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Sure, Nuclear energy is a wonderful, clean, sustainable source of energy, that happens to be processed and engineered by humans with two agendas. 1. Corner the resources for oil, gas or nuclear energy, and 2. Make sure the world remains dependent on their product, even as it runs out.
Mother Jones has an eye opening article: The Radioactive Ocean
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Behind the Deepening Crisis with Iran
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Turkish PM says France massacred 15 per cent of Algerian population in 1945 as tensions rise between the two countries. ( 24-Dec-2011 ) Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 minutes ago Tonight. the New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos 45-10 to advance to the second round of the NFL playoffs. Many amazing facts and stats were accrued, including Tom Brady's 363 passing yards and R...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 minutes ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4nzeg9S6_E&feature=related I believe this link was provided by Heart of the Rose at Enenews but I've lost the link now. Someone who lives in Oregon was testing using her g...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 31 minutes ago *Sorry for the commercial, but it's the price we pay for access to an official CBS clip. For that matter, we have to make do with a really limited selection of clips. I couldn't find one with Sheldon's mo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago "What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." - Pedro Calderon de la Bar...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour ago Just got done watching something that I wanted to share with all. This is 2 hours 37 minutes of probably the most important thing you can watch in awhile. This is a program that every person in the 99% sh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago "This pretty planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 6369, was discovered by 18th century astronomer William Herschel as he used a telescope to explore the medicinal constellation Ophiucus. Round and planet-sha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago *"10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget"* by Marc “Some of the smartest people I know continuously struggle to get ahead because they forget to address a few simple truths that collectively govern our pot...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago Bozeman, Montana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago *"Cupid's Dart"* by Chet Raymo "What is it about the martyr Saint Sebastian? He has perhaps been represented in art more than any other minor saint, young, lank and handsome, usually naked except for a l...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago *Book ban includes essay by Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ TUCSON -- Outrage was the response on Saturday to the news that Tucson s...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 3 hours ago Many bloggers do not know how to delete a Blogger (blogspot) blog. The method depends on whether you are still using the old Blogger UI (User Interface) or the new UI. It is not difficult if you know wher...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago A French Mirage and a Saudi F-15 collided in the kingdom's northern region of Tabuk without causing casualties, state news agency SPA quoted a military official as saying on Saturday. "During a joint exer...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago I retired from Warner Bros before Bain formed a consortium of "investors" to come in and take over the company. AOL's Steve Case and his cronies had pretty much pillaged it and left it on the side of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago The leader of Qatar has said Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop the regime's violent crackdown on protesters. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's comments, made to CBS, are the first by an A...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours ago There's a veritable menagerie of alien worlds out there, and astronomers may have spotted the weirdest yet: An exoplanet that 'oozes.'
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago In an interview on the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC, former CIA officer Robert Baer said that Israel is behind the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. The latest victim of this terror c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the Foreign Secretary expressed concerns that Iran's actions could spark a nuclear arms race, and called on the Iranian government to negotiate a peaceful resolut...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago Source, with photo gallery
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago *"Courage*" "It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago "No Ways Tired in A Sea of Lies" (Adapted) by Chris Floyd "I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies. One o...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 7 hours ago (By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *"The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. What he h...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse Cheyenne River Lakota WBAI New York*First Voices Indigenous Radio* *Listen to the Programs* *http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives* *January 12, 2012 * WINONA...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoIs that, unlike real grass, it wears out. That's a fact. The other problem, of course, is that, (despite the fact that it's a Monsanto invention), you can't kill it with *this Monsanto invention*. Unlik...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Judge beats daughter, Rick Perry melts down, "manly" pizza, my letter to Al Franken, is mac 'n' cheese "a black thing"?, and more* *by Noah* *11/2/11 -- Quote of the Year nominee: Ann Coulter, "Our bla...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 7 hours ago That is the policy decision. Yesterday, I noted that valley cities in Ca were most impacted with radiation. Those valley cities are where the majority of Ca’s agricultural crops are grown (I’m a native C...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago ------------------------------ Original Here *America’s Last Chance* ------------------------------ January 14, 2012 America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect R...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours ago High Strangeness: Earth's Shadow Denizens By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 On the last day of the year in 1968, an uncle and nephew were driving from the town of Isabela on the island’s north shor...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoI agree with *Cathie*. I am done with giving the Harper Cons the benefit of the doubt. I'll believe they'll actually amend the residency requirements law only when I see them bring it to the Commons and ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agohttp://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/ I love Jacob Hacker's work and his new book with Paul Pierson is excellent and very accessible. Whoopie at Enenews provided...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe Italian ship apparently hit a reef on Friday, killing at least 3 people, leaving 70 unaccounted for.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago God knows *there's* some truth... - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.13.12”* Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “It looks like GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is opening up a wide lead in the national polls. Gallup has his up by as much as 20 poi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago *“Greece: The Fuse Is In The Box”* by Karl Denninger "This one's headed toward the ground in a power-dive... “Greece’s creditor banks broke off talks after failing to agree with the government about how ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Pakistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 309 km (192 miles) WSW of Karachi...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoJohn Bush Returns to Austin City Council After Being Banned to Point Out the Gun in the Room.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 9 hours ago Steven Spielberg is as big a liar as the notorious shoah-businessman, Elie Wiesel. He has produced film after film defaming the European people and upholding the ridiculous Holyhoax fable. As a strong...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoLetters to My World has always been one of my favorite things to do on my blog. For one reason or another they have gotten lost in the shuffle for the last year or so, but today they are back and hopefully...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago [image: 40 foot containers and liberated cargo float Off M/V Rena. Maritime New Zealand via cargolaw.com] January 15 (Fairfax NZ News) – As cargo from the wrecked *Rena* continues to wash up on the shor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago *"Money Printing: The Ugly Truth Behind the 'Good News'”* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday’s trading revealed nothing of importance. Small moves in stocks and gold. And oil dipped below $100. But the news has be...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago*I want to point out to Conservatives, Reformers, Sask Party and Right Wing members of the Liberal Party that your blind faith in 'unfettered free markets' is NOT in the best interest of most citizens. Wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago Passengers and crew on a luxury cruise ship which ran aground off the Italian coast have described how people jumped for their lives into the sea. Some passengers likened scenes on the blacked-out, sin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago [image: Clothianidin molecule, a Neonicotinoid insecticide. Populations of honey bees and other pollinators have declined worldwide in recent years. A variety of stressors have been implicated as potenti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Unimak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:01:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoTHE ORIGINAL TERMINATOR: the *Japanese Giant Hornet*. Really. Check out the BBC doc below, as 30 of these intelligent *team-workers* slaughter 30,000 European honeybees. *Awesome photography of ruthless ex...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 10 hours agoDavid Allun Jones* *has an excellent review of Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" (via* Jonk Music*). Between the original and Walk Off the Earth's cover of it (5-person guitar-style, no less) I am pos...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago ------------------------------ Original Here Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court fox11az.com Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM *Updated yesterday at 11:23 AM* TUCSON, Ariz. -...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 11 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Excuse me, waiter. There is a fractured proximal phalanx bone in my soup. A wealthy CEO is finding himself in hot water after he allegedly snapped at his waiter while dining at a swanky ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Annie's campaign is financed by actual people, not Romney people, not corporate special interests looking for government handouts* Today at 11am (PT), so 2 back East, Blue America will formally endorse An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Antigua and Barbuda Region, Leeuward Islands at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:06 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country's nuclear program have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago European leaders promised on Saturday to speed up plans to strengthen spending rules and get a permanent bailout fund up and running as soon as possible, a day after U.S. agency S&P cut the ratings of sev...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours agoThe Gay Secretary Did the erased emails divulge Romney’s previous support for an individual mandate in health care coverage? Did loyal aides purge evidence that Romney once supported LGBT equality and rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands, Philippines at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:22 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) NNE o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago *What if England did go it alone? MI6 Online* Leading friend of the London establishment Andrew Woberts says England is begging to keep Scotland as part of the UK. *A bankrupt economy, no more North Sea ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 12 hours ago*Global Research* American President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper have unveiled a new border security agreement that has received scant attention in the American media. However, far from b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAt least three people were killed and scores remain unaccounted for as a giant cruise ship keeled onto its side after running aground near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, local emergency offi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA knifeman who spat on the ground before trying to kill an elderly woman was trapped when police collected his DNA from the pavement. David Walters, 22, screamed 'Die! Die!' as he punched and then stabbed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA UK bus operator flew bosses to Poland to recruit 50 new drivers despite there being 2.6million people on the dole in the UK. Abellio, a subsidiary of the Dutch state rail operator, claimed it could not ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago major power blackout hit Turkey's largest city Saturday afternoon, leaving millions of residents without electricity while shutting down Istanbul's subway and tram systems. Officials with the Istanbul g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago A man suspected in a series of buttock slashings in Fairfax, Virginia, has been captured in Peru, authorities said. Johnny D. Guillen, known as the "Corta Nalgas" -- or "butt cutter" -- was captured Frid...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe cost and speed of sequencing your genes is now in line with other medical tests.
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 14 hours ago “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” – the Wizard of Oz In Frank Baum’s famous political satire *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,* a naïve Dorothy is manipulated by a totalitarian ruler (the wizar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago The Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates onboard a sail boat in the Indian Ocean, the Ministry of Defence has said. A combined Nato-led counter-piracy force successfully intercepted the vessel which...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:47:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christch...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoCollecting debts~Library Chronicles ~Some of us have very very long memories. A few years ago, an NFC Championship match-up with a similar bugaboo from days gone past had us quoting scripture we were in suc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago The tentacles of the Koch Brothers' neo-fascist octopus are everywhere in America. But the heart of their evil empire is in Topeka, Kansas. And they countenance no backtalk from politicians of any stripes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago Three people have died and at least 50 more are missing after a cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including 24 British holidaymakers, ran aground off Italy's coast. One of the victims was a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 17.8 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:55:20 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) North of Tasikmalaya, Ja...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoA crazy design proposal for an underwater city can't be kept down.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a couple in their Birmingham home. The arrest came as detectives were due to reveal the results of post mortems on the victims, Avtar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:35:00 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles) ...
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/hwob5rdecTM -- More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910 *Unrelated*, but highly informative what it means for passengers: http://youtu.be/9BFux2AAMso At 00:57 ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 17 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I fully support a movement to enact a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that rejects and will undo the recent SCOTUS decision 'creating people' of mere 'legal ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago MANILA, Philippines — At least 20,000 families were assisted by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in its ongoing relief operations in the flood-stricken cities in Northern Mindanao. Citing the report from i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago BERHAMPUR: Bird flu scare spread to Chilika lake with a migratory bird found dead in Nalabana sanctuary, even as culling of poultry continued for the second day on Friday in Keranga of Khurda district. W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago Operations at all three nuclear reactors in Shikoku have been suspended as the last one was stopped for a regular inspection on Jan. 13. Shikoku Electric Power Co. suspended operations at the No. 2 reacto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Officials in Washington boost security in Gulf in case Jerusalem ignores US requests to hold off on military operation against Iran's nuclear facilities, The Wall Street Journal says. * Contingency plan?...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago Russia's failed Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, is about to fall back to Earth - quite probably on Sunday. The spacecraft has been losing altitude rapidly in recent days and will soon be pulled into the top of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA suicide bomber disguised as a policeman targeted Shiite pilgrims Saturday outside the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80, according to authorities and state-run TV. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago Just one decade after the European single currency was launched amid fanfare and fireworks, its future continues to look uncertain as the debt crisis that engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal threatens t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:55 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated. Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNasa's Kepler space telescope has discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our Sun - one of which is as small as Mars. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:30:30 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WNW of Lata, San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA disgruntled employee killed three of his co-workers and injured another before critically wounding himself in a bloody shooting spree this morning. The man, identified by staff as Ronald Davis, 50, alle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA teenage filmmaker, who made an emotional and inspiring video in support of gay and lesbian youth, has committed suicide. One month after filming It Gets Better, gay-and-lesbian websites reported that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago The first week in January was the driest in U.S. history with more than 95 per cent of the U.S. reporting below-average snow. About half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit above ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA mother was jailed for 45 years today for suffocating her six-year-old son in a motel room and dumping his body along a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Texas admitted killing Camden Hughes by kneeling...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. The Navy rev...
- posted by Stephanie Carvin at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago Sarah Duff (who has contributed to this blog before) had a very interesting piece in the UK Guardian this week on the hurdles scholars in developing countries have to face in order to engage with scholars...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe father of a missing toddler says he took a polygraph test shortly after she disappeared from his Maine home but neither he nor police will reveal the results. Justin DiPietro reported 1-year-old Ayla ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe father of a missing toddler says he took a polygraph test shortly after she disappeared from his Maine home but neither he nor police will reveal the results. Justin DiPietro reported 1-year-old Ayla ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago At least three people were killed and more than 4,000 passengers and crew were rescued last night after a packed cruise liner began sinking off the Italian coast after running aground. Twenty-four Britis...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoWow, what is it with spokesthingies called Marshall saying misleading things today? * * *First* we have BC Ferries' *Deborah Marshall* trotting out a line about a *smoking clutch* when in fact we learn it ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago Google is no longer the best search engine. Type in 'Prabowo' and you get 'Primark'. On 12 January 2012, Mat Honan writes that *Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine* "I just switched the default...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 48.5 km (30.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:50 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) West of Jayapura, Iri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago David Cameron threatened Iran with military action yesterday if the regime blocks the Straits of Hormuz – the lifeline for the world’s oil supplies. The Prime Minister spoke as he paid his first visit to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother and her two daughters have been rescued from their BMW, which was teetering perilously on a California freeway bridge after a gravel truck rear-ended their car and plunged into a creek. The truck...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA persistent group of thieves went to extreme lengths to get their hands on extra cash - after digging a 100ft tunnel under a building to reach a cash machine. The labour-intensive robbery saw the gang sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago An obsessed Kate Bush fan has been deported from Britain after breaking into her home in an attempt to propose to her. Frank Tufaro, an American, was carrying a £3,000 diamond, sapphire and gold ring bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFrance was stripped of its coveted AAA credit rating last night in a crushing humiliation for President Nicolas Sarkozy. The downgrade of Europe's second largest economy - along with eight other Eurozone ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 62.9 km (39.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:11:45 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 128.8 km (80 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:24 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) Northeast of Toma...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago Slowly but surely general security is steadily improving. More cameras and more electronic capability as loopholes are systematically shut out. Here we have the addition of sprays that nicely ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago We are slowly getting better at all this. A chimera is a creature formed from the cells of two separate individuals, in this case of the same species. In folklore, it is extended to include tw...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago It turns out that sea cucumbers are instrumental in cleaning up coral debris and redissolving it so it may once again be turned into fresh coral. It is not dissolving the reef at all. This ite...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago The country has a population exceeding 150,000,000 of which half are Muslim and the other half are Christian. However, it looks more like a local thug is attempting to get his grab for power in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:52:32 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.9 miles) East of Susehri, Turkey No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:44:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (142 miles) ESE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) WNW of Niue Island No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago The eurozone economy has been plunged back into crisis after the credit worthiness of nine nations were downgraded by a leading ratings agency. Standard & Poor's (S&P) stripped France of its gold-plated A...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago The current global average mean temperature is about 15 °C. However, Colin Goldblatt and Andrew J. Watson have submitted a preprint called The Runaway Greenhouse: implications for future climate change, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 393.7 km (244.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:00:43 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) South of Sigave, Ile F...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 21 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - In this age of internet advertising companies will frequently approach popular blogs and websites offering to pay for any number of advertising schemes. The problem is that is exactly what th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* Indonesia* Black magic has long existed in the USA and Europe. On 14 January 2012 the *Sydney Morning Herald* reports on *Indonesia's fixation with black magic* *During the 2009 election campaign, Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 113.2 km (70.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:50:00 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 129.8 km (80.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:25:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago Six people have died and four more are missing after a luxury cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including British holidaymakers, ran aground off the coast of Italy. A major rescue operation...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Click here to see video of Iranian boats harassing the USS New Orleans and Coast Guard cutter Adak* At a time of heightened tensions with Iran, U.S. military officials told CNN Friday that U.S. military...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoDoubt this if you dare. USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago *Jon Vickers lip-syncs Otello's great entrance declaration, "*Esultate*," from Act I of Verdi's opera, from the 1974 Karajan film.* *OTELLO*: Rejoice! The pride of the Muslims is buried in the sea; the gl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago *“Addicted! Internet Dependency Alters the Human Brain”* by Jeremy Laurance “Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alc...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoDollar is not gold. Dollar is God. And wherever there is God, there is also a class of priests who are ready to sacrifice the people's lives and money in rituals and wars to prop up the God that they beli...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“It is the largest and most complex star forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy, the region's spid...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 day agoI really feel saddened for this nation when I hear people who I greatly admire have been somehow seduced by the cult of Mitt Romney. We have only had ONE primary and some caucuses in two tiny little states...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago "If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago *“Exile”* by Chet Raymo “ Are we truly alone With our physics and myths, The stars no more Than glittering dust, With no one there To hear our choral odes?” “This is the ultimate q...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago *"The average voter is a low-information decider, making his or her choices about candidates based on often times incomplete or just plain wrong facts. The analysis of political races -- from the presiden...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago Spoil. A beautiful and powerful documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest - extraordinarily footage from some of the world's best photographers hoping to show us what we have to lose if the Enbridge Gatew...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA major rescue operation is under way after a luxury cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew is said to have run aground off the coast of Italy. The Costa Concordia had left the port of Savona at 7...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago I've noticed that radiation levels spike the most in west coast cities that have mountains on their east side. Sacramento (east is Sierras) and all central valley cities on down Cal. have had significant...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago *A March For Our Ancestors* January 31st through February 3th District 7 to Sacaton’s Veteran’s Park Shap Kaij Hahajun, This is notice to all O’othham brothers and sisters that after many years of att...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago Even Sarah Palin has stumbled into attacking the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency. This is the man who the one percent will use to try to turn back the modest, vaguely pro-middle-class ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThere is a funny quote in Mark Perry's article in Foreign Policy Magazine called "False Flag" that looks at "how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organizati...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day ago Frozen Puck Hovers Over Track Using “Quantum Levitation” WIRED October 18, 2011 | By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Researchers at the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University have created a ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago Borgo, Corse, France. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago “Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so p...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoNot really sure what to make of this news story? I find it so improbable. But here goes..... A Lebanese suspect from the Hezbollah group has been taken into custody by Thai officials and police are investi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*$9,000,000,000,000 Missing From The Federal Reserve! ($9 Trillion) Gone...* "Rep. Alan Grayson questions the FED inspector General where $9 TRillion dollars went... and General Elizabeth Coleman hasn't a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago “If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” - Tuco, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSensitive data -- possibly including information on JAXA's H-2 Transfer Vehicle -- appear to have been leaked.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWeek 2 of the Google+ Space Hangout was a great success, discussing everything from dark matter to exoplanets. Watch it now!
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago UNCONFIRMED http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/hydrogen-explosion-reactor-4-happened-1-9-2012/ There have been quite a few unconfirmed reports about unit 4 over the last week or so http://majiasblog.blog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 424 km (264 mil...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoRead Arthur Silber's new awesome article about the Marine Pissing incident in Afghanistan called "The Varieties of Pissing." A key passage: "It is certainly disgusting that U.S. Marines pissed on the bodie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:03:47 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 285 km (177 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Suma...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago Accident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex: The Nuclear Accident You Never Heard About http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28623
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThe Gay Secretary So that you could buy a few more mansions complain, it's just envy! Because we all secretly admire you and look up to you and want to be just like you, a callous and insensitive (if not ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-possible-rapid-increase-of-temperature-at-reactor2/
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day ago Cattle, mechanically immobilized before being stunned and slaughtered Israel kills Iranian scientists and sabotaging Iranian facilities, then follows a false-flag attack claimed to be Iran's "retaliation"...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, is a major source of greenhouse gases in the US. Navajos recently protested the operator, the Salt River Project, during protests of ALEC,...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago Nuclear Energy Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact:202.739.8000 - For Release:December 16, 2011 Industry Welcomes Nuclear Energy Funding in Final Spending Bill[excerpted] ...“We particular...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago "When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago *"Has Capitalism Failed Us?"* by Bill Bonner “Americans think we are stupid,” said a European diplomat at a dinner party in Washington. ”But we’re not stupid. We’re just working out the problems involved...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago You can say a lot of things about Standard & Poor's, but the one thing you cannot question is their sense of timing. Last month, they could have chosen almost any day to warn that they were placing the e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago France, Austria and Italy have all had their credit ratings downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's. France and Austria now both hold AA+ ratings, while Italy, which formerly held a BBB+ rating,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 210 km (131 miles) WNW of ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Indonesians* Standard Chartered bank forecasts that Indonesia will be the sixth biggest economy in the world by 2030. On 4 January 2012, an Indonesian court found a boy guilty of stealing a pair of wor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago The emanation of a gray cloud, possibly containing ash, at the Turrialba Volcano was confirmed Thursday afternoon by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de CostaRica (OVSICORI), that resulting in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 20 people were wounded, some critically, in a double bombing Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The two car bombs targeted the homes of police officers in different parts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago The deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan ordered troops Friday to treat the corpses of slain insurgents and civilians with "appropriate dignity and respect." The order follows a video that ap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Peruvian judges on Friday sentenced Dutch national Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison and ordered him to pay thousands of dollars in reparations for the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Iran's embassy in Turkey has issued a formal statement denying reports Tehran was shipping weapons through Turkey to Syria. "We deny such claims and we would like to state that the Islamic Republic of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA BBC radio presenter has admitted a string of sex attacks against five underage girls, a court heard today. Father-of-one Peter Rowell, 53, admitted 12 counts of indecent assault, six counts of making in...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoQ. Why are such research documents - Which Path to Persia? or "String of Pearls" - made public on the web? If these are in fact strategic and provide a view into the world of powers that run the show on ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands are dead, hundreds more of the dying lie writhing on the battlefield, powerless to protect their children. These horrifying and yet fascinating scenes are the highlights of a three-hour...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago [image: Dörte Siedentopf. tagesschau.de]By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 January 2012 (UPDATE: Second part of the translation is posted, translation done by the reader Florian Zschage.) (H/T to the reader...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJulie Jones describes the day her best friend died as 'the worst day of my life'. But she didn't have time to grieve. The single mum-of-three had agreed to adopt Caroline Atkin's three boys and two girls...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears are rising that the credit ratings of several eurozone countries could soon be downgraded - prompting global markets to fall and the euro falling to a 16-month low. Analysts today said that ratings ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoFront page of Americans for Tax Reform. Thou shalt have no other god before Grover. And they probably joined ALEC also. Martha Zoller and Doug Collins have become the first and second candidates to sign...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew devices from iHealth will connect to a Cloud service in order to store and share health data.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Mars probe's tank is expected to melt during re-entry, so there's no need for a missile intercept, like in 2008, experts say.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago A man who buried his fiancee alive in a cardboard box has been given a 20-year prison sentence for attempted murder. Marcin Kasprzak used a taser on 27-year-old Michelina Lewandowska before binding and...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf societies paid the communities who live closest to wilderness areas to be stewards, 331 million of the world's poorest could earn a dollar a day.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMexico's economy has made life even harder for the country's stray dogs. But there's a way you can help.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago A British student accused of breaching US copyright could face trial in the US after a judge ruled that he can be extradited. A judge at Westminster Magistrates Court agreed with US prosecutors that 23-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:13 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles)...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoReason Magazine, Benny Peiser, James Delingpole, and WUWT mention an amusing story. In April 2008, climate skeptic and astrophysicist David Whitehouse – who is currently an adviser to the Global Warming P...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago *"Greed and Deception on Wall Street"* by Eric Fry "For the last several months [years- CP], the sordid tales of greed and deception issuing from Wall Street have read like the story line from a riveting...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThis video by the YouTube channel "LexLuvsMovies" contains footage from The Dark Knight Rises trailer and from Batman Begins.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago *"Pinstriped Psychopaths"* by Eric Fry "Some psychopaths occupy a prison cell. Others occupy a corner office. Both are dangerous. Psychopaths possess a profound lack of empathy. They use other people cal...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Spot the loony: (1) Mark Driscoll and (2) Rick Santorum, Repugs' Thesaurus: 30 ways to say n*gg*r, how did the GOP sink to this?* *Pastor Mark Driscoll offers this dilly as a free e-book. In it he explain...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Where the freak were the Reuters scribes:* We’ll offer one last thought about MSNBC’s conduct this week: We’ll offer our thought in the form of a question. Where were the Reute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 54.2 km (33.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:02:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 67.3 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:54:48 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) SSW o...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Third time is almost the charm:* Here’s the way the workload has gone at The One True Liberal Channel this week: All week, the rest of the children have gamboled and played, ri...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago So, is Mitt Romney and the other vultures at Bain Capital made of money or full of shit? Discuss.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago Afghanistan defines the notion of "wheels spinning within wheels." It is the very home of policy chaos where virtually every action invites blowback of one or more kinds, usually unforeseen. This brief...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Life in a Brave New Dumb World:* Last night, Rachel Maddow took a good snootful and rattled off a collection of silly old tales. She recalled the way George Bush 41 looked at h...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoToday's unlucky date is the first of three for 2012. Here's a look at some superstitions and where they originated.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago Mainichi: Courts find black rain from A-bomb was more far-reaching than gov't acknowledged http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120113p2a00m0na007000c.html [Excerpted] "Eight lawsuits brought against ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago There's a powerful conservative movement in America determined to purge unwanted subjects from their schools' curricula. For generations they've fought against teaching kids about the theory of evoluti...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIsrael's paper thin veneer of being a Western-style liberal democracy is being shredded. It's the inevitable result of Israel having to come to grips with issues it has for decades been able to duck. Iss...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *The dishonesty comes from both sides now:* What words should a progressive use to describe this kind of conduct? Last night, Steve Kornacki told Rachel Maddow about an exciting...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Epilogue—Rachel’s brown liquids:* We’re going to be good sports and admit it. Rather plainly, The Big Stupid has won! Just consider the political dynamics of the past week. L...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago This is only a 6 minute excerpt. I cannot wait for the entire interview because the excerpt is excellent: http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/9405-bill-moyers-the-biggest-story-of-our-t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago Barack Obama seems to have found Mitt Romney's petard. Now if he can only light the fuze. The petard, or bombshell, is the issue of income inequality in America. While Harperland is doing its best t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago A Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army and anti-government protesters took to the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStandard & Poor's ratings agency has downgraded France's credit rating, French television channels reported on Friday, citing a government source. S&P warned in December that it could downgrade the credit ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new design based on sunflowers could help solar concentrator plants save space and increase output.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo far this winter, the Alaskan city has been buried in nearly seven feet of snow.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNow that the flat-panel TV has become a commodity, the next step is to make them flatter and bigger.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago [image: Territorial borders in the Arctic Ocean, showing the United States, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. University of Durham, UN, Marum.] By Richard Heinberg 10 January 2012 From competition among h...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day agoThe Herman Cain sexual harassment case brought up an issue that has concerned me for years: one-sided confidentiality agreements. As you may recall before your holiday eggnog distracted you, Mr. Cain settl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago [image: Beijing smog, 1 November 2011. NRDC] Beijing, January 12 (AFP) – Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater go...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI tend to think politics is nothing but a circus to distract the electorate from the true environmental collapse that underlies all the other woes of industrial society...but this act is too good to pass u...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you're driving around or watching television, odds are you aren't exercising.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoIn the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Report “Show Me The Money: Budget-Cutting Strategies for Cash-Strapped States” dated 2002 they advocate that state governments should: *Turn Capital Ass...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago John Waltz is one of the most outstanding candidates for Congress running anywhere. He's a blue-collar New Deal Democrat who has one overarching political goal: to represent the regular working families i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorweigan killer Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in twin attacks in July, will undergo a new psychiatric evaluation following a widely contested test which found him criminally insane. "Due to the...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago "So long, good Canadian jobs!" Electro-Motive, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., a huge US company, has locked out 465 workers from its London, Ontario plant. The company has offered a take-it-or-leave-i...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoBankers and Russia. Specifically State owned banks expanding and controlling the majority of the market. Is this the "problem" with Russia? The problem requiring destabilization? Does the problem boil down ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIn defending Israel I’ve come to realise that preconceived ideas and gut feelings override all reasonable argument. That is to say however well argued, very few are willing to engage, or even listen to any...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago A British man is among four people who have been charged in Kenya with planning a terror attack in the country. Jermaine John Grant, a 29-year-old Muslim convert, and three Kenyan nationals appeared in c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 115.2 km (71.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:24:02 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) Northwest of...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMaster coastal plan positive~Amy Wold $1.1 billion levee around Lake Charles part of bold proposal Gulf of Mexico oil spill environmental data drives damage assessment~Mark Schleifstein Mississippi, Atch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:35 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29.2 miles) South Abhar, Iran No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago FUKUOKA -- Police have arrested three people for allegedly dispatching a worker to the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture under a falsified contract, sparking a police probe into the yakuza's poss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Eight lawsuits brought against the government by plaintiffs seeking certification of radiation sickness from the "black rain" that fell on Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing in 1945, have seen ruli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago The Mount Pleasant School District has cancelled classes for the rest of the week after a suspected norovirus sickened about 200 students. The Morning Sun reports schools will be closed today and Friday i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche withheld vital data about the effectiveness of its swine flu drug Tamiflu from scientists, a report will claim next week. The report, to be published on January 18 by the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Officials burn chicken coops in reaction to a fatal case of bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia. The virus has killed more than 80 percent of Indonesians infected with it since 2005. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago In the wake of news last month that researchers had created a version of the deadly bird flu that was easily transmissible by air, a heated debate has arisen in the scientific community about whether or n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Report by Akshya Rout; Jajpur: The mysterious epidemic that has claimed many crows and hens in some areas of Odisha recently has now spread to Jajpur district , with about 150 crow and ducks deaths in Jaj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has confirmed that H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, has been signalled the Bhutanese village of Tsimasham, in the Chhukha district. The ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago South Africa's ostrich farmers are struggling to cope after thousands of their birds were culled during one of the country's worst outbreaks of bird flu. Exports to Europe - the biggest market for South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Judges reject Christopher Tappin's argument that he was tricked by US customs agents in deal to ship missile parts to Iran. A retired British businessman has lost his appeal against extradition to the US...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least eight militants Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestigators in Thailand have arrested a a Lebanese terror suspect who tried to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists, the Thai government said Friday. The United States, meanwh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea apparently test-launched three short-range missiles this week, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Friday, an indication that the reclusive state's military is operating normally after a lea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Negotiations between labor unions and the Nigerian government ended late Thursday without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies, and a union official expressed resolve, in the absence of an accord, to h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Apple halted sale of its iPhone 4S in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday after scuffles broke out over a delayed launch of the device, sending a shopper hurling eggs at a store in the capital. Hundreds of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago A Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army, while thousands of anti-government protest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran's top cleric has blamed the CIA and Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, for killing an Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran's state broadcaster said. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who died Wednesday, was the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 15 people were injured and at least 60 buildings damaged when a tornado struck in western North Carolina, the National Weather Service said Thursday. The storms struck in Rutherford and Burke cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChe Guevara, the famous Argentinian-born revolutionary and military theorist, wore many hats – including that of physician, author, and guerrilla leader. But he almost certainly never wore one with a Merc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Jewish community is on alert after Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue and ignited a fire inside the rabbi's residence - in what authorities are billing a hate crime and attempted murder. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFourteen people were arrested today in South Africa after an elderly couple were burned to death by vigilantes who accused them of being witches. Grandparents Elsa Dubazane and Rafael Zukhulu, both 63, die...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA high school principal who hypnotised pupils faces up to a year in jail after being charged with carrying out the practice without a license. Dr George Kenney, 51, hypnotised 75 students, teachers and the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA top military psychologist has suggested that the reason American soldiers urinated on dead Afghan bodies was because they were 'stressed'. Eugenia Weiss, an expert from the University of Southern Califor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama asked Congress today for another $1.2trillion increase in the nation's debt limit, a request that is largely a formality but which carries election-year implications. It was the thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago Decades before the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City saw another tragic event in its skies, when two airliners collided in mid-air over Brooklyn, weeks before Christmas. Two passenger plane...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mysterious celestial body detected outside our solar system five years ago may actually be a ringed planet similar to Saturn, scientists say. Researchers at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident. Martin Lara, 50, of Applegate, California, died Thursday morning after getting dragged b...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA stable number of humans on the planet doesn't necessarily mean less impact on the environment. But it helps.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResearchers have taken a step closer to creating ‘cyborg insects’ that could carry out spying missions - with biofuel cells that run off their own bodies. A team has created the implantable power packs th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA couple who sold a monkey which had seven separate bone fractures to a pensioner for £650 have been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 costs to the RSPCA and banned from keeping animals for life. Lee Powell, 5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA little-understood molecule in the atmosphere could play an important role in reducing pollution and global warming, scientists believe. The 'Criegee biradicals' could lead to aerosol formation - and ulti...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 minutes agoTonight. the New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos 45-10 to advance to the second round of the NFL playoffs. Many amazing facts and stats were accrued, including Tom Brady's 363 passing yards and R...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 minutes agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4nzeg9S6_E&feature=related I believe this link was provided by Heart of the Rose at Enenews but I've lost the link now. Someone who lives in Oregon was testing using her g...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 31 minutes ago*Sorry for the commercial, but it's the price we pay for access to an official CBS clip. For that matter, we have to make do with a really limited selection of clips. I couldn't find one with Sheldon's mo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." - Pedro Calderon de la Bar...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoJust got done watching something that I wanted to share with all. This is 2 hours 37 minutes of probably the most important thing you can watch in awhile. This is a program that every person in the 99% sh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"This pretty planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 6369, was discovered by 18th century astronomer William Herschel as he used a telescope to explore the medicinal constellation Ophiucus. Round and planet-sha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"10 Simple Truths Smart People Forget"* by Marc “Some of the smartest people I know continuously struggle to get ahead because they forget to address a few simple truths that collectively govern our pot...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoBozeman, Montana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Cupid's Dart"* by Chet Raymo "What is it about the martyr Saint Sebastian? He has perhaps been represented in art more than any other minor saint, young, lank and handsome, usually naked except for a l...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Book ban includes essay by Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko * By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ TUCSON -- Outrage was the response on Saturday to the news that Tucson s...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 3 hours agoMany bloggers do not know how to delete a Blogger (blogspot) blog. The method depends on whether you are still using the old Blogger UI (User Interface) or the new UI. It is not difficult if you know wher...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA French Mirage and a Saudi F-15 collided in the kingdom's northern region of Tabuk without causing casualties, state news agency SPA quoted a military official as saying on Saturday. "During a joint exer...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoI retired from Warner Bros before Bain formed a consortium of "investors" to come in and take over the company. AOL's Steve Case and his cronies had pretty much pillaged it and left it on the side of the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe leader of Qatar has said Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop the regime's violent crackdown on protesters. Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's comments, made to CBS, are the first by an A...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThere's a veritable menagerie of alien worlds out there, and astronomers may have spotted the weirdest yet: An exoplanet that 'oozes.'
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoIn an interview on the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC, former CIA officer Robert Baer said that Israel is behind the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists. The latest victim of this terror c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the Foreign Secretary expressed concerns that Iran's actions could spark a nuclear arms race, and called on the Iranian government to negotiate a peaceful resolut...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSource, with photo gallery
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Courage*" "It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"No Ways Tired in A Sea of Lies" (Adapted) by Chris Floyd "I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies. One o...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 7 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) *"The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He's not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't. What he h...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoHost Tiokasin Ghosthorse Cheyenne River Lakota WBAI New York*First Voices Indigenous Radio* *Listen to the Programs* *http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives* *January 12, 2012 * WINONA...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoIs that, unlike real grass, it wears out. That's a fact. The other problem, of course, is that, (despite the fact that it's a Monsanto invention), you can't kill it with *this Monsanto invention*. Unlik...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Judge beats daughter, Rick Perry melts down, "manly" pizza, my letter to Al Franken, is mac 'n' cheese "a black thing"?, and more* *by Noah* *11/2/11 -- Quote of the Year nominee: Ann Coulter, "Our bla...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 7 hours agoThat is the policy decision. Yesterday, I noted that valley cities in Ca were most impacted with radiation. Those valley cities are where the majority of Ca’s agricultural crops are grown (I’m a native C...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ Original Here *America’s Last Chance* ------------------------------ January 14, 2012 America has one last chance, and it is a very slim one. Americans can elect R...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours agoHigh Strangeness: Earth's Shadow Denizens By Scott Corrales (c) 2012 On the last day of the year in 1968, an uncle and nephew were driving from the town of Isabela on the island’s north shor...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoI agree with *Cathie*. I am done with giving the Harper Cons the benefit of the doubt. I'll believe they'll actually amend the residency requirements law only when I see them bring it to the Commons and ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agohttp://billmoyers.com/segment/jacob-hacker-paul-pierson-on-engineered-inequality/ I love Jacob Hacker's work and his new book with Paul Pierson is excellent and very accessible. Whoopie at Enenews provided...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe Italian ship apparently hit a reef on Friday, killing at least 3 people, leaving 70 unaccounted for.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agoGod knows *there's* some truth... - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.13.12”* Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “It looks like GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is opening up a wide lead in the national polls. Gallup has his up by as much as 20 poi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Greece: The Fuse Is In The Box”* by Karl Denninger "This one's headed toward the ground in a power-dive... “Greece’s creditor banks broke off talks after failing to agree with the government about how ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Pakistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:45:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 309 km (192 miles) WSW of Karachi...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoJohn Bush Returns to Austin City Council After Being Banned to Point Out the Gun in the Room.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 9 hours agoSteven Spielberg is as big a liar as the notorious shoah-businessman, Elie Wiesel. He has produced film after film defaming the European people and upholding the ridiculous Holyhoax fable. As a strong...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 9 hours agoLetters to My World has always been one of my favorite things to do on my blog. For one reason or another they have gotten lost in the shuffle for the last year or so, but today they are back and hopefully...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: 40 foot containers and liberated cargo float Off M/V Rena. Maritime New Zealand via cargolaw.com] January 15 (Fairfax NZ News) – As cargo from the wrecked *Rena* continues to wash up on the shor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Money Printing: The Ugly Truth Behind the 'Good News'”* by Bill Bonner "Yesterday’s trading revealed nothing of importance. Small moves in stocks and gold. And oil dipped below $100. But the news has be...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago*I want to point out to Conservatives, Reformers, Sask Party and Right Wing members of the Liberal Party that your blind faith in 'unfettered free markets' is NOT in the best interest of most citizens. Wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPassengers and crew on a luxury cruise ship which ran aground off the Italian coast have described how people jumped for their lives into the sea. Some passengers likened scenes on the blacked-out, sin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Clothianidin molecule, a Neonicotinoid insecticide. Populations of honey bees and other pollinators have declined worldwide in recent years. A variety of stressors have been implicated as potenti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Unimak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:01:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoTHE ORIGINAL TERMINATOR: the *Japanese Giant Hornet*. Really. Check out the BBC doc below, as 30 of these intelligent *team-workers* slaughter 30,000 European honeybees. *Awesome photography of ruthless ex...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 10 hours agoDavid Allun Jones* *has an excellent review of Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" (via* Jonk Music*). Between the original and Walk Off the Earth's cover of it (5-person guitar-style, no less) I am pos...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ Original Here Audit AZ takes transparent election fight to court fox11az.com Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM *Updated yesterday at 11:23 AM* TUCSON, Ariz. -...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 11 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Excuse me, waiter. There is a fractured proximal phalanx bone in my soup. A wealthy CEO is finding himself in hot water after he allegedly snapped at his waiter while dining at a swanky ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Annie's campaign is financed by actual people, not Romney people, not corporate special interests looking for government handouts* Today at 11am (PT), so 2 back East, Blue America will formally endorse An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Antigua and Barbuda Region, Leeuward Islands at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:06 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country's nuclear program have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoEuropean leaders promised on Saturday to speed up plans to strengthen spending rules and get a permanent bailout fund up and running as soon as possible, a day after U.S. agency S&P cut the ratings of sev...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours agoThe Gay Secretary Did the erased emails divulge Romney’s previous support for an individual mandate in health care coverage? Did loyal aides purge evidence that Romney once supported LGBT equality and rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands, Philippines at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:22 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) NNE o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*What if England did go it alone? MI6 Online* Leading friend of the London establishment Andrew Woberts says England is begging to keep Scotland as part of the UK. *A bankrupt economy, no more North Sea ...
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 12 hours ago*Global Research* American President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper have unveiled a new border security agreement that has received scant attention in the American media. However, far from b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAt least three people were killed and scores remain unaccounted for as a giant cruise ship keeled onto its side after running aground near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, local emergency offi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA knifeman who spat on the ground before trying to kill an elderly woman was trapped when police collected his DNA from the pavement. David Walters, 22, screamed 'Die! Die!' as he punched and then stabbed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA UK bus operator flew bosses to Poland to recruit 50 new drivers despite there being 2.6million people on the dole in the UK. Abellio, a subsidiary of the Dutch state rail operator, claimed it could not ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agomajor power blackout hit Turkey's largest city Saturday afternoon, leaving millions of residents without electricity while shutting down Istanbul's subway and tram systems. Officials with the Istanbul g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA man suspected in a series of buttock slashings in Fairfax, Virginia, has been captured in Peru, authorities said. Johnny D. Guillen, known as the "Corta Nalgas" -- or "butt cutter" -- was captured Frid...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoThe cost and speed of sequencing your genes is now in line with other medical tests.
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 14 hours ago“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” – the Wizard of Oz In Frank Baum’s famous political satire *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,* a naïve Dorothy is manipulated by a totalitarian ruler (the wizar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates onboard a sail boat in the Indian Ocean, the Ministry of Defence has said. A combined Nato-led counter-piracy force successfully intercepted the vessel which...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:47:51 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christch...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoCollecting debts~Library Chronicles ~Some of us have very very long memories. A few years ago, an NFC Championship match-up with a similar bugaboo from days gone past had us quoting scripture we were in suc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe tentacles of the Koch Brothers' neo-fascist octopus are everywhere in America. But the heart of their evil empire is in Topeka, Kansas. And they countenance no backtalk from politicians of any stripes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThree people have died and at least 50 more are missing after a cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including 24 British holidaymakers, ran aground off Italy's coast. One of the victims was a m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 17.8 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:55:20 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) North of Tasikmalaya, Ja...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoA crazy design proposal for an underwater city can't be kept down.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a couple in their Birmingham home. The arrest came as detectives were due to reveal the results of post mortems on the victims, Avtar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:35:00 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (120 miles) ...
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/hwob5rdecTM -- More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910 *Unrelated*, but highly informative what it means for passengers: http://youtu.be/9BFux2AAMso At 00:57 ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 17 hours agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy I fully support a movement to enact a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that rejects and will undo the recent SCOTUS decision 'creating people' of mere 'legal ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMANILA, Philippines — At least 20,000 families were assisted by the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in its ongoing relief operations in the flood-stricken cities in Northern Mindanao. Citing the report from i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBERHAMPUR: Bird flu scare spread to Chilika lake with a migratory bird found dead in Nalabana sanctuary, even as culling of poultry continued for the second day on Friday in Keranga of Khurda district. W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOperations at all three nuclear reactors in Shikoku have been suspended as the last one was stopped for a regular inspection on Jan. 13. Shikoku Electric Power Co. suspended operations at the No. 2 reacto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago*Officials in Washington boost security in Gulf in case Jerusalem ignores US requests to hold off on military operation against Iran's nuclear facilities, The Wall Street Journal says. * Contingency plan?...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRussia's failed Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, is about to fall back to Earth - quite probably on Sunday. The spacecraft has been losing altitude rapidly in recent days and will soon be pulled into the top of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA suicide bomber disguised as a policeman targeted Shiite pilgrims Saturday outside the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80, according to authorities and state-run TV. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoJust one decade after the European single currency was launched amid fanfare and fireworks, its future continues to look uncertain as the debt crisis that engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal threatens t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast Honshu, Japan at a depth of 47.3 km (29.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:57:55 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs advances in computer technology make gadgets ever smaller and more portable the idea of carrying a screen of any kind could soon be outdated. Consumer products with screens have dropped in size from co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:42 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNasa's Kepler space telescope has discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our Sun - one of which is as small as Mars. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 41.4 km (25.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:30:30 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WNW of Lata, San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA disgruntled employee killed three of his co-workers and injured another before critically wounding himself in a bloody shooting spree this morning. The man, identified by staff as Ronald Davis, 50, alle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA teenage filmmaker, who made an emotional and inspiring video in support of gay and lesbian youth, has committed suicide. One month after filming It Gets Better, gay-and-lesbian websites reported that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe first week in January was the driest in U.S. history with more than 95 per cent of the U.S. reporting below-average snow. About half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit above ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA mother was jailed for 45 years today for suffocating her six-year-old son in a motel room and dumping his body along a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Texas admitted killing Camden Hughes by kneeling...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. The Navy rev...
- posted by Stephanie Carvin at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours agoSarah Duff (who has contributed to this blog before) had a very interesting piece in the UK Guardian this week on the hurdles scholars in developing countries have to face in order to engage with scholars...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe father of a missing toddler says he took a polygraph test shortly after she disappeared from his Maine home but neither he nor police will reveal the results. Justin DiPietro reported 1-year-old Ayla ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe father of a missing toddler says he took a polygraph test shortly after she disappeared from his Maine home but neither he nor police will reveal the results. Justin DiPietro reported 1-year-old Ayla ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least three people were killed and more than 4,000 passengers and crew were rescued last night after a packed cruise liner began sinking off the Italian coast after running aground. Twenty-four Britis...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoWow, what is it with spokesthingies called Marshall saying misleading things today? * * *First* we have BC Ferries' *Deborah Marshall* trotting out a line about a *smoking clutch* when in fact we learn it ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours agoGoogle is no longer the best search engine. Type in 'Prabowo' and you get 'Primark'. On 12 January 2012, Mat Honan writes that *Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine* "I just switched the default...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 48.5 km (30.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:50 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) West of Jayapura, Iri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDavid Cameron threatened Iran with military action yesterday if the regime blocks the Straits of Hormuz – the lifeline for the world’s oil supplies. The Prime Minister spoke as he paid his first visit to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother and her two daughters have been rescued from their BMW, which was teetering perilously on a California freeway bridge after a gravel truck rear-ended their car and plunged into a creek. The truck...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA persistent group of thieves went to extreme lengths to get their hands on extra cash - after digging a 100ft tunnel under a building to reach a cash machine. The labour-intensive robbery saw the gang sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn obsessed Kate Bush fan has been deported from Britain after breaking into her home in an attempt to propose to her. Frank Tufaro, an American, was carrying a £3,000 diamond, sapphire and gold ring bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFrance was stripped of its coveted AAA credit rating last night in a crushing humiliation for President Nicolas Sarkozy. The downgrade of Europe's second largest economy - along with eight other Eurozone ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 62.9 km (39.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:11:45 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 128.8 km (80 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:24 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) Northeast of Toma...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoSlowly but surely general security is steadily improving. More cameras and more electronic capability as loopholes are systematically shut out. Here we have the addition of sprays that nicely ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe are slowly getting better at all this. A chimera is a creature formed from the cells of two separate individuals, in this case of the same species. In folklore, it is extended to include tw...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt turns out that sea cucumbers are instrumental in cleaning up coral debris and redissolving it so it may once again be turned into fresh coral. It is not dissolving the reef at all. This ite...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe country has a population exceeding 150,000,000 of which half are Muslim and the other half are Christian. However, it looks more like a local thug is attempting to get his grab for power in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:52:32 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.9 miles) East of Susehri, Turkey No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:44:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (142 miles) ESE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:46:46 UTC Saturday 14th January 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) WNW of Niue Island No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe eurozone economy has been plunged back into crisis after the credit worthiness of nine nations were downgraded by a leading ratings agency. Standard & Poor's (S&P) stripped France of its gold-plated A...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoThe current global average mean temperature is about 15 °C. However, Colin Goldblatt and Andrew J. Watson have submitted a preprint called The Runaway Greenhouse: implications for future climate change, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 393.7 km (244.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:00:43 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 273 km (169 miles) South of Sigave, Ile F...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 21 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - In this age of internet advertising companies will frequently approach popular blogs and websites offering to pay for any number of advertising schemes. The problem is that is exactly what th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* Indonesia* Black magic has long existed in the USA and Europe. On 14 January 2012 the *Sydney Morning Herald* reports on *Indonesia's fixation with black magic* *During the 2009 election campaign, Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 113.2 km (70.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:50:00 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) West...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 129.8 km (80.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:25:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSix people have died and four more are missing after a luxury cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including British holidaymakers, ran aground off the coast of Italy. A major rescue operation...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Click here to see video of Iranian boats harassing the USS New Orleans and Coast Guard cutter Adak* At a time of heightened tensions with Iran, U.S. military officials told CNN Friday that U.S. military...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoDoubt this if you dare. USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Jon Vickers lip-syncs Otello's great entrance declaration, "*Esultate*," from Act I of Verdi's opera, from the 1974 Karajan film.* *OTELLO*: Rejoice! The pride of the Muslims is buried in the sea; the gl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Addicted! Internet Dependency Alters the Human Brain”* by Jeremy Laurance “Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alc...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoDollar is not gold. Dollar is God. And wherever there is God, there is also a class of priests who are ready to sacrifice the people's lives and money in rituals and wars to prop up the God that they beli...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“It is the largest and most complex star forming region in the entire galactic neighborhood. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way galaxy, the region's spid...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 day agoI really feel saddened for this nation when I hear people who I greatly admire have been somehow seduced by the cult of Mitt Romney. We have only had ONE primary and some caucuses in two tiny little states...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Exile”* by Chet Raymo “ Are we truly alone With our physics and myths, The stars no more Than glittering dust, With no one there To hear our choral odes?” “This is the ultimate q...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*"The average voter is a low-information decider, making his or her choices about candidates based on often times incomplete or just plain wrong facts. The analysis of political races -- from the presiden...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoSpoil. A beautiful and powerful documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest - extraordinarily footage from some of the world's best photographers hoping to show us what we have to lose if the Enbridge Gatew...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA major rescue operation is under way after a luxury cruise ship carrying 4,200 passengers and crew is said to have run aground off the coast of Italy. The Costa Concordia had left the port of Savona at 7...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoI've noticed that radiation levels spike the most in west coast cities that have mountains on their east side. Sacramento (east is Sierras) and all central valley cities on down Cal. have had significant...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Ann Landers
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*A March For Our Ancestors* January 31st through February 3th District 7 to Sacaton’s Veteran’s Park Shap Kaij Hahajun, This is notice to all O’othham brothers and sisters that after many years of att...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEven Sarah Palin has stumbled into attacking the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency. This is the man who the one percent will use to try to turn back the modest, vaguely pro-middle-class ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThere is a funny quote in Mark Perry's article in Foreign Policy Magazine called "False Flag" that looks at "how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organizati...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 1 day agoFrozen Puck Hovers Over Track Using “Quantum Levitation” WIRED October 18, 2011 | By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Researchers at the school of physics and astronomy at Tel Aviv University have created a ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoBorgo, Corse, France. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so p...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoNot really sure what to make of this news story? I find it so improbable. But here goes..... A Lebanese suspect from the Hezbollah group has been taken into custody by Thai officials and police are investi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*$9,000,000,000,000 Missing From The Federal Reserve! ($9 Trillion) Gone...* "Rep. Alan Grayson questions the FED inspector General where $9 TRillion dollars went... and General Elizabeth Coleman hasn't a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?” - Tuco, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSensitive data -- possibly including information on JAXA's H-2 Transfer Vehicle -- appear to have been leaked.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWeek 2 of the Google+ Space Hangout was a great success, discussing everything from dark matter to exoplanets. Watch it now!
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoUNCONFIRMED http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/hydrogen-explosion-reactor-4-happened-1-9-2012/ There have been quite a few unconfirmed reports about unit 4 over the last week or so http://majiasblog.blog...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:25:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 424 km (264 mil...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoRead Arthur Silber's new awesome article about the Marine Pissing incident in Afghanistan called "The Varieties of Pissing." A key passage: "It is certainly disgusting that U.S. Marines pissed on the bodie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:03:47 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 285 km (177 miles) WNW of Sibolga, Suma...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoAccident at Second Japanese Nuclear Complex: The Nuclear Accident You Never Heard About http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28623
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThe Gay Secretary So that you could buy a few more mansions complain, it's just envy! Because we all secretly admire you and look up to you and want to be just like you, a callous and insensitive (if not ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttp://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/breaking-news-possible-rapid-increase-of-temperature-at-reactor2/
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoCattle, mechanically immobilized before being stunned and slaughtered Israel kills Iranian scientists and sabotaging Iranian facilities, then follows a false-flag attack claimed to be Iran's "retaliation"...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoNavajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, is a major source of greenhouse gases in the US. Navajos recently protested the operator, the Salt River Project, during protests of ALEC,...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoNuclear Energy Institute FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact:202.739.8000 - For Release:December 16, 2011 Industry Welcomes Nuclear Energy Funding in Final Spending Bill[excerpted] ...“We particular...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Has Capitalism Failed Us?"* by Bill Bonner “Americans think we are stupid,” said a European diplomat at a dinner party in Washington. ”But we’re not stupid. We’re just working out the problems involved...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou can say a lot of things about Standard & Poor's, but the one thing you cannot question is their sense of timing. Last month, they could have chosen almost any day to warn that they were placing the e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance, Austria and Italy have all had their credit ratings downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's. France and Austria now both hold AA+ ratings, while Italy, which formerly held a BBB+ rating,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Queen Charlotte Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:09 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 210 km (131 miles) WNW of ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Indonesians* Standard Chartered bank forecasts that Indonesia will be the sixth biggest economy in the world by 2030. On 4 January 2012, an Indonesian court found a boy guilty of stealing a pair of wor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe emanation of a gray cloud, possibly containing ash, at the Turrialba Volcano was confirmed Thursday afternoon by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de CostaRica (OVSICORI), that resulting in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 20 people were wounded, some critically, in a double bombing Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The two car bombs targeted the homes of police officers in different parts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan ordered troops Friday to treat the corpses of slain insurgents and civilians with "appropriate dignity and respect." The order follows a video that ap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeruvian judges on Friday sentenced Dutch national Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison and ordered him to pay thousands of dollars in reparations for the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman in 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran's embassy in Turkey has issued a formal statement denying reports Tehran was shipping weapons through Turkey to Syria. "We deny such claims and we would like to state that the Islamic Republic of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA BBC radio presenter has admitted a string of sex attacks against five underage girls, a court heard today. Father-of-one Peter Rowell, 53, admitted 12 counts of indecent assault, six counts of making in...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoQ. Why are such research documents - Which Path to Persia? or "String of Pearls" - made public on the web? If these are in fact strategic and provide a view into the world of powers that run the show on ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands are dead, hundreds more of the dying lie writhing on the battlefield, powerless to protect their children. These horrifying and yet fascinating scenes are the highlights of a three-hour...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Dörte Siedentopf. tagesschau.de]By arevamirpal::laprimavera 7 January 2012 (UPDATE: Second part of the translation is posted, translation done by the reader Florian Zschage.) (H/T to the reader...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJulie Jones describes the day her best friend died as 'the worst day of my life'. But she didn't have time to grieve. The single mum-of-three had agreed to adopt Caroline Atkin's three boys and two girls...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFears are rising that the credit ratings of several eurozone countries could soon be downgraded - prompting global markets to fall and the euro falling to a 16-month low. Analysts today said that ratings ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoFront page of Americans for Tax Reform. Thou shalt have no other god before Grover. And they probably joined ALEC also. Martha Zoller and Doug Collins have become the first and second candidates to sign...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew devices from iHealth will connect to a Cloud service in order to store and share health data.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA Mars probe's tank is expected to melt during re-entry, so there's no need for a missile intercept, like in 2008, experts say.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man who buried his fiancee alive in a cardboard box has been given a 20-year prison sentence for attempted murder. Marcin Kasprzak used a taser on 27-year-old Michelina Lewandowska before binding and...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf societies paid the communities who live closest to wilderness areas to be stewards, 331 million of the world's poorest could earn a dollar a day.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMexico's economy has made life even harder for the country's stray dogs. But there's a way you can help.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA British student accused of breaching US copyright could face trial in the US after a judge ruled that he can be extradited. A judge at Westminster Magistrates Court agreed with US prosecutors that 23-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:13 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles)...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoReason Magazine, Benny Peiser, James Delingpole, and WUWT mention an amusing story. In April 2008, climate skeptic and astrophysicist David Whitehouse – who is currently an adviser to the Global Warming P...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Greed and Deception on Wall Street"* by Eric Fry "For the last several months [years- CP], the sordid tales of greed and deception issuing from Wall Street have read like the story line from a riveting...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThis video by the YouTube channel "LexLuvsMovies" contains footage from The Dark Knight Rises trailer and from Batman Begins.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Pinstriped Psychopaths"* by Eric Fry "Some psychopaths occupy a prison cell. Others occupy a corner office. Both are dangerous. Psychopaths possess a profound lack of empathy. They use other people cal...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Spot the loony: (1) Mark Driscoll and (2) Rick Santorum, Repugs' Thesaurus: 30 ways to say n*gg*r, how did the GOP sink to this?* *Pastor Mark Driscoll offers this dilly as a free e-book. In it he explain...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Where the freak were the Reuters scribes:* We’ll offer one last thought about MSNBC’s conduct this week: We’ll offer our thought in the form of a question. Where were the Reute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 54.2 km (33.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:02:28 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 67.3 km (41.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:54:48 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) SSW o...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Third time is almost the charm:* Here’s the way the workload has gone at The One True Liberal Channel this week: All week, the rest of the children have gamboled and played, ri...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoSo, is Mitt Romney and the other vultures at Bain Capital made of money or full of shit? Discuss.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAfghanistan defines the notion of "wheels spinning within wheels." It is the very home of policy chaos where virtually every action invites blowback of one or more kinds, usually unforeseen. This brief...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Life in a Brave New Dumb World:* Last night, Rachel Maddow took a good snootful and rattled off a collection of silly old tales. She recalled the way George Bush 41 looked at h...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoToday's unlucky date is the first of three for 2012. Here's a look at some superstitions and where they originated.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoMainichi: Courts find black rain from A-bomb was more far-reaching than gov't acknowledged http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120113p2a00m0na007000c.html [Excerpted] "Eight lawsuits brought against ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThere's a powerful conservative movement in America determined to purge unwanted subjects from their schools' curricula. For generations they've fought against teaching kids about the theory of evoluti...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIsrael's paper thin veneer of being a Western-style liberal democracy is being shredded. It's the inevitable result of Israel having to come to grips with issues it has for decades been able to duck. Iss...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *The dishonesty comes from both sides now:* What words should a progressive use to describe this kind of conduct? Last night, Steve Kornacki told Rachel Maddow about an exciting...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012* *Epilogue—Rachel’s brown liquids:* We’re going to be good sports and admit it. Rather plainly, The Big Stupid has won! Just consider the political dynamics of the past week. L...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThis is only a 6 minute excerpt. I cannot wait for the entire interview because the excerpt is excellent: http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/9405-bill-moyers-the-biggest-story-of-our-t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoBarack Obama seems to have found Mitt Romney's petard. Now if he can only light the fuze. The petard, or bombshell, is the issue of income inequality in America. While Harperland is doing its best t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 1 day ago
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army and anti-government protesters took to the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStandard & Poor's ratings agency has downgraded France's credit rating, French television channels reported on Friday, citing a government source. S&P warned in December that it could downgrade the credit ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new design based on sunflowers could help solar concentrator plants save space and increase output.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo far this winter, the Alaskan city has been buried in nearly seven feet of snow.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNow that the flat-panel TV has become a commodity, the next step is to make them flatter and bigger.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Territorial borders in the Arctic Ocean, showing the United States, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. University of Durham, UN, Marum.] By Richard Heinberg 10 January 2012 From competition among h...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day agoThe Herman Cain sexual harassment case brought up an issue that has concerned me for years: one-sided confidentiality agreements. As you may recall before your holiday eggnog distracted you, Mr. Cain settl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Beijing smog, 1 November 2011. NRDC] Beijing, January 12 (AFP) – Beijing on Thursday began publishing real-time air quality data on the Internet, bowing to a vocal online campaign for greater go...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI tend to think politics is nothing but a circus to distract the electorate from the true environmental collapse that underlies all the other woes of industrial society...but this act is too good to pass u...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you're driving around or watching television, odds are you aren't exercising.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoIn the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Report “Show Me The Money: Budget-Cutting Strategies for Cash-Strapped States” dated 2002 they advocate that state governments should: *Turn Capital Ass...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoJohn Waltz is one of the most outstanding candidates for Congress running anywhere. He's a blue-collar New Deal Democrat who has one overarching political goal: to represent the regular working families i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorweigan killer Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in twin attacks in July, will undergo a new psychiatric evaluation following a widely contested test which found him criminally insane. "Due to the...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day ago"So long, good Canadian jobs!" Electro-Motive, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., a huge US company, has locked out 465 workers from its London, Ontario plant. The company has offered a take-it-or-leave-i...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoBankers and Russia. Specifically State owned banks expanding and controlling the majority of the market. Is this the "problem" with Russia? The problem requiring destabilization? Does the problem boil down ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoIn defending Israel I’ve come to realise that preconceived ideas and gut feelings override all reasonable argument. That is to say however well argued, very few are willing to engage, or even listen to any...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA British man is among four people who have been charged in Kenya with planning a terror attack in the country. Jermaine John Grant, a 29-year-old Muslim convert, and three Kenyan nationals appeared in c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 115.2 km (71.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:24:02 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) Northwest of...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMaster coastal plan positive~Amy Wold $1.1 billion levee around Lake Charles part of bold proposal Gulf of Mexico oil spill environmental data drives damage assessment~Mark Schleifstein Mississippi, Atch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:35:35 UTC Friday 13th January 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29.2 miles) South Abhar, Iran No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFUKUOKA -- Police have arrested three people for allegedly dispatching a worker to the Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture under a falsified contract, sparking a police probe into the yakuza's poss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEight lawsuits brought against the government by plaintiffs seeking certification of radiation sickness from the "black rain" that fell on Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing in 1945, have seen ruli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Mount Pleasant School District has cancelled classes for the rest of the week after a suspected norovirus sickened about 200 students. The Morning Sun reports schools will be closed today and Friday i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSwiss pharmaceutical giant Roche withheld vital data about the effectiveness of its swine flu drug Tamiflu from scientists, a report will claim next week. The report, to be published on January 18 by the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOfficials burn chicken coops in reaction to a fatal case of bird flu in Jakarta, Indonesia. The virus has killed more than 80 percent of Indonesians infected with it since 2005. JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the wake of news last month that researchers had created a version of the deadly bird flu that was easily transmissible by air, a heated debate has arisen in the scientific community about whether or n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReport by Akshya Rout; Jajpur: The mysterious epidemic that has claimed many crows and hens in some areas of Odisha recently has now spread to Jajpur district , with about 150 crow and ducks deaths in Jaj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has confirmed that H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, has been signalled the Bhutanese village of Tsimasham, in the Chhukha district. The ou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Africa's ostrich farmers are struggling to cope after thousands of their birds were culled during one of the country's worst outbreaks of bird flu. Exports to Europe - the biggest market for South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJudges reject Christopher Tappin's argument that he was tricked by US customs agents in deal to ship missile parts to Iran. A retired British businessman has lost his appeal against extradition to the US...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed at least eight militants Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at two vehicles in North Waziristan, the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestigators in Thailand have arrested a a Lebanese terror suspect who tried to attack spots in Bangkok that are popular with Western tourists, the Thai government said Friday. The United States, meanwh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea apparently test-launched three short-range missiles this week, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Friday, an indication that the reclusive state's military is operating normally after a lea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNegotiations between labor unions and the Nigerian government ended late Thursday without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies, and a union official expressed resolve, in the absence of an accord, to h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoApple halted sale of its iPhone 4S in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday after scuffles broke out over a delayed launch of the device, sending a shopper hurling eggs at a store in the capital. Hundreds of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Syrian opposition group demanding the end of President Bashar al-Assad's reign announced Friday that it has begun coordinating with the rebel Free Syria Army, while thousands of anti-government protest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran's top cleric has blamed the CIA and Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, for killing an Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran's state broadcaster said. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who died Wednesday, was the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 15 people were injured and at least 60 buildings damaged when a tornado struck in western North Carolina, the National Weather Service said Thursday. The storms struck in Rutherford and Burke cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChe Guevara, the famous Argentinian-born revolutionary and military theorist, wore many hats – including that of physician, author, and guerrilla leader. But he almost certainly never wore one with a Merc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Jewish community is on alert after Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue and ignited a fire inside the rabbi's residence - in what authorities are billing a hate crime and attempted murder. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFourteen people were arrested today in South Africa after an elderly couple were burned to death by vigilantes who accused them of being witches. Grandparents Elsa Dubazane and Rafael Zukhulu, both 63, die...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA high school principal who hypnotised pupils faces up to a year in jail after being charged with carrying out the practice without a license. Dr George Kenney, 51, hypnotised 75 students, teachers and the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA top military psychologist has suggested that the reason American soldiers urinated on dead Afghan bodies was because they were 'stressed'. Eugenia Weiss, an expert from the University of Southern Califor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama asked Congress today for another $1.2trillion increase in the nation's debt limit, a request that is largely a formality but which carries election-year implications. It was the thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDecades before the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City saw another tragic event in its skies, when two airliners collided in mid-air over Brooklyn, weeks before Christmas. Two passenger plane...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mysterious celestial body detected outside our solar system five years ago may actually be a ringed planet similar to Saturn, scientists say. Researchers at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident. Martin Lara, 50, of Applegate, California, died Thursday morning after getting dragged b...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA stable number of humans on the planet doesn't necessarily mean less impact on the environment. But it helps.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResearchers have taken a step closer to creating ‘cyborg insects’ that could carry out spying missions - with biofuel cells that run off their own bodies. A team has created the implantable power packs th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA couple who sold a monkey which had seven separate bone fractures to a pensioner for £650 have been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 costs to the RSPCA and banned from keeping animals for life. Lee Powell, 5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA little-understood molecule in the atmosphere could play an important role in reducing pollution and global warming, scientists believe. The 'Criegee biradicals' could lead to aerosol formation - and ulti...
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