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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
A teenager has been attacked and killed by piranhas in northeastern Bolivia. Police have said the 18-year-old was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in Rosario [image: Link]del Yata, 400 miles north of ... - posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 14 minutes ago
Smoking can make your nipples fall off - this is the astonishing claim by Dr Anthony Youn, one of American's top plastic surgeons. The practitioner from Detroit, Michigan, was quick to point out this ap... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:08:36 UTC Wednesday 7th December 2011. The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) Northeast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 110.8 km (68.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:39:13 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) South of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunam... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 25 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:18:38 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 757 km (470 miles) East of Bridg... - posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 28 minutes ago
*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *THE RICH GET RICHER:* Oh my, is this "news" ? During good times the rich pull ahead as they manage to grab the fruits of expansion. In bad times guess what ? They keep pulling ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 31 minutes ago“For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon's outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became the brightest star in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in January 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Sula, Indonesia at a depth of 44.8 km (27.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:43 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 220 km (136 miles) SSW of Tern... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 35 minutes ago*"The Multiverse"* by Chet Raymo "Alan Lightman, another Tennessee boy (now at MIT) who works on the interface of science and the humanities, has an essay in the current Harper's called "The Accidental U...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 49 minutes ago“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” - Tom Krause
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 58 minutes ago
Winter ages a woman's eyes by four years and eight months, a team of beauty scientists have claimed. The anti-ageing experts studied the eyes of 5,000 women throughout the seasons for a clinical study. ... - posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago
As any parent can attest to, children's tantrums are a force unto their own. But where they have previously been considered best left alone, scientists have now revealed that temper tantrums can be analy... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoExclusive: Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S. Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones Infowars.com December 6, 2011 Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provid...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoAnti-war vet Vince Emanuel. Photo by Jessica A. Woolf / nwtimes.Veterans unplugged:Hoosier anti-war activist connectsreturning veterans to the 99%By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2011“I grew up in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago* * *"The Future of the Occupy Movement"* by Jules Lobel ”The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire" - Ferdinand Foch "The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thr...
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 1 hour ago
For some men, keeping quiet while their wife is on her 17th attempt at reversing into a parking spot would not come naturally. But research suggests that they might be better advised to bite their tong... - posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour ago[image: 373836_331145086911843_100000490620434_1358066_1883865303_n] [Hat tip Curt Holmes] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*Is Barney Frank the kind of boss that "The Boss," the late George Steinbrenner, was -- a pussycat to people with power and a bully to those without? His present and former staffers don't seem to think so.... - posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSeems like the second-largest object in the asteroid belt is really not an asteroid at all.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoFocusing on measurements of factors that influence the planet's total energy budget a new model confirms human contribution is the dominant cause of warming.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Automaton Conformity"* by Erich Fromm "In the mechanisms we have been discussing, the individual overcomes the feeling of insignificance in comparison with the overwhelming power of the world outside h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Foster ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago------------------------------ *December 5, 2011 at 00:03:07* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/5/11:* Permalink The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples *By paul craig roberts (about th...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA newly discovered cockroach has a talent that none of the other 4,000 plus known species of cockroaches has. It's one of the insect world's best jumpers.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoMicroscopic 570-million-year-old fossils from China may represent the earliest evidence of animal life on Earth.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*They are almost worse than a bank*. * * *This is the front-page, above-the-fold, right-corner lead of the day*: "After outcry, debit fee dropped; Bank gives in to rivals, consumer pressure" November 02,...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoIt's always been assumed that presidents age at twice the normal rate, but a new study finds just the opposite to be true.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoJudge Overturns Occupy NOLA Eviction ~NOLA DEFENDER
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA Christmas display outside the courthouse in Leesburg, VA featuring Santa Claus crucified on a cross was torn down by an angry resident in spite of arguments by elected leaders that the display was Const...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoAn Open Message to Police & Military By StormCloudsGathering.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Big corporations use loopholes to dodge taxes, report says" November 04, 2011|By Jia Lynn Yang, Washington Post WASHINGTON - Many of this country’s *biggest companies paid no federal taxes * - or even *ma...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoSource: We petition the Obama administration to: Investigate Unidentified Aerial Phenomena as Reported by Citizens, Police, Astronauts, Pilots and the Military. Searching for microbes on Mars and radio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoFargo, North Dakota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Almost missed it*: "T ridership hits record high; More employment, high gas prices fuel a busy September" November 02, 2011|By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff Commuters who find it harder to get a seat on th...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours agoSPEAKING FROM PARIS, PROBABLY between bites of *foie gras*, the OECD has sniffily suggested that the rich-poor gap widened in the period between the mid-eighties and the mid-nineties, and have stayed tha...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoJohn Banks’s Spending cap proposal is pseudo-conservative window dressing. Limiting increases in government spending to population growth and inflation, unless the Finance Minister goes to Parliament. I...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoI had to pick myself up off the floor just now. The BBC has actually reported a gaffe by The Obamessiah. It's another geography error. He was in Kansas, but told the crowd it was great to be back in Tex...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*I started to flip through all the unread articles over the last six weeks and did exactly that: moved on it. * *What I've managed to save and read over the last few weeks, and it is more than enough to p...
- The Germans Shoved 3 Card Monti Down Italy's Throat-- The U.S. May Freely Actually Elect Our Version
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoYesterday we talk about the option Europeans ensnared by banksters to go the Icelandic route. Rounding these banksters up and shooting the lot of them would be the most just thing to do. Iceland, however,... - Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe issue stems from the site's reporting system, which allows users to flag inappropriate content.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoBone marrow cells take home the checkered flag at the Word Cell Race.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSulfur dioxide pollution from coal plants in the eastern United States dropped by nearly half compared to 2005 levels.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoFor those addicted to driving and texting, this could be just the tech you need.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours agoOccupy Wall Street poster from Lalo Alcaraz / laloalcaraz.com.Occupy and the pundits:Do we really want 'specific demands?'By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / December 6, 2011I’m getting fed up with pompous pun...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Adapt or die. As many times as we've heard it, the lesson doesn't get easier. The problem is we're human. We want more than just to survive. We want love. We want success. We want to be the best that we ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Your Most Vital Commitment: * *Finding Time for You"* by The DailyOm “We can excel easier in our lives when our own spiritual, physical, and intellectual needs are fulfilled. Within each of there is a w...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSyria descended further into open warfare with armed clashes in the south and on its border with Turkey yesterday, with state media additionally pointing to the involvement of Turkish armed forces. In on...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours ago[image: Can we expect unbiased #strike coverage from #BBC Radio #Berkshire?] I believe this image is from BBC Radio Berkshire. Who can doubt their impartiality? Click through to read and contribute comm...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoDer Spiegel DE (EN) brings us a story indicating, in the words of Mark Duchamp, that hubris has but one limit: reality. *Germany's Reichstag wants the Parliament of the N-th Reich, whatever the value...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoJohn McCain tries to make good on longstanding threat to Putin. by Tony Cartalucci December 6, 2011 - As chairman of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to fomenting extrater...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 9 hours ago*"Canada's big five banks made a record combined profit of $6.1 billion in the three months ended in November, with the full-year earning at $22.4 billion, a sharp rise over the previous year. The full-...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 9 hours agoTypical 99% parasite. Image from Jobsanger.CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGEIt's everyone's fight'The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.' -- Thomas JeffersonBy Ted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMarine experts today warned people not to enter the water after two killer whales were spotted 100 yards off the English coast. The 'enormous super predators' were described as unpredictable and could at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe CIA could have been behind a computer virus dubbed the world's first cyber 'super weapon' that attacked an Iranian nuclear plant, experts claim. The launch of Stuxnet in 2010 marked the transformation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoReality TV star Paddy Doherty is facing up to three years jail over a bare-knuckle brawl which police linked to an underworld shooting. The 52-year old Celebrity Big Brother winner was left bloodied and ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSediments drilled from beneath the Dead Sea reveal that this most remarkable of water bodies all but disappeared 120,000 years ago. It is a discovery of high concern say scientists because it demonstrates ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt was a scene of sheer terror overnight, two men accosted an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest as he lay sleeping in his South Side rectory and brutally beat him. As CBS 2′s Susanna Song reports, police ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA woman accused of launching a vile racist rant on a tram broke down in tears in court as she viewed the video footage that became an internet hit, and then pleaded not guilty. Emma West, 34, appeared at...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIran’s Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing amid increasing signs that the West is taking direct action to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme. An order from Gen Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the com...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"The whole planet, the whole rock-grain, with its busy swarms, I now saw as an arena where two cosmical antagonists, two spirits, were already preparing for a critical struggle, already assuming terrestri...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe popular 90's toy is back with a full-color version to celebrate it's 15th anniversary.
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoHere is some of the latest- Massive Water leaks from the still crippled Japanese Nuclear Plants- — Japan's crippled nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free." - Rumi
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWith age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old — having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger. Two women in th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Worst In The World– * *U.S. Balance Of Trade Is Mind-Blowingly Bad"* by Michael Synder "Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in Delaware are searching for three suspects who robbed a delivery driver at gunpoint this past weekend. The incident happened at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot on Elkton Road in Newark....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah has made his first public appearance for several years at a rally in Beirut. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah normally speaks to his supporters via video-lin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUS officials have expressed concern at the loss of a drone near Iran's eastern border with Afghanistan. A Pentagon spokesman said the US was worried especially as the unmanned aircraft was "in a place whe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least five people, including a Somali policeman, have been killed as a car exploded while it was being searched in Mogadishu, sources say. Police officers stopped the car in the busy K4 junction of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGetting a police escort for a funeral procession was a common service at one time. But as WWJ’s Rob Sanford reports, budget concerns have forced Detroit to join other major cities in ending the practice. ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoJP Morgan, Exxon, Boeing, Among State Department's New Advisers. by Tony Cartalucci December 6, 2011 - The Washington Post has recently reported in an article titled, "Hillary Clinton turns to think tanker...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoGeorge Lakoff writes that the next step for OccupyWallStreet is out of the parks and into action-- electoral action. Far be it for me to challenge a guru like Lakoff-- and I'm working with candidates and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"I Hope You’re Prepared. Really."* by Karl Denninger "I know, I know, the market was up something like 800 DOW points last week, with two huge spikes - one probably on the back of a leak that Bernanke an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in central Moscow have clashed with demonstrators gathered for a second day of protests against alleged vote fraud in parliamentary elections - as Russia's opposition leader is arrested. Thousand...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThousands of people gathered in this capital Monday night to protest Sunday’s surprisingly controversial parliamentary elections, shouting “Russia Without Putin” and “We Need New Elections.” Interior Mini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Russian opposition leader was arrested at an anti-government rally in Moscow on Tuesday, he told CNN by phone, as demonstrators protested against the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections. Boris ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 11 hours agoFormer Obama adviser and Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich editorializes on the Occupy movement and the challenges facing the American economy. Sad that a smart guy like this with a l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOverfishing is taking a heavy toll on marine predators such as sharks, tuna and swordfish, says a new study by scientists at the University of British Columbia. The study, published online Monday in the j...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe senior government scientist facing child molestation and bestiality charges has returned to her high-powered job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr Kimberly Qui...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFraud in the workplace cost Canadian small businesses $3.2 billion last year, an accountancy group says. The report published Tuesday by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA) found...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Zombified Government Spending"* by Bill Bonner "The huge rally on Wednesday of last week fizzled by the end of the week. What a week. Full of sound and fury…signifying nothing. Wednesday’s rally was t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoThanks for your patience during this away time, folks. Posting resumes immediately, commenting has been restored. - CP
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWe'd like to thank the United Kingdom for being the foremost nation in following the big banner on the top and assisting us in (nearly) meeting yesterday's goal. We appreciate that when you took the time t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:46:27 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) South of Hak...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 11 hours agoRemember TARP—the so-called “troubled assets” “relief” programme that cost US taxpayers US $700 billion? The programme that every bank "had to have", but few are now prepared to defend? Remember *those...
- posted by Jason Major at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoNASA's New Horizons probe has achieved another milestone on its already historic mission to our solar system's erstwhile ninth planet: it is now the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Pluto.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAn old ethics problem gets an update with virtual reality.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 136.7 km (84.9 miles), the quake hit at 15:04:21 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) NNW of Ternate, M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoResearchers at Boston University say it's important not to over-interpret results from a study of former NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard's brain that show early signs of a neurodegenerative disease linked to r...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours agoA couple of days ago, Bradley Schiller, "a professor of economics at the University of Nevada-Reno", wrote an op-ed piece for the *LA Times* that has to be read to be believed. The title, "What's So Awful...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIran and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are risking their future ties with Syria by supporting embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad now, the head of a leading Syrian opposition group says. Burhan Ghali...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFrance's interior minister admitted Monday that lapses in security made it possible for Greenpeace activists to gain entry to a nuclear power plant southeast of Paris. Interior Minister M. Claude Gueant s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAmanda Knox may be one step closer to telling the world her side of the story about her saga of being wrapped up in an Italian murder trial that caught the world's eye. Knox, who recently returned home to...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoI just love Paul Krugman. Not only is he witty with a great sense of humor about the ignoramuses and assholes he collides with daily, but he has the historical charts to dismiss their fraudulent politico-i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrom buying expensive caskets and tailoring new clothes to slaughtering animals and organizing a massive feast, little expense is spared in South Africa's elaborate funeral celebrations. Here, as in other...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAs eurozone leaders prepare to meet in what some are calling a last-ditch effort to prevent a break-up of Europe's monetary union, the ratings agency S&P warned that 15 eurozone nations -- including top ra...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIn the past few days, the WikiLeaks saga has taken two sharp turns. On Thursday, 287 documents appeared on the WikiLeaks site about the global surveillance and arms industry. The dump provided many docum...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Climate change hotspots in Africa, 1 December 2011. guardian.co.uk] By John Vidal, environment editor, www.guardian.co.uk 1 December 2011 We are right on the equator, and Speke, Moebius, Elena...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA church that Sky News exposed as claiming to offer HIV healings will keep its charitable status. The Synagogue Church of All Nations, which is based in Southwark, south London and is a registered charit...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoI have struggled for months now with the fact that I believe that the legislation the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) produces – is discriminatory in its underlying tone and in many cases over...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTraces of radiation spilled from Japan's hobbled nuclear plant were detected in baby formula in the latest case of contaminated food in the nation. Major food and candy maker Meiji Co. said Tuesday it was...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTwin suicide bombings killed dozens Tuesday in Afghanistan, most of them in a mass-scale sectarian attack on Shiite worshippers unlike anything the country has seen in its decade-long war. The terrorist...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe devastating wall of water that struck Japan in March was the result of at least two waves that combined to create a more powerful tsunami, U.S. scientists said Monday. Ocean ridges and mountain ranges...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoYoussif shows off his "certificate of citizenship," an award given to the Iraqi boy by his school in Los Angeles for being exceptionally nice. "One kid got hurt, and I helped him," Youssif says. Another ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*"For the larger part of human history, for example, people were sure that the sun circles the Earth and that we are at the center of the universe. It doesn’t, and we aren’t. The conventional wisdom that t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA convicted felon chose the wrong victim when he tried to rob an ultimate fighting champion Friday night on the Southwest Side and ended up with two black eyes and a gunshot wound to the ankle. Police say...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoIt sounds as though the Pentagon has had about a belly full of decadal, inconclusive ground wars of the sort it found in Iraq and Afghanistan. Goodbye Army. Hello Air Force, Hello Navy. If armies ma...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM** * Bell Pottinger is a major 'lobbying' company. According to The Independent (PM 6 Dec 2011), executives at Bell Pottinger have been t...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoBoard games began as an exclusive pastime for the elite, with the Roman Empire spreading their popularity throughout Europe.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoNew technology brings tactile sensations to screens of your smart phone, tablet or television.
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 13 hours agoDecember 6th is the National Day of Action to stop and reverse foreclosures. The Occupy Homes movement is holding actions around the country in support of homeowners and people fighting to have a home. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga: 'Don’t we realize that the climate is out of control? How long will countless people have to go on dying before adequate decisions are taken?' said the Hondura...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoPhoto by Shut Down ALEC Protest at Salt River Project, Tempe, Ariz. Dec. 2, 2011 *Top stories at Censored News* Dec. 6, 2011 Navajo Louise Benally upstages Obama http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/arizon...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoThe rich grow richer, the poor grow more numerous. The income gap widens - and our entire society is poorer because of it. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released a study yest...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours agoOccupy NOLA: not with a bang, but a whimper ~Photo by John McCusker / The Times-Picayune. An evicted Occupy NOLA protester watches from Gravier Street as the police clear Duncan Plaza. New Orleans Police c...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 13 hours agoI don't usually write about climate change, because there are so many gifted writers and real scientists who have websites and blogs on the topic. It was apparent to me as soon as I began to learn about ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoI mentioned this yesterday in my post about the Canadian Peace Alliance's Peace & Prosperity not War & Austerity campaign, but it deserves special emphasis. In April 2010, I wrote about the Conservative go...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoRecent child sex abuse allegations expose serious flaws in Megan's Laws, which often target the wrong people.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoVesta is the second-largest object in the asteroid belt - 320 miles across - and is being probed by a hi-tech robot 'surveyor' that will then move on to its bigger 'sister' asteroid Ceres. New views sent ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 14 hours agoAvatar and The Big Fix I saw the movie Avatar long before the 2010 BP oil spill off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the 2011 threat of fracking, gas extraction from shale rock and the transnational Tar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Big Freeze of winter 2011 has claimed its first lives as two truck drivers died in separate incidents on snow-bound roads, and forecasters warned more severe weather is on the way in the next 48 hours....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIran's Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing after the West ramped up sanctions in a bid to cripple the country's nuclear programme. General Mohammed Ali Jaafari, commander of the unit, incre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThugs who dumped huge chunks of concrete on to passing cars could be linked to 30 separate incidents on the same stretch of road police have revealed. Officers said they were looking into a string of at...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoThe Democratic Party is in a desperate fight to hold onto the Senate-- it's a desperate fight not just for career-oriented party hacks but also for the people of America, who could be saddled with dangero...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 14 hours agoTis the season of pies. I love almost anything in miniature and pies are no exception. Cute baby pies are an easy, fun way to serve your pie this holiday season. First you will need to make your pie crus...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoLast week, I provided my initial impressions on the field of LPC presidential candidates. Today, I begin posting posting the candidates' responses to a questionnaire I sent out to each of them. Up first- ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA gang of Muslim girls who repeatedly kicked a young woman in the head walked free from court after a judge heard they were 'not used to being drunk' because of their religion. The group screamed 'kill th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA State of Emergency is declared in Uniontown, Kentucky after pumps that keep water out of the town failed. The pumps move water through the hoses and out to the other side of the levee to keep the water...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn Air Force crew damaged a component of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile while performing maintenance near a North Dakota base last month, prompting a partial evacuation, military officials ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoHeavy rains set off a landslide that swept over a home in central Colombia, flattening it and killing seven members of the same family, authorities said yesterday. “Sadly, early this morning a landslide ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 15 hours ago"I'll see your liar, liar, pants-on-fire," the Honorable Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons yesterday, "and raise you an easy peasy lemon squeezy." "Neener, neener," added Steve.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOver 13 early-morning landslides cut off parts of the Paria Main Road from Sans Souci to Grande Riviere, in north east Trinidad after heavier-than-usual rainfall over the weekend. Lines of Toco-bound beac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoResidents of a New York neighborhood said their homes are being swarmed by mosquitoes that have not been deterred by the December weather. Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal said residents of West 84th Street ...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 16 hours agoLiving inside an indigenous enclave, completely surrounded by aliens, the experience can become surreal, necessitating a periodic escape into the home country. Where I live, the number of indigenous peop...
- *Now and then*, when I think it is of importance to know, I allow myself to express my opinion on issues relating to our society and global community. This morning I noticed that some trusted journalists c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFreezing conditions overnight brought more problems to Scotland's roads with snow and ice leading to treacherous driving conditions. Pedestrians also faced difficulties with black ice on pavements after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA surge in violence in the restive Syrian city of Homs has killed up to 50 people in the past 24 hours, leaving dozens of bodies in the streets, activists said Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observato...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Kremlin ordered troops to take up position in Moscow on Tuesday morning after a large protest against Sunday’s disputed parliamentary election the night before shook its confidence. Colonel Vasily Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:15:08 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 78 km (48.3 miles) South of Pangai, Tonga No Tsunami ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoStandard & Poor's has warned it may carry out an unprecedented mass downgrade of euro zone countries, including Germany and France, if EU leaders fail to deliver a convincing agreement on how to solve the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA 16-year-old high school boy arrested here on Dec. 5 on suspicion of attempted murder for the November stabbing of a junior high school student has told police he was "hunting girls." According to polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) instructed Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on Dec. 5 to take measures, including installing leakage detectors, to prevent radioactive water fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRadioactive cesium of up to 30.8 becquerels per kilogram has been found in baby formula manufactured and sold by Meiji Co., the major food company said Tuesday, citing an internal inspection. The company...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPolice in India have arrested a senior female journalist in Mumbai on suspicion of ordering the murder of a reporter from another newspaper in a case of professional rivalry. Jigna Vora, who was the depu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWorries of Israel striking Iran might or might not be overblown but across the region the largely hidden "cold war" between Tehran and its enemies is escalating fast, bringing with it wider risk of conflic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least 48 people, including women and children, were killed in Tuesday's suicide attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, chief of the city's criminal investigation de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNow-aged serial killer Juan Corona was denied parole for the sixth time on Monday, California authorities said. Corona, 77, is serving 25 concurrent terms of 25-years to life for 25 counts of first-degre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo bodies have been found in Yosemite National Park in recent days near where three hikers were swept over a 317-foot waterfall last July, officials at the park in California said Monday. The body of on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFrance's interior minister admitted Monday that lapses in security made it possible for Greenpeace activists to gain entry to a nuclear power plant southeast of Paris. Interior Minister M. Claude Gueant ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn explosion in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province Tuesday killed four civilians, police said. The blast took place in central Mazar-e Sharif, the provincial capital, police official Lal Mohammad Ahma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe devastating wall of water that struck Japan in March was the result of at least two waves that combined to create a more powerful tsunami, U.S. scientists said Monday. Ocean ridges and mountain range...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIran and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are risking their future ties with Syria by supporting embattled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad now, the head of a leading Syrian opposition group says. Burhan Ghal...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago* Gary * The CIA has suffered a setback. On 5th December 2011, the campaign to change Britain's unfair extradition laws scored a success in the UK parliament. A motion calling for 'urgent reform' to the U...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoDouglas Carswell also gets the hectoring treatment this morning when he has the temerity to suggest that the British people must get to have a say on future EU treaty arrangements. Contrast the interruptio...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoTwo gargantuan black holes -- weighing in at nearly 10 billion times the mass of our sun -- have been discovered, possibly revealing a "missing link" in the galactic evolution puzzle.
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 20 hours agoDeveloping a firm handshake is a vital to landing a new job, according to new research. Experts say unemployed people often miss-out on landing a new position because they make a bad impression with the...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoHere's a classic clip from BBC Today this morning with Evan Davies showing his OUTRAGE that someone might suggest that a LABOUR party appointed panel to review future UK policing needs may be somewhat unba...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThe RSS AMSU satellite temperatures have been updated repeatedly. Let me just add the new data and refresh the rankings. The global temperature anomaly in November 2011 was +0.033 °C, so this November ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 20 hours agoThisconjecture has had its champions over the years, but the inability to closelyinspect one has made it an enigma. Yetit is clear that a shift in the spectrum does reveal these entities. Again one r...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoAs John Anderson has already pointed out in comments, Christopher Bookerhas written a report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the BBC's reporting of climate change and it's due out tomorrow. ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoMichael Duff has written an essay for Foundations of Physics that identifies some errors in much of the criticisms of string theory by the crackpots: String and M-theory: answering the critics (arXiv) Mi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoIs being endorsed by Herman Cain a good thing? Only in the bizarro world the GOP has created for itself. Yesterday Nate Silver tried to answer the question about how real, or how safe, Gingrich's lead is ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoThe picture above shows the December 5, 2011 cover of Crime Magazine for the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South Pacific editions. Notice anything strange? A week ago, Madison Ruppert, editor of the website En...
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 22 hours ago[image: A bullying boss can harm a marriage, a study carried out by Baylor University in Texas has found] A bullying boss can harm a marriage, a study carried out by Baylor University in Texas has found...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*The BBC iPlayer will be added to the Xbox in 2012 as Microsoft tries to centre its comfort on amusement pretty than just sports event. The inform also lets public manage their TVs by discussing into the ...
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 23 hours agoTuna stocks in the world’s seas have more than halved in the past 50 years, with overfishing pushing many exotic varieties to dangerously low levels. The rising popularity of sushi has been cited as one ...
- posted by Crystal Entertainment at You Will Read News - 23 hours ago- Study finds strong link between job and life satisfaction - but not if you're unhappy Workaholics who are trying to make up for an unhappy home life are deluding themselves, according to a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA U.S. laboratory has been accused of severe cruelty to monkeys after a whistleblower went to PETA with images and accounts of disturbing abuse. PETA urged the federal Animal Plant and Inspection Service t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA brutally disfigured body discovered in a dumpster is seven-year-old Jorelys Rivera who went missing at her family's apartment complex, investigators said today. The body was badly beaten and showed sign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHillary Clinton has revealed the U.S. has 'serious concerns' about how Russia's parliamentary elections were run - after European monitors revealed the vote was heavily stacked in favour of Prime Minister ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoUS military personnel have begun leaving Shamsi air base in Pakistan, after a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border plunged U.S.-Pakistani relations to an all time low. More...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*US Tribal Leaders Present President Obama with Mother Earth Accord Opposing Keystone XL* *US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline* By Indigenous Environmental Ne...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago*It is a detection of elevated anxiety utter scientists since it demonstrates presently how dried out the Middle East can develop into through Earth's warm phases. Sediments drilled from underneath the D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThese are the distressing images of horses left by the side of the road after a year-long drought meant their owners could no longer afford to feed them. After a year without rain in Texas, coupled with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSki companies let out a collective sigh of relief as up to 30cm of snow finally fell across France, Switzerland and Austria today after what had been a worryingly mild start to the season. In France, Val ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUp to 10,000 Russians took to the streets in Moscow last night to protest against what they said was a fraudulent election. Shouting 'Revolution!' and calling for an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA terrified mother was buried alive in a cardboard box by the boyfriend who wanted rid of her, a court heard yesterday. Michelina Lewandowska, 27, was shot with a 300,000-volt Taser stun gun by Marcin Kas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe eurozone debt crisis has deepened with Germany, France and 13 other members of the single currency facing a credit rating downgrade. In a move that will pile pressure on eurozone leaders and is likely...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*China is rising as the key deal-maker or deal-breaker as the UN weather meeting beginning into ministerial planning. The opinion of UK Climate Secretary Chris Huhne is that there was all to play for, an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7.5 km (4.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:56:01 UTC Tuesday 6th December 2011. The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) NNE of Van, Turkey No Repor...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Astronomers have confirmed the continuation of an Earth-like planet in the "livable region" about a star not distinct our own. The planet, Kepler 22-b, is the adjoining incorrigible planet up till now t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBP is accusing Halliburton of having "intentionally destroyed evidence" related to the explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The accusation com...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Censored News Bookshelf* *Beloved Child, A Dakota Way of Life* *Singing the people home* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Gabrielle Tateyuskanaskan rides horseback along...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore, 13 June 2010...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoWant to talk like a wanker? Then here’s a list of phrases that will help define you, the most hated buzzwords of 2011, (along with the percentage of people who said they hated it): 1. think outside t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*So what'll it be, GOP, a knuckle-dragging nitwit or a cynical fraud? Maybe with our Newt we can have both! (Today's line of the day comes from Paul Krugman, who notes that Newt "is by no means the deep th...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTOfrontera - 1 day ago[image: Imágenes para Navidad (Muñecos de Nieve)]
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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoAn intelligent discussion about the consequences of war on television? Am I dreaming?
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/xV1mbTRIHzM -- the movie has no sound. *If you have Linux Mint 12* installed and use Gnome 3 shell you might try and test my usr/share/gnome-shell alternative from here. It's new...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoAn attack against one is an attack against all.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn an odd twist, global warming may have helped scientists with the breakthrough needed to clone the elephant-like giant.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIn the past we've talked a bit about the role of Bain Capital in the demise of Warner Bros. Records and how, despite Romney's campaign being predicated on his role as a "job-creator," Bain has always bee...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis social online game has partnered with 12 nonprofits to raise money for children in need.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoUsing a Sony Move controller and pico projectors, two British studios film a Holodeck-like experience, without post-production tricks.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe St. Louis Zoo has successfully bred Ozark hellbenders for the first time in captivity.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoSunday's NDP debate was a chance to get a first look at the field of candidates, for the 99.9% of Canadians who don't have the complete collection of Paul Dewar speeches on their Ipod. With nine debaters...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago*Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring charged with impaired driving: sources* EDMONTON - According to sources within the federal government, Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring has voluntarily resigned from caucu...
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