- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*Oh no, Hell's Kitchen is back! At a certain point, congressional Republicans merge in the mind with the people who vote for them and the clueless legions of TV cooking-show contestants and Ring Lardner's...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoFranke James » Blog Archive » Canadian Government Tries to Silence Franke James We can't really say we're surprised, now, can we. Subtle and not-so-subtle threats, putting the squeeze on NGOs and making s...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 days agoI've re-started reading *Moby Duck*. I don't know if this ever happens to you, but sometimes if I pick up a book at a particularly busy time when I don't have enough uninterrupted time and concentration, I...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 days agoThere is no form of life lower than Glenn Beck. *"...the rightwing US broadcaster and Tea Party favourite, has compared those who were massacred on the Norwegian island of Utøya to the Nazi party's youth ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 days ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews* July 25, 2011 *Debt Ceiling Extortion* Yves Smith: The finance sector used extortion against the American people in 2007-09 and are doing it again now ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days ago*IMAGINE A ‘PARTY X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environment mi...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 days agoThe Spanish-speaking paranormal community has lost one of its leading lights: a scholar and filmmaker whose works inspired and enlightened several generations of seekers of the esoteric. Juan G. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoObamabots have been upset with Paul Krugman lately. Yesterday's President Pushover didn't help much and last week's Obama/Nixon was probably the last straw with many of them, since it is the ultimate here...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 days agoSpain isn’t often associated with dragons – beyond the dragons of heraldry on the shields of Castilian nobles – but Catalonia also has a tradition of dragons that forms part of not only its o...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 2 days ago. More signals for Cabbalaistic pals? More magic numbers? Look here: 22nd July 1946. The bombing (that helped to drive the British from Palestine) of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, the headquarters...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*A boy called Cole Sprouse. * Anonymous commented on "ELIZABETH TAYLOR, DAVID CASSIDY, JUSTIN BIEBER, SPROUSE TWINS.": I have sort of a soft spot for the Sprouse twins for a whole slew of reasons. I am q...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 days agoIt has been three days since the Oslo attacks and the official story that a right-wing Christian extremist planned the atrocity by himself is being ripped apart in the alternative media. More pieces of evi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*Anders Breivik* Century City is connected to Hollywood which is connected to the CIA's MK ULTRA brainwashing. Anders Breivik's sister's name is *Elizabeth Breivik*, and she lives in *Century City* with ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 days agoSomehow, like Jerry Lewis and a large number of other stupendously corrupt Republican scumbags, Hal Rogers (R-KY) has flown under the radar of the political blogosphere. Rogers, you may or may not remembe...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 days agoVery sad news today, with Jack Layton announcing he is now battling a new form of cancer. He will be taking a leave of absence as party leader to focus on getting health, and has recommended that Nycole ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 days agoArgentina: The San Francisco Solano CE-3 (1965) Investigation by: Proyecto CATENT, Buenos Aires, Arg. Witness: Ramon Eduardo Pereyra Age: 38 After many years of trying to cont...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 2 days ago*This went out in an email to previous supporters of* *Alan Grayson this morning. * * * Dear Linus, I know why House Speaker John Boehner walked out of debt ceiling talks with President Obama on Frida...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Branded Infant, by Dietrich Wegner] By Dmitry Orlov 23 July 2011 With each passing week more and more of us become ready to concede that economic growth is no longer possible. Economic developme...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoAs you know, Blue America has endorsed Alan Grayson's 2012 bid for a congressional seat. There's no reason to believe the DCCC will help him next year; they certainly didn't help him in 2010 and there ar...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: Massive green algae bloom and tourists on the beach in Qingdao, China, 25 July 2011. The green algae threatens marine life as it sucks oxygen from the water. CNN] Almost 200 square miles (500 sq...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 days agoI love vinyl, but I am terrified of it. Terrified of using it because it is way more expensive than some of the other mediums that can be used. When Lu, came to visit me last month, she set out to cure me ...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 2 days agoHere’s something that I don’t understand. In the rush to condemn all things Roswell, the debunkers often overlook glaring errors on the part of those UFO investigators they wish to believe. As a point in f...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*WELLKNOWN BUFFALO CROW NATION* Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Photos by Brenda Norrell On the Crow Nation at Wellknown Buffalo, in the valley of the Little Bighorn, the non-profit Ce...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 days ago[image: A screenshot of the WWF website from 6 April 2010 reads, 'WWF-Malaysia Launches Corporate Club: Good for Nature, Good for Your Business'. A new report finds that conservation giant WWF may demand...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago*Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz* Photo copyright Ilka HartmannPress statement The Longest Walk 4: Return to Alcatraz is being initiated by those on the original, The Longest Walk in 1978. It will begin ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 days agoBy Duane Craig Daytona Beach has a mystery contamination? Who is responsible? The City of Daytona Beach is not quite sure when it bought a contaminated property close to the intersection of Clyde Morris Bo...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 2 days agoGeorge Bailey (It's A Wonderful Life) Preparing To Jump Off BridgeMedicare is the most successful, cost-effective health care available in the U.S. Ask almost anyone who is eligible and receives it. So why d...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 days agoConcern remains over Corps levees filled with trash, construction debris E-mails show Corps of Engineers ignored flood warnings ~Ah, those pesky emails! <~Hat tip to Sandy Rosenthal at Levees.org. Gulf Coa...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 days agoSource: Diario Los Andes Date: 16 August 1968 (Mendoza, Argentina) 1968: A Nurse Burned by an Alleged UFO (CE-2) New details have emerged regarding the strange case involving Adela Casalvieri de ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoYesterday we looked at Ken Quinnell's crowd sourced study of which state legislatures were the worst in the country. The big 3 were, Wisconsin, Florida and, at #1 worst, Arizona. I was surprised Michigan ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoSHINING SOUL MUSIC VIDEO "PAPERS" WEBSITE: http://www.shiningsoul-music.blogspot.com/ DOWNLOAD AT: http://www.shiningsoulmusic.bandcamp.com EMAIL: WORKWITHSHININGSOUL@GMAIL.COM "The militarization of the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days agoThe main "intellectual" message of the Norwegian mass killer is "summarized" in this intimidating manifesto: 2083: a European Declaration of Independence (PDF) ------------------------------ Backup links...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 days agoEveryone, including myself, while on self imposed heat hiatus heard or read about the horrible attack in Norway.At the bottom of this post there will be multiple links for you to read, if you haven't alrea...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days agoNew week, new bias, spill the beans on the BBC here...! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days agoContent is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days agoExactly twenty years ago, in August 1991, Paul Ginsparg launched the arXiv - which used to be known under the main URL xxx.lanl.gov for many years. The first hep-th paper would be a black hole paper by H...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days agoWonder if the BBC will pick up on this up from its ex employee Andrew Gilligan? A lobby group, Sovereign Strategy, with close ties to Labour, has been secretly backing the 'Hacked Off' campaign. Gosh, ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 2 days agoFor the past few weeks the BBC have used the NOTW story to pummel their arch-competitor NI owned by Murdoch with quite a bit of success. Now the Oslo massacre has provided them with the opportunity to run ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*Richard Dearlove, former boss of MI6* During the 1990s Bosnian War, former top *UK government minister John Reid*became friends with Serb rebel leader and indicted war-criminal *Radovan Karadzic*. Reid ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoLate-night submissions on a heavy Sunday night ... I thought I'd seen, heard and read it all by now. That worthless piece of shit used dum-dum bullets. The cherry on the shit sundae. Another sick, cruel ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days agoDon Brash announced yesterday that the ACT Party, if it still exists after November, may not go into formal coalition with any government. And nor should they A principled party would not need to. And...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoI ain't had no fair deal Al and I ain't going to no Frisco. I will quit the game first and take that job Charley offered me at the billiard hall. *-- from Jack's April 29 letter, the last of Chapter I* ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 days agoWatch this awesome video about President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney testifying together in secret about the 9/11 attacks before the 9/11 Commission, and without a transcript. The video...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 days ago* Imagine a ‘Party X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environmen...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 3 days ago*HUMOUR:* *THE** WAY IT GOES:* ** **Another winner from the pen of Stephanie McMillan*.*
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 days agoHot, hot, hot. Not a fun weekend weather-wise, especially for those of us who participated in the New York Transit Museum's Coney Island Nostalgia Tour on Saturday (traveling on authentic restored 1930s I...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 days agoAs usual, new evidence and new information is emerging about the terror attacks in Oslo, Norway on Friday, July 22, that raises suspicions that the event was orchestrated by secret Mossad, CIA and NATO for...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 days agoOver the last couple of stifling, suffocating days, two of my chickens keeled over and died. It was really creepy to dredge the first out of the coop, grabbing her by her feet, stiff with rigor mortis - a...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 3 days ago22nd July 2011 will go down in history as the day that a lone gunman murdered up to 100 people on the Norwegian island of Utoya after bombing central Oslo, killing others. The man who has claimed responsi...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 days agoThis pretty much sums it up. MacLeod Cartoons
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: European bond spreads, January 2010 - July 2011. Bond spread to German bonds shown for Italy, Spain, Ireland, UK, Greece, Portugal, and Belgium are shown. Bloomberg / calculatedriskblog.com] By ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: Trial fitting of the cover for Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, at Onahama port, 24 June 2011. TEPCO] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 19 July 2011 That's an amazing reduction from th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 days agoAnd speaking of callings, Perry went on the record to say, perhaps a tad condescendingly, that "our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the s...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoFox News (I,II) presents a sensible update about the new developments 9 days before a conceivable conflict between the U.S. government and the U.S. debt ceiling. While there exists no clear glimpse of a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days ago*Anders Behring Breivik, sister Elisabeth and mother Wenche Behring. * *Wenche Behring*, after divorcing Anders Breivik's father, married a captain in the Norwegian Army. Anders has written about his rela...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: Wave overtops a sand berm at Hartlepool, UK. HR Wallingford / floodsite.net] By EVAN LEHMANN of ClimateWire 22 July 2011 CHICAGO -- A three-year study to determine the possible impacts of climat...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 3 days agoI once again had the pleasure of being interviewed by Scott Horton on *Antiwar Radio* about some of my recent articles about Iran, namely those dealing with the "Iranian weapons in Iraq" propaganda, the ma...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: The sun sets behind an American flag on Thursday, 21 July 2011 in Lawrence, Kansas. ASSOCIATED PRESS] WICHITA, July 23 (AP) — The drought that has hit sections of Kansas this year has also affe...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 days agoIt's time we stopped treating religious fundamentalists - Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, whatever - as essentially benign and off limits under our democratic notions of freedom of religion. Religious...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days ago*Website for this image* Arnt Breivik was the World Food Programme's Country Director in Liberia. ( Cached) *Anders Breivik reportedly visited a Serbian 'crusader commander' in Monrovia, Liberia.* There ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 days agoThese have been hugely hectic days in particle physics during which the particle physicists have been drowning in a greater sea of new empirical information than at any 3-day period during the last 35 year...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 days agoAs a proud blindly reactionary, anti-liberal, borderline racist Republican like my enviably bloated father Harold, I do the right things, hold the right positions, think what I'm told to by the right peop...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 days ago*From the Fischer-Dieskau Mahler performances we've heard the last couple of days, you might reasonably conclude that the guy was a blustering hack. And for me that's not *entirely *untrue, at least some ...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 3 days agoSo, with the crazy hot weather this week (which I refuse to complain about because I would much rather have this than Michigan winters), I have been a little bit stir-crazy not being able to run outside. ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 days ago[image: Anthony Martinez plays in the fountain in Manhattan's Washington Square Park on July 21, 2011 in New York City. An extended heat wave has descended on the city with the heat index expected to rea...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*On the Little Bighorn, in the land of Plenty Coups, on the land of Wellknown Buffalo* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Photos: Plenty Coups as as a young man, and as ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 3 days agoWant to know one more reason it was so important that Ronald Reagan (specially selected as "the" candidate of the Rethugs because George H. W. Bush was too unpopular to win at that time) had to be the "It's ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoToday in New York City, some families will celebrate their love and commitment, because the law has finally caught up with reality. 2 Dads, 2 Daughters, 1 Big Day by Frank Bruni Even in a city as diverse...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 days agoExcerpts of Corps of Engineers email traffic shows Corps officials as clueless bullshitters in MO River flooding Levees: Gov't repeating a mistake ~Clarion Ledger ~Recall that New Orleans should have been ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 days agoBy way of diversion from Hackgate and Oslo, let's review BBC incompetence. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 days agoRemember we like lists?? It's been a long time! This list will answer the burning question: *What's up?* What's happening in your life? Doing anything interesting? Enjoying doing something mundane? Readi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days ago*Norwegian special forces by PRT Meymaneh at ** http://flickr.com/photos/45287393@N05/4463622495* Breivik once lived in London. *His father worked in the Norwegian embassy. * (Norway attacks: London link....
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoPhoto courtesy: Yahoo In New Zealand, there will be no little Lucifers on the playground. Nor will there be any Messiahs. Choosing a name for an unborn child is no simple task. But for some parents, the...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoArctic sea ice, seen by satellite. Photo courtesy: NASA. This year could be well on its way toward earning a dubious spot in the record books. Arctic sea ice has melted away with astonishing speed in the...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoGamera the tortoise has been a bionic animal since a surgery in April removed his left front leg. Photo courtesy: Henry Moore, Jr. BCU/WSU A tortoise that had to have its leg amputated is now getting aroun...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoPhoto courtesy: Peter Blanchard, Flickr/cc BY-SA All hail the rise of super-weeds! TreeHugger has already thanked Monsanto for helping a tenacious, fast-growing, brand new kind of plant evolve. But the la...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 3 days agoMany BBC presenters not only deliver their masters' Pravda-style pronouncements about climate change,the EU, the middle-east and immigration, they are also - it seems - corporate whores, available to hire ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 3 days agoThe Andrew Marr show was a strange one this morning. We have BBC favourite cop, Hugh Orde talking about integrity. The adulterous Orde is the man the BBC want to become next Met Chief. Then we had the econ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 days agoPhoto courtesy: greengulchranch Japan's government said the number of cattle fed with hay contaminated by radiation has doubled, two days after shipments of beef from cows raised near the wrecked Fukushim...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 3 days ago*Norway 2010. US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead speaks with Sailors aboard the Skjold-class corvette HNoMS Skudd* There would appear to be two Anders Breiviks. A school friend told Norweg...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 3 days agoUpdate: Blogger has introduced an easy export and import functions for you to easily save a backup copy of your blog in xml format and easily import it back into Blogger. Sign into Dashboard > Settings > ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 days ago"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th - malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guil...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 days ago12 Holberg Suite op. 40 - Sarabande by Orwell's Bastard Some hauntingly beautiful stuff from Grieg, who might be better known for Peer Gynt. If I recall correctly, though, the CBC used to use another p...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 days agoAs I said, not going to jump into that cesspool. Just trying to help make the Norway conversation about something else. Not like the assholes are going to change their minds or their narrative or anythin...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 days agoIt's all been said. Nothing to add. How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead? *Related posts:* - From the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg - A word from the Norwegian Party - Norway a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: On November 2009, the Santa Isabel glacier in Colombia reached this rock. Since then it has receded about 150 feet. John Otis / GlobalPost]By John Otis, Global Post 22 July 2011 NEVADOS NATION...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Where the shoreline might end up at Washaway Beach, Washington. The red curve shows the 5 March 2004 scarp walk, the orange curve shows the 6 April 2010 scarp walk, and green and blue show the pr...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 days agoWelcome to another edition of Name! That! Loon! This week’s installment: What follows below are comments by right winger Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged shooter/bomber in Norway who’s accused of murde...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days agoBy arevamirpal::laprimavera 22 July 2011 This animation was created by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization, a government corporation under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (which r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: Melting glacier in the Swiss Alps, 11 December 2005. Ronet / flickr] By Ray Smith for IPS, part of the Guardian Environment Network, www.guardian.co.uk 22 July 2011 Even though their ice is cal...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 days ago[image: A brown and parched corn field shows the effects of a long Texas drought in Farmersville, Texas, 12 July 2011. Reuters / Mike Stone] By Julie Ingwersen, with additional reporting by Bob Burgdorfe...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 days agoRegarding the horrific massacre in Norway, some people are apparently making statements like this: "If that had happened in Texas, the shooter would have lasted 30 seconds before dozens of regular folks wi...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 days ago“By way of deception, thou shall do war." Last night, I posted a quote by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen who says that Israel's Mossad was behind the Oslo attacks along with a post by Washington's ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 days agoMere hours after the NY Times announced that House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama were to sit down with renewed purpose to hash out differences in the budget, Boehner channeled Eric Cantor and a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days ago*The Higgs mass is more likely than not to be between 110 and 120 GeV* Let me begin with my version of the graph, to be explained at the end. Now, let's talk about the viXra version first. Phil Gibbs ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 4 days agoPushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda DEMOCRACY NOW July 22. 2011 President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 4 days agoWelcome to the most Christian Nation!Take off your hat, wipe your feet and set a spell.Outcasts: Tonight Tens Of Thousands Of Formerly Middle Class Americans Will Be Sleeping In Their Cars, In Tent Cities ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 4 days agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* Gabriela Calderon de Burgos writing at Cato gives us the details, and this quote that appeared on the front page of Ecuador's largest newspaper: When you see that trading is...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoThe 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 sa...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 days agoGrand 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 Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 days 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 days agoCBC 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 David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 days agoFirst 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 days agoIn recent months, it has become popular among the climate alarmists to "explain away" the lack of warming in recent 10-15 years. Aerosols have become their best ally in these efforts. A few weeks ago, we ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 days ago"Norway was prepared to vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN General Assembly and this Mossad terrorist attack was symbolic. The negotiations that led to the international agreement on a future Palesti...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 days 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 Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 4 days 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 Anon at aangirfan - 4 days ago*Anders Behring Breivik* - *brainwashed assassin? The killer was most likely BREIVIK'S DOUBLE *Anders Behring Breivik is the suspect held in connection with the 22 July 2011 attacks in Norway. We are ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 days agoSee what you've started? Wish I'd been around for this gig.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 4 days agoDr. Paul Craig Roberts knows that "The Enemy Is Washington."Wish I could disagree after this week's kabuki dramas concerning raising the debt ceiling once under Obama (which was raised 9 times under not-so-D...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 5 days agoSomeone's Nanna? *Israhell says Norway inciting against us!* [yiddish khazarian] Foreign Ministry says Norwegian authorities funding anti-Israel film, exhibition, and play. Norway says: We support freedom ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 5 days ago[image: Photobucket] Posted by David S. D'Amato on Jul 22, 2011 *C4SS* “The euro and stock markets fell,” reports BBC News, “and borrowing costs of indebted countries rose, as worries over debt crises in ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 days agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 days 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 David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 days agoTime for a new one of these to take you across the weekend. Enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 days 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 Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 5 days agoTECHNOLOGY - If you've been trying to download and share files via the old FrostWire recently you will have noticed only the BitTorrent files are now working. The reason is because FrostWire has shut down...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 days agoThere has been a lot of talk recently about an Israeli attack on Iran in September. Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan made headlines in Israel in June when he raised his concerns about a military attack on Ir...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days ago*A maximally accurate Bayesian evaluation of hypotheses in particle physics* Experiments in particle physics usually repeat the same collisions - like the 3.5+3.5 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 days 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 days agoI can't get this song out of my head. Full song: Stories - Brother Louie
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 days ago* Oslo* *1.* Norway is ending its involvement in Libya. As of 1 August 2011, its air force will no longer be involved. (Norway leaving Libya) *2.* March 2011 -"the junior partner in the Norwegian gove...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 days 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 Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 5 days agoI confess I have been lost in thought all morning, like the kind of lost in thought where people can't get your attention. I confess I have been lost in thought because I don't think I am very good at the...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 5 days ago(Please donate to this effort to penetrate the darkness with some little-known truths if you can. It's 106 degrees in the shade here. And I'm working hard.) Dennis Kucinich for President! Listen to why he s...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 5 days agoOn Monday's open thread (Pg. 9, comment @ 10:09:20pm GMT), I mentioned that there was a question about whether or not the President violated federal lawby filming a political campaign ad in the White House....
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 days 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 jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 5 days agoBad news first: I got a call yesterday from the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue and they told me my appeal to get back the $753 the DOR stole from my bank account last month had been turned down. Accordin...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 5 days agoDuring *Bloggingheads*' latest installment of "What Do White, Jewish Think-Tankers in Washington D.C. Think the U.S. Should Do About Iran?" [*], former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block, now a fellow at the bizar...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 days agoLevee armoring plans challenged by East Bank levee authority members ~Mark Schleifstein ~Very special hat tip to Sandy Rosenthal and Levees.org New Orleans City Council adopts new district boundaries ~...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days ago*ATLAS' and CMS Higgs', a 350 GeV destructive one, went away once CMS updated their graph* As you can imagine, I have spent hours watching the updated documents on the conference website of EPS-HEP2011. T...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 days agoThis week saw our federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, minus Ontario, trot out a joint communique describing the tarsands as "sustainable and responsible", even as the Cons were simultan...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 5 days 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 Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 5 days agoBureaucracy is a tool to keep the world as it is, not to change it. So, in perfect Tainter-style, the system works hard to avoid innovation, not to promote it. It is almost impossible to be financed to stu...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 5 days 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 days agoI found this 35-minute debate with Larry Summers at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference entertaining and thought-provoking. *Shift-click here to play the video: I disabled the embedding.* *The Facebook p...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 days agoThe BBC has done everything possible to relegate focus on the ongoing meltdown of their beloved eurozone but they are quick out of the traps this morning to join in the faux celebration now that the "leade...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 days agoRobert Peston and Nick Robinson have been central to the two week long prolonged BBC assault on the Murdoch empire. After the Murdochs and Brooks gave a reasonably credible account of themselves at the Co...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 days 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 Anon at aangirfan - 5 days ago*Boy by Lucian Freud. * On 20 July 2011, Artist *Lucian Freud*, died of a 'mystery' illness, aged 88. Lucian Freud was the brother of *Clement Freud* and uncle of *Matthew Freud*and *Emma Freud.* * L...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 5 days agoWhich Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke *A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.* *– Winston Churchill* So over at his place, @cityslikr's on...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 days agoJim Hansen is my hero. Besides being the visionary who foresaw the perils of climate change decades ago, he is the only scientist who has had the moral courage to incur condemnation, vilification, and eve...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 days agoCenk Uygur, host of the popular show, "The Young Turks," decided to leave the not so popular MSNBC channel after experiencing what can only be called a "Howard Beale moment" with MSNBC's corporate executiv...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 6 days 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 PC at Not PC - 6 days ago* Imagine a ‘Party X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environmen...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 days ago*A post from the archives offering advice for any putative Party X wanting to roll back the state.* Two bakers are talking politics. "How do you roll back the state?" asks the first. "One roll at a time...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 6 days agoI love this man! He speaks to my heart and my heart is on the street again.(Desperately need donations now!) July 21, 2011Welcome to the RecoveryCompanies Step Up Layoffs.In Washington-speak, coming from bo...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 6 days 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 ...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 6 days agoGuardian Sunday 17 July 2011 Syria• Troops backed by tanks entered the town of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon and are carrying out a campaign of arrests, according to activists, the Independent r...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 days agoFuck MSNBC. Fuck CNN. Fuck Fox News. Fuck CBC. Fuck BBC. Fuck Them All. Establishment Media = Enemies of Mankind, Enemies of The Truth, Enemies of Justice And Enemies of Freedom. The U.S.-Israeli State T...
- *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 Anon at aangirfan - 6 days agoWhistleblower* Sean Hoare* is believed to have died some time around *17 July* 2011. On *17 July* 2011, *three* men fled from the scene of a road crash, 'less than two minutes drive' from the premises of...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 6 days agoMakes a whole lot more sense than most academics I have ever heard, and explains why.
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 6 days agoHere's Jonnie... The poor lad is a victim of the Murdoch spin machine, apparently. He's on R5L tomorrow (Victoria Derbyshire's show, he thinks). It's a pre-recorded job - let's them cut out any mention...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 days agoTwo minutes ago, the Fermilab has released a new press release: Fermilab experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range (interactions.org) ------------------------------ Science Daily, Phys ORG, NewsTV.US...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 days 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 Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 6 days agoThere are a lot of companies and websites who want space on your sidebar. I've received dozens of requests for link exchanges over the years. I've turned them all down, not even putting my blogroll there...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 days agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* From English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor: Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state,...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 days agoI was reading a mainstream business author who was writing about the Greek debt crisis. He mentioned that Greece "cooked" their books for admission to the EU. He forgot to mention who the chefs were, of cou...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 days agoLouisiana lawmakers evaluate progress of Federal Flood/Katrina recovery Class-Action Suit Filed After Katrina Hospital Deaths Settled for $25 Million ~ProPublica Corps decides on armoring for New Orleans ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 days ago*In the beginning was the Debs (and by beginning, I mean some time in the 1980s) and the Debs was awesome (1 Blog 1:1).* Yes, it's that time of year again, the time where Debra's husband hijacks her blog ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 days agoWhat do FOX News and North Korea have in common? Possibly, quite a bit. Rupert Murdoch's American crown jewel apparently has a very dark underbelly, at least according to Dan Cooper, FOX managing editor...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 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 derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 6 days agoMacArthur-winning activist, Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy. It is an emotional speech...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 6 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 The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 days agoDavid Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and all their minions are running a PR campaign on the *News International* scandal, telling people to keep it "in perspective." It's not really a big deal or at least tha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 days ago*Warwick Spinks* "*Warwick Spinks* ... built 'businesses' and bought properties in South Africa, Namibia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, France and England... "He lives in Czech Republic...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 days agoAmerica's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a security matter meriting ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 days agoNo, crime isn't going away but, even as Ruler Steve indulges his prison fetish, crime rates continue to go down - a lot. StatsCan said police-reported crime rates fell a whopping 5 per cent last year from...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 days agoWith his kind permission, it's my great pleasure to post this essay written by Mr. Tim Murray: Hi there! We're the Percapitas. We've cut per capita consumption and our per capita waste. We compost, we c...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 days agoImagine yourself among the thousands and thousands of people gathered for the final game of the Canucks/Bruins Stanley Cup. It's easy to assume you're virtually invisible in the sea of faces. It's not. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 days agoThese sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently many people have been doing ...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 6 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 laura k at wmtc - 6 days agoJames posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read. Of course, politicians with a privatization agenda never let the fac...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 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.co...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 days ago*Update:* ATLAS at 1.02/fb saw no ZZ events near 325 GeV, among the 12 in general, which - as far as I can see - largely falsifies any theory starting with the assumption that the CDF signal reported bel...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 6 days agoI wrote yesterday that the BBC Trustee's report into science coverage is a travesty. It is worse. Professor Steve Jones says that too much space is given to climate "deniers". Yet at least five years ago t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 days agoPC World and many others bring us some great news about the future methods of transportation. Cars have become obsolete and they consume too much energy. So the EU has started an official EU project My...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 week agoRelated: America Is A Failed State The erosion of the American republic has been a long historical process that has reached its final stages. The erosion didn't begin with President Barack Obama, or Geo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 week agoHere is an interesting question; "Does the BBC DG have knowledge of and take responsibility for the BBC journalist who has been barred from Parliament? 'Gobby (Paul Lambert) has had his Pass withdrawn, re...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 week ago*INTRODUCTION: How to roll back the state using environmental judo* *When New Zealand first announced it had made up the new position of Minister for the Environment, his professor at UC Berkeley told him...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 week agoAlarmist editorializing about Iran, its regional influence, and its nuclear energy program have picked up considerably in the past few weeks. Despite the latest IAEA report this past Spring which revealed ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 week agoStolen from that Well-Armed Lamb! (Do yourself a favor and watch this very short, smart video.)There Are 630 "Private" Contractors, & 170 "Mercenary" Companies At Work In IraqWhen you outsource your military...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 week agoNY Cop Says Murdoch Tabloid Offered Her Cash For 9/11 Victims Phone Numbers Murdoch Won't Deny 911 victims Were Phone Hacked - NOTW Phone Hacking ZZZZZzzzzzz.....
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 week agoYes I know this is a bit overdue but better late than never! Off you go.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 week ago*Website for this image* On 14 July 2011, Wayne Madsen suggested that the *Christopher Shale "murder" could be linked to that of Dr. David Kelly** *"A well-placed UK source has informed Wayne Madsen Rep...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 1 week agoIt's summer... so who wants to be inside on the computer when we can be outside enjoying the sun? Or at least enjoying the sun as long as it stays tolerable... so in the mornings and evenings... Anyway, i...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 week 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 derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 week agoBy Duane Craig Perhaps it is time for Asarco to catch a break on the environmental front and its latest action of filing a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for lying under oath about le...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 week agoCorps of Engineers LA Coastal Area science office to close over a patronage fight with the Jindal admin ~Mark Schleifstein~Hat Tweet and Title @skooks ~Also~Louisiana coastal authority to review status of r...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 week ago*His News Corp launched Climategate* Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit has been writing about the links between the University of East Anglia and the recently arrested Neil Wallis, a former editor of the no...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 week 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 Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 week agoYup, India and Pakistan have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization! I have lots of ground to cover here, so sit a spell. First, Pakistan and geez I haven't covered that country for a bit.... It is a h...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 week agoChandelle is walking the walk she talks in a small house on an amazing acreage somewhere in California. Check out her latest blog post. It is inspirational. http://www.chicken-tender.com/2011/07/mistaken-...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 week 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 Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 week agoCritics accuse Mayor Ford of getting all Shock Doctrine-y | Ford Focus | torontolife.com Writing in Toronto Life, John Michael McGrath draws the comparison but then appears to soften it: ... but given th...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 week agoToronto City Councillor Doug Ford thinks his city has more libraries than donut shops. In fact: When the Urban Affairs branch closes, Toronto will have 3.9 libraries per 100,000 people, which is what Vanc...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 week agoFurther to my last post, how can we build a world without hate when the people in power are moving in the opposite direction? Last year I stumbled on a CPAC broadcast of hearings being held in the Canadia...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 week agoIn Texas, the survivor of a vicious hate crime is campaigning to spare the life of his assailant, who murdered two other people and is scheduled to be executed today. I collect these kinds of stories, and...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 week ago------------------------------ Permalink Cherchez la Verite
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 week 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 Anon at aangirfan - 1 week ago* Sir Clement Freud.* *Sir Clement Freud*, grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, had a holiday home in Praia da Luz, in Portugal. In July 2007, Clement Freud helped the parents of missing child *Madele...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 week agoYour time is over. You only had 4 hours 30 minutes for the 3 problems of the second day. The TRF problem was this one: *Q5*: Let \(f\) be a function from the set of integers to the set of positive integer...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 week agoPhoto courtesy: Daniel Morrison via TreeHugger I haven't been this grossed out since I blogged about meat being made from the protein in human fecal matter and/or sewage sludge. It's one of those truths ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 week ago*cap·i·tal·ism [ˈkæpɪtlˌɪzəm] [kap-i-tl-iz-uhm] noun- an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefl...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 week agoAll photos courtesy: B. Alter via TreeHugger This one of the most delightful cases of recycling I have ever heard about. What a wonderful example of creative thinking. Read on to find out how a small vi...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 week agoCorps of Engineers LA Coastal Area science office to close over a patronage fight with the Jindal admin ~Mark Schleifstein~Hat Tweet and Title @skooks
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 week agoPhoto courtesy: Furryscaly / cc via TreeHugger Ten short years ago, Grand Cayman blue iguanas were on the brink of extinction. Human factors, like habitat encroachment and vehicle strikes, had reduced the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 week agoWe won't ever get to the bottom of the scandal that is evolving day by day around Rupert Murdoch's media empire if we focus our attention on Murdoch alone. Murdoch is just a manifestation of what the moder...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 1 week ago[image: Photobucket] *Uncensored Magazine* *A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ** * *We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, wit...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 week ago*The Washington Times* has reported that pizza magnate, raging Islamophobe, blithering know-nothing, and Republican presidential aspirant Herman Cain has declared "he would attack Iran to prevent it from a...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 week agoToday, C-SPAN3 covered the British Parliament's Committee hearing into News Corp's business practices. Rupert Murdoch's media empire has been rocked by a phone hacking scandal that involves British police...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 1 week agoAlternet By James Ridgeway July 15, 2011 Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 week 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 PC at Not PC - 1 week ago[image: image]*Another guest post from the archives of* The Free Radical*, this time from tennis ace and all-round fine bloke Chris Lewis, on the sort of envy that’s stifling. And everywhere. A post so ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 coldwarbaby@gmail.com (Richard William Posner) at AMERICAN EMPIRE - 1 week agoMass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English *Drug companies like Pfizer are accused of pressuring doctors into over-prescribing medications to patients in order to increase profits [GALLO/GETT...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 week agoFarewell to a Researcher: Jorge Anfruns Our friend and colleague Quique Mario (CEUFO) has alerted us to the passing of one of Chile’s great UFO researchers, Jorge Anfruns. A publicist, commentator...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 week agoShedding Light on UFO-Related Blackouts By Scott Corrales Joaquin V. Gonzalez lost power at two o’clock in the morning on Thursday, November 26, 2009. No, not a disgruntled utility customer...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 1 week agoMonday, July 18th, 2011A book that delves into the cover-up a film documenting the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been deemed too violent for Google's ...
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 week agoBy Duane Craig Fracking is an environmental risk?Disagreement seems to be brewing among companies involved in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, over how much information about the chemicals used in the p...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 week agoCANADA - Rob Ford was elected as Toronto's mayor largely because of his slogan that he was going to cut Toronto's gravy train of wasteful spending. But here is an important question... *Where is the gravy ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 week ago*De Menezes and Dick.* *Cressida Dick* was the person in charge of the police operation that led to the murder in London of the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes. *Dick has now been promoted to the job o...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 week agoThis simple meal of pasta, tuna and vegetables was one of my mom's go to meals growing up because it is easy and doesn't require one of the more expensive meats. If you love tuna, you will love this. Fir...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 week agoPirates of the Gulf Coast~Gambit ~Jeremy Alford on how Louisiana has spent -- and misspent -- its oil-gotten gains Spillionaires revisited: Parish Gov't official's associates got big contracts after the B...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 week agoRupert Murdoch is in the hot seat as he is questioned by British MPs. To keep up with it you should simply go to *The Guardian* for live coverage. First impression is that Murdoch is squirming. His spin...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 week agoThis line, from *The Guardian,* says it all. *The 21st century is not yet a dozen years old, and there are already 1 billion more people than in October 1999.* It took civilization until around 1804 to f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 week 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 Alison at Creekside - 1 week agoUnder NAFTA, provinces retained the right to administer their own government procurement contracts as they saw fit - water, power, highways, garbage, and local cultural/environmental/job stimulus programs...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 week ago* Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim.* The CIA and its friends are stirring things up in Malaysia. The leader of the '*Bersih'* protest movement in Malaysia is *Anwar Ibrahim. * What do we know about *Mala...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 week ago*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR GEORGIA:* *RESPECT WORKER RIGHTS IN GEORGIA:* The now independent Caucasus republic of Georgia is (in)famous as the homeland of Soviet dictator Josep Stalin. Sorta like being no...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 week 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 Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 week agoSIU Concludes Reopened G20 Nobody Investigation ... aaaaand, guess what? Can't find any way to charge anyone else. Who could have foreseen such a thing? Oh, well. Maybe the Toronto Police will actually co...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 week ago"There exist in the life of societies as well as individuals hours of moral discomfort when despair and fatigue spread their leaden wings over human beings. Men then begin to dream of nothingness. The en...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 week agoThe Lens wins press club awards for investigative reporting, social media! Times-Picayune, NOLA.com take top honors at New Orleans Press Club
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