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Solar EMP and the Mystery of Air France 447

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Air France 447, Solar Climax, Tragedy, Airbus, Boeing, Pitot Tubes, Airplane, Air France, South Atlantic, Electromagnetic Pulse, Airline, 2012, Sunspots, National Academy of Sciences, Apocalypse 2012, Nasa, Flight, Crash, Themis, Emp, Technology News
Lawrence E. Joseph

By scientific consensus, solar EMP blasts will next climax in ferocity and frequency late in 2012 or early 2013. Might be a good idea to harden sensitive electronic components before then.

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Ruben van Assouw Told Family Is Dead: Dutch Boy Is Only Survivor Of Libya Plane Crash

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Libya, Reuben Von Assouw, Netherlands, Von Assouw, Afriqiyah Airlines, Plane Crash, Trudy, Tripoli, Enzo, Patrick, Crash, World News

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Relatives broke the news to a Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya that his parents and brother died in the ...

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Landra Reid Undergoes Surgery After I-95 Crash: Senator Harry Reid At Hospital, Daughter Released

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Landra Reid, Minivan, Surgery, Truck, Lana Barringer, Washington DC, Capitol, Nevada, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Serious Injuries, Harry Reid, Accident, Tractor Trailer, I-95, Traffic Accident, Minor Injuries, Crash, Politics News

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trai...

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Investigate This: Why Did the Market Tank?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Market Manipulation, Market, Panic, Crash, Greece Debt Crisis, Marketmaker, Business News
Danny Schechter

The finance industry's jargon keeps people from figuring out what's going on. Traders and brokers have come up such complex instruments that even financial journalists don't understand the markets.

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Coast Guard Helicopter Crashes In Utah Mountains After Returning From Vancouver

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Helicopter, U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard, Helicopter Crash, Crash, Utah, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — A Coast Guard helicopter crashed Wednesday morning in remote Utah mountains after providing security at the Winter Olympics, an...

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Ajami: You're Not in "Exodus" Anymore

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: La, Spanglish, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Ajami, Latinos, Jewish State, Pulp Fiction, Israel, Palestine, Brand Israel, Exodus, Crash, Anglos, Beduim, Entertainment News
Leon T. Hadar

Ironically, Ajami introduce American viewers to a new brand of Israel/Palestine that seems to reflect the political, social and cultural realities of this region more than the fantasies being concocted by the PR geniuses.

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The F Word: Looking Closer at Joseph Stack

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Islam, Joseph Stack, Austin, 911, Terrorist, Grit Tv, Plane, Irs, Terror, Laura Flanders, Suicide Bombing, Grittv, Right, Patriot, Muslim, Crash, Anti-Government, Politics News
Laura Flanders

By all means hold those who praise Stack to account, and call out media hypocrisy and double standards. But before you dismiss him as simply a crazy, read his manifesto.

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The Golden Globes a Disappointment: Gervais was Mixed and Lots of Winners Weren't Prepared

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Chloe Sevigny, Russnow, Martin Scorsese, Dexter, No Country for Old Men, The Aviator, Mo'Nique, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Atonement, Conan O'Brien, Jeff Bridges, Academy Award, The White Ribbon, James Cameron, Michael C. Hall, Inglorious Basterds, Tony Scott, Robert King, Sag, Chris Donovan, Sherlock Holmes, Golden Globe Awards, Nbc, Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar, Hbo, David Zucker, Up in the Air, Ridley Scott, Michael Russnow, Jason Reitman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Million Dollar Baby, Julianna Margulies, Golden Globes, Tonight Show, Big Love, The Good Wife, Crazy Heart, Ricky Gervais, Shutter Island, Sheldon Turner, Brooke Kennedy, The Departed, Julie & Julia, Showtime, Crash, Avatar, Germany, Grey Gardens, Sandra Bullock, Ram Productions International, Emmy Awards, Babel, Precious, Michelle King, Meryl Streep, Brokeback Mountain, Leonardo Dicaprio, Up, Christoph Waltz, The Blindside, WGA Strike, Robert Downey Jr., Golden Globes 2010, Cbs, Abc, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.

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Colorado Drunk Driving On The Rise

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Blood Alcohol Content, Legal Limit, Alcohol Limit, Drunk Driving, Drinking and Driving, Cdot, Driving Death, Crash, Colorado DUI, Department of Transportation, Fatality, Bac, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Drunken driving fatality rates have fallen in 40 states and the District of Columbia, an encouraging sign that crackdowns are impro...

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Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Still A Star One Year After "Miracle On The Hudson"

AP | EVELYN NIEVES | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Sully Sullenberger, Hero Pilot, Miracle on the Hudson Anniversary, Miracle on the Hudson, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Hudson Miracle, US Airways Flight 1549, Brace for Impact, Crash, New York News

SAN FRANCISCO — Capt. Sully had 15 minutes. Like most one-name, world-famous celebrities, he also had a press rep monitoring every second. There...

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Brad Pitt In Motorcycle Accident

TMZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: La, Motorcycle, Angelina Jolie, Los Angeles, Pitt Accident, Brad Pitt, Motorcycle Crash, Brad Pitt Crash, Jolie, Pitt Crash, Brad Pitt Accident, Angelina, Injured, Motorcycle Accident, Crash, Pitt Falls Off Bike, Pitt Falls Off Motorcycle, Entertainment News

TMZ has learned Brad Pitt was involved in a minor motorcycle accident moments ago in Los Angeles. A witness at the scene tells us Pitt was trying to ...

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks: 10 Books That Predicted The Financial Crisis

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Debt, Depression, Economic Crash, Money, Economic Crisis, Karl Marx, Billionaires, France, Bailout, Finance, Financial Crisis, The Great Depression, Crash, Greenpsan, Slidepoll, Books News

We posted a list of eight books that predicted the economic crisis and as usual, our readers had their own ideas about what we should have recommended...

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Recent Gmail "Crash" Forces Spammers to Awkwardly Approach Potential Customers in Person

Ben Berkon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Comedy, Technology, Comedy News, Gmail, Crash, Ben Berkon, Penis Enlargement, Google, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

"If this is a trend [with Google], I don't know how I'm going to convince people that 'gorgeous sluts are waiting to meet you,'" said an anonymous spammer.

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Car Crash VIDEO: Pickup Truck Runs Red Light Causing Spectacular Crash

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Car Crash Video, Car Crash Running Red Light, Car Crash, Crime, Crash, Video, Home News

This pickup truck doesn't even try to brake for this upcoming red light. Instead, he drives full speed ahead into the intersection with disastrous re...

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Forever Four -- A Tiny Life Taken By An Elderly Driver

Casey Sherman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Elderly Drivers, Crash, Traffic Accidents, Healthy Living News
Casey Sherman

Drivers over the age of 85 are four times more likely to kill someone on the road than an inexperienced teenager fresh out of Driver's Ed. class.

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We're Running Our World Like a Ponzi Scheme!

Matthew Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Sustainability, Bernard Madoff, Ecology, Financial Meltdown, Crash, Apocalypse, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Green News
Matthew Stein

If our world is to maintain its current rate of oil consumption, then we would need to find and develop a Saudi Arabia's worth of oil every year for the next year or two from now to eternity.

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Red River Rising: How to Survive the Floods of 2009

Ben Sherwood | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Bayleigh Stovall, Floods, Lateral Force, El Dorado, Water, River, The-Survivors-Club, Survive, Red River, Kansas, Crash, Safety Tips, Healthy Living News
Ben Sherwood

Believe it or not, flooding is the #1 cause of weather-related fatalities in this country. Sure, tornadoes and hurricanes get a lot of attention, but flooding kills the most.

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In Cramer We Trust?

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Cnbc, Air America Radio, Journalism, Jon Stewart, Stock Market, Mike Papantonio, Larry Kudlow, Financial, The Daily Show, Ring of Fire, Crash, Housing Market, Jim Cramer, Pundit, Media News
Mike Papantonio

Most of the pundit misinformation occurred because investigative reporting in the news industry is dead. This new breed of financial TV pitchmen weren't paid to ask tough questions.

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Barack and Slumdog

Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: The Academy Awards, u.s. Foreign Policy, Smart Power, Award Season, Hillary Clinton, Oscars, American Image, Awards Shows, Days of Our Lives, Slumdog Millionaire, Crash, Barack Obama, World News
Nathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy

If politics in the information age is about whose story wins, then, given this reality, America's storytellers -- Hollywood -- have a starring role in defining America's presence globally.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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The Man Who Sold Crash to the Academy

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Lionsgate, The New York, Tad Friend, Oscars, Marketing, Good Luck Chuck, Crash, Academy Awards, Ted Palen, Movies, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Apparently Hollywood filmmakers aren't offering enough wish fulfillment. That's where marketers come in. They lie to us about the lie. If the film is crap, they figure out ways to get us to eat it.

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The Crash of Flight 1549: Maybe the Best Metaphor for 2009 We Could Hope For

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Wall Street Crash, Stock Market Crash, Positive Thinking, Hope, Market Crash, US Airways Crash, Airplanes, Hudson River Plane Crash, Plane Crash, Faith, 2009, Crash, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Home News
Raymond Leon Roker

Maybe the story of this jet crash is exactly the real life fable we needed seared into our nation's consciousness. What if yesterday's "miracle" was a perfect metaphor for 2009?

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The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II and the Crash of '08

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Energy, Depression, Wall Street Crash, Economy, Deficits, New Deal, Green, Bubble, World War II, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...

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The Fall of a Free Market Prophet

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Communism, Economics, Economy, Henry Waxman, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Salvation Boulevard, George Bush, Objectivist, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Alan Greenspan, Jesus Christ, Bubble, Real Estate, Crash, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

The most interesting, and perhaps the most important, moment in philosophy in the last decade occurred on October 28, 2008, in a hearing of the House ...

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TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED

Larry Beinhart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Subprime Crisis, Taxes, Depression, Tax Cuts, Bubble, Recession, Economy, Crash, Housing Bubble, Politics News
Larry Beinhart

TAX CUTS: THEOLOGY, FACTS & TOTALLY F**KED THE MYTH ...

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