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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 seconds ago
Demonstrators faced tear gas and a heavy police presence as they gathered for a third straight day to protest a coal power plant in southern China. Video from CNN affiliate i-CABLE News showed the massing... - posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 seconds agoCompany plans to roll out their first batch of spnKix by 2012, but they need your help.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 seconds agoSpace station commander Dan Burbank managed to snap a stunning photograph of Comet Lovejoy from orbit.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 seconds agoA 2009 report linking a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome is disproved and retracted.
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoSyria's major opposition group condemned Bashar al-Assad's regime Wednesday for "brutal massacres" this week and urged the U.N. Security Council to protect civilians against "acts of genocide." "The re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
Less than a week after the final U.S. troops pulled out, a string of more than a dozen bombings have left more than 60 dead in largely Shiite neighbors around Baghdad. It apparent signals a resumption of t... - posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 6 minutes ago
Motivated by Government Inaction, Youth to Launch Grassroots Movement Against Climate Change iMatter Marches:Our Climate. Our Future. Our Revolution: That is the motto of thousands of youth who will be t... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 minutes ago
The High-Tech Priests at CNET have published an unusual, Top 10 List that they describe as the 10 technology trends that "keep us up at night." Most of their tech worries concern technological destruction... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 28.3 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 252 km (156 miles) Southwes... - posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 minutes agoWant to be in two places at once? Hook up a laptop to a robotic body.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 minutes agoThe roads are crazy, the shops are overrun so it's time to head online for some instant digital purchases. Might I suggest you shoot some space music down their e-stockings?
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 minutes agoPigeons may be ubiquitous, but they're also brainy, with surprising numerical competence.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 95.2 km (59.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:41:15 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Northeast of Iquique,... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:41 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 277 km (172 miles) ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:56:36 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 111 km (68 miles)... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 26 minutes ago
Food Freedom by Rady Ananda December 20, 2011 Less than a year after Frito-Lay announced plans to make half their products without “any artificial or synthetic ingredients,” the $13 billion company was su... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 29 minutes ago
A team of Arab League observers has arrived in Damascus to see if President Bashar al Assad keeps to the terms of the agreement designed to end months of bloodshed. The delegation begins its work even as... - posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 48 minutes ago
We have expanded the team yet again. Dr. David Rudiak, who has done a great deal of work on the “Ramey memo” has accepted our invitation to join us as a consulting researcher along with Tony Bragalia and C... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 50 minutes agoAn interesting piece from *Grist.org* suggests that getting action on climate change is a noisy business. The trick, it claims, is to be outspoken and brutally honest about what's happening and what's com...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 hour ago*Well, it's anther Christmas in Hooland and "The Grinch" just can't stand it. With copious amount of unpremeditated gall, he re-affirms his alliance with AIPAC, and CUFI "Christians United for Israel, Rev...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe devastation in the southern Philippines left by Tropical Storm Washi has created "huge" humanitarian needs in the area, the United Nations said Wednesday, estimating that nearly a half-million people...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour agoSee this? I awoke this morning to four of these. Actually, three were slashed and the only one that wasn't touched was still flat as a pancake. After hoofing it to the nearest garage, lugging back a porta...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoAnother take on Jason Kenney's bigotry, by Andrew Potter of the *Ottawa Citizen*. It would be a lot easier to debate the tough cases of Canadian multiculturalism if people understood how the system actual...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour agoIs Univision promoting war with Iran? (via Activist Post) *YouTube -- RT* Description: In Univision documentary it is being alleged that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are joining forces to plan attacks on ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoIraqis knew they were getting something special for Christmas this year, the departure of American combat forces. And a good many Iraqis also knew that marked the time for settling old scores and balancin...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoFrom Politico - Note what is first on McConnell's concerns in this statement. “The House should pass an extension that locks in the thousands of Keystone XL pipeline jobs, prevents any disruption in the p...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoBeethoven's music changed throughout his life as he lost his hearing.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoLost to the 2004 tsunami at age 8, a survivor finally finds her way home.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 2 hours ago*Isaiah Berlin by Pietro Ruffo* As Corey Robin wants to get across in The Reactionary Mind, contemporary politics divides along a line that pits "freedom" against "equality." And as George Monbiot pointed...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoYesterday and today Boehner is telling the American public that they are holding out for a one year extension of unemployment. What he is saying is spurious. The original two month extension (that the Ho...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 2 hours ago*Zero Gov* by Bill Buppert December 20th, 2011 *“Under a Communist Party Government, South Africa will become a land of milk and honey.” * ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoThis is happening in my hometown. The cops chased us into City Hall Park. They followed us on their motorcycles as we ran into City Hall Park. Please keep in mind, we are a group of twenty people that we...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoAround mid-November, authorities in Namibia were alerted to the discovery of a hollow sphere that had apparently crashed to Earth from space. What is it?
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoPotentially harmful chemicals show up in a wide variety of drugs and supplements, especially ones with time-release coatings.
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 3 hours agoRAP NEWS episode 10: The year we've all been waiting for - 2012AD (or 13.0.0.0.0, if you ask a Mayan) - is finally here. What will happen? Will we see the poles shift or a paradigm shift? Will a rogue Su...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoThe European Union bureaucrats apparently think that they have the right to impose their insane social engineering policies on the rest of the world. While Beyond Petroleum ("BP") plans to rename itself ...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 3 hours agoBy: Duane Craig The Northeastern region of South Carolina is home to the Great Pee Dee River, and a little tributary to it called, Black Creek. Black Creek has a problem with fecal coliform bacteria going...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours agoObama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style POSTED: DECEMBER 20, 10:06 AM ET . ...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThis pet door only opens for recognized, microchipped cats, and then locks the door behind them.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoThree wise men arrested for illegal possession of “frankincense” and “myrrh.” Art from Dare to Create.Christmas is no time totalk about war and peaceWhen the angels sang, 'peace on earth good will to all,' t...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoOrator and humanist Robert G. Ingersoll. Image from the Council for Secular Humanism.Robert Green Ingersoll:A humanist looks at ChristmasBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / December 22, 2011Robert Green Ing...
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoMummies, the Civil War and a possible wife of the Christian God? Must be a History poll! Vote for your favorite History story of 2011.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe way our planet temporarily captures asteroids suggests Earth should have an extra moon at any one time.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoClips from Fox News Newt Gingrich is giving fair warning to judges and courts across the country: If he becomes president, the judiciary won’t reign supreme. The former House Speaker and current Republica...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours agoBenzinga / *By William K. Black* Bill Black's Handy Guide to Bankster Fraud, From 'Small Fraudulent Fry' to 'Septic Tank Scum' * * * The white collar criminologist calls out Bush and Obama for not p...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoSo the Harper GovernmentTM finally uttered the words we've been expecting and dreading: health care. We all know what they're up to. It's the standard reactionary playbook on public health care. One, c...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoRecovery School District releases final decisions on school sites New Orleans Gets a Good Defense Lawyer ~Mac McClelland, MoJo LA attorney general files suit over offshore drilling revenue Entergy reports...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago*Plus Michele B & breast-feeding, Taibbi on Wall St. prosecutions, The Donald's the man?, war on workers, war on women, and more* * Don't cry, Mr. Speaker -- you've still got a job. * *by Noah* *2/16/11 -...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours agoRead this in an article this morning - McCain bitching and moaning about the Pres going to PetSmart yesterday. He said "previous presidents I've served under … would be calling them over to the White Hous...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 7 hours ago*Rove: Republicans should fold in payroll tax cut standoff* By Jonathan Easley - 12/21/11 05:16 PM ET Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 23.2 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:11:52 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 239 km (149 miles) SSW of Tas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFrench prosecutors have launched a criminal inquiry into a Conservative MP and 12 of his friends who attended a Nazi-themed stag night at an Alpine ski resort. Aidan Burley, 32, and members of his party ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*They are TRYING to START A WAR because the old guy died.* * * *"Members of North Korea’s ruling class might also recognize that, at least for now, they have no choice but to accept the succession.... dur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA young father was arrested yesterday after he posted a photo on Facebook of his 22-month-old daughter bound and gagged. Andre Curry, from South Side, Chicago,was charged with aggravated domestic battery ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHackers in China have managed to penetrate the computer networks of the America's top business-lobbying group, it has been claimed. All the data held by systems at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWith 16.5 billion letters, packages and cards expected through the U.S. Postal Service this holiday season, the last obstacle senders might expect their packages to face, are thieving rats. A post office ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice are searching for a woman who has gone missing after her desperate call to 911 was abruptly disconnected on Tuesday. Twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer Elizabeth Dunford's cell phone was found in piece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA New York woman sent her husband on an errand on Wednesday, then allegedly used a shotgun to kill her father, her ten-year-old daughter and herself. Police say Penelope Luddy, 53, persuaded her 57-year-ol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSyrian armed forces have carried out live firing exercises as a show of strength after 111 people were killed in one town yesterday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops using heavy machine ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThree Britons and three other men have been sent to jail for evading tax on EU carbon permits. A judge in Germany said the defendants' €300million (£250million) conspiracy had undermined efforts to tackle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFirst there was ghost riding, then flash robs, and now there's a disturbing new criminal trend that's going viral. Video clips of teens trashing local businesses have clocked up millions of views online. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhen astronomers caught sight of a mysterious titanium white object circling the Earth in 2006, they assumed it was a spent rocket. But it was actually a small asteroid captured by our gravitational field ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*The Hong Kong government has banned imports and the auction of live chickens for three weeks after an infected chicken carcass was found at a wholesale market on Tuesday.* Hong Kong is culling 17,000 ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo teenagers subjected a woman to a terrifying rape ordeal after stalking her and abducting her as she left a nightclub. Jailat Khan and Shahzada Khan, both just 16, were caught after they were capture...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThey're as much a part of Christmas as Santa. But now conservationists have warned Rudolph’s reindeer friends are under threat, as the world’s largest herd has gone into decline – and could be wiped out w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIt is usually a topic about which the authorities remain tight-lipped. So transporting a flying saucer on the back of a truck in broad daylight was more than a little out of character. Or so thought the re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe judge behind a ‘whitewash’ review of extradition has admitted he had not met Gary McKinnon, the Asperger’s sufferer who faces being sent to the U.S. for trial on hacking charges. Lord Justice Scott B...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago*Researchers have developed a clever way to achieve the coldest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. The approach, reported in Nature, may be well-suited to create memory for future quantum computers. Op...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Mission accomplished. * "*The number of Iraqi neighborhoods in which members of the two Muslim sects live side by side and intermarry has dwindled*." * * *And they called it liberation. * "Iraqis celebr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA hoodie who was caught on video dragging a rider from his scooter during the London riots was today jailed for five years and 10 months. Ryan Kichenside, 18, was caught on footage posted on YouTube chasi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all. Researchers at Yale have found that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA super-strain of bird flu that could infect and wipe out millions will not be published by the virologist developers. Dutch scientists who created ‘probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can mak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEight U.S. Army soldiers have been charged over the death of an Asian-American soldier in Afghanistan who was allegedly severely racially bullied. Private Danny Chen, 19, of New York, was found dead in a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least 57 people have died following a series of bomb attacks across Baghdad - just days after American troops left Iraq for the final time. The blasts come amid a political crisis in the country, with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo planets have been discovered that survived a grilling by a swollen dying star, providing astronomers with a sobering glimpse of Earth’s fate far into the future. The planets, found by astronomers from...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago*Sony has unveiled a paper-powered battery prototype in Japan. The team behind the project said such bio-batteries are environmentally friendly as they did not use harmful chemicals or metals. The process...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenager was tortured and cut up in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking ring, police said. Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, was arrested over the first-degre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoKarl Smith (right) and Jeffrey Burton, who beat a teenager up on a night out, have had their curfew relaxed so they can watch football. Magistrates relaxed the curfews of two thugs so they could go to a fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBut the news isn't all bad, with economists suggesting the nation's wobbly economy could drive the official cash rate as low as 3.5 per cent by the end of 2012, *The Daily Telegraph *reported. Westpac chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*I don't want to hear anymore from the Boston Globe, sorry. * "In Baghdad, Panetta Leads Uneasy Moment of Closure" by THOM SHANKER, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ROBERT F. WORTH, December 15, 2011 BAGHDAD — Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe mother of a little girl who was beaten black and blue by an 'out-of-control' two-year-old at nursery has called for the child's expulsion. Katie Ann Guttridge, aged three, sustained a bruised eye sock...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoMy sources tell me that there is weeping and wailing in BBC newsrooms, black ties may be worn and solemn music should be played.....at this breaking news..... The UK economy grew by 0.6% between July and ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoTime for another one of these as we move ever closer to Christmas. The floor is yours... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoGay advocacy is another perpetual BBC theme and it is picked up in this story being given great prominence on the main news portal this morning; "Two female US sailors have become the first same-sex couple...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Thoughts on Evil, Human Nature "* - W. Christopher Epler ․ "Carl Sagan, author and astrophysicist from Cornell, used to wonder if atomic weaponry would be the nemesis of most "advanced species." A fligh...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoSo Miliband's PR puts out some nonsense about the fact that Red Ed can complete a Rubik Cube puzzle in one and a half minutes. The BBC instantly laps this up, runs an item on it here, with the presenter (E...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoIt's a theme that the BBC has been hammering all year in as many programmes as possible; our financial woes have been created by the bad and evil and greedy Bankers. There was a remarkably one-sided discus...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart, ...And in our own despair, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God." -...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*Yahoo shares rose on information that the internet company is looking to reduce its chance in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan. In spite of being one of the biggest brand names, Yahoo has seen its m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBritain has been stripped of its power to return asylum seekers to Greece - after a ruling by European judges. The decision by the Luxembourg court risks plunging the entire European asylum system into c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMilitary chiefs are dusting off their plans for the defence of the Falklands after South American countries banned ships from the islands docking in their ports. Sources fear Prince William's six-month de...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours agoTrailer for documentary filmed at the world's only sloth orphanage in Costa Rica. For more information of when and where it's on go to www.slothville.com or follow slothville on FB or @slothville on Twitt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSupermarkets have become ‘ashamed’ of selling Christmas cards with religious themes, Christian leaders said yesterday. They claimed a creeping ‘multicultural indoctrination’ had led to an aversion to Chri...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoOn 20 December 2011, in her *Washington Post* blog, Jennifer Rubin asks *What if Ron Paul wins Iowa?* Ron Paul is now ahead in the polls. Jennifer Rubin lists her reasons for not liking Ron Paul: 1. Ron...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Azores Islands Region, Portugal at a depth of 39 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79.3 miles) ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasu...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"And all fell still. But even in this silence came transformation, new signs, and beginning. Beasts of quiet advanced out of the clear loosened forest from their lair and nest; and it happened they did no...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIt appears to have finally allcome together to produce superb interpretive data on forests with excellentground truthing. The forest industrywill certainly be at the forefront to use this technology be...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis article is all aboutsalvaging the carbon credit markets that have so far failed miserably. I posted on this particular approach when I firstbegan this blog but now think that the vastly better so...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoEffectively we combine the twopresently used methods and are able to nicely work them to good effect which isimpossible as separate systems. The realquestion is whether this can all be done while makin...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoWithout question, the too big tofail system has to be down loaded into the State and Municipal environment asmuch as possible and as soon as possible if only because too big to fail hasvisibly failed t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMore than 100 firefighters have been battling a large blaze on an industrial estate in northwest England. Huge flames were seen shooting into the night sky at the Enterprise Business Park in Leyland, Lanc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWith less than a year to go until America elects its next president, the country has been warned of a looming new economic crisis. Major cities across the *United States* are declaring themselves bankrupt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Sky News investigation has discovered shops in London selling unlicensed or prescription-only skin-bleaching products. In Peckham, southeast London, we purchased a tube of Fashion Fair Cream from two s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 49 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:21 UTC Thursday 22nd December 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) SSE of Tapachula, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAfghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes, his spokesman said. The comments come after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLarge forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Lar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Syrian navy and air force conducted live-fire manoeuvres on Tuesday to test their preparedness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland," the official SANA news agency reported. "The air force ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” - Plato
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTaiwan on Tuesday ordered a halt to planned live-fire military drills to avoid inflaming regional tensions after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, officials said. Planned live-fire exercises o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIranian officials, lawmakers and media on Wednesday worriedly snapped their focus on to their country's sanctions-hit economy amid a sudden and accelerating plunge in the currency. The currency, the rial,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIraq's government marked its first anniversary Wednesday in turmoil as its Sunni vice president disputed charges he ran a hit squad and the US urged calm in a row that has heightened sectarian tensions. A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAmid deepening tension between Iran and its principal adversaries -- the United States and Israel -- the Jewish state has formed a Special Forces command to carry out strategic strikes deep inside hostile ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoRobert Finne was talking with a friend about the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission earlier this year when they both started wondering, "Who are these people?" So they wrote to the commission and asked. Fin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThousands of people besieged a government office in a southern Chinese town Tuesday and blocked a highway to demand a halt to a planned coal-fired power plant because of concerns about pollution, protester...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIn a sign that the Obama administration is willing to clear the regulatory decks for oil drilling in Alaska's remote Arctic waters, the Interior Department on Friday gave a conditional green light allowing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBanks gobbled up nearly 490 billion euros in three-year cut-price loans from the European Central Bank on Wednesday, easing immediate fears of a credit crunch but leaving unresolved how much will flow to n...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*"This time of year is all about family and tradition. It’s not really about convenience."* *by Ken* I know this letter will seem long, and whiny, and repetitive, but you should really read it all, just a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoUS requests scientific journals publish redacted versions of studies on a version of bird flu that could spread to humans. The US government has asked the scientific journals Nature and Science to censor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSeize the day. Only 52 weeks and a day are left before Dec. 21, 2012, when some believe the Maya predicted the end of the world. Unlike enthusiasts of other doomsday theories who suggest putting together...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNorth Korea will shift to collective rule from a strongman dictatorship after last week's death of Kim Jong-il, although his untested young son will be at the head of the ruling coterie, a source with...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*The New Journalism: Get out the barf bag* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Normally I don't read the newspapers at the library, especially if I don't have a bottle of Pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLittle by little China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing's economic interests in the region. In the past three weeks Beijing has commit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe Israeli government's watchdog agency says the country is short on bomb shelters and is ill-prepared to protect its citizens in case of war. The state comptroller's annual report, published in part on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe United States will cut the number of national guard troops patrolling the border with Mexico as it steps up other surveillance on the porous southern border, officials said Tuesday. The effort reflec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoARMONK, N.Y. - Century-old technology colossus IBM on Monday depicted a near future in which machines read minds and recognize who they are dealing with. The " IBM 5 in 5 " predictions were based on soci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago*Interestingly, this exact same phenomenon has appeared recently over Pennsylvania and Lake Erie. What could they be?*
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA court has convicted a 69-year-old man of incest, coercion and bodily harm against his daughter, with whom he fathered three children. The daughter stayed silent for more than 30 years because she feared ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe head of South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Tuesday expressed cautious doubts over the time and location of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death, parliamentary officials said, raisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoUp to 50,000 British women have been advised to consider having cheap breast implants removed after evidence in France showed they could lead to cancer. French medical authorities are expected this week ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSix out of ten people with dementia are undiagnosed, it has been found, as MPs launch an investigation into how to pick up missed patients. The majority of people with the condition have not been diagnosed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNORTH KOREA as we know it is over. Whether it comes apart in the next few weeks or over several months, the regime will not be able to hold together after the untimely death of its leader, Kim Jong-il. How...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOn Dec. 24, 1861, the Charleston, S.C. Courier gave an impassioned account of the first anniversary of secession, as it was celebrated in the true birthplace of the Confederacy. “The Confederate and State ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJust days before Christmas, a new study has emerged that suggests that one of Christianity's most prized but mysterious relics – the Turin Shroud – is not a medieval forgery but could be the authentic buri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWASHINGTON, DC – Santa Claus came early this year for four former executives of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a large US bank that failed in fall 2008. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had brou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe price of an average house in Ireland fell by almost 16 per cent in the year up to November, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office. Residential property prices fell by 1.5 per cent l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 38.7 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 22:10:47 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 167 km (103 miles) WSW of Te...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoUndefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has been jailed after pleading guilty in connection with domestic violence. Mayweather was given a 90-day prison term after pleading guilty to reduced batte...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"What's large and blue and can wrap itself around an entire galaxy? A gravitational lens mirage. Pictured above, the gravity of a luminous red galaxy (LRG) has gravitationally distorted the light from a mu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“The Miraculous Commonplace”* by Chet Raymo “My mention of the poet Howard Nemerov yesterday reminds me of another of his poems that has long haunted my imagination, called "Seeing Things": ․ "Close...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Life is pain. A billion little cuts every second, a billion points of anguish. Terror strikes every day, from the little moments of fear when a child cries in pain, to the numbing shock of acts of viole...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Singing To The Deer" * by Patricia Monaghan “At solstice, the woods were bright in a snowy way, the sky pearl gray above the stately maples and gnarled burr oaks. An Alaskan marooned in the urban Midwe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoWasilla, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 17 hours ago*This pic was taken at Stonehenge in England a few hours ago - Winter Solstice.* *-Solstices over the years on Buckdog .... *
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Healing Past Hurt: Our Evolving Language"* by The DailyOm "We can create positive change by choosing not to use these words and phrases as we come across them in our vocabulary. There are many troubling...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 17 hours ago* Anyone who enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies will be excited about THE HOBBIT by Peter Jackson - slated for release on December 14, 2012. *
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it w...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*After the 51-hour Window of Cluelessness in Washington and Seoul, the departed Dear Leader was abundantly on display Monday in this Seoul electronics emporium.* *In Kim's Death, an Extensive Intelligence...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 18 hours agoI hate to say it (nah, not really), but I told you so. The reinstallation of the Bush Dynasty has been the sole reason for the clown circus, featuring the truly unqualified Rethugs. Calling all newts, herm...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* "Gingrich Plummets in Polls as Voters Start Remembering Who He Is"* Dawning Awareness Threatens Campaign by Andy Borowitz DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report) – "In a development that has imperiled his fron...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoIn an interview with Newsweek/The Daily Beast on Monday, December 19, Vice President Joe Biden said that "the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the pres...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 20 hours agoEliza Gilkyson. Photo by Alan Pogue / The Rag Blog.Texas Music Hall of Fame Singer/Songwriter andPolitical Activist Eliza Gilkyson on Rag Radiowith Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: Eliza Gilkyson was Thorne...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoWith the Wolf Pups: Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, and Manny Calapoo of Warm Springs, Ore. Renegade Walkers visit wolf sanctuary 2011. Photo Renegade Walkers. With the Wolf Pups: Renegade Walker...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoProtester busted by LA cops at Occupy Los Angeles encampment outside City Hall. Photo by Lucy Nicholson / AFP / Getty Images.The 'peaceful evacuation' of Occupy Los Angeles'Evacuation' is what kindly firefig...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSuspicion of North Korea runs deep in South Korea, so it wasn’t a surprise that within hours of the announcement of Kim Jong-il’s death Monday, some South Korean newspapers were asking if the Dear Leader h...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 22 hours agoI'm no football fan but I think the BBC are off-side with their treatments of these two stories. First off, John Terry "racist" But earlier today, Luis Suarez "misunderstood".Wonder could Terry claim he i...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours agoA Kind of Magic -or- Drew Brees: Mindfreak ~moosedenied
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 22 hours agoPaul Ryan was in Afghanistan 3 times. I was only there twice. He was there for a matter of hours each time. I spent about 6 months there all told. I rode all around the country-- first in a VW van and lat...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoA surrealist artist thematically art-wrapped ten Mini Coopers for Art Basel 2011.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe Rhode Island-sized B9B iceberg is preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the centenary of an Australian explorer's epic polar voyage.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoApple’s voice-recognition technology, Siri, is easy to use, as long as you don’t have an accent.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoLouisiana State Officials Call For Troops On Streets National Guard engaged in door-to-door gun confiscation during Hurricane Katrina Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com Wednesday, December 21,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoOccupy The United Nations INDIGENOUS DAY OF RESISTANCE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS RALLY & FORUM January 27, 2012 Indigenous Unity March at 10:30 AM Meet at the Human Rights Commission 25 Van Ness Avenue San Franci...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 22 hours agoThe best part of James Gleick's *The Information* was, for me, his history of communication and information technologies. Here's a terrific article that applies that lens to baseball: "The History of How W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Climax Time: The Top 12 Trends for 2012"* by Gerald Celente "Hold onto your hat, your wallet, and your wits. After a tumultuous 2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline news arou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"The Corruption of America"* by Porter Stansberry "The numbers tell us America is in decline… if not outright collapse. I say “the numbers tell us” because I’ve become very sensitive to the impact this ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 22 hours agoRachel Maddow explains why House Republicans are about to allow taxes to go up on almost every working American, an act certain to hurt the economyquite a bit. Part 1: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoI'm so close I feel I could almost reach out and touch it. In the distance I see smoke stacks from shut down factories, grey stark buildings, and the odd old truck. Set against an austere, cold ice blue ...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAn "Efficient House Plus" project features an electric vehicle with cable-free recharging capabilities.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAnti-poaching efforts in the forests of Thailand seem to be paying off, according to photos snapped by camera traps.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoKim Jong Un issued his first military orders as leader of North Korea just before the death of his father was announced, a South Korean state-run news agency said Wednesday. Citing "a South Korean source,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoDETAILS FORTHCOMING. South Korean intelligence reveals that Kim Jong Il's train "never left Pyongyang", casting doubt over the circumstances of his death. Rumours are now surfacing that a military coup has...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"LEAP 20/20: GEAB N°60, Global Systemic Crisis: * *USA 2012/2016: An Insolvent and Ungovernable Country"* "As announced in previous GEABs, in this issue our team presents its anticipations on the changes...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoToday at 12:30 a.m., the Earth's axial tilt was as far from the sun as possible this year.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 23 hours agoThe World is in a mess. This is a fact which only the wilfully blind can ignore. There exists in the UK, what is laughingly referred to as a legal system. In a sane world, the Law would serve to uphold...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoTwo weeks ago, I wrote some impressions of *The Information*, by James Gleick. (If you read that earlier post, do also read the comments.) I was hoping that the book would not devolve (or advance, dependi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kodiak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 16.9 km (10.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:13:46 UTC Wednesday 21st December 2011. The epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) SSW...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Ian Hurst, former spook.* Most terrorists work for the security services. Lord Stevens, a former UK police chief, is quoted as saying that *only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a pr...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy: Duane Craig Well, pardon the pun, Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. is in the news again as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection investigates the problem of methane showing up in water wells ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoContact: Tom Weis, President, Climate Crisis Solutions, 303-378-1364 (mobile) tom@climatecrisissolutions.com *TARSANDS: The "Tour of Resistance,” with support from Lakotas and other Native Americans, end...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Security cameras caught this Christmas delivery of a computer monitor!*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRoyal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe’s largest oil company, shut its 200,000 barrel-a-day Bonga field off Nigeria after oil leaked during a tanker loading. An export line from the field’s floating produc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA wooden ferry carrying people home for the Christmas holidays sank Wednesday in stormy weather in eastern Indonesia, officials said. Most of the 100 passengers were rescued, they said. Four bodies were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn intense hail storm in the Ladysmith area has damaged vehicles and made for treacherous driving conditions along the N3. Motorist Roger Ramseier, who was en route to Bethlehem when the storm hit yesterd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRoger Erikson of the National Weather Service confirmed to the Southwest Daily News that a tornado touched down in DeQuincy late Tuesday morning. "We had a storm, and we saw it on the radar, Erikson said. ...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day agoThis goes along with my last post *What is this a sign of: While half of Americans have descended into poor/low income, congress only puts effort into writing deceptively titled un-Constitutional legislati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPiles of dead crows, possibly hundreds of them, have been found at Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park. Members of the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society reported Tuesday the stack of dead birds discovered duri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today declared the recent deaths of ringed seals in the Arctic and Bering Strait regions of Alaska an unusual mortality event, triggering a focused, expe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTERNATE, Cavite - A dead buntanding (whale shark) was found on the shore of a barangay (village) in this town, police said yesterday. It was the first time that a lifeless butanding was discovered on the...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day ago*A Requiem for Prudence* On Monday, we lost a dear friend. Prudence was “just” a dog, an 18 year-old beagle who has been a part of our family for what seems like forever. Our youngest son Arthur was only...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA pygmy sperm whale has washed up on a North Side beach overnight. The dead, 14-feet long whale was discovered in the morning hours of Wednesday, 21 December, on the beach at Northern Lights condos near Ol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour teenagers have been jailed for life for murdering a pupil outside the gates of his school. Zac Olumegbon, 15, from Brixton, south London, was stabbed to death in front of Park Campus School in West ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoLt. John Pike, who was photographed pepper spraying passive protesters at U.C. Davis, is shown here doing the deed in Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World." Graphic by Brady Hall / Pepper Spraying Cop / Tumblr....
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*House Republicans stiff attempt from Democrats to call up Senate payroll bill* By Pete Kasperowicz - 12/21/11 10:14 AM ET House Republicans blocked a Democratic attempt Wednesday to call up the Senat...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA young galaxy has been spotted at the very edge of our observable Universe, thought to be one of the first galaxies to emerge from the "dark ages."
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoTwo Earth-sized worlds are seen orbiting a burned-out star, defying theories about the ultimate fate of planets.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in the UK are trying to identify hundreds of young victims of an internet child abuser. Children as young as 12 are thought to have been targeted by man arrested in Kuwait. Many were forced to pe...
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