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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:26:01 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 75 km ( 46.6 miles) Northeast of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:03:04 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 890 km ( 553 miles) Southwest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:52:20 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 901 km ( 559 miles) Southwe...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 26 minutes ago*CRIMES AGAINST FIRST NATION CHILDREN IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS* Mohawk Bill Squire, Wolf Clan, Grand River, speaks on genocide and colonization. "Genocide is still being inflicted upon us." Efforts are un...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 39 minutes ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:02:12 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 890 km ( 553 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 118.9 km (73.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:47 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 53 km ( 32 miles) Southw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Apure, Venezuela at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:20:50 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 66 km ( 41 miles) Southeast of San Cristo...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 59 minutes ago"In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three billion Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more... only one of each ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Does spiral galaxy NGC 2683 have a bar across its center? Being so nearly like our own barred Milky Way Galaxy, one might guess it has. Being so nearly edge-on, however, it is hard to tell. Either way, th...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoThis is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. “I am honored to be with you today at your commencement...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"...the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and co...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that y...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoTexas State. Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) on Rag Radio at the KOOP studios in Austin, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Photos by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Progressive Texas legislator Elliott Naishtat on Rag Radi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agoNew York police officer maces, beats with baton, peaceful protesters and Fox News crew: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005#.To0cU53eLtQ.twitter *LIVESTR...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAfter a long battle with cancer, the visionary co-founder of Apple has died at the age of 56.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: 'Bergie Seltzer'. Melting water streams from iceberg calved from Ilulissat Kangerlua Glacier in Disko Bay, Greenland. When an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound called "Bergie Seltzer." This...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSteve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago* The logo was created and donated to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) by Keith Haring. * *by Ken* Mark Nelson, the founder and president of Mark Nelson Events, which describes itself as "a promotions, publ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Mushtaq, three, lives in Gharo, in Sindh province, Pakistan. He is the youngest of five siblings and his father works as a farmhand and manual labourer. Two weeks ago, massive downpours destroyed...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours agoSteve Jobs has died. In his honour, I've reposted what I said about him just a few weeks ago. [image: SORKIN-tmagSF]Genius has often been described as the ability to enter an existing field and, by your ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoSex in space might be a headline grabber, but should humans venture into the space between the stars, having sex will be the least of our concerns.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Apple's Steve Jobs Is Dead" * By Yukari Iwatani Kane "Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal computer industry and changed the way people think about technolo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSyrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported. In a meeting with Turkish Foreig...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTurkish lawmakers Wednesday voted to extend authorization for the Turkish military to carry out cross border attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. The vote authorizes cross-border military oper...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe death toll from months of devastating floods in Thailand has risen to 237, authorities said Wednesday. More rain could hit the waterlogged nation in the next few days when the remnants of what is now ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA suspected teenage burglar whose shorts fell down as he fled after being confronted last night on a Florida street was later arrested after a witness was able to identify him by his boxer shorts, police r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Delaware mother, along with a Philadelphia man, are facing charges after investigators allege the two agreed to the sale and purchase of the woman’s newborn son. “I didn’t want to give my baby away,” ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo terrified divers were left stranded in shark-infested waters when their charter boat disappeared. Paul Kline and Fernando Garcia Puerta had to cling to a buoy for two hours after surfacing from their ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAlready weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills. From Alaska to Georgia and W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSesame Street has a new muppet who is hungry for more than just cookies. The iconic kids show is set to unveil a new impoverished puppet named Lily, whose family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issue...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoKeith Olbermann, host of "Countdown" on Current TV: "Figuratively, where does it (Occupy Wall Street) go from here, do you think? Based upon your experience and what you've seen in your three trips down th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoItaly's sovereign debt rating has been cut for the second time in as many weeks, with ratings agency Moody's citing "sustained and non-cyclical erosion of confidence" as it slashed its forecast for the cou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA cold weather front took aim at Northern California Tuesday, packing a potent punch with as much as 10 inches of snow for the Sierra peaks, the earliest return of winter conditions to Tahoe since 1969, ac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoStress has become the most common reason for a worker being signed off long-term sick, a report reveals today. Experts said the psychological condition had become so widespread that it was the ‘21st centu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoEurope's collective space agency is planning an ambitious space mission that would send a satellite nearly three-quarters of the way to the Sun. The Solar Orbiter, which would launch in 2017, would operate...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoirst lady Michelle Obama's family trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch, a taxpaye...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoU.S. employers announced the most job cuts in more than two years in September, led by planned reductions at Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and in the military. Announced firings jumped 212 percent, the larg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoService sector activity growth slowed in September, but other data on Wednesday showed private employment up modestly for the month, suggesting that overall the economic recovery is sluggish. Service sect...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 hours agoWhile in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators yesterday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 5 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Katherine Jenkins - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 5 hours agoby Kurt Haskell Yesterday, I went to the first day of jury selection in the underwear bomber case. I was the only passenger from the flight present. Lori could not attend as she had a hearing in Mt. Cleme...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoSpartanburg, South Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 hours agoIf you're Michelle Malkin and your erstwhile employer and enabler Fox "News"publicly lambastes you for claiming the 99% was "99 percent non-diverse" and mostly white, you know you've made a boo boo. Malkin...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Little Ice Age Shrank Europeans, Sparked Wars"* by Brian Handwerk “Pockmarked with wars, inflation, famines and shrinking humans, the 1600s in Europe came to be called the General Crisis. But whereas his...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours ago
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion t...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoFor all the kerfuffle about the changing of the laws recently controlling over the police's powers of surveillance (about which I've commented here) a front page story in the Herald this morning reveals so...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Is Hang a Banker Day Coming to a Theater Near You?"* - Les Visible “Dog Poet Transmitting... May your noses always be cold and wet. Watch it happen in front of your eyes. The Occupy Wall Street phenom ...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoMaking a curve ball curve and a slider slide takes a steady mind and body and a complex set of biomechanics.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoYou may have noticed over the past week that a number of Blue America candidates have been speaking out in support of the OccupyWallStreet movement, each of whom finds it inspiring and a necessary part of...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 7 hours agoThis one is so funny that I have to laugh. I got into a discussion with someone about the location of the debris field as described by Bill Brazel. I was told that I had the wrong location. How can this b...
- *Too much time has gone lost* to solve a financial crisis that started long before 2008. Too much time has been lost for groups in our society that wish to improve their lives a different way, but still ne...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours agotypography canvas by tenderbeasts on etsy *See my previous favorite things... thing #1 - dafont | thing #2 - firegestures | thing #3 - babycenter | thing #4 - allrecipes | thing #5 - w3schools | things #6...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Where You Need to Be: Timing Can Be Everything"* by The DailyOm "Every person fulfills their purpose when the time is right. Since human timetables quite often do not correspond with universal timetable...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUPDATE: Protestors in Los Angeles and New York are calling for supplies and labour reinforcements. If you are able to offer towels, non-meat foods or tents, please keep the supply chain going. Details fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoScientists have, for the first time, found water like that found in the Earth's oceans on a comet. The new evidence strongly suggests that a significant portion of the Earth's seawater arrived as a resul...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"The Social Contract"* By Paul Krugman "This week President Obama said the obvious: that wealthy Americans, many of whom pay remarkably little in taxes, should bear part of the cost of reducing the long...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"OWS: Want To Turn The Tide?"* by Karl Denninger "If so - if this is really about "the 99%" - then you need to understand a few things. Some of you already do. To those, this article is redundant. T...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*This text is just a tiny update of what I wrote one month ago and two months ago. The results are almost unchanged. The La Niña odds have considerably strengthened. The ranking according to RSS AMSU is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAlzheimer's could in some cases be caused by an infection and the disease could even be contagious, scientists have claimed. The damage to the brain caused by the neurological condition is similar to tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGreek riot police have fired teargas at petrol bomb throwing youths and charged them wielding batons as 10,000 public sector workers marched to protest against budget cuts and high taxes. The country is t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 85.5 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:35 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 88 km ( 54 miles) Northwest of Gizo,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*EXPERTS are urging Territorians to be wary of snakes around their homes after reports of bites jumped in the Top End. * Reptile wrangler Chris Peberdy said snakes were searching for water at the end of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 28.5 km (17.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:41:28 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 85 km ( 52 miles) WNW of Chania, Crete, Gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 16.1 km (10 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:48 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 153 km ( 95 miles) East of Qiemo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 4.2 km (2.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:33:26 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 12 km ( 7 miles) Northeast of Kumamoto, Kyus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA U.N. inspector and two other people are being checked for radiation exposure after a "contamination incident" at a nuclear waste processing facility in Belgium, the U.N. atomic agency said on Wednesday. ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Economic Growth According to the* * World’s Leading Economists"* by Bill Bonner "We were on the edge of our chairs yesterday. We wanted to see if the Dow would crash through the 10,000 barrier. A break ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*The mysterious Adam Werritty and UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox (right). * Adam Werritty used to share a flat with Liam Fox. There have been reports that Liam Fox is gay. Liam Fox, a fervent neo-con, is t...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoState legislator and Williston native Bette Grande made a trip to her hometown for a major announcement Tuesday–her candidacy for Congress Grande currently chairs the state's Government and Veterans Affair...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoPiecing together the astronomical evidence around the inspiration behind Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" may have cleared up some controversy.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 hours ago"We have all been here before. We have all been here before . . . ." Do you understand how Europe's own money fiasco (much of it enabled by our buddies at Goldman Sachs, Morgan, etc.) can (and probably wil...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA once off-the-wall idea gets back up as astronomers report on ocean-like water in a comet.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least 100 people are sick and 18 have died after eating listeria-tainted cantaloupe in an ongoing food poisoning outbreak that has spread to 20 states, federal health officials reported Tuesday. Offic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEurope's stronger economies should avoid imposing drastic budget cuts at the expense of growth, a report by the International Monetary Fund has said. If things worsen in the UK, Germany or France, they sho...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe UK economy grew by 0.1% between April and June, less than the 0.2% estimated previously. Output from the service sector grew by 0.2% in the quarter, compared with the previous estimate of 0.5%, the Of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoForty million smokers could die from TB by 2050, research suggests. Smokers are about twice as likely to get the lung infection and die from it, compared with non-smokers. Many of the new TB cases will be...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFerries in Atlantic Canada remain docked Wednesday morning as a storm brings heavy rain and gusting winds into the region, knocking out power in some areas. Utility crews are staying on top of the situati...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoParents should encourage children under 18 to limit the time they spend talking on cellphones, Health Canada said Tuesday in new advice on mobile phone usage. The guidance is a nuanced change from previou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRoyal LePage says the Canadian real estate market is moderating in some areas, even as quarterly home prices increased once again. Home prices remained unexpectedly resilient across Canada's housing market...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFor the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men. Now, society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex. We said, "You go girl," and th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn today's world, it can be tough to determine whether products have or have not been produced through slavery. A specific component of a product – the cotton used to make a T-shirt, for example – may be t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJapan says it will hunt whales in the Southern Ocean this winter and will send a Fisheries Agency ship to guard its whalers against promised intervention by a conservation group. "The Fisheries Agency wil...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChina says it could be on the march to a trade war with the United States. That’s after the U.S. Senate on Monday passed a key test vote that targets countries believed to keep their currencies artificiall...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt was once unthinkable but is now widely expected: Greece is headed toward default. Not if -- but when. A default is likely," said Wolfango Piccoli, director of the London office of the Eurasia Group. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBahraini opposition leaders, many sentenced to life in prison, are 12 days into a hunger strike dedicated to gaining the release of "innocent women and girls" from jail, the son of one of the leaders told ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSecurity forces in eastern Saudi Arabia clashed with armed people provoked by a "foreign country," the Saudi Press Agency said Tuesday, citing an official source at the Interior Ministry. The incident occ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoEarly life may have formed between a rock and a wet place.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoDear Exalted Ruler, you have mail from the OECD and the IEA. They want you and other world leaders to cut out the billions of dollars you waste each year on fossil fuel subsidies. Yes, your Grace, that ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoA Biased BBC reader has sent me this link to a petition to "Scrap the BBC". *Scrap the BBC* Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport "The BBC started life as a TV broadcaster at a t...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoMany believed that the great grandparent of all living things was a crude chemical soup, but that might not be the case.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoTwo-way interaction between a primate brain and a machine interface is achieved for the first time.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoBritish long-jumper J.J. Jegede takes a flying leap.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe last grapes are being brought into Bordeaux's cellars following one of the weirdest growing seasons in recent history.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*China invests in the future... the way the U.S. used to before the GOP losers took over* Anyone catch the History Channel's debut of History of the World in Two Hours this weekend? Better than *Cupcake W...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 11 hours ago
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoJustin's new fragrance. Justin's new fragrance. *Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez in Rio de Janeiro.** * Ronan Parke *THE GUARANI* *CLASSROOMS STAY EMPTY IN LIBYA - KIDS SUPPORT GADDAFI.* ~~
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 11 hours agoOne of these days (maybe) people will be forced to reach the conclusion that trees and other plants are injured and dying from exposure to ozone pollution...and that consequently, the ecosystem is collapsi...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours agoNewspaper notice of runaway slave jailed in Bastrop County, Texas, 1855. Image from AfroTexan.com.The hidden history of TexasPart V: The Slave State of Texas, 1846-1860By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / October...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoOCCUPY STATE DEPT: Sleep-In to Keep Wall St out of Keystone XL Hearing Time Tomorrow at 8:00pm - Friday at 10:00am ------------------------------ Location Ronald Reagan Bldg And International Trade Center -...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours agoWhere to begin with this one? Warning: were going long today, do take the time to read all despite the length The West was going to use this last ditch effort at getting a resolution to overthrow the gove...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 13 hours ago
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 13 hours agoAlison Redford was Saturday's surprise winner of the Alberta PC leadership race. As stunned as frontrunner Gary Mar was, the most surprised may have been Alberta's opposition parties, who had no doubt begu...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoSigning a petition seems such a paltry, insignificant act when measured against the massive starvation in Somalia. I remind myself of what Gandhi said: *Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoPancake and Rye in 'Marijuanaland'By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / September 5, 2011Longtime Rag Blog contributor Jonah Raskin, author of Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an American War, will sign books at a ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: High Tide At Spurn Point. Spurn Head Coastal Defences, a facinating place, where all allong the sand there are hundreds of groynes trying to stop coastal erosion taking place and buildings that l...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Protester sign: 'I can't afford a lobbyist. I am the 99%'. 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters march and hold signs in New York City on September 17, 2011. Frustrated protesters have been speaking ou...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 14 hours ago
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoAn antenna that can be sewn into life jackets means those lost at sea can be more easily found.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoAn invisibility cloak that works in visible light makes an object disappear right before your very eyes.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoLooks like a salad spinner, cleans like a washing machine.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Sue Marsh) at Broken of Britain - 14 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn armed man is on the run from police after shooting dead three Native Americans at a reservation near the site of General Custer's Last Stand. Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is thought to have gunned down an...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe device streamlines microscopic imaging using a smart phone, image sensor and Legos.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoFraud in Corps of Engineers? No Way! ~Hat Tweet @theharryshearer Probe sought in Army Corps of Engineers bribe case Lee Zurik Investigation: Corps gives controversial contractor $51M in work ~At least one ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI am amazed every day that I see more and more articles popping up wanting to know what is the purpose of the Occupy movement. Those that are asking the questions and are demanding that we state our deman...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoWhen the 2011 physics Nobel prize for supernovae and the cosmological constant was announced, some TRF readers were scared for a second because they thought that one of the winners was Gavin Schmidt, a not...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 15 hours ago*We bet we don't see this interview on FOX NEWS*
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoAri Berman, was one of the journalists who most effectively pointed out howright-wing takeovers in states-- governorships, legislatures, judiciaries-- like Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 310 km (192.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:41 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 63 km ( 39 miles) North...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Sue Marsh) at Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours agoThe 2011 chemistry Nobel prize goes to Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן) of Technion, Tel Aviv, for the discovery of quasicrystals. I actually think it's cooler physics than the physics behind the 2011 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:06:10 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 miles) WSW of Nagano, Hons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:02 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 50 km ( 31 miles) WSW of Nagano, Ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoReader Contribution; Public services across Greece were shut down Wednesday in a nationwide strike over government austerity measures the country must take to secure badly needed aid from its internationa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNew revelations are coming to light about asteroid hurtling through space, and how it's got a mountain that makes Everest look like an ant hill. Data provided by NASA's Dawn mission has showed more about t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNursery schools in the city of Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, where outdoor activities are limited due to radiation spewed from the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, took park in a project Wed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe education board of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, has decided to limit outdoor activities to two hours a day for students at five schools to be reopened on Oct. 17 in areas between 20 and 30 kilomet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA truck filled with explosives barreled into a government complex in the heart of Somalia's restive capital Tuesday, a brazen strike killing dozens of people, including students registering for an educat...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*A Guarani - **Website for this image** * The Guaraní people live in the area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge. Much of what was originally Guaraní territory has been destroyed, or is threate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe death toll from a coal mine explosion in southwestern China has risen to 17. The official Xinhua News Agency says 28 miners were in the shaft when the blast occurred Tuesday in Guizhou province. Eleve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs the Occupy Wall Street protestors reach the middle of the two-week mark, social media sites like Twitter seem to be spurring similar protests in other cities. A Twitter account called Occupy Boston me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRussia and China blocked efforts of other major powers to pass a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria Tuesday, with a dramatic dual veto thwarting a call for an immediate halt to the crackdown in Sy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA small plane crash has left two dead in the Northwest Territories. A pilot and three passengers were aboard a Cessna Caravan, owned by Air Tindi, which crashed 200 kilometres east of Yellowknife Tuesday a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert Tuesday, causing three pile-ups involving dozens of vehicles on a major interstate. A 70-year-old man was killed and at least 15 other people were inj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFirefighters are currently dealing with a large chlorine leak at Carter Holt Harvey's Kinleith plant. Seven fire appliances, from Rotorua, Putaruru, Tokoroa and the plants own brigade, were called to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMarine biotoxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning — also known as PSP or red tide — have been detected in high levels in shellfish samples from Poulsbo’s Liberty Bay. As a result, the state Depar...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 112.3 km (69.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:34:49 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 193 km ( 120 miles) ESE of Gener...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:39 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Greenland Sea at a depth of 11.9 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:13:35 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 757 km ( 470 miles) Northwest of Hammerfest...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoMax Keiser has suggested a new idea: Rip up a Federal Reserve dollar bill. The confetti paper money that is being printed by the treacherous, morally bankrupt and dying Federal Reserve regime in Washington...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*This text is just an update of what I wrote one month ago and two months ago. The results have changed partly because I used UAH AMSU instead of RSS AMSU. The La Niña odds have considerably strengthened...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* A Libyan school bombed by NATO.* Under Gaddafi, education was free and the literacy rate was high. On 5 October 2011, the New York Times reports on schools in Libya: Schools in Libya Struggling to Adjus...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoMarching Orders For Patriots: 1. Identify The Real Enemy of The American Republic And American People---->The Treasonous, Corrupt, Anti-Free Market, Non-Governmental And Unconstitutional Federal Reserve S...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 22 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVE MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Katherine Jenkins - video ~ link AVE MARIA by Mirusia Louwerse...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago* the**REALnews Permalink* October 4, 2011 *Nonviolent Wall St. Protesters Face Mass Arrest* Occupy Wall St. enters third w...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago*Why the New Security Zone along the Canadian Border?* *Monday, 03 October 2011, 5:53 pm* *Article: Michael Collins* *Photo credit:* Icon Photography School (Original image) The Department of Homeland Se...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoIf there's one thing to be said for the Kepler mission, it's certainly turning up some very strange new worlds.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 23 hours agoI had an incredible opportunity this past week, one which I am profoundly grateful for, and will continue to be, although it did not pan out. A fairly substantial publishing company contacted me regarding...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's not Fireworks Night yet - but a spectacular explosion HAS lit up the night sky after a giant comet smashed into the Sun. Our star was hit by an unusually large sungrazer caught on camera careering to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:00:28 UTC Tuesday 4th October 2011. The epicenter was 219 km ( 136 miles) East...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*They cut the print short.* "Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide" by Chris Hawley Associated Press / October 3, 2011 NEW YORK—*Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as dem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTargets have already included a female walker, a young girl and a swan. Now a man in his 50s has become the latest victim of rutting stags running rampant round a London park. The unidentified man was kno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn English woman has died and four other people were rescued after the helicopter they were flying in crashed seconds after take-off. A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that the woman who died was Sonia ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agotA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Katla Volcano, Iceland at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:50:38 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011. The epicenter was 63 km ( 39 miles) East of Vestma...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*As does the AmeriKan media attention given to the case. * "Prosecutors ask court to affirm Knox verdict" September 24, 2011|Associated Press PERUGIA, Italy - Italian prosecutors urged an appeals court ye...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago...except in 2011 in Canada. Add the Manitoba NDP to the growing list of parties re-elected with a strong, stable majority government. The Newfoundland PCs and Saskatchewan Saskies will join then shortly....
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha. The ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Good. The guy should be in a jail cell as a co-conspirator for war crimes in Iraq.* "Pressure is mounting on Berlusconi after Standard & Poor’s cut Italy’s credit rating one level this week, citing his ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” - Buddha
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*As a priest!?* "A convicted killer who escaped a New Jersey prison in 1970 and hijacked a US airliner two years later while dressed as a priest has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as a...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoGenghis Khan (R-Mongolia). How much progress have we made? Image from the genghis kahn.An assault on the Constitution:The killing of Anwar al-AwlakiIt is hard to see that we have made much progress beyond th...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThose are the words of Ipsos' John Wright. If Tim Hudak is worried about a Liberal-NDP coalition, there's only one way to prevent it at this point - and it's *not* by voting PC. *Ipsos* (*Sep 30 to Oct 3;...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoStep 1. Audit The Fed Step 2. Abolish The Fed
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*I don't know what exactly you'll see in this clip; unless I'm imagining things, it seems to play differently every time I start it up. But it's all from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's press conference ...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 day ago"Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope. They know that hope has a cost, that it is not easy or comfortable, that it requires self-sacrifice and discomfort and finall...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRelief groups on Monday made a new plea to the United States to offer food assistance to North Korea, warning that hunger was worsening and could develop into a major crisis next year. The United States e...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea's military has seen more than 2,700 attempts to hack into its websites over the past year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, amid growing concern over North Korea's cyber warfare capability. Kim Ok-L...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNest-building is not just instinctive but is a skill that birds learn from experience, research suggests. Scientists filmed male Southern Masked Weaver birds in Botswana as they built multiple nests out of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe disclosure that U.S. President Barack Obama approved the sale of 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs to Israel, which wants them for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations, has sent ripples of a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn life, people inexorably move from infancy to adulthood and on to old age in a series of significant chronological milestones. Countries are obviously not people but states also pass through stages that ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the debate about the possible bankruptcy of the Greek state, one largely dormant argument has resurfaced with increasing frequency: the widespread damage inflicted by the Nazi regime during World War II...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome 1,000 years ago, the Chinese named this city "Shanghai" based on its location. It literally means "above the sea." Those pioneers probably never imagined the situation that confronts this city today: ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn a wet Wednesday evening in Seoul, six government employees gather at the office to prepare for a late-night patrol. The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe watchword for the week at the Clinton Global Initiative's (CGI) annual summit in Manhattan this week has been "efficiency." (It narrowly beats out "traffic," which is what you'll be caught in trying to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere have been numerous reports, including on our program, Dan Rather Reports, about the decline of the honeybee. They've been dying off in huge numbers. The cause has been lumped under a tit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou've decided to help your health and the environment by riding your bike to work. Good for you! Sorry to have to deliver the bad news: you may be inhaling more soot. The amount might be more than twice ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo most humans, so far, climate change is still more of an idea than an experience. For other species, it is an immediate reality. Many will be left behind as the climate alters, unable to move quickly eno...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAntibiotic-resistant bacteria were less common on chicken farms that had recently switched to organic farming practices when compared to those that continued to use conventional farming practices, finds a ...
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- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Explained: Why Men and Women React Differently to Kindness" * by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. "For reasons that until very recently I'd never really understood, my husband is rarely made happy by my spo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Column of the Americas* *A letter to Birmingham: From the anti-Mexican State of Arizona* *A special-length column* *By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez* *Posted at Censored News* Dear Birmingham… I write this to...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPlumes of liquid water erupt through the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus to create soft powdery snow.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Except for the demands of banks:** * *"Excluding serving Greece’s debt, the 2012 budget is projected to have a primary surplus of $4.3 billion"* "Europe urges Greece to hasten pace of reforms" by Howard ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I expected better** from Britain's third party.* "UK’s deputy PM pledges help for troubled youths after riots" September 22, 2011|By David Stringer, Associated Press LONDON - Young people who looted stor...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoWilliamston, Michigan, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"News Corp. subsidiary under investigation; US looks into possible racketeering violations" September 28, 2011|By David Glovin, Greg Farrell, and Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News NEW YORK - A *News Corp. un...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"UK lawmaker’s wife convicted of cat theft" by Associated Press October 1, 2011 LONDON - The estranged wife of a British lawmaker was convicted yesterday of *stealing a kitten* from the house of her *husb...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Very few things really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds - just...
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