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- posted by PC at Not PC - 9 minutes agoIf you want to get things done, then don’t work in an open plan office. Most of us now work in teams [notes the New York Times], in offices without walls, for managers who prize “people skills” above all...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 minutes agoDaniel McAdams LewRockwell.com January 17, 2012 Poor Tamas Fellegi. Hungary's envoy to the International Monetary Fund had to spend last week enduring endless lectures on democracy and fiscal responsibili...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 24 minutes agoThe quote is from a Daily Beast article called, "Despite Official Line, Taliban Foot Soldiers Are Furious at Video of U.S. Troops Urinating on Dead Afghans," by Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. From a war-o...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour ago
What can we learn from histories of the AIDS crisis? Jacques Pépin's *The Origins of AIDS* and Nathan Geffen's *Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign* are two important con... - posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAfter being exposed to antibiotics for only 2 weeks, a drastic rise in drug-resistant E. coli has been detected in guts of pigs.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoBeirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoDark Moon. Image from The Sage Grove.Moon Musings: Dark Moon(January 20 – 22, 2012)By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / January 16, 201210 a.m. is the best time to perform Dark Moon magick for the garden. This m...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoI’ve always believed that American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) members are so loyal because somewhere along the line there’s a “lil’ somethin somethin” for them to sell off our democracy to the cor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago
Weekend Edition January 13-15, 2012 * * *Bernanke's Double-Whammy* *The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob* by MIKE WHITNEY Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke wants US taxpayers to purchase more ... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I was up just before 4 today. The first tweet I saw was from John Boehner pointing to a pro forma statement he issued to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, for him another excuse for the House not being ... - posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour agoM.I.T. is a world leading university. And no, Virginia, I’m not talking about the low-rent second-rate impostor out in Otara. I’m talking about the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Privatizing the War on Terror: America's Military Contractors"* By John W. Whitehead “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops th...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoPrinting your own electronics gets a little closer, using silver as the base for an ink.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe tomb of a singer for the supreme deity Amon Ra during the Twenty-Second Dynasty has been discovered in Egypt's Valley of Kings.
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 2 hours ago
Karl Marx stated in his book, Capital, that the inherent contradictions in the Capitalist system were the seeds of its own destruction. How right he was. Love him or loath him, Karl Marx has certainly m... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago
Mexican American Studies students marched and rallied in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day in Tucson today, protesting the decision by Tucson Unified School District board to forbid their classes. Studen... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoThese headlines prove the point: Enenews reports on UC Berkeley Research: Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago http://enenews.com/over-epa-limit-cesium-lev...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours agoNo Army Can Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come! - Victor Hugo And speaking of real patriots (but come onnnnnnn! who dares to?): Published on BuzzFlash.org (http://blog.buzzflash.com) Global Corporations Have...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King • I wish you all a peaceful, and thoughtful, Martin Luther King Day. - CP
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoNew York Times: Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/foreclosure-auctions-in-phoenix-show-capitalism-at-its-rawest.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23 Ne...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*Tom Clay, “What The World Needs Now”* * (“Abraham, Martin and John”) * “Detroit DJ Tom Clay brought this out in the early 1970's and it was seen as a celebration of the message behind that spread by John ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours agoMartin Luther King's prophetic last speech, April 4 ,1968
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Unicorns Are Mythical Creatures...”* by Karl Denninger “...and that pretty colored thing you're about to stick in your mouth, which came from the back side of the alleged unicorn, is *not* candy. How m...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBeirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- At least 25 people are dead after a six-story building collapsed in Beirut, the country's news agency reported Monday. The collapse occurred Sunday night in the Ashrafieh neighbor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoEnvironmental campaign group Greenpeace has warned that if oil leaks from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia it could cause an environmental disaster, threatening marine life including birds, whale...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Such A Waste...”* by Bill Bonner “All over the world, the press is howling for the heads of the marines seen urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers on YouTube. Everyone is appalled. Defense i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 28.8 km (17.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:39:54 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (84 miles) ESE of Neiafu, Tonga No ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhat was a TSA air marshal doing at an Occupy camp at 3:40 on a Saturday morning, just an hour before protestors were evicted by Boston police? Stealing the iPhone of one of the camp’s prominent voices, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoJanuary 12th, the displays of wealth on the verified Sina Weibo [microblog] account of “Jilin City Beijing Liaison Office worker Gao Yue’er” attracted netizens’ attention. Gao Yue’er showed off the Chanel ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Amazon.com Inc.'s (AMZN) online shoe and clothing retail unit Zappos disclosed a massive cyber attack over the weekend involving millions of user accounts, underlining the need ...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 4 hours agoThe Gay Secretary Of course all these conservative propagandists, in addition to their radio shows on Clear Channel, also have programs on TV as well, into which they carry their agenda. after all, they c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA state of emergency has been declared after an unidentified liquid began leaking from the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia. Protective barriers have been put in place around the ship where 16 peopl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck North of Ascension Island at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:53:12 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 975 km (606 miles) SSW from Monrovia...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours ago*Warning: the following line contains spoilers* *Nope.* That was the compactified version of the article. Below you may find the decompactified one. *The page containing this picture explains how to a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIt could be anything from a simple 'hello' to disrupting the earth's nuclear fusion process. But despite the uncertainty of how aliens could get in touch, one thing is certain for the astronomers from Sea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA southern Russian farm had to slaughter all 30,736 of its pigs because of African swine fever, the country’s largest outbreak of the virus. The pigs at the Plemzavod Industrialny farm in the southern Rus...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 5 hours ago*Do the Twin Towers look like they're "falling" or EXPLODING:* *Otherwise seemingly intelligent people, who endorse the 9/11 "MIRACLES" story: Are they being PAID OFF? Are their lives being threatened? Di...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 5 hours agoThe Gay Secretary The US Government will likely not raise on this busted flush because Ron Paul's success in the primaries, despite the concerted efforts of the corporate media, the GOP, American citizens...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoResearchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe H5N1 bird flu virus may be evolving the ability to spread from mammal to mammal, says a team who have discovered that pigs in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since 2005. It's one step in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoRussia has been dealing with African swine fever (ASF) in its swine herd since 2007 and the virus keeps marching across the country. This has prompted serious concerns about the prospect of the virus sp...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours agoFROM *THE NEW YORKER*, the triumph of the wall-wart.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours ago*Newt sucks up $30K/hr of our money, Christine "I'm Not a Witch" O'D endorses Mitt, "Keep America American"?, phantom centrists* *CAUTION: The following image is pretty darned disgusting, and not recomme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA third of Italians think it would be better for their country to return to the lira, a poll has revealed today. The survey, published in the Corriere della Sella, also said 65 per cent of those polled th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFormer U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has warned a report that Iran is a year away from being able to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic. In a radio interview today, he said: 'I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and of El Al, the Israeli airline, were brought down Monday morning by an apparent hacking attack. An internet hacker who calls himself Ox Omar sent an e-mail t...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours agoBack *here* I deleted comments and left a note explaining that I did so because of the vicious ad hominem nature of some of these comments. I won't speak for my co-bloggers but I ask that commenters on my ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:47 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.4 miles) Northwest of Basco, Taiw...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *We don’t think the press corps will go there:* What did Mitt Romney do at Bain? And when did Mitt Romney do it? Within the mainstream press, very few major players seem incline...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours agoClass conflict risesas middle class disappearsThe growing inequality of wealth and income in this country has reached a point where it is now causing a conflict between the rich (the 1%) and the vast majorit...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoDr. King was such an inspirational leader that he posed a real threat to the 1%.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Simon Ortiz, world acclaimed poet, author and professor, responded to the banning of books by Chicano and Native American authors. Tucson...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of Birmingham couple Avtar and Carole Kolar. The husband and wife from Handsworth Wood were killed in their home last week. Police laun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe search for 16 people still missing after the capsizing of the cruise liner Costa Concordia has resumed following an earlier suspension after the ship moved, according to a fire brigade spokesman. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 8.1 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (86 miles) East of Vi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFor three days starting Tuesday, Seminole County Chief Circuit Judge Alan Dickey has scheduled 300 foreclosure cases. "If everybody shows up, I'll have about 30 seconds a case," said the judge, who expres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck the South Dakota at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:41:10 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) East of Hot Springs, South Da...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThree people died when a civilian helicopter contracted to NATO forces crashed in flames in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. The Nato-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan said a civilian helicopte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSouth African authorities have indefinitively shut down the world's most dangerous beach for shark attacks after naming a man who was fatally mauled. Lungisani Msungubana, 25, died while swimming off the n...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours ago*1962: FIFTY YEARS AGO,* and a time of great changes, the effects of which are still being adjusted to, today. *MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE*, a fine site run by the Economist gang, has an article by Matthew En...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 7 hours agoBy: Duane Craig According to the Environmental Protection Agency, trichloroethylene, or TCE, is expected to be dangerous to humans in concentrations exceeding 5 parts per billion in drinking water. In Here...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 7 hours ago*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *Why can’t our team follow suit:* Three cheers for Kathleen Parker! In her column from Sunday’s Washington Post, Parker crosses tribal lines to defend Michelle Obama. Much of th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: National Center for Science Education’s climate change education initiative: Understanding and teaching the science behind climate change] By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau 16 January 2012 R...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 8 hours agoThis simple rose can be whipped up in just a couple of minutes and just needs a few easy supplies. It looks cute as a brooch or on a headband. You will need: felt in a flower color green felt scissors h...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 8 hours ago*MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012* *Part 1—Planet of the scripts:* In Sunday morning’s Washington Post, Dana Milbank jumped the shark. After that, he jumped the cage the shark is kept in! In the process, he crea...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours agoWhat a dilemma~ Kevin McGill ~What impressed me most as I read the state's latest plan to save its coast is the map. A sea of red, representing an encroaching Gulf of Mexico, consumes almost every inch of ...
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoSolowheel is sort of like a Segway...if it only had one wheel and nothing to hold onto.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours ago*Click on the image so you can see who's paying for it.* I was speaking to a friend in Montana today who was aghast that two of the top Democratic contenders for the Democratic congressional nomination, Ki...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 9 hours agoWell, that was fun. It’s hard not to come out of this weekend’s Liberal Renewalfest in Ottawa without feeling good about the future. Considering the collective punch to the gut the Liberal Party took on M...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoGirl, whispering so quietly I could barely hear her: Excuse me. Um, do you work here? Um... um... do you know where I can find books about diaries of wimpy kids? Ten minutes later, a boy: Do you have Dia...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoan editorial by Tony Cartalucci January 16, 2012 - What a spectacle, the "first black president" of the United States celebrating Martin Luther King Jr Day. How far we've come, or so it would seem. And w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 64.4 km (40 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:20 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) East of ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours agoLast week we shared the experiences of contactee Luis Sanchez with INEXPLICATA readers in the article “Argentina: A High Strangeness Event from 1986” and promised to follow up with any developm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe search for 16 people still missing after the capsizing of the cruise liner Costa Concordia has been suspended after the ship began to move, according to a fire brigade spokesman. The vessel hit an u...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoI have a little meta-reflection on writing my recent post about the walled-off internet. These thoughts are not specific to the topic; it could have been anything. As it happens, writing that post brought ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe National Park Service has 30 days to correct a misquoted inscription at the base of the statue.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe uninhabited island, a protected nature reserve lying between the coast of Tuscany and Corsica, has been invaded by thousands of black rats. The rodents are believed to have arrived on the four-square-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNAKHON SI THAMMARAT : Fifteen districts of this southern province have been declared disaster zones after mountain runoff hit on Saturday night. A flash flood struck following days of heavy rain in Gulf-s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIncessant rain in several regencies in Banten province over the past three days has triggered floods and landslides, leaving not only three people dead and more than 13,000 homes inundated, but also hampe...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago...and watching the years grind out of this bloody extruder called Life is like watching an incipiently rickety assembly line struggling to make quota even though automation will someday in the near futur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA flash flood warning has been issued for the Queensland coast, from Rockhampton to the New South Wales border. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for Tuesday, predicting that 150m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRadioactive gravel thought responsible for high radiation readings in a new apartment complex in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, was likely shipped to over 200 companies, making its way into apartments,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDespite some poultry owners hiding their chickens and eggs either in their homes or away from the coops, all 192 chickens at the camp in Changedaphu (Kalabazar), Thimphu was culled by yesterday. The “ope...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoKobe University lab creates 'novel' H5N1 in 'secret' lab --Emails from Kobe virologist and H5N1-H1N1 virus creator, Teridah Ernala Ginting - -Story in e-mails: Kobe University PhD student Teridah Ernala c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe World Health Organization says it will take a role in helping sort through an international scientific controversy over two bird flu studies that the U.S. government says are too dangerous to publish ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDutch lab that created deadly bird flu virus attacks America for redacting its research. America should not be allowed to dominate the debate over who controls sensitive scientific information that could...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours agoCanal EnfoqueTV announces a new program for 2012: Archivo OVNI (in HD) A promotional video can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9wxJWyd8M Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours agoSource: Planeta UFO and LU24 Date: 01.15.2012 Argentina: Anomalous Object at Tres Arroyos (Barro El Molino) A resident of Barrio El Molino approached LU24 (the Tres Arroyos radio statio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA surfer has been killed by a shark at a South African beach dubbed the world's deadliest following a string of attacks by the killer beasts. Ngidi Msungubana, 25, died yesterday after being repeatedly bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian medical official says 59 people suffered injuries as days of protests against the government and austerity measures turned violent. Alis Grasu of Bucharest's ambulance...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Iran at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 10:07:52 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Southeast of...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours agoSource: Grupo G.A.B.I.E. Date: 01.15.2012 Source: www.grupogabie.blogspot.com Argentina: A UFO Over Suipacha, Buenos Aires G.A.B.I.E. Case # 20111224 Hugo Pelatti, a follower of our blog, ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:26:46 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 204 km (127 miles) SSE of Manad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe parent company behind the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which ran aground off the Tuscan coast, fears the disaster will cost it nearly $100m (£65.3m). Carnival said the tragedy will hit its earnings ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEngineers are set to pour 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon to test whether it can create a renewable source of energy that does not rely on the weather. Water will be pumped in...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 13 hours agoSo it looks like Jon Huntsman is calling it a race and he's endorsing Mitt Romney on his way out the door. Huntsman is the one guy that might have been able to give President Obama a hard time in the gene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSmoke was visible for miles around an old mill that caught fire in a massive blaze on Sunday in Cornwall, north of New York City. Police in Orange County, New York, said firefighters spent several hours ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the West Coast of Colombia at a depth of 13.5 km (8.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:20:16 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) WNW from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 13 hours ago[image: Orwell broadcasting to India for the BBC] Blue Monday? Not on the rather pinkish BBC. A new Open Thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHas winter finally woken up? The northwest took a pounding at the weekend as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Alaska brought the first major snowfall of the season to the Seattle area. The mideast, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike, four Pakistan intelligence officia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIran warned Gulf Arab neighbors on Sunday they would suffer consequences if they raised oil output to replace Iranian crude facing an international ban. In signs of Tehran's deepening isolation over its ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoOccupy protesters coordinated a global series of candlelight vigils tonight in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Hundreds of Occupy activists, alongside members of the National Action Network, braved...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe so-called butcher of Brighton Beach who was convicted of killing four people in New York last February says he killed six other people that no one knows about. Maksim Gelman, 24, who faces sentencing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwo adults and two children were killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Sunday at an apartment building in California's Central Valley, while a fifth person was hospitalized in critical condition, police ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 33.4 km (20.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:17 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) WSW of China...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoProtesters seeking the ouster of Romanian President Traian Basescu and early elections gathered for a fourth straight day Sunday in a main square of Bucharest, the capital, and 18 other cities in the East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe FBI has called on property owners to search land in North Dakota and Montana for signs of the buried body of a maths teacher missing for more than a week. In a statement released last night, the FBI s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBritish explorers are preparing to drill through almost two miles of ice into an Antarctic lake as they seek clues about life one million years ago. The team used a 'tractor train' to tow nearly 70 tonnes ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago*Comments about frozen methane and doubled fossil fuel reserves added at the end* Canada became the first country that has withdrawn from the Kyoto protocol a month ago. NASA's experts similar to James Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNutritionists are giving "dangerous" advice to patients suffering from illnesses including cancer, according to a Which? investigation. The consumer group said therapists are providing "expensive dietary ...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 14 hours agoThis past Wednesday, 1/11/12, marks the ten-year anniversary of the first prisoners' arrival to Guantánamo Bay. The American facility at Guantánamo remains a shameful stain on our national honor. The facil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOfficers discovered another parked car rigged with explosives in the same area, said Mosul police Lt. Col. Hilal al-Ahmedi. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Al Qaeda in Iraq, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNorth Korea has angrily denied allegations that it punished some of its citizens for inadequately mourning the death of its late leader Kim Jong Il. Kim died last month after 17 years of repressive rule o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA 12-year-old boy found guilty of murdering his 11-year-old sister said he was forced to confess to the murder after hours of 'terrifying' police interrogation - although he had nothing to do with it. Pol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Nigerian government has slashed fuel prices after a nationwide strike paralyzed the country last week. President Goodluck Jonathan made the announcement Monday. Minutes later, the federal government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe disaster that wrecked a luxury cruise liner and killed at least six passengers has left officials and experts on maritime navigation searching for answers -- fast. But two days after the massive shi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBritain is once again suffering a recession and unemployment risks coming close three million this year, a leading economic forecaster reports. The UK's economic recovery is 'paralysed' by Europe's debt c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoGeorge Osborne announced a landmark deal with China last night that will pour billions of pounds into the City of London. News of the deal came amid fresh warnings that the economy is edging into recessio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 156 km (96.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:16 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) South from Gorontalo, S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA terrified girl of four was found hiding just a few feet away from the bodies of her murdered mother and eight-year-old sister. Omelia Miller was discovered cowering by police officers inside the famil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWilliam Hague said yesterday that Britain was braced for fresh disasters in the eurozone as markets looked set to plunge after France was stripped of its coveted Triple A credit rating. The Foreign Secre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe UK is likely to have already fallen into recession as the eurozone crisis scuppers hopes of imminent recovery, two respected economic forecasters have warned. The Ernst & Young ITEM Club and the Centr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA sixth body has been found on the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, Italian authorities have announced. The male passenger was found wearing a life jacket, but reports say he was in an area ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 53.2 km (33.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:29:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) SSE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 64.6 km (40.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:59 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:13:38 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) East of Kyz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 85.7 km (53.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:04:02 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 333 km (206 miles) NNE of Te...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 15 hours ago*Elvis Presley had Scottish origins.* Scotland would be the 6th richest country in the world if it had INDEPENDENCE *The revenue from Scotland's oil, over the last several years, amounts to £3.48 trilli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — White-tailed deer populations in parts of eastern Montana and elsewhere in the Northern Plains could take years to recover from a devastating disease that killed thousands of the an...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis is an important finding in afield that has been mostly confused. Italso puts my own observations on the topic on a sound physical basis. I have always had a keen interest in my owntalents and the...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis is a short survey on barleygrass and the quick take home is that it is the one specific thing that you canconsume with the expectation of a significant improvement independent of theusual protocol...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoAs I have posted extensively onthis subject and have drawn one specific conclusion it is worthy to alsodiscuss what are alternative sightings that fail to match our core conjecture. My specific conclu...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis is a delightful demonstration by a crow in which hedemonstrates clear intelligence, which is a well known trait of crows generally. I have long argued that the foundation of demonstratableintelligen...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours agoAn emotional video for Monday. A dog and a dolphin in Croatia are the heroes. By Jelena of Croatia, peugeot255.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoIncreasing human carbon dioxide emissions may be impacting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago[image: Link]Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. should declare a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in populated areas until the health effects are better understood, doctors said at a conference on the dri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFlawed database doesn’t capture all hazardous chemical releases. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its analysis of the 2010 Toxics Release Inventory, a database containing information o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOTTAWA—A biologist, an energy lawyer and an aboriginal geologist will sit down Tuesday in a recreation centre in the wilderness of northern British Columbia to initiate what could be the fiercest environme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWell, this is a bad way to start the year. Over the past 48 hours, news has broken in India of the existence of at least 12 patients infected with tuberculosis that has become resistant to all the drugs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRough conditions at Christmas Island have left authorities on the foreshore watching a broken-up cargo ship leak oil and phosphate on to the coastline this afternoon. General cargo vessel the MV Tycoon, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAir pollution levels in Hong Kong were the worst ever last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, a finding that may further undermine the city's role as an Asian financial centre as busin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEMILY BOURKE: Think Antarctica, think pristine but a new study has again found that's not exactly so. A team of oceanographers have discovered the sea birds in the Southern Ocean have four times the mercu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoScientists have found that food packaging appears to increase the levels of two phthalates in lunches fed to children by up to 50%, following a study in Italy. Researchers from the University of Naples m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCurrent predictions overlook two important factors: the differences in how quickly species relocate and competition among species. As climate change progresses, the planet may lose more plant and animal s...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours ago------------------------------ http://youtu.be/i3EADdr-5AY Busted! Ron Paul racist rant caught on tape! OMG! OMG! http://youtu.be/CWpICzxteMk Ron Paul 2012: Unmatched Intellect Cherchez la Verite
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoFor career criminal Darrell Issa to set loose the hounds of hell on a senior Republican colleague-- in this case, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon-- the preponderance of evidence of cri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWe have been hearing a lot about what the oil spill is doing to the ocean. But something else which is also concerning is the condition the ocean was in, even prior to the spill. We live in a finite world....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSeaview beachcomber Matt Mulvey is eager for debris from the Japanese tsunami to wash up on the Long Beach Peninsula. He hopes to find real glass fishing floats and buoys among the sea-trash swept into t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"In life you have to do a lot of things you don't ****ing want to do. Many times, that's what the **** life is... one vile ****ing task after another.” - “Al Swearengen”, “Deadwood”
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe U.S. Coast Guard will escort the first ship coming to the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview this month, and the Occupy movement and local labor groups say they are planning to greet the vessel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPresident Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday of his intent to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, two weeks after he had postponed the request to give lawmakers more time to conside...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Treasury Department has begun maneuvers to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, as the Obama administration waits for Congress to return from the holiday break before it can raise the federal borrowing limi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA Cincinnati landlord found to have violated state anti-discrimination laws after she hung a "white only" sign outside her swimming pool lost an appeal with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission on Thursday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashione...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMichael Hastings' new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president's relationship with the troops. The book describes a visit to Baghdad: After ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOver the past few months, I have written several articles dealing with the coming cashless society and the developing technological control grid. I also have written about the surge of government attempts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFormer customers of MF Global Holdings' collapsed brokerage were disappointed to hear on Thursday that the trustee hunting for funds missing from their accounts has no immediate plans to transfer more mone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Mount Pleasant woman is serving 10 days in jail after failing to pay a $480 fine for having a messy yard. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports 53-year-old Linda Ruggles has sold blood and even vo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 9.1 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:59:45 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 569 km (353 miles) West of Corona...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 18.9 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:55 UTC Monday 16th January 2012 The epicenter was 220 km (137 miles) NNE of Baubau, Sulaw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe latest round of American sanctions are aimed at shutting down Iran's central bank, a senior US official said Thursday, spelling out that intention directly for the first time. "We do need to close do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChina is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to modernize some of the historic trading towns on its western frontier. But critics say modernization is happening at a cost to the region’s cultural h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDespite tightening sanctions on Iran's oil industry, experts say the country's crude should still flow -- but perhaps at a deep discount. In fact, the bargaining has already begun, two analysts said. Chin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSomali pirates are not building palaces with swimming pools with the ransoms they collect from international shipping companies and hostages, but they are helping the local economy, a new report finds. "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe bigger they are, the harder they fall. That's the tenet behind the Skyscraper Index which tracks a link between construction booms of tall buildings and economic busts over the past 140 years. Some s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours 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 - 19 hours agoAt least half a million children in the UK are unhappy with their lives, according to a survey. The Good Childhood Report 2012 revealed that 9% of school children aged between eight and 15 are miserabl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 42.2 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:51:10 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) WSW of Iquique, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 62.3 km (38.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:49:09 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Mexico No T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:58:50 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50.8 miles) South ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoA Shadow Hangs Over President Barack Obama: Is He Being Blackmailed? On Sunday, January 15, CNN reported that "The U.S. military has postponed planned military exercises with Israel ahead of a scheduled v...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 20 hours ago*****Holiday tree some guests put up from a branch in the jungle the staff found and all natural ornaments, i.e. shells, etc. The same guests have been putting up an all natural tree on the beach the past ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies, IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoZachary, Louisiana, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 21 hours agoThe drive to Ottawa. Had there been an “annex the Turks & Caicos” policy, it would have passed overwhelmingly, simply on the prospect of a sun destination convention. Munir Sheikh – the Bono of former S...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"We don't have to hate ourselves for our own vulnerability. We don't have to hate ourselves for what life has done to us. We don't have to hate ourselves because hurt or loss or longing has gotten to us....
- posted by Refreshingly Twatted at No Shit Department- - 21 hours agoVery Interesting Bit of Detective Work 1. Back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes.' So how can the Obama 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used at ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago“Superstition lies in the space between what we can control. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it thirty thr...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours agoSo don't forget to throw a few bucks their way!
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTalks over a deal to write down Greek government bonds have been put on "pause," according to the industry group representing private sector investors and banks. The Institute of International Finance sai...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours ago*"Mitt Romney looks no less presidential today than he did at the start. But none of the others has come close to making himself plausible."* *-- Fred Hiatt, in a WaPo column,* "Where are the serious Repub...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 22 hours agoIn case you hadn’t heard, European government debt was downgraded over the weekend. Not before time. After four years of attempting government “rescues” of their respective economies by borrowing to b...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTunisia has cautiously added its voice to calls from Qatar for direct intervention to stop the bloody crackdowns on protesters in Syria. The foreign minister of Tunisia said in an interview to APTN on Sund...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSudan has started to confiscate some oil exports from South Sudan to meet “unpaid transit fees” but said it will not shut down a pipeline carrying the southern state's oil. "Since early December we've sta...
- posted by Autonomous Mind at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoAs seasoned B-BBC readers are all too aware, the BBC has an unpleasant habit of editing elements of its stories, without changing the 'last updated' timestamp in the article header - an activity known as s...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*VISIONS:* *THE PRODUCER CO-OP OPTION:* There are basically two types of cooperatives, consumer and producer. The former is a mutual aid society of purchasers banded together to get the best possible...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAny surviving components of the doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft plunged into the ocean on Sunday.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoSkip the Turban, Check the Brain: It’s Called the Persian Gulf for a Reason By Mark Sheffield Published: December 26, 2011 Policy on Point.com Iran just can’t help but make the ‘news’ these days. Whether i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Atmospheric NO2 concentration over China, 1 June 2007 - 30 August 2007. disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov] By Nina Chestney, editing by Rosalind Russell 15 January 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – A rise in the atm...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoFollow up to the news story I posted on Friday. Thanks for the interesting comments. It appears to be time for a map! Oh look, a map...... Relevant comment from Veritas " Thai Oil reserves in the Gulf ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Lena Horne sings what the YouTube poster aptly describes as her "signature song," "Stormy Weather," from the 1943 film Stormy Weather.* *by Ken* In Friday night's preview we heard two thrilling musical ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoTohono O'odahm veteran protests outside the school board meeting in Tucson on Tuesday night, when Mexican American Studies was banned. It resulted in Tucson schools banning books by award winning Chicano and...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Why should Man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?" ~ Pierre Troubetzkoy
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoAs I blogged last year, temperature “predictions” by alleged climate scientists have failed over recent decades to match the measured surface temperature record. “Predictions” from 1990 for example expec...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoThere’s plenty of reasons for a person to feel negative about life in Christchurch. Or not... Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:52:02 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 mi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoYanni, “To The One Who Knows”
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoThe irony of deceit. by Tony Cartalucci January 16, 2012 - Prachatai describes itself as "an independent, non-profit, daily web newspaper established in June 2004 to provide reliable and relevant news a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Final Steps in Achieving Global Totalitarianism”* by Richard Posner "The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe mother and daughter who were killed at their home near Leeds are Sarah Laycock and eight-year-old Abigail, according to Sky sources. Their bodies were found at a house in Garforth on Saturday after p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 16.2 km (10.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:06:47 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 2447 km (1521 miles) South...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The U.S. Government Is Bankrupt" * by Doug Casey, Casey Research "Everyone knows that the US government is bankrupt and has been for many years. But I thought it might be instructive to see what its cur...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Half of the grounded container ship 'Rena' is seen in the Bay of Plenty near Tauranga on 9 January 2012, after it broke in two in a storm. The cargo ship which caused New Zealand's worst maritime...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast on Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying. Debris from the Phobos-Grunt craft fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSurvivors of the Costa Concordia have told of the panic and chaos as thousands of people desperately attempted to flee the stricken vessel. Incredible stories of survival have emerged today from some of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 15.7 km (9.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:41:10 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 358 km (223 miles) West of Coron...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoIsrael has been sending their Dolphin class submarines through the Suez Canal. Traveling on the surface, the Dolphins can travel 8000 miles without needing to refuel. Given a sub-tender in the Indian oce...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A NASA map shows ecological sensitivity for the next century, with purple representing regions only slightly vulnerable to change. The ecological stress increases through blue, green, yellow, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCompared to the snaking queues and crowds at Tokyo’s biggest food festival, the four stalls from Fukushima prefecture are an oasis of quiet. It might just be a pre-lunchtime lull, but among the hundreds o...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThe Gay Secretary The US military has a long history of attempting to weaponize animals, with often comical failures. Most people are already aware that B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to guide bombs onto ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of suspected al Qaeda militants attacked government posts southeast of the Yemeni capital, seizing strategic areas, local authorities and witnesses said. The group of at least 30 entered Radda Sat...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoNYT: "The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have?" "Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households." http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2012/0115-one-percen...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThe Gay Secretary We have seen rumblings on the netabout a 1940's style "Pearl Harbor false flag" possibly against a US military asset in the Gulf, to blame on Iran as the "reason" to attack it. Released...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago*Ayutthaya, Thailand, 9 January 2011* [image: Flood waters continued receding in Thailand’s historic city of Ayutthaya in January 2012. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrance does not see a need to launch further austerity measures as a result of losing its top-notch AAA rating with Standard and Poor's, Finance Minister Francois Baroin told a German newspaper. "We are c...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThe Gay Secretary Whether this is simply public posturing by the Obama administration (possibly to lull Iran into a false sense of security) remains to be seen. The US still has 9,000 troops deployed to...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoEnenews today has a column on excess deaths in the US attributable to Fukushima. The research was conducted by Dr. Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, co-authors of the medical journal arti...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A Zapada stonefly is in the same genus as the western glacier stonefly, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will study to determine whether to propose adding it to the federal lists of threa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Agricultural Systems At Risk: Human Pressure On Land And Water. FAO] ROME, 28 November 2011 (FAO) – Widespread degradation and deepening scarcity of land and water resources have placed a number ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDozens of suspected al Qaeda militants attacked government posts southeast of the Yemeni capital, seizing strategic areas, local authorities and witnesses said. The group of at least 30 entered Radda Satu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Herpetologist Bryan Stuart] By Laurel Neme, special to www.mongabay.com 21 December 2011 Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman whose father died in a factory accident has seized the chance to rid herself of the sight of the building where it happened - by blowing it up. Sarah Griffiths, 41, pushed the button which trigge...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Abandoned horses in Britain stand near an office building. Thousands of horses were abandoned by owners in 2011, as spiralling costs mean horses are left to roam. Redwings] By Tim Rich and Jonat...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoHappy Birthday Drew and Baylen Brees! ~Hat Tweet @humidbeings~HAPPY BIRTHDAY @*DrewBrees*! We love you and everything you do for the city of New Orleans! // "Me and Drew by @*IanHoch*" youtu.be/amWMhBxHjs0
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsrael and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday, days after an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeven officers killed as suspected Sunni insurgents detonate car bomb and storm prison for terror suspects in Ramadi. Seven policemen have been killed after gunmen detonated a car bomb and blasted their ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Why should anyone take the Liberals seriously on marijuana reform in Canada? "While they were in power, Canada's former Liberal government introduced marijuana reform legislation a number of times ... a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:18 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 485 km (301 miles) West of Coronati...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIt has come to my attention that certain fundamental religious people believe that the death of Christopher Hitchens, who had advanced cancer, vindicates their beliefs and proves that Hitchens' atheism was...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists have genetically modified silkworms to produce threads that are as strong as spider silk.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWith the Optimus line of keyboards, each key is its own separate, customizable LED screen.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo more bodies have been found on the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner off the coast of Italy, bringing the total number of dead to five. According to the coastguard, the bodies of two elderly passen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsrael and the United States are "supporters of state terrorism" and will suffer a "punitive response" at an "opportune time," Iran's Press TV cited a top Iranian general as saying Sunday, days after an ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNigerian labor unions failed to reach a deal with the government to stop a national strike over soaring fuel prices, with hours of late-night wrangling ending early Sunday without a compromise. Oil labor ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA freighter carrying oil exploded off the South Korean port city of Incheon, killing three crew members, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. Five crew members were rescued but eight others w...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe recent BBC coverage of the indictment and pending extradition of Richard O'Dwyer for abetting internet piracy has been pretty overtly biased in favor of the defendant. The main thrust of O'Dwyer's st...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoNow imagine this was a supertanker filled with bitumen. Only imagine it's a supertanker full of diluted bitumen wrecked off the proposed tanker port of Kitimat. Okay, there are differences. This is a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoLast summer, Allan and I had plans to meet a friend for dinner, and I Googled the restaurant to get the address and details. The place came up in Google right away, but I couldn't get to the website. After...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region, Arctic Ocean at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:56 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 721 km (447 miles)...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoNew Orleans Saints burned by blitz in final minute ~Jeff Duncan ~Hat Tweet @Pierre_Thomas~Hey fans, just to let everyone know...I'm doing great...it was a nasty hit but this is the sport we play, can't... ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:21:32 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 492 km (306 miles) West of Coron...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA failed Russian probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars, but is instead stuck in Earth orbit, will come crashing down within hours, the Russian space agency has said. Roscosmos said the unmanned Phob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForeign Secretary William Hague has told Sky News that Britain was not ruling out military action against Iran. He insisted all options remained on the table in relation to Tehran's "increasingly danger...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIraqi officials say gunmen stormed a police building in the western city of Ramadi Sunday, as at least one suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the facility. Police say clashes are ongoing inside ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Arab League has not received any official request or suggestion that it send Arab troops to Syria, an Arab representative to the Cairo-based League told Reuters on Sunday. Qatar's emir, Sheikh Hamad ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDamascus extends deal after criticism by Ban Ki-moon and Amr Mousa, as west again rules out military intervention. President Bashar al-Assad has offered an amnesty to citizens who have taken up arms agai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than a week after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu touted a string of peaceful and well-managed city events capped by the BCS championship game, he was back at the podium on Friday...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Link]A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck the South Shetland Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:17 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 539 km (334 miles) We...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoUntil recently, Arkansas had two Democrats in the Senate and three Democrats in the House and just one Republican in its congressional delegation. But you know what happened? The Democrats started abandon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe purser of the ill-fated Costa Concordia was rescued Sunday morning after crews found him trapped in a restaurant, more than a day after the ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, killing at least ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Just remember Iraq was supposed to have nukes, too. * "UN asked to show Iran nuclear data" October 16, 2011|By David E. Sanger and Mark Landler, New York Times WASHINGTON - President *Obama is pressing U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe captain of the capsized Italian cruise ship has spoken of the disaster - and insisted he was last to leave the sinking vessel. Captain Francesco Schettino was detained yesterday on suspicion of multi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Last (?) thoughts on Cain, love Kentucky Baptist-style, Etch A Sketch-pad?, G. Will on Newt, Big House for Blago, and more* (*See 12/5.*) *by Noah* *12/1/11 -- Last (?) thoughts on Herman Cain -- with s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetectives investigating the murders of Avtar and Carole Kolar in Birmingham have arrested a second man. More follows...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*Police are searching the home of plasterer John Miller after the bodies of a woman and an eight-year-old girl were found in Leeds, Sky sources say.* The victims were discovered in Kirkby Avenue, Garforth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn animal welfare organization says up to 30 dolphins have been found stranded on five Cape Cod beaches, and only 11 were able to be released. Kerry Branon of the International Fund for Animal Welfare say...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBHUBANESWAR: Betanoti in Mayurbhanj district is in grip of a scare after preliminary reports on Saturday indicated that a poultry bird sample from the town had confirmed the presence of bird flu, official...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- A 2-year-old boy from northwestern Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey was infected with avian influenza H5N1 virus, Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the World Health O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHong Kong slaughtered 17,000 birds last month, not in preparation for Christmas but because a single chicken at the Cheung Sha Wan wholesale market had tested positive for bird flu. The precaution was no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW BRIGHTON — A large group of dead birds, including a hawk, found in New Brighton appear to be the result of poisoning, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. New Brighton Area police said they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck Western Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:29:03 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) NNE from Balmorhea, Texas No Rep...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Related*: *U.S. Government Uses Texas Used Car Salesman to Sell Terror Plot * *Turns out the Mossad gave the Texas car salesman his paperwork, and that the other suspect is a member of MKO, the CIA/Mossad...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago***Buitenzorg **NATO Special Forces Led Takeover Of Tripoli** **12,000 US troops are heading from Malta to Libya** * [image: Dump Site in Mae Sot - Thailandia] Thailand by lucachizzali *Israel warns...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe stranded Phobos-Grunt probe will likely reenter Earth's atmosphere late on Sunday.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 29.5 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:24:52 UTC Sunday 15th January 2012 The epicenter was 260 km (161 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThey gathered in their thousands, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Tunisians have been marking the first anniversary of the ousting of President Ben Ali. They filled Bourguiba Avenue in the capital ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAP: The UN Secretary General has demanded that Syria's president stops killing his own people, saying the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny. In a keynote addres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe failed Russian Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, continued its descent to Earth on Saturday, losing hundreds of metres in height every hour. By 23:00 Saturday (GMT), the 13-tonne spacecraft was circling the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestigators say four women are being held in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara in connection with an apparent child-trafficking ring that aimed to supply babies to childless Irish couples. The Ja...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoClashes erupt at the border between Kosovo and Serbia. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators trying to block traffic from Serbia. The ethnic Albanian protester...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis was not an intentional fireworks display. A truck was making a delivery of fireworks and firecrackers and accidentally dropped its goods...setting off colourful sparks in this tunnel in southern C...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Why?* *“It’s easier to think about this than it is to comment on the plight of the urban poor or climate change or war. The world weighs upon us. It’s complicated and it’s scary and it’s sad and it’s tra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Russian tanker is preparing to off-load more than a million gallons of diesel and gasoline to fuel-starved Nome, after finally reaching the Alaska town's iced-in harbor to send that cargo through a mile-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInvestigators are 'extremely confident' that a man in their custody is responsible for all four recent killings of homeless men in Orange County, Anaheim Police Chief John Welter said Saturday. Welter sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Obama administration raised concerns Saturday about efforts in Congress that it said would undermine 'the dynamic, innovative global Internet’. White House officials urged lawmakers to approve measure...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe European Union has been accused of trying to 'brainwash' children after pupils all over the country were given pencil cases with its logo emblazoned across it. The brightly-coloured pencil cases feat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA murder investigation has been launched after the bodies of a woman and an eight-year-old girl were found at a house in Leeds, police said. They were discovered in Kirkby Avenue, Garforth. Officers also ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 53 people were killed yesterday when a bomb tore through a procession of Shia pilgrims heading towards a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq. It is the latest sign of a power struggle between ri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA freighter carrying oil exploded off the South Korean port city of Incheon, killing three crew members, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday. Five crew members were rescued but eight others ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGeorge Osborne will this week signal that Britain’s future lies away from the crumbling eurozone by calling for stronger ties with Asia. The Chancellor will use a three-day visit to China and Japan to sho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDivers last night searching the Italian luxury cruise liner that capsized in the Mediterranean, pulled two people alive from the wreckage amid fears that more passengers were left trapped inside. More tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA honeymoon couple have been rescued from a cruise liner in Italy 24 hours after it capsized - as firefighters reportedly find a third survivor inside the ship. Rescuers have been banging on the doors o...
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