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Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 minutes agoSensors in the fabric monitor respiration, heart rate, activity, body posture and skin temperature.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 minutes agoInsects, dust and widely varying weather conditions are no problem for these new high-def outdoor-specific sets.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 minutes agoThis controller kicked off the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoIf you are surprised by China’s decision to buy 10pc of Thames Water, don’t be. If you’re worried about the world’s biggest authoritarian state flexing its financial muscles here, too late. First, the Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes agoA 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an oil tanker crashed into a bungalow and burst into flames. The collision happened in Folly Lane in Wool, Dorset, at around 8.40...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes agoHUNDREDS of people were evacuated from streets, homes and businesses amid fears of a huge gas explosion in Liverpool city centre. Police cordoned off roads within a 200m radius of the former Lewis’s depa...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 48 minutes agoHey, don't say Lord Eddard didn't warn us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoJan 20 (Reuters) - The Philippine cargo ship Aztec Maiden had an accident off the Dutch coast on Friday, and is now stranded and at risk of leaking fuel, local media reported citing emergency services. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes agoBESUT, Jan 20 (Bernama) -- A few villages in Jabi, Setiu, were hit by flash floods due to continuous heavy rain from last night which caused Sungai Tok Dor and Sungai Selasih to burst their banks around 5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes agoThe ACT State Emergency Service received 77 calls for help from tonight's storm. A spokesman said crews responded to minor flooding from leaking roofs, mainly in the Tuggeranong Valley, and to trees and b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoRadioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt's Mediterranean coast that was the scene of violent protests last week, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Thursday. A ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoUpdate, 4.45pm: A fourth person has been struck by lightning, after a severe thunderstorm swept over the city this morning. The storm ripped through the south metro area this morning, causing havoc with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFlooding in Turner is so bad that much of the city is inaccessible, and officials say it will remain inaccessible for at least two days. Turner Mayor Paul Thomas said the worst-flooded areas include downt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA trawler with about 150 passengers on board, suspected bound for Malaysia for employment, capsized near the Saint Martin's Island in Cox's Bazar Thursday morning. Coast Guard so far rescued 33 persons ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTHE Northern Division has recorded 29 cases of fish poisoning. According to the Health Ministry, these are the only cases recorded nationwide. Ministry spokesman Peni Namotu said hospitals on Viti Levu h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThree persons in the district are suspected to have died of Scrub Typhus causing concern among villagers. The disease spreads from mice and is suspected to be contagious. The virus causing the disease is...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour agoWednesday the DCCC, which always claims to stay neutral in primaries, released their first challenger endorsements for the 2012 cycle. I noticed they endorsed all the grotesque conservatives backed a few ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.5 km 12.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:30:50 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 217 km (135 miles) ESE of Se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA Somerset man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a fuel tanker crashed into a Dorset home and started a fire this morning. Dorset Police say a 51-year-old Yeovil man has been arrest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNew footage has emerged of rescuers searching for the missing clambering through the wreckage of the Costa Concordia as the operation was suspended after the ship moved again amid choppy seas. Divers en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSalman Rushdie has pulled out of a literary festival in India after receiving death threats from a mafia gang based in Mumbai. The writer was also warned to stay away from the festival in Jaipur by Musli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoOne of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in prison. Brian Shivers, 46, from Magherafelt was convicted of...
- Brian Shivers found GUILTY of the Murders of Sapper Patrick Azimkar, 21, and Sapper Mark Quinsey, 23posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoRepublican Brian Shivers has been found guilty of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army base in Northern Ireland - hours after Colin Duffy was acquitted of the crime. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - An international debate over whether to censor new research on bird flu may soon prove academic, as other laboratories close in on similar findings showing how one of the most deadly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoJAKARTA (AP) — Indonesian health officials say a 5-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Jakarta — just days after her uncle succumbed to the virus. The H5N1 virus also claimed the lives of a man in Vietn...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoThis seems like a good time to mention: Tala is now on Twitter. She saw Pooh Bear was doing it and she wanted in. Because Tala's mommy needs new ways to waste time.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoOn Monday, as Saporam village in Jharkhand’s Khunti district celebrated the festival of Tusu, cousins Peknath Munda, 35 and Fagu Munda, 20, went to a village fair nearby. That was the last anyone saw of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe Beast of Stroud may have struck for a third time after a mutilated roe deer was yesterday found 10 miles from the scene of the first killing. Worker Mike Gorry, who spotted it on a building site while...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoFrom HSI Canada: Humane Society International has just secured the biggest reduction in animal testing requirements in history! Our science team has been hard at work for more than two years, negotiating ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBOSSASO, Somalia Jan 19 2012 (Garowe Online) - Three tonnes of dead fish washes up on Bossaso's shore on Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports. Abdiwahid Mohamed Jo'ar Director General of the Ministry of Fishery...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoHow Will the Saints Defensive Personnel Change Under Spagnuolo? ~Canal Street Chronicle Flood-protection work is larger than life ~Nikkie Buskey The fear of not knowing… ~Disinfranchised Citizen Supreme C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago(Reuters) - Police erected a 100-metre cordon around a house in Somerset on Friday after arresting a man under the Explosives Act. Avon and Somerset Police said the 36-year-old man had been detained after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoJerusalem (CNN) -- America's top military official began a series of high-profile meetings with Israeli leaders Friday amid growing international concerns that the Israeli government could act on its own ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA high profile dissident republican has been found not guilty of murdering two British soldiers in Northern Ireland. Colin Duffy, from Lurgan, was acquitted of killing Sapper Patrick Azimkar, 21, and Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:12 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) SSW of Ternate, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:13 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoNIHONMATSU, Fukushima -- The Ministry of the Environment announced on Jan. 19 that high levels of radioactive cesium were detected in ash found in the wood stoves of private homes in this town. The findi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- Highly radioactive gravel from inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuation zone that was traced to several construction projects in Fukushima Prefecture, including apartment buildings and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHIROSHIMA -- A report filed by an expert panel to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Jan. 20 stating that insufficient data prevents it from reviewing the area affected by radiation-tainted "blac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A 47-year-old man was arrested on the night of Jan. 19 for allegedly receiving a bribe over housing demolition work ordered by the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in the after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA fuel tanker has crashed into a woman's bungalow in Dorset, setting it on fire. The vehicle ploughed into the property in Folly Lane, Wool, just before 08:40 GMT, causing a fire to start. The woman who...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSignatures to a petition against SOPA and PIPA, two internet piracy bills currently being debated in Congress, topped seven million according to Google, who used their blacked out logo as a link to the pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNorth Korea on Friday credited new leader Kim Jong Un with spearheading past nuclear testing, as it adds to a growing personality cult that portrays the young son of late leader Kim Jong Il as a confident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar is scheduled to arrive in Moscow on Sunday to hold talks with Russian officials on matters of mutual interest. The visit comes at the invitation of the Ru...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 3 hours agoA remix of the now-infamous video to include a few of those "foreign special interests" not mentioned in the original broadcast, as Ethical Oil pocket puppet Kathryn Marshall strives mightily - eight ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:29:57 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Southwest of Lata,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoDuring a 2011 expedition in the Wehea Forest, a team of Ethical Expeditions and UW-Oshkosh scientists discovered Miller's Grizzled Langur, one of the rarest primates in Borneo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFrance has suspended all joint operations with the Afghan army and threatened to withdraw from the country after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops. The attack was the second to hit French so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe rescue operation aboard the Costa Concordia has been suspended once again after the wreck shifted on the sea ledge on which it rests. It is the third time the search has been called off, amid fears th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwelve female students from Le Roy Junior Senior High School in upstate New York are experiencing a mysterious medical condition. Their symptoms include stuttering, uncontrollable twitching movements and v...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 hours ago*A study claims that aged people with dementia are more likely to suffer falls if they are given anti-depressants by care home staff. Dr. Carolyn Sterke recorded the daily drug use and records of falls in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA senior al Qaeda operations planner was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan last week, according to a U.S. official. Aslam Awan died January 10 when a CIA-operated missile slammed into a compound ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBritish author Salman Rushdie on Friday canceled his appearance at the Jaipur literary festival in India following warnings of threats to his life. "I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Mah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoYemen's largest opposition coalition blamed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling family for causing chaos in the town of Radda, Baitha province, and said the family intentionally eased the way for al Qae...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoProsecutors examining possible insider trading are looking into whether information was passed on before ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Italy last week, according to a report. Italian pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA paedophile who escaped justice for eight years has become the first person to be extradited from China to the UK. Teacher David Price will be sentenced later after admitting 21 charges of possessing an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMost of the websites shut down by a hackers group were up and running early Friday, including the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and some entertainment sites after one of the federal government's largest...
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- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*Johnson & Johnson has settled for $158m over allegations that a subsidiary defrauded a state healthcare programme in the US state of Texas. *Mr. Jones, a former employee of the Pennsylvania Inspector Ge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Japanese Coastguard patrol aeroplane came close to disaster when it was hit by an albatross. The bird smashed a one-metre wide hole into the Bombardier DHC8-315's nose as it flew at just 300 metres ove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA snorkeller has told how he punched a tiger shark in the face to escape after it sank its teeth into his arm in Western Australia. David Pickering battled with the predator as two children and their moth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSyrian forces have retreated from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said, but deadly violence raged on elsewhere as a month-long mandate for Arab League peace monitors in Syria was expi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA third baby has died after an outbreak of a deadly infection at the Royal Hospital in Belfast. The death was confirmed as it emerged that all expectant mothers were set to be transferred to other hospit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo anonymous letters have been sent to police investigating the murder of a former teacher in Worcestershire. Betty Yates, 77, was found stabbed in her cottage by the River Severn in Bewdley, Worcesters...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice in Londonderry believe dissident republicans were responsible for two bomb attacks on Thursday night. The bombs exploded at the tourist centre on Foyle Street and on Strand Road, close to the DHSS...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe political roar over the pipeline from Canada is deafening the real concerns over tar sands development.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThree people have died, tens of thousands lost power, and hundreds of cars slid off roads a today after the Pacific Northwest was hit with a major snowfall. The storm claimed the lives of a mother and he...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*A study in science shows the trick can extend to cloud services such as Google Docs without loss of security. Quantum cryptography uses this feature to send the keys to decrypting messages with high secu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWind gusts of up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire near Reno out of control Thursday as a wall of flames burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced about 10,000 people to evacuate the...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAnimal lovers are fighting to save the lives of hundreds of donkeys that are being systematically executed because they are not native to a Texas wildlife park. Already, wildlife officials have killed 75...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:38 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) NNE from Van, Turkey No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFrom the Magic Kingdom to the Apollo Theater, President Barack Obama on Thursday made the case for American tourism and his own re-election bid, mingling his political and economic agendas as he tried to ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*In the US mega upload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials. A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoThe BBC seems intent to help the SNP choose economic oblivion in 2014. In one sense they are welcome to it but in another it is in clear breach of their code of conduct. Have a listen to this item on Today...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe father of one of the teens charged with beating up a boy in an attack which was filmed and posted on YouTube says his son is being treated as the 'fall guy'. Michael Palomino, a policeman, said his 1...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoThere are certain touchstone issues that inflame BBC bias. I'm sure we can name several of them; Israel, Afghanistan, Global Warming, Capitalism....and Immigration. Today has been relentlessly pushing the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA Vietnam veteran, who in the line of duty, was beaten to a pulp by a teenage gang who sprung on him as he walked to meet his wife at the bus stop . Police have arrested one of the six male suspects, aft...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe 20-year-old maintenance man sentenced to life in prison for beating and killing a 7-year-old girl, who was found in a trash bin has committed suicide in his jail cell. Brunn was found unresponsive at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPerilous crossing: Students, some as young as five, hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak, Indonesia. At first ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA cat killer was being hunted today after ten pets were poisoned in a single street. The suspect is thought to have killed the cats by lacing the food with deadly antifreeze and leaving it in gardens for ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago** *Breakfast in India.* "The differences between countries are often not as great as the disparities within them." There are rich and poor regions in the USA, in Australia, in Europe, in the UK... *Whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoHundreds of primary school-age children have been granted shotgun licences over the past three years, figures have revealed on the day MPs are due to debate a possible ban. Between 2008 and 2010, a tota...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoA new hi-res photo has been beamed back from Mars -- will the wreckage of the failed 2003 British mission to Mars be found?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWest Yorkshire Police have spent £3.3million on translation costs over the last three years. Police fighting to stop Eastern European migrants binge drinking in the street have put up posters in seven dif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA teenage girl was today jailed for luring a 16-year-old to a house party where she was plied with drink and drugs before being gang-raped at knifepoint. Amber Roderick, 19, smothered herself in dog sham...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAnonymous launched a massive cyber attack against U.S. government and anti-piracy websites yesterday in response to the shut down of one of the world's biggest file-sharing services. Megaupload.com was t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMore than £2billion is being claimed in benefits by foreigners every year, including thousands of illegal immigrants, figures reveal. The Department for Work and Pensions announced a fraud investigation la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBritain's elite military and police teams joined forces in a combined exercise to give a glimpse of the sheer scale of the country's biggest peacetime security operation yesterday. Operation Woolwich Arse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSix American troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, Nato has announced. It is believed all six of those who died in the accident were US marines, although there are no rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 534.3 km (332 miles), the quake hit at 07:31:35 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 361 km (224 miles) Southwest of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 07:05:55 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) ESE of Missoula, Montana No Re...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 6 hours agoElection coverage has a number of silly rituals and tropes. NYU journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen at PressThink has a great piece up called "A Viewer’s Guide to Iowa Caucus Coverage" (1/3/12)....
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 6 hours ago*CANADIAN LABOUR LONDON ONTARIO:* *COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR LOCKED OUT CATERPILLAR WORKERS:* Time ticks on until this Saturday's mass demonstration in solidarity with workers at the Electro-Motive Dies...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis encounter is actuallyuseful. The sasquatch is noteworthy fora couple of reasons: Itwas around six foot tall. There areplenty of observations of extra tall creatures and few noted as ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoI cringe of course to touch thistopic, but a few things need to be said. Marriage exists in all societies to a greater or lesser degree and worksto accommodate the biological needs of the human species...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis article by Ellen Browncovers the present machinations under way as local governments struggle toreestablish the integrity of their titles system which has clearly been massivelycompromised by outr...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoIt appears that we activelyremodel our DNA and have been forever. Somuch for ideas of DNA conservation. Itnow looks way more dynamic than any of us ever imagined and surely this impliesthat the genome...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoI'm *all for not passing judgment* until the facts are all in and examined, but it is becoming much harder to do that in light of what's coming out in the media now about the *[in]actions* of Costa Concord...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoThere's *this from Cathie.* Oh dear! Did the *Harper government lie to us again*? A federal agency created by the Harper government with great political fanfare in 2008 is costing millions of dollars to ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoThe Bush Kangaroo lately, well, *now is a good time*. Because, as Jon Stewart says: When I want news, I go to CNN. And they turn to Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo. Said brother *Newt*: "I think the destruct...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago*Problem that has occurred to me, too* Your computer may get restarted once, after you wake it up from hibernation. At any rate, next time, once you choose your user name to log in, you are waiting for ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoLefties - as in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization - have joined in a warning to western governments of the economic and social risks they're inviting through ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours ago"Cesium is stocked 1.3 times more in unborn baby than mother from the study of cattle in Fukushima" Posted by *Mochizuki* on January 19th, 2012 http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/cesium-is-stocked-1-3-t...
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- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago------------------------------ *January 19, 2912* *SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship? Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars* Congressional support for a pair of anti-pir...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoI apologize but my university email has not been available for 1 1/2 days and may not be available for a day or two more. I have no access, at all!
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor... Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThree beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico. Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. They happe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday warned that a military strike on Iran would be a "catastrophe" with the severest consequences which risked inflaming existing tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. "As fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne in three American adults is obese, a national level that has stayed the same in recent years, said US data released on Tuesday. About one in six children and teenagers are also obese, according to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe largest banks must show how they would break up their assets if they were in danger of failing, under a rule approved Tuesday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp voted to require banks with $50 billio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRating agency Fitch said on Tuesday that Greece would default on its debt, although it said that such a default was likely to take place in an orderly manner. "It is going to happen. Greece is insolvent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne of the European parliament’s most influential members, the German Christian Democrat Elmar Brok, has declared that Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade the credit ratings of nine eurozone member st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoATHENS — Available for rent: The Acropolis. In a move bound to leave many Greeks and scholars aghast, Greece's culture ministry said Tuesday it will open up some of the debt-stricken country's most-cheri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUnemployment rose by 118,000 in the three months between September and November taking the total jobless count to 2.685 million, a figure the Prime Minister called "hugely unwelcome". The numbers confirm...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*Crazy right-wing Kansas heather* Did you catch our brief post on the Republican civil war in Kansas last week? Koch Industries owns the GOP there, but a few of the legislators have had the temerity to tr...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoShopkeeper Naveed Hassamin has infuriated jobseekers in Cornwall by turning away anyone who doesn't speak Polish. Mr Hassamin placed an advert in the window of Costcutter in Bodmin, Cornwall, stating tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe European Commission has launched legal action against Hungary's Fidesz government for violations of European Union treaty law and erosion of democracy, marking a dramatic escalation in the war of words...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs many as one million children are being allowed to languish in coasting schools for at least six years, Ofsted warned today. Pupils across England are being failed after spending their entire primary or...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSan Pedro Sula, Honduras (CNN) -- Flanked by police officers with assault rifles, and riding down a highway in the back of a police pickup, police commissioner Julian Hernandez explains the difficult tas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people that some President's Choice Organics baby food may be rancid. Loblaws, which distributes the PC infant cereal products through its national grocery ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussia knew about it 'for some time,' ex-government official says. Electronic equipment hidden inside a fake rock in a Moscow park helped the United Kingdom spy on Russia, according to a former official w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSouth Carolina Tea Partiers don't much like Mitt Romney, the Massachusetts moderate, but they seem willing to vote for him. If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Chinese people are increasingly frustrated with the Chinese Communist Party and the political situation in China is "very, very delicate," U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Wednesday. "I do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Chinese people are increasingly frustrated with the Chinese Communist Party and the political situation in China is "very, very delicate," U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Wednesday. "I do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Chinese people are increasingly frustrated with the Chinese Communist Party and the political situation in China is "very, very delicate," U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke said on Wednesday. "I do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChina fired a ground-based anti-satellite missile into space in January 2007, destroying a weather satellite and causing tens of thousands of pieces of debris to threaten orbiting spacecraft. A U.S. and R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIran might pound Persian Gulf cities with ballistic missiles and use swift boats to attack American war ships in an attempt to dissuade a U.S. attack on its nuclear arms sites, a new report states. Tehra...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours ago*Winyan Ituwan holds first of four gatherings* * * *Photos and article by Vi Waln* *Lakota Country Times Editor* . Photos by Vi Waln: Top - Phyllis Young and Madonna Thunder Hawk; 2nd - Olowan Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhy the latest news from Malaysia helps to undermine authoritarianism throughout the region. Something remarkable is happening in Malaysia, and the rest of the world should take note. Malaysia, you ask...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 66-year-old man has been arrested over claims a buttock from a Saddam Hussein statue was illegally brought back to the UK after the Iraq War. Detectives from Derbyshire Police said the man was detained ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCanadian skier Sarah Burke has died from injuries she suffered in a crash during training earlier this month, a family spokesman has said. The Canadian had remained in a critical condition after suffering...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDramatic new pictures have emerged of the panicked, final moments of the Costa Concordia as a damning new audio recording reveals the crew initially refused offers of help. A taped ship-to-shore call, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia at a depth of 258.8 km (160.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:37:30 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) NNW o...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago. Photos by Vi Waln*A Thread in the Beautiful Fabric of Resistance * *by Debra White Plume* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Water is finite, and sacred. “Mni wicozani”, through water there...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 624.6 km (388.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:42:01 UTC Friday 20th January 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) Southeast of Lambasa, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 30.1 km (18.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:35:37 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (108 miles) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga ...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 11 hours agoIf you went on the internet tubes at all yesterday, you probably saw that Google, Wikipedia and many other sites protested the SOPA and PIPA acts, and provided readers information about contacting their memb...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoMusic by Chuck Wild, "Liquid Mind VI: Spirit - In The Spirit" Images courtesy of ESA, NASA, and The Hubble Space Telescope.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago“Begirt with many a blazing star, Orion, the Hunter, is one of the most easily recognizable constellations. In this night skyscape from January 15, the hunter's stars rise in the northern hemisphere's wint...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension- though affected, certainly, b...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoSaw this on Think Progress in reference to Citizens United. On the eve of the anniversary, a new survey reveals that small business owners overwhelmingly say the ruling hurts their business: Two-thirds of...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe head of Nigeria's police has been given 24 hours to produce a terror attack suspect who escaped police custody under suspicious circumstances, a government minister said Thursday. Minister of Police...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoI'm a Mike Malloy type of gal and he just asked a question about stud muffin Newt Gingrich. Women, Can you imagine Newt naked? Oh, my........................................... that's a vision...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*From this morning's NYT "Today's Headlines" newsletter.* *Since it's a screen grab, the links don't work, but if you want to read these stories (really?), they should be easy to find on nytimes.com. Did y...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe governor of Cameroon's Far North Region on Thursday said threats posed by militant Islamist group Boko Haram were "very critical." Speaking in Mokolo, Gov. Joseph Beti Assomo told reporters that all se...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoIn my last post, I profiled the *Origins of AIDS*, JacquesPépin's masterful study ofhow the virus that causes AIDS in humans originated in chimps and then jumpedto humans and later took off as a result of...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 14 hours agoSFS undergrad Anton Strezhnev has a new blog called Causal Loop. Highly recommended. Via Jay Ulfelder who, naturally enough, critiques Anton's "first substantive post."
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoAt the end of the day it won't matter what the JRP recommends or what the Cons and Enbridge do to negate or subvert the process. Something is different about this pipeline proposal compared to others. Th...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 15 hours agoWithin minutes of the site being shut down, and DOJ releasing its statement, Anonymous sprang into action and started taking down a ton of sites -- including websites for the DOJ, the US Copyright Office, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Comets"* by Chet Raymo "In the deep winter of 1744, Sophia, a fourteen-year-old minor German princess, was on her way to Russia. She had been summoned, with her mother, by the Empress Elizabeth, as a p...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoWHILE DAVE, BORIS & REV regale us with an outrageous string of things to get outraged over, I ran across this small delight, worth 1:27 of your time. It's a video, as you see, with the title: *"Aston Marti...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoFirst, via *thwap*, a link to another Rabble piece by *Tyler McCreary*. In it he describes the appalling start by which Enbridge and even JRP chair Sheila Leggett stepped in it. Second, *The Regina Mom*...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe availability of junk food in middle school is not the culprit.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFifteen hundred tank shells were stolen from an IDF munitions base in southern Israel. A senior officer in Southern Command said that the shells could reach terror organizations. Some of the shells may ha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*And checking out just as quick*: "Brown’s big quarter boosts total to $12.8m" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, January 09, 2012 Senator Scott *Brown* raised $3.2 million in the last three months of th...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 17 hours ago*How enjoyable was it yesterday to see so many bloggers and website owners going on strike yesterday over the misguided Stop Online Piracy Act. For one day, the internet shrugged at the projected imposit...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoStories of courage and heroism aboard the stricken luxury cruiser are beginning to emerge.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoI needed to get a job as a library page in order to be "in the system" at the Mississauga Library. Job openings rarely, if ever, go external. Since after I earn my degree, I want to work as a librarian in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoTijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 17 hours agoLift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out) Part 2 – No-Coaching Motherfucker Edition ~moosedenied
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"The Chance Encounter and the Self-inflicted Wound"* by Joseph W. Martin, Jr. "A friend of mine (you know who you are) once told me that what he liked about my presentations was that I seemed to have a “...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 18 hours agoBy: Duane Craig The Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund site in Whittier, California, needs $70 million to cleanup the volatile organic compounds in the ground water, according to a recent report at 89.3...
- posted by BAL at WPB to NYC - 18 hours agoReverend Billy from 2gee on Vimeo.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, Navy officials said, a likely prelude to testing Iran's recent warning against sending a U.S. carrier through the Strait of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"A Letter from Mitt Romney: About My Finances"* by Andy Borowitz SOUTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – "Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney has released the following letter to the American ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Debunking the Myth of the Great Recession"* by Bill Bonner "There is a rumor- which we started ourselves- that Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia has been invited to join the Federal Re...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours agoPermalink *The first state to rebel against indefinite detention * libertylover520 Uploaded by libertylover520 on Jan 18, 2012 * * *Indefinite Detention The NDAA and the Enemy Expatriation Act * liberty...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Bloggers Beware"* by Julie Mitchell ․ "The SOPA bill is bad... and we can stop it. The internet is the greatest exchange of information we have. Don't let the government monitor it. Don't let them censor...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 19 hours agoMembers of the Senate are rushing for the exits in the wake of the Internet's unprecedented protest of the Protect IP Act (PIPA). At least 19 members of the upper chamber announced their opposition on We...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoScientists have created a genetically engineered microbe that turns the algae into low-carbon biofuel, but must make the technique commercially viable The ancient art of seaweed farming could provide a s...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoWhat happened to the RCMP investigation into Bruce Carson that Harper himself ordered, presumably to get his own lard arse off the hook? Carson, you will recall, is the convicted fraud artist/disbarred ...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoAn engineered microbe has a sweet-tooth for seaweed, removing a great stumbling block for seaweed as a biofuel.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoAre you a quake catcher? Tweeting when you feel an earthquake is just one of many ways citizen-based earthquake reports are helping science.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJan 19, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed three new H5N1 avian influenza cases from Indonesia and Egypt, one of them fatal, a day after Vietnam's health ministry ann...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoArab League monitors will recommend extending their mission in Syria and believe they have succeeded in taking heavy weapons off the streets to protect civilians, Sky News has learned. The league is due...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe alert for the Turrialba Volcano is back following Wednesday's activity that included the expulsion of ash and a slight tremor. The activity was confirmed by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoShimla, Jan 19 (PTI) Five persons were today killed and three injured when an avalanche hit Jungra panchayat of Tissa Sub division of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh. The area was covered under five...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNeishabour, Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Jan 19, IRNA – The earthquake on Thursday evening in the northeastern city of Neishabour in Khorasan-e Razavi Province left 58 people injured. Head of Neishabour Medi...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours ago*Marc Lee at the Progressive Economics Forum* (and *Rabble*)has his Sherlock hat on sleuthing out the the math behind the employment numbers Enbridge is claiming for the Northern Gateway project. He explai...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 20 hours agoAfter looking at how the supporter system was conceived yesterday, today I gaze ahead at what its future might hold. Specifically, the musings of some that the LPC could still hold staggered primaries, eve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA car packed with explosives detonated at a gate to Nato forces' largest airfield in Afghanistan, killing seven civilians including two children. Witnesses said the suicide bomber appeared to target a con...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoDid our universe expand from an original embryonic universe of ten dimensions? To explain, we'll need to make our beds...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Afghan government will investigate reports of civilian casualties in a recent NATO bombing, the office of President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. Karzai has appointed a delegation to investigate the bom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 140 km (86.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:05:53 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) North of Gura, Romania No Report...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*"Bill Burton did what every normal person should do when confronted with the nonstop lunacy and the nonstop lies of your typical Republican. He threw it right back into Porky’s face."* *by Noah* *I. QU...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoAlien conspiracy theorists are foiled by the laws of physics.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWith her face grimacing in unbearable discomfort, this is the moment a trainee bodyguard has a bottle smashed over her head. Amazingly, the recruit has to stand there and take it if she wants to qualify ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe number of knife-point robberies rose by 10 per cent in the year to September, new figures showed today. While 2010 saw 13,971 incidents, last year's figure was 15,313 - the equivalent to one offence ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 21 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Dave Weigel’s feces and urine:* Is President Obama “the most successful food stamp president in American history,” as Speaker Gingrich announced last spring? Actually no, he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoArgentina's acting president labelled David Cameron 'ignorant' and suggested he go back to school today in an astonishing attack over the Falklands. Amado Boudou, who is standing in for Christina Kirchne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoItalians evaded an estimated 119.6billion euros (£100billion) in taxes in 2009, it was claimed today. The amount is nearly four times the value of the Prime Minister Mario Monti's new austerity budget, a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoThe journal is at it again. The journal has been unable to describe the reality of the Fukushima situation, but instead has relied on the phrase "partial melt-down" to describe the full melt-throughs tha...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoA lot of people have been predicting that Mitt Romney's Mormon mishaps could undermine his presidential aspirations. Perhaps they're right. "...*the Republican presidential front-runner, has been accused ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Kim Vinnell reports on the MV Rena disaster, 19 January 2012. ONE News / TVNZ] January 19 (ONE News) – For the first time salvage crews have removed containers from the front section of the stri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRABAT, Morocco — Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a r...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: theimpulsivebuy/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 I have done several blogs on the evils of fast food. McDonald's has long been a favourite target of mine. From using eggs from battery hens (cruelty) to ser...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Depave/Video screen capture Oh boy, do I like this group! They have everything: environmental convictions, volunteers, principles, energy...and I could go on and on. Perhaps the thing I li...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoA bat infected with white nose sydrome. Photo courtesy: USFWS Headquarters / CC BY 2.0 As many as 1 million bats, it was believed, had been killed by white nose syndrome — a mysterious fungus that attack...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: The Nature Conservancy Never say never. Pandas eat bamboo shoots and leaves. And sometimes a little meat, scientists say. But a picture of a panda eating meat is rare. So check it out: A ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 22 hours agoWeek Three of January already. I always feel a slight sense of relief when January is over. Something about this month always seemed difficult. I think it because I make like 50 resolutions ever year. Here...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoThe expected global drive to curb carbon emissions could create a fossil fuel bubble collapse. A coalition of prominent UK investors, politicians and scientists has warned the Bank of England that massiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 22 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:34:59 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) SSW of Terna...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoNASA's twin GRAIL satellites, currently maneuvering into position for an innovative moon mapping mission, have new names: Ebb and Flow.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoIn fact, research shows that seniors become more tolerant and more open-minded in their later years.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoWhat happens to your Facebook profile when you die? There's an app for that.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: Professor Michael Mann, who became a chief target of the climate change denialists for being the outspoken author of an iconic graph of global warming science. AP]By Steve Connor 16 January 201...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: aerial view of Olympic Park, London, 14 June 2011. BaldBoris / wikipedia] By Josephine Forster and Michael McCarthy 16 January 2012 Olympic athletes could suffer impaired performance times and...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoNew software could tell Washington exactly what social network users are really thinking, collectively.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Dogs and well-paid speeches:* Yesterday, we tuned in to Alex Wagner’s show on the One True Channel. It was our first time. At the moment we clicked the TV on, what was Wagner...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoNewt Gingrich is going all out to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from the man nobody seemingly wants, Mitt Romney. And Newt figures the guy most Republicans are looking for, the man who'll...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoYouTube - ResearchChannel (December 15, 2009): Larry Jacobs, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, leads a conversation with Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoJudge Gustin Reichbach on the bench. Image from AP.Rag Blog interview: Maverick U.S. Judge Gustin Reichbachoffers verdict on Cuba todayBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 19, 2012For nearly 14 years, th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www.roubini.com) and Professor at the Stern School of Business, NYU.]By Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate 13 January 2012 Macroeconomic...
- Ariane Noelle Patterson Dies In Class On 21st Birthday After Thanking God For ‘Another Year Of Life’posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA student at Gardner-Webb University collapsed in class and died on her 21st birthday after thanking God on Twitter for living another year. A spokesman says Ariane Noelle Patterson was in a religion class...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoImages from Wikimedia Commons (top), NASA, via Science Meets Religion.Is Science a Religion?'Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with y...
- posted by Kate Prengaman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe trek was made to honor the 100th anniversary of the first successful South Pole expedition.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoFour drones will be making a record-breaking trip across the Pacific, gathering data as they go.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA headphone device could drown out the high-pitched sound of a dentist's drill.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoCouncil members criticize Serpas for releasing arrest records of homicide victims ~Matt Davis, The Lens Louisiana coastal restoration spending plan proposed ~Mark Schleifstein Army Corps moves ahead with ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoHow did we let this happen? We, the moussed, Reeboked beneficiaries of the Great Experiment with cell phones plastered to our ears as we drive high performance, less fuel-efficient cars, have somehow let...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2012* *Part 4—Milbank won’t tell you the truth:* Alas, poor Milbank! In Sunday’s column, he unburdened himself about his growing despair. Following Romney on the trail “is a painf...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoLuis Ibáñez sent me links to an impressive high-energy physics conference that took place in Madrid's new theoretical physics building right before the Christmas: IFT Inaugural Conference & Xmas Worksho...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoBoy, oh boy. The Thai 'terror' plot grows ever more curious..... Why, we even have a connection to Libya appearing. Libya! Of all places. You may recall Libya? It suffered horrific bombing and slaughter of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPARIS, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Thursday it had discovered more cracks in the wings of two A380 superjumbo aircraft but insisted the world's largest jetliner remained safe to fly. The announceme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJohannesburg - Almost 150 people were plucked from the roofs of their submerged houses and others from trees where they'd been trapped after torrential rain in the Hoedspuit area in Limpopo, where up to 3...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn aging, three-story building in a popular neighborhood of central Havana collapsed Tuesday night, killing at least three and injuring several others, according to official reports. The tragedy occurred...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoIn 1973 the federal LeDain Commission called for the end of marijuana prohibition, and since then public opinion polls show a majority of Canadians of all ages and political stripes from right across th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*With Tammy Baldwin going off to represent the whole state of Wisconsin in the Senate, her very Democratic Madison-based House district (62% for Kerry and 69% for Obama) is up for grabs. The two top conte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn Thursday the Vietnamese authorities reported that a duck farmer has died of bird flu, coinciding with reports that a two-year-old boy in Cambodia has also died of the virus this week. The Vietnamese vi...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPassengers aboard a late-night Manhattan-bound D train couldn't ignore one suspicious rider under a seat.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.6 km (12.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:09:49 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPOLICE evacuated 4,300 people from the centre of Marseille as experts worked to remove an unexploded 250kg Second World War bomb. The American bomb was found by building workers on the site of the new M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn independent report published by Middle Eastern human rights groups says there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations were committed by all the participants – Nato, rebel forces and tho...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 1 day agoA small example of the largely vain public debates about "proper" science today is provided at wattsupwiththat.com, focusing upon one individual who rants about climate change, against the "deniers", in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING — A senior Chinese propaganda official has said real-name registration for the nation's hugely popular microblogs will be expanded, as authorities tighten their grip on the web amid fear of unrest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:46:11 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 160 k...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned Wednesday that outside encouragement of antigovernment uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa could lead to “a very big war that will ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. military's top officer headed to Israel on Thursday at a time of mounting international anxiety over Iran's nuclear intentions and the possibility that the Jewish state might take...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — More than two dozen people were killed in a series of four insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan that began late Wednesday and continued through Thursday afternoon, Afghan auth...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day agoTonight Question Time comes from Shrewsbury. David Dimbleby is joined by Conservative Party co-ChairmanBaroness Warsi, Shadow Education spokesweasel Stephen Twigg, enviro-loon Caroline Lucas, mad-as-a-bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Northeastern Iran at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:52 UTC Thursday 19th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) South of Chenaran (Po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSTOCKTON, Utah (AP) -- The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile - a witches' brew of tox...
- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Most households living in high-radiation apartment building want to moveposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA corridor in an apartment building where high radiation levels thought to be from irradiated gravel used in concrete is seen in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 18. (Mainichi) NIHONMATSU, Fukus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe green light that the nuclear power regulator has given to the reactivation of two reactors before the government issues a final report on the ongoing Fukushima crisis has sparked criticism from citize...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Beware of Radical Groups!!!*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian forces have pulled back from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said on Thursday, but there was no sign of an overall easing of violence as a month-long mandate for Arab peace mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran's foreign minister warned Arab neighbors on Thursday not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day agoThe Supreme Court unanimously ruled last Wednesday on the so-called "ministerial exemption" to employment discrimination laws on Wednesday, finding that churches are allowed to discriminate. The exemption ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Adele has approved another milestone in her seemingly inevitable supremacy of the album charts. The British singer's success is made more remarkable because it bucks a downward trend. *In detail, Adele ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSnow tapered off in parts of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, a day after a storm made some normally busy streets in Seattle look more like ski runs. As the snowfall slowed Wednesday night, officials w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA police commissioner in Nigeria has been suspended after the escape of a suspected terror group member, Nigerian police confirmed Wednesday. The suspect, an alleged member of Boko Haram, a militant Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChinese authorities sentenced a democracy activist to 10 years in prison for subversion, a relative said Thursday, the third dissident found guilty of similar charges in less than a month. A court in Wuh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Shame on you, shame on you," shouted protestors, as officials met to discuss plans to restart Japan's nuclear plants for the first time since last year's Fukushima disaster. About 20 demonstrators carry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRescuers resumed work aboard of the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia on Thursday, the Italian navy said, as a decision loomed about when and if to call off the search for survivors. Authorities...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Link] An Australian swimmer is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a tiger shark in what is the country's second attack in two days and third this month. The 26-year-old man was snorkel...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*That's usually about all he gets (if that). * "Paul, in South Carolina, trumpets antiwar message WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. - GOP candidate Ron Paul has brought his *antiwar message* to South Carolina, a *state...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA faint 'satellite galaxy' - or dark dwarf - 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance. The galaxy is thought to consist of mysterious 'dark matter'. It...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe body parts of a missing teenage girl have been found scattered across a field, authorities confirmed. Investigators said the remains found in a field last October belonged to Sharon West, 14, who wen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's a practice more closely associated with third world countries, but in bleak times in a Chicago-area suburb, 30 people were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday. The pauper's burial section at Homewoo...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*In Switzerland the future of the world's time is being debated at a conference. The suggestion to remove leap seconds will be discussed on Thursday afternoon at the Radio communication Assembly meeting in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. Navy's top commander in the Pacific has said disputes over oil rich waters in the South China Sea could blow up into serious military confrontations. Admiral Patrick Walsh said a diplomatic row ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago**BREAKING NEWS** *MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY* Disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) has a special kind of appreciation for marriage. Gingrich, for example, haggled over the t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 24-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murder and other crimes in a violent stabbing rampage in New York City last winter was sentenced today to 200 years in prison during a hearing in which he hurled ep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United States Navy has rescued a sinking Iranian fishing boat making it the U.S.'s third naval rescue this month for the country. A distress call by the dhow was spotted in the central Arabian Sea W...
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