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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*The first part of a Bob and Ray appearance with a young David Letterman -- we'll have the second part, in which the boys do some actual material, tomorrow night* *"I've discovered over the years that i... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
BP is planning to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, a year after one of its wells exploded, causing a devastating oil spill. The energy company has been negotiating with US regulators to restart dee... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
South Korea's military Wednesday staged a live-fire artillery exercise on an island hit by a deadly North Korean bombardment last November, officials said. The exercise on Yeonpyeong island near the tens... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Coalition military strikes on Libya could violate the "intention" of the UN resolution if civilians suffer, Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday told visiting French leader Nicolas Sarkozy. The tough ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
North Korea told South Korea Thursday to choose between dialogue or war, as Seoul made its first concession on aid since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island last November. The communist stat... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
*A POWERFUL earthquake which struck off Java in the early hours of today has stoked the lingering fears many Indonesians have years after a tsunami devastated much of the western coast of Aceh. * The qua... - posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 hour ago
*Poll Soup*: I'll post updated projections soon, but Nanos has the Tories up 41% to 29% and Ekos has it 37% to 26%. *Election Prediction Project*: CPC 113, Lib 63, NDP 22, Bloc 35, Too close 77 *Gaf... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Record flooding in the Sossusvlei region of Namibia's Namib Desert, February 2011. Jennifer Dickinson, Dawie Minaar, and Kobus Bekker / considerafrica.com] JOHANNESBURG, 1 April 2011 (IRIN) - Na...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoNew York City lawyer Joseph Rosenthal says his client is suing the police and education department for one million dollars in order to send a message about overreacting to misbehaviour. When Alexa Gonzal...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoThe word "quarantine" comes from the Italian word "quaranta", meaning a 40-day period. During the Black Death of the 14th century, 40 days became the standard length of time for the ship's crew to be "qu...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour ago
The gutsy woman who got in John Baird's face yesterday has a message for us. Follow the links. It's worth your time. She's also very graciously allowed me to reproduce her e-mail messages to me. I can on... - posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 hour agoBill alert request from an email:H.B. 3105 (Keffer) - Regulatory Takings/Oil and Gas: would make a city regulation that damages, destroys, impairs, or prohibits development of a mineral interest subject to t...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoAnd see if you can buy a 2015 membership. Because that's when Stephen Harper is promising you a tax credit for it. Until then, grab another beer.
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 2 hours ago"When things come to this point, when all the springs are thus strained, war becomes desirable in order to bring about a release. Thus, in the physical world, at the approach of a storm, nature is in a s...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*In this "Any Regrets?" clip from Bravo's Watch What's Happening Now live post-Top Chef-finale show, featuring finalists Richard Blais and Mike Isabella, runner-up Mike talks to host Andy Cohen exceptio...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 5 hours agoThere's good reason to be afraid – be very afraid – of a Harper majority. I'll defer to more eloquent and more experienced observers on that, because I'm not sure I can add anything to what they've already...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
South Korean activists Thursday launched tens of thousands of anti-regime leaflets across the border into North Korea, defying threats from Pyongyang to open fire on launch sites. Members of Fighters for ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
Raging protests over the burning of a Qur'an at a Florida church boiled over into Afghanistan's turbulent east and south on Sunday, as the Taliban joined the chorus of condemnation. Pleas from the Wester... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSusumu Sugawara looks bemused and a little embarrassed at all the attention he's getting. The 64 year old has become a local hero on the Japanese island of Oshima. Smashed boats adorn the coastline of t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
French peacekeepers in war-torn Ivory Coast took control of the airport in the main city late Saturday night, the French Ministry of Defense said Sunday, as a battle for Abijdan seemed to be looming. An ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago"God, we especially want to plead to you as we face these dangerous trials. Please find a way out for us." China has arrested and detained dozens of lawyers, bloggers and dissidents after the online call...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoProminent Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has been stopped by the authorities from leaving the Chinese capital, Beijing, reports say. There has been no contact with him since, and no comment from th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA missing 2-year-old boy in Elgin was found Saturday morning after Kershaw County deputies say the family dog kept him warm and safe all night. Sheriff Jim Matthews said 22-month-old Tyler Jacobson was r...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMore information is coming out about the Southwest Airlines’ Boeing 737-300 that had a hole open up on its roof during flight Friday afternoon. The flight was on its way from Phoenix to Sacramento when it...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe first few requests were tolerable. A Census Bureau worker would knock on John and Beverly Scott's door and ask them to fill out an American Community Survey. The McKinley Park couple would politely dec...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine. But in a certain ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Department of Health says: it's an outbreak. There are now FOUR confirmed cases of dengue fever on Oahu – with results of 12 more suspected cases still pending. But, health officials are hoping this ep...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoSome people say political conservatism is just a cover for those who want to fuck you. I hate to be vulgar, but they're correct. That means they want to take what is yours, generally your wealth. If you ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 8 hours agoFree Wars are Dumb Wars By Benjamin H. Friedman The National Interest Published: March 29, 2011 A myth has developed that funding U.S. wars outside the normal defense budget process is the norm. Continu...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 8 hours ago
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 10 hours agoNot a good week for the Harper Machine, so, in keeping with the Rove playbook, watch for the complaints about media bias. I can practically hear the clutch grinding as they switch gears from swaggering bul...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoI guess Steve thinks we're all swept up in the "faith-based" society because he's counting on you to have faith in his child credit and annual fitness credit proposals that won't be coming before 2015. On...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago*Presented March 17, 2011, to **the hearing of the Domestic Monetary Policy & Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Ron Paul.* James Grant is the long time publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. In ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours agoVIDEO: Somalis flee drought zones 30 March 2011 (UN News Service) – The number of people in need of emergency food aid in East Africa has increased by 2 million to nearly 8.4 million as drought continue...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*The opening of Verdi's Otello:* *Sir Georg Solti conducts at Covent Garden, 1992, with Plácido Domingo as Otello.* *by Ken* Formally this is still part of our "Remembering Margaret Price" series, but i...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoThis has already been linked to on the Open Thread, - H/T La Cumparsita - but it deserves further attention. I posted here on this programme “A Walk in the Park” at the time. It was so one-sided that I saw...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: 'For us, the seawall was a source of pride, an asset, something that we believed in,' said Eiko Araya, 58, the principal of Taro No. 3 Elementary School. Like several other tsunami survivors, Ms....
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe U.S. military’s secret spaceplane is spotted by astronomers.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: A withered sunflower crop in Central Russia during the 2010 heatwave. Photo © climatesignals.org via peopleandplanet.net]31 March 2011, Rome (FAO) - "Potentially catastrophic" impacts on food pro...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Discarded tires line a polluted river in Lahore, Pakistan. The green color is caused by an algae bloom. Grand Trunk Road, near Lahore, Punjab, September 1996. Picture by zerega / posted by sawsen...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoScientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce "human" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious. The scientists have successfully introduced human genes into 300 dairy cows to p...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Tokyo Electric Power* is struggling to block a crack discovered in a pit that is leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean at its Fukushima Daiichi plant, and said it had discovered the bodies of it...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGuess what! America is on the mend. That’s right, the world’s biggest economy is now forging ahead, escaping its sub-prime malaise. Strengthening jobs data last week show the US has reached a “turning poi...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoOcean wind speeds and wave heights around the world have increased significantly over the past quarter of a century, according to Australian research that has given scientists their first global glimpse of...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Mexican human rights organisation says thousands of people have disappeared in Mexico since 2006. Mexico's human rights commission, CNDH, said 5,397 people had been reported missing since President Fel...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago$105 per barrel oil. Cotton prices at record levels. Food prices at 2008 highs. Typically, such commodity price increases would send central banks running to the U.S. Dollar to secure the value of their sa...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*U.S. CEOs IN BRAZIL WITH OBAMA* *JEFFREY R. IMMELT - CEO, GENERAL ELECTRIC* Jeffrey Robert Immelt is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the U.S.-based conglomerate General Electric...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAmericans are in more debt than ever before, and the banks are going to new extremes to squeeze us for every last penny:* If you can't pay up, they'll try to get you locked up.* The Wall Street Journal...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe seemingly endless flow of young Chinese workers that helped to create the country's economic miracle has now finally "dried up", according to a leading economist. For decades, China has been able to r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Loktak Lake, Manipur, India. neceer.org.in] By Sobhapati Samom, Hueiyen News Service 30 March 2011 Imphal: The largest global environmental network, International Union for Conservation of Natur...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoAmericans' belief in global warming may have fallen significantly in recent years but its inescapable signs are beginning to arrive and their complacency is yielding to anxious concern. The U.S. is just ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThe State of Israel is literally between a rock and a hard place, both of its own making. It's a new Middle East today and not one to Israel's liking but the new reality is narrowing Israel's options. Ac...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours ago*Humala (Peru) and Lula (Brazil)* *Peru's presidential election*. According to The Economist, 31 March 2011: *1.* During the last ten years, Peru’s GDP has grown by over 5% a year. The number of Peruvi...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoReligious leaders tell Terry Jones he's not welcome in Detroit: " Everything he's doing here is a violation of the Gospel,' said Pastor Ed Rowe with Central United Methodist Church. Metro Detroit religiou...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoBryan Fischer dedicates yet another program to attacking Islam: " Last week, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer declared that the First Amendment does not apply to Islam and therefore, Muslims h...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoUseful backgrounders from the ADL: "The Anti-Defamation League have published a couple of useful briefings over the past week, on ACT! for America and David Yerushalmi. They have also updated their briefing ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoDebunking conservatives' skewed interpretation of sharia law: "Over at the Center for American Progress Wajahat Ali and Matthew Duss have prepared a briefing on sharia law and how the issue has been misrepre...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoWhy the Republican Party has embraced Islamophobia: "Press TV talks with author Max Blumenthal who illuminates a hate campaign against Barak Obama by the Republic Party that targets Obama's religious identit...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoStaten Islanders support rally against war, terrorism and hostility toward Muslims: " Staten Islanders were among interfaith leaders who gathered yesterday at City Hall in Manhattan, as 100 imams condemned t...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoHajj Suit Raises Host Of Questions: " By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) In 2008, Safoorah Khan, a math teacher in Illinois, asked for 15 days of unpaid leave (19 days including weekend...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoJudge rules for group touting anti-Islam ad on Metro buses (Detroit, USA): "A national group that wants to advertise its anti-Muslim messages on Metro Detroit buses has won the right to display their ads on ...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoAnti-Islam Pastor Responds to Killings in Afghanistan (USA): "Terry Jones, the pastor whose Quran-burning event on Mar. 20 triggered mob violence that resulted in at least 11 deaths in Afghanistan on Friday,...
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 14 hours agoEarliest eyewitness account of the Holocaust finally to be published in UK: "Story of Catholic who infiltrated Nazi death camp and brought report to Allies could become new film.The extraordinary memoir of a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago*A 6.4 Magnitude Earthquake has hit the Fiji Region, 252 km (156 miles) West of Lambasa, Vanua Levu at a depth of 555.5 km (345.2 miles) today Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 14:07 UTC * There have been no repo...
- posted by rhydianfon@gmail.com (Rhydian) at Broken of Britain - 14 hours ago
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe airline was inspecting its aircraft after a hold in a fuselage forced a plane to land.
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoOne of my readers asked me to post something about President Obama's call to development more natural gas. What is there to say? We've been betrayed. We live in a designated sacrifice zone.You can read what ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoAruba Petroleum arrogantly continues to cause health problems in Barnett Shale residents.The Aruba Petroleum business model calls for, among other abhorrent actions, performing workovers at their wellsites o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoFor those who were distraught to find out that Alan Grayson was taking some time off from representing working families in Congress for a couple years, there was always quick understudy Anthony Weiner to ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 16 hours agoI don’t know. You go away for a week, and all sorts of things happen behind your back. Sensational things such as Judge Goldstone’s OpEd in the Washington Post. “Sorry, I was a bit wrong!” he said. “Silly ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoAt the call of the election, I asked Calgary Grit readers to answer 20 questions about the campaign. Here's what those who entered had to say: *Will Elizabeth May win here seat? * One-in-five (21%) say ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoMy heart goes out to the amazing Japanese rescue people who went to such lengths to save a dog's life. The Japanese coast guard today rescued a dog washed out to sea with a house by the tsunami from th...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoOn Thursday, April 7th, 2011, CBS will air another, 04x20 episode of *The Big Bang Theory*. It's called "The Herb Garden Germination." Amy and Sheldon will try to spread rumors and Howard will act to upg...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoCelia Imrie is a film star. At the age of 14, being underweight, she was sent to St Thomas' Hospital in London. She became a patient of the world-famous psychiatrist William Sargant. My electric shock ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN -- On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way. A mix of island officials and resident volun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRussia is making its final preparations for the launch of its Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station ahead of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned journey into space. The TMA-2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFacebook and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for more than $1billion over a page that was on the social networking site that called for violence against Jews. The page, entitled Third Palest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA demonstration by far-right group the English Defence League again descended into violence today as extremists began fighting among themselves. Around 2,000 'protestors' - some wearing makeshift Burqas da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Image) - Surface: Mars is covered with a thin layer of radioactive substances including uranium, thorium and radioactive potassium. Mars has not always been red. At least that is the theory proposed by a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoOpenly aggressive and filled with defiance, these are the 18 people Scotland Yard want to identify over the chaos in Central London last week after extremists hijacked a union protest against spending cuts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoScientists in China have created genetically modified cows that produce 'human' milk, it is reported today. They have introduced human genes into dairy cows to produce milk similar to human breast milk, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLibya’s feared ‘torturer-in-chief’ has been offered asylum in the UK in return for his help to topple Muammar Gaddafi and his hated regime. The secret offer to Libya’s former foreign minister, Moussa Kous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA militant preacher in Florida whose Koran burning triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan has vowed to lead an anti-Islam protest outside the biggest mosque in America. Jones, a former hotel manager turned...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe company that runs a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant says the bodies of two workers have been found, three weeks after an earthquake and tsunami struck the facility. The announcement from Tokyo ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Here I am thinking I'm offering some big scoop with the Corelli/Zylis-Gara Otello Love Duet, and I see it's all over YouTube -- even in video! Oh well. My version sounds better.* *by Ken* Another chang...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouthwest Airlines has grounded 79 of its Boeing 737 aircraft for precautionary checks after one made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in the fuselage. The US carrier said engineers would be “look...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe single biggest atrocity in the long battle for control of Ivory Coast has emerged after aid workers discovered the bodies of up to 1,000 people in the town of Duekoue. Charity workers who reached Due...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNato warplanes killed around 14 rebels early on Saturday after a stream of anti-aircraft fire was shot in to the night sky. The victims included medics and a patient in an ambulance, struck near the* Lib...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThere is hope. All candidates vying to replace the genuinely boneheaded Carole James say they'll ditch her "axe the tax" opposition to carbon taxation. About bloody time. *“I think we made a mistake in...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThe headline reads "Double-Dippers Earning Pensions Plus Paychecks are Targeted by U.S. States." The bias in the *Bloomberg* article is blatant. These workers aren't "earning" their pensions while worki...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt seems PostMedia has received its marching orders from Harper's election campaign headquarters. How else to explain Shelley Fralic's op-ed *column*in the *Vancouver Sun* contending that political debate...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoStephen Harper is campaigning in a bubble. He can't face audiences that haven't been pre-screened. He's keeping the press away and limiting access. His handlers won't let him risk an unscripted moment. ...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoU.S. And Iranian Strategic Competition: Iranian Views of How Iran’s Asymmetric Warfare Developments Affect Competition with the US and the Gulf, Sept. 2010 – Feb. 2011 By Alexander Wilner Center For Strat...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*I'll explain in a moment why I'm presenting this screen shot from Jack Eichenbaum's "Geography of New York City" website, geognyc.com, which I encourage anyone interested in getting to know NYC better to ...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 1 day agoGas well explosion sends one man to hospitalExplosion occurred at Perpetual Energy facility on Wolf Lake RoadNo one knows what happened. Two men were on the site working in a building but no one knows what t...
- Libyan rebels 'receiving covert training' offered by US and Egyptian special forces in eastern Libya
posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUS and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told. An unnamed rebel source related how he had undergon... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHave to say how sickened I feel by the BBC this evening. 30 years ago, I was still at University. On this day, one of my best friend's at Uni received the awful news his brother had been murdered. The IRA...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour passengers apparently fainted on an American Airlines flight headed to Chicago from Washington, D.C. because of a possible issue with cabin pressure. An American Airlines spokesman told NBC News tha...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 day agoAmy Teibel reported in the AP on Thursday, March 31, 2011: The Israeli military on Thursday released a map detailing what it says are nearly 1,000 underground bunkers, weapons storage facilities and monito...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs a resident of coastal Mississippi for more than 30 years, Shirley Tillman is used to seeing a few drum fish, sea gulls or jelly fish wash up on nearby sandy shores. It’s a fact of life living by the sea...
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