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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes agoCasey Anthony is lucky to be alive after allegedly surviving an assassination attempt at her Florida safe house. Casey's 'panic-stricken' bodyguards had to pull her out of the firing line and whisk her to...
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France and Germany, Europe's two central powers, clashed today over whether the European Central Bank should intervene to halt the eurozone's accelerating debt crisis - as modest bond purchases failed to s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
Five people have been hospitalised after they were sprayed with sulphuric acid as they walked near Buckingham Palace. The substance was thought to have dropped from the back of a lorry before mixing with ... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 28 minutes agoPhoto by RunItsTheFuz / Flickr / Truthout.Half of vets returning from Iraq andAfghanistan need medical attentionBy Eric Newhouse / Truthout / November 16, 2011More than half of America's former warriors are...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 30 minutes ago
Friday the Republicans will bring up their balanced budget amendment. It's the favoritest thing ever-- a Grover Norquist wet dream. But it takes a two-thirds vote in each chamber to be able to send it on ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 19.4 km (12.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:37:21 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 40 km ( 24 miles) North of Mus, Turkey N... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:05 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 129 km ( 80 miles) Southwest ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southwestern Sakha, Russia at a depth of 15.8 km (9.8miles), the quake hit at 22:05:54 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 145 km ( 90 miles) ENE of Us... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:39:48 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 106 km ( 65.7 miles) ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, the glowing star forming region lies abou...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoOn Thursday, November 10, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the United States and Israel against attacking Iran, saying: "Anybody who takes up the idea of an attack on Iran, should get re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Bright Lights"* by Chet Raymo "In Comments, shhiggins draws our attention to the brights website. I've had my eye on this movement ever since Dan Dennett brought it to national attention with an op-ed ...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 2 hours ago
by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at *Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo* exclusive for OpedNews.com So big deal. They evicted us. That just me... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Ask Me" * by William Stafford "Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Child Abuse: * *Why People So Often Look the Other Way"* by Stephanie Pappas "Of all the missed chances outlined in the grand jury report regarding the allegations of child sexual abuse by former Pennsy...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoVince Lombardi was famous for saying, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." Image from Great American Things.Did winning become everythingfor Penn State's Joe Paterno?By Thomas McKelvey Cleaver / ...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 3 hours agoBy Denis G. RancourtA system, such as the medical establishment, based on lies and anchored in a profession is extraordinarily resilient -- in the case of medicine, even in the face of itself being the third...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"[A]ny woman who levels a charge of sexual harassment at a GOP candidate is going to be pummeled by the conservative media and treated like a cross between a crank and a witch. In the reddest, angriest p... - posted by The Arthurian at The Rules of Exposition - 5 hours agoThis comes up a lot at my work. Which phrase is better:1) ... will help save you time.2) ... will help you save time.Imagine each phrase as more than a 5-word sentence, and assume the "..." part must be im...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago------------------------------ by Stephen Boyer | November 15, 2011 · 11:09 | Permalink *EMOTIONAL NIGHT IN LIBERTY SQUARE* As you probably know, Liberty Plaza was raided last night. An hou...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 5 hours agoHow To Create A Culture of Rape Widespread greed and lack of empathy facilitated the cover-up of child rape at Penn State University. Cliff Schecter 15 Nov 2011 In May of 2009, as President Barack Obama pr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoProsecutors have charged a 20-year-old suburban St. Louis woman with murdering her 13-month-old son. St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch said Wednesday that Shelby Dasher is charged with second-degre...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago*We Are The Many - Makana* *MakanaVideos * Original here We Are The Many Lyrics and Music by Makana Makana Music LLC © 2011 Cherchez la Verite
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoForfar, Angus, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"3 PM Slump? Why A Sugar Rush May Not Be The Answer"* by Medical Xpress "A new study has found that protein and not sugar activates the cells responsible for keeping us awake and burning calories. The re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“Is There Anything Coffee Can't Do?”* By Eryn Brown "Scientists reported Monday that drinking coffee was associated with decreased risk of a common and slow-growing form of skin cancer called basal cell...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 6 hours agoActual Harper quote : "I remain optimistic that the project will eventually go ahead because it makes eminent sense." I'm surprised that TransCanada's forays into eminent domain - a corporations' stat...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoEx-Freddie Mac official said Newt Gingrich paid $1.5 million for consulting Gingrich Said to Be Paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoNew Canadian banknotes will incorporate several security features to make life tough for counterfeiters.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoAn awe-inspiring video of the things people can make their bodies do.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Redefining Health: Throw Away Your Scale"* by The DailyOm "No matter what our weight, we can use the cues from our physical and mental selves to judge how healthy we are. Health is not a numerical conce...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoWord from Capitol Hill is that multimillionaire plutocrat John Kerry (D-MA) is the weakest link among Democrats on the SuperCommittee-- not the strongest group of warriors for the middle class to begin wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live n...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 7 hours agoIf you've been hanging around here more than 6 months, you may remember that I am conceited and published my own Gospel (of Links) back in March. And, if you actually read that series, you may remember t...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 7 hours agoSixty days into the struggle #OccupyWallStreet was violently evicted by the NYPD, who leveled our homes at Liberty Square to the ground. Our movement, however, is stronger than it has ever been. In these ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 7 hours ago*REGINA — The City of Regina makes history once again. “We may be the first city to do it, but it wasn’t about us it was about the recognition of our Metis people,” said Mayor Pat Fiacco. On Tuesday, th...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 7 hours ago*125 years ago - at the North West Mounted Police barracks in Regina, the government of Canada executed a father of Confederation because he was not white ... was not an English speaking Conservative and...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe author's untimely death at the age of 41 has long been a cause for speculation among historians.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Chinese man set himself on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in what is thought to be the first act of self-immolation at the scene of the 1989 pro-democracy protests for more than a decade. The incid...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe headmaster of a private school was attacked on his doorstep and had bleach thrown in his face for his part in an unpopular merger, police suspect. Jim Keefe, 42, is the head of Arnold School in Black...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA tornado struck a southern Indiana town, tearing the roof off the police and fire headquarters and leaving debris piled on the courthouse square. The National Weather Service said Monday night’s storm dam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNgee Ann Polytechnic students participating in a sports and wellness class this morning were sent fleeing from the field when bees in a hive on a tree attacked them. The students said they had been playi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUp to 1,000 people may have been exposed to measles in downtown Edmonton and at University Hospital, Alberta Health Services said Tuesday. Only people who have not been vaccinated or have not had the conta...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours ago*[image: _McGrath001]You can’t keep a good doctor down. Here’s another update from the campaign trail in Doc McGrath’s Wairarapa electorate, where he received 453 votes at the last election.* The Wairar...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoAlberta's premier, Alison Redford, complains that public policy is shaping Canada's energy future. Well Alison, so what? What's so damned toxic special about Alberta bitumen that it should be exempt from...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoBavarian adventure resort offers fearless campers a night to remember.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoAnalog circuits simulate the way the brain works, and may open computers to learning.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"This Is What Revolution Looks Like"* by Chris Hedges "Occupy Wall Street protesters react and wave copies of the court order allowing them back into Zuccotti Park as police block them from re-entering...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA team of investigators from the National Weather Service has determined two EF-2 tornadoes touched down in Chautauqua County on Monday. The National Weather Service says the first tornado touched down ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA CLOUD of radioactive gas has been detected over France and large parts of Europe but the French nuclear watchdog IRSN and the International Atomic Energy Agency say there is no public health risk. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoExperts have warned that the economic crisis could spark a 'rapid spread' of HIV infections across Europe. Budget cuts have resulted in understaffing and hospital closures, while many patients say they ar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago- Les Visible, "The Forces of the Last Gasp, on Meat Street."
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours agoThe Liberals have come out against an expanded House of Commons, arguing we have enough MPs as it is. I personally feel the problem is one of *quality *rather than *quantity*, but most Canadians would like...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Where's That Sign Again?"* by Karl Denninger "What sign? That big one that says I told you so! There are multiple swirling rumors (and some information that's not-so-rumorish) about the "raids" that ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA prominent forensic pathologist said a woman found hanged, bound and nude at the mansion of her wealthy boyfriend was less likely a victim of suicide than of murder, and he urged a reopening of the case. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"The Symbiotic Relationship of Feds and Insiders"* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday when the markets closed the price of oil was only 66 cents shy of $100. What a come back. We expected oil, stocks and gold to ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoApplications are being accepted for NASA's next class of astronauts. Do you have what it takes?
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday it has lost $5.1 billion in the past year, pushing it closer to imminent default on a multibillion-dollar payment and to future bankruptcy as the weak economy and incre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIt's not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston's Hollings Cancer Center. For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIran is contemplating violently shutting down shipping in the Persian Gulf as one of several counterattack options if Israel strikes its nuclear facilities, regional and intelligence analysts say. Such at...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoItaly's new leader Mario Monti has formed a technocratic government containing no politicians as the country attempts to stave off financial disaster. Economist and former European commissioner Mr Monti, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAfter a manhunt for a disturbed gunman who is suspected of shooting at the White House with an AK-47 assault rifle and smashing a window, he was captured in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Police said Oscar Ra...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe recent bankruptcy of financial stalwart and Wall Street casino failure MF Global in the US, has claimed a new and unlikely victim. Following the company’s glorious collapse, Trends Research founder G...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoLast week, Eric Berger mentioned a paper by the notorious recidivist James Hansen, Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice, written together with Sato and Ruedy. *Summers in Mosc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teacher at a suburban Christian school has been charged with a felony, after he was fired for allegedly masturbating behind a podium while teaching class. As CBS 2′s Dana Kozlov reports, Schaumburg po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe lawyer for alleged Penn State child abuser Jerry Sandusky got a teenage girl pregnant when she was 17 and he was 49, according to a report. Defense attorney Joe Amendola, 63, is said to have later marr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFormer Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's long service at the university theoretically puts him in line for a pension of more than $500,000 a year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state p...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 10 hours agoLet them try to beat us down. We will not be stopped! Mario Savio Lecture at UCLA - Berkley - Will Occur Outside on Mario Savio Steps! "A lot of people don't like freedom of speech." - Robert Reich Novembe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAnimal control officers captured three of four pit bulls believed to have killed 42 goats in a Los Angeles-area farm. The goats were slaughtered on a property at 164th Street and Avenue Q Monday in Lancas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man with a gun was shot by police Tuesday inside a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, the school said. The shooting happened at the Haas School of Business on the east side of c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been targeted by anti-US protesters during a visit to the Philippines. The cavalcade she was travelling in was splattered with red paint by activists angry at US ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAn Albertson’s supermarket on Harbor Boulevard was evacuated Monday after a burglary suspect fell through the ceiling to the ground near a cash register. Police say around 9:30 p.m., a female shopper re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in Queens are hunting for three suspects they say are wanted for an assault on a subway train that was captured on video. The video was recorded just after 2 a.m. on Nov. 8. It shows an argument ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe loss of their camp at Zuccotti Park doesn’t seem to be slowing down the Occupy Wall Street movement as protesters are calling for “a national day of direct action” on Thursday. According to their webs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDoused in milk to counter the effects of the pepper-spray indiscriminately fired in her face, this 84-year-old woman was caught in the crossfire when an Occupy march descended into violence. Dorli Rainey ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAustralia has agreed to host a full US Marine task force in the coming years, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced at a news conference with US President Barack Obama in Canberra. She said about 250...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurkey and members of the Arab League have called for "urgent measures" to protect Syrian civilians from a brutal government crackdown. At a meeting in Morocco, they also declared they were "against all fo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe UK's economic outlook has worsened and the economy could stagnate until the middle of next year, the governor of the Bank of England has said. Sir Mervyn King also said that the eurozone debt crisis wa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Bank of Japan (BOJ) has warned that the country's economic growth may be hurt by the eurozone debt crisis, flooding in Thailand and a strong yen. It said the euro crisis was stifling demand from Europe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe news feeds of thousands of Facebook users were flooded with violent and pornographic photographs after an attack by hackers, a spokewoman for the social networking site confirmed. Thousands of users a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has warned that the eurozone faces a "systemic crisis" that needs deeper integration to resolve. He told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that further...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDespite the noise, the ambient background of indistinct shouting, it is peaceful, almost romantic. The newly scrubbed square is lit by rectangles of neon lights embedded in the ground. They cast their lig...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoMelissa & Doug want you to tell them which of their educational toys you think is the best! Just click on the image below to place your vote in the North "Poll!" You'll Get a *Melissa & Doug 25% Off Coupon...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA fledgling force of Syrian military deserters struck an important government security complex on the outskirts of the capital overnight, a bold strike reflecting the resolve and confidence of the regime's...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoLarge lakes discovered just below Europa's icy shell may provide a habitat for life.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSecurity forces killed 20 militants in an operation in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said. Helicopters launched an aerial assault on militant hideouts in central Kurram Agency, a sem...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Secret Service is looking into whether a bullet fired into a window at the White House is connected to a shooting nearby last Friday. The bullet was stopped by a bullet-proof window and did not enter t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:14 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 67 km ( 42 miles) SSW of Suchiate, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe healthy immigrant effect persists, according to a Statistics Canada study released Wednesday that found immigrants are generally healthier than Canadian-born citizens. Although the edge in health decl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA New York Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Occupy protesters will be allowed to return to Zuccotti Park, but they can't bring their tents and generators -- once a mainstay of the movement. The Lower Ma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class as well as two adults, officials said. Two ad...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe mother of the one-year-old boy whose body was found dumped in woods just hours after he was reported missing from her home has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder. Shelby Dasher, 20, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSand dunes are a common feature of Mars – and now scientists believe the red planet has winds powerful enough to move them around. Experts have known for a long time that it often blows a gale on our cosmi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoPhotos by Brenda Norrell Censored News A walk around Occupy Tucson this morning, where there are more than 50 tents in the heart of downtown Tucson. Signs carry the messages to end the war and stop the ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoOne bullet struck an exterior window of the White House and another was found nearby.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoMost Republicans in Congress are staying out of the GOP "presidential" primary endorsement race, although with Romney clearly headed for the nomination, he's got the bulk of the endorsements (32). A few r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDefence chiefs have warned that the U.S. is prepared to retaliate with military force if it came under cyber attack. In the most explicit statement about cyber security to date, Pentagon officials said th...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 11 hours ago“If you're happy and you know it, tick National. If you don't like change and you thoroughly approve of the confiscation of private property and the grotesque mismanagement of Christchurch since the e...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* October 16, 2011 *Eviction Reinforces OWS Determination* Occupy Wall ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoThere is a spectre sitting on the face of the unemployed. It's like a giant, suffocating cat only less concerned whether or not you can breathe. It's what Wall Street, Congress, several successive preside...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoDid Goldman Sachs play a key role in Europe's fiscal meltdown and are Goldman Sachs alumni now moving into top positions in the most unstable Euro nations? Apparently so. This one's a true eye-opener. ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world's major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water levels chaot...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours agoGo here for original *OWS Livestream for Post-Eviction Day of Action* This feed may go in and out, but here's the livestream following the protesters just cleared out of Zuccotti Park as they p...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIt seems our European cousins are coming to grips with the utter madness of the past. Along the Atlantic coast and in the Baltic sea thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons littering the seabed are close...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSyrian army defectors have launched a major attack on an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus, activists claimed today. Members of the Free Syrian Army fired shoulder-mounted rockets and machine g...
- posted by Jorge Ribas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe team puts together an A+ effort on this week's Friday News Feedbag, which means they all showed up this time. So... you're welcome. The Friday News Feedbag podcast pits Discovery News reporters James W...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIt seems like Apple is going to forgive us for all the music we have that we didn't acquire through iTunes.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours agoFor some time now I have wondered at the Kurdish role in Syria You may recall that a Kurdish leader was assassinated. This was blamed on Syrian forces/government. I covered that all in a previous post, poi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoCanada may be a Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There's a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States and, most recently, Au...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoWords; they are the ammunition the BBC uses to disguise profound and systemic bias. The BBC on numerous occasions via website & television, describes Ennahda, the Islamist party that won the recent Tunisia...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 13 hours agoReady for war on Syria? Sure, those brown people who don't take our orders easily are scary, but do we have the right to replace their governments just because we'd like to be the ones who determine their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEurozone bond markets suffered from a mass sell-off yesterday - with previously healthy economies finding themselves sucked into the debt crisis. The yield on French government bonds climbed to 3.63 per ce...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoSo yesterday I attempted a post..... Then hit publish and got a 404 error! Good bye post. Time constraints and a total lack of patience got the better of me. It just wasn't meant to be. Today, I will give i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMake it a daily habit, just once a day, to follow the request on the flashing arrow banner above. It only takes 5 seconds of your time, is completely safe, and does a world a good! Let's make a deal: You...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man appeared in court today charged with kidnap and sexual assault after a 10-year-old boy vanished on a trip to local shops. Michael Jackson, 49, from Oldbury, West Midlands is accused of the kidnap an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 52 km (32.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:02:14 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 27 km ( 16 miles) SSW of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThere's a warrant out for Oscar Romero Ortega, suspected of firing a couple of shots at the White House Friday evening. According to *BBC News* there is evidence one round hit a White House window and two...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA convicted sex offender attacked a 10-year-old boy minutes after being allowed out of a secure mental health unit on unsupervised leave, a court heard. Shaun Tudor, 43, who has spent his entire adult lif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Region, Alaska at a depth of 28.4 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:19 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 21 km ( 13 miles) NNE of Larsen Bay, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAt least 15 suspected insurgents were killed by drones Wednesday in western Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, according to news reports. The salvo of missiles struck an insurgent compound in the i...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoOccupy Wall Street New York occupiers' belongings thrown in pile by New York police during Tuesday's raid *State of Seized Library: Books and laptops destroyed by New York police in raid* *By Occupy Wall St...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours ago*Look, It's a Turkey - Sitting in Front of a Turkey* The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35'd. Every couple of weeks I Google F-35 to harvest the latest litany of gaffes, se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThai authorities are considering the construction of a super-express waterway through Bangkok to prevent future floods similar to the one that has crippled the Thai capital and brought manufacturing in o...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe capitol of Mongolia seeks to keep cool next summer by forming a giant block of ice on a river running through the city.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoAir bags aren't just for autos; soon backcountry skiers and snowboarders could be wearing them.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA heavily overloaded nursery school bus has collided with a truck, killing 18 passengers and injuring 44 in northwest China. The nursery school bus was a nine-seat minivan, but was packed with 64 passeng...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHeated words are being exchanged between world governments as further signs emerge that the euro might not survive its debt crisis. David Cameron has called for the EU's rule book to be rewritten - and ha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Oh, I'm sooooo happy!* "The *Boston Globe was a media sponsor of the event*. The Globe’s publisher, Christopher M. Mayer, said the *newspaper’s hope* is to *create dialogue* about *issues of importance*....
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe company's new line uses integrated printers to print 3x4 color photos instantly.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoMusic-based therapy helped the congresswoman relearn how to walk and talk, but science is still awaiting data to support the technique.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Sir David Attenborough on Arctic snow, with a tranquilized polar bear. Attenborough presents and authors the 'On Thin Ice' episode of 'Frozen Planet'. It looks at how the planet's ice is changing...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours ago"... as about 220 protesters camped in their tightly packed tents, most of them asleep, powerful klieg lights on the trucks snapped on with a* '*Whoosh!' Now, it was as bright as day, even though it was 1 ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoPeople's Library at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by David Shankbone / Flickr.NYPD apparently destroys 'American cultural history'More than 5,000 books in the Occupy Wall Street library were reportedly thrown a...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoYou made me write this I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it You made me do this and all the time you knew it I guess you always knew it. I know. I’m no Judy Garland. But I really wish I didn’t h...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoA while back, wmtc had a discussion about the supposed controversy of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, after I read the book *Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare*, by James Shapiro. Now a movie i...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours ago"Privately owned public spaces" ~Library Chronicles ~Hat Tweet @brianpmoore666~WATCH YOUR ASS SMELLY HIPSTER RT @*Satchfield*: Businesses bringing security cameras to Frenchmen Street wwltv.com/news/More-...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 15 hours agoJ.J. Benítez: UFO Buzzed Chile’s Pinochet Before Coup Attempt Mexico’s NOTIMEX news agency published an interesting news item yesterday: a statement by Spanish UFO researcher / novelist J.J. Be...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoWaning crescent moon. Photo by Ed Euthman / Flickr.Moon Musings:Waning Crescent Moon(November 19 - 22, 2011)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2011The waning crescent moon is a good moon phase to us...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoOoo la la, the new project will boast four, 850-ton turbines capable of providing energy for 4,000 homes.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIn a few hours Raúl Grijalva and Keith Ellison, co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are convening an ad-hoc hearing with prominent economists that the SuperCommittee routinely and pointedly...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoJust because we "can do something" - doesn't mean we "should do it". And that is my stance on "fracking". Just because the technology exists - doesn't mean we should be using it - if it is unsafe. But ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoFrance's nuclear watchdog yesterday reported finding traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week after similarly low contamination was found across several eastern European countries.
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 15 hours agoWorld's oceans in peril - Features - Al Jazeera English
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoA 70-million-year-old nest filled with the remains of baby Protoceratops gives clues to the dinos' early behavior.
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 16 hours agoShe later wrote about the incident:“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems o...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 16 hours agoThe shorts and swimsuits have been put away, mince pies are on the shelves and all thoughts of dieting have been forgotten until January. We are all ready to pile on a few pounds. We gain an average 2lb...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 16 hours ago- It had been thought that lazy eye could not be corrected once a child had reached 11-years-old Playing video games could help to correct 'lazy eye' syndrome in teenagers. Amblyopia or 'lazy e...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 16 hours ago- Rotating shift patterns leave female hospital workers at a higher risk of obesity and high blood pressure Women hospital staff working night shifts may be compromising their own he...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 16 hours ago- More than 70million mobile phones used in UK - Danish researchers investigated data on more than 358,000 mobile users over 18 years Using a mobile phone does not increase the risk of bra...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoAs requested, a new open thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Nicole Gugliucci at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoSome of the most beautiful sights in the universe are ones that we could never see with our eyes. One such example is this lovely composite of the Carina Nebula made with visible and radio light.
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 17 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The* International Cultic Studies Association* lists the defining characteristics of a 'cult'. I fully agree with the 'list' and also the assertion that the GOP me...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoSource: Diario de Cuyo (San Juan, Argentina) Date: 15 Nov 2011 Another UFO in Gualcamayo? Favio Cabrera - Diario de Cuyo 11.15.11 - JACHAL - "I always go around with a camera because I enjoy tak...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoFrom Laura Trevelyan's "At the scene" report: Daniel Klein shows me his bruised face and his broken ribs - a casualty, he said, of last night's eviction of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Daniel is back, and i...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoI was tied up yesterday when this story about the BBC trustees investigation of dodgy environment programmes broke. This morning, I've been digging further, and I suspect we only know a fraction of what's ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoBias? What bias? "Clark "surprise" at May ignorance" They just can't help it, can they? Brodie Clark is the hero de jour of the BBC, a battering ram they are using to try and claim May's scalp. I don't rec...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago"Iran far from posing existential threat." - Former Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy. Israel Attack on Iran "Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard." - Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan. An Attack on Iran "Will Not H...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoOf course it was found in the onelocation that maximizes the controversy. We now know that a chunk of bronze found its way somehow into the SewardPeninsula which is close by Anchorage. It certainly ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThey have located the correcttool and must now learn how to safely use it in every patient. The good news is that it is plausible thatfolks with a damaged heart can look forward to outright internal r...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt had to be said. There are no non military solutions forNazism. This is what radical Islam hasmorphed into over the past half century. As stated, a full press destruction of Hamas is a good start a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Breivik, or his double, 2009.* *The Norway attacks were carried out by a group with links to fascism, zionism, the arms trade and drugs. * Emilie Bersaas, 19, said: "The shooting came from all different d...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 22 hours agoBeing too thin is worse than being too fat when trying for a baby, women have been warned. A study found that skinny women are less likely to become pregnant than those who are overweight – including th...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 22 hours ago- More than 16,000 people die from liver disease every year in the UK - Young regular drinkers and middle-class women particularly at risk - Royal College of Physicians say current guidelines ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 22 hours agoMost women experience hot flushes and night sweats during the menopause but now scientists say the intense symptoms can go on for years afterwards. The average age to reach the menopause in British and A...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*Give the lever another pull!** * *"Casino operators may overstate economic benefits of their projects to get lawmakers’ backing.... An advertising campaign said the measure could bring $500 million a yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn the outer edges of the Milky Way are stars that astronomers study like galactic fossils - ancient stars formed in the youngest years of our galaxy. The puzzle for scientists is why these stars are so ri...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 1 day ago[image: Leaving a newborn's umbilical cord intact for three minutes can cut anaemia risks (library image)] Leaving a newborn's umbilical cord intact for three minutes can cut anaemia risks (library imag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOccupy Wall Street demonstrators were allowed back into Zuccotti Park tonight but will not be allowed to set up camp again following a court order. At around 5.30pm police began letting small groups of p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecret talks are being held about watering down voters’ newly-granted power to trigger debates in Parliament, following a series of embarrassments for the Government. Ministers and senior MPs have discuss...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*The odd$ were $tacked again$t you, citizen$ -- if you get my meaning.* "The Massachusetts Senate's decision to approve a *casino gambling bill*Thursday is a *coup* for supporters who say the industry woul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBerlin declared last night that Europe is speaking German and Britain must be less selfish toward the EU. The UK has a duty to help the eurozone despite being outside the single currency, according to one...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The thought of the disaster which almost certainly lay in wait for the Other Men threw me into a horror of doubt about the universe in which such a thing could happen. That a whole world of intelligent b...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWhen billionaire NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg bowed to Wall Street pressure to remove the OccupyWallStreet protesters from Zuccotti Park last night, he claimed, without a shred of evidence, that protesters we...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA compromise spending plan for NASA averts cancellation of the James Webb Space Telescope, but caps development of the Hubble successor observatory at $8 billion.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 61.9 km (38.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:48 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 128 km ( 79 miles) NNE of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 37.7 km (23.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:43:58 UTC Wednesday 16th November 2011. The epicenter was 197 km ( 122 mile...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoOccupy Wall Street: New York Police Department WATCH: "Retired police captain comes down from upstate New York to join us" Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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