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- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 minutes ago
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 minutes ago*"Study: Wealthy Stockbrokers More * *Dangerous Than Psychopaths"* by David Sirota "Like most people living through this jarring age of economic turbulence and political dysfunction, you can probably reca...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 minutes ago*"No Return on Government Investments"* by Bill Bonner "The news was good yesterday. Investors heard that Europe had its problems under control. Then, Obama told them that he was going to give the economy...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoFor sale. Infantry helmet. Only four previous owners, one surviving. Fair condition. Some wear & tear. Original paint. Custom ventilation.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"The Worst of States"* by Joel Bowman "Empires…their monies…their militaries and their promises. All these things eventually, invariably, die. It’s what they were born to do. Their death, in other words...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFury over corporate power in the US is spreading from New York across the country. Thousands have joined the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, angered by the economic slump that may lead to a revolution in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoChildren are being taught in “ghettos” as inner-city schools are increasingly divided along racial lines, a leading headmaster has warned. David Levin said parts of London were starting to resemble aparthe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe town prides itself on the 52 flagpoles which grace its seafront, all flying European or other national flags. Town councillors have now provoked a row by agreeing to include the Romany Gypsy flag. Su...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAlthough ignored by most of America’s liberal-dominated media, several online US news sites are reporting that Michelle Obama’s grand tour of southern Africa earlier this year cost American taxpayers nearl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago*SPIEGEL:* Many US economists now say that Europe's currency crisis could destroy the US economy. Do you agree? *Goolsbee:* It is a very serious threat. Though since US banks underwent extensive stress ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFor months, financial experts have been warning that Europe needs to act quickly to shore up banks on the Continent due to their heavy exposure to Greek debt. This week, there are increasing signs that the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGerman Economics Minister Philipp Rösler is to push for a plan for the orderly bankruptcy of highly leveraged eurozone countries, according to a letter obtained by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe good news is that Greece will remain solvent until mid-November, despite the decision reached on Monday evening by euro-zone finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg to delay payment of the next tranche...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTheir names are Rabee, Shevan, Naima, Georgette and Salem. All are Syrian dissidents who chose to leave their native country in order to live freely. Seeking safety, they’ve arrived in Paris, London, Toron...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Russian parliament has approved a law on pedophilia in a first reading. From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBus drivers in New York City have been telling the NYPD that they don’t have to give free rides to jail for Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, despite what the Police Department seems to think. Now they are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoUS defence secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday that NATO air raids in Libya will continue as long as there is heavy ground combat between rebels and diehard supporters of ousted strongman Muammar Gaddaf...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoPenang, Malaysia - We traveled to Cambodia planning to tell the story of an escape from modern-day slave labor but what we found were tales of more women trapped in debt-bondage in Malaysia. In Cambodia...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEurope has a debt crisis. America has a jobs crisis. Corporate profits could be in trouble. World financial markets are in turmoil. And no one seems prepared to ride to the rescue. Federal Reserve Chairma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoPolice in Poland have arrested two men in connection with explosions at Ikea stores in several European countries, they said Saturday. The two men, both age 39, are accused of trying to force Ikea to pay ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA prominent Kurdish opposition leader was shot dead Friday in a brazen assault that came as protesters across the country demonstrated for his fledgling anti-regime movement, activists said. Mashaal Tamm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe slogans on the street are about storming the barricades, but when you talk to Greeks about the financial crisis that has brought their country to its knees, their anger quickly gives way to resignation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA nationwide face recognition service is to be activated in some U.S. states by the FBI which will allow local police to identify suspects. The program, part of a $1 billion overhaul of the FBI's existing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Colorado state senator who caused a fatal car crash that killed a pregnant woman escaped with only some minor traffic citations and a $268 fine. Suzanne Williams, 65, caused the accident when she starte...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours ago*Yuji asked:* In high energy physics, the use of the classical Lie groups are common place, and in the Grand Unification the use of \(E_{6,7,8}\) is also common place. In string theory \(G_2\) is somet...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: On a moonlit night on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, a boat is beached in the Cypress Creek arm of Lake Travis. Waterfront properties in this area of Lake Travis barely have a view of water, and the...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoFrom our own correspondent’s Nick Danziger tells us that the Afghani people are the most wonderful people he knows. It’s women who continue to suffer the worst of the conflict. Outsiders make the same mist...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoThere’s a fascinating thread on Harry’s Place about the left wing’s ever increasing association with Israel-bashing and Jew hatred. Mentioning it here, on what is supposedly a right-wing blog - though some ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Spanish matador has been blinded in his left eye and paralysed down that side of his face after he was horrifically gored during a bullfight. The bull's horn pierced Juan Jose Padilla's jaw and emerged t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 69.3 km (43.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:47 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 49 km ( 30 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 591.4 km (367.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:08:33 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 262 km ( 162 miles) Southeast of Lambas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDANISH POLICE HAVE evacuated hundreds of people after a warehouse went on fire following a number of explosions in a village near Kolding. According to police spokesman, Klaus Arboe, the cause of the explo...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoWe had been planning to spend our Blue America session today talking with an old friend, Alan Grayson, but Alan suggested we move his date back and talk with another old friend, North Carolina Congressma...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours ago
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 hours ago*Ronan Parke and his friend Julia.* 13-year old Ronan Parke is Britain's Justin Bieber. Ronan was brought up in a village in Norfolk, in the UK. His Dad is a builder and his Mum's a nurse. *Britain's Ju...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours agoWe had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: A field once covered by the forest is readied for soybean cultivation in Brazil. green.blogs.nytimes.com] By JUSTIN GILLIS 7 October 2011 In an article last weekend about rising stress in the wo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: A man sits in a flooded restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, during the historic monsoon flooding of October 2011. abc.net.au] By Zoe Daniel 8 October 2011 EMILY BOURKE: Record flooding in Thailand ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Historic drought has emptied the water from this dam in China. caixin.cn] By Wang Xiaocong 30 September 2011 (Beijing) – Acute power shortages will continue in parts of China in the upcoming wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAs the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to spread across the country, the protesters in the place where it all started, New York City, are being blamed for the recent clashes with police, NYPD Commiss...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first dete...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York lifted credit card data from residents and foreign tourists as part of an identity theft ring that stretched to China, Europe and th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours agoAll of German-speaking Europe has decided to leave nuclear energy. The physics textbooks in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are going to replace their chapters on the nuclei. The new books will say that ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoWe have to be careful about possible complacency in thinking that others know about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). We must make sure that we are continually reaching out to others to ed...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago*To the Protesters at Zucotti Park * Kent Lebsock at White House Tar Sands Action Photo Shadia Fayne Wood. *from Owe Aku International Justice Project* Again, greetings and thank you for inviting Owe Aku In...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoWin at trip to New Orleans with Harry Shearer~The Cajun Boy~Well, our friends at FilmBuff were inspired enough by Harry Shearer’s powerful and entertaining documentary, The Big Uneasy (which you should tot...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoOf course it will and, as surely as Afghanistan will see another rising and setting sun, so too will it see the resumption of its long-running and unresolved civil war when Western babysitters head home in...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe malware sends every keystroke a user makes to someone else.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoSolar cells the size of grains of sand could work much better at producing power than conventional panels.
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 6 hours agoHundreds of activists gathered on Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, on Thursday to fight for economic and social justice. The event is called Occupy DC, one of the dozens of similarly-named rallies occurri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 205.6 km (127.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:29:30 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 44 km ( 27 miles) West from Juliaca, Peru...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoThere's no way the Republican Establishment will allow their party's grassroots to stop their anointed nominee. Anyone imagining the Republican Party will have someone other than Bishop Willard "Mitt" Ro...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 7 hours agoFrom the Dukan Diet to the Caveman Plan, weight-loss regimes instructing us what to eat and what to avoid are big business. But a number of recent studies have revealed how making several small lifestyl...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 7 hours agoThe web address gay.xxx has been sold to a porn production company for half a million dollars. The domain name is the most expensive to be sold with the controversial new porn-only .xxx extension. Alth...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 7 hours ago- Security around the animal is so tight his trainer sleeps next to a video screen which streams live footage of Frankel in his box A British racehorse has become the first in history to be valu...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 7 hours ago[image: Risk: Pregnant mothers now have something new to worry about during pregnancy - the level of pollution in the area they live] Risk: Pregnant mothers now have something new to worry about during ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 56.7 km (35.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:36 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 mil...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe BBC's contrasting coverage of the party conferences seems to have been at its sharpest with 'Today'. Here's why I think that's the case (at somewhat exhausting length!), concentrating on the Labour Par...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 19.6 km (12.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:53:14 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 216 km ( 134 miles) ENE of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga No Tsu...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoTest Test Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFederal health authorities say a nationwide outbreak of listeria in Colorado cantaloupes is now responsible for 21 deaths and the number may continue to grow. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRadioactive material has leaked at the site of the former Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, it has been confirmed. Radioactive liquid effluent is understood to have leaked inside a treatment f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNearly 2,000 ducks and other birds are dead from avian botulism in one of Nevada’s more significant outbreaks of the disease. Mallards, green-wing teals, redhead ducks and other birds including American a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHamilton public health is investigating whether four cases of legionellosis in the city’s east end came from a common source. The cases were reported to public health over the past several weeks. The fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAuthorities evacuated a home in a posh community of West Palm Beach Friday as they investigate possible hazardous substances inside, FBI officials said. The incident happened at a home in the 10000 block...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDespite being considered the most destructive force in space and absolutely uninhabitable, the conditions for life exist inside supermassive black holes, a Russian cosmologist has theorised. Going out on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe investigation into the disappearance of baby Lisa took a grim turn this afternoon as the FBI revealed it has begun searching a landfill in Kansas as part of its search for the 10-month-old who disappea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIllegal immigrants in Alabama have been threatened with losing their water supply under the strict new law the Obama administration today tried to block. Under Section 30 of the regulation, those who lack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA modern day treasure map has been created showing a trove of precious metals found on the moon. Scientists have revealed Nasa's robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the moon has made a chart showing are...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHow do you 'see inside' an asteroid? Answer: two radio telescopes, decades' worth of visible-light scans, and a lot of computing time. The study of Minerva - an asteroid in the solar system with not one b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe U.S. drones used to kill Anwar al-Awlaki and other Al Qaeda chiefs have been infected by a computer virus that logs their every move, it has been claimed. The unmanned Predator, which killed the Ameri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFirst there was the Sunshine Squad … now meet the Snorkelling Squad. After a Scotland Yard team faced an outcry over their antics on a Caribbean island two years ago, colleagues in another force might have...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours agoThe CIA-backed scum who have taken over Libya are falling apart, like warring Mafia gangs. It looks very possible that NATO troops will soon be sent into Libya to take over the running of the country. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 11 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSeven months after the nuclear crisis began at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. government again warned its citizens Friday to avoid areas near the stricken reactors. The U.S. State Department p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA tropical storm strengthened into a hurricane Friday southwest of Mexico's Baja California, not far from another that could rise to hurricane status soon, the National Hurricane Center reported. The eye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe United States called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to "step down now" following the assassination of a prominent Kurdish opposition figure amid continuing violence in the nation. Assad should ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMuch of Southeast Asia continued its recovery from heavy rains and extensive flooding Friday, including scores of deaths and extensive damage in Thailand. The wet weather is not entirely abnormal in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southeast of Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:48 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:17 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 18.3 km (11.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:38:56 UTC Saturday 8th October 2011. The epicenter was 124 km ( 77 mil...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoImage courtesy: BC Crime Prevention Program Elevator Safety: - check the elevator before you enter. If a person inside the elevator makes you uncomfortable, don't get it. Feign forgetting an article if yo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of just 0.1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:10 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 20 km ( 12.4 miles) Southwest of Scotty...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 382 km (237.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:38 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 352 km ( 218 miles) South of Hac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:54:01 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 254 km ( 157 miles) WSW of C...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 13 hours agoYesterday CBC continued its ongoing snide, dismissive, and condescending coverage of the third week of Occupy Wall Street with an interview with author/activist/Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges on its ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago'Keep it up Little Ethan' by Occupy Wall Street New York *Yoko Ono's meesage to you all:* I love #*OccupyWallStreet* As John said, “One hero cannot do it. Each one of us have to be heroes.” And you are. Th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoAl Gore thinks that unpleasant weather events are caused by humans, namely by evil witches who are telepathically connected to the evil Big Oil and who should be burned at stake in a carbon-neutral way wai...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 13 hours agoTexting or emailing while driving is far more dangerous than previously thought and more than doubles a person's reaction times a new study has found. Researchers from Texas A&M University's Transportat...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 13 hours ago[image: Lord McColl said politicians refused to admit that the cause of obesity was over-eating] Lord McColl said politicians refused to admit that the cause of obesity was over-eating Britain is facin...
- posted by Craig at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoThe BBC's contrasting coverage of the party conferences seems to have been at its sharpest with 'Today'. Here's why I think that's the case, concentrating on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and th...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 14 hours ago15 Years of Giving Voice to Women and Transgender Prisoners in California --An interview with Diana Block, Pam Faden, and Dierdre Wilson of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners By Angola 3 News ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 14 hours agoIt is often thought of as one of the qualities which distinguishes humans from animals. And a new study has shown that the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong is a skill which even ba...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoDebra White Plume, Lakota from Pine Ridge, tells the 'Great White Father' Obama that the Lakota Nation has not given "free, prior and informed consent" for this pipeline to poison Mother Earth. Photo by R...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoTexans Target The Dallas FED! Occupy The FED! The People Strike Back Chant: "They got bailed out, we got sold out"
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSeven months after the nuclear crisis began at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, the U.S. government again warned its citizens Friday to avoid areas near the stricken reactors. The U.S. State Department pu...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 15 hours ago[image: Vexing texting: Hunching over a small screen can cause headaches over time] Vexing texting: Hunching over a small screen can cause headaches over time First it was ‘texter’s thumb’. Now gadget a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*by Ken* Yes, we're sneaking up on Wagner's *Tannhäuser*, which we're going to be looking at, or rather listening to, from what I think is a fairly unusual perspective: that of the baritone, Wolfram von ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 16 hours ago*Protesters converged on Freedom Plaza in the United States' capital to establish another "occupy" camp and rally under the banner "Get money out of politics!"* * * *The "Occupy" protests started on Sept...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoLast year I mentioned I had never seen a single Pixar movie, including any Toy Story movie. Many wmtc readers recommended I watch *all three* Toy Story movies, which seemed excessive to me, but I thought i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Age of Arctic Sea Ice, 1983-2011. Data on ice age show that coverage of the oldest, thickest ice types (ice four years or older) has declined over the past 28 years. National Snow and Ice Data Ce...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 18 hours ago*Tell me again how this shit isn't Biblical! * *TRUTH IS NOT TALMUDIC | FACTS ARE NOT MAINSTREAM*
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble S...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* October 7, 2011 * * *Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interes...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*Typically, the administration has let discussion of the Solydra "scandal" be carried on by scum-encrusted right-wing liars and ignoramuses.* *"Solyndra was a big bet that happened to go bad. But we probab...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. "Their mothers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe European Central Bank will provide shaky banks with $53 billion to prop them up against potential Greek fallout, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet has announced. But the move will topple the whole EU...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn audio recording released to Syrian television station, deposed Libyan leader warns against supporting Lybia's ruling transitional council. BEIRUT - Deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi said leaders of the de...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoU.S. President Barack Obama has accused Islamabad of having connections to what he called "unsavory characters" and said if it doesn't become more attuned to Washington's concerns, it could risk damaging t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs ranks of protesters grew in New York in the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration, protesters are also converging in U.S. capital Washington D.C. for a planned " Occupy D.C." rally on Thursday, which is to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoProtests on Wall Street turned violent Wednesday when police clashed with demonstrators marching through Lower Manhattan in the largest show of strength yet for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police sai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoProtests on Wall Street turned violent Wednesday when police clashed with demonstrators marching through Lower Manhattan in the largest show of strength yet for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Police sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe image above was made from observations collected by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer and shows the extent of sea ice melt. The yellow outline shows the median minimum ice extent for 1979/2000...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn Monday, the fashion student Min Joo Lee, 24, became the 13th cyclist to be killed in London this year. She was hit by an HGV while navigating the Kings Cross one-way system near York Way. The blogger O...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn six years of studying economics, not once did I hear the word "ecology". So if it hadn't have been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi in the final term of my degree, I'd probably have ende...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoView entire photo essay here.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSomeone will doubtless correct me, but I think it was Mark Twain who said that he wanted to die in Manchester, as the transition from life to death in that city would be scarcely perceptible. But the Tory ...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA Discovery News reader may have eulogized Steve Jobs perfectly in one sentence.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoJohn David Ebert is the author of four books : 'Twilight of the Clockwork God: Conversations on Science & Spirituality at the End of an Age,' - 'Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons: Film as the Mythology...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoSaint-sauveur-des-monts, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago* * "On this earth as beyond this earth you never are alone, But are in constant company of things and beings That take a share in your life as you take a share in theirs. As you seek them, so they seek you...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Homer's Iliad: Ancient Greek City Digitally Recreated"* by David Keys "A submerged ancient Greek city, from the heroic era portrayed in Homer's Iliad, is being 'raised' from the bottom of the Aegean. Usi...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoInternational Monetary Fund advisor Robert Shapiro (no, not *that *Robert Shapiro) warns that time has almost run out for European leaders to avert what could rapidly become a global economic meltdown much...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 21 hours ago*Read this heavily researched link for CONSERVATIVES who support the Wall St Protesters!* *Serious infraction by the globalists - Cops attacking FOX NEWS* How's Rupert going to explain away this one? Won'...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 22 hours ago*Wow...Just when you thought nicotine....was only good for killing bug and people along comes this news that a nocotine compound could be a cure for Diabetes.* *Of course this news comes to you late Frid...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 22 hours agoA fellow student recently complained to me about the "knee-jerk lefty-liberal" worldview of one of her teachers. I don't know why she assumed the professor's worldview was reflexive rather than well consid...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*Scott Gessler, passionate enemy of democracy* Earlier today we took a look at the Republican Party's attempt at systematic campaign of voter disenfranchisement. It's a campaign that is especially targeti...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours agoWelcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no on...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThis weekend, a spectacular meteor shower may dazzle, but as astronomer Mark Thompson reports, never bet on the Draconids.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoA Tale Of Two Presidents By George Bailey Oswald's Mother Published: September 15, 2011 “But many other more telling facts indicate that Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders, and millions have been killed because of this obe...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoGE slices up everyday objects to produce an "analog representation" of medical tomography.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“How many times do you have to be hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?” - Harry Truman
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth. Trut...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Left/Right Paradigm Is Over! It's You Vs. The Corporations"* By Barry Ritholtz "Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in indus...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day ago2 Arabs arrested for the double murder of the Palmers. Israel arrests Palestinian suspects in settler deaths. Compare these two headlines for a minute. Did you learn English grammar? If so, draw on the cl...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Day America Died"* by Paul Craig Roberts "September 30, 2011 was the day America was assassinated. Many expected President Obama to re-establish the accountability of government to law. Instead, he...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day agoThousands of Americans have non-violently occupied Wall St -- an epicentre of global financial power and corruption. They are the latest ray of light in a new movement for social justice that is spreadin...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The US Empire: A Tragic Comedy in Three Acts"* by Bill Bonner "What a delight it is to have an empire! Do the Swiss get to send out drones to kill people they don’t know in countries they’ve never been? ...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 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 calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoIf I told you a few months ago there would be a picture of Dalton McGuinty waving on newspaper front pages October 7th, you'd have assumed it would be on the Sun, directly below a "GOODBYE! GOOD RIDDANCE!...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoDoomers Realists everywhere will miss Catastrophe Map, which has permanently closed shop - although you are encouraged to browse their 2020 Foresight Prophesy Service, the second of which is (*ta da*!): *...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLarry Fink, one of the most powerful people on Wall Street, says that he understands what's prompting demonstrations against the country's financial system and that protesters are "not lazy people sitting ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA giant papier mache piggy bank will take a hammering outside the Bank of England on Thursday as angry savers show the brutal effects of record low interest rates on their cash. Campaigners warned that sa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA landmine blast by suspected Maoist rebels in India's Chhattisgarh state has killed four paramilitary troops and injured several others, police said. Forces from Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), one of India's ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice are searching for teenage thugs targeting subway riders. There have been at least three armed attacks recently. CBS 2′s Dave Carlin has seen pictures of the suspects and knows what they’re after. A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe IDF is taking no chances on the eve of Yom Kippur. In an unusual and rare step, The IDF's General Staff alerted two reserve divisions as part of an emergency drill in army bases in central and northern...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScaling the heights of hypocrisy once again, Barack Obama – whose 2008 campaign was funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley – sympathized with the OWS protesters yesterday while...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly had some strong words for “Occupy Wall Street” protesters Thursday, blaming participants for starting skirmishes which led to more than 20 arrests on Wednesday. “What they did ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. "Their mothers...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA hit-and-run crash led to bridge-jumping drama on the City Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia, according to police and witnesses at the scene. Paramedics were called to the area late Thursday morning after wit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s “if not ever”, the Governor of the Bank of England said last night. Sir Mervyn King was speaking after the decision by the Bank’s Mo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTen years ago, in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. led the invasion of Afghanistan to capture Osama Bin Laden and defeat the Taliban. Bush, enthusiastically supported by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, sought and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces in Syria fired on protesters Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding many more as demonstrators took to the streets of suburban Damascus and other sites after weekly Muslim praye...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResponse teams battled Friday to contain a spill of oil from a large cargo ship stranded off the New Zealand coast. The MV Rena, a Liberian-flagged vessel, started leaking oil early Wednesday off Tauranga...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Occupy Wall Street protests are scheduled to go on Friday as the grassroots movement continues to grow, spread to other cities and grab the attention of the president. President Barack Obama said Th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThirty-two bodies were discovered Thursday inside three houses in Veracruz, Mexico, the Mexican navy said in a news release. The discovery of the bodies came during a military operation, dubbed Safe Verac...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe dogs' brains may have been used for ritualistic purposes by humans.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWhy do big investment houses have the right to speculate in ways that can lead to death? Speculation in food, in water. While there are fortunes to be had in creating bottlenecks that restrict access to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEl Paso County health officials are investigating reports of an intestinal illness that appears to have sickened a large number of students of Falcon Middle School. Falcon School District 49 officials rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Colombia at a depth of 171.5 km (106.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:42:14 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 39 km ( 24 miles) SSE from Tulua, Colombia No re...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Temporary water storage tanks at the Storage Area (North Side) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. These tanks are used for storing low-level radioactive materials in Unit 5 and 6, 27...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe most noticeable breakthrough will improve mobile functionality.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThirty-two bodies were discovered Thursday inside three houses in Veracruz, Mexico, the Mexican navy said in a news release. The discovery of the bodies came during a military operation, dubbed Safe Vera...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces in Syria fired on protesters Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding many more as demonstrators took to the streets of suburban Damascus and other sites after weekly Muslim pray...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt started as a student protest, led by the disgruntled and disenfranchised youth. But as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have gained momentum, it has quickly become clear that fury against bankers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA grandmother has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 35 years in prison for tossing her two-year-old granddaughter to her death from a pedestrian bridge at a shopping mall. Last Novemb...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*TARP mastermind John Boehner recently sat for a portrait by Matt Hedlund* Last year David Korten laid out the entire *raison d'etre* for #OccupyWallStreet in a book he'd been working on about the financia...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 day ago
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Hong Kong student tweaked the Apple logo as a tribute to Steve Jobs.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Scotland.* *THE WORLD OF MIND CONTROL THROUGH THE EYES OF AN ARTIST WITH 13 ALTER PERSONAS* *England* *McCanns Speak Out in Australia** * ** *FORGIVENESS** * *London, Trafalgar Square* *Putin enters t...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLife on Earth probably started with leaps and bounds, with terrestrial jumping by fully aquatic fish.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAstronomers from the VERITAS collaboration have detected an extremely energetic and unexpected blast from the Crab pulsar.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArcheologists could be on the brink of discovering Mexico's first Aztec royal tomb after they unearthed a ceremonial carved stone platform beneath an existing ruin. The platform, carved with snake heads, ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThere was a time we expected Turkey to grovel for a place at the table with the Big Boys. We were willing to consider allowing our only Muslim NATO ally into the European Union but only once it showed it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:07 UTC Friday 7th October 2011. The epicenter was 213 km ( 132 miles) East of Kushiro, Hokk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe sky could be lit up by a stunning stellar spectacle this weekend as the Draconid meteor shower intensifies into a full-blown space storm. The Draconids streak through our atmosphere once every seven y...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoEuropeans are awash in economic disaster yet they see the greatest threats their world faces as poverty and climate change. *The Eurobarometer poll (pdf) found that the majority of the public in the Europe...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The ship Arctic Sunrise is moored to an ice floe to assist scientists in making an ice station in the Fram Strait September 3, 2011. NASA scientists say climate change is destroying the oldest, t...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAt least two Earth-sized objects may have smashed into the planet, toppling it on a tilt.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A wave crashes ashore in Tuvalu. peacepalacelibrary-weekly.blogspot.com] SYDNEY, October 6 (The Economist) – ONE canary in the climate-change coalmine may have just quietly fallen from her perch...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's a solemn 10th anniversary for Western gunplay in Afghanistan. I'll call it gunplay instead of "war" because wars are normally fought to win and we've never been fighting to win in Afghanistan, inste...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: PORTRAIT OF A CLIMATE DENIER, Sen. Inhofe: Sociologists have found that conservative white males are more likely to question the validity of climate change science. Image: U.S. Senate Committee o...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoInteresting commentary- Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu took his office with a self-styled peace offensive to give a human face to his country’s battered foreign policy. His goal was double-pron...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago"Occupy New Orleans" finds a Metaphor! ~Yep... there it is hahaha --The Little Engine That Could! We couldn't resist :):):) Sproles In Your Holes -or- One In The Pink ~moosedenied Sheriff’s deputies not g...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 day agoPhoto credit Josh Lopez
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Eddie Ray Roberts, superintendent of the water and waste department in Robert Lee, Texas, walks the dry bed of Lake E.V. Spence on his way to check a water pump, 3 October 2011. Each day he check...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoWoonasquatucket River Residents in Providence, Rhode Islandrecently were informed of the latest contamination issues and potential cleanupcosts along the WoonasquatucketRiver watershed, according to this ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day agoIn honor of Jobs Week on AOL Jobs, I want to speak up in praise of an entity that has taken a beating this year – the labor union. Anti-union sentiment has spread from state to state, and union busting has...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe disease that Steve Jobs was diagnosed with in 2004 has been associated with chemicals used in the production of computers.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn operating system turns a building into a smart phone, complete with apps to run systems.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoJapanese toilet maker, TOTO, launches Toilet Bike Neo, a talking motorcycle that runs of the biogas of human waste.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSupporters say thorium reactors would be safe, cheap and a game-changing energy source.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoApp helps drivers figure out what to do after an accident...and which lawyer to call.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAnti-democratic forces and fascist elements in states where the GOP won decisive majorities last year-- from Maine and New Hampshire down through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and down to Tennes...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 day ago#occupywallstreet
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoPlease visit Brian McFadden and his Big Fat Whale. The war on Afghanistan is having a birthday party, and you're invited.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThough the government last month lifted the "emergency evacuation preparation zone" designation of some areas greatly affected by the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, radiation de...
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