- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago
Russia's top military commander has warned of nuclear war on its borders with Europe. General Nikolai Makarov said Nato’s eastward expansion meant the risk of Russia being dragged into conflicts had ‘rise... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
[image: Link]Occupy Wall Street protesters clogged streets and tied up traffic across New York City today, jamming into Manhattan's Foley Square before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge, where at least t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes ago
Thousands of flesh-eating piranhas have infested a Brazilian river beach popular with tourists, biting at least 15 unwary swimmers. One of the bathers lost the tip of their toe during a frenzied attack. O... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:34:07 UTC Friday 18th November 2011. The epicenter was 16... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 35 minutes ago
No one in Congress has worked harder to introduce healthy options into school lunches than Colorado Democrat Jared Polis, who also happens to be a brand new first-time dad. Working with the Pentagon, he's... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes ago
Fears that Germany’s grip on the eurozone is tightening increased last night after it emerged that details of Ireland’s budget plans were leaked to German politicians. A document circulated in the German ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes ago
This Morning a 5.2 Magnitude Earthquake struck off the Coast of New Zealand, this comes within 24 hours after the news broke that all 91 Whales stranded over the weekend in Australia and New Zealand had di... - posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour ago*Guest post by Luke Malpass of the Center for Independent Studies* Most of New Zealand’s general election campaign is (or was) dominated by squabbling over the Crown selling a minority stake in four stat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A deadly wave of superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics is set to threaten patients – with no new drugs on the horizon, warns a leading UK authority. Over-use of existing medicines has ... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAlthough the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remains stuck in Earth orbit, it periodically experiences a mysterious boost.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.2* Date-Time - *Friday, November 18, 2011 at 02:43:54 UTC* - Friday, November 18, 2011 at 02:43:54 PM at epicenter - Time of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"OWS's "National Day of Action" Across US: * *177 Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in NYC"* by MSNBC "At least 177 people have been arrested during clashes between police and Occupy Wall Street de...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 2 hours ago
*FEMINISM/ CANADIAN LABOUR:* *EQUAL PAY LAWSUIT SETTLED IN FAVOUR OF WORKERS- 28 YEARS LATER:* Here's an interesting item from the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) about a lawsuit initiated 28 y... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." - David Brin
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours ago
The O'Reilly Factor, where the Georgia Guidestones went to die. - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*A preview for this past week's episode of How to Make It in America, which imparted the timeless wisdom: "Don't you think that comes at a price?"* *by Ken* I couldn't get to work this morning, because o...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoDeep Into the Corps: Agency's Own Leaky Docs Express Doubts About City's Levee Fixes ~Jim Schutze
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoNorth Dakota State Motto “Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable” Something scary about that. Each person on the list has been compiled and cited using the web and you can also find the p...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoEast Northport, New York, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: * *Excessive Use of Force Amidst the New Military Urbanism"* by Democracy Now "We host a discussion on policing and the Occupy Wall Street movement with Chuck...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*“As Mick Jagger put it, ‘Who wants yesterday’s news?’ ’’* * * *That is a good question seeing as I am so far behind in my postings.***
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*I guess that's why I'm so poor.* "Tech firms hop on Facebook’s wave" November 07, 2011|By Michael B. Farrell, Globe Staff A *growing number of companies* are placing a* big bet *on the *social network* ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Not me.* "NBA lockout costing broadcasters; Stations scramble to find substitute programming" November 11, 2011|By Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff The NBA lockout could be a *blowout loss* for *television and r...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Sox win big in deal to use streets; Lansdowne, Yawkey Way lease yields an estimated $45m" November 07, 2011|The Initiative for Investigative Reporting Over the last nine years, the Boston *Red Sox* have *...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"Last night Keith Olbermann *spoke* to Dorli Rainey, the 84-year-old woman who was pepper-sprayed at an Occupy Seattle protest. A longtime *activist*, she has a *blog,** Old Lady in Combat Boots*, with th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Blast, fire tied to a suicide attempt; Suspect, 10 residents hurt in Roxbury blaze" October 18, 2011|By Peter Schworm and Meghan Irons, Globe Staff A Medford man accused of setting off an *overnight expl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Found a Job*: "After Jobs, questions about Apple’s future" October 07, 2011|By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff For Apple to thrive without Jobs, it must adopt a more open, less *hierarchical management style...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoFormer head of Scotland Yard’s Drug Squad, Eddie Ellison, used to tell new recruits at every induction to look at their colleagues either side of him. "If both of them aren't corrupt in two years,” he'd...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoYou can understand WHY the BBC are so entranced with Baroness Manningham-Butler. First, she recommends that we talk to the Taliban. Now she wants to see illegal drugs legalised. Yip, she's there kinda gal....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoMan, was I lucky! I was born into a working class family clinging by its fingernails to afford whatever it was the middle class was supposed to be offering. I rejected the entire project at an early age ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoPosted 5 minutes ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 4:29 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt: "Sorry for gushing, but I feel the need to right now. When the mass evictions started happening, I was filled with a sense of despair...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 7 hours ago*Stephen Harper's Conservatives have used Closure 6 times in 33 days to suppress the voice of your Member of Parliament! Maybe we should all yell FU@K!!!* *The G & M - Parliament’s hastened decline under ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoWell, Question Time comes from the vowelly-challenged Aberystwyth and on the panel we have Grant Shapps, Chris Bryant, Elin Jones, Will Hutton and Sir Simon Jenkins. Regardless of that line up of dross, I...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoWestern leaders weren't listening in 2006 and 2007 when genuine "thinking" economists like Krugman and Stiglitz were warning that their house of cards was about to collapse. Even self-proclaimed economis...
- *Linux Mint 12* appears with Gnome 3, several shell extensions and almost everything to avoid the horrible impression that Gnome 3 made until little over half a year ago. But it also offers a 'Classic' Gn...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*So is my enthusiasm for reading the pos known as New England's flagship paper. * "The lack of a message for Occupy Wall Street" by Joshua Green | November 17, 2011 The various groups have *never sought...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 8 hours agoI bookmarked this news story as soon as I saw it in May because, Pat Martin being Pat Martin, I knew it wouldn't be long before it would be worth resurrecting: "This is my new policy," Martin said, hold...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA NASA scientist claims to have figured out the origin of those mysterious white lines in China's desert.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe wooden wreck is believed to be that of the royal warship Svärdet.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoEye-tracking technology revives a classic arcade game and turns your stare into weaponry.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA NASA scientist claims to have figured out the origin of those mysterious white lines in China's desert.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours ago"Freedom" is too abstract a concept for the retards who occupy positions once held by journalists. They think it means the right to tape conversations without the consent of the taped, and the right to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"We Are Not Worthy"* By Chip Bok “Obama thinks you’re soft and lazy. Once again you have let him down. Or, as Rich Lowry puts it, “The president’s “lazy” comment is one of a series of remarks carrying...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours agoBack in April, I said then what everyone from Chris Trotter to Lindsay Perigo are essentially saying now, i.e., that whoever runs in ACT’s anchor seat runs the party, that you can’t credibly present yo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence." - William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 8 hours ago** *EVICT FORD. OCCUPY TORONTO!* Rally and march Saturday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. Assemble at St. James Park, King Street east between Church and Jarvis In just a few weeks, the Occupy movement has beco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn amateur cameraman has captured the insane moment a drunk zoo visitor jumped into a monkey enclosure to 'play with them', and ended up with severe bite marks after the animals attacked. Joao Leite Dos S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoRafe Mair, writing in *The Tyee, *makes a powerfully compelling argumentfor British Columbians to do *whatever it takes* to stop Harper and Alberta from imperiling our province's coastline with tar sands s...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 9 hours agoIn addition to denying press access to witness the eviction of Zuccotti Park, as well as demanding identification from ordinary citizens to walk on the sidewalks of New York, this is what the NYPD did when...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew York is today facing major disruption as tens of thousands of protesters are expected to flood into Manhattan to support Occupy Wall Street as the movement celebrates its two-month anniversary. But as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThese three ducklings are the result of Britain's amazingly warm autumn - as the weather convinced their mother it was spring and therefore time to give birth. Named Millicent, Margot and Mildred they wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAnti-capitalist demonstrators have constructed a ‘slum city’ made of wooden shacks on an historic civic green. Campaigners camped in Bristol have replaced tents with huts built from discarded wood and pal...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe ultimate rescue tool for elite Special Forces units trapped in a firefight is nothing complicated -- just a bright orange balloon.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoSome galaxies recycle stellar waste to birth new stars, others don't bother and blow it all in a star burst frenzy.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Divine Right and Mortal Man"* by William Bowles "Last night there was a TV documentary on a man who had been falsely accused of murder and had spent twenty-five years in jail, thirteen of them because ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 43.1 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:04:52 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 185 km ( 115 miles) SSW of Hagatna, Gua...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Freedom: The New and Future Experiment"* by Joel Bowman "Before I get started… Anybody here know what glossophobia means? The word derives from the Greek glossa, meaning tongue, and phobos, meaning fear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDavid Cameron heads to Berlin today for crisis talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel against the backdrop of economic turmoil in Europe. Bond yields in Spain soared today pulling the country deeper in...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 10 hours agoThe NDP has made a lot of noise arguing Quebec deserves a fixed percentage of seats in the House of Commons. At the same time, they continue to move full speed ahead with a leadership race where Quebecers ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoI may or may not have tickets to the midnight showing of Breaking Dawn tonight. OK, OK, so I have tickets. I almost feel like I need to hang my head in shame, because until recently I was anti-twilight. N...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoBritish spy boss John Buchan wrote the spy novel *Greenmantle* in 1916. In *Greenmantle* a shadowy Moslem figure threatens to spark an Islamic jihad against Britain. "The Germans and their Turkish allies...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"Either you live or you die by a stereotype. Either you live or you die by your ignorance." - Tupac
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoWe Are All Rupert Murdoch Now By Russ Baker on Nov 16, 2011 With the non-stop revelations about Rupert Murdoch and his news outfits, it’s easy to divide the media between the bad guys and everybody else. E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 37.1 km (23.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:36 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 173 km ( 107 miles) Northeast of Neiaf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA pony owner was distraught to find the severed head of her pet after it went missing. Patricia Lister kept Trigger, a brown and white six-year-old Shetland pony, on an allotment to the back of the Frog a...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThis is most excellent - give it a view! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 11 hours ago*Shall we bomb some more ARAB COUNTRIES...because they HATE OUR FREEDOMS & WAY OF LIFE? This is RIGHT HERE IN THE GOOD OLE USofA, FOLKS, protesters exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS being beaten like ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend. Though whale strandings are rela...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPuerto Rico is having its deadliest year on record as authorities struggle to control a rampant drug war on the U.S. Caribbean territory. Police said Wednesday that three people died overnight in separate ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSpain will pay its highest cost of borrowing since the creation of the euro to sell 10-year debt on Thursday as the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis intensifies. The Treasury aims to sell between 3 billi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAs shockwaves from the eurozone crisis radiate outwards, Hungary has felt the full force of their impact. Budapest has endured three difficult bond auctions in a week, yields have shot up, and the forint ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThis man, Robert Lamb, appears to be at the heart of the BBC's environmental programmes scandal. Surprise, surprise, he was trained as a BBC producer in the 1980s and has since become a one man blizzard o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLately we've heard some mixed messages from the American right with regard to China. There's some recognition that China's currency manipulation is draining American jobs, destroying American manufacturin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHuntington Beach Police Tuesday searched for a desperate dad, who apparently turned to robbery to feed his kids. The man robbed a GameStop store, telling the clerk that he was sorry, but that he needed ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNicholas Coyle, a Salve Regina University Lacrosse player, has been arrested in Newport on charges of animal cruelty after he allegedly killed a rabbit with a hockey stick and used the body as a puck. WPR...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRussia is facing a heightened risk of being drawn into conflicts at its borders that have the potential of turning nuclear, the nation’s top military officer said Thursday. Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoStudents, tests and cash were the perfect variables to fatten high school math teacher Jeff Spires’ wallet, officials said, but administrators pulled the plug on him after several students brought his alle...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCampus police at an upstate New York college say they're investigating the posting of racist signs in two buildings at the school. A sign reading "Colored only'' was found posted over a drinking fountain ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is weeks away from launching an unmanned aerial asset to help deputies fight crime. The ShadowHawk helicopter is six-feet long, weighs fifty pounds and fits in the ba...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago"There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner," says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, "because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis." We're raisi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe number of middle-income neighborhoods in the United States has dwindled significantly over the past 40 years, as the rich-poor divide deepens across the country, a study released Wednesday showed. In ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoU.S. banks face a “serious risk” that their creditworthiness will deteriorate if Europe’s debt crisis deepens and spreads beyond the five most-troubled nations, Fitch Ratings said. “Unless the euro zone d...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago------------------------------ Permalink *Occupy Roundup: Olbermann's Devastating Special Comment Nailing Bloomberg Plus New Video of Eviction* Keith Olbermann's special comment last night explained why...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe rare wild cats represent five of the seven different types of wild cats found on the unprotected forest corridor.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoUse your TV's big sound and picture to video call contacts on their choice of chat-enabled device.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoBMW is integrating an on-demand streaming music service that allows users to choose what song to play next.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe Vizio Tablet is decent but unremarkable. No wonder Android tablets still haven't put a dent in the market.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThis flight simulator costs $57,000, sure you don't just want to fly home for real instead?
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoAs Thailand Drowns, Proxy Government Seeks Amnesty for Wall Street Stooge. by Tony Cartalucci November 17, 2011 - Thailand's floods were the predictable result of poor planning, incompetent leadership, bot...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMore than one in four American women took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression last year, according to an analysis of prescription data. The report, by pharmacy benefits manager Me...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAt the close of business on Tuesday, the debt of the federal government exceeded $15 trillion for the first time--with the largest single owner of the publicly held portion of that debt being the Federal R...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoSometimes “progressive media” publishes something that is so incomplete, you could drive a truck through the missing storyline. All it would take is an hour more of research and ten more minutes of writin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOnly a first-year journalism student or my most thick-headed colleagues would deny that we reporters are a largely bourgeois bunch who have trouble dealing with the unconventional. Collectively, we apprec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA private member's bill set for debate Thursday in Ottawa would make it a crime to cover your face with a mask or other means during a riot. The bill by Conservative MP Blake Richards was introduced in the...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 12 hours agoEarlier today, reports Tim, a retired Philadelphia police captain refused entreaties to step aside and proudly insisted on being arrested with the 99%. Watch Tim's livefeed, witness history in the making!
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA senior climatologist with Environment Canada says the country should expect a cold winter, but warns that forecasting is getting more and more difficult. "It's almost as if you can't look at the past to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRadioactive caesium has been detected above the safety level in rice for the first time in Japan since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima plant. The sample came from a Fukushima city farm about 60k...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoArmy defectors in northwestern Syria -- armed with rocket-propelled grenades -- attacked a pro-government youth group office and clashed with Syrian security personnel Thursday, activist groups said. Se...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours agoYou may've heard by now that some crackpot took a potshot at the White House yesterday. When Fox "News'" website reported it, it drew some, uhm, interesting comments from Tea Baggers who still bristle at t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed six suspected militants on Thursday, intelligence officials told CNN. Two Pakistani intelligence officials said the suspected drone fired fo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSearch teams combed through rural South Carolina Thursday morning, a day after strong storms swept through the Southeast, killing at least six people and causing injuries in several states. At least thr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian business is dominated by a handful of men known simply as the oligarchs. In the 1990s many of them carved up Russia’s newly privatized state-owned...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt's hard not to become distressed, when I'm carefully following the situation in Yemen since violence got worse. It's even more troublesome not to become distressed thinking that there is a bleak future w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoProtesters in New York launched what they called an effort to "shut down Wall Street" Thursday morning at the beginning of a nationwide day of what could be the Occupy movement's largest protests yet. F...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSince the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, one of the greatest failures of the country’s leadership has been the inability to make a promised transition from a monarchy to republican rule. In fact, since ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoAn asteroid impact crater in France is getting the honor of giving the “terrible lizards” their chance to take over the Triassic.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 13 hours agoWhoot whoot! Tearing down the barricades around Zuccotti! http://www.ustream.tv/theother99
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 13 hours agoFemales are up to nine times more likely to suffer 'broken heart syndrome,' a study revealed today. The condition - when sudden or prolonged stress caused by an event such as an emotional breakup or dea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Caviar – the processed, salted roe of certain fish species, most notably sturgeon – is commercially marketed worldwide as a delicacy. The highly endangered sturgeons of the Danube river basin are...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoWebs of floating cells could collect energy simultaneously from the sun and ocean waves.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: A yellow frog (Hyla punctata) in the Colombian Amazon, one of the tropical areas where amphibians are most at risk. Jeffrey Arguedas / EPA] By Camila Ruz, www.guardian.co.uk 16 November 2011 I...
- posted by David L Riddick (aka The Aged P) at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoThe man supected of shooting at the White House last Friday had become obsessed with President Barack Obama, officials have told US media. It is thought Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21, believed God had given ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoWatch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com *Above: Live on Global Revolution from Occupy Wall Street New York* *Below: Second stream The Other 99 Ustream* *Twenty-six journalists ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoDid you see this? The BBC may have embarked on some of the most dramatic cost-cutting in its history, but it seems there is still some way to go. There are almost 4,500 job titles in existence at the Corp...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoCan't wait for the BBC's much loved "comedians" to poke fun through good natured banter at Obama who is under the belief that Hawaii is in Asia. On a good day perhaps you can see it from the White House, r...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 14 hours agoBelow is a three-part video of Denis Rancourt's "Science, Technology, and Academic Freedom Panel" presentation at the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center 2nd Annual Conference, New York University, April 3...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoWhen my (former) PhD adviser Tom Banks wrote his first guest blog for *Cosmic Variance*, I couldn't quite agree with his views on eternal inflationand/or understand his groundbreaking 22nd century concept...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoToday, if you can, join an Occupy site for however long you are able. Today, if you cannot physically join an Occupy site, do something to stand in solidarity with the Occupy Movement: blog, Tweet*, Face...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 15 hours ago- High cheekbones and slender chin frame wide smile - Being able to 'smile with your eyes' is crucial - Simply KNOWING your smile 'works' strengthens the effect [image: Cheryl Cole's smil...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoLevees.org to defend listing of levee breach sites to National Register today! New Orleans flood protection tax to stay at same rate next year~Holding the property tax at the same rate likely will generat...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours agoLots going on regarding Syria- UPDATES AT BOTTOM- check them out! Regarding the attempt at a UN resolution- It's not a security council resolution, but, if adopted could it be enough of a cover to launch a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Virginia Foxx wants to "balance" the budget. Is Sherrod Brown still with her?* Tomorrow the House plans to vote on the so-called Balanced Budget Amendment. This is, after all, what the 1% pays their cons...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 15 hours ago(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein) The only good thing about fascism and its brutal and oppressive tactics is that it's never subtle. Push these people and you'll always get th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoEuropean bond yields climbed again Thursday -- with the exception of the yield of Germany, the bastion of stability in the eurozone -- despite the European Central Bank's repeated bond-buying sprees. Ital...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 96.6 km (60 miles), the quake hit at 13:31:11 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 26 km ( 16 miles) SSW of San Marcos, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 80 km (49.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:42 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 30 km ( 18.6 miles) Southwest of Tiqui...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 16 hours agoOWS livestream: http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution http://www.ustream.tv/cbsnews - helicopter http://www.ustream.tv/theother99 - Tim! Update: here they come in with the poor horses again! another...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 16 hours ago*Today, the Federal Court in Halifax will begin hearing arguments in the class action, which could potentially affect the benefits of as many as 6,000 injured veterans in Canada.* Chronicle Herald
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 12:44:48 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 57 km ( 36 miles) SSW of Retalhuleu, G...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoOur tax dollars at work. The head of an agency that provides services to First Nations children and families accuses the government of discrminating against that community. The agency head is then the subj...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 16 hours ago[image: A woman sitting crossed legged meditating] Food for thought: Meditating can make you more confident in bed, a study has revealed Meditation has become a popular practice over the years, helping ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:38:32 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 29 km ( 18 miles) Southeast of Ercis, T...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoFrom today's Independent: The London-based television company being investigated by Ofcom over a global news fixing row tried to “cultivate” a world-famous environmental economist and other leading opinio...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoA new discovery negates the "inside-out" theory of tooth evolution.
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 16 hours agoAs a non science person, I welcome good news. Why is Dave so determined on bad negative news that Government and profiteers can use to make my life, my kids lives and my grandchildren's lives bad right now...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 17 hours ago[image: A long term study of 2,000 teenagers has found that ten per cent of teenage girls admitted to self-harming, compared to six per cent of boys] A long term study of 2,000 teenagers has found that t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoProtesters are preparing to vent fury at their economic plight in New York and Athens - as the euro debt crisis threatens to engulf Spain and France. The cost of borrowing for Spain's government has soare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMost of the radioactive cesium emitted by the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant has piled up within two centimeters of the soil surface, the government has announced. The Cabinet Office's Team...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMore than half of the radioactive materials that were emitted into the atmosphere in the days after the Fukushima nuclear disaster have since fallen into the ocean, according to a recent simulation by a te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Ministry of the Environment official has dumped radioactive soil on a vacant lot of land near his home in Saitama Prefecture after the soil was sent to the ministry by a Fukushima resident, it has been a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Japanese government is considering banning shipments of cesium-contaminated rice from the Onami area in the city of Fukushima that was affected by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power pl...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoThe following places share one thing in common; on the dates which accompany them, they freed themselves from the usurious peril which had been sucking their economic life-blood, and which had been commit...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoUploaded by caseyneistat on Nov 15, 2011 New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is shown arrested at minute 3:32 Video by C Neistat: like me on https://www.facebook.com/cneistat My office isn't far fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe San Francisco branch of the Occupy movement charged into a Bank of America today and set up camp before dozens of protesters were arrested. Demonstrators had arrived by the busload to march through th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNational debt for the United States raced through the $15 trillion mark Wednesday afternoon without any pause or reflection from the snowballing digits, in contrast to critics of the White House. To Repub...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTech giants including Google Inc took aim today at U.S lawmakers proposing anti-piracy legislation which they say promotes censorship. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has pit internet giants, consumer gr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoOccupy Wall Street librarians with new books again NYPD and Brookfield seize People's Library AGAIN By XENI JARDIN/Boing Boing Net http://boingboing.net/2011/11/16/nypd-hates-books-police-and-b.html ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe results of a second autopsy on Rebecca Zahau, who was found hanging naked from a balcony at her lover's mansion, have not convinced police to reopen the case. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoThe United States' Department of Defense needs to know more about how climate change affects global security, recommends the department's science advisers.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoUploaded by PlanetEarthAwakens01 on Nov 17, 2011 Retired Captain Ray Lewis of the Philadelphia police has joined Occupy Wall Street and gives his perspective on the general police mentality. Source: ht...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe mother of the 13-month-old baby whose body was found wrapped in a blanket and dumped in woods has been charged with his murder. Shelby Dasher, 20, was charged with second-degree murder after admitting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA bronze 'buckle' believed to be 1,400 years old had been unearthed in Alaska for the first time - and archeologists are mystified about how it got there. The artifact was found in sediment as they dug on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoClothing firm Benetton has been heavily criticised by the Vatican for using an image of Pope Benedict kissing an imam on the mouth in its latest shock advertising campaign. The controversial image, which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:43:02 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 130 km ( 81 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 76 km (47.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:18:09 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 380 km ( 236 miles) NNE of...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*N17 Day of Action* *24 hours of protest* First Rally: Noon at Municipal Building @ 201 West Colfax Avenue Second Rally: 6PM @ The Greek Ampitheatre in Civic Center Park OCCUPY DENVER November 17: 60 Days...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 87.1 km (54.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:14:10 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 274 km ( 170 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSearch teams combed through rural South Carolina on Thursday morning after a storm swept through the Southeast, killing four people and causing injuries in several states. At least three people died and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 59.2 km (36.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:34 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 102 km ( 63.4 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:57 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 147 km ( 91 miles) NNE of Kendari, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 583.7 km (362.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:45:31 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 257 km ( 159 miles) Southeast of Lamb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 583.7 km (362.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:45:31 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 257 km ( 159 miles) Southeast of Lamb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoExplosions and gunfire rocked the Syrian capital early Thursday, an opposition group said, hours after military defectors struck a government intelligence complex in a bold assault reflecting surging resol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:17:00 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 724 km ( 449 miles) ESE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 155.9 km (96.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:58:50 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 238 km ( 147 miles) Northwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBy *Raoul Heinrichs*, The Diplomat U.S. President Barack Obama’s sheen may have worn off somewhat in the United States, but not in Australia. Yet amid the handshaking and backslapping, the photo opportun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:52:41 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 694 km ( 431 miles) ESE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 27.3 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 06:25:50 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 36 km ( 22 miles) ENE of Lebu, Bio-Bio, Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Northern East Pacific Rise at a depth of just 1 km (0.62 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 06:11:51 UTC Thursday 17th November 2011. The epicenter was 69...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists say their hunt for extra-terrestrial life has been given a boost by new evidence of a massive hidden sea on Jupiter's moon Europa. The sea - which is as big as the North American Great Lakes - ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Arab League has given the Syrian regime three days to halt violence against its people or face economic sanctions, Qatar's prime minister has said. The suspension of Syria from the 22-nation group, f...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoMost of us are ignorant of thedetails of Haitian Voodoo. One catchesbits of exotica from time to time but little else. Here is an old article that addresses thatgap in our knowledge. It is worth a r...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat makes even more sense isthat we had two Jupiter sized planets working in similar orbits accumulatingmass. This configuration is naturallyunstable, but may well persevere until Jupiter dominated b...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoRead my lips. We reside in a capitalist society. In order to participate in a capitalistsociety, it is necessary to have access to capital. Having 20,000,000 participants and really40,000,000 unable ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThefundamental argument laid out here is that the Islamic world in particular iscollapsing on contact with modernity. That this trend will likely continue and that the Islamic world itselfwill continue ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoEmergency intervention in canceris common if not the norm, although the removal of a mass is certainly aninevitable necessity. However, we allknow that this far too often is a simple postponement and ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Graham Spanier (left)* Top American universities have appointed former CIA officials as their presidents. (Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People - Google ) Graham Spanier "serves as ...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 21 hours ago[image: Frustrated: The huge number of channels means people are constantly missing programmes they would like to watch] Frustrated: The huge number of channels means people are constantly missing progr...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 21 hours agoThey're attractive and successful, yet a growing number of women say they prefer independence to romance. Liberating - or a recipe for loneliness? Kim Williams is excitedly packing her bags for the trip of...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 21 hours ago[image: Lifesaver: Garlic oil contains an ingredient, diallyl trisulphide, that has the power to prevent the destruction of heart tissue] Lifesaver: Garlic oil contains an ingredient, diallyl trisulphide...
- posted by Maldivian at You Will Read News - 22 hours agoIf you start to nod off at your desk in mid-afternoon, don’t reach for a sweet treat as a pick-me-up – have an egg. Scientists have found that egg proteins, specifically those found in the white, help u...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoClint Eastwood's J. EdgarIt is precisely because Eastwood has made the sexual angle central to the film, without playing games with it, that the film is so powerful. By David McReynolds / The Rag Blog / Nove...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoFollowing in Charlton Heston's immodest footsteps.Ten immodest commandmentsWhat, indeed, have I learned from my fumbling-and-bungling lifetime of activism?By Mike Davis / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2011A fr...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoImage from Addicting Info.‘Occupy America’: The people are the pointBy Bill Freeland / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2011The “Occupy” movement, which began as a small gathering in a private park near Wall Stre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance 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 - 1 day agoFive 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day agoFriday 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoA 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 day agoA 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 day 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 day 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...
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