- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 48 minutes agoYou'd think that, with the Pope, a former President of the United States and ex Director of the FBI taking up your cause, enough serious doubt would've been raised to at least stay the execution last nigh...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoOn the Question Time panel tonight we have the increasingly senile Vince Cable, Priti Patel, Harriet Harman, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and Justine Roberts from Mumsnet (married to Ian Katz, deputy edi...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoLaser headlights are more energy efficient and and brighter than standard LED headlights.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoGiving robots a ridged "skin" like a human fingerprint could help them learn how to feel the shape of things.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoBlurry images taken from the human brain reveal movie clips just watched by test subjects.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoTrade an old space heater for this simplistic hot fan.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThis coffee maker accommodates even the most sophisticated barista.
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 hour ago
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour agoCoastal protection study to continue without corps~Amy Wold Gulf of Mexico oil spill fine allocation gets bipartisan support in U.S. Senate committee Senator John Cornyn, still an asshole... ~Disenfranchi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoThis week Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released it's list of the 10 worst corrupt Members of Congress for 2011. New Hampshire only has two congressmen, corporate shills Fran...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoBy going vertical, wind farms may just get a new life.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoMary Anning (1799–1847) is known in many circles as the greatest fossil hunter of all time; 200 years ago she introduced the world to her discovery of the bizarre ichthyosaur.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoNASA's doomed satellite provided critical information on the development of the ozone hole.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe autistic-like behaviors of the animal add to a growing list of similarities between humans and their recent primate ancestors.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours agoAnyone who isn't entranced into a stupor by the Bread and Circus so ingeniously engineered by the corporatocracy must at least suspect that mainstream media - the newspapers, magazines and teevee - are *no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:14:00 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) Northeast of Ilic, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRevolutionaries have taken control of the southwestern town of Ubari, chasing Moammar Gadhafi loyalists from the area as Libya's new leaders continued to gain momentum, National Transitional Council fiel...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 hours ago*US plan to attack Britain and its empire.* Documents found in the US National Archives reveal that: The USA devised plans to attack Britain, and, other rivals. How America planned to destroy BRITAIN. A...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 hours ago[image: claim injustice] Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and confirmed one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail just a few feet away afte...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoThe BBC has a dilemma. Their beloved Obama has made a difficult speech. “There is no Shortcut to Peace” "Let’s be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 101.9 km (63.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:20:31 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvadore at a depth of 90.2 km (56.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:13:38 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) SSW of Usuluta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe UK's top shares and other leading global stock markets have plummeted following the U.S.'s announcement of a £250billion rescue operation to prop up its feeble economy. The FTSE 100 was 4 per cent low...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours ago*Only 20,000 or so watched for more than a minute* Al Gore has claimed that the Climate Reality Project received 8.6 million visits on Climate Parody Day between September 14th and September 15th. That'...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Sue Marsh) at Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Simone Ramella / cc While the sight of a hazy, smog filled cloud looming over the cityscape is certainly enough to break the heart of any would-be outdoorsman, it turns out that breathing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA satellite whose orbit is degrading is likely to crash back to Earth on Friday, and 26 pieces have a good chance of surviving the heat of re-entry, NASA said. Despite being pretty sure that the Upper At...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours ago[image: Episode image for Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom] Biased BBC contributor Alan makes the following points. "The BBC reports that the chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani,...
- posted by Jason Major at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSaturn's moon Enceladus has turned out to be quite the overachiever among moons in our solar system -- it pours rain onto Saturn.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoArgan oil gave Moroccan families a boost in wealth, but the goats bought with the extra income are now eating the Argan trees.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoThere is a side to modern Britain that the BBC is very careful NOT to explore. Every now and again we get a glimpse of what lurks in the post-modern shadows, as the mobs rampaging through several of our ma...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoIt's never a *good morning* on the BBC Today programme if there is not a little further demonising of Rupert Murdoch so cue this little knockaboutbetween Humphyrs and Harold Evans. As you can guess, Humphyr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt is mostly legal, but harvesting a shark's fins is a gruesome business. Fishermen often cut off the fins while still at sea and throw the sharks back into the water, where they bleed to death. The fins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWho stuffed a large quantity of dead Canada geese into a pair of giant garbage bags? Why did they do it? And why were these dead birds left to rot in an area near a local playground? These are but a few o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA LARGE shark, resembling the one seen yesterday, was spotted next to the Busselton Jetty this afternoon. Estimates of both sightings have the shark as at least 4m long and speculation that it is a White ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago*Cardiff, in the UK by **Maciej Dakowicz* *Mitsubishi MISSILE factories Hit with a Cyber Attack.* *Keywords: cointelpro john friend mr friends blog - Boys, he ain't worth the money you're paying him!** * ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoOne of the many benefits of the BBC is that it helps educate us lesser mortals. For example, did you know that *many Muslims do not understand Sharia?* Here is the helpful BBC article concerned and a littl...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoThe 8.10am item on BBC Radi 4 Today is a wonderful example of the BBC doing *everything possible* to defend the previous Labour government's many follies - in this case the poorly negotiated PFI schemes th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA SUDDEN burst of freak weather caused chaos around Scotland yesterday when strong winds and torrential rain battered the country. A car was left stranded under a bridge in a flash flood in Glasgow and ped...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFLOODS and rain-related disasters have left 115 people dead and 36 missing in nine of -China's provincial-level regions up to yesterday, according to the National Disaster Reduction Commission. The highe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThree children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say. The children were being fed by a government nutrition prog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA new lava flow is advancing down the east slope of Puu Oo crater and may pose a threat to the Royal Gardens subdivision if it continues, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. Lava began overflowing the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChina warned the United States Thursday that a multi-billion dollar arms sales to Taiwan will create "severe obstacles" between Beijing and Washington, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "The wro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe death toll climbed to 10 in Japan as the remnants of former Typhoon Roke raced into the northern Pacific on Thursday, government officials said. Four people are missing, according to local government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis is the chilling video which shows a brazen gunman striding the corridors of an Arkansas courtroom on the hunt for a judge he believed wronged him during his divorce case. Workers at Crawford County C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThey are supposed to be working out ways to solve the world's biggest problems. But diplomats attending the United Nations General Assembly have so far spent more time pampering and preening themselves at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNato's decision-making body has granted approval for the mission in Libya to continue for another 90 days. The North Atlantic Council, composed of representatives from Nato's 28 countries, approved the ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBarack Obama triggered fury among Palestinians tonight just hours after he pushed them to withdraw their United Nations independence bid. Nabeel Shaath, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoVanished: Rebecca Coriam disappeared from a cruise ship earlier this year. On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise line...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:46:29 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck El Hierro, Canary Islands at a depth of 14 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:06:31 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (52.8 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMoments before his execution Troy Davis told the family of slain policeman Mark MacPhail, 'I'm innocent. I didn't kill your son.' Strapped to a gurney, awaiting lethal injection, Davis lifted his head and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMinisters are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme. The Coalition will today announce it is putting a halt to years of scandalous waste of taxpayers’ money on a system that never worke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 53.8 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:05 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 52.7 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:49:20 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Northwest of Olong...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 126km (78.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:43:10 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) North o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Samoa Islands Region at a depth of 34.8 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:10:46 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 17.9 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:32 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) ENE of Hualien, Taiwan No repo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago1/3 2/3 3/3
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoHuey P. Meaux was the Crazy CajunBy Ivan Koop Kuper / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011One Friday evening in 1973, a burly looking biker entered the control room of community radio station KPFT FM, the Pacif...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoCartoon from The New Yorker.Shredding the envelope:Healthcare on the ground - Part III:The anti-angel forcesBy Sarito Carol Neiman / The Rag Blog / September 22, 2011[Shredding the Envelope ("Ruminations on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA cage fighting event which included children as young as eight has created a storm of controversy. Footage of the bouts posted on the Internet have provoked an outcry with the *British Cage Fighting Ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 36.4 km (22.6 miles), the quake hit at 00:49:59 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) Southeast of Hihif...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoMedia Roots: MEDIA ROOTS- Project Censored spoke about corporate media censorship, managed news and the media blackout surrounding 9/11 at Oakland's anniversary film festival on September 8, 2011. Watch t...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoLiberal confab sponsored by corporate fascists, big oil, big banks. by Tony Cartalucci The Clinton Global Citizen Awards, held this week in New York City, claims to "recognize extraordinary individuals wh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*A quartet of foreign devils manifestly aching to be plundered* *"Certain obscure indications tended to establish them as an American family. In typically Yankee matriarchal style, the party was headed by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 4.4 km (2.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:22:36 UTC Thursday 22nd September 2011. The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) West of Erzincan, T...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 13 hours agoSo it appears that Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuck underestimated the backlash they'd triggered by fucking around into the waterfront. A big tip of the chapeau to the folks behind CodeBlueTO, and everyon...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 13 hours agoI came across this deliberately alarming teevee news report about the under appreciated imminence of earthquakes around various locations in America. Well, the powers that be want us to worry about things...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*A view of the New York Stock Exchange from the steps of Federal Hall under "normal" post-9/11 security conditions,* *except with abnormally few people: You see where all those people are walking, on Wall ...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 14 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe chance of spotting flaming wreckage from NASA’s doomed Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) on Friday is pretty remote, but at least you can track its progress.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoThe US Border Patrol receives "A Culture of Cruelty" report from an oversight committee of professionals in Tucson today. Photo copyright Michael Hyatt. Photo copyright Michael HyattOversight committee of pr...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoI'm taking a time out offline, real life circumstances, and will be back when possible. Meanwhile, there are 16,064 posts here for your perusal. Commenting is turned off to deter those pesky live link spa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe government is calculating the cost of Scotland splitting from Britain to reinforce its case against nationalist demands for independence, a cabinet minister said on Monday. Ministers in every governme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSyria's security forces opened fire on Monday during a ackdown on opposition activists in the town of Houla in central Homs province, activists said. "Five residents, including a woman, were shot dead on M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA century ago, phrenologists would measure people’s heads in a quest to explain differences in their social position, and healthy, well-behaved families would be sent to ‘eugenics camps’ to breed more of t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoInmates staged near simultaneous jailbreaks from three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz early Monday and at least 32 of them escaped, officials said. Authorities said 14 of the fugitives were late...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoArmed men from Congo burst into a pub in the central African nation of Burundi and killed 36 people, an official said Monday. One wounded man said an attacker yelled, “Make sure there’s no survivors.” Bur...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHong Kong police have made their biggest ever cocaine bust, seizing more than 1,200 pounds (560 kilograms) of the drug and arresting eight people. Police say the five men and three women arrested included ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees on federal land represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America. The pair of teeth was found on BLM land in northeast Oregon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAccording to an organization that tracks UFO reports, this summer has been an especially busy period for UFO sightings. The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) noted that sightings increased over the past six weeks...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWhat if one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recent history happened today? A new study suggests that a blast akin to one that devastated Iceland in the 1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoFor Bill Green it was more than just a routine visit to his Dongguan factory. The thuds, bangs and sparks of the factory floor were the same; the metal cut, twisted and welded in the usual shower of spark...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoToday, one does not need to blow up buildings, take hostages in political motivation, send anthrax through the mail, or even wave a gun around in a public place to be considered a terrorist threat. A new ...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCharlotte Bevins' long blond hair blows in the wind as she stands amid protesters, her eyes red and puffy from crying. Just four months ago, Bevins' brother, Charles, lost his life in a drilling accident ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIt's the same old story: At first, politicians deny the seriousness of the situation. Then, costs for the disbursement of government bonds rise immensely. A few austerity packages are launched. Then the co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA programme delivering food aid to 13 million poverty-hit Europeans was left in limbo Tuesday due to opposition from six austerity-driven EU nations, Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said. Farm m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPowerful bomb exploded in the centre of the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday, wounding up to 15 people, senior government officials said. "There are no dead. Fifteen people were injured," Deputy Prime Min...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Punjab government seems helpless to control dengue virus which claimed lives of nine more people in the provincial capital on Tuesday, the highest number of deaths reported in a day since the disease h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWhen it was built in 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was a Depression-era project that put scores of Americans to work. When its $6.3 billion replacement opens in two years, it will be an intern...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAmerica’s nuclear bombers are supposed to be ready to go in a hurry. They’re subject to the strictest rules for loading and prepping aircraft with the world’s most dangerous weapons. So how did inspectors ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn Italian couple have sought legal help to persuade their 41-year-old son to fly the nest, Italian media reported. The Venetian parents, who have not been named, say their son has a job but refuses to le...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn insurance firm is suing Saudi Arabia in a U.S. court over claims that the country funded the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks. A division of Lloyds of London is demanding the return of $215mi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoFour migrant workers were mown down on a pedestrian crossing close to Moscow by a motorcade reportedly carrying a top banker, the head of a road safety campaign group told AFP on Wednesday. Two cars, a Me...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNATO agreed on Wednesday to a three-month extension of its air and sea campaign in Libya as the country's new rulers try to dislodge well-armed Gaddafi loyalists holding out in several towns. The agreemen...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 15 hours ago
- posted by PC at Not PC - 16 hours ago[image: ep] Here’s a new re-issue of a recent book, an important bo0k, an essential book—this expanded second edition of which offers even more philosophical self-defence than the first. Allow me to jus...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 16 hours ago
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- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 17 hours agoYou've undoubtedly got your own ideas about how inadequate the latest (perhaps the only?) Obama Tax-the-Rich scheme is, and I've certainly got mine. The Rude Pundit has nutshelled it: So let's be sure we'...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 17 hours ago
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 17 hours agoImage from The Last Crisis.A threat to American liberties:Dominionists and the 'Kingdom of God'They want to take over government and create a theocracy. No wonder they see nothing wrong in playing politics f...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 17 hours agoHow small-minded are New Zealanders? At a time when the world is collapsing in an orgy of European and American debt, our second-largest city lies in ruins and the Rugby World Cup has arrived on our sho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe government is pouring effort into bringing the temperature at Unit 2 of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under 100 degrees Celsius to prevent the release of radioactive materials through steam, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe government is calling for the Nara and Wakayama prefectural governments and local bodies to take precautions following signs that two landslide dams in the prefectures created by Typhoon No. 12 may hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAchieving a "cold shutdown" of a nuclear reactor is not difficult as long as the reactor is not broken. A cold shutdown is defined by experts as a situation in which nuclear reactors whose operations are s...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 17 hours agoSorry for lack of posts, but not been well for the past few days. BBC coverage of the* Lib-Dem Conference *has not helped my mood. You can tell just how much the BBC are lapping up the tribal trash being s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoI always looked forward to my work. But I always had pretty good jobs. Roland's best friend from childhood is among the long-term unemployed. He always worked in manufacturing jobs-- jobs that have now, i...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 18 hours agoSeal of the Republic of Texas, 1839. Image from Wikimedia Commons.The hidden history of TexasPart 4: The independent Republic of Texas, 1836-1845By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2011[This is Par...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 44.6 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:52:30 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 171 km (106 miles) Southwe...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours agoA few months ago, physicist and climate skeptic Prof William Happer of Princeton wrote this article: The Truth About Greenhouse Gases: The dubious science of the climate crusaders for First Things. An ex...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 19 hours agoMany people in Texas are upset about thenew Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that is scheduled to take effect in 2012.According to the EPA's FAQs on the rule it is gradually replacing the Clean AirInterstat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNasa scientists are working round the clock to tell us where and when a six-ton satellite will land this week - but the only thing that's certain is that pieces of it will hit the surface of the planet. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe cold war between North and South Korea has heated up once again - with South Korea launching a radar spy plane dubbed 'Peace Eye', which is also capable of acting as an airborne command and control cen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIf this cute little chap looks a wee bit confused, it's no wonder. His big wide eyes stare out at the world around him - which in turn is staring back at him. Because nobody has seen a creature quite like...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 19 hours agotypography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy *See my previous favorite things... thing #1 - dafont | thing #2 - firegestures | thing #3 - babycenter | thing #4 - allrecipes | thing #5 - w3schools* I am in t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoProtesting abuse at Border Patrol headquarters Sept. 21, 2001/Photo Brenda Norrell*BORDER PATROL: A Culture of Cruelty* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The Tucson...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThis amazing picture shows for the first time the colourful jets deep inside one of the most mysterious elements in the galaxy, the black hole. Showing the innermost parts of a black hole’s active jets, th...
- A future for drones: Automated killingThe Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago<img style="width: 500px; height: 305px;" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAdQAAAEeCAYAAAAzVOS+AAADHmlDQ1BJQ0MgUHJvZmlsZQAAeAGFVN9r01AU/tplnbDhizpnEQk+aJFuZFN0Q5y2a1e6zVrqNrchSJumbVyaxiTtf...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA custom-made watercraft inspired by a Orca is a sub and speedboat in one.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThere's no evidence linking the vaccine -- or any other vaccine -- to mental retardation. Learn about the vaccine.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA leading FBI analyst who gave a lecture last year criticising mainstream Muslims has been caught on camera giving a second presentation urging agents to 'forget Al Qaeda' and 'go after the Death Star' of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists believe our solar system may have once had a fifth gas planet that was ejected from the solar system and 'orphaned'. A new study by David Nesvorny, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway]By Anna Haynes 19 September 2011 See Tamino's post for the excellent (34 min) interview & a discussion thereof. Here are my notes from wa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Output growth for six developed nations: Japan, U.S., France, Germany, Italy, and U.K, 2003-2011. After a rapid post-crisis recovery, the world economy is slowing down from around 4 per cent GDP ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoImage from Free Health Care News.As I approach my 90th year:I despair for the state of my country(and its corrupted health care system)I look at the Republican 'debates' and wonder, where did we -- as a sup...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA super important question. This happened before Christchurch. This happened before Japan. Is it happening again? (From our fantastic friend John at PatrioticTruther on Youtube).
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLocal, state and federal authorities are investigating the detonation of a possible car bomb that hospitalized three people Tuesday evening. The incident happened about 5:40 p.m. at East Elm and Intersta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe counterinsurgency tactic that is sending U.S. soldiers out on foot patrols among the Afghan people, rather than riding in armored vehicles, has contributed to a dramatic increase in arm and leg amputat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAll it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the state's lengthy pension code. The changes became law with no pub...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIs it possible to hide weapons in your hair? The Transportation Security Administration thinks so. Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAnother TSA agent has been arrested and accused of rape. Clifton Lyles, who worked at the Nashville International Airport, was arrested earlier this week in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and charged with ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoChildren as young as eight have been filmed "cage fighting" in footage medical experts have called "disturbing". The video of the bout, which lasted 10 minutes and featured a scantily clad ring girl par...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Beach goers stare at at pools of oil which washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores Friday, June 4, 2010 just west of the Alabama Gulf State Park Pier. Bill Starling / Press-Register] By Bill Cato,...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 21 hours agoI just got a call from Mariel's mom, she is free. She was deprived of her medication almost the entire time she was in police custody, and they had to return to the First Precinct to retrieve it, so "...s...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoPeople who visit the nation's national parks burn more calories than those that don't.
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoPut out the bunting and crack open the champagne. It's still early days, but Cuadrilla Resources, a small but highly enterprising UK company that is surveying for shale gas, has announced that it has foun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least six people are dead or missing and more than a million evacuated from cities in Japan as a typhoon strikes the country. The category 2 tropical storm, known as *Roke*, is expected to head toward ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoSerial child-killer Clifford Olson is dying. That sick, twisted monster is said to be dying of cancer and to be just days from breathing his last.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoBarack Obama showed what he was made of today - not very much at all. In a flaccid speech that appeared to convince no one, Obama said that recognition of Palestinian statehood was premature and the UN ins...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoThe iPhone 5 will be out on October 4st, introduced by Tim Cook. I wish Steve Jobs that his company won't collapse without him – but it won't forget about him, either. iPhone 5 will run iOS 5 (which allow...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoYou know the old adage almost universally-- if incorrectly-- attributed to Soviet totalitarian Josef Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." Though he neve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFour more cases of saline poisoning have been identified at Stepping Hill hospital. Police said the affected patients all survived despite coming into contact with the contaminated fluid. Detectives ha...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoPossibly the only time the words "ring" and "sound" come together in a positive way.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 51.4 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:03 UTC Wednesday 21st September 2011. The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Baby Tasmanian devil. via gs.riverdale.k12.or.us] September 21, 2011 (AAP) – A strip of dense bushland has been fenced off in a corner of NSW to create a safe haven for Tasmanian devils and rescu...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 23 hours ago"When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel," President Bar...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Navajo President Ben Shelly spoke today, Sept. 21, in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council, urging a halt to the use of wastewater on s...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*UN Human Rights Council, Geneva* James Anaya Final Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting21 September 2011 Mr. James Anaya, Special Rapporteur On The Rights Of Indigenous Peo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoFinal Remarks Littlechild, Remarks, Clustered ID on Indigenous Peoples, 19th Plenary Meeting 21 September 2011 *Mr. Littlechild, Member of the Expert Mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples at t...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 23 hours agoA couple of nights ago on one of the our right wing TV stations that I get (I only get right wing news on Charter Basic Cable) - they had a guy on that pontificated about Minnesota's stupid Voter ID Act - ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPeta.xxx will be a full-nudity site featuring women using their bodies to advocate for animals.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPulling hydrogen out of water can be done with bacteria, wastewater and seawater.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe emergency shelter fits two adults and one child and is lit by solar-powered LED lights.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThese earplugs block out loud noises, while enhancing ambient sound -- just don't swim with them.
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- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoA 17 year old New Jersey Bergen Community College student, Mariel Moshiri, was arrested in Zuccotti Park yesterday at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan. Her mother, Nicole Busch, has bee...
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