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------------------------------ Permalink *The Truth Is Viral - Libya, The Real Story* The real reasons behind the overthrow of Moammar Gadaffi's government are exposed in this episode of The Truth... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes ago
One of my neighbors spends half the year in China examining manufactured goods there for American companies who sell the stuff here, kind of quality control. My neighbor told me that if the manufacturers ... - posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 hour agoFormer U.S. ambassador to Canada David Wilkins calls it "catastrophic", FinMin Flaherty said "the delay may kill the project" so Canada will look into sending our oil to China via BC instead, and TransCana...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago
She might only be 10-years-old, but little Sonia Yang can already speak an incredible 10 languages. And the schoolgirl has been crowned the north west of England's best young linguist after stunning te... - posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 hour ago
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago
- Psychopaths use twice as many words relating to basic needs like eating and drinking as ordinary people [image: Real world versions of psychopaths such as Anthony Hopkins' character Hannibal... - posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago
If your teenager is struggling at school, don’t write off their chances of academic glory. Researchers have found they could still turn out to be the next Einstein because IQs can change significantly d... - posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 2 hours ago
Thread veins, wrinkles, blotchy skin. The shocking photo created by forensic experts that predicts the price of your tipple Despite the warnings, I never used to worry too much that my lifestyle might one... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The state-run news agency says authorities have ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey. The Anatolia news agency said search and rescue o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
At least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded after a gunfight broke out between Somali government forces at a camp for famine refugees in the capital Mogadishu, Press TV reported. Somalia's... - posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:32 pm NZDT Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 60 km ( 37.2 miles) East of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
An unknown virus showing identical symptoms of dengue and chikungunya has affected a large number of people in the city, leaving virologists flummoxed. Blood samples examined so far have failed to identif... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:49:11 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Report... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Dozens of well-wishers hoping for the safe return of Baby Lisa have baked cakes and posted the pictures online to celebrate the missing little girl's first birthday. The gesture came as the parents of Lis... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago
Martin and Sharon Butler began looking after Justin Bieber, when Justin was five years old. Martin and Sharon Butler were born in Britain but moved to Stratford in Ontario in Canada, home of Justin Biebe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
The reason behind last week's earthquake in Oklahoma is still eluding scientists though they think it might have been connected to the growing use of hydraulic fracturing. The process, commonly called 'f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
Jerry Sandusky’s wife has been largely absent from the analysis of who knew what about her husband’s alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period. But Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky does make... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Texas family law judge seen beating his older daughter in a video she posted on YouTube has been placed under a temporary restraining order, which his ex-wife's attorney says effectively prevents him fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAtomicland: The new map showing the location of nuclear facilities on the mainland U.S. There are currently 5,113 atomic warheads scattered across America and on U.S. submarines around ther world. In 200...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThirty-four cars. A small, tightly packed circuit. And one man going for a staggering $5m prize if he could win from the back... As IndyCar bosses are accused of gambling with drivers’ lives to chase money...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoIt is expected that the Russian space agency will announce the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission in the next few days.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWildlife experts have accused a marine park of killing a dolphin after allowing a deafening rave to be held in the attraction just a few yards from the mammal's pool. Shadow - an eight year old dolphin - ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIn the past 100 years the world has been turned upside down. In November 1911, European moneymen were flocking to Beijing. A revolution had just toppled China’s last emperor, and the newborn Republic of C...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoI have long since given up on this government. David Cameron is not a Conservative, he's a lefty, Euorophile, greenie fascist from exactly the same mould as the vile Edward Heath, the dangerous egomaniac w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA man was fighting for his life in hospital yesterday, suffering severe burns sustained while he was believed to be trying to steal metal from an electricity sub-station. The sub-station exploded, cuttin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMuslims in Switzerland are responding with shock and outrage after a pig carcass and severed swine heads were discovered buried at the site of a proposed mosque. Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoFlowers of the Eurasian Asteraceae species of feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium). Kenya's pasture is threatened by the North American Asteraceae genus (Parthenium hysterophorus). Photo courtesy: Corbis via gu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAngry supporters of the Syrian president rallied Saturday night at embassies and consulates of countries that voted hours earlier to suspend Syria's membership in the Arab League, anti-government activists...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:17 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 114 km ( 70 miles) SSE of Bam, Iran No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Island Region at a depth of 20.2 km (121 miles), the quake hit at 04:45:50 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 196 km ( 121 miles) East of Ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:16 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 1539 km ( 956 miles) West of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJournalists got their first ground-level glance Saturday around Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility -- eying shells of reactor buildings, tons of contaminated water and workers scurrying st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula a depth of 25.8 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:38 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20 miles) ESE of False Pass, Alas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNiger's president is standing by his country's decision to offer amnesty to one of the late Moammar Gadhafi's sons, saying he is entitled to stay in his nation like other "Libyan refugees." President Mah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 87.2 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:15:57 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 246 km ( 153 miles) Northeast...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoNorthern rockhopper penguins on Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, which holds half the global population of the species. Photo courtesy: Trevor Galss/PA via guardian.co.uk A wrecked ship is threatenin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSupporters of the Syrian President have broken into the Saudi Arabian and Qatari embassies in Damascus after the Arab League voted to suspend the country over its bloody crackdown on protesters. Hundreds...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina a depth of 208.1 km (129.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:01:35 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 102 km ( 63 miles) NNW of San Antonio de ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region a depth of 41.9 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 23:46:00 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 47 miles) NNE of Road Tow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region a depth of 56.5 km (35.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:12:09 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 42 km ( 26 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoTaxol, a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of cancer, was first found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolin). Photo courtesy: National Cancer Institute/Corbis via guardian.co.uk A sp...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago"The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade," by Andrew Feinstein. Andrew Feinsten is a former South African Member of Parliament. Wikipedia: A member of the African National Congress, his political li...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 9 hours agoA report from the semi-official *Fars News Agency* in Iran is sure to send the Bomb Iran crowd into a frenzy. But it shouldn't. "Parliamentary sources revealed on Saturday that Iran's legislature is due ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoEvery time I'm in New York, I see my dear friend NN. NN and I go back a long way, one of the most enduring friendships of my life. One of the many things we share is our mutual love of books - and bookstor...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoI spent this morning at a Blue America-sponsored lecture at the Brave New Films studios in Culvert City. Our guest was Alan Grayson. In a couple weeks, we'll edit down the 90 minute session into YouTube-s...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 9 hours ago- Fauja Singh finished 3,850th ahead of five other runners - He started running aged 89 and runs 10 miles a day A 100-year-old British runner has become the oldest person to complete a marat...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 9 hours agoIt might be teenage boys who are often blamed for the overpowering smell of aftershave sometimes experienced on public transport. But it seems it is men in their sixties who are the real fans of bathing ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 10 hours agoBy the third time around, it really shouldn't be a surprise. The latest 'Call of Duty' video game set a first-day sales record this week, generating $400million in sales in its first 24 hours in stores. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoI have to write something about Aimee Mann. While I'm working that out, please listen to a song of hers that I love. Red Vines by Aimee Mann on Grooveshark If you enjoyed that, perhaps you will listen to ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 10 hours agoThe secret to staying slim is eating slowly, according to a new study. Researchers at America’s University of Rhode Island found that heavier people eat faster than slimmer people. Researchers defined a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*And it's a really saddening display watching them casting about a crop of other candidates with such desperation. * "Tuning in to the Gingrich pitch; Poll numbers rise, as some rivals reel" by Michael L...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*Which will fade to a trickle*: "As flooding threatens Bangkok, governor exhorts citizens, requests sandbags" October 18, 2011|Associated Press BANGKOK - The Thai capital needs 1.2 million sandbags to con...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *Posted at Censored News* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI * *Families helping Families, Akwesasne Mohawks traveled to Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South Dakota to d...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* . *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *Posted at Censored News* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI * *Families helping Families, Akwesasne Mohawks traveled to Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South Dakota to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud some 400 light-years away, the lovely Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is well-known for its striking blue reflection nebulae. In the dusty sky toward the conste...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*Your hard-earned tax dough being justified*: "Van’s fuel sparks a terrorism response" October 17, 2011|By John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff Two *college students who were trying to do something green* on Sat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Mysticism"* by Chet Raymo "Talk about the "mystical experience" in the company of scientists and you'll often get looked at as if you were going on about crop circles or astrology. This not quite fair,...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoThe world is on the verge of World War III. There is no question about that. Russian geopolitical analyst Konstantin Sivkov, Vice President of the Academy for Geopolitical Issues, says WWIII "has already b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*You guys can keep him if you want.* "Obama’s 9-day trip to Pacific underway" by Ben Feller | Associated Press, November 12, 2011 WASHINGTON - President Obama is *jetting away* from Washington’s politic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Journey"* "The mouth of the river may be beautiful. It doesn't remember the womb of its beginning. It doesn't look back to where it's been or wonder who ahead of it polished the rough stones. It is foll...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*Plus: The New Yorker's Ben McGrath reports from State College, PA* *Note the respective type sizes of the two co-authors. Now who do you suppose did most of the work? I can believe Bill O supplied more th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*He thinks chump change pandering will work after three years of betrayals?* "US ponders new route for pipeline from Canada" November 10, 2011|By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The State Depa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Better throw it back.** * *“When you pull a fish up, it doesn’t look like it is supposed to look, like they did before.’’* *And here I was told by my government the oil just magically went away while BP...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoBurnham-on-sea, Somerset, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.” - Mark Twain
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“Consciousness And GMOs: * *What You Don't Know Might Kill You”* by Vaishali “Ever ask yourself, "Where does consciousness come from?" Or, "Can consciousness come from an absence of consciousness?" Albei...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Who needs heating oil in this age of global warming?* "Oil heat bills are expected to soar" October 13, 2011|By Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff Households that heat with oil are expected to spend a record amo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoThis is amazing. Frye on camera. Too bad he wasn't asked good questions. Wikipedia: "Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 14 hours agoAcademic freedom is a protection for what a professor does, not a protection to keep secret what a professor does.By Denis G. RancourtIn what can only be characterized as wacko, an Information and Privacy Co...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Aftershocks of big quake keep Okla. rattled" November 07, 2011|Associated Press SPARKS, Okla. - The biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history.... the weekend earthquakes were among the strongest yet in a st...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Gotcha! * "Ohio votes down new law limiting union rights; State’s current bargaining rules will remain November 09, 2011|Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Voters handily rejected Ohio’s new law restricti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi officially resigned Saturday, according to the presidential palace press office, seemingly bringing an end to a long career played out on center-stage in the coun...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*As is their right. * "Antiabortion movement hopes for key victory in Miss.; Vote is on whether to call a fertilized egg a person" November 06, 2011|By Sandhya Somashekhar, Washington Post WASHINGTON - A...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong*: *The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers"* by Cal Newport "*The Berlin Study:* In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Unive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 134.1 km (83.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:32 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 38 km ( 24 miles) Northwest of T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Why do YOU think she was giggling? It's not because she was listening to "Breastfed" on the headset* People barely want to read about the American economic crisis, let alone the one in Europe-- not that ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*And the cops made it a living hell.* "Missing baby’s family marks 1st birthday" by Associated Press, November 12, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The parents of a missing Kansas City girl planned a private gath...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Horror visits quiet Weymouth street" by Brian R. Ballou and Maria Cramer Globe Staff / November 12, 2011 WEYMOUTH - In recent years, Donald Rudolph’s behavior had become more and more frightening, friend...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Could be yours. * "A season of mourning in America’s hometown" October 15, 2011|By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff PLYMOUTH - Plymouth, best known as the home of Plymouth Rock, is increasingly a place with a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Out!* "For Franconas, military family cause hits home" November 02, 2011|By Bella English, Globe Staff While it was all imploding, Jacque and Terry Francona doubtless had more on their minds than the cr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Coming Crisis is calling out for a volunteer programmer to help us with a programming task that we're unable to carry out ourselves. Click here for the details of the task. Send us an email at thecomi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Do you really know who or what is buried there? * "Pentagon taking closer look at Dover mortuary" by Robert Burns AP National Security Writer / November 9, 2011 *And how appropriate that the Globe switch...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"Obama pays wounded servicemen a visit" October 11, 2011|Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. - President Obama used a quiet Columbus Day holiday to meet with wounded service members at Walter Reed National Mili...
- *You can download Linux Mint 12 Release Candidate* here. Not everything will work flawless in this test-release, there are a few 'raw' ends still, that will be refined in the final release and updates. Url...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Just the tip of the iceberg. The whole operation has been one long war crime.* "Soldier denies plot to kill Afghans; Lawyer admits client took body parts as trophies" November 01, 2011|By Gene Johnson, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:48 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.7 miles) South of Van, Turkey No Re...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago*Shall we digitize all bureaucracy and money transfers?* The city of Pilsen has been intermittently using its own coins, banknotes, and currencies for centuries. For example, you can buy 1/3 of a liter o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week: "Wanna experience the apocalypse before it happens? Visit Oklahoma!" S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA private plane has crashed into the English Channel just off the coast of Guernsey. A Royal navy vessel, HMS Tyne, has been drafted in to search for the light aircraft and the two people onboard. The M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo Britons have been killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of the Spanish island of Majorca. The helicopter came down in a wooded area between Andratx and Estellencs. A fire brigade...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The Laughter and Lesson Behind Family Humor"* by Kathleen Hubert "Family humor seems to have its own special stamp. There are laughs that can be shared by a family that are especially subtle, wacky, or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAccording to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the highest rainfall recorded as at 5.30 pm was 91.4 mm at Kent Ridge in the West Coast area. The afternoon heavy downpour caused a canal at Block 611 in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:15 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20) North of Kalamata, Greece N...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLibya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWomen are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPoliticians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFree Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAmerica must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTens of thousands of Indians were poisoned when toxic gas leaked from a plant owned by a US corporation. Now they claim they are suffering even more after pharmaceutical companies used the opportunity to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLibya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWomen are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPoliticians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFree Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAmerica must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* “Propaganda”* by vigilantcitizen.com “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: A Thai resident throws his net to catch fish at a floods area in Phisi Charoen district in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, 12 November 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has struck ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* * *"U.S. Millennial Generation Battles Against Wall Street"* By James Quinn “Jesse from Jesse’s Café Americain describes our political system perfectly: “Kleptocracy:"rule by thieves" is a form of politi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 19 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15.5) Northwest of Van, Turke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists at the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), an agency of the Cabildo of Tenerife and now form part of volcanological Institute of the Canaries, have established that from July ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago* "Weekly News Wrap-Up"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Tensions with Iran and Israel continue to heat up, especially since the IAEA revealed new evidence about Iran’s nuclear weapons project and that ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoAmong other new seven wonders of nature are the Amazon rainforest, South Africa's Table Mountain and Indonesia's Komodo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 20 km 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:05:21 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 12.7 miles) Northeast of Van, Turke...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 20 hours ago"Breitbart, O'Keefe and our fair and balanced network may have put the kibosh on you, but we're still keeping an eye on you!" Because God knows unregulated capitalism has served us so well, right...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoIt's probably important to begin by explaining that once Tancredo retired, he was replaced by someone even more bigoted and even more a captor of corporate interests than Tancredo, back-bencher Mike Coffm...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoTom Weis' Rocket Trike with Lakotas Photo Lakota Media Project Published with permission at Censored News*CITIZENS RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL TO DEMAND STATE LEGISLATURE PASS BILL REGULATING PIPELINE ROUTES*...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Libyan victim of NATO Nazis.* The pro-Gaddafi *Libyan resistance control Tripoli* according to a post at Libya S.O.S. on 11 November 2011. "In Libyan cities today, clashes broke out between supporters o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo deaths have struck at the heart of the Occupy protest movement. A war veteran has killed himself at the Burlington encampment, while a young man was gunned down near the activists’ camp in Oakland. Th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Op Cartel* *By Barrett Brown* *Update 11/12/2011* 1. I've arrived in Brooklyn thanks to individuals associated with Occupy DC, who paid for a last-minute flight I would otherwise not have been able to a...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 21 hours agoVoyage to the Land of the Living Dead By Manuel Carballal [This article, which graced the splash page of the old Inexplicata website from 1998 to 2000, is among the finest we've ever offered t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago[image: Converge on Ft Benning, Nov 18-20]School of Americas Watch November 18-20, 2011: Fort Benning, Ga. *STAND UP FOR DIGNITY, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!* *http://soaw.org/take-action/n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSecurity cameras in the Turkish city of Van have captured the dramatic moments when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed as two hotels collapsed, and 28 have bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA teenager has been charged with killing his mother, his mother's boyfriend and his sister. Donald Rudolph, 18, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was arrested after police discovered a gruesome scene at his mot...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoI'm stealing this essay and running it here because it speaks to my outrage (seen in my support of OccupyEverything) and is so pointedly poignant, evoking all those feelings about all those issues concerni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPenn State was on alert today as the FBI was called in to investigate a possible bomb threat at the football stadium after the athletic program was plagued with scandal following sex abuse charges by one o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA faulty temperature gauge was today blamed for 800 rare giant snails being accidentally frozen to death. Staff at New Zealand's conservation centre in Hokitika were said to be 'very upset' over the incid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRussia's space agency has all but given up hope of saving a £100million spacecraft that was bound for Mars but conked out shortly after launch. Engineers had three days to fix a problem that caused the Pho...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 22 hours agoIn a letter addressed to Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan on Nov. 8, two little-known entities, the Lake Merritt/Uptown District Association (LMUDA) and Downtown Oakland Association (DOA) implored Mayor Quan to ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago*Alameda Sheriff's officers beat women at Berkeley in stomachs with nightsticks and were present when two veterans were critically injured in Oakland. Alameda Sheriff's Department is denying records reque...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*I don't think they will have to worry*:* * *"Panetta has allies in Congress, especially Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, who are preparing legislation that wouldundothe autom...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoFor Twitter fans, it's a hashtag: #OccupyFail Here's just a sample of what the BBC doesn't want you to know about their favorite US political movement. A Petri Dish of Activism, and Germs *The chorus be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 0.5 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 14:50:16 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 15 km ( 9.3) East of Ercis,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Sucre, Venuzuela at a depth of 81.9 km (50.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 19 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoUnder fear of retaliation from Mexican drug cartels, Barrett Brown, face of hacker collective Anonymous, leaves Dallas.
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours ago[image: Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the release of the feel-good chemical dopamine that is more usually associated with chocolate treats or sex] Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours agoEating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours agoIt isn’t the easiest of tasks to twist nearly 3,000 balloons into a 46ft-wide spider. It’s even harder when you suffer from arachnophobia. Yet that is exactly was party entertainer Adam Lee did to break ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*The war-promoting rulers want it this way.* "Veterans for hire; Returning troops find job prospects bleak; programs try to increase opportunities, ease way into civilian life" November 11, 2011|By Katie ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoReader Contribution; Only eight of 24 whales, which beached themselves on Tasmania's west coast early today have survived. Twenty sperm whales became stranded on Ocean Beach, near Strahan, with four mo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 23 hours agoObama administration asks Senate to restore funds for coastal ecosystem Feds, Coast Guard, join BP to prove they’ve learned very little~Disenfranchised Citizen Repairs Begin for Mississippi River Levee at...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours ago[image: Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the ageing process of DNA] Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn explosion has killed 15 people at an ammunition depot near the capital of Iran, officials have said. The blast apparently happened at a base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards outside the village o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago[image: Link]The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria while calling on its army to stop the killing of civilians. The 22-nation body warned Damascus it could impose economic and political sanctions if i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWas anyone shocked at the decidedly anti-education tone of the Republican "presidential" debate this week? You shouldn't have been. Conservatism is inherently anti-education-- at least anti-education as ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoReaders of Inexplicata may wonder at the sudden appearance of older material from the INEXPLICATA Journal (issues 4, 5 and 6, to be precise) and from our long-forgotten SAMIZDAT newsletter of the 1990s...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoJuan Carlos Victorio remarks on an article appearing in Spain's Mas Allá de la Ciencia magazine (October 2011, No.272) discussing a UFO crash in Spain a full forty-eight years before the birth of the ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoEduardo Ghio, Nelson Morales, Diego Durán, Gaby Montura and Adrián Nicalawere engaged in a skywatch in a field on the western section of the Buenos Aires suburbs, hoping to witness the apparition o...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoAlex Sender shares a video on the most recent events in Icá, Perú, that suggest a connection between earthquakes and UFOs - namely, the most recent seismic event in that country, which reached a 6.9 on...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoSource: El Tribuno.com.ar Date: November 3, 2011 Daniel Ubaldo Padilla sends us this link to a video clip featured in www.eltribuno.com.ar. The text reads: "The images of this home-made video ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoYesterday I received an update from the office of Senator Mac Harb, sponsor of the Harb Seal Bill. Here is the English-language portion. It's short, and I hope you will read the whole thing. Dear Friend, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrians snatched from their homes turn up dead, often mutilated. Soldiers gun down former comrades who defected to the opposition. A human rights group reports that electric shocks and hot iron rods are us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The newly included prefectures are Iwate, Yamanashi, Nagano, Sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA fatal explosion has hit an Iranian military base near capital Tehran, according to local media reports. There has not been any immediate confirmation of casualties in the blast, which reports say happe...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNew open thread as requested. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) This is what a *real* Democrat and human being sounds like. This is Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer speaking out against the perverted "Matt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Southern Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:53 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 41 miles) Northwest of Beeville, Tex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPOLLUTION fears have been raised after more than 50 dead fish were found in a Burnley river. Dead trout and chub were discovered washed up in the River Brun around the town centre and further upstream in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReader Contribution; Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the first dignitary to arrive at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam this morning. Gillard - took part in Hawaii Veterans Day ceremonies and a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA large number of dead fish of different varieties have washed ashore along the Al Hamriya Port in Dubai of late. The locally known varieties like Al Qarfa, Al Dardaman and Al Jad washed ashore were spott...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is rare that the birth of an island can be watched by humans in real-time, but that could be what is happening in Spain's Canary Islands. Residents of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro were recent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHealth officials in Scotland are urging the public to be aware of the symptoms of botulism after two members of the same family were hospitalised with an illness which is now thought likely to be the infec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hacksaws searched the rubble of a five-story hotel Friday, two days after it collapsed in a 5.6-magnitude earthquake. The death toll from Wednesda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMajor league catcher Wilson Ramos has been "found alive," two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state TV reported Friday. Ramos was found by security forces in Montalban, a mounta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces killed a man who hijacked a ferry in northwest Turkey and demanded the incident be shown on live television, authorities said Saturday. The man hijacked the ferry with 24 onboard Friday n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment in Northern California and the apparent suicide of a military veteran at an Occupy encampment in Vermont's largest city....
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoDiving into this doubtful controversy is likely a waste of time. It really is a battle of statisticalinterpretation and both sides are generally weak in their positions. In the end we ended up with a...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoMy off the wall guess is thatthis is a rare star that has yet to orbit through a star cluster which wouldstrip these arms away. Otherwise, justas a galaxy seems to form spiral arms It is plausible a d...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThe only thing lost about thisnot so ancient civilization was the writer’s library card. In the event it is a reminderthat agriculture is a practical proposition in the Saharathe moment the water ques...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoWhat becomes apparent is that theultra filtering process is unnecessary and only serves to allow substitution inthe first instance. It also allowsadulteration of honey with flavored corn syrup by manu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn illegal immigrant who claimed to be paralysed from the neck down but was filmed dancing at his wedding cheated more than £400,000 in benefits, a court heard yesterday. But even though Mohamed Bouzalim,...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe poor countries obviously demand lower standards when it comes to the quality of products, the quality of the environment, and the quality of ideas they're ready to live with. *Communist Party of Ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Known as the Tarantula Nebula, these stars have produced intense radiation say NASA. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles are not believ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron yesterday vowed to stop state-owned bank RBS from lavishing £500million in bonuses on its staff this year. The Prime Minister said the Government could and would ensure that the pot for pay ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron is planning to fly to Berlin next week amid growing British anger at Germany’s refusal to bring an end to the euro crisis. Senior figures in Downing Street are furious that Chancellor Angela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears of eurozone debt contagion have hit France - as Italy and Greece moved to change their governments in a bid to stabilise their battered economies. Leading economists have warned the £261bn worth of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.2 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 05:15:11 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 34 km ( 21 miles) ESE from Cleveland,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Southwest Indian Ridge at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:04 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 1080 km ( 671 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoOccupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt Wikipedia Gaza Strip Military occupation by Egypt 1948–1956 1957–1967 → Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Capital Gaza Language(s) A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 25.2 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:41 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) East of Hualien, Ta...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSteve Harper said he'd put Canada on the map and he has, in spades. Harper has drawn plenty of world attention to Canada. Regrettably, it's uniformly bad. *The Guardian* has chronicled Harper's deviou...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThe herd on the way back to the barn. Photo courtesy: bruevalley.co.uk Cows are very intelligent sentient beings; and, I am glad to see a dairy farmer who respects them for the amazing animals that they a...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShots were reported fired Friday night between the White House and the Washington Monument, setting off a flurry of law enforcement activity, a U.S. Park Police spokesman said. The incident was reported s...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day ago[image: Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water or fluid] Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoShare your deepest secrets with her, and she will no doubt promise never to tell. But beware of putting your trust in a woman – for the likelihood is she will have broken your confidence barely half an ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoImage courtesy: freakingnews.com Autumn is here - no ifs, ands or buts about it. This means that many of our birds and winged pollinators will either be overwintering or migrating to warmer climes. To hel...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoThey say that quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do, now new research underlines just how difficult it can be. Just six per cent of people who try to stub out their nicotine habit actually succeed...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*SCHUMANN: "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. 1* You my soul, you my heart, you my joy, o you my pain, you my world in which I live, my heaven you in which I soar, o you my grave in which I have buried ...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*The facts are easy, it is the acceptance that is difficult - cleanse your mind of thoughts and contemplate the accuracy of the ancient scriptures, it will all become very clear - the evil tribe of usurio...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoPerfect teeth - white, straight and evenly aligned - may be the ideal in America, but that aesthetic is not for everyone. Japanese women are going gaga for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentua...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: grammyssweetnothings.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a "V" formation or how fast they can fly? Well, you're about to find out. During migration, it is common for Canad...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. nuclear regulator on Friday approved the restart of the Virginia plant rocked by summer's historic East Coast earthquake. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that after careful analysis it had ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. This cosmic close-up, a mosaic based on data from...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoStreamwood, Illinois, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A Pakistani man pushes his bicycle while children run away as they get caught in a sandstorm on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo] ISLA...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day agoBy Denis G. RancourtIn the steady state of a society, in the absence of large direct consequences of war at home, including civil war and class war, in the absence of believable threats of violence against t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Michelle Esteban 11 November 2011 SEATTLE – Debris the size of California is headed for the U.S. coast. The materials were swept out to sea after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan last ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"There are good people and institutions at the university and in State College who still need our support and involvement. Don’t walk away. Give your time, money and talents to those who are making a posi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Going to be waiting a long time.* *Last related*:* Sunday Globe Special: Wall Streets Protests Go Worldwide* *I'll pick up where I left off: * "Occupy movement, arrests continue to spread across US" Octo...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoVirginia SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants"). Depicting the state's motto on the flag is the goddess Virtue (who is holding a sword and a spear), who has defeated a tyrant, who is lyin...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoIt's a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong. This little corner's been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it's gotten the Masters of the Un...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA star has been discovered with a record-breaking spin, but it will suffer one of the most violent explosions in the known universe.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoToday is the 11th November 2011. On this day in 1918, the Great War finally ended with the signing of the Armistice at 11am. The War had been won by Germany in 1917, but the Zionist Establishment in Lon...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"As a result of this unrelenting propaganda against Iran, the talk now is not; ‘has Iran really got a nuclear weapons program’, or even; ‘if it has, how can this be a threat to any one of the nuclear arm...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Canadian man claims to have captured video evidence of the legendary lake monster Ogopogo.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoJohn Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato starts dropping tha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJohn "Patriotic Truther" has long been a source of great news and information for the Coming Crisis on Youtube, as well as a friend of the website. We've decided to partner together and let John lead our...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoAn Embarrasment of Humanoid Riches by José Manuel Duran We sometimes complain that the subjects of our interest seldom receive the attention they deserve, and we're even forced to acknowledge at some point...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoHumanoids in Galicia by Grupo FENIX The UFO wave remains in full force throughout the northern par to the country and some very well documented cases are becoming known. ENIGMAS magazine has visited the l...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoEmiliano Zapata Municipality: The Mystery of the Forgotten Stones by Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros, CEFP (Mexico) Since the end of December 1998, a series of insistent rumors had come to our attention: a bro...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*A bit hypocritically I might add*:"Penn State shows danger of putting sports beyond reproach November 10, 2011 TO MANY AT Pennsylvania State University, the beloved football program there long seemed be...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOne Day on Earth is set to film today, will you be participating?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA growing number of smart phone apps are helping to make a tough transition from war zone to home a little smoother.
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoThe response to the announcement of the creation of a “Dream Team” has been met with nearly unanimous approval. There have been the detractors, but there will always be detractors... Nothing can be done ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn ex-soldier shot himself at the Occupy Vermont encampment in Burlington yesterday, fellow protesters said. The 35-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after arrival. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAustralia is set to become home to hundreds of U.S. Marines - as America moves its servicemen to a military base on the northern tip of the country. In a bid to combat China's increase in global military a...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI am so so bogged down trying to write the next post about something that actually matters - our collapsing ecosystem. So briefly, here's all anybody needs to know about my regard for the gravity of the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:42 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 7 miles) Southeast Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Pennsylvania by Lewis Hine * PENNSYLVANIA is the home of: *Hershey Childrens' Home sexual abuse* "The Milton Hershey School, the wealthy and nationally acclaimed free boarding school for disadvantaged c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPet owners in Albuquerque are on their guard after a spate of attacks on dogs by giant owls. Officials are uncertain if there is one owl on the prowl for small animals to eat, or whether there are several...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a myst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man, whose teenage son was tragically killed in a car crash, died after crashing his own car after driving the wrong-way on the same highway hours later. Heartbroken father Sunil Sambhi's death on Thur...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Happy Belated Birthday, United State Marine Corps"* "The USMC birthday, November 10, comes on the eve of Veterans' Day, which was established to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended Wor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the world's greatest historical sites was closed today over fears Jewish Masons would try to claim it as their own on Magic Friday. Egypt's antiquities authority shut the biggest of the Giza pyramid...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEgyptian authorities took the step to avoid possible damage to the wonder from a rumored, bizarre ceremony.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of 'moral deviation and adultery', according to reports. The killing happened on Thursday in the K...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"As I've Aged"* Author Unknown “You ask me how it feels to grow older. I’ve learned a few things along the way, which I’ll share with you... As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe gadgets we marvel at can be used on us, not just by us.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Conversations: * *Samuel Johnson: Dying Easy & Supernatural Interposition...”* by VioletPlanet ”A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” - Samuel Johnson *"A Conversation:* ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoPress conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here. And a message from the Irish boat:
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels. Television images showed the scattered wreckage of the he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Caledonia at a depth of 130.7 km (81.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:47 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 143 km ( 89 miles) SSE of Tadine, Loyalty ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtesters camped out at St Paul's Cathedral have rejected proposals by the London Corporation to help resolve the ongoing occupation. Around 200 protesters have been outside the historic building for the...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoI want to grind a personal axe today- While this has to do with the news coverage of the occupy movement in Canada to some degree. What this is largely about the censorship media outlets practice in the ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoToday's date holds special significance for many around the world. Is there reason behind the superstition?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLast-ditch attempts are being made to rescue the Russian Mars mission, but the reality is that uncontrolled reentry scenarios are now being discussed.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in London have arrested 173 people - including many believed to be English Defence League supporters - in order to "prevent a breach of the peace". A group was held outside the Red Lion pub in Wes...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI’m always writing about the tenacity of the America Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is like a nasty blood-sucking mosquito – you can’t just brush them away – ‘cause they will just keep coming b...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoTranquility Park - Houston 27 Houston cops arrest six protesters for having tarp in parkIn all, a total of 27 police officers responded to the scene in 19 squad cars, according to the protesters. Police h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "The Fallen" * "They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to t...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI just did something unusual. I listened to Feedback on BBC radio 4, whereupon I heard a strange item. Roger Bolton summoned Alison Hastings,chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, to talk abo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFrom Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" * * *"When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a colu...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor months, Serbs in Northern Kosovo have been putting up barricades against the hated Kosovo authorities as well as NATO peacekeepers. Little by little, they are growing accustomed to living in a cage o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrench energy firm Areva on Tuesday showed to the media a new nuclear power plant that it says can withstand serious accidents. The European Pressurized Reactor is located in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe woman in the screenshot above has just jumped off a bridge onto a busy Chinese highway. In the video from which this screeshot was taken, it is clear the woman is still alive as she lies sprawled in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTraffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe exoskeleton helps lighten the load of a 132-pound anti-radiation vest.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoOne of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Party of the Rich. Alas, in recent decades the Democrats ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOn this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia launched an unmanned probe to one of Mars’ moons – Phobos – in the early hours of Wednesday, but it has hit technical trouble. Federal Space Agency officials say they have three days to sort the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEconomists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoBBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, Ústí, and elsewhere: not in Pils...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.N. nuclear agency is reporting "very low" — but higher than usual — levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the "very low levels...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Pentagon crowd-sources parachute problems in humanitarian food drops.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called “Geezer Bandit,” according to the FBI. The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn elderly Amish man has been attacked by his own son, who a sheriff says cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was so...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmy Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRep. Phil Gingrey has had three professions. He is a success in two of them. Gingrey was an obstetrician and proudly reports on his website that he has delivered 5,200 babies. He is a politician, represent...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThat's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in *New Scientist* claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhoto: Alameda Sheriff Deputies beating protesters, including young women, at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. *Union City Police Officer blogs about Oakland and Alameda Sheriff's officers doing the 'dirty work' ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrom corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a day after Alabama's Jefferson County declared the biggest ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life. Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOakmont Police are investigating after a 64-year-old man was hit in the head by a pumpkin. Police Chief David DiSanti says Rose and Daniel Wagner were walking along the 900-block of Pennsylvania Avenue ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said a military strike against Iran could have "unintended consequences". He said it would only delay Iran's nuclear efforts by three years at most. Correspondent...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoMeet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling comment...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConservationists in New Zealand have blamed a technical glitch after 800 endangered giant land snails were accidentally frozen to death. The rare snails, rescued from an area earmarked for coal mining, wer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday. The watchdog group has already urged the Arab League to pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGovernment forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shielde...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's censors are trying to keep online criticism and rumours from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders prohibiting news media from reporting internet postings before they are verified. The r...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIt's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course. 10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it, will be totally kickass. But 11.11....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Italian senate has adopted a package of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest economy. The package is expected to get final approval in a vote by the lower hous...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIf you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoSaw a post on Huffington this morning that was of interest More than 60 state legislators are gathering for the invite-only leadership retreat hosted by the Progressive States Network, a group providing ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style. "*Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weat...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoIn the last six weeks, Herman Cain has raised a whopping $9,000,000 in cash, $2.25 million coming since the sexual harassment scandal broke on * Politico* late last month. At the rate the money is flowing ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMen in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA solar-powered structure could transform desert air into ice and water.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTurn your existing coaxial cables into a network that maximizes wired, wireless and wide-band multimedia.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The tanker Awanuia moves into position astern of the stricken container ship Rena to take a line which will transport oil between the two ships, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAccording to *Salon's* David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Pages from 'The Notebook', which investigative journalist Greg Palast uses to reveal that two senior nuclear plant engineers inspected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and found that the plant...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThere's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of plastic to their vehicles.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMusicians roundtable discussion on New Orleans noise ordinance is Saturday ~Allison Fensterstock Happy Veterans' Day Y'all! ~I believe that all Veterans of our Armed Forces should recieve: 1- All the benefi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days agoIt's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran" leaps out at t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIodine 131 - also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. I...Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 minutes ago------------------------------ Permalink *The Truth Is Viral - Libya, The Real Story* The real reasons behind the overthrow of Moammar Gadaffi's government are exposed in this episode of The Truth...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 29 minutes agoOne of my neighbors spends half the year in China examining manufactured goods there for American companies who sell the stuff here, kind of quality control. My neighbor told me that if the manufacturers ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 hour agoFormer U.S. ambassador to Canada David Wilkins calls it "catastrophic", FinMin Flaherty said "the delay may kill the project" so Canada will look into sending our oil to China via BC instead, and TransCana...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour agoShe might only be 10-years-old, but little Sonia Yang can already speak an incredible 10 languages. And the schoolgirl has been crowned the north west of England's best young linguist after stunning te...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 1 hour ago
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago- Psychopaths use twice as many words relating to basic needs like eating and drinking as ordinary people [image: Real world versions of psychopaths such as Anthony Hopkins' character Hannibal...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 hour agoIf your teenager is struggling at school, don’t write off their chances of academic glory. Researchers have found they could still turn out to be the next Einstein because IQs can change significantly d...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 2 hours agoThread veins, wrinkles, blotchy skin. The shocking photo created by forensic experts that predicts the price of your tipple Despite the warnings, I never used to worry too much that my lifestyle might one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe state-run news agency says authorities have ended efforts to find anyone else alive in the rubble of an earthquake-shattered hotel in eastern Turkey. The Anatolia news agency said search and rescue o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAt least five people have been killed and 15 others wounded after a gunfight broke out between Somali government forces at a camp for famine refugees in the capital Mogadishu, Press TV reported. Somalia's...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:32 pm NZDT Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 60 km ( 37.2 miles) East of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn unknown virus showing identical symptoms of dengue and chikungunya has affected a large number of people in the city, leaving virologists flummoxed. Blood samples examined so far have failed to identif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:49:11 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 19 km ( 11 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDozens of well-wishers hoping for the safe return of Baby Lisa have baked cakes and posted the pictures online to celebrate the missing little girl's first birthday. The gesture came as the parents of Lis...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours agoMartin and Sharon Butler began looking after Justin Bieber, when Justin was five years old. Martin and Sharon Butler were born in Britain but moved to Stratford in Ontario in Canada, home of Justin Biebe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe reason behind last week's earthquake in Oklahoma is still eluding scientists though they think it might have been connected to the growing use of hydraulic fracturing. The process, commonly called 'f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoJerry Sandusky’s wife has been largely absent from the analysis of who knew what about her husband’s alleged sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year period. But Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky does make...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Texas family law judge seen beating his older daughter in a video she posted on YouTube has been placed under a temporary restraining order, which his ex-wife's attorney says effectively prevents him fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAtomicland: The new map showing the location of nuclear facilities on the mainland U.S. There are currently 5,113 atomic warheads scattered across America and on U.S. submarines around ther world. In 200...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThirty-four cars. A small, tightly packed circuit. And one man going for a staggering $5m prize if he could win from the back... As IndyCar bosses are accused of gambling with drivers’ lives to chase money...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoIt is expected that the Russian space agency will announce the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission in the next few days.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoWildlife experts have accused a marine park of killing a dolphin after allowing a deafening rave to be held in the attraction just a few yards from the mammal's pool. Shadow - an eight year old dolphin - ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIn the past 100 years the world has been turned upside down. In November 1911, European moneymen were flocking to Beijing. A revolution had just toppled China’s last emperor, and the newborn Republic of C...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoI have long since given up on this government. David Cameron is not a Conservative, he's a lefty, Euorophile, greenie fascist from exactly the same mould as the vile Edward Heath, the dangerous egomaniac w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA man was fighting for his life in hospital yesterday, suffering severe burns sustained while he was believed to be trying to steal metal from an electricity sub-station. The sub-station exploded, cuttin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMuslims in Switzerland are responding with shock and outrage after a pig carcass and severed swine heads were discovered buried at the site of a proposed mosque. Police in the town of Grenchen uncovered ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoFlowers of the Eurasian Asteraceae species of feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium). Kenya's pasture is threatened by the North American Asteraceae genus (Parthenium hysterophorus). Photo courtesy: Corbis via gu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAngry supporters of the Syrian president rallied Saturday night at embassies and consulates of countries that voted hours earlier to suspend Syria's membership in the Arab League, anti-government activists...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:17 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 114 km ( 70 miles) SSE of Bam, Iran No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Island Region at a depth of 20.2 km (121 miles), the quake hit at 04:45:50 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 196 km ( 121 miles) East of Ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:15:16 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 1539 km ( 956 miles) West of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJournalists got their first ground-level glance Saturday around Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility -- eying shells of reactor buildings, tons of contaminated water and workers scurrying st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula a depth of 25.8 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:38 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20 miles) ESE of False Pass, Alas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNiger's president is standing by his country's decision to offer amnesty to one of the late Moammar Gadhafi's sons, saying he is entitled to stay in his nation like other "Libyan refugees." President Mah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 87.2 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:15:57 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 246 km ( 153 miles) Northeast...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoNorthern rockhopper penguins on Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, which holds half the global population of the species. Photo courtesy: Trevor Galss/PA via guardian.co.uk A wrecked ship is threatenin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSupporters of the Syrian President have broken into the Saudi Arabian and Qatari embassies in Damascus after the Arab League voted to suspend the country over its bloody crackdown on protesters. Hundreds...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina a depth of 208.1 km (129.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:01:35 UTC Sunday 13th November 2011. The epicenter was 102 km ( 63 miles) NNW of San Antonio de ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region a depth of 41.9 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 23:46:00 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 77 km ( 47 miles) NNE of Road Tow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region a depth of 56.5 km (35.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:12:09 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 42 km ( 26 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 6 hours agoTaxol, a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of cancer, was first found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolin). Photo courtesy: National Cancer Institute/Corbis via guardian.co.uk A sp...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago"The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade," by Andrew Feinstein. Andrew Feinsten is a former South African Member of Parliament. Wikipedia: A member of the African National Congress, his political li...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 9 hours agoA report from the semi-official *Fars News Agency* in Iran is sure to send the Bomb Iran crowd into a frenzy. But it shouldn't. "Parliamentary sources revealed on Saturday that Iran's legislature is due ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoEvery time I'm in New York, I see my dear friend NN. NN and I go back a long way, one of the most enduring friendships of my life. One of the many things we share is our mutual love of books - and bookstor...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoI spent this morning at a Blue America-sponsored lecture at the Brave New Films studios in Culvert City. Our guest was Alan Grayson. In a couple weeks, we'll edit down the 90 minute session into YouTube-s...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 9 hours ago- Fauja Singh finished 3,850th ahead of five other runners - He started running aged 89 and runs 10 miles a day A 100-year-old British runner has become the oldest person to complete a marat...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 9 hours agoIt might be teenage boys who are often blamed for the overpowering smell of aftershave sometimes experienced on public transport. But it seems it is men in their sixties who are the real fans of bathing ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 10 hours agoBy the third time around, it really shouldn't be a surprise. The latest 'Call of Duty' video game set a first-day sales record this week, generating $400million in sales in its first 24 hours in stores. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoI have to write something about Aimee Mann. While I'm working that out, please listen to a song of hers that I love. Red Vines by Aimee Mann on Grooveshark If you enjoyed that, perhaps you will listen to ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 10 hours agoThe secret to staying slim is eating slowly, according to a new study. Researchers at America’s University of Rhode Island found that heavier people eat faster than slimmer people. Researchers defined a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*And it's a really saddening display watching them casting about a crop of other candidates with such desperation. * "Tuning in to the Gingrich pitch; Poll numbers rise, as some rivals reel" by Michael L...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*Which will fade to a trickle*: "As flooding threatens Bangkok, governor exhorts citizens, requests sandbags" October 18, 2011|Associated Press BANGKOK - The Thai capital needs 1.2 million sandbags to con...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *Posted at Censored News* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI * *Families helping Families, Akwesasne Mohawks traveled to Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South Dakota to d...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* . *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI* *Posted at Censored News* *SKENNENTAIA'KWA :HAWI * *Families helping Families, Akwesasne Mohawks traveled to Rosebud and Pine Ridge in South Dakota to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud some 400 light-years away, the lovely Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is well-known for its striking blue reflection nebulae. In the dusty sky toward the conste...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*Your hard-earned tax dough being justified*: "Van’s fuel sparks a terrorism response" October 17, 2011|By John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff Two *college students who were trying to do something green* on Sat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Mysticism"* by Chet Raymo "Talk about the "mystical experience" in the company of scientists and you'll often get looked at as if you were going on about crop circles or astrology. This not quite fair,...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoThe world is on the verge of World War III. There is no question about that. Russian geopolitical analyst Konstantin Sivkov, Vice President of the Academy for Geopolitical Issues, says WWIII "has already b...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*You guys can keep him if you want.* "Obama’s 9-day trip to Pacific underway" by Ben Feller | Associated Press, November 12, 2011 WASHINGTON - President Obama is *jetting away* from Washington’s politic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Journey"* "The mouth of the river may be beautiful. It doesn't remember the womb of its beginning. It doesn't look back to where it's been or wonder who ahead of it polished the rough stones. It is foll...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*Plus: The New Yorker's Ben McGrath reports from State College, PA* *Note the respective type sizes of the two co-authors. Now who do you suppose did most of the work? I can believe Bill O supplied more th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*He thinks chump change pandering will work after three years of betrayals?* "US ponders new route for pipeline from Canada" November 10, 2011|By Matthew Daly, Associated Press WASHINGTON - The State Depa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Better throw it back.** * *“When you pull a fish up, it doesn’t look like it is supposed to look, like they did before.’’* *And here I was told by my government the oil just magically went away while BP...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoBurnham-on-sea, Somerset, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.” - Mark Twain
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“Consciousness And GMOs: * *What You Don't Know Might Kill You”* by Vaishali “Ever ask yourself, "Where does consciousness come from?" Or, "Can consciousness come from an absence of consciousness?" Albei...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Who needs heating oil in this age of global warming?* "Oil heat bills are expected to soar" October 13, 2011|By Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff Households that heat with oil are expected to spend a record amo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 14 hours agoThis is amazing. Frye on camera. Too bad he wasn't asked good questions. Wikipedia: "Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 14 hours agoAcademic freedom is a protection for what a professor does, not a protection to keep secret what a professor does.By Denis G. RancourtIn what can only be characterized as wacko, an Information and Privacy Co...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Aftershocks of big quake keep Okla. rattled" November 07, 2011|Associated Press SPARKS, Okla. - The biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history.... the weekend earthquakes were among the strongest yet in a st...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Gotcha! * "Ohio votes down new law limiting union rights; State’s current bargaining rules will remain November 09, 2011|Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Voters handily rejected Ohio’s new law restricti...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi officially resigned Saturday, according to the presidential palace press office, seemingly bringing an end to a long career played out on center-stage in the coun...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*As is their right. * "Antiabortion movement hopes for key victory in Miss.; Vote is on whether to call a fertilized egg a person" November 06, 2011|By Sandhya Somashekhar, Washington Post WASHINGTON - A...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"If You're Busy, You're Doing Something Wrong*: *The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers"* by Cal Newport "*The Berlin Study:* In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Unive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 134.1 km (83.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:32 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 38 km ( 24 miles) Northwest of T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Why do YOU think she was giggling? It's not because she was listening to "Breastfed" on the headset* People barely want to read about the American economic crisis, let alone the one in Europe-- not that ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*And the cops made it a living hell.* "Missing baby’s family marks 1st birthday" by Associated Press, November 12, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The parents of a missing Kansas City girl planned a private gath...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Horror visits quiet Weymouth street" by Brian R. Ballou and Maria Cramer Globe Staff / November 12, 2011 WEYMOUTH - In recent years, Donald Rudolph’s behavior had become more and more frightening, friend...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Could be yours. * "A season of mourning in America’s hometown" October 15, 2011|By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff PLYMOUTH - Plymouth, best known as the home of Plymouth Rock, is increasingly a place with a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Out!* "For Franconas, military family cause hits home" November 02, 2011|By Bella English, Globe Staff While it was all imploding, Jacque and Terry Francona doubtless had more on their minds than the cr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Coming Crisis is calling out for a volunteer programmer to help us with a programming task that we're unable to carry out ourselves. Click here for the details of the task. Send us an email at thecomi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Do you really know who or what is buried there? * "Pentagon taking closer look at Dover mortuary" by Robert Burns AP National Security Writer / November 9, 2011 *And how appropriate that the Globe switch...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"Obama pays wounded servicemen a visit" October 11, 2011|Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. - President Obama used a quiet Columbus Day holiday to meet with wounded service members at Walter Reed National Mili...
- *You can download Linux Mint 12 Release Candidate* here. Not everything will work flawless in this test-release, there are a few 'raw' ends still, that will be refined in the final release and updates. Url...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Just the tip of the iceberg. The whole operation has been one long war crime.* "Soldier denies plot to kill Afghans; Lawyer admits client took body parts as trophies" November 01, 2011|By Gene Johnson, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:48 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 6 km ( 3.7 miles) South of Van, Turkey No Re...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 18 hours ago*Shall we digitize all bureaucracy and money transfers?* The city of Pilsen has been intermittently using its own coins, banknotes, and currencies for centuries. For example, you can buy 1/3 of a liter o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week: "Wanna experience the apocalypse before it happens? Visit Oklahoma!" S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA private plane has crashed into the English Channel just off the coast of Guernsey. A Royal navy vessel, HMS Tyne, has been drafted in to search for the light aircraft and the two people onboard. The M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo Britons have been killed when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area of the Spanish island of Majorca. The helicopter came down in a wooded area between Andratx and Estellencs. A fire brigade...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"The Laughter and Lesson Behind Family Humor"* by Kathleen Hubert "Family humor seems to have its own special stamp. There are laughs that can be shared by a family that are especially subtle, wacky, or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAccording to the National Environment Agency (NEA), the highest rainfall recorded as at 5.30 pm was 91.4 mm at Kent Ridge in the West Coast area. The afternoon heavy downpour caused a canal at Block 611 in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 59.8 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:15 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 33 km ( 20) North of Kalamata, Greece N...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLibya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWomen are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPoliticians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFree Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAmerica must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKids having sex on prime time broadcast TV? Must be sweeps month. It's so predictable, it's almost laughable. Almost. That is, it would be if it weren't for the fact that there are real-world consequences ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTens of thousands of Indians were poisoned when toxic gas leaked from a plant owned by a US corporation. Now they claim they are suffering even more after pharmaceutical companies used the opportunity to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLibya's post-Gaddafi world is showing a lurch towards radical Islam, with strict Sharia law and Al-Qaeda flags in evidence there. But are the US and NATO truly concerned about it? Not so long ago, the U...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRT talks to Lord Alexander Hesketh, who has become the most high-profile defector from David Cameron’s Conservative Party after he rejected a referendum on Britain’s leaving the EU. Lord Hesketh was in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSPIEGEL: What should the government that leads Greece out of the crisis look like? Bakoyannis: With its black-and-white logic -- according to which one party is always right and the other one is always wr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWomen are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers. Universities minister David Willetts predicted ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them wi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe expansion of the CIA’s undeclared drone war in the tribal areas of Pakistan required a big expansion of who can be marked for death. Once the standard for targeted killing was top-level leadership in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments Tuesday in what perhaps is the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade — one weighing the collision of privacy, technology and the Constitutio...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPoliticians of all stripes talk about small business being the backbone of the US economy. But the vast majority of Americans work for large companies, and it is big business doing most of the hiring - and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFree Wi-Fi is everywhere. There are more than a million hotspots worldwide, in everything from coffee shops to airports to hotels, and more. Finding a free Wi-Fi hotspot is a great convenience, but it ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen I read that Joachim Fels, Global Head of Economics at Morgan Stanley, had observed that Sarkozy and Merkel had opened a "Pandora's Box" by publicly contemplating the possible exit of Greece from both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIt’s not a national government – not, at least, in sense of a government that represents the nation. The coalition of the two big Greek parties has been formed for the sole purpose of pursuing an agenda th...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe six weeks allotted to save monetary union have expired. The G20 has come and gone, yet no workable firewall is in place as the drama engulfs Italy and threatens to light the fuse on the world’s third l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAmerica must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald's, has warned. "The question is, how can we get the ox out ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoI’m sitting with a friend I haven’t seen in a while. He’s black, parents from Guyana, in his forties, married to a white woman, and doesn’t have a single black revolutionary bone in his body. "You know, t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 monthly debit card fee in late September, it probably did not count on a 22-year old woman standing in its way. But for Molly Katchpole, a 2011...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNov. 7, 1991, seemed like it would be a typical practice day for the Los Angeles Lakers. The season had just started, and the Lakers were trying to defend their Western Conference title, hoping to hang yet...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn a new book from TIME, Special Ops: The Hidden World of America's Toughest Warriors, International Editor Jim Frederick reports on the secret world of military special operations units. Now available in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in May 2010, and then CEO Tony Hayward made his infamous statement that he wanted his life back, he likely had little fear of it being ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the glo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and A...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOn the southeastern outskirts of Washington, D.C., inside the Smithsonian Institution’s cavernous Museum Support Center, one can see some frogs that no longer exist. Alcohol-filled glass jars hold preserve...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped last year by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-mad...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* “Propaganda”* by vigilantcitizen.com “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: A Thai resident throws his net to catch fish at a floods area in Phisi Charoen district in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, 12 November 2011. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has struck ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* * *"U.S. Millennial Generation Battles Against Wall Street"* By James Quinn “Jesse from Jesse’s Café Americain describes our political system perfectly: “Kleptocracy:"rule by thieves" is a form of politi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 19 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 25 km ( 15.5) Northwest of Van, Turke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists at the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), an agency of the Cabildo of Tenerife and now form part of volcanological Institute of the Canaries, have established that from July ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago* "Weekly News Wrap-Up"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Tensions with Iran and Israel continue to heat up, especially since the IAEA revealed new evidence about Iran’s nuclear weapons project and that ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoAmong other new seven wonders of nature are the Amazon rainforest, South Africa's Table Mountain and Indonesia's Komodo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 20 km 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:05:21 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 12.7 miles) Northeast of Van, Turke...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 20 hours ago"Breitbart, O'Keefe and our fair and balanced network may have put the kibosh on you, but we're still keeping an eye on you!" Because God knows unregulated capitalism has served us so well, right...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoIt's probably important to begin by explaining that once Tancredo retired, he was replaced by someone even more bigoted and even more a captor of corporate interests than Tancredo, back-bencher Mike Coffm...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoTom Weis' Rocket Trike with Lakotas Photo Lakota Media Project Published with permission at Censored News*CITIZENS RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL TO DEMAND STATE LEGISLATURE PASS BILL REGULATING PIPELINE ROUTES*...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Libyan victim of NATO Nazis.* The pro-Gaddafi *Libyan resistance control Tripoli* according to a post at Libya S.O.S. on 11 November 2011. "In Libyan cities today, clashes broke out between supporters o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo deaths have struck at the heart of the Occupy protest movement. A war veteran has killed himself at the Burlington encampment, while a young man was gunned down near the activists’ camp in Oakland. Th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Op Cartel* *By Barrett Brown* *Update 11/12/2011* 1. I've arrived in Brooklyn thanks to individuals associated with Occupy DC, who paid for a last-minute flight I would otherwise not have been able to a...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 21 hours agoVoyage to the Land of the Living Dead By Manuel Carballal [This article, which graced the splash page of the old Inexplicata website from 1998 to 2000, is among the finest we've ever offered t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago[image: Converge on Ft Benning, Nov 18-20]School of Americas Watch November 18-20, 2011: Fort Benning, Ga. *STAND UP FOR DIGNITY, JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION!* *http://soaw.org/take-action/n...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSecurity cameras in the Turkish city of Van have captured the dramatic moments when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed as two hotels collapsed, and 28 have bee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA teenager has been charged with killing his mother, his mother's boyfriend and his sister. Donald Rudolph, 18, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was arrested after police discovered a gruesome scene at his mot...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoI'm stealing this essay and running it here because it speaks to my outrage (seen in my support of OccupyEverything) and is so pointedly poignant, evoking all those feelings about all those issues concerni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPenn State was on alert today as the FBI was called in to investigate a possible bomb threat at the football stadium after the athletic program was plagued with scandal following sex abuse charges by one o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA faulty temperature gauge was today blamed for 800 rare giant snails being accidentally frozen to death. Staff at New Zealand's conservation centre in Hokitika were said to be 'very upset' over the incid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRussia's space agency has all but given up hope of saving a £100million spacecraft that was bound for Mars but conked out shortly after launch. Engineers had three days to fix a problem that caused the Pho...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 22 hours agoIn a letter addressed to Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan on Nov. 8, two little-known entities, the Lake Merritt/Uptown District Association (LMUDA) and Downtown Oakland Association (DOA) implored Mayor Quan to ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago*Alameda Sheriff's officers beat women at Berkeley in stomachs with nightsticks and were present when two veterans were critically injured in Oakland. Alameda Sheriff's Department is denying records reque...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*I don't think they will have to worry*:* * *"Panetta has allies in Congress, especially Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, who are preparing legislation that wouldundothe autom...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoFor Twitter fans, it's a hashtag: #OccupyFail Here's just a sample of what the BBC doesn't want you to know about their favorite US political movement. A Petri Dish of Activism, and Germs *The chorus be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 0.5 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 14:50:16 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 15 km ( 9.3) East of Ercis,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Sucre, Venuzuela at a depth of 81.9 km (50.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:02 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 31 km ( 19 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoUnder fear of retaliation from Mexican drug cartels, Barrett Brown, face of hacker collective Anonymous, leaves Dallas.
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours ago[image: Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the release of the feel-good chemical dopamine that is more usually associated with chocolate treats or sex] Rewarding: Supporting a partner triggers the...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours agoEating brown bread or wholegrain cereals three times a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a major study has shown. But surprisingly, researchers found no 'significant evidence' that eating mo...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours agoIt isn’t the easiest of tasks to twist nearly 3,000 balloons into a 46ft-wide spider. It’s even harder when you suffer from arachnophobia. Yet that is exactly was party entertainer Adam Lee did to break ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*The war-promoting rulers want it this way.* "Veterans for hire; Returning troops find job prospects bleak; programs try to increase opportunities, ease way into civilian life" November 11, 2011|By Katie ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoReader Contribution; Only eight of 24 whales, which beached themselves on Tasmania's west coast early today have survived. Twenty sperm whales became stranded on Ocean Beach, near Strahan, with four mo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 23 hours agoObama administration asks Senate to restore funds for coastal ecosystem Feds, Coast Guard, join BP to prove they’ve learned very little~Disenfranchised Citizen Repairs Begin for Mississippi River Levee at...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 23 hours ago[image: Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the ageing process of DNA] Elixir: A £2million study has found a daily dose of pomegranate juice could slow the a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn explosion has killed 15 people at an ammunition depot near the capital of Iran, officials have said. The blast apparently happened at a base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards outside the village o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago[image: Link]The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria while calling on its army to stop the killing of civilians. The 22-nation body warned Damascus it could impose economic and political sanctions if i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWas anyone shocked at the decidedly anti-education tone of the Republican "presidential" debate this week? You shouldn't have been. Conservatism is inherently anti-education-- at least anti-education as ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoReaders of Inexplicata may wonder at the sudden appearance of older material from the INEXPLICATA Journal (issues 4, 5 and 6, to be precise) and from our long-forgotten SAMIZDAT newsletter of the 1990s...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoJuan Carlos Victorio remarks on an article appearing in Spain's Mas Allá de la Ciencia magazine (October 2011, No.272) discussing a UFO crash in Spain a full forty-eight years before the birth of the ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoEduardo Ghio, Nelson Morales, Diego Durán, Gaby Montura and Adrián Nicalawere engaged in a skywatch in a field on the western section of the Buenos Aires suburbs, hoping to witness the apparition o...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoAlex Sender shares a video on the most recent events in Icá, Perú, that suggest a connection between earthquakes and UFOs - namely, the most recent seismic event in that country, which reached a 6.9 on...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoSource: El Tribuno.com.ar Date: November 3, 2011 Daniel Ubaldo Padilla sends us this link to a video clip featured in www.eltribuno.com.ar. The text reads: "The images of this home-made video ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoYesterday I received an update from the office of Senator Mac Harb, sponsor of the Harb Seal Bill. Here is the English-language portion. It's short, and I hope you will read the whole thing. Dear Friend, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrians snatched from their homes turn up dead, often mutilated. Soldiers gun down former comrades who defected to the opposition. A human rights group reports that electric shocks and hot iron rods are us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government has released soil radiation maps covering a much broader swath of Japan than previous releases, covering six new prefectures. The newly included prefectures are Iwate, Yamanashi, Nagano, Sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA fatal explosion has hit an Iranian military base near capital Tehran, according to local media reports. There has not been any immediate confirmation of casualties in the blast, which reports say happe...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNew open thread as requested. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) This is what a *real* Democrat and human being sounds like. This is Michigan State Senator Gretchen Whitmer speaking out against the perverted "Matt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Southern Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:34:53 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 41 miles) Northwest of Beeville, Tex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPOLLUTION fears have been raised after more than 50 dead fish were found in a Burnley river. Dead trout and chub were discovered washed up in the River Brun around the town centre and further upstream in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReader Contribution; Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the first dignitary to arrive at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam this morning. Gillard - took part in Hawaii Veterans Day ceremonies and a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA large number of dead fish of different varieties have washed ashore along the Al Hamriya Port in Dubai of late. The locally known varieties like Al Qarfa, Al Dardaman and Al Jad washed ashore were spott...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt is rare that the birth of an island can be watched by humans in real-time, but that could be what is happening in Spain's Canary Islands. Residents of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro were recent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHealth officials in Scotland are urging the public to be aware of the symptoms of botulism after two members of the same family were hospitalised with an illness which is now thought likely to be the infec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of rescue workers laboring with jackhammers and hacksaws searched the rubble of a five-story hotel Friday, two days after it collapsed in a 5.6-magnitude earthquake. The death toll from Wednesda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMajor league catcher Wilson Ramos has been "found alive," two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state TV reported Friday. Ramos was found by security forces in Montalban, a mounta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity forces killed a man who hijacked a ferry in northwest Turkey and demanded the incident be shown on live television, authorities said Saturday. The man hijacked the ferry with 24 onboard Friday n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment in Northern California and the apparent suicide of a military veteran at an Occupy encampment in Vermont's largest city....
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoDiving into this doubtful controversy is likely a waste of time. It really is a battle of statisticalinterpretation and both sides are generally weak in their positions. In the end we ended up with a...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoMy off the wall guess is thatthis is a rare star that has yet to orbit through a star cluster which wouldstrip these arms away. Otherwise, justas a galaxy seems to form spiral arms It is plausible a d...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThe only thing lost about thisnot so ancient civilization was the writer’s library card. In the event it is a reminderthat agriculture is a practical proposition in the Saharathe moment the water ques...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoWhat becomes apparent is that theultra filtering process is unnecessary and only serves to allow substitution inthe first instance. It also allowsadulteration of honey with flavored corn syrup by manu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn illegal immigrant who claimed to be paralysed from the neck down but was filmed dancing at his wedding cheated more than £400,000 in benefits, a court heard yesterday. But even though Mohamed Bouzalim,...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe poor countries obviously demand lower standards when it comes to the quality of products, the quality of the environment, and the quality of ideas they're ready to live with. *Communist Party of Ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Known as the Tarantula Nebula, these stars have produced intense radiation say NASA. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles are not believ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron yesterday vowed to stop state-owned bank RBS from lavishing £500million in bonuses on its staff this year. The Prime Minister said the Government could and would ensure that the pot for pay ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron is planning to fly to Berlin next week amid growing British anger at Germany’s refusal to bring an end to the euro crisis. Senior figures in Downing Street are furious that Chancellor Angela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears of eurozone debt contagion have hit France - as Italy and Greece moved to change their governments in a bid to stabilise their battered economies. Leading economists have warned the £261bn worth of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.2 km (poorly constrained), the quake hit at 05:15:11 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 34 km ( 21 miles) ESE from Cleveland,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Southwest Indian Ridge at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:04 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 1080 km ( 671 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoOccupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt Wikipedia Gaza Strip Military occupation by Egypt 1948–1956 1957–1967 → Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Gaza Strip after 1950 Armistice Capital Gaza Language(s) A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 25.2 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:41 UTC Saturday 12th November 2011. The epicenter was 70 km ( 43 miles) East of Hualien, Ta...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSteve Harper said he'd put Canada on the map and he has, in spades. Harper has drawn plenty of world attention to Canada. Regrettably, it's uniformly bad. *The Guardian* has chronicled Harper's deviou...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThe herd on the way back to the barn. Photo courtesy: bruevalley.co.uk Cows are very intelligent sentient beings; and, I am glad to see a dairy farmer who respects them for the amazing animals that they a...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShots were reported fired Friday night between the White House and the Washington Monument, setting off a flurry of law enforcement activity, a U.S. Park Police spokesman said. The incident was reported s...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day ago[image: Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water or fluid] Into the drink: Almost a third of Britons, mostly men, have damaged their phones with water...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoShare your deepest secrets with her, and she will no doubt promise never to tell. But beware of putting your trust in a woman – for the likelihood is she will have broken your confidence barely half an ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoImage courtesy: freakingnews.com Autumn is here - no ifs, ands or buts about it. This means that many of our birds and winged pollinators will either be overwintering or migrating to warmer climes. To hel...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoThey say that quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do, now new research underlines just how difficult it can be. Just six per cent of people who try to stub out their nicotine habit actually succeed...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*SCHUMANN: "Widmung" ("Dedication"), Op. 25, No. 1* You my soul, you my heart, you my joy, o you my pain, you my world in which I live, my heaven you in which I soar, o you my grave in which I have buried ...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*The facts are easy, it is the acceptance that is difficult - cleanse your mind of thoughts and contemplate the accuracy of the ancient scriptures, it will all become very clear - the evil tribe of usurio...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day agoPerfect teeth - white, straight and evenly aligned - may be the ideal in America, but that aesthetic is not for everyone. Japanese women are going gaga for a crowded, crooked-toothed smile with accentua...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoPhoto courtesy: grammyssweetnothings.blogspot.com Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a "V" formation or how fast they can fly? Well, you're about to find out. During migration, it is common for Canad...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. nuclear regulator on Friday approved the restart of the Virginia plant rocked by summer's historic East Coast earthquake. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that after careful analysis it had ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Big, bright, and beautiful, spiral galaxy M83 lies a mere twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. This cosmic close-up, a mosaic based on data from...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoStreamwood, Illinois, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A Pakistani man pushes his bicycle while children run away as they get caught in a sandstorm on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo] ISLA...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day agoBy Denis G. RancourtIn the steady state of a society, in the absence of large direct consequences of war at home, including civil war and class war, in the absence of believable threats of violence against t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day agoBy Michelle Esteban 11 November 2011 SEATTLE – Debris the size of California is headed for the U.S. coast. The materials were swept out to sea after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan last ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"There are good people and institutions at the university and in State College who still need our support and involvement. Don’t walk away. Give your time, money and talents to those who are making a posi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Going to be waiting a long time.* *Last related*:* Sunday Globe Special: Wall Streets Protests Go Worldwide* *I'll pick up where I left off: * "Occupy movement, arrests continue to spread across US" Octo...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoVirginia SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants"). Depicting the state's motto on the flag is the goddess Virtue (who is holding a sword and a spear), who has defeated a tyrant, who is lyin...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoIt's a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong. This little corner's been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it's gotten the Masters of the Un...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA star has been discovered with a record-breaking spin, but it will suffer one of the most violent explosions in the known universe.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoToday is the 11th November 2011. On this day in 1918, the Great War finally ended with the signing of the Armistice at 11am. The War had been won by Germany in 1917, but the Zionist Establishment in Lon...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"As a result of this unrelenting propaganda against Iran, the talk now is not; ‘has Iran really got a nuclear weapons program’, or even; ‘if it has, how can this be a threat to any one of the nuclear arm...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Canadian man claims to have captured video evidence of the legendary lake monster Ogopogo.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoJohn Amato has been flooring me with all the research he's been gathering on Romney, especially the stuff from France and Mexico. I can't wait for Romney to get the nomination so Amato starts dropping tha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJohn "Patriotic Truther" has long been a source of great news and information for the Coming Crisis on Youtube, as well as a friend of the website. We've decided to partner together and let John lead our...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoAn Embarrasment of Humanoid Riches by José Manuel Duran We sometimes complain that the subjects of our interest seldom receive the attention they deserve, and we're even forced to acknowledge at some point...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoHumanoids in Galicia by Grupo FENIX The UFO wave remains in full force throughout the northern par to the country and some very well documented cases are becoming known. ENIGMAS magazine has visited the l...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoEmiliano Zapata Municipality: The Mystery of the Forgotten Stones by Dr. Rafael A. Lara Palmeros, CEFP (Mexico) Since the end of December 1998, a series of insistent rumors had come to our attention: a bro...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*A bit hypocritically I might add*:"Penn State shows danger of putting sports beyond reproach November 10, 2011 TO MANY AT Pennsylvania State University, the beloved football program there long seemed be...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOne Day on Earth is set to film today, will you be participating?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA growing number of smart phone apps are helping to make a tough transition from war zone to home a little smoother.
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoThe response to the announcement of the creation of a “Dream Team” has been met with nearly unanimous approval. There have been the detractors, but there will always be detractors... Nothing can be done ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn ex-soldier shot himself at the Occupy Vermont encampment in Burlington yesterday, fellow protesters said. The 35-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after arrival. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAustralia is set to become home to hundreds of U.S. Marines - as America moves its servicemen to a military base on the northern tip of the country. In a bid to combat China's increase in global military a...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI am so so bogged down trying to write the next post about something that actually matters - our collapsing ecosystem. So briefly, here's all anybody needs to know about my regard for the gravity of the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:42 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 11 km ( 7 miles) Southeast Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Pennsylvania by Lewis Hine * PENNSYLVANIA is the home of: *Hershey Childrens' Home sexual abuse* "The Milton Hershey School, the wealthy and nationally acclaimed free boarding school for disadvantaged c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPet owners in Albuquerque are on their guard after a spate of attacks on dogs by giant owls. Officials are uncertain if there is one owl on the prowl for small animals to eat, or whether there are several...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a myst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man, whose teenage son was tragically killed in a car crash, died after crashing his own car after driving the wrong-way on the same highway hours later. Heartbroken father Sunil Sambhi's death on Thur...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Happy Belated Birthday, United State Marine Corps"* "The USMC birthday, November 10, comes on the eve of Veterans' Day, which was established to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended Wor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the world's greatest historical sites was closed today over fears Jewish Masons would try to claim it as their own on Magic Friday. Egypt's antiquities authority shut the biggest of the Giza pyramid...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEgyptian authorities took the step to avoid possible damage to the wonder from a rumored, bizarre ceremony.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of 'moral deviation and adultery', according to reports. The killing happened on Thursday in the K...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"As I've Aged"* Author Unknown “You ask me how it feels to grow older. I’ve learned a few things along the way, which I’ll share with you... As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe gadgets we marvel at can be used on us, not just by us.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Conversations: * *Samuel Johnson: Dying Easy & Supernatural Interposition...”* by VioletPlanet ”A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” - Samuel Johnson *"A Conversation:* ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoPress conference with David Heap and Ehab Lotayef, on their abduction, kidnapping and detention by Israeli forces: here. And a message from the Irish boat:
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels. Television images showed the scattered wreckage of the he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Caledonia at a depth of 130.7 km (81.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:47 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 143 km ( 89 miles) SSE of Tadine, Loyalty ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtesters camped out at St Paul's Cathedral have rejected proposals by the London Corporation to help resolve the ongoing occupation. Around 200 protesters have been outside the historic building for the...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoI want to grind a personal axe today- While this has to do with the news coverage of the occupy movement in Canada to some degree. What this is largely about the censorship media outlets practice in the ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoToday's date holds special significance for many around the world. Is there reason behind the superstition?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLast-ditch attempts are being made to rescue the Russian Mars mission, but the reality is that uncontrolled reentry scenarios are now being discussed.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in London have arrested 173 people - including many believed to be English Defence League supporters - in order to "prevent a breach of the peace". A group was held outside the Red Lion pub in Wes...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI’m always writing about the tenacity of the America Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is like a nasty blood-sucking mosquito – you can’t just brush them away – ‘cause they will just keep coming b...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoTranquility Park - Houston 27 Houston cops arrest six protesters for having tarp in parkIn all, a total of 27 police officers responded to the scene in 19 squad cars, according to the protesters. Police h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "The Fallen" * "They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; They fell with their faces to t...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI just did something unusual. I listened to Feedback on BBC radio 4, whereupon I heard a strange item. Roger Bolton summoned Alison Hastings,chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, to talk abo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFrom Chris Hedges' "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" * * *"When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a colu...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor months, Serbs in Northern Kosovo have been putting up barricades against the hated Kosovo authorities as well as NATO peacekeepers. Little by little, they are growing accustomed to living in a cage o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrench energy firm Areva on Tuesday showed to the media a new nuclear power plant that it says can withstand serious accidents. The European Pressurized Reactor is located in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 108.8 km (67.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:09:46 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 217 km ( 135 miles) SSW of Ka...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime Minister George A. Papandreou went on national television on Wednesday evening to announce that a new interim government had been formed. But he did not name his successor, and in the hours that foll...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of students marched through London on Wednesday in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government’s austerity measures. Four similar protests by students late last year led ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:51:54 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 8 km ( 4.9 miles) Southeast of Clinton, Monta...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe woman in the screenshot above has just jumped off a bridge onto a busy Chinese highway. In the video from which this screeshot was taken, it is clear the woman is still alive as she lies sprawled in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.3 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:57:23 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 45 km ( 28 miles) ENE of Van, Turkey No Re...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"* *The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN* *by Greg Palast* ** for FreePress.org Friday, November 11, 2011 I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, bu...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTraffic pollution's imprint may begin before birth as newborns with higher exposure show permanent genetic differences.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe exoskeleton helps lighten the load of a 132-pound anti-radiation vest.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.9 km (23.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:06:18 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 177 km ( 110 miles) ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:20 UTC Friday 11th November 2011. The epicenter was 151 km ( 93 miles) Northeast of Neiafu, To...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoOne of the buzz stories of the week is in the new *Rolling Stone*, How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich. Where I grew up, they were always the Party of the Rich. Alas, in recent decades the Democrats ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoOn this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot's "*Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974)." *Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia launched an unmanned probe to one of Mars’ moons – Phobos – in the early hours of Wednesday, but it has hit technical trouble. Federal Space Agency officials say they have three days to sort the p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEconomists across the Continent have been warning about it for months. Now, the European Union too has said that a recession in the euro zone has become a distinct possibility. "Growth has stalled in Europ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI confess the fact that a scientist in Texas made recently made the first strands of an invisibility cloak makes me really happy. Really nerdy, but really happy. I confess that as evil as they can be, I...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoBBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech stations (in Prague, Ústí, and elsewhere: not in Pils...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.N. nuclear agency is reporting "very low" — but higher than usual — levels of radiation in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe. The International Atomic Energy Agency says the "very low levels...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Pentagon crowd-sources parachute problems in humanitarian food drops.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigg...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn armed elderly-looking man who robbed a bank inside a grocery a store in La Jolla was the so-called “Geezer Bandit,” according to the FBI. The bandit entered a Wells Fargo Bank located inside a Vons at 7...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn elderly Amish man has been attacked by his own son, who a sheriff says cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in a breakaway Amish community. The victim told the sheriff he was scared and u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was so...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArmy Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs has been sentenced to life in military prison with eligibility for parole in 10 years. A military court-martial Thursday found Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRep. Phil Gingrey has had three professions. He is a success in two of them. Gingrey was an obstetrician and proudly reports on his website that he has delivered 5,200 babies. He is a politician, represent...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThat's right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in *New Scientist* claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhoto: Alameda Sheriff Deputies beating protesters, including young women, at UC-Berkeley on Wednesday. *Union City Police Officer blogs about Oakland and Alameda Sheriff's officers doing the 'dirty work' ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrom corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a day after Alabama's Jefferson County declared the biggest ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life. Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOakmont Police are investigating after a 64-year-old man was hit in the head by a pumpkin. Police Chief David DiSanti says Rose and Daniel Wagner were walking along the 900-block of Pennsylvania Avenue ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security officials have told the BBC. The officials blamed the Taliban, who they said had accused t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said a military strike against Iran could have "unintended consequences". He said it would only delay Iran's nuclear efforts by three years at most. Correspondent...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoMeet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their "Birmingham moment." It's a rambling comment...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoConservationists in New Zealand have blamed a technical glitch after 800 endangered giant land snails were accidentally frozen to death. The rare snails, rescued from an area earmarked for coal mining, wer...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian government's "systematic" crackdown on civilians amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Friday. The watchdog group has already urged the Arab League to pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGovernment forces shelled southwestern Yemen on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring 32 others, medics said. Fighting was ongoing in six areas in Taiz province, witnesses said. Clashes have intensified ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe commercial heart of Thailand's capital is still at risk of flooding, with the next 10 days likely to be crucial in the battle to keep dry. So far the Central Business District, or CBD, has been shielde...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least two bombs were dropped near the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, resulting in an undetermined number of casualties, the spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. "We are...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's censors are trying to keep online criticism and rumours from reaching a broader audience, issuing new orders prohibiting news media from reporting internet postings before they are verified. The r...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she'll "padlock the doors" of America's Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIt's 11.11.11 !!! And I'm posting this at 11:11, of course. 10.10.10 was cool, and 12.12.12 will be cool, too. And I love palindromes, so 12.22.21, if I'm around for it, will be totally kickass. But 11.11....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Italian senate has adopted a package of austerity measures designed to avoid a bailout of the eurozone's third largest economy. The package is expected to get final approval in a vote by the lower hous...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIf you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoSaw a post on Huffington this morning that was of interest More than 60 state legislators are gathering for the invite-only leadership retreat hosted by the Progressive States Network, a group providing ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's been going on since January - record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it "global weirding" Oklahoma style. "*Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weat...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoIn the last six weeks, Herman Cain has raised a whopping $9,000,000 in cash, $2.25 million coming since the sexual harassment scandal broke on * Politico* late last month. At the rate the money is flowing ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMen in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA solar-powered structure could transform desert air into ice and water.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTurn your existing coaxial cables into a network that maximizes wired, wireless and wide-band multimedia.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The tanker Awanuia moves into position astern of the stricken container ship Rena to take a line which will transport oil between the two ships, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAccording to *Salon's* David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things - his country's burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Pages from 'The Notebook', which investigative journalist Greg Palast uses to reveal that two senior nuclear plant engineers inspected the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and found that the plant...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThere's only one thing wrong with this cartoon: it shows an actual sticker, rather than a magnet. These folks usually don't "support the troops" enough to glue a piece of plastic to their vehicles.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMusicians roundtable discussion on New Orleans noise ordinance is Saturday ~Allison Fensterstock Happy Veterans' Day Y'all! ~I believe that all Veterans of our Armed Forces should recieve: 1- All the benefi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days agoIt's called the "Air-Sea Battle" concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name "Iran" leaps out at t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoIodine 131 - also called radioiodine (though many other radioactive isotopes of this element are known), is an important radioisotope of iodine. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. I...
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