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An Iranian nuclear scientist has been shot dead in the capital, Tehran, Iranian media sources have said. The scientist, who has not yet been named, was shot outside his home, the Isna news agency reported... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 minutes ago
The Norwegian attacks in which over 90+ people were killed had nothing to do with the Muslims. Of course, both attacks on the Labor Party prime minister (who survived) and his soulmates were done by the ... - posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 53 minutes agoBBC astronomy presenter Mark Thompson forgets the tough astronaut training and ponders the fun and games you can have in space.
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Grand Isle roars back to life, but not without fresh scars~Paul Rioux ~"I Am Grand Pa! Watch Me Roar!" ~Michael Gros, of Thibodeaux, kicked back and enjoyed the sun and the breeze at the town beach in Grand... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Even if the exact figures aren't in your head, it probably comes as no surprise that Wall Street and the Financial, Insurance, Real Estate sector has poured more legalistic bribes into American politics ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
British air passengers were left in fear for their lives on Thursday when an engine of a holiday flight from Ibiza erupted into flames. A Jet2 Boeing 737-800, flying from Spain to Manchester, developed pr... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThirty-two-year-old Anders Behring Breivik is a right-wing Norwegian man with no known links to hardcore extremists.
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A wildfire burned about 100 acres in the mountains behind Lake Mountain Estates in Saratoga Springs Friday evening. The blaze came within a mile of dozens of homes. Neighbors were nervous particularly beca... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago
A food poisoning has left a five-year-old girl dead and 72 others hospitalised in a village in southwest China's Guizhou Province, reports Xinhua news agency quoting a local official as saying Saturday. V... - posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 hours ago
*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Look up some basic contract law! Social Security is a contract between the government and the people! The GOP wants to BREAK that contract; the GOP wants to 'award... - posted by Alison at Creekside - 4 hours ago
CBC Power & Politics at noon Friday , edited Evan Solomon : This raises again.the spectre of international terrorism. Stockwell Day : As recently as July 8 in Norway there was a dragnet for al-Qaeda susp... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Link sent in by Reader: The Libyan capital was rocked by a series of explosions, thought to be the result of NATO airstrikes, early on Saturday, the Reuters news agency reported. Four blasts rocked the h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians turned out for anti-regime demonstrations across the country on Friday with at least 11 people reported killed by security forces and tensions mounting in the runup to the ... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
First things first. All decent people will be horrified at what has happened in Oslo last evening. The atrocious terrorist act is beyond words and the loss of so many lives devastating. And now I turn to ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
Reader Brought this to our attention: Two shallow earthquakes measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale struck the South Island today -- the first in Canterbury and the second in Marlborough. GNS Science said t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 219.1 km ( 136.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:51:54 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 286 km ( 178 miles) WNW from Saumlaki, Tan... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
The active Pu’u O’o vent on the east rift of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is just about to overflow. In a written update detailing recent observations made by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, scientist... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
A Manhattan-sized chunk of ice is drifting towards the coast of Canada - providing a stunning sight for tourists, but posing a potentially serious threat to shipping. The 20-square-mile chunk of ice broke... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
A Cleveland jury found Anthony Sowell guilty today of killing 11 women whose remains were found in and around his home. Sowell, 51, faces the possibility of the death penalty. The case next moves to the '... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
House Speaker John Boehner blamed President Barack Obama for the collapse of U.S. debt ceiling talks, saying the White House sought to raise taxes and failed to 'make the tough choices' on spending cuts. ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA defence lawyer for accused child murderer Levi Aron has sensationally quit the case after more horrific details were revealed about the killing. Gerard Marrone, 37, said his conscience prevented him from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCasey Anthony's lawyer is said to be in New York negotiating with major TV networks to secure a deal to sign up the first interview with the cleared mother. Jose Baez is allegedly due to meet up with exec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAirlines have been told to prepare for travel chaos after scientists said an Alaskan volcano under a major U.S. flight route could erupt at any time. Satellite images of the remote volcano on the island of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 60.2 km ( 37.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:27:12 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 115 km ( 72 miles) Southwest fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThree pilot whales became stranded on the shore of a remote Highland sea loch today. Rescuers at the scene said the whales were part of a pod of around 60 which got trapped in the Kyle of Durness, one of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 56.1 km ( 34.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:54 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 80 km ( 50 miles) WSW from Suchi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAn dramatic rise in rabid winged mammals has California going batty. It may seem like something out of a vampire film, but officials in two counties are warning for residents to beware of the bat. Just on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 44.8 km ( 38 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:35 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) ESE from King Cove, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAll children could be vaccinated against hepatitis B in a bid to curb soaring rates of infection. The numbers affected by the deadly illness have almost doubled in the past decade. The massive increase ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA mother has died and hundreds of patients could be infected after hepatitis B was apparently spread by unclean surgical equipment at a hospital. Patients who have received any kind of heart surgery at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA record-breaking heatwave has hit the U.S. with temperatures approaching 40c (104f), leaving up to 24 dead. Around half of the population – some 150million – have been put on alert over the ‘dangerous’ h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA sex attacker who gave a woman hepatitis C when he broke into her home and raped her was jailed indefinitely today. Lee Brophy, 44, of Catford, south-east London, assaulted his victim, in her fifties, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSo here go again. With British attention distracted by the phone-hacking scandal, this week the European political elite hurled another £96 billion at the ailing Greek economy, desperate to stave off a f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDavid Cameron will enrage Eurosceptics by refusing to hold a referendum on dramatic changes to build a European economic superstate. Proposals to forge closer economic ties between eurozone countries emerg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories. The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe massacre in Norway was the work of a man with extreme right wing views who hated Muslims, police said this morning. Officers found a series of raving internet posts by 32-year-old Anders Behring Breiv...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Joi via Flickr The Galapagos Islands is an incredibly sensitive environment unlike no other on earth. Due to its isolation, species have evolved there that have evolved nowhere else. The G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 120.6 km ( 74.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:56:53 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) Southeast of Valle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 366 km ( 227.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:40:20 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 395 km (245 miles) South of Ndo...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe Steve Jones report, excellently analysed here by James Delingpole, is nothing more than a licence from the eco-loons who run the BBC to allow its reporters to continue their torrent of climate change l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.7 km ( 22.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:34:24 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 405.3 km ( 251.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:32 UTC Saturday 23rd July 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) Northeast of Gizo,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Guam Region at a depth of 4.4 km ( 2.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:58:55 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) Southeast of Hagatna, Guam No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck West Chile Rise at a depth of 39.7 km ( 24.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:35:57 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 797 km (495 miles) West of Castro, Los Lagos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 34.7 km ( 21.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:31:09 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) WSW of Chernabura Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Heilongjiang, China at a depth of 22.5 km ( 14 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:08 UTC Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 99 km ( 61 miles) SSE Tieli, Heilongjiang,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA powerful bomb tore open several Oslo buildings, including the prime minister's office. The blast shattered windows and coated the street with documents. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg gave a t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe mayor's staff members were searching for housing for people, many of them elderly, whose homes were damaged, Hansen said. Frykholm, the police spokesman, said that the man arrested on the island app...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe scene after a bomb exploded in the center of Oslo on Friday reminded New Yorker Ian Dutton of what he witnessed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. The scale of the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTeenagers on the Norwegian holiday island of Utoya had to 'swim for their lives' and hide in trees when a gunman fired indiscriminately at them. Around 700 had gathered on the island for a meeting of the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNearly a dozen people, including six suicide bombers, were killed and another 44 injured as clashes between security forces and militants entered a second day in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, offic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoToday’s summit will, of course, almost certainly be concluded with an announcement of success. The ministers will declare that, though matters had proceeded to the eleventh hour and negotiations were fraug...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFitch ratings agency declared Greece would be in temporary default as the result of a second bailout, which Athens said had bought it breathing space. But the agency pledged to give Greece a higher, "low s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least five people, including four children, were flushed away by a flash flood Friday morning after continuous torrential rain in Guizhou Province, according to local rescuers. Witnesses said they saw ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHave been meaning to write about this, but I’m increasingly amazed at the overall lack of an uproar about the possibility of the government approving another corporate tax repatriation holiday. I’ve been...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLender Processing Services Inc. (LPS), a provider of integrated technology, data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, has reported the following "first look" of June 2011 month-end mor...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFitch ratings agency declared Greece would be in temporary default as the result of a second bailout, which Athens said had bought it breathing space. But the agency pledged to give Greece a higher, "low s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least five people, including four children, were flushed away by a flash flood Friday morning after continuous torrential rain in Guizhou Province, according to local rescuers. Witnesses said they saw ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHave been meaning to write about this, but I’m increasingly amazed at the overall lack of an uproar about the possibility of the government approving another corporate tax repatriation holiday. I’ve been...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoLender Processing Services Inc. (LPS), a provider of integrated technology, data and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, has reported the following "first look" of June 2011 month-end mor...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoDaily Mail reports: Fortunately, it is a public holiday in Norway and the offices are less busy than a normal weekday. Why would “terrorists,” who presumably want to kill as many people as possible, choos...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoChina's military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoDon't expect to beat the heat this weekend in a canoe, a kayak or a windsurfing board off Manhattan. City officials declared the Hudson River, the East River south of the RFK Bridge and the Harlem River u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe excessive heat and higher electrical demand has led DTE Energy to begin intentional rolling blackouts in one Metro Detroit community, Thursday afternoon, and at least one other area could follow. Resi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoEurope is on the brink of a major financial disaster. Moody’s has downgraded Irish and Portuguese debt to junk, a status until now reserved for Greece. This in turn has led interest rates on Spanish and It...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPLEASE REMAIN ALERT IF YOU LIVE IN NORWAY. THERE IS NO REASON TO THINK THIS SITUATION IS OVER. STAY VIGILANT!
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoJapanese private research labs with radiation testing gear have been flooded with orders for checks on food and soil samples after shipments of contaminated beef deepened public anxiety over radiation leak...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agof the White House and lawmakers cannot reach an agreement to raise the country’s debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline, it will fall to President Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to determine ho...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSenior U.S. officials say they cannot yet ascribe responsibility for Friday's attack on the government building in Oslo. "What you see is what we know," said a senior administration official, who like the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA McDonald's manager in the Atlanta area is accused of punching a mother after she brought her autistic children and a service dog inside the restaurant, authorities said. Tiffany Denise Allen is charged ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Senate on Friday firmly rejected a House Republican bill to slash spending and require a balanced-budget amendment, leaving unresolved with just days to go the urgent issue of increasing the nation's b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe next time you try on clothes at a department store, pay attention to the door. A 10 News undercover investigation revealed customers may be revealing more than expected at Macy's stores all across t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA Hobart man allegedly fired a shotgun after his girlfriend turned down his marriage proposal, police said. Robert Allen Kleman III, 29, was charged with three counts of criminal recklessness through Lak...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*The most censored, most popular, at Censored News * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photo: Remembering migrants by Brenda Norrell The most accessed articles at Censored New...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Cover of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, By Christian Parenti (Nation Books, Hardcover, 9781568586007, 304pp.)]By ARTHUR WESTING 14 July 2011 Some 200 years ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner addresses the UN Security Council Debate on the impact of climate change on maintaining international peace and security, 20 J...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago[image: Explosion rocks gov't HQ in Oslo] A powerful blast tore open more than a few Oslo buildings including the prime minister's office on Friday. One person was reportedly killed and several were injur...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoAll eyes are on the PC and Liberal leadership races this summer in Alberta. Well, all eyes are on the PC leadership race, and a few eyes are glancing over at the Liberal one every now and then. Still, th...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoSource: Diario Impre Date: 21 July 2011 UFOs Represent “A Real and Serious Threat” By Luis Jaspe Yet again we come across the subject of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and cannot find a...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 1 day agoWe are constantly told of the threat of war in the Middle East. From stories of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq to Iranian use of enriched Uranium for nuclear weapons, we are told on a near daily basis...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *July 22, 2011 at 00:12:16* *Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/22/11:* * * *Permalink* *An Economy Destroyed -- The Enemy Is Washington* *By paul craig roberts (a...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoPolitical excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario. Among this week's highlig...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoWhile sitting at my table in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, I heard a woman behind me say, “That was my father.” She was pointing to a picture of one of the soldiers assigned ...
- *The word is out!* Meteorologist *James Madden* from Exacta Weather UKpredicts a prolongation of the Winter 2010-11, worse so: an even harsher one. He writes: *"It is therefore vital to start preparing now ...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 1 day agoMakes a whole lot more sense than most academics I have ever heard, and explains why.
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago[image: long-term debt deal] One of the most influential Republican operatives on Thursday give conservatives in Congress a loophole on their "no tax" pledge that can keep prospects alive for a long-term ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*New Report: Peabody's Black Mesa Coal Mine draining* *region's water supply* *By Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine' CARE, To' Nizhoni Ani, Center for Biologial Diversity and Sierra Club* Photo by Leslie M...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 2 days ago*I should be working instead of blogging...* * * I’ve been reading a book called The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies by the famous skeptic Michael Shermer for my independ...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 2 days agoAnti-Racism is a key weapon of our Zionist enemies. Love of one's own people does not mean hatred of others. Indeed, protection of your own family is a natural instinct. I love my family; that doesn't mean...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Kuiu Kwaan Tribal Court issues declaratory judgment upholding gathering rights of Northern Paiute 'Kwassuh' Wesley Dick* Article copyright by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days agoPermalink *Obama Is A Bankster Puppet “Who Brought On The Depression That The Republicans Never Could Have Gotten Away With”* July 18, 2011 In a recent interview with *Guns and Butter*, Michael Hudso...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 2 days ago[image: Democratic leaders] President Barack Obama summoned top Democratic lawmakers back on the way to the White House Wednesday to resume negotiations on prevention a potentially crippling government de...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: A KWS ranger stands guard next to the ivory pile that was set ablaze at the Tsavo West National Park on 20 July 2011. Amos Rono / kws.org] July 20 (KWS) – Lusaka Agreement Task Force and Kenya Wi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Map of countries' actions and commitments on climate change. The Smith School at Oxford has rated each country's actions and commitments on climate change. Dark green is ‘Very good’, dark orange ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*A Victory for Protection of Sogorea Te* *July 20, 2011* *http://www.protectglencove.org* ** After 98 days and nights of a continuous prayer vigil, the Committee to Protect Glen Cove is pleased to announce...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Apa Sherpa, world record holder for climbing Mount Everest 21 times, at the inauguration of an artificial climbing wall on the eve of the 10th Girimitra Sammelan (mountaineer’s meet) in Mumbai on...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Fetching water in the Borena zone in Ethiopia's Oromiya region. For Abdha Aso, a 20-year-old mother of five, it involves a four-hour round trip to a muddy pond. Only a year ago, she could reach a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Living the Peoples Movements Assembly in the Southwest organizing tour **The People’s Movement Assembly Southwest Organizing tour, the Conclusion* *By Alba Mota * *The People’s Movement Assembly Southwest ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 days agoAs we learned last election, when the political wave rises, it's hard to avoid it. If ever you wanted evidence of just how powerless local campaigns are, look no further than some of the quality men and wo...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days ago------------------------------ Permalink Cherchez la Verite
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 days ago------------------------------ Permalink * * *How Your Social Security Money Was Stolen – Where Did the $2.5 Trillion Surplus Go?* July 19th, 2011 Introduction by David DeGraw, Reports by Dr. Allen Smit...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoClick image to enlarge. The Council Advocating an Indigenous Manifesto invites you to join them in their weekly walk/hike/run in Phoenix, Wednesday July 20, 2011, from 6:30 to 8 pm. The purpose is to cre...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Kuiu Kwaan Court in Tacoma, Wash., supports traditional Paiute craftsman gathering tules* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Update July 19, 2011, 8 pm* TACOMA, Wash. -- N...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: A Dallas County sheriff's deputy monitors the line for rental assistance voucher applications on the morning of 14 July 2011 outside the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex in Dallas. Thousands of peopl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: David Gonzales, of Jackson, Wyoming, examines a dead whitebark pine tree in the mountains east of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Mountain pine beetles killed the roughly 800-year-old tree within the prev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: Polar bears like this one are having to spend more time in the Arctic water due to less summer sea ice. Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habita...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 days ago[image: Goldman profit] Goldman Sach Group Inc rattled investors with salary that fell far short of analysts' estimates because of sharp declines in trading revenue.Goldman, one time Wall Street's largest...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 days ago[image: Rupert Murdoch] Rupert Murdoch was humble Tuesday by a committee of lawmakers who grill one of the world's most powerful media moguls and his son on their position in a phone-hacking scandal that ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: If sea levels rose to where they were during the Last Interglacial Period, large parts of the Gulf of Mexico region would be under water (red areas), including half of Florida and several Caribbe...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 4 days agoThis weekend, Kurt and I ran in the Wyandotte Portofino Art Fair 5K, Saturday at 800 AM in Wyandotte. It was a nice race and I was glad it was early, as it was already super hot at 800 AM! Kurt broke his...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Dessicated corn field in Garvin County, Oklahoma, July 2011. oklahomafarmreport.com] By MICHAEL MCNUTT, CAPITOL BUREAU 15 July 2011 With no forecast of rain in sight, Gov. Mary Fallin suggests ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Sharks cruise over a coral reef. Fishing alters predator patterns; when large fish are removed, corals don't fare as well. S. A. Sandin, et al. / nsf.gov] Media contacts Cheryl Dybas, NSF (703) ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Workers on the bus which will transfer them to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They are known as 'nuclear gypsies'. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert] By Justin McCurry in Iwaki-Yumoto, www.guardian.co....
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 week ago*For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 round-ups.* Although Rick Hansen served as Stampede Parade Grand Marshal, all eyes were on Will and Kate this yea...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 week ago1. Stephen Gordon reminds us about the Census, and gloomily points out that the Tory majority means we'll likely find ourselves without credible data from 2006 to 2021. 2. Stephen Harper will be guest sta...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 week agoI remember a time, 5 or 6 years ago, when a young Stephen Harper was *aghast *that Paul Martin would have the nerve to suggest Liberal values were more Canadian than Conservative values. Young Harper raile...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 weeks agoI posted 8 Simple Rules for the Liberal Leadership Race a few weeks ago, prompting a few readers to ask for my thoughts on the candidates. The short answer to that is simply: it's too early to tell. This t...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 weeks agoUnless Stephen Harper breaks his own fixed election date law (*ha ha ha*!), we'll have a new set of ridings for the 2015 election. So for kicks this summer, I'm looking back at life in the old ridings over...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 weeks agoThat was Harper's dig on Paul Martin four years ago, after turning down a meeting with Bono. Since then, Harper has been a bit more *hot and cold *on the issue.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 weeks agoI had some fun last fall comparing the elections of Naheed Nenshi in Calgary and Rob Ford in Toronto. Fairly or unfairly, it appears the two will be forever linked. We got yet another example of that this...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 weeks agoThe good folks in Samara are hosting a fun contest this summer, asking Canadians to vote for their favourite political books. I for one think this is a great idea, and it's something I'd considered doing a...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 weeks agoLast week's postal filibuster is the first real case study of the new political reality. If it's a preview of the next four years, I'd say Stephen Harper's 2015 re-elected chances look quite rosy. Persona...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 weeks agoSome guy named Michael Ignatieff weighs in on the life of Canadians living outside the country: I was away a long time in Britain and the States, it’s true, but I kept coming back, writing for Canadian n...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 weeks agoIn response to my previous "what if" post on running elxn41 under a preferential ballot, a few blog readers wondered how the election would have turned out had there been a Liberal-NDP merger. The challen...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 weeks agoThe Ontario NDP release their platform, chalk full of policies that are great news if you own a big house, drive a gas guzzler, or like coal power. Partisan jabs aside, Andrea Horwath could do some serious...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 weeks agoI won't say I feel bad for Pauline Marois - seeing the PQ implode a few weeks after the BQ was all but obliterated is Must See TV. But when looking at the problems besieging her, it's important to remember...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 weeks agoThe best way to think about the Liberal leadership race is like those velodrome cycling races you see at the Olympics. The gun sounds and two cyclists crawl around the track, quietly jockeying for positi...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 weeks agoLiberals have voted to pick a new leader sometime between March and June 2013. I was personally hoping for a shorter timeline but my sense from yesterday's conference call is Liberals are ready to get to w...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 weeks agoA few random Friday thoughts: 1. Don't expect this weekend's NDP convention in Vancouver to be nearly as exciting as Wednesday night. Still, the possibility for riots and/or make out sessions does exist...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 weeks agoThat was how Stephen Harper described Stephane Dion in 2008, when "unelected" and "unaccountable" Liberal senators blocked Harper's senate reform legislation. I look forward to the new attack ads: *Tor...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 weeks agoOne of the democratic reform initiatives that never seems to get much publicity is the preferential ballot. Yet it's simple, assures the majority of the riding backs the winning candidate, and helps avoid ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 month agoMacleans updates it's 1997 list ranking Canada's Best PMs, and produces the following top 10: 1. Wilf 2. Johnny Mac 3. The Lyon 4. Mikey B 5. PET 6. JC 7. Uncle Louis 8. Robbie B 9. Lyin' Brian 10. The Chi...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 month agoStephen Duckett (AKA Cookie Monster) has raised a stir by suggesting some politically connected individuals receive preferential treatment in Alberta's Health Care system, and are able to jump the queue. ...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 10 months agoJust a few more thoughts in passing. Getting ever more adventurous, I have been delving into my daughter's websites so full of beauty, both in thought and in image, that I'm struck anew with sadness that I...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 11 months agoI should really have posted a photo of my dear departed Koko here but I'm still working on the emptiness without her. So instead, with a Canadian winter on the horizon, however hazily, I will post one of...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoAging is all about acceptance and adapting - easy when it just involves pesky little things like hearing loss and/or creaky joints and instalment peeing, these 'go with the territory'. you adapt and move o...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoThe subconscious is an amazing resource. All the adages, the rules and guidelines, explanations and stern warnings by parents that had always been thought to go into one ear and out the other of their offs...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoAs an escape from reality shows and tired old sitcoms with their laugh-tracks, I had become a news junkie, my channel of choice Newsworld - the home of not only the superb Passionate Eye, W5 and the Fifth...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoFergie left me last Sunday. She fought the good fight. She had irritated, delighted, angered, endeared and frustrated, but never bored me. She was *not *your average cat, and I miss her more than I ever t...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoThis happened during our posting to France in the 60's when we were en route to England from Metz in a second-hand Mercedes and a new Dutch trailer, happily anticipating 2 weeks' holidays. My newly-marrie...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoThis was too good not to post, from the Chicago Tribune - *"It's a good thing that Canada won the hotly-contested gold medal hockey match ...... hockey is the beloved national pastime and sacred birthright...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoGone are the days in airports and train stations when you could while away the hours people-watching, speculating on lives and stories behind the furrowed brow, the faraway gaze, the joy, the tears, the an...
- posted by shirley pickthorne-elliott at pickthorne ramblings - 1 year agoMention 'homechildren' and one thinks of the thousands of English youngsters who were shipped to the colonies - Australia and Canada mainly - from 1868 to 1928 under Dr. Barnardo's plan to ostensibly give...
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