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Bill Moyers Journal March 27, 2009 BILL MOYERS: As you know, earlier this week Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner proposed a vast expansion of government authority that would crack down hard on Wall St... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour agoI had to think about it long and hard over the weekend, in part because I got ahead of myself on Friday when I suggested that the meme for the week might be voter suppression, à la Rove. There's no reason...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 hour agoENVIRONMENT - At least 37 people are dead and many more are missing as a juggernaut storm of 62 tornadoes, flash floods and hail swept through Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia, leaving carnage and d...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*Last week on Army Wives, Frank Sherwood (Terry Serpico) thanked psychiatrist Roland Burton (Sterling K. Brown) for all he did for Jeremy, which turned out to be making him well enough to get killed in Afg... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA retired FBI agent comments on the total lack of police coverage on that day, despite there being two high-profile targets (a Congresswoman and a US District Court Judge), both of whom previously receiv...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Contributor's comments regarding set of dolphin photos: "Taken in Louisiana. Mother dolphin attempt to revive dead baby dolphin. Notice the hole in the dead dolphin it looks just like the holes in red snap... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A federal agency's practice of returning weakened dolphins to deeper Gulf of Mexico waters is thwarting efforts to probe dolphin deaths after last year's BP oil spill, scientists said on Saturday. The Na... - posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoSome of the most extraordinary things in the universe can only be seen as fuzzy blobs by our most powerful telescopes.
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As Monday's tax filing deadline nears, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all. The Internal ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
With market complacency and optimism both nearing levels unseen since before the financial crisis, the market either has A) put the damage of the past two and a half years behind it, or B) is setting up fo... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
The president of the World Bank has warned that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis". Robert Zoellick cited rising food prices as the main threat to poor nations who risk "losing a gene... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Written by Leuren Moret in 2004 for the Japan Times: Of all the places in all the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEAST JAVA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- Nine people were killed and eight others were injured on Sunday after a landslide in Indonesia's East Java province, Antara news agency reported. According to an eyewit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBEIJING - Hailstones, thundershower and gales pounded south China's Guangdong province Sunday, leaving at least 12 dead and 27 injured as of 7 pm, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The natural d...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours ago
*Buck & Schmuck* I don't know a single progressive who is satisfied with President Obama's budget in terms of the Military Industrial Complex. He's offered an overgrown hairy monster a light trim around t... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 8 hours agoMy god, how I hate that word. It reeks of gut reaction, utter lack of analysis and shallow appeals to emotion. Soundbites rather than reflection. Which is why you see it in Sun Media rags every other day. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Fort Lee, N.J., gas station attendant almost lost his life over $20 worth of gas, sources said. Security camera video shows the employee holding onto the side of a Nissan Maxima, desperately trying t...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 9 hours ago
Via Jymn and Dr. Dawg. I haven't given this story as much attention as I should, but Jymn and the Dawgmeister have. As has Paul Wells at Maclean's. In the Star, Remy Beauregard's widow sets it out i... - posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 9 hours agoWell. The Dammit Janet folks are on a roll today. Via the Tweeter, a must-see video from conssayyes. If you're indifferent about this election, if you're not sure how to vote, or if you're not even that m...
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- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoAs a member of the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, I imagine Louise Bagshawe bumps into Jeremy Hunt quite a lot. I was wondering, since she has taken an interest in the BBC’s bias against I...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago*“The Myth of Voter Fraud” (MUST-SEE VIDEO of Lorraine Minnite & MCM!)* With thanks to Joly MacFie, Ace Videographer Original here MP3: http://punkcast.com/1888/1888/1888_the_myth_of_voter_fraud.mp3 *Ab...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*Mezzo Agnes Baltsa really pounds home the looming threat of the "written book" that contains the record of all that each of us has to answer for. In the "*Liber scriptus*" of the Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 11 hours ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Stella McMillin, an environmental scientist with the state Department of Fish and Game, performs a necropsy on a great horned owl in Rancho Cordova. Rat poison has been found in the livers of ani...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIf you're reading this, please contact us via the contact page. Our email address is there. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 11 hours agoComrade Fyrnova makes another heroic contribution to the organs of revolutionary consciousness-raising. A marvellous and accessible demonstration of the Harper Regime's counter-revolutionary tendencies. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Radioactive releases to the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 21 March-8 April 2011. Levels of caesium-137 and iodine-131 in the sea close to the damaged Fukushima reactors ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff is monitoring the situation at the Surry nuclear power plant after the site lost offsite power early Saturday evening due to a tornado affecting an electrical s...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago*Mangroves, which have declined by up to half over the last 50 years, are an important bulkhead against climate change, a study released on Sunday has shown for the first time. * Destruction of these tropi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoStatement can be heard around the 46 minute mark.
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking massive amounts of radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBees can detect pesticide residues in the pollen they bring back to the hive and try to isolate it from the rest of the colony, the American government's leading bee scientist revealed in London yesterday....
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMountain pine beetles have successfully made the species jump from lodgepole pine to jack pine, increasing concerns that the pest could infect forests from British Columbia to the east coast, according to ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe National Academy of Sciences recently released a report confirming that some native bee populations -- the ones agriculture has depended on for centuries for pollination, until the advent of the honeyb...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSome mountain glaciers are melting up to 100 times faster than at any time in the past 350 years. The findings, based on a new ice loss calculation technique developed by studying the glaciers of Patagon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTo tie in with the launch of Worldwide Laboratory Animal Week (April 17-24, 2011), Animal Defenders International (ADI) wants to remind the US public of the pitfalls of animal experimentation and inform th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoHi! Sorry for the week of absence. I am back from AFO 2011, International Festival of Science Documentary Films, in the historical Moravian city of Olomouc - where I was a Czech jury member. They kindly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn undercover investigation has revealed that bunnies are being subjected to excruciating drug tests after being starved for up to 30 hours, denied water, then locked into vices – with some not surviving t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Evacuees, who fled from the vicinity of Fukushima nuclear power plant, rest at an evacuation center set in a gymnasium in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture in northern Japan, 15 March 2011. Reuters]...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAt least 45 people are said to have died after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes across parts of the southern and central United States over three days. Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit North Carolina...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Fukushima spent fuel rod pool Unit 3, taken from concrete pumping vehicle, 14 April 2011. TEPCO / japannewstoday.com] TOKYO, April 17 (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday it will take ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: A sign warns against swimming in a holding lake in Texas, where Fountain Quail Water Management separates and cleans hydrofracking water. Matt Nager / The New York Times] By IAN URBINA 16 April ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 12 hours agoPeople keep sending me links to this report so I guess you guys want me to post it...like this is news or something.CHEMICALS USED IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURING"It appears that the companies are injecting fluids c...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoMore and more workers in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe report chronic symptoms neither they nor their doctors can explain.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoQuran-burning pastor, Terry Jones, still coming to mosque: " Florida-based pastor Terry Jones, who is slated to come to Dearborn this week, with a copy of his book "Islam is of the Devil." (Photo courtesy O...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoGeorgia Legislature Passes Arizona-Style Immigration Bill [Laws]: " Georgia's tough anti-illegal immigration legislation — based on the controversial bill passed i...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoMadonna Leaves Mystical Jewish Sect for Scary Catholic Sect [Faith]: " Ancient pop singer and spiritualist Madonna has long been associated with Kabbalah, a mystic...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoEditorial: Neo-Nazi rally at N.J. Statehouse is a disgusting display of hate (USA): "The prospect of jackbooted marchers, swathed in swastikas and spouting racist propaganda, is an unsettling one. An embodim...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoDutch anti-Islam MP seeks new judges for trial (Netherlands): "Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders wants the withdrawal of a new panel of judges chosen to try him for hate speech, his lawyer said Friday, claim...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoNeo-Nazi rally in front of Statehouse ends early (USA): "Authorities said four people were arrested but there were no major incidents at a poorly attended rally held by a neo-Nazi group in front of the State...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 14 hours ago*(who can honestly say we aren't locked in a culture that has systematically devalued human life?)* Just a few points about abortion. Firstly, a regular thing that (stereotypically left wing) abortion a...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoAn article from the Sacramento Bee so infuriated me when I saw it at the Coming Crisis, I had to repost. It's simply outrageous that researchers have been warning for a decade that a new generation of com...
- posted by AdamS at Politically Confused - 14 hours ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUeDlHhruA It sure looks like one of these huh?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoYou've probably seen some of the ads, like the one above from the Corn Refiners Association, trying to persuade you that high fructose corn sweeteners are "just as good" as sugar. I'll give them that. Li...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoFrom Mediaite: In the wake of Japan's recent massive earthquake and accompanying tsunami,the daily *Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun*, based in Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture, found itself without power. So it produc...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoWhen I first moved to Canada, I could really hear my neighbours' "accent" - their Canadian-sounding speech. Now I no longer notice it. People still sometimes ask me if I'm from the US, and occasionally som...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 16 hours ago*John Buchan* John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages) He helped invent the spy novel. In his adventure story *The Three Ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago***Please Click Images to Read Documents Many of you probably ran across the cringe-worthy headline that appeared in the UK paper known as The Sun, and if you didn't, here it is: "Close Encounters of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe *Battle of Los Angeles*, also known as *The Great Los Angeles Air Raid*, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOutside Palm Desert, a young bobcat dies mysteriously at a nature preserve. South of Nevada City, a farmer finds an owl dead near his decoy shed. In San Rafael, a red-shouldered hawk bleeds heavily from it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPeople who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, scientists claim. Long-term climate change has the potential to spin Earth's tectonic plates, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPump-and-Run Driver Drags Gas Station Worker: MyFoxNY.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA tea party activist and elected member of the Orange County Republican central committee said she will not heed calls to resign because she emailed a picture of President Barack Obama's face on the body o...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoDaniel Hannan, the Conservative MEP, has an interesting point here. It's election time again, and what's the betting that BBC will routinely bracket UKIP with BNP in their sustained efforts to cast Britain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKhalid was not a political activist, just an ordinary middle-class man inspired by the tide of change sweeping across the Arab world. Three weeks ago he joined a group that met at a Damascus mosque and p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe assembly, a traditional Pathan jirga (tribal council), was being held in the open, on flat ground close to the Tochi river, on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border in tribal North Waziristan. There ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours agoThe Scottish National Party (which opposed the Iraq war and which is anti-nuclear) could win a six-seat victory over Labour in the elections for the Scottish Parliament on 5 May 2011 (*SNP surge*). On ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoShocking video footage which appears to show British soldiers beating an Iraqi civilian during the investigation into the murder of six of their fellow Servicemen is being examined by the Ministry of Defen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRadiation levels have risen dramatically in seawater near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, sparking fears of a new leak, according to the country's government. The announcement came ahead of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn asteroid as strong as 15 atomic bombs whizzed past earth last night at just ten times the distance of the moon. Astronomers first spotted the cigar-shaped rock spinning through space on Monday evening ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere's a Che Guevara poster on the boss's office wall - but diversity officer tells 64-year-old grandfather he faces the sack over cross in his company vehicle. An electrician faces the sack for display...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTOKYO – Even before the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been brought under control, two conglomerates vying for contracts in an eventual cleanup are estimating that the effort could take 10 ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 21 hours agoAnd people say they're wasting our tax dollars! Don't you just feel stupidnow? Canada's F-35s: Engines not included, says the Ottawa Citizen. And think about what a great recruiting tool they'll be! They c...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Thanks to Brian for the video.* "NATO, are you really protecting the civilians here in Libya? "Please, hands off Libya, hands off our country, because the Libyan people and our leader are better than ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoIn the USA, 50% of 'off-street' prostitutes are children. (Prostitution of children - Wikipedia) Houston is a major hub for child traffickers. (Houston's hidden crime) A 2007 study from Shared Hope Inte...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA month after Japan's worst disaster in generations, the snow in the mountains surrounding the resort town of Osawa is melting and the cherry blossoms are bursting. Diving ducks play in a trout-filled st...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe latest Gallup Daily tracking three-day average represents a new low for Barack Obama, with just 41 percent of Americans approving his job performance as president. This matches his previous lows in Aug...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoDay of wrath, day of mourning, earth in smoldering ashes lying, so spake David and the Sibyl. How great the trembling shall be when the Judge shall come, by whose sentence all shall be bound! *Zubin Mehta...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFile this under things I never thought I'd say: here I am agreeing with Michael Ignatieff again. Canadians *must* rise up against these dangerous, anti-democratic Conservatives, if this country is going to...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 1 day agoFrom poster "donb":We already have quite a few "paper reactors" that look promising. Likely they need more design simulation. But we will not know how good any of these reactors really are until those pape...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoSome of those chemicals industry claims we all have under our kitchen sink burned up 10-18 wheeler trucks today at a Chesapeake Energy drill site in Louisiana.I'm scared of my kitchen sink!Fire crews extingu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, By Charles Fishman, Hardcover, 400 pages.]April 11 (NPR) – The typical American uses 99 gallons of water a day for activities like w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. Writer Paul Solotaroff says climate change is putting the ecosystems of our national parks out of balance. Fish And Wildlife Service via AP] April 16 (...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Jonathan Franzen's caption:* *The uninhabited island was named for a marooned eighteenth-century adventurer who likely inspired the first English novel. I thought I’d strand myself there and read it.* *"...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Fall on Mount Megunticook in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage wants three million acres of North Woods forests opened to development. Robert F. Bukaty / AP] By LESLIE KAUFMAN Published: April 15, 2011 W...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsraeli warplanes launched raids against targets in Gaza overnight after two rockets were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, Palestinian security officials said on Saturday. No one was hurt in the ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsraeli military chiefs say a large-scale conflict is inevitable despite a shaky cease-fire since Monday in their current confrontation with Palestinian fundamentalists of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But the...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Central Intelligence Agency has no plans to suspend "operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said Thursday. Pakistan has criticized ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe Tories and Liberals went neg earlier this week. And now, Jack Layton, running to be PM, is on the attack...against Michael Ignatieff . How would you rate this ad? A B C D FSee Results
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan will likely need two to three more months to bring an end to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear industry official said Saturday. Takashi Sawada, the deputy direc...
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