- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 minutes ago
*Why the hell not, huh?* Last year Democratic and left leaning independent voters disappointed with Obama and the congressional Democrats who followed his lame and pathetic agenda just didn't show up at t... - posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 24 minutes ago*"The Rat Race"* by Wikipedia "A rat race is for rats. We are not rats. We are human beings. Reject the insidious pressures of society that would blunt your critical faculties to all the happenings aro...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 50 minutes ago
[image: President Barack Obama in Tucson] Yes, he's the BBC North America editor, the man with his finger on the pulse of political events in the USA. I recall back in January when Mark Mardell brought us ... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 hour agoHave to laugh at the faux hysteria the BBC are trying to whip up in their endless jihad against the evil Murdoch empire! Have you see this? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour ago"You Asked Us to Believe." Music, lyrics, vocal, producer: Larry Piltz; arrangement, instruments, recording enginer: Lamar Pecorino; post-production graphics and duplication: Channel 3 Video.You Asked Us To ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Permission to Simply Be: Working through Transitions"* by The DailyOm "During the pause between achievements, many people begin to question what their life is about. The elation we feel when we have lea...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoCould a white dwarf's spin save it from supernova doom?
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- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power… What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For witho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:20 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) Southeast of False... - posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“US Or The War Machine“* by David Swanson “You may have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington this summer. Were you aware that in the midst of it the House of Representatives passed a mili...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“First ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a citizen of the United States of America understand today by the word 'liberty'. For each of them it is the right to be subjected on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Meet Babe, the pig who was born with not one but two snouts. And while it might sound like a joke, it's no laughing matter. The two-month-old - part of a litter born on a farm in Deshengtang, Jilin provin... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A 15-ton Minke whale calf has been successfully saved by rescuers after becoming beached in a shallow dock this morning. The 30ft mammal became beached in Immingham Docks, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire, afte... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A teenage judo star was jailed for eight months today after taking part in looting during last month's riots, court officials said. Anthony Lloyd, 17, was found by police with his pockets 'bulging' with s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The deaths of Colin McRae and three others in a helicopter crash were caused by the former world rallying champion's 'imprudent' flying, a sheriff has ruled. McRae, 39, his five-year-old son Johnny, the b... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago
As Atrios is fond of saying, "The stupid, it buuuurrrns!" You may or may not have heard of the current meme circulating around Wingnuttia and led by the waddling figure of Andrew Breitbart at its vanguar... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours ago
"Ron Paul is an unofficial member of the John Birch Society, which was founded by masons, funded by Nelson Rockefeller and run by Jesuit-trained Knights of Malta. "In other words, the JBS is a gatekeeper... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Three people were killed and six others were wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a Carson City, Nevada, IHOP restaurant, police said. Those six victims did include the shooter, who police said turned a gun o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:54:52 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) E... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoMillions of Italian trade union members are thought to be taking part in a day-long strike against the government's latest austerity measures. Flights have been cancelled, trains and buses are stationary, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSouth Korea is to buy precision-guided missiles from Israel to strengthen defences on islands vulnerable to attacks from North Korea, reports say. About 50 missiles would be deployed on two islands near th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoTwo Libyan convoys have passed through Niger this week, officials there said Tuesday -- fueling renewed speculation about the whereabouts of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. One convoy was on its w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA deadly hail of bullets struck Syrian refugees as they tried to flee across the border to Turkey on Monday, killing one man and wounding another, the Turkish government said Tuesday. "Yesterday there w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoJute, a vegetable fibre that can be spun into sackcloth, used to be the 'golden fibre' of Bangladesh. It brought much-needed foreign income to the impoverished nation. But it lost its lustre in the 1980s ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAt least 31 people were killed and more than 23 injured when government airstrikes hit a mosque and other buildings in downtown Jaar on Monday, a security official said. A senior security official in Jaar...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFirefighters southeast of Austin, Texas, battled strong winds Monday as they struggled to gain ground against a fast-moving wildfire that has so far scorched some 25,000 acres and destroyed close to 500 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAfter a summer fraught with uncertainty, investors in Europe returned this week from holiday to find the eurozone sovereign debt crisis may actually be getting worse. The European Union made a grand gestu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe offices of the Palestinian Ministry of Planning, in Ramallah's upscale al-Masyoun neighborhood, were all abuzz last week. The civil servants on staff were just finishing a much anticipated report due t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA cold economic freeze has taken control of the economies of the Caribbean countries as the recession has tightened its hold on the economies of Western Europe, the USA and North America. Several European ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFor fifty years Germany has invariably stumped up the money required to keep Europe’s Project on track, responding to unreasonable demands with grace and generosity. It bankrolled French farmers through t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoJosef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, has warned that "numerous" European lenders would collapse if they were forced to book their losses on stricken sovereign bond...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoMost holiday makers taking a stroll around a working harbour might expect to see the odd fish. But when David Copp came across a fishing trawler moored in Ilfracombe Harbour he took great offence and com...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund has called on the US and Europe to abandon fiscal austerity and switch to stimulus measures, warning that the global economy faces a "threatening downward spiral". Christin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAs the euro crisis has intensified, so the previously unthinkable has become the subject of widespread discussion. People have woken up to the idea that the euro could break up. But everywhere you hear th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoRussia on Saturday successfully tested its Topol strategic missile with a new warhead designed to breach missile shields, Russian news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry. "The experimental war...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFour years after the collapse of sub-prime mortgages turned a market that had been a matter of interest to just a couple of thousand highly paid traders and investors into the starting gun of a global fina...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoEmbedded in a New York Times story today on groups calling for scientists to take a more active role in public life is a statistic that caught our eye: When asked to name a scientist, 47 percent of America...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoEfforts to stabilize Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, crippled by a March tsunami which triggered a nuclear crisis, are running ahead of schedule, according to the president of the Tokyo Electric P...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThis capital city’s skies were clogged with pollution, as is often the case, and China’s government was concerned. So it summoned officials of the American Embassy here to a meeting. But the session had n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAt this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched - NASA's New Horizons - is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in flight longer than...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoRoboticists are looking to sting rays, sea turtles, and sharks for inspiration.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Ten Years After 9/11: * *Have We Become the Enemy of Freedom?"* By John W. Whitehead "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in o...
- posted by Barbara Loe Fisher at Vaccine Awakening - 3 hours ago*by Barbara Loe Fisher* Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear ri...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoThe traitor/liar Thomas Kean, Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, calls citizen-journalist Luke Rudkowski "a little bit nuts," after running away from a question. LOL! Thomas Kean Runs Away From 911 Cover Up...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours agoWhat does Kan know that would cause him to have these thoughts? Japan's former premier Naoto Kan feared Tokyo would be rendered uninhabitable by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, he said in an interview publi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe former MP who claimed for dry rot treatment on a home more than 100 miles from her constituency will be charged with fiddling her expenses by more than £60,000. Margaret Moran, the former MP for Luto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNine children have died of suspected encephalitis, an acute brain infection, in Bihar’s Gaya district during the last two weeks, a health official said Tuesday. The district health official said that in ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Texas's worst 6-12 month droughts through July 2011 (based on 100 years of data). Brent McRoberts and John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University via pewclimate.org] By Dan Huber 26 August 2011 ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoAlbuquerque Forest Service Protest, Protect the Peaks. Video by Krystal Curley, Dine'. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 65-year-old woman is set to appear in court for an alleged hate crime - after placing a golliwog in her window. Jena Mason had been embroiled in a long-running dispute with a neighbour and his wife, who...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 28.6 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:13:36 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) ESE of Kira Kira,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 13:10:17 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 513 km (318 miles) Northea...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*Cecil Bothwell, the real thing* On Labor Day Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell, the progressive Democrat taking on reactionary Blue Dog Heath Shuler in western North Carolina, issued a challenge t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Large slumps of coastal land are caused by the thawing and erosion of ice-rich permafrost. As a result, large quantities of sediment are introduced into the coastal ecosystem, which alters the fo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago*The 9/11 Brand Is Losing Its Grip On The Collective Mind* *Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 6, 2011* "We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand." - Tom Peters "From a marketing point of view, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*And it is lunchtime here.* "Clawing back to lobster dominance; Maine takes on Canadians in processing catch" September 04, 2011|By Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff ROCKLAND, Maine - Lobster is as connected ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*They didn't call me.* "Brown’s support high, but slipping; Poll also finds majority favor more gambling" September 04, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff Senator Scott *Brown remains the most popular* maj...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoGlobalist organization ponders whether Al Qaeda has "snookered" NATO. by Tony Cartalucci First, a Conflict of Interest The Atlantic Council claims to be a "preeminent, non partisan institution devoted t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Flooding in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy, 1 November 2004. By Gwenael Piaser / flickr] By Evan V. Symon 6 September 2011 If you turn on the news and hear that some city is being devastated b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Divided Congress returns to work amid dismal public approval" September 04, 2011|By David Espo, Associated Press WASHINGTON - After a five-week break, Republican and Democratic leaders alike promise acti...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*What's with the flood of **sports stories** on the **front page** lately? * "For ticket resellers and fans, the game may be changing" by Shira Springer, Globe Staff / September 6, 2011 Newlyweds Michael ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"*Job cuts have accelerated* as recent data showed the *economy slowed more than previously reported *in the first half of the year.... *Meaning you have been lied to once again, readers. * --more--" *R...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 5 hours ago*Alt-Market.com* Brandon Smith Is freedom a place, or an idea? A state of society, or a state of mind? Does it begin around us, or within us? In today’s world of the all-you-can-eat sensory buffet, whe...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoFEMA's app helps users prepare for imminent natural disasters, with or without service.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*They are no different than anybody else. * "Under Obama, few gains for labor; Leaders evaluate political alliance" September 05, 2011|By Sam Hananel, Associated Press WASHINGTON - In the *early days of t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoOn Wednesday, August 24th, I wrote the following blog entry: John Cook will receive lots of money for climate propaganda In that text, I claimed that a hardcore crackpot and one of the numerous redundan...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: A boat is stranded and coated with salt deposits, as the rapidly drying Lake Orumiyeh recedes, October 2008. Navid Jadidoleslam / ISNA] Tehran, Sept 5, 2011 (AFP) – The drying up of Iran's larges...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"The scene at yesterday’s rally was gleeful boosterism as the former Alaska governor took to the stage. Many in the crowd shouted encouragement to Palin, and while *there were more signs for Ron Paul* than...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*Literally*: "Tropical Storm Lee dumped *more than a foot of rain* in New Orleans and *spun off tornadoes* elsewhere yesterday as its center came ashore in a slow crawl north that raised fears of inland f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Smoke billows from a wildfire in Bastrop County, Texas, on Sunday, 5 September 2011. Wendy Moore / CNN] By Dave Montgomery, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, with contributions from Anna Tinsley and Ale...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThis is the first aftermarket receiver to integrate the Pandora app on all three major smart phone platforms.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoA concept that integrates solar panels with OLED screens yields a dazzling array of functions.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*Will likely be my last in the series.* "Budgets cut, teachers dig deeper for supplies" September 05, 2011|By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff ROCKLAND - Public school *teachers paying for classroom supplies* i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Two boys look to the camera in Madang Province, northern Papua New Guinea (PNG). © David Swanson / IRIN] BANGKOK, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) – Aid workers say more than 6,000 people on a remote clu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Mercury spill affects 30 preschoolers" September 03, 2011|Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a show-and-tell item got broken at an * Ohio day care* and *spilled mercury*, leading to *...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 7 hours agoVinyl Chloride Plaquemine, Louisiana has a vinyl chlorideproblem and recently a judge ordered Dow Chemical Company to clean it up. Dowclaims it isn't responsible and has been working with the state and fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAnthony Lloyd,17 a Olympic Hopeful Sentenced to EIGHT MONTHS in a young offenders Institute over RIOTS - more to follow
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 8 hours agoLevee Safety Data and methods used to calculate Corps of Engineers’ LSAC ratings should be released ~Levees.org ~Surely the nation will fare much better if objective prioritization replaces the current pra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPhase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. The 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico,...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoIt just became official. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, one of working family's most stalwart and consistent champions in the House, has entered the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin. Blue Am...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA lost Da Vinci fresco may lie inside a 14th-century wall, and only a special camera, yet to be built, can see it.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*AFTER 11 hours, police storm the Parramatta building and release the 12-year-old girl held by a man at the centre of the Parramatta bomb hostage drama. * Police stormed into the building shortly after 8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:51:33 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 525 km (326 miles) Northeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCalifornia Fire officials said that an approximately 18-foot-long shark was sighted in the waters off Cambria on Sunday afternoon. Officials after the shark sighting have issued warning signs to beachgoers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbout 600 dead fish have been pulled from a lake in Arlington Heights, officials said. Dead gizzards had first started turning up along the shores of Lake Arlington two weeks ago. The Arlington Heights...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoFor the most part, every day, the part of the Bill Press show I listen to is the biggest damn waste of my time every day - but my only other choice is right wing radio. This morning - he was at one of the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoIf you want to see how any object in the Solar System looks like from the viewpoint of any probe NASA sent, is sending, or will send in the space, see this 3-minute introduction to a new NASA app. Attra...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 9 hours ago. The Independent's parliamentary commentator Simon Carr, reporting on David Cameron's demeanor in the House of Commons yesterday, said that; ".....No wonder David Cameron was so cheerful, his first wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwenty-seven students of a primary school in Hebei Province were receiving medical treatment Tuesday after a suspected food poisoning incident, local authorities said. Fifteen children were being treated ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFire crews have managed to safely secure a radioactive load at the site of a truck crash, north-east of Perth. A truck carrying the load collided with another truck at the intersection of the Brand and Gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo people are dead in Mexico City after at least two property boundary walls collapsed following days of heavy rains. Mexico City's civil defense secretary says both walls were improperly built. Elias Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:49 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) ENE of Far...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia early Tuesday, killing a boy and sending panicked residents fleeing from homes, hotels and even a hospital. The magnitude-6.6 quake hit about 1 a.m. (1800 G...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoYou all know how I feel about advertising. Usually it's not the ads themselves that drive me nuts, but their massive proliferation: that everything in our field of vision and seemingly every moment of our ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJailed Amanda Knox's father pledged he was 'here to take her home' as her appeal against her murder conviction entered the final stages. Curt Knox jetted in from the United States for the hearing which res...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe number of people shot over Labor Day weekend in New York has risen to 43, after violence married the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. The latest shooting, just a few blocks off the route wher...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoParents of children at an elementary school in Colorado are furious after the American flag was lowered at the multi-cultural school and replaced with a Saudi Arabian flag. As the tenth anniversary of 9/1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHundreds of families have been left homeless after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through Central Texas. Almost 500 homes were destroyed, and 5,000 residents evacuated, as the flames spread yesterday to cov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA notable child psychologist is being held without bail amid accusations he tried to rape a 10-year-old boy. Dr David Scratchley, Clinical Director of the Matt Talbot Center in Belltown, Washington, was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLarge armoured trucks with soldiers loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border with Niger in a convoy which could have been carrying the toppled leader. The line of more than a dozen pick-up ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe death toll from Talas, which swept across western Japan, has risen to 38, local authorities said Tuesday morning. Another 54 people are missing, according to a tally of casualties compiled from vario...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTwo Russian pilots aboard a MiG-31 fighter jet were killed when it crashed Tuesday, state media said. The plane crashed minutes after take off from a military airport in the Perm region, the state-owned ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSome families of 9/11 victims say they are confused, anxious and surprised as the 10th anniversary approaches because they have not received invitations to the Sunday ceremony opening the ground zero memor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least 31 people were killed and more than 23 injured when a government airstrike hit a mosque in downtown Jaar on Monday, a security official said. A senior security official in Jaar confirmed the air ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoThe consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt weighs one ton and is believed responsible for eating at least one fisherman, but this monster crocodile has finally been caught by 100 very cautious men. Measuring 21ft, the massive creature is the la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoScientists have long been puzzled by the difference in topography between different sides of the moon, with the near side being flat and the far side much more mountainous. Now astronomers believe that th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA leading pathologist has questioned an autopsy report that concluded that Rebecca Zahau, the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai’s mansion, had committed suicide. Dr Cyril Wecht, who has co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFor most gun loving Americans, the election of President Obama brought fears of a clamp down on their hobby. But shockingly, new statistics show the President may just be the best thing to happen to the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIncredible video footage shows the moment a tornado struck the New York State Thruway last night. A woman who had stopped in her car during a storm, films the raging winds gathering pace until, about six ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA mother who starved her one-year-old son to death on the orders of a cult leader after he did not say 'amen' before a meal has said she was paralysed by fear and was 'crazy'. Speaking for the first time,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA pilot was communicating by radio with her boyfriend before their planes collided in mid air over Alaska last week, killing him, a federal investigator said. The two pilots took off from different wester...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 17-year-old college student's legs were severed at the knees after she fell while attempting to jump on a moving train on Monday. Authorities said the Colorado State University student was 'train hopping...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis is the first picture of newlyweds Ensar Gol and his British bride Michala who he is accused of murdering at their home in Oxfordshire. Gol is also charged with killing his 50-year-old mother-in-law J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe thug who became the first winner on Simon Cowell’s high-profile new ITV game show could lose his £1million prize money after it emerged he lied about his criminal past. Nathan Hageman, who won the fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 34.2 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:38 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) Southeast of Fals...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBritain's leading companies shed nearly £50billion of their value yesterday as financial markets were hit by fresh turmoil. The FTSE 100 index fell 189.45 points to 5102.58 in London, a drop of 3.6 per c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMortgages that cover the entire cost of a home return this week. Three years after being scrapped in the credit crunch, a bank is bringing back the super-size loans that allow first-time buyers to get on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoImage: Julia High fell victim to squatters when she went on holiday, returning to find a family of gypsies in her home in Leytonstone, east London, who invited her in for a glass of her own win. Squatters...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAnti-Gaddafi fighters plan to enter the desert town of Bani Walid without fighting after reaching a deal with its delegates, reports say. Al Jazeera television reports that the forces are to enter the pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:07:35 UTC Tuesday 6th September 2011. The epicenter was 496 km (308 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*UPDATE:4:41PM: POLICE are trying to establish the identity and motives of a man who has barricaded himself in an office in Parramatta with a device in a bag. * Assistant Commissioner Dennis Clifford sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 97 km (60.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:36 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) Northwest of Saumlak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 526.1 km (326.9 miles), the quake hit at 2233:18 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 434 km (269 miles) SSW of Ndo...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago*Lucio Mascarenhas, from Goa, was quoted by Breivik. David Headley has many connections to Goa. Goa has many Israelis. * Goa may link Anders Breivik and David Headley. Anders Breivik reportedly wrote that ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoIn May 2011, TRF readers were reminded about the ongoing full-fledged war of existence of the dark matter: CoGeNT sees seasons (and maybe dark matter) Recall that there are two opposing camps of experim...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours ago*The New York Times* think that the eurozone is moving towards a counterpart of the U.S.: Reluctantly, Europe Inches Closer to a Fiscal Union No doubt, the current "neither fish nor fowl" arrangement of t...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago[image: US first, create jobs] President Barack Obama used a boisterous Labor Day gathering to put congressional Republicans on the spot, challenging them to place the country's interests higher than all ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Libyan rebel leader tortured after Britain and America turned him over to Gaddafi’s henchmen could win £1million compensation from UK taxpayers. Abdel Hakim Belhadj – now working with Nato to hunt down...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago<p><a href="http://video.dailytelegraph.com.au/2118529193/RAW-VISION-Sydney-bomb-scare">VIDEO: RAW VISION: Sydney...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 17 hours agoRELIGION - Have you seen this guy? It's Pope Benedict XVI. Formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger, the same guy who allowed sexually abused deaf children to continue being abused and even made efforts to c...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 17 hours ago*#MMFlintOccupyWallStreet* *Ask @MMFlint (Michael Moore) to join us #Sep17 and #OccupyWallStreet with us.*
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*Phil Silvers (Hubie) and Nancy Walker (Kay)* *Do Re Mi: Act I, "Take a job"* Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Music by Jule Styne *Phil Silvers (vocal), Hubie; Nancy Walker (vocal), Kay; orchestra ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours agoNearly one decade on from that day when an organised gang of barbarians hijacked civilian airliners and flew themselves and scores of innocents into two of the world’s most famous symbols of capitalism, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA fire caused by a plane crash threatened 800 homes or structures in Tehachapi, California, on Monday, with nearly 5,000 acres ablaze in rugged terrain, according to state and local officials. The fire st...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago"A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. The central ring is about one light-year across, bu...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago“If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend.” - Heraclitus
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The WOW Signal"* by CBC ․ “On August 15, 1977, a radio telescope at Ohio State University pointed skyward picked up an unusual signal. The telescope was searching the radio wave spectrum as part of the...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Natural Religion”* by Chet Raymo “It was his shattering experiences in the First World War that led Henry Beston to seek the solitary repose of a tiny cabin on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. His off-...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours agoTropical Storm Lee stirs frustration with Corps levee plans in Plaquemines and Jean Lafitte~Mark Schleifstein ~"When it was authorized by Congress to be taken into the federal system (of levees), it was su...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*The famously (and deliberately) enigmatic final scene of The Sopranos, as the Soprano family arrives one by one -- or nearly, since Meadow doesn't quite make it inside -- at the agreed-upon dinner site, ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 20 hours agoImage from Gunaxin.Goodbye to all that:Reflections of a GOP operative Who left the cultBy Mike Lofgren / Truthout / September 5, 2011Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"Fred MacMurray: "Yeah -- only you're...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSwedish retail giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as “slave labour” to make furniture, secret police files unearthed by a German broadcaster appear to show. Ikea developed strong links wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoForty-nine billion pounds was wiped off the value of the UK's leading shares on Monday following renewed fears over the health of the British economy and concerns over the fate of British banks being sued ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA pick-up game of soccer for policemen in the eastern Turkish town of Tunceli turned deadly Sunday night when suspected Kurdish militants opened fire on players and spectators. A police officer and his wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAbout 1,000 chanting pro-independence activists took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, accusing Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou of surrendering the island's sovereignty to China. The rally, which comes fo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe job market is even worse than the 9.1 percent unemployment rate suggests. America's 14 million unemployed aren't competing just with each other. They must also contend with 8.8 million other people no...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSpecial forces are involved in this silent and deadly form of 21st century warfare, their commander confirms to Rafael Epstein. Australia's special forces commander has defended his troops' use of US dron...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA male teen allegedly gunned down eight people at a house party in New York City early on Sunday morning, evaded police capture and remains at large, according to New York City police officials. Dasilva O...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Il expressed distrust of his country's major economic prop China during a 2009 meeting with a visiting South Korean businesswoman, according to a US diplomatic cable. The cabl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoChances are, a lot of you are winding down your holiday weekend and getting ready for a road trip back home. Adam May reports AAA says that drive might be quicker than last year but it will cost you mor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoVillagers and veteran hunters have captured a one-ton saltwater crocodile which they plan to make the star of a planned ecotourism park in a southern Philippine town, an official said Monday. Mayor Edwin ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe United States must keep fighting the Taliban or risk more attacks like those of September 11, 2001, because the insurgent group is a ruthless enemy that has not cut ties to al Qaeda, the U.S. ambassado...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFormer German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Sunday called for the creation of a "United States of Europe," saying the bloc needed a common government to avoid future economic crises. Schroeder, a Social...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTen years after the Sept. 11 attacks, ex-city worker Natarajan Venkataram says he’s sorry he stole millions of dollars meant for identifying the remains of trade center victims. He’s just not sorry enough...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEconomy Minister Giulio Tremonti promised on Sunday to meet Italy's budget commitments after the European Central Bank stepped up pressure for action by the struggling center-right government. Tremonti, u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFor the Arizona Department of Corrections, crime has finally started to pay. New legislation allows the department to impose a $25 fee on adults who wish to visit inmates at any of the 15 prison complexes ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn one of the bloodiest weekends in recent city history, 31 people were brutally shot in roughly 48 hours this weekend -- including three kids at a house party-turned-shooting gallery in The Bronx. 25 peo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPolice officials said they helped Apple investigators, who searched a man's home here recently. They were reportedly looking for a prototype of the next iPhone that an Apple employee left in a bar in San ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe percentage of working-age Californians with jobs has fallen to a record low, and employment may not return to pre-recession levels until the second half of the decade, according to a research group. J...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn a summer where brush fires have become a near-daily occurrence, firefighting officials said the multiple wildfires that raged across Central Texas on Sunday were the worst the region has seen all year. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEarlier this year, President Obama went on one of his gloating tours, touting the wisdom of his nationalization of General Motors and Chrysler. Theirs was a corrupt bankruptcy that strongly rewarded the UA...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago193,000 jobs. That's what we could have created, at minimum, for the money that war contractors wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that “as $60 billion in U.S. fund...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWith the American economy years away from returning to pre-recession employment levels, Friday's news that the country failed to add any jobs at all in August is cause for concern, to put it lightly. Some ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTo judge by the level of Treasury yields, the outlook for the U.S. economy has never been so bad. At 0.2% and 0.9%, respectively, 2- and 5-yr Treasury yields are lower today than they have been at any time...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoResearchers have created the smallest electric motor ever devised. The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a metre across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology. The minuscule motor coul...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 21 hours ago*They are scared of us!!!* *#Sep17 - #OccupyWallStreet* The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today issued a somewhat unusual bulletin warning the security community about the planned activities of hac...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours agoOWE AKU BRING BACK THE WAY PARTICIPATES IN RESISTANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE By Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way Photo by Josh Lopez WASHINGTON (September 3, 20011) -- Debra White Plume from Owe Aku (Bring B...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours agoDouglas, Isle of Man. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Gandhi On Ending Injustice"* By Carl Herman "US injustice in major policies will end when enough Americans speak the truth. The injustice is literal: US government policies with war and economics are i...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 22 hours agoParticipating in the Tar Sands Action was a decision I made with much ambivalence. I was not sure it would produce any results commensurate with the risk of arrest and expenses for travel; I objected to t...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 23 hours ago*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of good hard sense from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, how to stop MPs and immigrants from gouging NZ taxpayers.* - *NZ HERAL...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself." - James Baldwin
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMagnitude*5.0* Date-Time - *Monday, September 05, 2011 at 20:32:41 UTC* - Monday, September 05, 2011 at 06:32:41 PM at epicenter Location56.014°S, 27.365°W Depth81.7 km (50.8 miles) RegionSOUTH ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMagnitude*5.1* Date-Time - *Monday, September 05, 2011 at 19:49:15 UTC* - Tuesday, September 06, 2011 at 05:49:15 AM at epicenter - Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location36.602°N, 14...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Restorative Slumber: The Importance of Napping"* by The DailyOm "The desire for a short nap during the day does not arise out of laziness, rather the need for the body to rejuvenate. In the modern world...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied w...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI hope you had the time and concentration to read today's second post (long but *lots* of pictures). Originally, this one was supposed to be part of it. Then I realized it was already way too long and int...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFanned by dry winds and fueled by severe drought, the Texan wildfires are now considered a "major natural disaster."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThousands of people have already died, half of them children, as a sixth Somali region succumbs to famine conditions.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoHere’s your update on tonight’s meeting at the UoA Economics Group: Tonight at the UoA Economics Group, we’ll be looking at a lecture provocatively titled ‘Why Your Grandfather’s Economics Was Better Tha...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI am amazed by the whole world around me. I am amazed by people who are able to keep moving through adversity. I made this simple necklace for a dear friend of mine who I thought could use a boost from the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*This first bit will make you sick if the radiation doesn't*: "Japan’s *confluence of crises* can be *turned into an opportunity to set “a national agenda’’* that can get widespread public support, said Ki...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Sri Lanka to end emergency laws" August 26, 2011|Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s president unveiled plans yesterday to* lift wartime emergency laws* that have curbed civil and political ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Maoist picked as Nepal’s prime minister" August 29, 2011|New York Times KATMANDU, Nepal - The deeply fractured Parliament of Nepal elected a *Maoist as the country’s new prime minister *yesterday, after w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 14 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:02 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 14 km (9.7 miles) Southeast of Ravar, Iran No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come clean Monday, as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches. Thomas Hammarberg said Poland...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoSource - Cornell University: Rawlings, now a professor of classics, stressed the importance of being a "close reader."
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIt's pretty sad when the Muslim Brotherhood's Ikhwanweb is more informative and balanced than the BBC. Compare and contrast: Fire and graffiti attack on Palestinian mosque in Kasra with Settlers torch...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThis one's by Iowa rockers Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear. Adam from Traveling Light did the YouTube clip. I would have liked to have seen them up on stage in Detroit today with Aretha, Hilda Solis and Ob...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoAired September 14, 2001 Early Show Video compliments of *IranContraScumDid911* You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story TvNewswLiews Monday, Sep 05th ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Muslims did not destroy Detroit! Nor did black people though bigots are posting pictures of the 'ruins' amid claims that Detroit is the 'victim' of a multi-racial ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA three-year-old boy was rescued from a 50cm-wide, three-metre deep well after he had become trapped. The unnamed youngster had accidentally fallen into the dry well after playing with his mother in a str...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSocial media 'personality' and father of six Trey Pennington has died after an apparent suicide, it emerged today. Pennignton, from Greenville South Carolina, was known in the on-line community for his s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew York has joined three other major U.S. cities in installing 'non-intrusive' body scanners in one its airports. The machines are being installed around the country in a bid to avoid passenger protests ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Never Despair"* by Sam Smith "Empires and cultures are not permanent and while thinking about the possibility that ours is collapsing may seem a dismal exercise it is far less so than enduring the frus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 52.3 km (32.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:55:09 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (81 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStock markets have continued the slide they began late last week as fears over Italian and Spanish debts have reasserted themselves. European markets dropped 5% in Monday trading, led by more big falls in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNeurosurgeon Robert Cantu and his team at Boston University study the brains of deceased athletes. They have already examined the brains of Reggie Fleming, an enforcer in the '60s, and Bob Probert, an enfo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSuicides in South Korea have more than doubled in 10 years, according to new figures from the government. South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and pressure has been growing for th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMale fiddler crabs use their giant claws to keep cool as well as attract females, say scientists. The crabs' oversized limbs are waved to signal strength to potential mates. US researchers discovered that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOil prices have fallen on concerns that the US could fall back into recession, and continuing anxiety about eurozone debt levels. With fears about a slowdown in China also hitting sentiment, US light crude...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bacterium found in soil is a showing promise as a way of delivering cancer drugs into tumours. Spores of the Clostridium sporogenes bacterium can grow within tumours because there is no oxygen. UK and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state sent an empty private jet to get a pair of sandals from Mumbai, leaked US diplomatic cables say. Ms Mayawati, an icon to millions of low-caste Dalits, rule...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRebel reinforcements arrived outside one of Moammar Gadhafi's last strongholds in Libya on Monday, even as the forces arrayed against the toppled dictator gave the town a chance to surrender and avoid a fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least one leading oil tanker operator is likely to follow collapsed smaller operators into insolvency, senior figures in the industry believe, as the sector is swamped by oversupply. The executives wer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe new nation of South Sudan plans to relocate its capital from the bustling main city of Juba to a smaller town in the north. Moving the capital to the town of Ramciel will provide more room for expansi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRescuers and search parties scoured central Japan on Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 26, adding more misery to a nation still reeling from its c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe urged countries that have hosted secret CIA prisons to come clean Monday, as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. Thomas Hammarberg said Poland...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA record 4 million people in Somalia need humanitarian aid and 750,000 people are in danger of "imminent starvation," the United Nations said on Monday. Famine in the African nation has spread to the Bay ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 400,000 people have taken to the streets of Israel's biggest cities to show their anger about rising house prices and other economic issues. The demonstration on Saturday 3, 2011, was the large...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA doctor at a Tripoli hospital has told Sky News she believes as many as 30,000 men are missing after Libya's six month revolution. Dr Aman Said Hamad said she feared they might never be traced - believin...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs platinum now a better bet for investors than gold? Many seem to think so. Gold prices have soared by 32pc this year, as investors sought a safe haven from the global debt crisis. However, some argue t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter Japan’s Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed zero health risks in this cou...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAnother depth plumbed by BBC science reporting. A warmist fanatic - in this case Alun Hubbard, a glaciologist whose self-declared mission is to confirm his fanaticism - has now only to say that he's "gob-s...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoPolitical cartoon by Igor Smirnov / toonpool To the blathering pols this Labor Day: No more lies and excuses! By David Van Os / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2011 This weekend a multitude of elected and woul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teacher killed his partner in a 'protracted and brutal attack' before putting her body in a suitcase and then going to pick up his lover, a jury heard today. Andrew Lindo, 28, was an 'inveterate and ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA coachload of English Defence League supporters were attacked by around 100 Asian youths with missiles when their bus broke down in Tower Hamlets, East London, on its return from a violent rally. The yel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of48.9 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:47:40 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 115 km (72 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 23.8 km (14.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:20 UTC Monday 5th September 2011. The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) South of David, Panam...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Ever notice the "terrorists" are always where the OIL IS? * "Car bombing in Nigeria kills 18 at UN base; Rising Islamist group claims responsibility" August 27, 2011|By Adam Nossiter and Senan Murray, New...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoWhat did you learn in school today? Dubya and Perry read to school children. Image from Addicting Info.If you liked George W., you’ll love Rick PerryBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2011For ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Who'da thunk! An Ohio Republican governor!* You would certainly not know it from the laughable Sunday Inside-the-Beltway corporate media gabfests, but this weekend's most talked about political story was...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I can't remember the last time** I saw an article regarding the Ivory Coast.* *It REALLY IS an AGENDA-PUSHING MEDIA, isn't it?* "UN troops traded food for sex, cable says" September 02, 2011|Associated ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Hundreds of acres of corn were destroyed by the drought on this farm in Round Rock, Texas on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Jay Janner / statesman.com] By BRIAN M. CARNEY 3 SEPTEMBER 2011 As befits th...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLabor Day weekend in New York was marred by 24 shootings in 24 hours, bringing fears the city was returning to its violent past. The shootings - which left one dead - erupted from 6 am Saturday to 6 am S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFive members of a gang who stripped a 16-year-old girl in a park then posted the pictures on Facebook have been jailed for a total of 18 and a half years. The nude photographs were taken by Victoria Beckf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA teenager unwittingly stabbed his father to death when he went to the aid of his uncle as he was attacked. The 17-year-old boy ran to defend his uncle when an attacker arrived at his home in Edgewood, Wa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Now that the U.N. is in the country and their A.U. arm has driven out the "terrorists."* "A HUNGER-DRIVEN EXODUS -- Somali families afflicted by famine arrived at a camp for displaced persons in southern...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Seems that color of skin doesn't matter; it's all in the structure of the institutions no matter what government you live under:* "Protests underscore S. Africa divisions" Associated Press / August 31, 20...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Drought Monitor animation 14 June 2011 - 30 August 2011] By Eric Luebehusen, U.S. Department of Agriculture 31 August 2011 *Southern Plains:* The beat goes on across the southern Plains. In Texa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*September 2, 2011 at 18:45:34* Promoted to Headline (H3) on 9/2/11: *Permalink* *Labor's Demise As A Countervailing Power* *By paul craig roberts (about the author)* It is Labor Day weekend, 201...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain's special representative to Libya is moving to Tripoli on Monday to re-establish the country's full diplomatic presence in the Libyan capital, Prime Minister David Cameron said. "Today the UK's S...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago*Don't you see the emails leaks by Anonymous from Texas Police Chiefs?* * * *-----Original Message-----* *From: Robert Wieners ** Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:34:12 To:rbw828@sbcglobal.net Subject: Stupid Bitc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGraffiti artist Banksy has demanded a top-level investigation at Channel 4 after he claimed a documentary suggests he left a rival in a coma in a row about his work. He has been involved in a tit-for-tat...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoLots of Garland chatter in the area blogs --or-- Heebe’s whores: The Garland Robinette connection to the Jefferson Parish Political Corruption Scandal revealed.~Slabbed Labor Day Links~Library Chronicles ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I never even opened it. * "Cheney discussed the secret letter in an interview with NBC News to promote the release of his memoir, which will be released next week.... --more--" "Cheney is unapologetic i...
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