- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoCity officials of Santa Rosa in Laguna have ordered the inspection of all food establishments at a popular mall in the city after around 300 teachers and students were downed by food poisoning inside a mal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Colonel Gaddafi has called on Libyans to protest peacefully in their "millions" in an apparently new audio message aired on a Syria-based TV channel. He also says "conditions in Libya are unbearable now... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Britain could be in the grip of the "most serious financial crisis ever", the governor of the Bank of England has exclusively told Sky News. Sir Mervyn King said the global and UK economies had been turne... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose less than expected last week, according to a government report on Thursday that hinted at an improvement in labor market conditions. Initial claims for state... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoAmerican militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Fever, headaches, muscle aches and fatigue. For members of the University of California at Berkeley community, these symptoms could spell more than a common cold—they could mean a case of the mumps. The u... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Families were more dependent on government programs than ever last year. Nearly half, 48.5%, of the population lived in a household that received some type of government benefit in the first quarter of 201... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
The UN's human rights office has raised its tally of people killed during seven months of unrest in Syria to over 2,900. Rupert Colville said the names of the dead have all been confirmed and likely inclu... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
It seems that some of Canada's rich, haven't been getting richer lately. Canadian Business magazine says many of the country's wealthiest people have seen their fortunes shrink this past year. Toronto's T... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
The Italian appeals court judge who was part of the jury which acquitted Amanda Knox said in a TV interview Wednesday night that the American and her ex-boyfriend might know the "real truth" about who kill... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Afghanistan is appealing for $142m (£92m) to feed 2.6 million people this winter as it faces the worst drought for a decade. The agriculture minister described the situation as extremely serious, with 14 ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
The Bank of England has said it will inject a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE). The Bank has already pumped £200bn into the economy by buying assets such as government bonds... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
A new wave of films documenting the war in Afghanistan is proving more realistic than ever - with the latest following an injured marine having difficulties adjusting to life at home. In July 2009, hundre... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Work on the world's largest solar bridge has started in central London. The new solar roof spanning Blackfriars Railway Bridge above the River Thames will cover more than 6,000 square meters when finished,... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoThursday marks the 20th day of Wall Street protests and the grassroots demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed and other social ills appear to be picking up steam. The crowds at the "O...
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Worshippers who came to pray at Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, found swastikas and graffiti sprayed on the walls. Israel Defense Forces tried to cover up the g... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoPolice in Barcelona have arrested 39 members of a suspected Chinese mafia and freed 30 young Chinese women whom they allegedly forced into prostitution, a senior officer of the Catalan regional police to...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 45 minutes ago
Tom Goldtooth, IEN director, arrested at White House, during Tar Sands Action civil disobedience. Photo Shadia Fayne Wood*US State Dept challenged on its cozy relationship with the dirty oil industry* By B... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 51 minutes agoThousands march in support of Occupy Wall Street! Professor Juan Cole adds to the Jobs file that we all know some part of from our own experience and/or research. I remember noting that he had had many fai...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoMalpractice codes vary by state, but a key factor is the idea of "standard of care."
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe hybrid blogging platform allows users to post photos, videos and messages and share with people they don’t know.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"A Tight Grip On the Excessive Debt Grenade"* by Bill Bonner "Japan…whither thou goest…The US and other developed countries continue to follow Japan. The Dow rose 131 points yesterday. The 10-year note f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 213 km (132.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:05:29 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 144 km ( 89.3 miles) Southwest of Villaz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA NYPD officer was caught bragging about using his nightstick on Wall Street protesters just hours before violence broke out between demonstrators and police last night. In the video, which appears to hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of a friend's one-year-old daughter during an overnight stay at her home. Amanda Brumfield was sen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA 14-year-old boy is being held in a harsh prison cell on the holiday island of Bali for drug possession - one of the youngest foreigners to be arrested in Indonesia. The young Australian faces up to 12 y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA watchmaker has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a suspected burglar was allegedly shot in the leg during a botched raid in a quiet rural village. The man, named locally as clock rep...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour agoDrudge Report promoted an article on NY Daily News: Herman Cain to Occupy Wall Street protesters: If you're not rich 'blame yourself' For some time, I didn't know whether Herman Cain, an ex-boss of God...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoNASA astronaut Mike Fossum pays his respects to Steve Jobs -- from space.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoAn eco-adventure voyage is set to check on the tsunami debris floating in the Pacific Ocean. Want to join?
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 2 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 Louwer...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoThe letters from readers-- and ex-readers-- asking when we're going to stop attacking the president is growing in volume. I ask the question myself sometimes! But the answer is always the same. We'll be a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Students attend the opening ceremony of new semester at the elementary school in Fukushima, Japan, April 6, 2011. Most of the schools began their regular classes on Wednesday in the city of Fukus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 142.9 km (88.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:22 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 73 km ( 45 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu, V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 98.1 km (61 miles), the quake hit at 14:56:34 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 131 km ( 81 miles) ENE of Iquique, Tarapaca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 69.9 km (43.4miles), the quake hit at 13:59:27 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 91 km ( 56 miles) East of Rao...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Overfishing in West African waters. © Christian Åslund / Greenpeace] By Hayley Baker 6 October 2011 We've been investigating overfishing in West African waters for a long time and our new repor...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA manager at the station says she had stroke last month and needs medical help but officials say it's not an emergency.
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 3 hours ago*Zero Gov* by Bill Buppert *“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth,...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: A road overgrown by weeds sits inside the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan. Stuart Biggs / Bloomberg] By Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada, and...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours agoOctober 6 (Al Jazeera) – Nearly 400 people have died in Cambodia and Thailand as a result of what officials in the Southeast Asian region are describing as the worst monsoon flooding in decades. By W...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoDespite our technology and culture, humans, like all other life on Earth, undergo genetic changes in response to conditions around them.
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 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 Mirusia Louwerse - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog ...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoMark Mardell, the BBC’s man in the USA, lets the mask slip in a rather unpleasant piece on Governor Palin’s decision not to enter the 2012 Presidential race. Shriekily filled with venom against a preside...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoGulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force offers to bribe Louisiana with carrots ~The America’s WETLAND Foundation (an industry funded lobbying group) praised the report for bringing Louisiana’s coastal...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago*I hate it when arrogant bastards like the 1% * *talk down to the very people who make * *their f#cking fantastic lives possible, * *and I'm seeing a lot of that lately.* *Let there be no mistake - they KNO...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 6 hours 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 you...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoDespite popular belief, most people don't diet, and aren't trying to lose weight.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoWhen I read about how Republican Establishment conservative Frank Wolf (VA) had decided to blame Grover Norquist for Congress' historic-- and disintegrating-- popularity and its inability to get anything ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 6 hours agoOntarians head to the polls today, with the two parties deadlocked a Liberal majority looming a PC victory likely the outcome still up in the air. *I'll* be voting for Dalton McGuinty. No surprise there. B...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoYounger siblings beware, the dreaded foam dart shooter just got an upgrade.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA magic carpet prototype "flies" on thin pockets of air from waves of electrical currents.
- posted by Matt at An Open Book - 6 hours agoTHE URL FOR THIS BLOG IS SOON HAS CHANGED! PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BOOKMARKS, BLOGGER SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND/OR RSS FEEDS! http://mattrosewritings.wordpress.com Any new posts will be added to that address, and thi...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSteve Jobs passed away too soon at age 56, but not before leaving a series of dents in the universe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTough new Alabama immigration laws are forcing even legal migrants workers to flee the southern state over fears they will be deported. Regulations introduced last week seen as the toughest in America have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoManchester United star Wayne Rooney's father was among nine people arrested by police investigating allegations of illegal betting, Sky sources say. Scottish Premier League footballer Steve Jennings was ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 7 hours ago*Journalist Luke Rudkowski was attacked by Police Wednesday Night while trying to document the Occupy Wall Street arrests in NY. NYPD used pepper spray, batons, and brute force to move protesters away fro...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours agoOne of my favorite thing about October, is baby pumpkin pictures. During my daughter's first year, I couldn't wait for October to come around so we could take pumpkin pictures. We took these pictures w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:29 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 139 km ( 87 miles) ENE of Salta, Argentina...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago[image: Steve Jobs] Steve Jobs, the mastermind at the back Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, has died, Apple said Jobs was 56 Jobs died "peacefully" surrounded by family members, his family sai...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoObama's White House: A new era of scientific openness, or business as usual?
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoHonduras has become the top producer of wind energy in Central America, transforming one of the world's poorest countries into a leader in renewable energy.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago*Little girl killed by NATO -**VISUAL TRUTHS ABOUT WAR IN LIBYA** *The new government of Libya are a bunch of murderous looters. (Libya Fighters Loot Gadhafi Tribe, Showing Divide) On 5 October 2011, Ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.6 km (18.4miles), the quake hit at 10:37:17 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 36 km ( 22 miles) SSE of Toyama, Ho...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoOn Monday David Preiser contrasted the way the BBC reported the Tea Party movement ("a bit strong for our tastes" as R5L's Peter Allen put it) with the sanitised PR effort it is producing on behalf of Occu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe oldest supernovas ever seen have been uncovered in a record-breaking field of 150 exploding stars. A project spearheaded by Tel Aviv University researchers has revealed the massive number of supernova...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe European Parliament has voted through an inflation-busting £5billion increase in the EU budget - defying David Cameron's calls for a freeze. MEPs have agreed a rise of nearly 4.9 per cent - more than d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCoronation Street favourite Michael Le Vell today vowed to clear his name after being arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a schoolgirl. Le Vell, who plays mechanic Kevin Webster in the ITV soap opera...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:38:10 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 61 miles) SSW of Leo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31.2 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:37:32 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 157 km ( 97 miles) ...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoMassive rainfalls in 2010 and early 2011 caused sea levels to drop - for now.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago*A French man had a terrifying ten minute wait in the water after a shark attacked him in his kayak and left him shouting out for help.* "It attacked the kayak's hull and took out a chunk," Jean-Pierre Ca...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 10 hours agoOccupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons: MyFoxNY.com . Yeah, that terrifying-looking kid definitely needs arresting. h/t enigma4ever Ditto this armless man. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs the regency closest to Mt Anak Krakatau, South Lampung is preparing the worst-case scenario to anticipate the increasing activities of Mount Anak Krakatau. In fact, the current alert level of Krakatau i...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoThe Daily Mail has asked if Vladimir Putin has had plastic surgery, or, just plenty of sleep?. Or, has Putin got a double?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least six villagers died and 52 others were being treated at hospital after they drank local- made liquor, which is suspicious of poisonous substance contamination, police said Thursday. The accident h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Utah Department of Health says dozens of people attending business conferences in Park City were confirmed to have contracted Norovirus, a sickness that causes flu-like symptoms. Officials say people...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*OIL has leaked from a container ship that was holed after hitting a reef off the New Zealand port of Tauranga. * Salvage company representatives had reported the leak and said it had been stopped with o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHazMat teams from across the area met in Presque Isle County Wednesday, after dozens reported getting sick and showing signs of chemical burns during a volleyball game. People watching the game in the sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGuests at an Ocean City hotel have been voluntarily relocated after three people who stayed there were hospitalized with Legionnaire's disease, according to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hyg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia at a depth of 35.7 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:37:03 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 27 km (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA government panel on reviewing radiation dose standards plans to propose that the government adopt an interim annual radiation exposure limit between 1 to 20 millisieverts for ordinary people instead of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission should act immediately to improve the safety of pools containing radioactive waste stored at U.S. nuclear plants, an internal report released Wednesday said. The re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMany of us get that sinking feeling on the way to work. For this driver, however, the problem ran a little deeper. As she made her way to her office, the ground opened up and swallowed her car. Fortunate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe search for intelligent life beyond the stars has landed on President Obama's desk. More than 7,500 people have signed a petition asking the White House to 'formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoZainab Alhusni, the young woman reportedly slain and mutilated while in Syrian custody, appears to be very much alive. A young woman appeared on Syrian TV on Wednesday and identified herself as Alhusni, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHundreds of people have joined protests in Wall Street - with demonstrations gathering momentum and support as they spread nationwide. Organised labour joined the *Occupy Wall Street* protests adding numb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 88.3 km (54.9 miles), the quake hit at 05:11:50 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 102 km ( 63 miles) Northwest of Tonala, Ch...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Why Do 'Normal' People Talk to Themselves?" By C. Claiborne Ray Q. Why do “normal” people talk to themselves? A. The old joke is that it is the only way to be sure of having an intelligent conversation,...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoThe ownership of radical Islamists groups by the shadow governments in the U.S., Israel and England is similar to the ownership of the Tea Party by the Koch brothers and other right-wing oligarchs, who jum...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoThe Mondragon Corporation. "The present, however splendid it may be, bears the seeds of its own ruin if it becomes separated from the future." -- José María Arizmendiarrieta.Mondragon: Reinventing humanityIt...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoPhoto by Robert Johnson / Business Insider.The Wall Street occupations and themaking of a global countercultureThe emergence of a global youth counterculture should be seen as a powerful complement to a glob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA worker who is being hunted by SWAT teams after opening fire at a meeting in a quarry - killing three people and injuring six more - was reportedly disgruntled at having been switched from day shifts to n...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 14 hours ago*To sit in silence when we should protest Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest.* - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, *I Protest*, 1914 With so much effort being exerted by the right-wing p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA huge mass of protesters descended on Wall Street this evening in Occupy Wall Street’s largest protest yet, as Presidential hopeful Herman Cain told them: 'If you're not rich, it's your own fault'. The g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThis staggering image shows how cracks in the ice big enough for ships to sail through have appeared. The near-record ice melt that the Arctic region has experienced has seen the shipping channels of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA senior police officer yesterday led a stinging attack on ‘money-grabbing’ defence lawyers – comparing them to robbers. Detective Inspector Bob Campany criticised solicitors who encouraged clients to say...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA judge allowed an illegal immigrant to dodge deportation because he feared separating him from his cat risked ‘serious emotional consequences’, it emerged yesterday. The human rights ruling, obtained by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Katla Volcano, Iceland at a depth of 5.2 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:06:20 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15.3 miles) Southwest ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoA couple night ago Montana populist Democrat Franke Wilmer was campaigning in Pablo and she added some inspiration she had gotten from Van Jones's comment that the OccupyWallStreet protesters show that w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:39:33 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011. The epicenter was 901 km ( 559 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 17 hours agoNew York police officer pepper sprays, beats with baton, peaceful protesters and Fox News crew: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005#.To0cU53eLtQ.twitter N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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! - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 Alison at Creekside - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoSpartanburg, South Carolina, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 20 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 - 20 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 CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 hours agoThe Detroit Tigers pitcher isn't a magician. Making a curve ball curve takes a steady mind and complex biomechanics.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEarly life may have formed between a rock and a wet place.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoBritish long-jumper J.J. Jegede takes a flying leap.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 Anon at aangirfan - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoLooks like a salad spinner, cleans like a washing machine.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe device streamlines microscopic imaging using a smart phone, image sensor and Legos.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 n...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago*We bet we don't see this interview on FOX NEWS*
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe 2011 chemistry Nobel prize goes to Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן) of Technion, Haifa (born in Tel Aviv), for the discovery of quasicrystals. I actually think it's cooler physics than the physics b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoIf there's one thing to be said for the Kepler mission, it's certainly turning up some very strange new worlds.
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day 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...
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