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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 seconds ago
Counter to what logic might suggest, warm summers actually trigger cold winters, according to a new study. The study, detailed in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Environmental Research Letters,offers an... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 seconds ago
Nicotine-based pesticides in widespread use by farmers are implicated in the mass deaths of bees, according to a new study by US scientists. The authoritative, peer-reviewed research undermines the pestici... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
Scientists in northern Europe are scrambling to learn more about a new virus that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, and goats. For now, they don’t have a clue about the virus’s ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
Industrial agriculture = monoculture. * Small farms = biodiversity.* Small, organic farms like Rick Knoll’s are able to eliminate their reliance on petrochemical-based fertilizers and pesticides. The resu... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief funds. Anyone who's been stung by a bee knows they can inflict an outsized pain for such tiny insec... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A new study led by the University of Reading in the UK that examined breast tissue samples from 40 women who underwent mastectomies for breast cancer, found they contained widespread traces of parabens, p... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (AP) - The top U.S. military commander is scheduled for talks in Israel this week, Israel said Sunday, at a time when the U.S. is concerned that Israel might be preparing to attack Iran over its... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes agoIran has repeatedly violated a UN arms embargo with exports to protest-hit Syria, the French foreign ministry said on Monday, citing a UN group of experts. "The UN panel of experts on Iran has identified...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
*LONGWOOD -- * A 3,500-year-old Central Florida landmark is no more. A fire early Monday has destroyed the 125-foot-tall bald cypress tree known as "The Senator," the centerpiece of Longwood's Big Tree P... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An apparent smoke bomb was thrown over the fence of the White House as hundreds of Occupy protesters massed outside the gates. The crowds were dispersed Tuesday night, and U.S. Secret S... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 minutes agoRelax... close your eyes, breathe... be kind to yourself...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 minutes agoGrandmother Assaulted at Dearborn Chuck E. Cheese's: MyFoxDETROIT.com DEARBORN, Mich. (WJBK) -- It was a quiet, peaceful afternoon inside the Michigan Avenue *Chuck E. Cheese* restaurant in Dearborn Mond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes agoINDIANAPOLIS – Thyroid cancer, which affects about 11 people per 100,000 each year, seems to be on the rise. It's a trend that baffles medical researchers. National Cancer Institute statistics suggest tha...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
As an American of Jewish heritage I get frightened at the way Rick Perry pronounces "Israel." But just try to imagine how the 160,000 Turkish-Americans we have in this country (mostly in New York, New Je... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
It was immortalised by the novelist Alexandre Dumas as the location for a stash of buried treasure, but the tiny Italian island of Montecristo is now struggling with a rather less romantic reality – a plag... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
*CHICAGO (STMW)* – To the disgust of some staff, bodies are piling up at the office of the Cook County Medical Examiner, stacked atop each other in blue plastic tarps against a wall of the storage cooler b... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
The agency will not retest the machines or airline passengers. Also, a survey says 2012 will be a good year for the travel industry, and a man wants to help Spirit Airlines passengers avoid baggage fees. ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoCapitalizing on one of the fastest-growing trends in law enforcement, a private California-based company has compiled a database bulging with more than 550 million license-plate records on both innocent ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 34 minutes ago* "The Meadow Across the Creek"* by Thomas Berry "I was a young person then, some twelve years old. My family was moving from a more settled part of a Southern town out to the edge of town where the new ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes agoWASHINGTON — As demands for fiscal austerity dominated debate in Washington, Vermont’s three congressional lawmakers gave their staffers a combined $236,830 in bonuses last year. Many other congressional ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 36 minutes agoYou’ve got to hand it to the North Koreans, they certainly know how to throw a funeral. I stayed up until two am watching the mammoth funeral of the “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il, live on TV from North Kore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoThis month marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1988, I saw the surest sign the USSR was facing an earthquake when I became the first western journalist to be invited into KG...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 40 minutes ago*Everyone knows who it is.* * * *Let's get started with some sabotage first*: "Iranian general dies in explosion" November 14, 2011|Associated Press TEHRAN - A Revolutionary Guard commander *killed in an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoIt’s dark and foggy here today along the mighty Bosphorus that separates Europe and Asia. Just as murky and dangerous as exploding next-door Syria. Turkey’s formerly very successful “no problems” foreign p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 42 minutes agoIn October, 2002, I wrote an analysis of the impending Iraq War for “American Conservative” entitled “The Road to Folly.” I observed, “A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is merely an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoThe United States and its European allies are now looking to squeeze Iran’s oil exports in an effort to persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear activities. Congress just gave President Obama the power to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoThe next time you pay $3.50 dollars for a gallon of gas, stop and think about a basic rule of economics. When demand is low and supply is strong, prices should fall. Right? Now apply that to oil. Peopl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 51 minutes agoThere are kingpins with names like the Engineer, head-chopping hit men, dirty cops and double-dealing politicians. And, of course, there are users -- millions of them. But the Mexican drug war, at its co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Moluccas Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 39.7 km (24.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:36 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) SSW of T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 59 minutes agoProbably the most useless endorsement this cycle, at least so far, was Huntsman's nod to Mitt Romney. There are almost a dozen videos, like this one, around with Huntsman explaining why Romney is untrustw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 23.6 km (14.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:21:34 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) West of Illapel, Coquimbo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:27:11 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) W...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Also known as propaganda, as I am now more convinced than ever that either the West is behind the pirate operations (cui bono? Allows them to patrol vital shipping lane near vital oil fields) or the pirat...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*How would you react if Iran's Navy was camped out in the Gulf of Mexico, American?* "Iran may put ships near US Fifth Fleet; Will conduct drill at strategic strait" Associated Press, December 23, 2011 T...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Not helping the war effort!* "European Union fails to agree on Iranian oil embargo; But new sanctions are put into place there and in Syria" December 02, 2011|By Don Melvin and Raf Casert, Associated Pre...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoConsumers are reporting that debit machines are down at major retail stores across North America. However, the problems are reportedly not consistent with specific stores or areas. News Talk Radio listen...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours agoThe McCain opposition-research file circulating on the internet (if genuine) is just devastating in its picture of a man without any convictions whatsoever. It makes one thing crystal clear: Mitt Romney wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!" - Theodor Seuss Gei...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours agoI talked Kurt into a charity event with me. We are climbing 70 flights of stairs at the Ren Cen in Detroit, MI, to help raise money for lung cancer research. We both have to raise $100. We started a Haskel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three billion Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more... only one of each ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble - maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. This suggestively shaped reflection nebula is associated with the bright star R...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 2 hours ago* ****me and grama, late holiday party Jan 2012. auntie's house. * Nothing major going on, I feel like there is a lack of posting here lately! I think I will do some bullet points, just to post some things...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*Click image for larger size.*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*“The British government [has] behaved in a hostile manner toward our people for the past five decades.’’ * *It's been longer than that. BP was a beneficiary of the CIA's Operation Ajax that overthrew th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*“Lessons”* by Chet Raymo “There is a four-line poem by Yeats, called "Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors": "What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of d...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoCalcutta, West Bengal, India. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours agoThe war on terrorism is a war without definition, and terrorism is an enemy without a face. Humanity and democracy is trapped in this endless war. The absurd legal and political context that emerged follo...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours ago[image: image][image: image]So KiwiBank is to buy out Gareth Morgan Investments, including the Gareth Morgan KiwiSaver Scheme—a case of the politically appointed “People’s Bank” buying out the self-anoin...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*I know we saw this Paul Noth New Yorker cartoon on Tuesday, but I like it a lot. It says so much about Willard Inc.'s, er, appeal.* *by Ken* There's actually a significant development on the "Understandi...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 hours agoDespite the "blogger ban", the interwebs are full of LPC Bienial reaction. For those of you thirsty for more first hand recounts, here's what some of the Liberal delegates who were there thought about the ...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoActor Peter Dinklage's acceptance speech gave a shout-out to a dwarf actor who was viciously attacked.
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 4 hours agoCANADA - It is largest and one of the longest awaited police corruption trials in Toronto history. Five former police officers from the drug squad, collectively charged with assault, threatening, theft, ex...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*Click image for larger sizes.* *․ * * * *"Where the Soul Is: Finding the Place You Belong"* by The DailyOm "There will likely be times in your life when your soul evolves more quickly than your circumsta...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 hours agoFrom Matt Price @ HuffPost, who in turn credits Deep Climate and DeSmogBlogfor the research .
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago*Foreign Affairs* has gone live with Colin Kahl's explanation of why we shouldn't commence bombing in five minutes. A sample: In arguing for a six-month horizon, Kroenig also misleadingly conflates hypoth...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoTranslation: Yes I would lock up American dissidents in secret prisons without giving them a trial.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoThe US Congress votes today on their Stop Online Piracy Act, aka SOPA, aka the Silence Opposition Permanently Act, which if passed will do as much to Stop Online Activity here in EnZed as it will in the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*Click image for lager sizes.*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Romney Under Pressure to Prove He Was Manufactured in US"* Rivals Demand He Produce Label by Andy Borowitz MYRTLE BEACH, SC (The Borowitz Report) – "Controversy swirled at the Republican debate in South...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago*Tucson Schools seize Chicano and Native books from classrooms* Mexican American Studies student at Martin Luther King Day in Tucson. Photo Brenda Norrell Censored NewsBy Brenda Norrell CENSORED NEWS http:...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation ab...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoLate last week 150 pooh-bahs from the upper reaches of the religious right-- primarily the most backward of the backward evangelical money-grubbers and bigots-- got together to pick someone, anyone, who c...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*Neo-con war-makers and 9/11 conspirators are there best friends. * "Fringe Iranian bloc has well-paid allies in D.C.; Effort to reverse terrorist label for reviled group" November 27, 2011|By Scott Shane,...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoSteve Wosniak likes Android's voice commands and GPS better than those on the iPhone.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago*CAUGHT IN HIS OWN WEB … * By Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN. Jan. 15, 2012. In December the owner of MNN hired a webmaster to update the MNN website: Erland Campbell of Native ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Remembering Eisenhower's Farewell Address"* by David Krieger "January 17, 2012 was the 51st anniversary of President Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the nation in which he warned of the dangers of the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"At UN, Turkey takes Israel to task; Blames ex-ally for fueling strife in Middle East" September 23, 2011|By Neil Macfarquhar, New York Times UNITED NATIONS - A couple of hours earlier, Iran’s president, M...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*“Iran War is Only A Matter of Time”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Two weeks ago, Iranians were saved from pirates on their hijacked ship by the U.S. Navy. Last week, the U.S. military saved a sink...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 8 hours agoIt is a good day when Chris Hedges explains why he is suing Obama for signing the National Defense Authorization Act - and the Occupiers have some fun when they arrest Senator Carl Levin. Thanks guys, for...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours ago[image: image] After TV3 screened the documentary ‘Inside Child Poverty’ just three days before the last election, causing screams of horror from the ruling party*, NZ on Air** is now considering*** ban...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Unsolvable Insolvency"* by Bill Bonner "Time and time again, Europe solves its debt problems… and every time they don’t get solved at all. Italian bond yields are edging back up. And Greece is negotiat...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA giant harpoon is being developed to be deployed from a hovering spacecraft and take a sample from a moving comet.
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours agoElectromagnetic Mysteries: CE-IIs By Scott Corrales In 1972, astronomer and UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek created a classification system that while not widely mentioned these days, remains...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 57 km (35.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:30:58 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87.4 miles) East of Yuzhno-Kuril's...
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoA mathematical power law may help explain the pattern of murders by serial killers.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoClad in what can only be described as a 'mourning' suit, a grief-stricken boyfriend married his dead girlfriend at her funeral and then posted their wedding snaps on his Facebook page. TV producer Chadil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPunched to the ground and pummelled with his own shoes – this is the moment a 17-year-old boy was beaten while his attackers filmed his cries for help. Detectives in Chicago have launched an investigatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 'major winter storm' could dump up to 12 inches of snow on Seattle in two days, weather experts are forecasting. Chris Dolce, a meteorologist with weather.com, said the Northwest could take an even big...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoExcitedly unwrapping her Christmas present, Sundeep Sandhu was delighted to discover her husband Mark had bought her an Apple iPad2. But her joy soon turned to disbelief when the in-demand tablet computer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIndonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try and stop commuters from illegally riding on the roofs of train - from hosing them down with red paint to threatening them with dogs. But now authorities ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mother-of-three plagued by illness has told how her problems have been linked to an insect bite suffered 20 years ago. Adelle Huckins, 31, has been blighted by a range of medical conditions including m...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"It's Entertainment, Eh?" by Karl Denninger "Oh really, that's all it is? "Deen defended her fattening cooking style - and her decision to keep her diabetes diagnosis a secret for three years - to TODAY'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA snarling President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to answer a question about France's credit downgrading four times - before criticising others for their 'lack of coolness'. In a meeting in Madrid yesterday, ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoI just want to follow up on a couple of news stories- First the Pickering dungeon house (both parts accessible at link) There is a video here Was there electricity in the building? There is an electrical ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoIt may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but did a U.S. radar station accidentally zap the Phobos-Grunt Mars sample return mission?
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoFormer heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali turned 70 on Tuesday.
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 11 hours agoThe Gay Secretary So even as Leon Panetta admits that Iran does not possess nor is making nuclear weapons, even as the IAEA heads back into Iran to confirm that reality for the umpteenth time, even as the...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoHave you ever heard anyone ask in a moment of true pique "Where has all the money gone?" I know I thought about it constantly in the 90's. And in the double aughts? I saw the charts that explained it almos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:37 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 1469 km (912 miles) WSW of Pue...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Who's "a skinny ghetto crackhead"?, Big Ole Butt?, a mighty "Christian" cardinal, Christmas in Jerusalem, and more* *It's the traditional Battle of the Brooms ceremony at the oh-so-holy Church of the Nat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThey hover in close formation against the backdrop of a cloudy Kent sky. The two mysterious bright lights were photographed on January 6 floating over Chatham. Less than a week later four similar lights w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Romanian immigrant who sells the Big Issue has won a landmark case that will allow her to claim housing benefit that could total £20,800 a year. Mother-of-four Firuta Vasile, 27, who lives in Bristol, h...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago*Two case studies (solar and climate change)* *by Eric Dennis* ►► The author holds a PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Industrial Progress. For related posts, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Canadian navy intelligence officer charged with communicating information to a foreign entity or terrorist group has agreed to stay in custody for now and not make a bail application, his lawyer says. J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kawke's Bay Region, New Zealand at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:12:48 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) South...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoFears rose of an environmental disaster from a wrecked cruise ship in an area of outstanding natural beauty in Italy on Tuesday.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA winemaker in Chile has gone above and beyond (literally) for his most recent vintage -- he's infused his wine with a meteorite for a "livelier taste."
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia allegedly abandoned ship -- like many captains before him.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:48 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 1495 km (928 miles) WSW of Pue...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoWetlands photo courtesy Kyle GerstnerContact: Jessica Lackey: President of the Wetlands Preservation Organization, jessica.lackey@haskell.edu Kelda Britton: Secretary of the Wetlands Preservation Organiza...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Italian coast guard has said five more bodies have been found inside the capsized Costa Concordia - taking the total number of dead to 11. The bodies of four men and one woman in their 50s and 60s, a...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoMERCEDES MARKETING: clever, sensitive. At least, that's what Dieter thinks. The Doktor made an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show, to proclaim a revolution in new Mercedes sleds. *Some in the au...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 12 hours agoPOLITICS/TECHNOLOGY - Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Facebook and numerous other websites are planning to protest two new anti-piracy laws that would make it very difficult for them to do business. Reddi...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe 2,000 year-old ivory fragments feature engravings of signs of the zodiac.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe Trikke Tribred is a fun, green way to get from Point A to B -- and potentially get in a workout along the way.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe world's first palm-sized Hi-Fi subwoofer gives plenty of low-end bass.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoLumus envisions you checking email using their glasses.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago* Moslems* "Via xymphora we find Maidhc Ó Cathail taking on the change of tone at Antiwar.com and there's a comment mention of the same thing at Global Research." - *Who's Your Enemy?* [image: Children o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Map of ground deposition of caesium-137 for the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear accident. cerea.enpc.fr] By ALEX ROSLIN, The Montreal Gazette 14 January 2012 After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Cana...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 12 hours ago*Move Your Money – Keep the Campaign Going* Just wanted to give you an update on my dumping TCF Bank. Part of the following story is my fault – but hopefully by sharing my story and my mistakes – I can sa...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: World gross product (percentage), 2006-2011 and projected to 2013. Three scenarios are projected: baseline, optimistic, and pessimistic. UN World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012] [Executiv...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *Truly the worst of them all:* Did Romney do something wrong at Bain Capital? Who cares, when you can type a headline like this: “Mitt’s Big Love” As you may know, Romney has...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoImage from Antinews.Preventing the coming war with IranRational self-interest is not always enough to prevent what Barbara Tuchman has called 'the march to folly.'By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Aerial view of melting permafrost. Ronald Aveling / icestories.exploratorium.edu] Moscow, January 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) – Temperatures in Russia in the past century rose at twice the rate of war...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoWhy SOPA and PIPA Must Be Stopped By Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman, Al Jazeera 16 January 12 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/9476-why-sopa-and-pipa-must-be-stopped
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Alliant Energy's Edgewater Generating Station in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Wikipedia / Royalbroil] By Rachel Cernansky, Energy / Fossil Fuels 17 January 2012 The EPA is still deciding how to regulat...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 13 hours agoNow that the shock of Lise St-Denis' floor crossing has worn off, it's worth looking ahead to whether Jean Chretien's old riding will stay Liberal red in the next election. Eric Grenier at 308 likes her ch...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *In an otherwise silent world, Big Ed flounders again:* Just a guess: Mitt Romney will get to walk on the Bain Capital story. Last night, Ed Schultz whiffed again with this top...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoThe Official Thanks-Our-New-Orleans-Saints-For-A-Great-Season Thread Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out) Part 1 ~moosedenied
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoEVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS are some of the funniest people around. Check out the delightful lunacy.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours agoI was watching through this cam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZRHekr6cg&list=LE6AG81pAkf6Lbi_1VC5NmPAA&feature=plcp I saw unmistakeable fire at the base of unit #3. The fire glowed yellow and occasiona...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoWorkers in Indiana opposing HB 1104. Image from PR Watch.'Right to Work (for Less)' in Indiana:The historic battle against workersBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2012WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana -- Fif...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoInfection may have killed the more than 50 dead New Zealand fur seals, but so far there's no certain explanation.
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoStress levels and the number of times people check their phones for personal messages are linked.
- posted by BAL at WPB to NYC - 14 hours agoRisking it All - Oil on our Coast from Twyla Roscovich on Vimeo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn Indianapolis Power & Light substation about a half-mile from Lucas Oil Stadium caught fire late this morning after a breaker exploded. The fire was at IPL’s Center Substation at West and Morris streets ...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 15 hours agoI received a comment this morning on my "Venus: No Greenhouse Effect" page, the point of which was reaffirmed by a brouhaha at WUWT (wattsupwiththat). Instead of submitting a comment there, I offer the fol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe company is still investigating the fire, which occurred near its North Apoi oil platform, where two workers are missing An offshore rig exploring possible oil and gas fields off Nigeria's coast for ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012* *Part 2—Banalities never die:* In this morning’s New York Times, David Brooks explains what it’s like to speak with primary voters. In the process, he draws back the curtain on...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI can only imagine the crap that is now going to be considered "communications" by the MN GOP. From our local right wing TV station: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Senate Republican Caucus has named former M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoYear 11 schoolgirl Lily Webster from Stowmarket, described as 'popular, active and bright', has died after collapsing midway through a trampoline lesson at a leisure centre. The 15-year-old was attendin...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoJefferson Parish gives 3 garbage contracts to single Texas company?~Richard Rainey Fox 8 and WWL TeeVee is reporting Karen Parker will be in court to plead guilty to Misprison of Felony ~Slabbed 500-ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 15-year-old girl has died after being taken suddenly ill during a PE lesson. Lily Webster, a year 11 pupil at Stowmarket High School, collapsed during a trampolining session at Mid Suffolk Leisure Cent...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 15 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Merced, California, and its Redevelopment Agency have sued numerous oil companies for their alleged part in contaminating the water supplies there with methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoAs you've probably read by now, New Jersey progressive candidate Ed Potosnak withdrew his challenge to Leonard Lance yesterday to take a job as the executive director of the New Jersey League of Conservat...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoA few years ago, kids could only hear one thing about the climate at school: man-made climate change is making the apocalypse imminent, there is no God who could save us, and Al Gore is His prophet. ;-) ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoThe first video is being widely covered lately - but they are forgetting to draw the line to the second video. *John Stoessel - 2008* Please note that by playing this clip You Tube and Google will place a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoAmericans for Prosperity - a Koch brothers think tank - has put together a multi-million dollar ad that they are running in six states - connecting Obama and the Solyndra bankruptcy. It is running in Mic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:55:38 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) Northeast of Guiuan, S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 145.3 km (90.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:22 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) Southeast of Pucallpa, Peru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe nationalities of the people missing from the capsized Costa Concordia have been revealed, with 14 of the 29 still not accounted for from Germany. Rescuers off the Italian coast are also searching for s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoScientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have found a new strain of bird flu that killed over 500 crows three months ago at Jharkhand. While confirming that it was avian influenza, Dr A C Mis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHong Kong (HKSAR) - A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (January 17) that a dead little egret found in Yuen Long on January 12 was confirmed to be H5N1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoH5N1, a variant of avian influenza, is nasty stuff. It kills somewhere between 50% to 60% of the humans it infects. The good news, if you can call it that, is that while extremely lethal, H5N1 isn't parti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTaipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reminded people Tuesday to avoid coming in contact with domestic birds or consuming raw poultry and eggs as a precaution to keep avian flu away ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoRoe deer carcass found a few miles east of animal discovered earlier on National Trust land, which is undergoing DNA tests. The remains of another deer have been found in an area of the Cotswolds where b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe body of another dead and mutilated stallion has been found in what appears to be the third horrific attack in less than two weeks. Sammy, an 11.2hh Welsh/Arab pony, was found dead in his field near W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFIFTY-THREE dead New Zealand fur seals have been found washed up on the Eyre Peninsula. Fifty-one of the seals were juveniles and two were young adults, the Adelaide Now website reported. They were wash...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTourists and even families are paying tens of thousands of pounds to hunt giraffes and have the heads of their trophies mounted to take home. Hunters pay up to £10,000 for the giraffe-hunting expeditions,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNAPLES, Fla. -- A fourth Florida panther that was raised in captivity has died. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday the panther died Friday after being badly injured by another panther. Wildli...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoA new proposal to establish a market-based 'solution' to the whaling controversy misses the mark.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 17 hours agoRob Ford might be losing weight, but Toronto is losing vital public services and good jobs - *if* the mayor and his friends on City Council have their way. If you live, work, or go to school in Toronto, c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA newborn California gray whale washed ashore at Salinas River State Beach Monday, most likely separated from its mother during the peak of the annual gray-whale migration south. The 12-foot long, 1,700-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPadang, West Sumatra. Twenty-five volcanoes in Indonesia are now showing abnormal activity or have been put on alert or watch status, presidential special aide Andi Arief said here on Saturday. “Accordi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBuenos Aires: A cloud of ash caused by a Chilean volcanic eruption forced authorities to shut Bariloche airport in Argentina days after it was re-opened, according to media reports. The airport was shut f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoJERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli and U.S. militaries have postponed large-scale war games, in part to avoid aggravating mounting tensions between the international community and Iran over its disputed nuclea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe national government will try to find all structures where 5,200 metric tons of highly radioactive gravel from near the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant was used and measure the radiation...
- posted by Ben O'Loughlin at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours agoTiming is everything; I'm not sure its good to be publishing a paper about strategic narratives just as the US cuts its Advisory Commission on Public Dipomacy, although RAND have begun exploring this field...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe eldest brother of North Korea's new leader says reforms needed to avert the collapse of the country's economy will lead to the end of its Stalinist regime, according to a book to be published this wee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFighting between defected soldiers and the regular Syrian army appears to be getting closer to Damascus. The state news agency claimed an "armed terrorist group" killed six soldiers in a rocket-propelled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWikipedia plans to take its English-language site offline on Wednesday as part of protests against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. The user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing have al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 10:40:27 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78.7 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoStriking Greek workers brought the Athens metro to a standstill on Tuesday and kept ferries docked to protest against austerity as the country's lenders visited Athens to try to avert a disorderly debt de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDhahran, Saudi Arabia (CNN) – With 260 billion barrels of oil, Saudi Arabia has more than double the proven reserves of Iran, its nearest competitor within OPEC. In an interview in Dhahran, in the Kingd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDowngrade -- the most feared word in Europe's financial lexicon. Most attention Friday was focused on France -- Europe's second largest economy -- as Standard & Poor's cut its rating on French sovereign d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least 20 dolphins have died after washing up near several Cape Cod towns, an International Fund for Animal Welfare spokeswoman said Monday. Between 40 and 50 common and Atlantic white-sided dolphins ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAn opposition coalition said Monday it is planning mass demonstrations in Romania, following four straight days of citizen protests against government austerity measures. The coalition will meet to forma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEgypt's military-led government, struggling to manage the transition to democracy, has a rising adversary: rebellious Bedouin tribes. At a meeting last Friday in the south Sinai desert, Bedouin leaders ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe European Commission is expected to issue a decision Tuesday on whether it considers certain reforms introduced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to be legal. Both the European Uni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIstanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- An early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 382.6 km (237.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:01 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 498 km (309 miles) Northwest of Neiafu, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA chemical plant in northeast China that sparked huge protests last summer amid concerns about its safety has resumed production, despite earlier assurances that it would relocated. A local government of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDivers trying to locate survivors of the Costa Concordia cruise ship used explosives to blow a hole in the hull to make an entry and exit point for search-and-rescue teams, Italian Navy officials said Tue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the South coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 09:23:18 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 93.8 km (58.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:20 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) Southeast of Davao...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Offshore Northern Californai at a depth of just 2.6 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:54:58 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) West of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 63.4 km (39.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:14 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 416 km (258 miles) WSW from Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- The United Kingdom cannot deport a radical cleric linked to al Qaeda to Jordan because evidence obtained by torture could be used against him there, the European Court of Human Rights rule...
- Instantly switching sessions between Linux desktop managers, like KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, Razor or LXDE, *without* logging out first, selecting your new, different session and logging in again is very well ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe European Court of Human Rights has upheld the whole-life sentences being served by three convicted British killers. Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter had argued that a sentence which cond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice in Cambodia believe they have found the bodies of a Frenchman and his four children who all went missing last year. A number of bones and skulls recovered from a car found dumped in a pond behind L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAirport security officers are to be monitored for exposure to dangerous levels of radiation from the controversial scanners which are used to screen passengers before flights. The Transport Security Admi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA woman who shot her two children, their father and a cousin before committing suicide took video of herself on her iPad as she smoked methamphetamine prior to the killings, police said today The apparen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA four-year-old girl died at her home on Sunday after a TV fell on her head. Gianna Hadjis, from University Park, Chicago, was pronounced dead at 2:54pm at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, acc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoA teenage boy was given strong cider by police before being questioned over a series of burglaries, a disciplinary hearing was told. Sean Wall, 17, was taken to a police station and given alcohol before b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMini is recalling 235,000 cars due to an electrical fault which can cause vehicles to burst into flames. Nearly 30,000 cars in the UK are understood to be affected. The move follows months of complaints f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago[image: Link]An Eton-educated aristocrat who admitted having sex with a schoolgirl within days of her 16th birthday walked smiling from court yesterday after he was cleared of rape. The Honourable James ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA ‘mild-mannered’ homeowner may have snapped and killed a ‘neighbour from hell’ before suffering a fatal heart attack. Alan Taylor, 59, was pronounced dead at his home on Sunday by paramedics after he suf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiordland Region, New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:40:23 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.4 miles) West of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:16 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeast o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoRoyal Bank of Scotland was last night branded ‘deplorable’ for pulling the plug on fashion retailer Peacocks – putting 13,000 high street jobs at risk. The taxpayer-controlled bank withdrew from last ditc...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago* Spot the TB victim * TB exists in one in three people in the world. It lies dormant in most of these people. ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087273/India-reports-cases-killer-TB-strain-res...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe problem is that it appearsthat Saudi Arabiais producing flat out to sustain supply and it will not be able to add 500,000bpd on demand which it has been able to do for forty years. This means that...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is suggested that the simplerTNA may have led the development of RNA and DNA. I do not think that this particularly makesthe problem of discovering the pathway to manufacturing life any easier excep...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI posted on this topic four yearsago and we had plenty of evidence then that is why these insecticides werewithdrawn in Franceand actually I believe from much of the EU. It obviously has not gotten bet...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoHere is another eyewitness reportof a large black bird. It also noticeablymakes little of the bird’s beak. The observations themselves supportthe existence of a nearby nesting pair, with the larger o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*Click image for larger sizes.*
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 21 hours agoIn previous years for Martin Luther King Day, I've featured King's words and other civil rights material (see the "MLK" category below). This year, I wanted to at least link a few pieces focused on MLK hims...
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoRobots, dancing Rumba, and crazy CES stuff. All in another episode of This Week in Discovery News.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoOne month after Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole. Ten weeks later, he is dead.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago...if all allegedly corrupt Toronto cops wear button-fastened brown or black leather jackets with step collars? Or is it just a drug squad thing? Do the homicide folks wear trench coats? Do they go shoppi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"Our words, our thoughts, and our feelings all contribute to the creation of our reality. Our word is a two-edged sword, it can create or it can destroy. To be impeccable is to create with conscious aware...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIRUT, Lebanon — The failure of an Arab League mission to stanch violence in Syria, an international community with little leverage and a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray have left S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoElephant Statues Covered in India A decision by the country's election commission blankets hundreds of politically themed statues in Uttar Pradesh with pink and yellow tarps Gallery
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNothing is quite as damning or convincing as photo evidence. And when James Balog looked over his time-lapse photography of an Icelandic glacier, everything he thought he knew about climate change .... ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCountry's OPEC envoy threatens "consequences" if neighbouring states make up for oil shortfall caused by sanctions. Iran has warned its neighbours in the Gulf not to make up for any shortfall in its oil e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPakistan must end its policy of killings and kidnappings of Baloch people and recognise the importance of the region. *Washington, DC *- The behaviour of the powerful elite of Islamabad reminds me of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs a third-grader in Winsted, Connecticut, last year, Matthew Asselin was sick -- a lot. He was lethargic and plagued with a persistent wet cough, respiratory infections and painful headaches. As the sch...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"A Tiny Elite Owns 80% Of The Wealth Of the World"* By The Tap Blog “Ever since Benoit Mandelbrot discovered “fractals” in the 1970s, the fascinating new science of Chaos Theory has become a part of our ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLONDON — If you're not allowed to enslave people any more, or even loot their resources, then what is the point of being a traditional great power? The United States kept an army of over 100,000 soldiers i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media? No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEveryone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and ofte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia remains one of the least-safe countries in terms of nuclear security, although the country is making progress in securing its weapons-usable nuclear materials, a new report released Wednesday found....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCapital outflows totaled $84.2 billion last year according to data released by the Central Bank on Wednesday, the second-highest figure since 1994 and a big jump from the $33.6 billion that exited Russia i...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoLet's leave aside the episodes of Boehner handing out bribes on behalf of his lobbyist pals as people were voting on the House floor. One of the most notorious ones was caught in the explosive "career-en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA growing number of Korean children are being looked after by their grandparents because their parents are divorced. According to a 2010 government survey, 0.4 percent or 69,175 households in the country...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran said Thursday that it would respond to Israel's 'cold war' against it - with attacks against Israelis, and possibly Jews worldwide. Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe follow Ukrainian miners as they go underground to dig the last pieces of coal from exhausted mine shafts. Filmmaker: Michael Glawogger *"Work is often difficult to see, and therefore difficult to depi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Well over a thousand galaxies are known members of the Virgo Cluster, the closest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group. In fact, the galaxy cluster is difficult to appreciate all at once becau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMagazine report claims Israeli spies used fake US spy identities to work with Pakistani fighters targeting Iran. Agents with Israel's spy agency, Mossad, have posed as CIA agents in operations to recruit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe US slapped sanctions on China's Zhuhai Zhenrong Company Thursday for engaging in energy deals with Iran. Analysts believe the US was sending a signal to Beijing, after US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCertain 2012 candidates are worth hundreds of millions, others far less. *Total net worth:* $85 to $264 million With no regular day job, Romney still earns a tidy income in the form of dividends and intere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFraudulent claims – mostly for hard-to-assess "whiplash" injuries – add about £40 a year to every honest driver's motor insurance costs but Parliament will struggle to reduce this while some doctors, lawye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDanny Alexander and George Osborne have raised what is perhaps the key issue from an economic perspective facing Scottish independence – what on earth would Scotland do about its currency? Initially, Ale...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt's a breathtaking scenario. Hundreds of petrol-heads roaring across some of South America's most stunning landscapes in a grueling two-week endurance race where the competitors are at the mercy of treach...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as "recalls," a CNN i...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoAt the Recall Walker rally in Austin: Travis Donoho, left, organizer for Education Austin (American Federation of Teachers) and Steve Rossignol, Texas State Association of Electrical Workers. Photo by Carlos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStudy shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections. New analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress has revealed the level of the oi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The most detailed data yet on emissions of heat-trapping gases show that U.S. power plants are responsible for the bulk of the pollution blamed for global warming. Power plants released ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON — When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe captain of a cruise liner that capsized after crashing off the Italian coast ignored an order to return on board, according to 'black box' recordings. Taped telephone conversations released by authori...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWikipedia will black out its English-language site for 24 hours in protest at proposed US anti-piracy legislation. If passed the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) would give content owners and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHoms is not a city under siege, but it is a city divided, and parts of it are besieged. Under government supervision we were taken to Homs to see the side of the Syria story it prefers to show. We can o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoFormer CIA counter-terrorism specialist Philip Giraldi gives a picture of "What War With Iran Might Look Like," concluding that, "A minor engagement between American and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 57.3 km (35.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:30:16 UTC Tuesday 17th January 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) North of Tokyo, Ja...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe European Court of Human Rights is to rule on the whole-life sentences of three convicted British killers. Jeremy Bamber, Peter Moore and Douglas Vinter claim that a sentence which condemns them to di...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn early warning radar station that is part of NATO's controversial missile defense system in Europe is now operational in Turkey, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. The station is located in the c...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStandard & Poor's axe took another swing at Europe Monday, this time stripping Europe's bailout fund of its AAA status. The move was largely expected after S&P downgraded nine euro area governments last w...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoI was talking to a friend tonight about the studies and planning undertaken by the province and municipalities of the Lower Mainland of sea level rise projections. It's a complex issue comprising impa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Revenge: A Different Approach to Anger"* by The DailyOm "Thoughts of revenge create an energy of imbalance and is best dealt with by releasing your anger. There can be times when we get so angry with s...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agofrom sopastrike.com *by Ken* Here's a general description also from the sopastrike.com website (a project of fightforthefuture.org): January 18th is going to be amazing. Sites are striking in all differ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoAre you burning with ambition? Or merely harbour a desire for success in your chosen field? That’s the difference that really makes the difference, you know—as actor Kevin Spacey explains… [Hat tip Dia...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhoto Boycott TUSD: Martin Luther King Day rally Tucson Brenda Norrell/Censored News Click arrows to listen to students By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- High s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Ahmadinejad faces Iran power struggle" November 01, 2011|By Brian Murphy, Associated Press TEHRAN - A scandal surrounding a *$2.6 billion bank fraud*, the biggest financial abuse case in Iran’s history, ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoWhy January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.We need to be ther...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe world's smallest ear can pick up noises a million times softer than any human can hear.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoSearching systematically through news headlines of major global newspapers provides concrete evidence of a media cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster and the reality of ongoing radiation r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"If I am what I have, and I lose what I have, who then am I?" - Erich Fromm Well, I have an answer, as follows... Yeah, nothing... - CP
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