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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoNATO aircraft launched more than a dozen strikes on the Libyan capital early Tuesday, and smoke could be seen rising from the area near Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's Bab-al-Azizia compound in Tripoli. ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
The Supreme Court has affirmed a federal order telling California to reduce its overflowing prison population, a situation the majority said "falls below the standard of decency." The 5-4 ruling Monday f... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 32 minutes ago
*"'What do you want?' [Midge] demanded. "'I guess you know,' said Lou Hersch. 'Your wife's starvin' to death and your baby's starvin' to death and I'm starvin' to death. And you're dirty with money.'"* ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoThe euro and the Spanish and Italian bond markets came under pressure on Monday amid growing investor fears that the problems of Greece are hitting the bigger economies of Europe's single currency. The ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 hours ago
An example of a floating power plant. Photo courtesy: floatingpowerplant Someone once said that we must remember the past in order to avoid making the same mistakes in the futures. It would appear that we ... - posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoAlthough this is its last mission to the space station, shuttle Endeavour has just made a first in space history: it is the first shuttle ever to be photographed while docked with the space station.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe commenting rules for the website (should you like your comment to remain posted) have been changed to streamline discussions, and are now as follows: ***(1)*No links in comment text unless you have pri...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 hours ago
A rainbow lorikeet in the wild. Photo courtesy: Wikipedia Commons Every year around this time, medical offices in Australia are deluged with cases of loud drunks that are so intoxicated they've tumbled t... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
* "Sunny John" Boehner sheds a wee tear as Catholic University's commencement speaker, May 14. * *"If the headline is 'Conservative Catholics Denounce Liberal Politician on Abortion,' all the boilerplate is... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 hours ago
A distressed species the leaves may return but will likely never be the same. Photo credit: pjan vandaele/Creative Commons via TreeHugger Human activity creates countless disturbances in ecosystems around ... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 hours ago
Picture shows the growing ash plume from the Grimsvotn volcano, under the Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland, as its eruption begins... Photo courtesy: Yahoo!News An eruption by Iceland's most activ... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours ago
*WIKILEAKS: Border Guards feared Mohawks* Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 23, 2011 at 10:32 pm By Brenda Norrell Narcosphere The US Embassies in Montreal and Quebec monitored Mohawks and Indigenous activ... - posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 5 hours agoThe bottom line: that the bridge fuel concept for natural gas represents ‘wishful thinking’ and is not possible to achieve.Natural Gas: a "bridge" to where?
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 5 hours ago
I signed up for Pinterest almost a year ago and immediately started pinning like crazy. Pinterest is a fun site that allows you to keep track of pictures and ideas from sites all over the Internet. You hav... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
A Christian doctor in England has been threatened with an official warning from his professional body for discussing Jesus with a patient, The (London) Sunday Times reported. Richard Scott, a doctor for ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
*US intelligence agents have staked out suspected "terrorists" in Sweden, without the authorisation of the government there, the online edition of a Swedish daily reported Sunday. *Sweden's intelligence s... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Utah legislators want to see the dollar regain its former glory, back to the days when one could literally bank on it being "as good as gold." To make that point, they've turned it around, and made gold a... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Pakistan has asked China to build a naval base at its south-western port of Gwadar and expects the Chinese navy to maintain a regular presence there, a plan likely to alarm both India and the US. “We have... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThousands of people have already viewed the video on YouTube (Warning: graphic language/images). It was taken by a passer-by on Thursday afternoon. It has people questioning whether Metro Transit Police ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEgyptian pro-democracy groups are calling for a second round of so-called “rage” protests on May 27 because of a lack of political progress and perceived failure to prosecute members of former President Ho...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo patients died after being left waiting in ambulances outside an over-stretched hospital. The patients, believed to have been in their 80s, couldn’t get into the Royal Oldham Hospital for seven and 20...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoDon't just spend your whole day inside on the computer. Go out and take in a little nature -- and bring your laptop with you.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoSince they pay so little in taxes and get billions in taxpayer subsidies, oil and gas companies have unlimited resources at their disposal to run annoying, misleading ads on TV brainwashing dull couch po...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoCensored News UN FORUM by BEN POWLESShttp://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Photos by Ben Powless, Mohawk NEW YORK-- At the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Global Indigenous Women's Caucus estab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBritish Airways has suspended all flights from England to Scotland until 2pm tomorrow because of a shift in the direction of the cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash. The Dutch airline KLM has cancelled 16 ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 7 hours ago*All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” * *-William Shakespeare – **As...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA star's rotation slows with time, research shows, giving scientists a clock to understand its age.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 9 hours agoHercules plant is being tested for contamination Beyond the former site. by Duane Craig A former multi-faceted manufacturer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was notified by the Environmental Protection Agenc...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 9 hours agoI admit that there's a lot I don't know about things nuclear, and especially about the byzantine regulations which have essentially blocked new ideas for decades (which makes the area ripe for innovation, as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBEIRUT, May 23 (Reuters) - European Union sanctions imposed on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday will hurt European interests as much as they will hurt Syria's, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoATHENS - A US tourist was killed and four more travellers from the United States and Mexico were hurt on Monday in a landslide on the popular Greek tourist island of Santorini, police in Athens said. 'A ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 'headless' body has washed up on a Long Island beach 100 miles from where the decomposed remains of 10 prostitutes were found along a highway. The body was discovered on Sunday by a beach walker on Hampt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMoors murderer Ian Brady hopes the IRA will be reactivated and accuses Muslim terrorists of being incompetent because they don't kill enough British soldiers. The bizarre revelations have come light in a ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 hours agoHere's my theory. The Rapture really DID happen last Saturday. But nobody noticed, because nobody deserved to be saved. So for the next 5 months (give or take) we are going to endure floods, fires, and how...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoA plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland is being blown south towards Britain and could reach the airspace over mainland Europe later in the week.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA pod of 60 whales that have disappeared from a loch in the Outer Hebrides could have lost their way after becoming confused by a high voltage power cable under the sea. Rescuers said they are looking int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFor the Russian public it's still the great unknown - will Medvedev seek re-election as the country's president or will Putin come back to unseat his former protege? There are only ten months to go before...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt's a frustration experienced by most people when they've made phone calls to large companies. An unfamiliar voice answers the phone in a call centre hundreds of miles away where cheap labour is commonpl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA wheelchair-bound paedophile posed as a former 'Disney On Ice' skater to groom a 12-year-old girl via Facebook before raping her. Nicholas Bull, 28, duped the girl and her parents into believing he was an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA teenager believed to be Britain's youngest hitman is facing a life sentence today for shooting dead a young mother in a contract killing. Santre Sanchez Gayle was just 15 when he was paid £200 to murder ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Scottish airline has cancelled 36 flights tomorrow as the ash cloud billowing from a volanco in Iceland approaches UK airspace. Regional carrier Loganair, which flies out of Glasgow, announced that there...
- posted by Emad Hanna at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoClothing embedded with micro-pumps releases bursts of scents for mood improvement.
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoHow could you visualize the Cosmos if you're a blind astrophysicist? Wanda Diaz has the answer.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoWhy has the Saturnian moon got such an odd shape? It would seem Iapetus was spun up and smacked when it was young.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoPollen and mites buried in mud layers of the Andes reveal how llama droppings helped the Inca fertilize vital maize crops.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe footballer at the centre of the gagging order over his affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas was named today in the House of Commons as Ryan Giggs. Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming used parliamen...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoWixarika Statement at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*Which one is Charlie Bass?* One of Blue America's top contenders last year was Annie Kuster in New Hampshire. And she came tantalizingly close to winning against prohibitive Republican headwinds. While t...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoWhen the road gets rough, this robot goes airborne.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoA pair of robots has made up their own words to tell each other where they are and where they want to go.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNote: there is little to see in the above video, but the audio truly says it all.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLuis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he’d found a way to escape poverty ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt’s easy to become cynical in today’s world, especially for those who follow current events and have a desire to stay informed. Too many people are blind or dulled to both the great evil and goodness in t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Target:* President Barack Obama, United States Congress Members, Administrators of the EPA* Sponsored by:* Concerned Citizens - Lucas Whitefield HixsonThis data verifies the risk of bioaccumulation of rad...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFailure by the U.S. to get its fiscal house in order will trigger financial consequences that will “dwarf Lehman Brothers” and seriously diminish the nation’s role as a world economic leader, Jamie Dimon t...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire*. That’s basically how one can summarize the situation in Europe. Several (South) European countries are on the brink of collapse. Greece is as near bankruptcy as...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe euro and stock markets across Europe have fallen, with the eurozone debt crisis showing no sign of abating. Borrowing costs for heavily indebted governments also rose further, with Italy and Spain su...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoInvestors have taken the old Wall Street adage of "Sell in May, then go away" to heart this year, and the stock market's slump is likely to persist during the last week of the month. The Dow (INDU), S&P 5...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFor a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large. History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governme...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago“…*where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty*.” – 2nd Corinthians 3:17 Throughout history societies have developed, flourished, and collapsed; human nature has remained the same for eons. The pag...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago"Josephine" is 12 years old and several months pregnant. She's a member of the Samburu tribe, living in a small village in a remote part of Isiolo in Kenya's Eastern Province. The pre-teen, whose identi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: An illegal logger cuts down a tree to be turned into planks for construction in a forest south of Sampit in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province in this November 14, 2010 file photo. Indonesia...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 12 hours agoTwo reports about Egypt: One video, one radio.Video:Radio interview:.Mohamed El Rashidy on the Egyptian popular revolution.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoTN MOSQUES FOES LOSE: MUSLIMS GIVEN BUILDING PERMIT: "Somewhere the people responsible for vandalizing this sign not to mention Nashville hatemonger Laurie Cardoza-Moore are home today crying into their Conf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHarold Camping came out of hiding briefly yesterday after his predicted rapture did not come to pass, appearing at the front door of his Alameda home to tell the *San Francisco Chronicle* he had "a really ...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoJack Sparrow beware: A Navy software program combines multiple data to pinpoint areas at risk of pirate attacks.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoPossible new discovery of a species of ancestral rhinoceros makes a record-high debut.
- posted by Rev. Jim Sutter at Chasing Evil - 13 hours agoThe “But That’s Just the Old Testament!” Cop-Out: " This article is part 8 of LoonWatch’s Understanding Jihad Series. Please read my “disclaimer”, which explains my intentions behind writing this article: ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago *Clyde Bellecourt to Obama at UN: Apologize for misuse of Geronimo's name* *"It’s time for North America to get rid of the frontier mentality, and the myth that ‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: WSPEEDI simulation of iodine-131 surface deposition from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, showing a very wide area in Kanto and Tohoku in green, which indicates iodine-131 deposition of betwe...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago*Blogger's Note:* This is a 20-minute lecture with minimal visuals, but well worth listening to ...particularly if you're thinking about investing in green technologies and/or ever finding affordable healt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAsh from the erupting Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland will cover Scotland and Ireland by early Tuesday morning, the Met Office has predicted. Airlines and travellers were looking nervously at the progress of...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Javier Sicilia and North American Organizers Present Caravan Bound for Ciudad Juárez* ** *“In This March We Are Again Embracing Ourselves Amidst This Pain and Recognizing Ourselves Through Love”* By Lucer...
- posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 15 hours agoNorth Texans will want to know the answer to where the fracking sand comes from because EOG has a permit to start frack sand mining in North Texas.Frack sand mining is another one of those environmental issu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Leonard Lance & Scott Walker, indistinguishable faces of Republican change* Yesterday's post about the far right voting record of Hawaii's former congressman Ed Case, brought to the fore a March 17, 2005 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTornadoes have ripped through parts of the US Midwest killing at least 89 people in a town in the state of Missouri. The twister flattened large parts of Joplin, which has a population of 50,000 people, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA meltdown occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant three and a half hours after its cooling system started malfunctioning, according to the result of a simulation using "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe backlash is complete, almost, for failed doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping. Even as the world is waiting to hear from the false prophet, a member of his inner circle has fired the first salvo, saying ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoChinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net May 20, 2011 China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington’s planned attack on Pakistan wil...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 18 hours agoThe banksters through the IMF and the World Bank control today almost all of the world's wealth. They have succeeded in temporarily subjugating mankind and making them into slaves to be dictated to by the...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoو لماذا علينا أن نهتم بذلك؟ بقلم : توني كارتلوشي - كاتب في جريدة أكتيفيست بوست (Original English version: Who are Egypt's Protesters?) CNN BBC قناة الجزيرة و العديد من القنوات الأخرى ملأت شاشات التلفزيو...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoThe BBC runs an item here on Obama's visit to the Irish Republic and suggests that this will bring much needed economic benefit. How? It seems to me that this just the beginning in a series of items the BB...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 19 hours agoYou will need a strong stomach to listen to this fulsome tribute to Obama from Mark Mardell on the BBC this morning. Note the total lack of objectivity - this is full-on Obamalove and an utter disgrace. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*A PORTION of the airspace over Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland has been closed because of ash from an erupting Icelandic volcano, Danish air traffic control officials said on Monday. * Naviair ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJAIPUR: High velocity dust storms accompanied by thundershowers affected life and traffic in the state on Sunday. It was unprecedented weather for Pink City on Sunday afternoon when suddenly the sky became...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - The State of Wisconsin says that Mayor Matt Harter has declared a state of emergency in the City of La Crosse in the wake of Sunday's severe storms and possible tornado. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA second pilot whale has been found dead in a Hebridean loch after experts feared more than 60 of the animals had been at risk of becoming beached. The pod had left the shallow waters of Loch Carnan in So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA south suburban interstate ramp was reopened Sunday night, eight hours after a semi truck hauling cattle overturned -- leaving more than a dozen dead animals and others roaming the road. The ramp was re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe wife of a top British diplomat has plunged four storeys to her death from the roof of her New York home. Mystery surrounds the circumstances of Catherine Hurd’s death, just a week before she and her f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA teenage boy is believed to have drowned after jumping into a river to celebrate the world not coming to an end after the supposed day of Rapture failed to arrive. Anthony Thompson from Kalamazoo, Michig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA tornado flattened buildings, snapped trees and tossed tractor-trailers like toys as it touched down in Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday night, causing an unknown number of deaths and injuries. "I would sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least 30 people have been killed - and an unknown number injured and trapped - after a tornado nearly one mile wide ripped through Joplin in Missouri. Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges confirmed the n...
- America’s next disaster: Multiple floods in Western states as monster snowpacks melt - 23rd May 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoIt's been one long series of natural disasters this year - and now it looks like another is on the way. The focus may soon be shifting from the epic flooding in the Mississippi Valley to Westwern states ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThirteen people were killed in two coal mine accidents in China at the weekend, state media said Monday -- the latest fatal incidents to strike the nation's notoriously dangerous collieries. In the centra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA marine cadet found hanged after allegedly being bullied at school would still be alive if his family’s concerns had been listened to, it has been claimed. Brendon Flynn, 13, took his own life after repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSyrian security forces have shot dead at least five people after opening fire on a massive funeral procession for eight anti-government protesters killed the day before. The violence took place in Homs at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLess than a third of convicted muggers and car thieves end up in jail, figures reveal. Thanks to the rise of community sentences, just over half of drug dealers go to prison – and only 43 per cent of thos...
- *'What's going on?'* Concerned friends and family called us last weekend asking this after seeing a few glimpses on their TV screens of massive demonstrations in Madrid. 'What is this *Spanish Spring* sup...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAirline passengers are facing potential travel chaos amid fears that ash from a newly erupting Icelandic volcano could reach Britain tomorrow. Forecasters said the plume from the Grimsvotn volcano could be...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*Your humble correspondent's holographic modification of gravity for low accelerations passes a quantitative test* Sean Carroll mentions a preprint arguing that it's been experimentally demonstrated tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThis spring is on course to be the hottest since records began 100 years ago. And despite the prospect of showers over the next few days, forecasters say there is still no sign of the heavy rain needed to...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Douglas Hurd, formerly the government minister in charge of MI6, with Sir John Sawers, currently head of MI6. Douglas Hurd is the father of Thomas Hurd. (With Douglas Hurd... the Speedo spy chief Mail On...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoAs a child, I remember being fascinated by ladybirds. They were everywhere with their armour-like wings that formed a shield when folded. I used to be like every other child - I would hold a ladybird del...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoA bit of a revolution is going on in Canada. The Conservatives won a thumping election majority on May 3, and new premier Stephen Harper has wasted no time in cutting taxes, asserting national sovereignty ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoAs you can see in the right sidebar of this blog, the maximum instantaneous luminosity that the ATLAS detector has experienced so is 1100/μb/s = 34.7/fb/year. So each major detector has surpassed 1/nb du...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 22 hours ago*CANADIAN POLITICS:* *MARCH WITH OCAP AND CUPE THIS THURSDAY:* This appeal from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) asks you to join the 'Raise the Rates' contingent at the upcoming Canadian...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoLess than a month after a tornado outbreak devastated the U.S. southeast, a deadly twister touched down in the town of Joplin on Sunday.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago*BEN POWLESS PHOTOS UN PERMANENT FORUM 2011* Photos copyright Ben Powless. Special thanks to Mohawk youth photographer Ben Powless for allowing Censored News to post these photos from the UN Permanent...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Obama administration is actively seeking to deregulate a new variety of genetically-modified (GM) corn created by Monsanto that allegedly tolerates drought conditions better than natural varieties. How...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Eh bien, c'est Le Champion! * *"'And I want the deed done before I come back,' said Grace as she rose from the table. 'You won't fall down on me, will you, hon?'"* -- Grace, to Midge, in tonight's instal...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoThe *New York Times* on Wednesday, 11 May, ran a feature article on pitayas, or 'dragon fruits' as they are commonly called. These are native to Bolivia, with a natural range from Bolivia to Mexico. It has...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoLAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, Senate House (Firs...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoYesterday's *New York Times* had an article on the front page about quinoa, and how it is being used for Passover; with a few questions, of course, about how kosher it is, which I guess will be determined ...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoQuechua Conversation Night: Quechua and Community Media CLACS Date: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Location: Room 324 of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC), 53 Washington Square Sou...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoSEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH: *“Evo Morales and theMovimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: the first term in context, 2006-2010”* *Edited by Adrian J. Pearce * Wednesday 27th April 18.00-20.00 *The Senate Room*, S...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoTHE JANEY PROGRAM AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT NYU [CLACS] PRESENT: Whither Bolivia: A Conversatorio February 22, 2011 8 p.m. The New ...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoYears ago NY had two Thalia movie theatres where I spent many happy hours watching vintage films. Now, sadly, those halcyon days have slipped by. But I know where to go to get my fix! La Paz, Bolivia. This...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoCompetitive movie-watching for Bolivia's cinephiles (AFP) – 23 hours ago LA PAZ — A Bolivian cineplex on Tuesday announced a film marathon competition likely to test the endurance of even the most avid cine...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoA piece by L. Pierce Caron in the Napa Valley Register appeared on 31 December, 2010 - about a new Bolivian drink. These coca leaf licours are something else, I had them at the consulate in NY - not this...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoOn 7th and 8th October this year, Dr. Bennett Hennessey spoke on the Bolivian macaws. He is a conservationist in Santa Cruz, which is the largest departamento in Bolivia. His work takes him all over the co...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoWikileaks material is hosted by the Bolivian government Proof that the US is spying on us By Nick Farrell Thu Dec 09 2010, 09:46 *THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT* is so miffed at what the US government has been sa...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoA friend attended the NYU speech yesterday (3 December) on Bolivian immigration policy in the 1940s, and was moved to write about it, which he did - posting it first to the Jewish Chronicle site - under th...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day ago[image: passiflora-madidiana-plant] One of the newly discovered plants from Madidi National Park in Bolivia, this is *Passiflora madidiana.*
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day ago*Eight new plants discovered in Bolivia Jeremy Hance mongabay.com November 07, 2010 * Researchers have described eight new species of plant from in and near Madidi National Park in the Bolivian Andes and ...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day ago[image: CLACS] *Quechua at NYU Updates* *Quechua Night* [image: NYU CLACS Quechua Night]Many thanks to Cassandra Torrico, who presented at the recent Quechua Conversation night in Bolivian Quechua. We h...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoLast night, 21 September, the Amigos de Bolivia crew went to hear Evo Morales speak at the Community Church on East 35th Street, after a session at the UN and a talk at Hunter College the day before. The l...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoThe Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations Invites you to attend a public lecture by * * *President Evo Morales* *"Nature is not for sale: the Rights of Mother E...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoEvo Morales Speaks at Hunter College Monday, September 20, 1:15-2:30pm Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, will speak at Hunter College in celebration of the publication of the English language edition of Ma...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoSunday I took the bus to Hackensack, NJ, where the Bolivians had their annual festival. A couple friends showed up, one who writes for HDL in Israel, and they were quite impressed. Each departamento had th...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoA big end of the summer event not to be missed is the Third Annual Festival Boliviano. See flyer below for details, and CU there!
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoThese last few weeks we have been treated to a comedy of errors here in New York after the FBI arrested 10 spies working for Putin; caught red-handed, or red-headed as was Anya Chapman aka Anushka Koschenk...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoAn intimate crowd had a priviliged look inside the Bolivian Consulate in New York last month, there to mingle with artists, poets and diplomats from Bolivia. Press from around the world, press from New Yor...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoTHE BOLIVIAN COFFEE INDUSTRY Bolivia is a small player: it ranks 38th on the list of coffee-producing nations, even behind the U.S., which ranks 35th. In the last few years, the country’s coffee has made ...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoOn Wednesday, 30 June, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, there will be a reception at the Bolivian Consulate in New York. Interested parties including journalists, playwrights, professors and students are invited to at...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoAn article from the *Guardian* about music in Bolivia caught my eye.... Bolivia's soaring symphonies One of Kurt Masur's mentees, American conductor David Handel's novel approach and ongoing fame fills co...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRegrettably, these days it seems that ferreting out the right investment decisions is sort of all macro, all the time. The top-down economic overview is far more important, I think, than the bottom-up fund...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Website for this image* "For the past few years big names including Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase of the US, have been popping up in places such as newly oil-rich Ghana. "In London, Hel...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"You can't continually be talking about tyrannies as if it is gun to the head, and we're being forced and coerced all the time. Sooner or later we're going to have to ask a more deeper question. What is ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*UN Forum on Indigenous Issues Opens 10th Session * Top photo: *Todadaho Sid Hill, Chief of the Onondaga Nation*, delivers a traditional welcome at the opening of the tenth session of the UN Permanent F...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Law & Order: L.A.'s "Gabby Giffords episode" turned out to be about a schizophrenic (played by Southland's Shawn Hatosy) who thinks a state senator is keeping him from his non-existent daughter.* *by Ken...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago *US Ambassador in Quito carried out US mission of working against **adoption of UN Declaration* Children near Quito. UN photo Milton Grant. By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blo...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least four people are reported to have been killed in an ongoing attack by armed men on a military base in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Some of the attackers are still inside the base and commandos a...
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- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWater, it's the very stuff of life, and a high-resolution analysis of the most water-stressed places on Earth reveals anew a stark reality. The Middle East and north Africa (Mena), currently in the middle ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Michigan State Housing Development Authority, which sued Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) in bankruptcy court over derivatives transactions, said it is seeking to move its suit to a higher court...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLet them eat bread. That refrain, from the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak, kept impoverished Egyptians from violent rebellion for decades. When food riots broke out in 2008, he containe...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina, now the second-largest economy in the world, is a vast and diverse country that is nearly impossible to sum up in a single photo essay. But here is an attempt -- a recent photographic look across th...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe number of Chinese missiles targeted at Taiwan is likely to reach 1,800 next year, despite improving ties between the former arch-rivals, Taiwanese media said Friday. The Liberty Times newspaper cited ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US military's top officer warned Saturday about a worrisome disconnect between civilians and troops, saying soldiers are becoming isolated from the rest of American society. Speaking to graduating cad...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe newly-elected head of Tibet's government-in-exile has warned India that it is being encircled by "Chinese interests" as Beijing strengthens its South Asian presence. China has been boosting its region...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistan wants China to build a naval base at a deep-sea port in southwestern Baluchistan province, its defence minister said Sunday, while also inferring that Washington was a fair weather friend. Ahmad ...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes pedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss. The order...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOver the next five days, the African nation will vaccinate 3.6 million children in a bid to reduce measles deaths by 98 percent.
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA rally was held on Saturday morning for the mother who fired a gun prompting a standoff with Detroit Police a week ago. This after Child Protective Services showed up to take her child away. The Justice...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBy Daniel Insdorf, Guest Writer (Please note that The Coming Crisis acts as an open forum for reporting crises and providing thought-provoking solutions, and remains neutral to guest contributions so that...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoThe following was written by Debra Siddons for Henrymakow.com. I apologise for the problems in text size and hope this does not overly distract the reader from the important information in the article. The...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOur perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThursday, when Hawaii's stellar progressive congresswoman, Mazie Hirono, announced her intention to run for the seat being vacated by her friend and ally Daniel Akaka, we dashed off a quick post that deta...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoJUNE 3 DEADLINE By Gila River Against Loop 202 *GILA RIVER: NO 202!* *Stop the South Mountain Freeway* Support us on our ongoing effort in protecting the Gila River Indian Community's vital connection wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a naval aviation base in the Pakistani city of Karachi, according to reports. Militants reportedly stormed the base and witnesses reported hearing lou...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Landings per unit of fishing power (LPUP) of large British trawler vessels (closed circles) into England and Wales, compared with LPUP of all large bottom-gear vessels (trawlers, liners, Danish s...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Dawood Ibrahim, allegedly a friend of the CIA. * The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in the Pakistan town of Abbottabad has a special design. Reportedly, it is a design used by the US military. Reportedl...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:* *THE CALGARY FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY:* How different from when I was young. Anarchist festivals in 'Calgary' !!!! *FESTIVAL OF ANARCHY! *Time Friday, May 27 at 6:00pm - May...
- posted by *C* at The Web (Untangled) - 1 day ago*By Sibel Edmonds* From Boiling Frogs Post It has been over two weeks since the orchestrated ever-changing Bin Laden Death. The question of what happened remains the same except it doesn't seem to matte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe pilot of the Air France flight that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean nearly two years ago was not in the cockpit when the plane ran into trouble. Leading German news magazine Der Spiegel quoted an exper...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoNew One for a New Week Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Italian toddler has died after her university lecturer father forgot to drop her off at day-care and left her in his hot car for five hours. Doctors at Ancona's Salesi pediatric hospital on the Adriatic ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Police officers wearing protective suits search for victims of an earthquake and a tsunami in Fukushima Prefecture in Minamisoma City in this photo taken by Yomiuri Shimbun on March 28, 2011. REU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSilence follows the days after the proposed Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 as the prediction made my Harold Camping proves to be incorrect. Frustrated followers and dissenters are now unable to access the Fa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoGunmen said to be loyal to Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have surrounded the Emirates embassy in Sanaa. Inside a group of foreign diplomats have convened awaiting a decision from Saleh whether he w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Aerial view of the ruins of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 30 March 2011. From top to bottom, reactors one to four. AP Photo / Air Photo Service / dailymail.co.uk] Reporting by Risa Maeda;...
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