hard default, risking the uncontrollable chain reaction so long feared by markets. First we learn from planted leaks that Germany i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMillions of workers aged under 50 will have to delay their retirement by at least two years, the Government has admitted. Ministers will bring forward a planned increase in the state retirement age to 67 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBritain’s biggest banks are bamboozling current account customers with opaque charging structures, according to the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB). Banks need to make the pricing of current accou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRussia supports the Palestinian bid to win UN statehood despite resistance from Israel and the United States, Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday. "We will, of course, be voting for a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago"Jordan and the future Palestine are stronger than Israel is today. It is the Israeli who is scared today," King Abdullah of Jordan said late Sunday in Amman. The king described a recent conversation he h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA series of fights broke out after a teen dance party in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday night, causing wild scenes on busy streets, and leading to the arrests of three participants. Early news reports...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has brought into sharp relief Israel's increasing isolation in a still region grappling with the changes of the Arab Spring. Israel was forced to evacuate its am...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe day the Twin Towers collapsed in Manhattan, September 11, 2001, IDF submarine “Leviathan” of the advanced Dolphin model was on a training sail somewhere at sea – the exact location of Israel’s submarin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWhile the 10th anniversary of the 9/11/01 attack on America passed without an attack here at home, security in New York City remains ramped up. That means vehicle checkpoints set up after what authorities ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA 290-pound New York man is steaming mad at the White Castle fast-food chain, which he claims repeatedly broke promises to make the booths in his local eatery bigger. Martin Kessman, 64, filed a lawsuit a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoOPEC sharply revised down its forecast for world oil demand for this year and expected consumption would remain weak in 2012, citing on Monday waning economic growth in key industrialized nations and a wea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFormer Vice President Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multi-media event. "24 Hours ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoGermany has stepped up its rhetoric against Greece, warning that the debt-laden country could default on its debts in a move that highlights the growing divisions at the heart of Europe. Philipp Roesler, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoGrowing fears of a Greek default sent a hurricane through heavily exposed French banks on Monday and hit the euro as investor confidence in the European currency area's ability to surmount a sovereign debt...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 16 hours agoBy Tuesday evening, everyone will know that Democrats have blown an opportunity to win a special election for Nevada's massive 2nd District, basically the whole state outside the Las Vegas area. If you rea...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoThe quake caused landslides on the undersea slopes where the corals grew.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 17 hours agoWe're going to go back in time, briefly. Thinking of Syria in particular. Where the US and company have again thrown down the gauntlet. Drawn the proverbial line in the sand. Syria; on the agenda is the US i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: PRECIOUS GOODS: She survived Cyclone Yasi and now this mahogany glider is carrying young. Daryl Dickson / The Courier-Mail] By Brian Williams, The Courier-Mail 13 September 2011 HERE'S evidence ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*Join the Caravan in Support of Indigenous Communities Who Are in Their Fourth Decade of Resisting Massive Coal Mining Operations on Their Ancestral Homelands of Big Mountain; Black Mesa, AZ. November 19t...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Constitution Day: Is the Constitution on Life Support?”* By John W. Whitehead “For all intents and purposes, the Constitution is on life support and has been for some time now. Those responsible for its...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours agoBefore the last election, National were going to “take aim” at house prices. They spent $10,000 on an overseas study on ways to “solve the problem.” National's housing spokesman, Phil Heatley, “went to ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Here's why*: * * "Globe starts far-ranging paid website for all devices" by Casey Ross, Globe Staff / September 12, 2011 The Boston Globe today launches a new subscription-only website, BostonGlobe.com,...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoBBC gutted that their preferred candidate to become the next Head of the Met, Sir Hugh Orde, has been rejected in preference to Bernard Hogan-Howe. Just watch the BBC now move to try and undermine the new ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoMontessori education is cool! How cool? Well, here’s a smart new (short) video from “that FastDraw bloke” that does a pretty good job of explaining it. It’s all about following the child … [Hat tip Mar...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours ago*[image: 276464_137539366339987_1226509_n]* *Here’s tonight’s invitation for you from our friends at the UoA Economics Group:* Hi all, With Europe’s debt problems growing worse by the day, the prospec...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoBefore getting into Richard Kline's brilliant analysis at Naked Capitalism, let me just start off with a little tangent about politicized religious extremism from yesterday's *L.A. Times* by Tom Hamburger...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoPhoto remains posted for one day before Google blurs image.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoAstronomers have announced the discovery of 50 (yes, five-zero) exoplanets, the largest group of alien worlds announced at one time.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA decade ago experts and pundits claimed that 9/11 would dramatically change American entertainment. Did it?
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours agoAsk the City Planning Commission to reduce flooding by zoning responsibly ~Watershed NOLA Censorship of inmate mail at Orleans Prison alleged in civil rights lawsuit against Gusman~Matt Davis, The Lens Ma...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoLOL, good luck with that...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"Yet Another Sane Voice In The MSM"* by Karl Denninger "Is the truth gaining currency or is this the patient with lung cancer facing up to the fact that when coughing up half your lung in the morning i...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"US Debt and the Roadblocks to Renaissance"* by Bill Bonner "It would be almost laughably easy to bring a real renaissance in the US. But first you have to understand the real problem. It’s not a lack of...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoMy adored wireless ISP way out here in the Arizona desert went totally down last night at 6 PM, and has just restored service. Apologies for any inconveniences. Catching up on things, as you may imagine, ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 21 hours ago7 of 9 Witnesses Say My Brother Is Innocent. Stop Troy Davis' Execution on Sep. 21st! My brother, Troy Davis, has been on Georgia's death row for 20 years despite strong evidence of his innocence. ...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoA keen-eyed programmer spotted tell-tale music-related coding in the download link for Facebook Video Chat.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:23:55 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 213 km (132 miles) WSW o...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 21 hours ago- #TOMALABOLSA in Madrid, Spain - #TOMALABOLSA in Valencia, Spain - #OCCUPYFDSF in San Francisco, USA - #usdorLosA in Los Angeles, USA - #OCCUPYBAYSTREET in Toronto, Canada - #OCCUPYBANKO...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 22 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 - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 61.2 km (38 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:42 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) ENE...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThis glow-in-the-dark kitten is super-powered to fight AIDS as well as the feline version of HIV.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIt may not be a crime to be poor, but it can land you behind bars if you also are behind on your child-support payments. Thousands of so-called “deadbeat” parents are jailed each year in the U.S. after...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA slavery ring which held 24 captives in appalling conditions at a travellers' camp was an organised crime group run by just one family, police believe. Yesterday about 200 officers in a dawn raid stormed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMany of China's churches are overflowing, as the number of Christians in the country multiplies. In the past, repression drove people to convert - is the cause now rampant capitalism? It is impossible to ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCats that have been genetically modified to glow in the dark are being used to gain insights into Aids. The scientists inserted one gene into the cats that helps them resist the feline form of Aids. They...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAstronomers using a telescope in Chile have discovered 50 previously unknown exoplanets. The bumper haul of new worlds includes 16 "super-Earths" - planets with a great mass than our own, but below those ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFats found in fish oil supplements can stop chemotherapy drugs working, according to researchers. Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, they advise cancer patients not to take the supplements. The two fatt...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe scars of Japan’s March 11 disaster are both glaringly evident and deceptively hidden. Six months after a tsunami turned Japan’s northeast into a tangled mess of metal, concrete, wood and dirt, legions...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFour-year-olds who watched nine minutes of the fast-paced cartoon SpongeBob Squarepants showed temporary attention and learning problems, researchers found. The study compared 60 children who were randoml...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA Nova Scotia woman who cares for injured dogs says organized fighting rings exist in the Halifax area and thousands of dollars can change hands during the secret fights. Gail, whose last name is being wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSome medical groups are concerned that proposed guidelines on how Ontario doctors should approach alternative medicine may require physicians to accept and incorporate the practice. "We believe the draft ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn explosion at a nuclear waste-management site at the Marcoule complex in southeastern France on Monday has killed at least one man, but the country's nuclear safety agency says there was no leak of radio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agohe majority of Afghan translators who have worked with the Canadian military in Kandahar have been denied refugee status in Canada. Despite a special-measures program introduced in 2009, two out of every ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn a city slashed by war, a tiger fights for life. Osama, a Siberian tiger at the Tripoli Zoo, has been suffering for days. He is on his side, breathing shallowly, his huge paws motionless -- caramel, b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe End. It seems wrong to begin a story like that, doesn't it? Particularly a story about a bookstore. It should begin "In the beginning," or "Once upon a time," or "It was love at first sight." Especia...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe global sell-off that began Friday continued as Asian markets opened Monday, despite weekend assurances that a Greek debt deal was imminent. The euro was trading at its lowest level against the yen sinc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe man once tasked with keeping the yen stable says, despite the currency's rapid climb, this is not a time for intervention. Eisuke Sakakibara, Japan's top currency official in the late 1990s, tells CNN...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIn the days following the horrendous attacks against the United States on 9/11, all the talk in Washington was about the need for bipartisanship. Republicans and Democrats promised that they would work tog...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn oven exploded Monday at a nuclear site in France, killing one person and injuring four, a spokeswoman for French energy company EDF told CNN. There was no radioactive leak or waste released, she said. T...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA fuel pipeline exploded in a densely populated Nairobi slum Monday morning, flattening homes, reducing some bodies to dust and forcing a massive evacuation of the area amid fears that big pools of leaked ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says parliamentary elections could be held in the country by the end of the year, according to Russian media. Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and media advi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLibya's new leaders are moving to unite fractious, heavily armed bands of fighters under a single control, even as the forces struggled Monday to take control of Moammar Gadhafi's last bastions of suppor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA four-year-old boy looks straight into the camera. His eyes are dull, his tiny legs crossed underneath him. Choi is an orphan, severely malnourished and too weak to stand. This is just one of the heartbr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAn angry crowd lingering near the Israeli embassy in Cairo after an attack on the building a day earlier turned on journalists reporting the incident Saturday, accusing at least one of being an Israeli s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA mother who dressed her daughter like a prostitute for a toddler beauty pageant has revealed she has had death threats. Wendy Dickey provoked outrage after her three year old daughter strutted along a c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA student was accidentally run down and killed by a double decker bus as he sprinted after a cyclist who had stolen his mobile phone. University undergraduate David Schofield, 21, was chasing the thief at ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDespite repeated assurances from President Obama and military leaders that the U.S. would not send uniformed military personnel into Libya, four U.S. service members arrived on the ground in Tripoli over t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo toddlers were discovered on a dual carriageway as their parents slept, a court has heard. The two-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother left the family flat in Birmingham and were found trying t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBritain was today lashed by winds of up to 80mph which tore roofs off buildings, uprooted trees and knocked power out to thousands of homes. In the worst storm to hit the UK in 15 years, ferries were can...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoLink. Porn for the Palin-hating chattering class. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAt least one person was killed and four injured in a blast at a nuclear site in the south of France on Monday.
- posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoDesert-like terrestrial planets may be great places to buy real estate, and there are probably lots of them to choose from in our galaxy.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoScientists have created powerful tiny microscopes that fit on a mouse's head and could be mass produced.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA satellite tracking device on the wayward penguin last sent a transmission on Sept. 4.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoTrickle-down depression:Productivity gains are no longer sharedBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / September 12, 2011From the end of World War II through 1979 the gains in productivity in the United States we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA murderer with 96 convictions for other offences slipped through vetting procedures to become a co-ordinator for a Neighbourhood Watch scheme. Police checks failed to reveal that Graham Galloway, 66, rece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFive children were sent back to a ‘horrific’ home life after a top judge was duped by their violent parents. Mr Justice Mostyn admitted he was ‘comprehensively and deliberately misled’ last summer, when h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Western Texas at a depth of 7.9 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:34 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) North of Snyder, Texas No re...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAn editorial in the environment section of today's *Guardian* ponders why, despite the onslaught of hurricanes, drought, floods and wildfires, America's political leadership and its media opinion makers, ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Weprin's got the sleazy-looking little mustache* I grew up in what is now NY's 9th CD, a solidly Democratic Brooklyn district (which wanders into western Queens these days), which is also where Ken, Bern...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Richard Clarke, Bush's counter-terrorism chief * On 10 September 2011, at Voltairenet, Wayne Madsen tells us more about 9 11. *www.voltairenet.org/a171371* Wayne Madsen reports: *1.* *Richard Clarke* was...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFour-year-olds who watched fast-paced shows like "SpongeBob SquarePants" scored much lower in tests assessing children's ability to learn and pay attention.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoSomewhere along the way, my little girl became convinced that princesses needed capes. Not a super hero cape, but a long silky cape that would twirl when she danced with imaginary princes. I wanted som...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "I have never let my schooling interfere with my ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's a bad time for Israel to be stuck with a boneheaded president like Benjamin Netanyahu. The neighbourhood is changing and Netanyahu's bad boy bully tactics have fallen out of vogue. An editorial in ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoOn the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly r...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSome pluses, but mostly minuses exhibit of how tough it is to compete with Apple's iPad.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFuturistic and a tad scary, a magnetic field underneath this bed makes it float.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis app will tell you what speed to go to avoid red lights and lessen fuel consumption.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoResearchers discover that UV-repellent compound found in coral could be developed into a sunscreen pill.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new mining rescue robot can tell rescuers what they might find in a mineshaft.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*September 11, 2011 at 22:19:34* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/11/11:* Permalink * * *Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* opednews.com In the US on September ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy Duane Craig Visual of Superfund sites in the US Sometimes part of the final decisionsrelated to contaminated sites is to simply declare the land, or the waterbeneath the land as unusable. That saves sp...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHumans release unique gas plumes that have the potential to be detected by specially tuned sensors, a new study finds.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe good news is that the moose survived its bad night out and was able to sleep off its buzz.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoLeak fears after France nuclear site blast A blast at a French nuclear site has killed at least one person and injured four more, the state nuclear regulator says, as emergency services warned of a ra...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoRugged heat- and salt-loving organisms could unlock the secret to efficient biofuel production.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWinds of up to 80mph have battered Britain today, causing widespread damage and power cuts in the worst storm to hit the UK in 15 years. Power to thousands of homes in central England was knocked out as t...
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