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After more than six months of silence, Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, spoke last week for only the fourth time since the beginning of the country's widespread uprising in March. His words show that he i... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 minutes agoMaking an informed decision:Paying for a funeral need not require charityMany families succumb to grief, social pressures, and salesmanship by a funeral director and spend much more on the funeral than they ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
LONDON: A backseat passenger on a motorcycle weaving through the crush of Tehran's morning traffic reaches out and places a small magnetic device on the door of a silver-grey Peugeot 405. When the direc... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 29 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 31.7 km (19.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:26:02 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) Southwest of La... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 34 minutes ago
Today, Wikipedia, Anthony Watts' blog, and others are protesting against a planned legislation to fight online piracy. In principle, it is directed against servers such as thepiratebay which are not exac... - posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 38 minutes agoScientists pining for a sample return from Mars have a consolation prize -- rocks recently found in Morocco are freshly arrived bits from our neighbor planet.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes ago
The names of 27 passengers and crew still missing after the cruise ship disaster off Italy's coast have been released by authorities. Eleven people are confirmed to have died after the vast liner was holed... - posted by Rev.Paperboy at The Galloping Beaver - 43 minutes ago
I think most reasonable people, at least in hindsight, would agree that one of the things the Liberals' got right under Chretien and Martin was keeping Canada out of the gigantic deadly goat rodeo known as... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes ago
Two people have been killed after a light aircraft crashed into a mountain in Wales. Police said a "small aircraft" had been involved in the incident at Long Mountain in Leighton, near Welshpool, Powys. ... - posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe types of planets and planetary systems out there are so varied that just about anything is possible in a "compulsive" universe.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoLa Nina sets the stage for disease by reshuffling the mixing patterns of migratory birds, which are a major reservoir for influenza.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 34.2 km (21.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:02:56 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44.6 miles) Southwest of ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Katrina lets Romney walk:* What allows people like Romney to walk? Consider Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column for the Washington Post. The column has appeared on-line, though n...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoYoung people participating in the Occupy the Dream rally in front of the Federal Reserve in Washington DC, January 16, 2012. Photo by Scott Galindez / RSN.Occupy the Dream:Black churches join the Occupy move...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour ago
Still thinking about the "terror in Thailand" nonsense. When I first put up the story Thailand police were saying no charges were laid because the individual who had been arrested had actually done anythi... - posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe addition of virtual reality may encourage people to exercise more often and at a greater intensity.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe findings could change the way stroke victims receive therapy.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 30.3 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:01:25 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30.4 miles) Southwest of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The International Monetary Fund has asked its member countries for an extra $500bn to help fight what it says will be a $1tn global demand for bail-out loans over the next two years. The estimate, present... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoHungary's PM Viktor Orban has told a sceptical European Parliament that his government's legal dispute with the EU can be resolved swiftly. He was speaking a day after the EU Commission launched legal pro...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: The original projections of the limits-to-growth model examined the relation of a growing population to resources and pollution, but did not include a timescale between 1900 and 2100. If a halfwa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSyria's powerful ally Russia said Wednesday it would block any attempt by the West to secure U.N. support for the use of force against the regime in Damascus, which is under intense international pressure...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoIn a major step towards global centralization of election processes, the world's dominant Internet voting company has purchased the USA's dominant election results reporting company. When you view your lo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Percent area covered by temperature anomalies in categories defined as hot (σ > 0.43), very hot (σ > 2), and extremely hot (σ > 3). Anomalies are relative to 1951-1980 climatology; σ is from detr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Inundation resulting from 0.1 meter (m), 0.4 m, 1.0 m, 2.5 m, and 5.0 m of sea level rise in Washington, D.C. (left maps); and a composite on right map. Risk Analysis] By Andrew Freedman 17 Janu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThree suspects got out of a car and beat a young man to death, but the driver stayed in the car. He never got out and he didn’t participate in the fight. That is the man Philadelphia police want to track...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Plutocracy down through the years:* Mitt Romney says his effective federal tax rate is close to 15 percent. That means he pays roughly 15 percent of his income in combined ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Long Island car dealership had plenty of cars, but no way to drive them after thieves targeted the wheels. It happened overnight at the Merrick Dodge on Sunrise Highway in Wantagh. A worker arrived at a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoJan 18 Wall Street Journal p. B1 "The U.S. is rapidly losing high-technology jobs as American companies expand their research-and-development labs in China and elsewhere in Asia, the National Science Boar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 26.1 km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:09:11 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) SSW of Te...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 2 hours agoJanuary 17, 2012 Journalist Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Oba...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: 'After the floods, all my crops in the field were dead. All the fish were washed away,' said Xu Sanmei, a villager in Jiangxi, 23 Jun 2011. trust.org] By Chris Buckley; Editing by David Fogarty ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 2 hours agoStephen Colbert and Jon Stewart work out the kinks on their completely separate presidential campaign and Super PAC. *The Daily Show* Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPolice are looking into whether a young Iranian molecular scientist shot dead in her car on Sunday night as she drove home to her upscale neighbourhood was followed by her killer. Just after midnight, Ge...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Four simulated max-stable processes, using the model in equation (5.2) with parameter estimates from the last column of table 3. (a–d) Show the simulations on the log Fréchet scale, and (e–h) sho...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoBelieve it or not, there are alternatives to the big websites millions have come to rely upon.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Sula, Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 24 km (14.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:02 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 208 km (129 mi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A little brown bat with white nose syndrome in New York state. Al Hicks, New York Department of Environmental Conservation]By Darryl Fears 17 January 2012 More than five years since the deadly wh...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Not everyone is seeing it** that way.* "Cruise ship runs aground off Italy; Night of chaos and fear leaves 3 dead, 40 missing" by Frances D’Emilio and Nicole Winfield | Associated Press, January 15, 20...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012* *Part 3—The shorthand described through the years:* As we noted in Monday’s post, we have sometimes referred to Dana Milbank as “Lord Dowdinpantz.” This morning, Dowd emulate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLondon bankers at Goldman Sachs are in line for a pay and bonus pot of £1.5billion, despite a fall in profits. With Britain in the grip of a recession, the announcement will only add to public fury over C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoCostly business: Britain is facing a £17.5billion bill after Chancellor George Osborne said he was prepared to use taxpayers' cash to boost resources of the IMF, led by Christine Lagarde. Britain is faci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA 'dangerous' Lithuanian rapist who subjected a woman to a brutal sex attack was allowed into the UK despite having a conviction for raping a seven-year-old girl. Victor Akulic is appealing the life sente...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoThe humble flashlight gets a serious makeover.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA six-year-old girl was left home alone in a freezing flat for five days with nothing to eat but Monster Munch, yoghurt and drinking water a court has heard. Shekinha Terry's mother, Natalie, was jailed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIn a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia , BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday ...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoEvery few years, lobbyists seem to push for outrageous legislation aiming to censor the Internet or restrict digital rights.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoOriginally used on cars, Nissan's "Scratch Shield" paint has a chemical structure that mends itself when damaged.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA controversial provision would allow federal authorities to "blacklist" sites, essentially cutting off portions of the Internet to all U.S. users.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 13:44:23 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (122.6 miles) South of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of just 0.2 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 13:31:40 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 mi...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 3 hours agoSource: El Dragón Invisible & Planeta UFO Date: 01.19.2012 Argentina: An Encounter at Tres Lagos, Santa Cruz (2009) By Pablo Ramírez (Gobernador Gregores –Arg.) Greetings. My name is Pabl...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSnakes do not just kill on instinct, but instead monitor the condition of their victims right until the very end.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*WTF, readers?* "US sticks to secrecy as drone strikes surge" by Karen DeYoung | Washington Post, December 25, 2011WASHINGTON - Since September, at least 60 people have died in 14 reported CIA drone stri...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 hours agoEnd Piracy, Not Liberty Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago*And Scott Walker - said NO! Even before he was in office!!!* As the recall petitions are being examined in Wisconsin and as Wisconsinites posture themselves on both sides of the Scott Walker issues. I f...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"US drone crashes at an airport off the coast of East Africa; ‘Mechanical’ failure downs unarmed craft" December 14, 2011|By Malkhadir M. Muhumed, Associated Press NAIROBI - An American military drone tha...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 4 hours agoAbove right: Romney, NEWT, Santorum: the MASS MURDERER Republican candidates, with their fake Jesus on the left who also loves war and mass murder. Take a look at these videos of "evangelicals" arguing o...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 hours agoThe boldest and most surprising outcome of this weekend's Liberal Renewalfest in Ottawa was the party's decision to open its doors to all Canadians by adopting a supporter system. As a result, any voter wh...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*That's why Dempsey** is hustling on over to Israel right now. * "Iran to enrich uranium at 2d site, official says; Report adds to tensions with US, allies" by David Sanger New York Times / January 9, 2012...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoPeople are doing some amazing things to help destroy ALEC - by exposing ALEC. The following reports are great examples for the rest of us and hopefully they will serve as an impetus for others to do someth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIt has been revealed a further area of radioactive contamination has been found at Dalgety Bay. Concern has mounted over recent months after radioactive particles ten times higher than previously found, ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoand are you planning on voting Republican anytime in the future, please quit your job right now so someone else who can appreciate that job can have it! If you are planning on voting Republican evidently ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSeattle could see one of its largest snowfalls since the 1940s as twin winter storms move over the Pacific Northwest, according to the National Weather Service. Between 5 and 10 inches of snow could hit...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Related*:* I Spy Iran* "Iranian Court Begins Trial of U.S. Man" by J. DAVID GOODMAN, December 27, 2011 An Iranian court began hearings on Tuesday in the trial of a man who appeared on state television t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:50:18 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) SSW of Terna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThree anti-whaling activists were injured in a clash with Japanese whalers off the coast of Antarctica on Wednesday when the Japanese crew used grappling hooks against pursuit boats, the conservation grou...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours ago*People are telling you that Wiki is closed to day* *BUT IT IS NOT* *Today - Wiki is the easiest way to become an activist today.* When you go to Wiki - the screen will ask for your zip code. When you e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAn Iranian non-profit company says it will honor U.S. President Barack Obama's request that Iran return a drone that crashed there last year. But instead of the actual drone, the company says it will send...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoTimes-Picayune back-slides, uses Katrina Shorthand to mis-frame "The Great Corps of Engineers Levee Failure Event of 2005" ~Editilla Commentellas~In the face of such an insulting and self-aggrandizing, Kat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 118.2 km (73.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:39:09 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) SSE of San Andres Tux...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoRepublican Mitt Romney acknowledged Tuesday that his income tax rate is "probably closer to 15 percent than anything," suggesting that one of the wealthiest people to ever run for U.S. president pays a mu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe FBI is in the process of arresting Anthony Chiasson, who co-founded the Level Global Investors hedge fund, and others as part of the government's sweeping probe into insider trading, a person familiar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoJERUSALEM — Any decision by Israel on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities remains "very far away," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday as tension mounted between Ira...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA senior North Korean official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong-un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helping him make key policy decisions on economic an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFor the UN Security Council, much is at stake when it comes to the Arab League's monitors in Syria. There are two broad but opposing positions in the Council. Both have tied their policies to the fate of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAt least four people have been kidnapped and five foreign tourists killed in an attack near the Eritrean border, the Ethiopian government says. German, Hungarian and Austrian nationals were killed in Mond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAustralia is in for a tough economic year after the World Bank slashed its global growth forecasts and warned there could be a worldwide recession worse than three years ago. In its latest Global Economic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe captain of the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia has told investigators he "fell into a lifeboat" during the evacuation and could not get out again. Francesco Schettino gave the excuse during thre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 5.9 km (3.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 11:35:50 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles)...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoGolden orb spider silk painstakingly woven into textiles goes on display this month in London.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoThe long process will involve chains, pulleys and plugging a giant hole and could take several weeks.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 8 hours ago*Why this matters in Canada : Michael Geist *: Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and BoingBoing, will go dark tomorrow to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe European Union and Hungary brought their fight over democratic rights fully into the open Tuesday, with the EU Commission launching legal challenges against the former Soviet-bloc country many fear ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNIHONMATSU, Fukushima -- Anger and anxiety are spreading here after highly radioactive gravel from inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuation zone was traced on Jan. 17 to several construction proje...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNearly half of the board members of the Nuclear Material Control Center (NMCC), the government-designated body to inspect nuclear materials to prevent sensitive materials from being used for military purp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPHNOM PENH (Xinhua) -- A 2-year-and-7 month-old boy from northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey had died early Wednesday from avian influenza A (H5N1) virus after being admitted to hospital for about a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe remains of a shark which washed up on Motiti Island in a distressed state have been sent for testing by iwi concerned about the effects of the oil dispersant used in the Rena spill. Maori residents o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe World Bank warned developing countries on Wednesday to prepare for the "real" risk that an escalation in the euro area debt crisis could tip the world into a slump on a par with the global downturn in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWikipedia has taken its English-language content offline as part of a "day of darkness" in protest at US anti-piracy laws that it says could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and "severely limit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAt least five tourists, including a number of Germans, have been killed by gunmen in Ethiopia, according to reports. Two other tourists were in a critical condition after the attack in the remote norther...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Child soldier from Liberia * From the early 1980s onwards, Charles Taylor worked for the USA's Defence Intelligence Agency. In January 2012, this was confirmed by the Pentagon, thanks to a Freedom of Inf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA truck loaded with rubble from Haiti's earthquake two years ago has crashed killing at least 29 people and injuring 67. It is believed the driver lost control of the vehicle in a hilly area of the impo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA surfer has been seriously injured after being attacked by a shark off a beach in Australia. An ambulance service spokeswoman said the 44-year-old man suffered deep wounds to his leg as he surfed off Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRescuers say the search of the luxury cruise liner that capsized off the coast of Italy has been suspended after the position of the ship shifted. It moved slightly in rough seas as teams were looking for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUsers think Facebook invades their privacy, AT&T has the lowest customer satisfaction of any wireless provider, Netflix squandered its goodwill with a 60 percent price hike and Goldman Sachs has become th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOfficials said Tuesday once-convicted serial killer Loren Herzog has committed suicide. Herzog's body was found Monday night hanging inside his trailer located immediately outside the grounds of High Des...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice are investigating the morbid discovery of a severed human head found along a hiking trail below the Hollywood sign today. Two dog walkers discovered the remains inside a bag in California's Bronson ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 48.6 km (30.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:40 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (63 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSpaceX's Dragon spacecraft - designed to be the first-ever commercial space flight to dock with the International Space Station - has been delayed. The unmanned craft was due to fly to the ISS on Februar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFull names, addresses and even pictures of men suspected to be behind an infamous Facebook cyber attack have been published today by Facebook and the security firm Sophos. The gang - known as 'Ali Baba +...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA cruise company has said it was surprised and disappointed after one of its vessels was turned away by the Falkland Islands government. The Star Princess ship, owned by Princess Cruises, had planned to d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussia is concerned that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched. Russia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists have confirmed that 15 pounds of meteorite from Mars fell in Morocco last July. It is only the fifth time in history scientists have chemically confirmed Martian meteorites that people witnes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCharles Taylor worked for U.S. intelligence agencies during his rise to become one of Africa’s most notorious dictators. The former Liberian despot was employed by the Pentagon's spy arm from the early 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA judge sparked outrage by sparing a teenage burglar jail so he could continue with his job clubbing baby seals to death. Jack Taylor, 18, admitted stealing a 50cc motorcycle from a house because he thou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbu Qatada, widely acknowledged as one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world, has spent the past ten years making a mockery of British justice. In the process, he has cost the taxpayer more than £...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAbu Qatada, widely acknowledged as one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world, has spent the past ten years making a mockery of British justice. In the process, he has cost the taxpayer more than £...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA metal thief was killed by a 33,000-volt shock as he tried to steal copper from an electricity substation, an inquest heard. Father-of-three Gary Lawton, 46, was left for dead by at least one accomplice...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDoctors have questioned the effectiveness and safety of the main drug used to treat pandemic flu. International experts said the drug cuts the duration of symptoms, but they found no clear evidence tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMilitary police are investigating allegations of child abuse by two British soldiers in Afghanistan, it has emerged. The troops from the Mercian Battle Group have reportedly been arrested over claims the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Scientists studying white nose syndrome in bats estimate the fungal ailment has killed at least 5.7 million bats in 16 states and Canada, providing alarming new numbers about the scope...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 187.5 km (116.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:03 UTC Wednesday 18th January 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThree strategies, each with different risks and rewards, can help an investor make more greenbacks while staying green.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe United States will take a stab at joining Europe and other nations in hammering out a code of conduct for activities in space.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoSpaceX's historic mission to the space station isn't quite ready for prime time, yet.
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoLon’s recent reports on a thunderbird sighting has triggered additional reports to come forward and we now haveenough good reports to reach a few conclusions regarding what we are dealingwith. Google t...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWhat is poorly understood is thata banker really does not want the small deposit business because it is theprincipal source of costs while if someone merely funded the other side ofevery loan it gets n...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis article is stuffed with alot of conclusions that are really assumptions and surely cannot be properlytested from the data. However, the birdis surviving and will easily expand once our fishing te...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoIs it possible to construct yourlife around logic while attesting the faith of Islam? The discussion below reveals aroadmap to ignorance and it was no mistake that a Taliban ascendency in Afghanistanh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Arizona school head John "Custer" Huppenthal and Tucson school officials began their big lie over the books seized from Mexican...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*(Click on image to enlarge)* *Learn more .....* .... and just a bit more ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago*10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free* By Jonathan Turley, Published: January 13 Every year, the State Department issues reports on individual rights in other countries, monitoring the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe industry uses the terms *brine* or *produced waters* to describe the salty waste fluid that constantly percolates out of wells drilled to tap oil and natural gas. For decades, the best way for Ohio o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn image showing the shocking extent of pollution in China has been released by the space agency Nasa. The image was taken on January 10 and captures a haze taking over most of the North China Plain. Vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoCounter 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 - 13 hours agoNicotine-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 - 13 hours agoScientists 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 - 13 hours agoIndustrial 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 - 13 hours agoUnusual 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoJERUSALEM (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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWASHINGTON (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 - 13 hours agoRelax... close your eyes, breathe... be kind to yourself...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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! - 13 hours agoAs 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 - 13 hours agoIt 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours agoThe 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 hours ago*Click image for larger size.*
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 hours agoCalcutta, West Bengal, India. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours agoThe war on terrorism is a war without a definition of victory, and terrorism is an enemy without a face. Humanity and democracy are trapped in this endless war. The absurd legal and political context that...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 16 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! - 16 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 - 16 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 hours agoFrom Matt Price @ HuffPost, who in turn credits Deep Climate and DeSmogBlogfor the research Meanwhile, about that "foreign money" and "foreign special interest groups"that Steve and Joe are so worried will...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 19 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 - 19 hours agoTranslation: Yes I would lock up American dissidents in secret prisons without giving them a trial.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 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 - 20 hours ago*Click image for lager sizes.*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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! - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoSteve Wosniak likes Android's voice commands and GPS better than those on the iPhone.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 hours agoA mathematical power law may help explain the pattern of murders by serial killers.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day agoFormer heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali turned 70 on Tuesday.
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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, se...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia allegedly abandoned ship -- like many captains before him.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe 2,000 year-old ivory fragments feature engravings of signs of the zodiac.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe world's first palm-sized Hi-Fi subwoofer gives plenty of low-end bass.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLumus envisions you checking email using their glasses.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoEVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS are some of the funniest people around. Check out the delightful lunacy.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoStress levels and the number of times people check their phones for personal messages are linked.
- posted by BAL at WPB to NYC - 1 day agoRisking it All - Oil on our Coast from Twyla Roscovich on Vimeo.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA new proposal to establish a market-based 'solution' to the whaling controversy misses the mark.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 tha...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago*Click image for larger sizes.*
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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