- Lord Stirling's News Blog Europeposted by null at Europe - 6 minutes 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 ...
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Wednesday warned his Iranian counterpart that Britain would resist any increase in Iran's nuclear capabilities, during a meeting at the UN in New York. Hague tol... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
North Korea has stepped up a crackdown on soldiers in a northeastern city who are stealing from locals because they cannot survive on their food rations, a report said Wednesday. Military police have been... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Low levels of radioactivity showed up in rainwater in northern California two weeks after the Japan nuclear disaster in March but soon returned to normal, said a US study out Wednesday. The detected level... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Global survey reveals British students are the world’s most easily distracted by social media and the second most-connected on the planet after the Chinese More than nine out of ten British students are d... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
The starting point is the weakness of the labor movement, which made possible a world of low wages. However, this world is structurally unstable, which we are now beginning to experience. Today every cou... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
The global recession in 2012 is “65 to 75 percent sure” and the one that could degenerate into a long depression, says Roger Nightingale, economist and strategist RDN Associates. Peak growth rates for the... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
New figures reveal that fees and charges can wipe a quarter off the value of a personal pension fund. According to the latest Money Management Pension survey, charges are wiping thousands of pounds of peo... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Pre-paid cards have grown in popularity in recent years but many consumers are unaware of what would happen to their money if the card provider went bust. Ryanair has recently announced its intention to l... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Billionaires’ homes in London now change hands for an average of more than £3,000 per square foot and our capital has the fourth most expensive house prices in the world, according to new analysis by inter... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Not content with having invented the internet, the great Climate Science communicator Al Gore appears to have developed still more miraculous skills of late: the ability to turn 17,000 into 8.6 million – j... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Mind reading could become a reality after scientists unveiled a device which translates what we are seeing in our heads onto a screen. By monitoring the brain activity of people while they watched Hollywoo... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Very rarely in political history has any faction or movement enjoyed such a complete and crushing victory as the Conservative Eurosceptics. The field is theirs. They were not merely right about the single ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
The IMF's figures are pitilessly clear. The countries which decreed the biggest bailouts and stimulus packages, the countries which printed the most money, are suffering the slowest growth. The Bank of En... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoPacking heavy bags could hit you hard in the wallet, as fees hit the $400 level, according to a report by USA Today. This week, the publication released its annual survey of airline fees, showing costs ...
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A man who was ridiculed for complaining that a working fishing port in a tourist resort smelled of fish has again hit out, calling the town a ''dump'' and suggesting anyone who found it picturesque should ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send this nation back to the 1800s. If a nuclear bomb was expl... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
One last point about the new poverty numbers, which is that they show that elderly poverty remains a major problem in the United States. Conventional wisdom holds that seniors are doing just fine in the U.... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
The most scathing report describing in exquisite detail the coming financial apocalypse in Europe comes not from some fringe blogger or soundbite striving politician, but from perpetual bulge bracket wanna... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
The world has entered a new era of catastrophes. Economic losses from hurricanes, earthquakes and resulting tsunamis, floods, wildfires and other natural disasters increased from $528 billion (1981-1990) t... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoWill global financial markets reach a breaking point during the month of October? Right now there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to experience a nervous breakdown. Massive amounts...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoThere has been a natural disaster that has caused at least a billion dollars of damage inside the United States every single month so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoThe United States is negotiating one of the biggest free trade agreements in history and there is barely a peep about it on the news. Years ago, Ross Perot warned that if NAFTA was implemented there would ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoIf you think the U.S. economy is bad now, just wait for a few months. Things are about to become absolutely nightmarish. None of the long-term economic trends that are hollowing out our economy have been a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoOn September 16, 2011, the News Item, a newspaper in central Pennsylvania, reported: Shickshinny is a town with just one supermarket, gas station, pharmacy and bank. Right now, it has none. The small dow...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoJust last night, Standard & Poor's lowered the credit ratings on the Italian sovereign debt, taking it from A+ to A, increasing concern of some gloomy scenarios in the global economic crisis, a crisis – we...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 25 minutes agoJohn le Carre, *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, *George Smiley played by Gary Oldham. Does it get any better than this?
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 52 minutes agoPakistan and the United States, bride and groom, betrothed in a supposed war on terrorism. But there never was any love, no trust, hardly any common ground. It was never more than a transactional relat...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 57 minutes agoIt was with absolute dismay that I read an article about protest that were held this past week at the Beth El Synagogue in St Louis Park, MN in regards to a fundraiser that was held at the synagogue. It ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour agoThe last GOP presidential debate, the chemical lynching of Troy Davis and frequent references to Barry Schechter's Innocence Project gave me a great idea that I don't believe anyone's ever considered, cer...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoYou know what I love for Blue America? When we find a perfect candidate *and * he or she is running against a perfect villain. Michigan's 6th district offers us just that combination this cycle and I want ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoOh my, my. Mahmoud Abbas has called Barack Obama's bluff and applied to the United Nations for Palestinian statehood. It will fall to the United States to veto the motion, spilling international politic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Kashmir at a depth of 45.1 km (28 miles), the quake hit at 15:21:33 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) ESE of Srinagar, Kashmi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago*OTTAWA TARSANDS ACTION – Why am I attending?* *by George Poitras, former Chief, Mikisew Cree First Nation* *Posted at Censored News* In the past year and even more so in the past few weeks a lot of debate...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoFull marks if you guessed Vlad Putin. As expected, his United Russia Party has approved another job swap. Current president Dmitri Medvedev will slip back into his old job as prime minister. Putin, the...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 3 hours ago*What follows is a living document that will be revised * *through democratic process of General Assembly* On September 17, 2011, people from all across the United States of America and the world came to ...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoThe former editor of Today, Rod Liddle, has a brief blog post for the Spectator defending his former colleagues at the BBC against charges of a pro-Euro conspiracy. That sentence doesn't contradict my head...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours agoOur friend Oscar Ferreyra of the PLANETA UFO Yahoo group has reminded us that it was ten years ago today that Spanish ufology lost one of its leading lights: Antonio Ribera y Jordá, one of the earliest au...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoWant to find out who defriended you on Facebook? Yep. There's an app for that.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:26:40 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 815 km (506 miles) WSW of Puerto Mon...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoDue to the Nature of this blog, we cannot express our Repugnance of Republicans extorting our nation's Disaster Aid Funding Superdome's destruction, aftermath made for emotional return for workers ~Editil...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours ago"Snappy," an 8 ft. 2 in. crocodile in Australia turned orange after attacking a water filter.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoDreamers, jammers, rabble-rousers and revolutionaries, #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a week old and roaring strong. We, the people, are finding our voice, realizing that, *yes we can revive* our democracy. It is b...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoMiami-Dade Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's abysmal career-long ProgressivePunch score of 9.56 makes her the 37th "most progressive" Republican in the House. For comparison's sake Ron Paul's score is 28.54, Wal...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoYolande Knell has taken sides. In Knell’s eyes, and in the eyes of most of the BBC’s Middle East staff, Israel’s existence automatically places it in the wrong. An unpleasant article in the Independent by ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoWay to go, London, Ontario. Two days ago, most people outside Canada didn't know there was another London. Now everyone has heard of the one in Ontario, first from an ugly, racist incident during a hockey ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIndia on Saturday flight-tested state-of-the-art nuclear capable Shaurya missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast, about 15 km from Balasore. The surface-to-surface missi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAP: Pakistan's foreign minister on Saturday warned the United States against sending ground troops to her country to fight an Afghan militant group that America alleges is used as a proxy by Pakistan's top...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens are asking for your help after several dead deer were left in a field in Great Falls. Officials say six mule deer buck carcasses were dumped this week in a fie...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours agoHot on the heels of yesterday's post Talkin' Turkey- Pipelines, Warships and Drones that is Breaking news today! Turkey Seizes Syrian Ship Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoINVESTIGATIONS are being carried out to find out the reason a 10km stretch of the River Neath turned orange. Pollution has affected the river between Abergarwed and Neath. Initial investigations from Env...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMount Tambora in Indonesia has been stirring lately, but don't expect another massive eruption from the so-called "world's deadliest volcano," one scientist said. Tambora is famous for its 1815 eruption, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:52:57 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) South of Lake Minchumina, ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 7 hours agoA produce vendor stopping for lunch. Photo courtesy: Flickr, babasteve LA Times has a report about how organic produce is sold in China, providing a glimpse into what life might eventually be like, in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo members of the government's Dispute Reconciliation Committee for Nuclear Damage Compensation assumed top posts at the Japan Energy Law Institute, which relies on the country's utility firms for its fun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Fukushima Prefectural Government said on Sept. 23 that it had detected 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram -- the government-set allowable limit -- in a sample of "Hitomebore" rice collec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe cost-benefit performance of Information Gathering Satellites (IGSs), which the government has launched at a cost of some 800 billion yen in taxpayers money, remains unclear because the photos they have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSeven people who got food poisoning from eating tuna at a Subway restaurant at the Vancouver International Airport were taken to the hospital as a precaution. The majority of those who fell ill on Friday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRussian President Dmitry Medvedev has backed PM Vladimir Putin to succeed him next year, ending speculation over which man would run for the post. Mr Medvedev made the announcement at the annual congress ...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 8 hours agoI like to read all comments left on line and reply quickly. I haven't been able to do so for several days due to my internet connection behaving in a mysterious way. Visits to sites like Amazon and ebay...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago*Over 20,000 people made homeless, replaced by carbon sinks in fight against AGW* People often talk about colonial masters, capitalists, and politicians as the sources of evil and inhuman acts. But most...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA veteran canoe paddler is grateful to be alive after encountering a shark off Kauai's south shore. Tom Bartlett's one-man canoe was severely damaged after a shark bit his vessel twice about a half mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHurricane Hilary moved away from Mexico's southwestern coast in the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm Friday, and search teams recovered the bodies of three fishermen caught in the storm. The hurrica...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Democratic-controlled Senate rejected a House GOP temporary spending bill Friday, inching the federal government closer to yet another potential shutdown and risking the loss of sorely needed disaster ...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThose wacky neutrinos are at it again, mystifying physicists by refusing to behave like they're supposed to.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoAlmost all theoretical oriented physicists including myself seem to feel almost certain that there is a mistake in the Opera paper and the claimed violation of the relativistic speed limit will go away. O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the FYR of Macedonia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:39:12 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 9 km (6.1 miles) Southeast of Lozovo...
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- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago* William Beckford* William Beckford (1760-1884) was, at one time, the richest commoner in England. In 1779, William Beckford, aged 19, met his cousin William Courtenay, aged 11. Beckford fell in love w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago2 hours ago: NASA announced "we are still waiting for UARS done! confirmation. If debris fell on land (and that's a still a BIG if), Canada is most likely area. 44 Minutes ago: We can confirm that UARS is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSat, 24 Sep 2011 09:46:42 AM GMT+0200 NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The Joint Space Oper...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:01 pm NZST Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) South o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:25 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:08:35 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. Time (JST) Lat. Long. Depth Mag. Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA witness who claims to have heard a 'scream for help' hours before the girlfriend of pharmaceuticals tycoon Jonah Shacknai was found dead at his California mansion has said they were ignored by police tw...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 10 hours ago"I am Ashamed to Live in a NATO country!" NATO deceit, NATO Crime In Libya. From YT Channel 108morris108 Where video information has been my source of information, I have been following the Libyan crisis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe federal government has doled out $120million over the last five years in benefit payments to dead people over the past five years, a watchdog report says. Such payments are meant for retired or disabl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe veteran U.S. monetary official did not mince his words in a private conversation over dinner. 'America is very, very angry over what has been going on in the eurozone.' As the markets went into freefa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe head of the International Monetary Fund warned today of a 'looming collapse in global demand' that would pitch world economies into a new recession. The comments of IMF chief Christine Lagarde came on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe wife of a fire chief shot at point blank range as he watched television at home was tonight arrested on suspicion of his murder. Rebecca Bryan had attempted to blame the cold blooded attack on a hooded...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoPhoto and inset courtesy: Wikipedia Commons For a handful of lucky, yet critically endangered songbirds, life just got a whole lot roomier. The tiny species of Millerbird, native to Hawaii's Nihoa island,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA teenager who used Facebook to groom young boys, some of whom he later molested, can continue to use social networking sites, a judge ruled yesterday. Callum Dower, 19, used the site to encourage youths ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA property tycoon's company has bought half the Olympic Village at a knock-down price, months after making a £50,000 donation to the Conservatives. Jamie Ritblat's firm Delancey purchased the site where t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWorld leaders were warned last night that they have just six weeks to save the euro from collapse. On another day of gathering economic gloom, George Osborne savaged eurozone leaders for failing to get a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSix people, including three children, have died after a house fire in north west London. According to the London Fire Brigade (LFB), two teenagers and an adult have also been killed in the blaze in Neas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 380.2 km (236.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:27:48 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 317 km (196 miles) ESE of Lambasa, V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 67 km (41.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:57:52 UTC Saturday 24th September 2011. The epicenter was 178 km (110 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSat, 24 Sep 2011 06:55:17 AM GMT+0200 As of 10:30 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 85 miles by 90 miles (135 km by 140 km). Re-entry was expected between 11:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:44:55 UTC Friday 23rd September 2011. The epicenter was 1981 km (1230 miles) North of Ha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoFEATURE FILM: Watch trailer: Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to elim...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*A pair of laughing almond eyes cajoled me onto the dance floor.* *"Before long a pair of laughing almond eyes cajoled me to the dance floor, where my 1922-vintage toddle excited wide admiration, especiall...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours agoEditor's Note: Palestinian statehood is a political football being used to lend legitimacy to the contrived mechanisms of global governance. While the Palestinian plight is deplorable, the UN is not the ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 17 hours agoRussel Norman’s Green party issued a report this week claiming they can add 100,000 “green jobs” to the economy—*new* jobs created by taking $2.5 billion away from an existing group of producers and givi...
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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Current TV's caption for the clip (yes, it's a clip!):* *Current TV and Cenk Uygur are launching an original TV version of The Young Turks, which has become the world's largest online news show. Uygur's ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 18 hours agoFollowing the controversial execution of Troy Davis, a 2010 art piece that depicted Davis as an inmate has gained new meaning. The piece is a collaboration between anonymous German street art collective ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoby Zen Gardner At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hoste...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoBy Anna Rondon, Navajo Anna Rondon at successful Career Day at Red Rock State Park on Sept. 23. Thirty students e-mailed for more info on renewables and the Green Jobs Handbook. Photo Anna Rondon.Censored Ne...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours agoU.S. And Israeli Officials Walk Out On 9/11 Truth At The UN Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 23, 2011 In his speech at The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 22, 2011, Iranian P...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago*Navajo President fails the earth and the people* *Navajo President Ben Shelly, who urged the protection of the earth and respect for Dine' culture at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva thi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago"The smart rich know they can only build the gate so high. And, and, sooner or later history proves that people when they've had enough aren’t going to take it anymore. And much better to deal with it nonv...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA dilapidated bridge over the Ohio River becomes the latest prop in President Barack Obama's push for jobs on Thursday as he takes a campaign for more spending into the backyard of his political foes. The...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEuropean shares slumped to a 26-month closing low on Thursday after a gloomy economic outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve and weak data from China and Europe spooked investors. The Fed said overnight, i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Federal Reserve's latest effort to push down long-term U.S. borrowing costs may not do much for the central bank's main worry -- persistently high unemployment that could leave lasting scars on the eco...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA sharply divided Congress careened toward another high-stakes budget battle on Thursday as lawmakers remained at odds over a bill that would help disaster victims and keep the government open. Even in th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, people living in temporary housing were isolated overnight on Wednesday due to flooding caused by a powerful typhoon. Typhoon Roke hit wide areas of Japan on Wedn...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPowerful roadside bomb targeting an anti-Taliban militia ripped through a pick-up vehicle in Pakistan's tribal belt on Thursday killing at least five people, government officials said. The blast badly dam...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAmid a one-day transport strike in Greece, a few thousand students and teachers joined the protest against austerity measures by marching through Athens. They are opposed to education reforms that will se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwin explosions killed a police officer and injured dozens of others as well as civilians in Russia's southern city of Makhachkalay, officials said Thursday. The explosions within metres (yards) of each o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency announced it was creating a center to analyze the geopolitical ramifications of “phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and h...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSigns that the powerhouse Chinese economy is slowing have spooked global markets and sharpened fears that the world economy will not escape another recession, so much so that a small, preliminary survey of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44% of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust and the 55% who...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. A recent string of subway attacks in New York City, including the robbery and attempted rape of a woman on the F train Thursday, are part of a citywide crim...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMurders in Denver are up 138.5 percent for the first eight months of this year, armed assaults have risen 9.1 percent compared to the same time last year and simple assaults have risen 6.7 percent in the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA mother who confronted two boys who bullied her 10-year-old son has been banned from her son’s Minneapolis school and even her son’s bus stop for the rest of the year. Tanya Sydney said she does not re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe House early Friday narrowly approved a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running through Nov. 18, as Republican leaders secured the votes of conservatives who had rejected a simil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn honors student in Fort Worth, Texas, was sent to the principal’s office and punished for telling a classmate that he believes homosexuality is wrong. Holly Pope said she was “absolutely stunned” when s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBillionaire investor George Soros said he believed the United States was already experiencing the pain of a double dip recession and that Republican opposition to Obama's fiscal stimulus plans was to blame...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEurope's debt crisis risks escalating out of control as the world economy slides towards a double-dip slump with few shock absorbers left to limit the damage. Key indicators of credit stress have reached ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoScientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light -- a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature. The physicists say that neut...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDoctors at Moorfields Eye hospital in London have been given the go-ahead to carry out Europe's first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells. They will inject retinal cells into the eyes of 12 pat...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSeveral groups have planned protests ahead of Saturday's parliamentary elections in Bahrain. The elections are being held to replace 18 seats that were vacated by Al-Wefaq, the country's largest oppositio...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoCorporate media complicit in covering for rebel war crimes. by Tony Cartalucci Despite desperate attempts by Wall Street and London to proclaim their intervention in Libya a success, even going as far as ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoIn this week's Friday News Feedbag, I put James Williams' worries to rest about the crashing NASA satellite.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*Dene Nation To Participate In Ottawa Protests Against Keystone XL Pipeline* Press statement Posted at Censored News YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories -- The Dene Nation is supporting a day of civil diso...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 19 hours agoBig tip of the porkpie to Lorne over at Politics and its Discontents. There are times when the sheer inertia and toxic, paranoid self-pity at the core of dysfunctional cop culture makes you want to just gi...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 19 hours agoI was already preparing to go back to Zuccotti Square when our revolutionary email circle was alerted to an article in Gawker, with the above title, which referred to a facebook counter demonstration threa...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 19 hours agoCBC : Crime rates in Canada lowest level since 1973 "Canada's national crime rate has been on the decline for the past two decades and has reached its lowest level since 1973, according to Statistics Ca...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours agoFunkiest second line of the season: YMO Jr. 127th Anniversary Parade Sundae on Thursday ~suck the heads ~Hat Tweet @nolamaven Community Forum on Prison ~American Zombie BP backs out of negotiations with...
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- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*Connie & John aren't gay, but I bet a right wing mob would boo them anyway* Tomorrow afternoon, Michigan Democratic congressional candidate John Waltz is being formally endorsed by Blue America and he'll ...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 21 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 Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA gathering in Missouri is a showcase for classic cars converted to electric-powered vehicles.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe secrets of photosynthesis are unlocked to make new solar cells, storage devices or even engines.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoUsing layers of superconducting materials, the device could help both patients and terrorists.
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoOn a very special episode of... The Friday News Feedbag... Jorge returns from a trip to Florida where he got to meet Winter, the dolphin with the prosthetic tail! (oh, and Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours ago70% of Israelis Endorse UN Acceptance of Palestinian State By Richard Silverstein Published: September 23, 2011 The Truman Institute at the Hebrew University has done a poll of Israeli and Palestinian opi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:02:48 UTC Friday 23rd September 2011. The epicenter was 2811 km (1747 miles) Northeast o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:35:11 UTC Friday 23rd September 2011. The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 30-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating how packs of Nurofen Plus came to contain anti-psychotic and anti-epileptic drugs. The man, from Bromley in south London, was detained on suspic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFlood condition worsened in Orissa on Friday with four major rivers submerging around 600 villages in the state. Fresh flood in Brahmani, Baitarani, Budhabalang and Subarnarekha rivers following a heavy d...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoIs Facebook a social network or a sociology experiment? It feels like the site is trying to see how much abuse its users will tolerate: a lot, apparently.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNearly 200 tourists, including several Britons, have been airlifted from a centuries-old temple in Cambodia after an access road was cut off by flash floods. Three helicopters rescued the holidaymakers st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 140 people were displaced and 14 houses were damaged when rampaging floodwaters ravaged through informal settlers living along a riverbank here. In Maguindanao, 30,127 families were affected by t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtests are taking place in a Chinese city for a third day, after two days of reported rioting over a land sale. Officials said protesters in Lufeng city injured police officers and damaged government bu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands of students and teachers have marched in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in the latest mass protest to demand educational reform. The march was largely peaceful, but ended with clashes bet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen the dramatic becomes wearisomely familiar, maybe it is time to panic. With the IMF meeting in Washington we again have a parade of world leaders issuing dire warnings about the state of the economy. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe research, by Edinburgh and Cambridge universities, should help predict the appearance of new diseases. The scientists wanted to understand how viruses such as bird flu infect distant species like huma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPhiladelphia Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds says he has experienced racism throughout his life and hopes what happened during a shootout loss against the Detroit Red Wings Thursday night in London, Ont., was...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Grade 10 student in Surrey, B.C. has died from what health authorities say is most likely meningitis. The unnamed 15-year-old boy died last weekend. Clayton Heights Secondary School sent students home w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is due to submit his bid to the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state. He is expected to present a letter in the next few hours requesting admission to the UN shortly ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in China have detained a man on suspicion of imprisoning and raping six women in a basement for two years and of killing two of them. Reports said the man, 34-year-old firefighter Li Hao, had dug tw...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled. It is believed to be the first case of its kind in Ireland. West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShe's around 13 years old. She goes to school, loves to sing and dance, and between giggles, she says she dreams of being an actress one day. Puja hardly looks like a fighter but beneath her smiling face i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs if the European markets needed more bad news, Moody's Investors Service downgraded eight Greek banks on Friday. Moody's downgraded the long-term deposits and senior debt ratings of the banks by two not...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorld pressure against the Syrian regime intensified Friday with imposition of more international sanctions and a renewed call by a U.N. body to bring in the International Criminal Court. In Syria itself,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDon't post rumors -- or else. That was Sina.com's message to millions of micro-bloggers recently, when China's leading content portal warned it will penalize users if they find them spreading false rumors...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of anti-riot police were in the streets of Bangladesh's capital city Thursday as the opposition alliance launched a day-long general strike in protest of a fuel price hike. The strike, occurring...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 369 people have died and 700,000 are living in refugee camps because of flooding in southern Pakistan, the country's national disaster authority said Thursday. The flooding in Sindh province has ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn addition to a disastrous drought and political violence, Somalia is facing a potentially devastating health crisis. The World Health Organization's regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean said th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe hefty last meal ordered but not eaten by an executed Texas inmate brought a complaint from a state senator and the end Thursday to the practice of special menus. Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to a recent study by Stephane Deo and his collegues at UBS, the euro – as it is currently structured – should not exist. It is hard to disagree. The problem is that it does, and just like the leg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHuman devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand, send signals and perform work using ions or protons. Materials scie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Western powers on Thursday for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his address to the United Nations failed to mention Tehran's disputed nuclear program. The U.S. d...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe AP is reporting results from a group of Italian researchers using equipment from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that claims they've measured particles traveling at a speed greate...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo years after failing to get a government grant, an electric battery start-up gets big money to move far east. I once wrote that you shouldn't name an investment firm after its founding partners. Pretty...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIt's obvious that playing near a black hole can only end in tears. Now, a new study may have shed light on why many black holes are shrouded in a thick, choking doughnut of dust.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoOK folks, just to let you know that yours truly will be appearing on Sunday Morning Live (BBC network 10am). I will be debating with George Galloway amongst others on the subjects of Capital Punishment and...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoWe are losing everything, and the rich (especially the CEO's) are winning big (even the dreaded Washington Post reports this most salient fact and says in effect that this is cause for concern - whoopee!)....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIceland has seen a sudden burst in seismic activity in the past 2 hours, logging over 200 Earthquakes. One of the earthquakes was 4.0 Magnitude at 15:10:08 with a depth of 7.4 km this was followed by a 3...
- posted by Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 1 day agoA man walks into a very high-tech bar. As he sits down on a stool he notices that the bartender is a robot. The robot clicks to attention and asks, "Sir, what will you have?"The man thinks a moment then repl...
- posted by Raed Jarrar at Raed in the Middle - 1 day agoThe Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: We are writing to urge you to honor our nation’s commitm...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTomorrow we're going to be talking live at Crooks & Liars with John Waltz, the Michigan Democratic congressional candidate against corporate shill Fred Upton (#Fedupton on twitter). John is a vet who serv...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*First Nation Mercury Survivors Visit Japanese Mercury Experts* Press statement Posted by Censored News GRASSY NARROWS -- Three Indigenous peoples of Canada have just returned from speaking in three Japa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe eyes of the Middle East were on New York on Friday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to formally asked the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a state. Abbas was greeted with a long round ...
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