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*No, Thurber didn't make the book up.* *by Ken* We've been filling in pieces from Thurber's 1936-37 series *Let Your Mind Alone!*, as gathered -- with a bunch of other pieces that hadn't yet appeared in ... - posted by PC at Not PC - 28 minutes agoPeter Cook shows How to Cure Unemployment with just a little push. For which, fast forward immediately to 2:05. Or if you prefer, a short lecture first on the causes of unemployment. Obvious really, and...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 47 minutes agoDragging people off the streets for diverting from the party line? Check Building detention camps across America in preparation for Martial Law? Check Putting people in detention camps for disobeying offici...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour ago[image: atlas]Starting today, iPad users can download an app for the book rated America’s second-most influential book after the *Bible* and described by the New York Times as "one of the most influentia...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoR.I.P. "eternally in my mission Is to be more than just a rap musician The elevation of today's generation If I could make 'em listen" - Tupac
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your hea...
- posted by Lori H at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours agoby Kurt Haskell With jury selection set to begin in the Underwear Bomber Trial set to begin tomorrow, I've spent the evening reminiscing about Christmas Day 2009 and the 21 months since. The Underwear Bom...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 2 hours ago*[image: _richardmcgrath]**Your weekly prescription of good hard sense from Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath.* *This week, how to stop MPs and immigrants from gouging NZ taxpayers.* - *NZ HERAL...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"The Prophet" Presented by Paul Coughlin "When I first came across this text I was deeply touched by it's wisdom and spiritual depth - it seemed to offer that timeless advice just at the right moment... I...
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------------------------------ U.S. poverty rate reaches 15.1 percentBy Michael A. Fletcher, Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 10:12 AM The nation’s poverty rate spiked to 15.1 percent in 2010, the hig... - posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulas in the sky. The star forming region's glowing gas clouds and hot young stars are on the right in this sharp and colorful ima...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Keeping One's Head”* by Chet Raymo “Thomas More wore a hair shirt under his velvet robes. No wonder he is a hero of conservative Catholics. What could be more Catholic than hair shirts and velvet? Bett...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*How the world changed after 9/11* ** *By Charlie Skelton The Guardian Published: September 12, 2011* The heavy syllables of the victims' names boomed out along the streets around Ground Zero. The public ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"There will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Adam Gopnik's *New Yorker *website bio** begins: "Adam Gopnik has been writing for *The New Yorker* since 1986. During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, Pr... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoU.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner makes a one-day trip to Poland this week for an unprecedented meeting with euro zone finance ministers as growing fears of a potential Greek debt default rip into E...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe countries that bankroll the European Union rejected a proposed 5 percent rise in the bloc's 2014-2020 budget on Monday, saying it failed to reflect the austerity cuts being made by national governments...
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An explosion at a fireworks factory south east of Rome has killed six people, the latest of several blasts at factories that provide entertainment for Italy's religious and cultural festivals. An explosio... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAt least 120 people were burned to death when a pipeline burst into flames in a Nairobi slum as local people were siphoning fuel from it, and more than 100 hospitalised, officials said. Scores of bodies, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRich tax dodgers are paying back six times as much money as they were two years ago, thanks to a crackdown by the Revenue’s elite High Net Worth team. A Parliamentary Question by Jonathan Reynolds revealed...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe authorities in Egypt have widened emergency laws and clamped down on the press, raising fears of a curtailment of the liberties gained after the popular uprising which toppled Hosni Mubarak, the former...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoControversial new Internet rules adopted late last year by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will soon be published officially, a step expected to trigger legal challenges. The White House's Offi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoChina announced on Monday it will provide $1 billion in loans to Caribbean countries to finance infrastructure projects as it deepens ties in a region historically linked with the United States. The loans...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThere were only 1.75 full-time private-sector workers in the United States last year for each person receiving benefits from Social Security, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the S...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRising risk aversion, a surging U.S. dollar, historical seasonal weakness and a climb in bonds could send the S&P 500 down as much as 21 percent from Friday’s close, according to Mary Ann Bartels, Bank of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA Philadelphia mother ready to return to work after giving her son a kidney finds out she doesn't have a job to return to. If you're a mom, chances are you'd do anything for your child. Claudia Rendon di...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe warning came in an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph as Muammar Gaddafi's loyalist forces stepped up a fightback on three fronts. Libya is in danger of falling into the hands of Islamic extr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoVideo Shows NYPD Cops Dirty Dancing at West Indian Day Parade: MyFoxNY.com An online video shows some men who appear to be uniformed NYPD officers enjoying the festivities at the West Indian Day Parade....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46.2 million last year as the U.S. economy struggled to recover from recession, the federal government said on Tuesday. In a report t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoPaul Craig Roberts on Infowars Nightly News, Part 1 of 2: Part 2 of 2:
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn Israeli cabinet minister on Friday described as "grave and serious" a threat by Ankara to send warships to escort any aid vessels trying to reach Gaza in defiance of Israel's naval blockade. Israel and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRussia on Monday defended its strategic bombers' recent mission near Japan and accused Tokyo of trying to stir up the long-standing territorial row between the two countries. The Russian foreign ministry ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBank of America said Monday that it plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs as part of a plan to save $5 billion. The announcement came after Chief Executive Brian Moynihan outlined the bank's strategy at an inves...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRussian amateur astronomer Artyom Novichonok, a student of Petrozavodsk University, made a discovery of a new comet, Russian astronomy website Astronet said on Sunday. The comet is the first comet discove...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe overthrow of President Mubarak in Egypt, the estrangement of Turkey and a UN vote on Palestinian statehood combine to make an intractable set of problems. Secluded in an emergency operations bunker, l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSperm cells have been created from a female human embryo in a remarkable breakthrough that suggests it may be possible for lesbian couples to have their own biological children. British scientists who had...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFederal prosecutors in Connecticut say a state trooper, a police officer and three Transportation Security Administration officers based at airports have been arrested on charges of participating in a cons...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA note passed to a Metra train conductor Monday night that described a train exploding was taken as a bomb threat and the passenger who passed it was detained and questioned by police. The investigation r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAfghan and international security forces are battling an ongoing multi-pronged attack by insurgents targeting the US embassy, Nato headquarters and police buildings in Kabul. Police are still exchanging f...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"An Unwavering Connection to the Infinite Worth"* by The DailyOm "Your worth is not a product of your intelligence, your talent, your looks, or how much you have accomplished. Though much of who and what...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*As they f*** you.* "Some *papers putting pay restrictions* on formerly free sites are *also requiring* their *print subscribers* to *pay nominal fees* for *online access*.... * * *The rest of the articl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWarning went out as follows: SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 205 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 2011 ..SMOKE FROM NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA WILD FIRE SPREADING INTO NORTHERN ILLINO...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Speaking at a memorial in Jerusalem marking the anniversary, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said *Iran*’s nuclear program *must be stopped * because the *possibility of extremists getting ato...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*I instantly turned the channel (with an out-loud "F*** You" at the television screen) anytime I saw anything relating to the wave of propaganda we have been deluged with this week.* "The ceremony was as...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"It's no credit to this enormously rich country that there are more oppressive, less decent governments elsewhere. We claim superiority of our institutions. We ought to live up to our own standards, not u...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoHyattsville, Maryland, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"New Emotion Detector Can See When We're Lying"* by Hamish Pritchard, BBC “A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerized system us...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoThink of the hardships in life, and I’ll bet you too have felt this way... The Moody Blues, “Ride My See-Saw” "Let's find another place that's real..."
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Four Things You Need To Know About Addiction"* by Dr. Dale Archer “In 1971 President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. The motivation? Not the ghettos with their drug dealers, nor the hippies invad...
- posted by Lord Stirling at Europe - 6 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE *Census: USA poverty rate swells to n...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.” - Rudolf Steiner From ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours agoIllustration by Matt Mahurin / Politico.What we have (and haven't)learned about America since 9/11By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 13, 2011The horrific attack on the United States on 9/11/01 br...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 7 hours agoENTERTAINMENT/TECHNOLOGY At the end of August digital-only broadcasts replaced analog transmissions in most parts of Canada. People with older TVs that rely on rabbit ears must either buy a digital televi...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours agoToday’s World Cup anthem. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*Or Khan, as the case may be*: "Cricket hero now political player; Seeks Pakistan’s prime minister job" September 05, 2011|By Richard Leiby, Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Imran Khan, the colorful ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoI bet Republicans aren't going to be happy hearing that President Obama intends to pay for his jobs proposals by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans and closing tax loopholes for Big Business. He...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoThere is precious little which gets BBC hearts-a-beating than some good old fashioned Jew baiting. I was reading this report on the comments made by Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan in which he says recognising "...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe car of the future will be Internet-enabled, saving and retrieving information from "the cloud."
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoGive your data plan a break with this data-free phone.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoI was touched to read this BBC report on Libya. Mustafa Abdul Jalil outlined his plans to create a modern democratic state based on "moderate Islam" to thousands of flag-waving supporters in the newly ren...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoYou will recall we posted this a few days back concerning alleged BBC "comedian" Anthony Richardson and his not so hilarious antics. Max Farquar had also done some great work on the same subject which has...
- Lord Stirling's News Blog EuropeEurope - 8 hours agoHoly Shroud of Turin Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ link Lord Stirling's news blog EUROPE Please forward this site to several...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoIn the mosaics, dating from the 1st to 5th centuries, groupers were portrayed much larger than current versions of the fish.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt first glance it looks like a scene from a winter postcard but this is in fact the surf whipped up by Hurricane Katia. These cars were photographed driving along North Promenade at Cleveleys near Blackp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe mother of a teenage thug who threw a brick into an innocent four-year-old girl's in the face has defended her callous son, and insisted: 'My son is not an animal.' Kallan Richardson, 18, was locked up...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 24.2 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 16:19:29 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSW of Chania, Crete, Gre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, has been paralysed by floods as torrential rain continues to lash southern Sindh province. Schools have shut down, many markets were forced to close and commuters h...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago“A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — th...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoBreads are a staple in our house. I didn't grow up eating a lot of bread, but my husband did and he misses it whenever it isn't on the table. This is actually the recipe that he grew up with. I make them...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*“They Said What?”* by Joseph W. Martin Jr "With the ever accelerating disaster scenario that is the Euro zone, trying to keep up with rumor/crisis/solution du jure is enough to leave a strong mind with ...
- posted by Jason Major at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThere goes the sun, but it's all right... it's just our big ol' Earth getting in the way of SDO's view again!
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMore than a fifth of Americans under the age of 18 lived in poverty last year, new U.S. Census figures show. The poverty rate for children rose from 20.7 percent in 2009 to 22 percent last year, making ki...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNew Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has called for nuclear plants halted after the Fukushima crisis to be restarted. But in his first policy speech since taking office, he told parliament that Japa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that recognition of a Palestinian state is an obligation not an option. He told the Arab League that before the year's end "we will see Palestine in a very differe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, has been paralysed by floods as torrential rain continues to lash southern Sindh province. Schools have shut down, many markets were forced to close and commuters ha...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe UK government's targeted rate of inflation rose in August, following higher prices for clothing and footwear, petrol and energy. The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rose to 4.5% from 4.4%...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt may not be high on many people’s list of architectural odysseys, but Pyongyang (translated as “Flat Land”), the capital of North Korea offers one of the world’s most monumental experiences – particularl...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoItaly's borrowing costs have hit a new high, reflecting a continuing lack of confidence in the nation's finances. Italy raised 3.85bn euros (£3.3bn) in five-year bonds - but the interest rate rose to 5.6%...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIdle home computers are being sought to help search through mountains of astronomical data. The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as a giant, distributed supercomput...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA free, open-source Windows "clone" - ReactOS - that has been in development for over a decade has caught the eye of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. A student at a Russian high school the president visi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSections of Hitler's Atlantic Wall are being restored by French enthusiasts. But should the Nazi fortification be fully embraced as part of the country's heritage? Along 800 miles (1,287km) of French coas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoItaly confirmed reports Tuesday that the treasury minister has met with China's sovereign wealth fund amid speculation that Rome is looking to persuade Beijing to buy its bonds or invest in its companies. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man's testosterone levels fall when his child is born, researchers have found. n this week's online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lee Gettler, a doctoral candidate in ant...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPatients' families, staff and police are sounding the alarm about a lack of security in a psychiatric facility at Vancouver General Hospital. “My daughter escaped many, many times,” said Susan Ackerman, wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in Utah are searching for a group of construction workers, students and bystanders. But for a good reason. This group is credited with saving a man's life by working together to lift a burning c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAfghan and coalition forces battled Taliban militants who launched three brazen assaults Tuesday across the city, including a dramatic attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO's command in central Kabul. Thr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe regime of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi and the rebel government -- the National Transitional Council -- have both committed war crimes during the conflict in Libya and someone needs to take control to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTurkey's prime minister arrived in Egypt Monday for an official visit, as twin diplomatic crises are shaking the foundations of several critical Middle Eastern alliances. An all-male, cheering crowd of ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHeavy rains and flooding in Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province has killed some 226 people over the past month, the National Disaster Management Authority said Tuesday. The dead include 34 children and...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA historic drought in southern China has caused billions of dollars in losses to agriculture and left millions of people and animals short of drinking water, government officials said Tuesday. And with no...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA school bus loaded with children came under rocket and small arms fire near Peshawar Tuesday, killing the driver and three children and injuring 16 others, police said. The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan gro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least seven people died when two trains and a bus collided in Buenos Aires Tuesday, police said. At least 162 people were injured in the accident, said Dr. Alberto Crescenti, head of the Medical Atte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJapanese Coast Guards found a small wooden boat Tuesday morning drifting off Japan's western coast with nine men, women and children on board claiming they are from North Korea, a Coast Guard spokesman sai...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoResearchers at the University of California, Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) are developing a new way of boosting fuel efficiency by as much as 30% without changing a ca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIndonesia have begun cloud-seeding operations over the island of Sumatra in an attempt to trigger rain to put out fires creating thick blankets of haze over parts of Sumatra and neighboring Singapore and M...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSeven people were killed in a series of clashes between police and suspected Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey that sent guests at a wedding party scrambling for cover, an official said Monday. The...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago“We are Wall Street: It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable… Go...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"We're All Greece - And On Fire"* by Karl Denninger "There's really not much more to say than this... Value 1,577.42 One-Year Chart for PIIGS (.GIPSI:IND) Change 593.840 (60.375% Open 1,577.42 High...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago“Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans to gain or maintain power… What is more, those who choose not to empathize may enable real monsters. For witho...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"How The Banksters Got Away With The Biggest Rip-Off Ever"* by Danny Schechter “Hats off to Matt Taibbi for staying on the Wall Street crime beat, asking in his report in Rolling Stone: “Why Isn’t...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"A Raging Case of Bailout Fatigue"* by Doug Hornig "I’ve used the term “outrage fatigue” on numerous occasions as a way of explaining why there has been such a muted outcry from the general population, ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoDo you still think the rich are to be trusted in defending the working people of this country? The poor people in this country at least are doing a bang-up job of making the rich very much richer! If you d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 97.4 km (60.5 miles), the quake hit at 14:24:28 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 59.6 km (37 miles), the quake hit at 14:14:33 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 133 km (82 miles) S...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI'm hearing from more and more candidates lately who are telling me that they want to make sure voters know that, unlike Barack Obama, they're from the New Deal, progressive end of the Democratic Party. ...
- posted by Amy Enchelmeyer at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoFrom secret drug tests to nuclear bombs set off in the atmosphere -- you'll wish you never knew, too.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours agoThis entry was prompted by a comment left yesterday - on why I refer to ALEC members as liars. Maybe the reason is - because most of them are. Today's discerning public, wants it all - without doing the r...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoBlood Nation women blockade/Photo Arnell Tailfeathers *Non-Indians target BloodNation, Kawacatoose and Fort Peck* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com By Brenda Norrell Censo...
- posted by Matt at An Open Book - 12 hours agoHear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 13 hours agoYes, we all had a good snicker at last week's Decima poll which showed the Liberals 11 points up in Ontario. But lo and behold, a double dose of polls last night, both showing Dalton McGuinty back on top: ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoAustin skyline dwarfed by Bastrop wildfires. Photo by Deanna Roy / The Rag Blog.Rick Perry and the fires of SeptemberHypocrite or leader in crisis?By Paul Robbins / The Rag Blog / September 13, 2011AUSTIN --...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoLandmark Civil Rights Act Made Racism Slightly Less Overt (Season 1: Ep 3 on IFC)
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoMy opposition to the death penalty is absolute. I have always opposed capital punishment, but reading Helen Prejean's *Dead Man Walking* moved me from an opposition with certain conditional exceptions to a...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoSome of the current Western European leaders try to pretend that they're very important and very creative but they haven't really solved anything. The comparison with those who had to defeat the Soviet b...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours agoYou may recall in the last post on Syria I linked to an article that stated Western diplomats were readying to up the ante in Syria and arm the opposition. Since the opposition has been armed from the onse...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoBad sound quality has met its tiny match.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoNow through Sep 18th, 150 pairs a day are being auctioned to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe stylish, award-winning and environmentally friendly Swiss MonoTracer MT e150 could be here by spring.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA robot that climbs a wall like Spider-Man and then parachutes to the ground could get to areas that humans can't.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA new DNA-based model suggests coupling between the two happened at a rate of less than 2 percent.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoIt is a stubborn, stubborn fact that Clancy Dubois is a complete sellout like Garlandfill ~Slabbed ~Hat Tweet @LeveesOrg~We just added two more groups to our webpage listing Aliied Orgs - Hike for KaTREEn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 3.8 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 12:27:13 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) Northeast of San Simeon, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAt least seven people died when two trains and a bus collided in Buenos Aires Tuesday, police said. About 100 people were injured and two were trapped in the crash, police said. Initial reports of injuri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA historic drought in southern China has caused billions of dollars in losses to agriculture and left millions of people and animals short of drinking water, government officials said Tuesday. And with n...
- posted by Jessica Marshall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoBuried 1,000 feet below Mexico's Naica mountain, the "Cave of Crystals" are the slowest growing ever measured.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoSandia National Labs is celebrating a milestone for two particle accelerators.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoLife on Earth 240 million years ago flourished in the seas, on land, and in intricate underground burrows.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoU.S. DOE announced a loan guarantee of $344 million to install solar power on about 160,000 military homes.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoWhat happens when a family of fossil hunters goes on vacation? They find ichthyosaurs and ammonites ruled the sea.
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoYou don't have to be an avid marathon runner to reap the benefits of regular exercise, research shows.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Taliban have claimed responsibility for a series of explosions in Kabul - with reports the US embassy and headquarters of Nato have come under fire. Police say insurgents have fired rockets and assau...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*We won't be discussing Geoffrey Conner in this post* Most Texas voters never much cared that Rick Perry used his office to enrich himself. Nor do they seem to mind that his right-wing agenda has impoveri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThai teams on Tuesday captured 22 crocodiles that had escaped from a flooded farm near a popular beach resort and were hunting for more of the missing reptiles. The animals escaped the Million Year Stone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAl Qaeda has marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with an hour-long video released on jihadist websites, an intelligence monitoring service has revealed. U.S.-based Site Monit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFive 'vile' thugs who battered a disabled woman to death and dumped her naked body on a disused railway line were jailed for a total of 85 years today. Gemma Hayter was beaten, stabbed and suffocated befo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe regime of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi and the rebel government -- the National Transitional Council -- have both committed war crimes during the conflict in Libya and someone needs to take control to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA chemical tank truck fell off a 3-meter-high bridge in Lishui City, Zhejiang Province at 2am this morning, spilling 30 tons of toxic methyl acetate into the river. Rescuers pulled two trapped workers to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:10:19 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says two American hikers who have been jailed in the country on charges of espionage for two years will be freed this week, according to NBC News, which was to air an i...
- Gunmen open Fire on School Bus in Northern Pakistan Killing at least THREE Children - 13th Sept 2011
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGunmen have opened fire on a school bus in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least three children, police have said. Officers said the bus driver and a teacher were also killed in the attack, which star... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) and residents of the zone between 20 and 30 kilometers from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant held an emergency evacuation drill on Sept. 12. The drill, held...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn unidentified boat was found in the Sea of Japan off the coast of the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Tuesday morning carrying nine people who said they came from North Korea, the Japan Coast Gua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAt least five people died in an explosion at an Italian firework factory south of Rome on Monday, local authorities said. A sixth person who is still missing may have been inside the factory in Arpino wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoShocking surveillance video from the day before Robyn Gardner disappeared in Aruba shows her being led by the prime suspect to the stretch of beach from which she would vanish a day later. Fresh evidence ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA man accused of trying to take a fake bomb through a security checkpoint at Kansas City International Airport on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks has a history of mental illness and recentl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:27:36 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (76 miles) SSW of Mou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFour U.S. service members arrived on the ground in Tripoli over the weekend. The move comes despite assurances from military leaders and President Obama that the U.S. would not be sending uniformed milit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwenty-three children suffering from a rare genetic disorder have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood in western India, it emerged today. All the children had received free transfusions a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDavid Cameron was told last night Russia will 'never' hand over the prime suspect for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The Prime Minister - making the first visit by a British leader to Moscow for six ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoControversial comedian Jimmy Carr sparked outrage on the anniversary of 9/11 - by making a joke about air disasters. The host of Channel 4's 8 out of 10 Cats caused anger when he made a gag about the Eas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoArctic sea ice is at an all time low and still shrinking researchers have revealed. The area covered in ice is now the smallest it has been since scientists started studying it almost 40 years ago. It fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoStock markets and the euro tumbled yesterday as debt-riddled Greece lurched towards bankruptcy. More than £22billion was knocked off the value of Britain's blue-chip companies on a day of turmoil in deali...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoBrown dwarf "2MASS J21392676+0220226" doesn't only have an epic name, it has an epic storm, the effects of which can be seen from Earth.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:09 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 121 km (76 miles) SSW of M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBritain is braced for another day of storms as the remnants of Hurricane Katia continue to batter vast swathes of the country today. Severe weather warnings have been issued for Scotland and northern Engla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThree of the four men who were arrested this weekend on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack in Sweden are of Somali origin, and the fourth is Iraqi, Swedish authorities told CNN on Monday. A court...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA lawyer representing phone hacking victims tried to drag George Osborne into the scandal yesterday by dredging up old sex and drugs allegations against him. The hotly disputed claims that the Chancellor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least 26 people were killed Monday in the Syrian government's ongoing crackdown on dissidents, the pro-democracy group Local Coordination Committees of Syria said. Among the dead was a 12-year-old boy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe U.S. is poorly equipped to deal with the dramatic expansion in the capability of cyber attacks, a new study warns. The government must develop cyber intelligence as a better coordinated discipline tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEuropean astronomers have discovered 50 new planets beyond our solar system, including 16 which are a similar size to Earth. This is the largest number of such planets ever announced at one time. The big...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTasmania's public health authorities say a 21-year-old man who died of meningococcal disease had an uncommon strain of the bacteria. The Derwent Valley man died on Saturday night at the Royal Hobart Hospit...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoThis blog entry is somewhat analogous to the text about Ten new things modern physics has learned about time. 1. *Matter is made of atoms*. This is the proposition that Richard Feynman would have ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoKenyan police have reportedly arrested a man suspected of being involved in the murder of a British man and the kidnap of his wife from an exclusive beach resort. David and Judith Tebbutt were on holiday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck New Mexico at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:24:39 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) West of Raton, New Mexico No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:37 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) West of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 18.9 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:38:49 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) West...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago*Former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Threatens America With Terrorism, Says Trillion Dollar Pentagon Budget Must Not Be Touched* Saman Mohammadi The Excavator September 13, 2011 "My attitude toward al...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Trent Mongan* Anonymous left this comment on "BALI BOMB - inside job.": *Mr Trent Mongan*, of the Australian Army , "was in *Bali's Sari club* on the day of the bombing. "He left minutes before a bomb ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago[image: Perry assailed by GOP] Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov Rick Perry soften his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a crackling presidential campaign argue Mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the ‘modern-day slaves’ rescued from a traveller camp insisted yesterday that he was happy living in a grubby caravan on £30 a day. The middle-aged man was one of 24 ‘slaves’ who were found living i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 60.6 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:48:24 UTC Tuesday 13th September 2011. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) West of R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:44:31 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 48 km ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"In fifteen minutes the average child whose parents are at a party can make enough flat statements of fact about one's personal appearance and ask enough pointed questions about one's private life to send...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 47 km (29.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:16:42 UTC Monday 12th September 2011. The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) South of Apartado, Col...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhy is Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taking photos of her rock abrasion tool?
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoBoth the horror and the loss of that September day ten years ago were brought back to all of us by the recent commemoration. The simple nobility of the ceremony and memorial at Ground Zero made the trage...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Why does this Martian rock have so much zinc? Roughly the size and shape of a tilted coffee-table, this oddly flat, light-topped rock outcropping was chanced upon a few weeks ago by the robotic Opportunit...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Problem of Good”* by Chet Raymo (I post today something I wrote a decade ago for the "Orion Magazine" website, as one of a number of invited responses to the events of 9/11.) “I slipped out of bed ...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Special Messengers:* * Reconnecting with Friends"* by The DailyOm "When fate brings old friends back into our lives, there is always a reason. Every person that passes through our lives makes a contrib...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoWagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Perfect Crime Tool? * *Researchers Work on ‘Event Cloak’”* By Agence France-Presse "Jewelry robbers, magicians, exam cheats and practical jokers everywhere will have an interest in an offbeat idea l...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love anothe...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Neanderthal-Human Sex Rarely Produced Kids, Study Suggests"* by Charles Choi "We may have interbred with Neanderthals in the past, but only rarely was that sex successful in producing offspring, scienti...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago* Say, didn't this guy used to be What's-His-Name? * *"Man, all those other jerkwads, they're all scary crazy."* *-- what lapsed GOP prexy candidate What's-His-Name tactfully refrained from saying in his en...
- posted by CoyotePrime@gmail.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Computer That Predicts The Future"* by Charlie Brooker Hey, wouldn't it be great if we had a supercomputer that could predict the future? By "we", incidentally, I mean "we" as in "the human race", n...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI find the media generally tends to assign too much importance to endorsements during leadership races. After all, Christy Clark came out on top in BC earlier this year with a lone MLA backing her. But so...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMuammar Gaddafi loyalists killed 17 guards outside an oil refinery on Monday in an apparent attempt to disrupt a drive by Libya's new rulers to seize the ousted ruler's last bastions and revive the oil-bas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne person has been killed and several injured in an explosion at a nuclear plant in southern France, leading to the potential risk of a radioactive leak. The blast occurred in an oven at the Marcoule nuc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree people have been jailed for life for the “vile” torture and murder of a disabled woman, whose naked body was found on a disused railway line. Chantelle Booth, 22, her boyfriend Daniel Newstead, 20, a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 2,600 people have been killed in Syria since protests erupted in mid-March, the United Nations said on Monday, as the regime itself admitted around half that number had died. Navi Pillay, the UN'...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHopes for Britain's troubled economy have been dealt another blow after a key indicator suggested growth is slowing at its fastest pace in more than a year. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEgypt's military leaders have been accused of turning a blind eye to the mob attack on Israel's Cairo embassy at the weekend as it emerged that they ignored repeated telephone calls from the Obama administ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBild Zeitung populism has prevailed. Germany is pushing Greece towards a hard default, risking the uncontrollable chain reaction so long feared by markets. First we learn from planted leaks that Germany i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMillions of workers aged under 50 will have to delay their retirement by at least two years, the Government has admitted. Ministers will bring forward a planned increase in the state retirement age to 67 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain’s biggest banks are bamboozling current account customers with opaque charging structures, according to the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB). Banks need to make the pricing of current accou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia supports the Palestinian bid to win UN statehood despite resistance from Israel and the United States, Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday. "We will, of course, be voting for a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago"Jordan and the future Palestine are stronger than Israel is today. It is the Israeli who is scared today," King Abdullah of Jordan said late Sunday in Amman. The king described a recent conversation he h...
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