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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 minutes ago*I really struggle to stay awake during Boston Globe sermons.* "High court gives churches latitude in hiring, firing" January 12, 2012|By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - In what may be its *most significant reli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
Scientists are trying to find a way to protect Earth from the giant rocks which travel around the Milky Way. Run out of Berlin with funds from the EU, the NEOShield project, which will look for a way to p... - posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 37 minutes agoOn Tuesday Peter Applebome of *The New York Times* reported on the arrest of members of a rogue gang of East Haven, Connecticut, cops called Miller’s Boys by the FBI. Sgt. John Miller and three other offic...
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 47 minutes ago'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon says that she chooses to be gay. What does science say?
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 47 minutes agoIf there is a ring system, it could spell doom for the speedy New Horizons probe when it flies by in 2015.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
Two Iranian bloggers are to be executed for 'spreading corruption' - as Tehran cracks down on freedom of expression in the run up to its parliamentary elections in March. Four journalists have also been ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 54 minutes ago*"The Three Biggest Government Lies"* by Charles Goyette “Government lies are legion. So many are its lies, that narrowing them down to three of the most important is a demanding task. But our current cri...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour agoNew World Order sock puppet Newt Gingrich and the apologist of Zionist terrorists attacks the "old order," and says Goldman Sachs ripped off America. Of course this guy is a little devil, but at least he...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agohttp://www.propublica.org/article/drive-by-scanning-officials-expand-use-and-dose-of-radiation-for-security-s
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEurozone countries must show 'the colour of their money' in shoring up the single currency before any IMF funds are given to members facing economic collapse, George Osborne said today. The Chancellor sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A Roman Catholic priest who lied to his flock and told them he was going on a spiritual retreat is actually a survivor from the Concordia cruise liner disaster, it emerged today. Father Massimo Donghi’s ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A dangerous sexual predator from the Czech Republic who murdered his wife at home came to the UK and carried out a knifepoint rape and three serious sex attacks on women, a court heard. Kajus Scuka, 48, ... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoExcellent resource http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Accelerating Great Collapse & Hyperinflation"* by John Williams “The U.S. economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last five years continue to deteriorate. Yet they remain just the precursors to t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agohttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/contrary-to-widespread-claims-there-is-no-evidence-that-iran-is-building-a-nuclear-weapon.html Although no evidence supports the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapo...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoCold, electrically charged particles have long been suspected to exist tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface, and now satellites have detected such ions there for the first time.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 1.27.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “The Federal Reserve announced, this week, that it was keeping interest rates at near zero percent until at least 2014. It sure doesn’t lo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." - Elbert Hubbard
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agohttp://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/01/26-times-backgroung-radiation-in-630am.html I know some people are wary of Potrblog's readings because they have been so high but I have admired their willinge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:06:32 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29.8 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoAlison Redford looks to have her first caucus defection on her hands, as former Finance Minister Lloyd Snelgrove is out, according to Redford's Chief of Staff: While losing your first MLA is never fun,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPrologue “When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football player...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe number of Spaniards without jobs rose by more than half a million last year to reach 5.27m, or 22.85 per cent of the workforce, in the final quarter, according to the National Statistics Institute (IN...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours ago* London* *'In a recent interview ... in Australia , a past ambassador to Syria has even stated that it is "outside" forces perpetrating the violence, and that Assad is popular and well liked.'* - *Syria ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIt's just what Christchurch didn't want to hear - warnings that more quakes may be on the way. The word comes from Canterbury University scientists who've been looking at a marked increase in seismic act...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAt least 50 protesters opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime stormed the Syrian Embassy building in Cairo on Friday, smashing windows and tearing down the Syrian flag before dispersing, emb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:43:20 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southeast of Pithagorio,...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Cover of UK Climate Change Risk Assessment: Government Report, January 2012, www.defra.gov.uk]By Reed Landberg 25 January 2012 Sugar and wheat farming probably will become more productive as the...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoI hope you're not too bored with hearing about Romney's tax manipulations and offshore tax-dodging accounts to read a perspective from our favorite investigative journalist, Russ Baker. He makes the point...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:22:55 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of Bali, Indonesia at a depth of 54 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:33 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128.3 miles) South of Praya...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoScores of civilians have been killed in Syria as government forces shelled buildings and fired into crowds. Opposition activists say the cities of Homs and Hama appear to be the main targets of the drama...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Pakistani villagers carry a motorbike on a bed frame through flood water following heavy monsoon rain at Golarchi town in Badin district, about 200 km east of Karachi, on 13 September 2011. Asif ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *It’s hard to believe that this happened:* By the time of Campaign 2000, your so-called mainstream American press corps was in full break-down mode. In November 1998, Sally Qui...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoIf the priorities of the Harper government aren't fairly clear by now you, you've been living under rock. Everything is driven by the ideology espoused *in this Harper speech*. Now, Harper is going to st...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 4 hours agoThe Gay Secretary The Obama administration finally stumbled upon some change. Unfortunately for America, some top aides in the White House decided to pocket those pennies, which should have been sent to ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoClarence Darrow was one of my earliest heroes. I first encountered Darrow in the guise of Spencer Tracy, who portrayed the lawyer in the 1960 movie "Inherit the Wind". Darrow famously defended John Scopes,...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Scientists say at least 2 billion dead bodies will be burned and converted into fossil fuels. From 'Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, S...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA specialized camera allows people to see the world as reef-dwelling animals do.
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoUsing a pioneering surgery technique developed for hospitals, could NASA fix satellites in orbit?
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoGoogle's plan to merge the data it collects from its users isn't actually a radical shift.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:01 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) Southeast of Kahnuj, Iran ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 4 hours agoEveryone is talking about this article in the Wall Street Journal: No Need to Panic About Global Warming The subtitle says that there's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarboni...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoWall Street Journal: "The CEO Bankruptcy Bonus: Firms Sidestep Rules that Limit Rewards for Executives" Jan 27, 2012 p. A1 [excerpt] "On the way to bankruptcy court, Lear Corp., a car parts supplier, clo...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 4 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* The ideal of 'one man, one vote' has NEVER been achieved. If your VOTE does not carry the same weight as does the vote of someone else, then YOUR rights under the ...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 4 hours ago*Glenn Beck is hitting Newt pretty hard by his own admission.* His reasons are primarily tangential as they focus less on Newt’s legislative record and more on Newt’s comments as a historian. He attacks Ne...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *Fact-checks and astronaut clown suits:* Rachel Maddow was pounding away at Politifact again last night. This is the fact-check about which she railed. We think Politifact pret...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the United Nations's mail intake centre, a New York Police Department spokesman said on Thursday. Paul Browne, NYPD's chief spokesman,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSouth Korean Marines Thursday staged a live-fire artillery drill on an island shelled by North Korea in 2010, the first such exercise since the death of Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong-Il last month. "Our tro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoStudents and parents watched at dismissal time Wednesday as a doe ran through the main doors of Red Lion Area Junior High School and collided with an eighth-grade student, knocking them both to the ground....
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 5 hours agoWith an Alberta election on the horizon this spring, the Wildrose Alliance have brought on Tom Flanagan to manage their campaign. For those of you who have never heard of Tom Flanagan, he was a political s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:53:06 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Southwest of of Parma, Italy N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe two men skied 1,400 miles to the pole without the help of sails or air drops.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA sound-powered medical device could be implanted deeper into the body.
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoFord Focus Electric drivers will be empowered to monitor charging, plan trips and other smart stuff.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThe FBI wants to locate possible criminals and analyze their movements.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoThis app finds the events between birth and graduation and brings them to your Facebook Timeline.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Imja glacier lake, situated at 5100 meters altitude in Nepal's Everest region. At its center, the lake is about 600m wide, and according to government studies, up to 96.5m deep in some places. It...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 5 hours agoBy Michael Hudson *This article first appeared at FAZ* The inherently symbioticrelationship between banks and governments recently has been reversed. Inmedieval times, wealthy bankers lent to kings and p...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoHere's Conservative MP Graham Stuart responding to a cheap shot from Nicky Campbell on Radio Five Live's Breakfast show this morning. GRAHAM STUART/NICKY CAMPBELL (mp3) Nicky Campbell: For the first time ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Coastal erosion at Singapore's East Coast Park, May 2008. wildshores.blogspot.com]By David Fogarty; Editing by Ron Popeski and Sanjeev Miglani 26 January 2012 SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A 15-km (10 ...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoEach year I try to write on the SotU (2010, 2011). I know they are preposterously scripted, usually forgettable, and almost meaningless as a guide for the upcoming policy season/budget debate. But the ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[Apologies in advance for the ad.] By Kyung Lah, CNN 26 January 2012 Inside Fukushima Exclusion Zone, Japan (CNN) – When you stand in the center of Japan's exclusion zone, there is absolute silence. Th...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *Part 3—In search of information and outreach:* What do we the people think? We the people may have strange ideas! Information surveys have long made it clear—we often don’t k...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours agoThe Minnesota House passed the ALEC Voter ID bill yesterday. This is the second day in a row I have to report on the impact of the Amrerican Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in MInnesota - and it makes...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoTHE CANARD "All the fake news that fit to print." -- Amherst The academic and foreign policy worlds were rocked today by the news that Charli Carpenter -- prolific academic, policy wonk, and mom -- is in...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 6 hours agoEven Brian Fratbun will have to admit this is pretty brilliant! More on the most anticipated Super Bowl Commercials of 2012.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe newly discovered asteroid came within 36,750 miles of Earth when it made its closest approach at 10:30 a.m. EST.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours agoIn sweeping reform, Mayor Landrieu appends the suffix "stat" to a bunch of stuff ~Library Chronicles Let's All Be Careful Out There~Cliff's Crib Katrina breach sites nominated for National Register of His...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Progressive winners* Suppose there’s a swing district you-- "you" being a Democratic Party committee or strategist or booster-- want to win, and you have your choice of two comparably strong candidates: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTHE central west of Queensland was bracing for the onslaught of a monsoonal storm cell from the Gulf of Carpentaria last night, as more than 1200 properties remained isolated in northeast NSW as flood war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe district administrations of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam have issued a bird flu alert in the wake of avian influenza cases in Odisha. The administrations of the three coastal districts h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFive children are recovering after being stung by a swarm of bees Thursday afternoon, near 91st Ave and Peoria. They were chased by hundreds of bees and stung at least a dozen times -- but firefighters s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWATERLOO, Iowa --- Reports of norovirus outbreaks have increased in recent weeks, according to health officials. The quick-spreading bug can induce diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach cramps. Dr. Pat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice have released an e-fit of the man accused of helping a dangerous criminal escape prison custody. The man is accused of aiding Andrew Farndon in a planned escape as he arrived at West Suffolk Hosp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:24 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) South of Ashtian, Iran No Repor...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 7 hours agoI’m a mediator, and I’ve been one pretty much since mediation has existed. When I was trained, in the olden times, mediations were scheduled in 2 – 3 hour sessions. If they lasted longer and the parties we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAT least 10,000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain an outbreak of bird flu at two Victorian farms. The virus found in birds on the two properties is a low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) and no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday that a man who was initially thought to have died as a result of contracting bird flu was instead killed by complications caused by the H1N1 virus, formerly know...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAgartala: The culling of bird flu affected poultry began on Friday in five gram panchayats areas of West Tripura district. The culling began after confirmation of the presence of H5N1 virus in the affec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoApproximately 200 dolphins have been sighted in the center of Cape Cod Bay, dolphin stranding specialists said today, announcing that rescue teams have been put on alert in case the dolphins come ashore. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA harbor porpoise washed up on the rocks at the far end of Fisherman's Beach Thursday morning, the third dead porpoise in the last nine months to beach on local shores. Town Animal Control Officer Diane ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSanta Barbara - Fish and Wildlife agents issue a new plea to the public after a series of abuse cases involving brown pelicans. The most recent pelican turned up dead Wednesday in the waters off the...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 8 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas has been blamed for making western Wyoming's air dirtier during winter than Los Angeles' air, according to this article in the Houston Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoStalker Elliot Fogel has been sentenced to two years in jail for breaking the terms of a restraining order. Fogel was given a lifetime restraining order in 2005 which stops him or anyone acting on his b...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 8 hours agoIDOE–Shrinking State Power to Expose Your Tender Underbelly (UPDATE) by Douglas Storm [UPDATE in the body of the text] Indiana is at the forefront of a concerted and aggressive drive to weaken state pow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLava is becoming more active at both Halemaumau and Puu Oo craters, scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory report. The observatory posted new video of lava splattering at Halemaumau Crater. Scie...
- Turrialba volcano Erupts Spewing water, vapor and ash more than 15,000 feet into the air, Costa Rica
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCosta Rica’s Turrialba volcano produced a burst of activity that shot water, vapor and ash more than 15,000 feet into the air. Nearby residents reported that ash from the blast showered several communitie... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMexico City, Jan 27 : The 5,400-metre high Popocatepeti volcano has erupted again with a plume of ash after shaking for several minutes early on Thursday. Civil protection authorities reported that the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIndia has displayed its latest nuclear-capable strategic missile in front of the country’s leadership at the annual Republic Day parade. Article >>>>
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe social network Twitter is facing a storm of criticism from users, after revealing that it has implemented a system that would let it withhold particular tweets from specific countries. The company ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Philippines is considering a U.S. proposal to deploy surveillance aircraft on a temporary, rotating basis to enhance its ability to guard disputed areas in the South China Sea, the Philippine defense m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs the European Union prepares to ban Iranian oil and the United States turns the screw on payments, oil executives and policymakers say China and Russia stand to gain the most and Western oil firms and c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA law to be debated in Iran's parliament on Sunday could halt exports of oil to the European Union as early as next week, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a lawmaker as saying on Friday. "On Sun...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoRights of nature laws seek to grant the environment legal rights.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNine rockets were fired at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul Friday about 500 meters from the infamous compound of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Syed Imtiaz, Hussain Shah a senior police official said....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said. The blast occurred as mourners passed by an out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBahrain police on Friday denied opposition claims that security forces were responsible for the death of an anti-government protester, saying the man died from natural causes. The death of 19-year-old Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door talks Friday afternoon on the situation in Syria, the British and French delegations reported Thursday night on their respective Twitter feeds. The discus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn asteroid will pass by the Earth on Friday in something of a cosmic near-miss, making its closest approach at about 1600 GMT. The asteroid, estimated to be about 11m (36ft) in diameter, was first detec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear plant, one man's quiet defiance echoes through the contaminated, empty streets of Tomioka, Japan. Tomioka, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away from the disaster, is insid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoClashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya. These are among the signs that Libya faces challen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:42:10 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 389 km (241...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe man whose headless body was found lying in a Stockport street died of a shotgun wound, a post mortem has shown. John Grainger was then decapitated. His head was found close by his body. Two people h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe body of a surgeon, who was charged with a number of sex crimes against a 14-year-old girl, was found by his wife through his GPS ankle bracelet after he committed suicide. Dr Andrew Bourne, 46, from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTwo neo-Nazi thugs have been jailed for branding a swastika into the skin of a man with learning difficulties with a searing hot coat hanger. Sadistic Paul Beebe, 28, and Jesse Sanford, 26, were sentenced...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoVladimir Putin has branded America a nation which 'wants to control everything' during a scathing verbal attack on the U.S. The Russian Premier said the USA is seeking to dominate the world and interfere...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man accused of killing a Roman Catholic priest and taking the victim's car on a family vacation to Disney World was found dead in his prison cell today after apparently hanging himself. Jeremy Wayne Ma...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoWith BBC news coverage of the US Presidential race hotting up, it is quite useful to consider what B-BBC's Alan has to say here; "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMitt Romney failed to reveal income from a Swiss bank account on financial disclosure forms filed last year. Other income was also missing from records required of presidential campaign candidates. A Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA shipment of 16 kilos of cocaine crudely mocked up to look like a diplomatic pouch has been seized at the United Nations New York mail intake centre. The white bag raised suspicions when it was being sc...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoYes, well, the minute GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested that there could be a manned lunar base which would be *American*, then this was going to go disputed by the BBC. I laughed at the b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mysterious disorder which exhibits symptoms similar to Tourette's has affected more students at the same high school. Earlier this month, it was reported that 12 female students, who all attend Le R...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoHere you go - it's Friday and time for a new one of these! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt's called Argus One; the Pentagon's newest unmanned spy plane. But cheeky observers are already calling it the 'Flying Sperm'. It has the capacity to carry 30 pounds of high tech sensors and cameras and...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoA Biased BBC reader contacted me with regard to what he sees is the BBC's biased attitude to the dog owning community. The BBC's programme,* Death Row Dogs*, 24th January has raised several hackles, inc...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe discovery gives clues to how ancient Egyptians viewed the importance of animals and their role in the afterlife.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.7 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:54:34 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 400 km (...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*In March, Coldplay, Mumford & Sons and Russell variety are among the acts who have signed up for the Secret Policeman's Ball. Organizers say the move to New York* *will mark the special centennial.* The...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Alan notes; [image: Attack: Lord Carey has blasted the bishops who tried to derail the Government's £26,000-a-year benefit cap] "Had the former Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoThe BBC narrative is clear. Bankers were solely responsible for the global financial crisis. Go a little deeper and the narrative refines itself even more alarmingly; Capitalism was solely responsible for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoDavid Cameron demanded a ‘zero tolerance policy on abuse’ in Libya last night following reports of widespread torture of Gaddafi loyalists. Thousands are apparently still being held in secret detention ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe FBI is to use automated scanners to monitor people’s posts on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, it has emerged this week – and privacy campaigners have described it as an attack on free sp...
- Haiti and the shaming of the aid zealots: How donated billions have INCREASED poverty and corruption
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe first thing that strikes you is the smell: a sweet, sickly stench that sticks to your skin. It is worst in the morning, since women are terrified of risking a nocturnal trip to the handful of lavatori... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA burglar who was freed from prison because he had five children to look after is facing another jail term for assault. Wayne Bishop carried out the attack just a few weeks after he was controversially l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe boss of state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland was handed an annual bonus of nearly £1million yesterday. To widespread fury, the board of directors awarded Stephen Hester more than many ordinary workers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBitter Siberian-style winter weather is finally about to arrive, forecasters warned last night. Up to four inches of snow are expected to fall across higher ground today with temperatures set to plummet ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Sea of Dreams"* “We all have a sea of dreams. This song by 2002 is from their album “Land of Forever.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkzdVrgQ68
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago*A study published in present Biology recognized differences in infants brainwaves as of as early as six months. *Older children with autism can show a lack of eye contact, so the babies were shown pictu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice searching for two dangerous criminals on the run after being freed in separate incidents are hoping televised appeals will lead to more information. Detectives are following up calls received af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 56.5 km (35.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:57:32 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"They Said"* by Alex Noble They said: “He did not feel anything.” They said: "Please stop crying, Ma'm." They said: “He would have seen a blinding light, and then, nothing.” They said: "His death was i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA woman is in custody in Norway accused of murdering her child while her boyfriend allegedly watched on Skype in the UK. It is the latest in a series of incidents allegedly witnessed on Skype or webcams. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe Yasuni National Park, known as "the lungs of the world" and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth, is under threat from oil drilling. The race is on to find the funds required to develop new sus...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“What do you now fear? How will you use this? Every fear is a gift, though every gift needs unwrapping. "Oh look, it's me, only more!" “You're welcome,” The Universe “Thoughts become things... choos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLead exposure over a lifetime may lead to a darker outlook, which can in turn increase risk of depression, reports a study on aging men. The lead levels in the men were associated with increased pessimism...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago* Bomjon, aka Palden Dorje * In 2006, Discovery Channel showed a 45-minute documentary about Ram Bahadur Bomjon. Ram was filmed continuously for 96 hours, day and night, "during which time he did not cha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNative birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. The paper, titled "Changes in timing, duration, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIn a first-of-its-kind study, scientists are reporting that the indoor air in offices is an important source of worker exposure to potentially toxic substances released by carpeting, furniture, paint and ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago*The owner of a French breast implant creator that sparked a safety jolt has been charged with involuntary injury.Mr. Mas have been under investigation since he revealed in a police interview last year t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON (WTW) — The world last year wasn't quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said Thursday, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures. The a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWarming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoShale gas has transformed the U.S. energy landscape in the past several years—but it may crowd out renewable energy and other ways of cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a new study warns. A team of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDemand for the gills of manta and mobula rays has risen dramatically in the past 10 years for use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), even though they were not historically used for this purpose, a tea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAfter the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 16, 2012 (IPS) - China, Brazil and India want seats on the Arctic Council as global warming creates new opportunities for shipping and resource extraction in the vast Arctic region. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAfter being exposed to antibiotics for only 2 weeks, a drastic rise in drug-resistant E. coli has been detected in guts of pigs. After giving pigs a low-dose of antibiotics for just two weeks, researchers...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 12 hours ago(Photos from BoardGameGeek of the board game "Juden Raus!")This year for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I wanted to look at a Nazi-era board game titled Juden Raus! (Jews Out!) It was not made or ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGRANGER TWP.: A federal health agency says potentially explosive levels of natural gas at two houses in eastern Medina County are a public health threat. The problems in the two drinking water wells appe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSurvey reveals greater pressure on major players such as Apple and the Beijing government to clean up. Green activists applauded steady progress on environmental transparency in China after public campai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIMPACTS OF GAS DRILLING ON HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH MICHELLE BAMBERGER ROBERT E. OSWALD ABSTRACT Environmental concerns surrounding drilling for gas are intense due to expansion of shale gas drilling...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBLUEFIELD — Norfolk Southern Railway set a new record in terms of shipping coal tonnage by loading 159,941.45 net tons of metallurgical coal on an ocean-going vessel bound for China. NS issued a press re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoGerman chancellor speaks candidly to the Guardian and five other leading European newspapers as part of a unique collaboration to explore the EU's predicament. Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is considering additional asset purchases to boost growth after extending its pledge to keep interest rates low through at least late 2014. Policy makers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, declaring that the economy would need help for years to come, said Wednesday it would extend by 18 months the period that it plans to hold down interest rates in an effor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 65-year-old man who was knocked off his bicycle by three teenagers on a Pennsylvania trail shot two of them, killing one, police said according to reports. The Reading Eagle newspaper said the wounded...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEver since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips. Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis is the first picture of 5ft 1in Michelle Williamson, who beat her businessman boyfriend so severely that he almost lost his arm and will need cosmetic surgery to heal his horrific scars. Ian McNicho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoVladimir Putin has told Sky News that he is "not concerned" about recent mass protests calling for him to resign. The Russian Prime Minister spoke exclusively on the campaign trail in Tomsk, Siberia as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:42:09 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) West of Chr...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoI am sure that this will bemerely one of many pronouncements as we approach the 21st ofDecember this year. However, as stated, this person is a high status personwith an excellent educational backgroun...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoThis is all good fun and providesa little of the flavor of present efforts to create a fresh new tarpaulin to coverthe known facts and include gravity. For the record my new metric forphysics allows us...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoI know work has gone on in thisarea for some time, but it appears that it is now getting more attention. This appears largely as a result of theactual proliferation of mind altering chemicals and the ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 13 hours agoWe discover here that a coolingof the stratosphere will generate an ozone hole. Perhaps it is plausible that the originalcause of the hole in the Antarctic was caused by the naturally much cooler temper...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in tho...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*Organizers of a project to produce a series of new forest to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee expect to plant one million trees throughout February. Dame Judi Dench, the Oscar-winning actress, has ...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 14 hours agoRIP. This is the obvious pick, but there's a reason this is her most famous song. Then there's her duet with Mike Finnigan, "You Gonna Make Me Cry."
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago“Through the corridors of sleep Past the shadows dark and deep My mind dances and leaps in confusion. I don’t know what is real, I can’t touch what I feel And I hide behind the shield of my illusion. So ...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoHow do you determine teacher effectiveness? Sent to USA Today, Jan. 26, 2012 “States weaken tenure rights for teachers” (Jan. 25) emphasizes the importance of evaluating teacher effectiveness. A major pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:21:42 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) NNW of The Geysers, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans bought new homes in December, making 2011 the worst sales year on record. The Commerce Department says new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA. Many ques...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago[image: Link] One in five young Germans has no idea that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp, a poll released Wednesday showed, two days ahead of Holocaust memorial day. Although 90 percent of those asked did...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoWASHINGTON - From postal workers to congressional staffers, federal workers failed to pay billions in taxes in 2010. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service, active and retired fed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn 18-year-old high school student had to be rescued from frigid waters in a Catskill lake in a bizarre incident. The New York State Police say the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) stud...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico's Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) – Significantly more Chicagoans are arming themselves with guns. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, over the past two years, the city has seen a 16 percent spike in the number ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoGraceann Rumer just started driving two weeks ago. She used the few driving skills she had to save a school bus full of students by grabbing the steering wheel as the driver collapsed from a heart attac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:49 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) WNW of Jutiapa, Jutiapa, Guatemala N...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoThe first time I read David Korten's most recent book, Agenda For A New Economy, it was for his economic insights. I reread it for more of that-- plus moral instruction. Like this: We humans are living o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoArab hackers claimed responsibility Wednesday for a series of attacks on prominent Israeli websites, including that of daily newspaper Haaretz. Cyber attacks against Israeli sites have been increasing sinc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHOUSTON (CBS Houston) — A pet serial killer is on the loose in the Houston area. Seven dogs were found dead, six of them pit bulls, over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Three of those pit bulls w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Internet is becoming our main source of memory instead of our own brains, a study has concluded. In the age of Google, our minds are adapting so that we are experts at knowing where to find informati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDavos, Switzerland (CNN) – With the world still shaking from the global economic earthquake, and suffering daily aftershocks from Europe, it is not surprising that the topic at Davos is whether capitalism...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoOnline shops already have a frightening amount of information at their fingertips - from whether you've purchased from them before, to what sites you've visited before you arrive at their shop, accessible...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 16 hours agoIt is far too important to make sure the Republican Party does not again make the mistake of –attempting- to replace the Democrat impostor with our own impostor. Conservatives ARE the majority in this part...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMiami, Cities In Texas Also Said To Be Trying This New Way To Be Eye In The Sky. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy dr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:19:27 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe U.S. Postal Service needs to slash 260,000 jobs and end weekend delivery if it is to climb out of its "financially insolvent" condition, Rep. Darrell Issa said. Despite a mandate to avoid deficits, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoVELIKY NOVGOROD — In this historic city that was once the cradle of Russian democracy, an unprecedented new campaign kicked off over the weekend to install web cameras in every polling station around the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe world's political and business elite will shelter from the chill winds buffeting the global economy and plot a new path for capitalism at the annual Davos forum which begins Wednesday. Some 40 heads ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoI'm really struggling to work out what all the fuss is about over this one. It seems to me to be much ado about nothing. Breaking news: Mitt Romney is very rich. He also gave millions and millions of doll...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes. According to National Taxpayer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSo far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBEIJING--The Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration plans to expand its aerial patrols to cover areas of dispute between Japan and China, including the Senkaku Islands and the Shirakaba natural gas field...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBEIJING--Eye-catching explosions of fireworks filled the night skies over Beijing to celebrate Chun Jie, or the Chinese New Year, before dawn on Jan. 23, but there was a downside to the picturesque cascad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBEIJING--It was a prestigious contest involving some of the top technological minds in China, with prizes totaling 2.65 million yuan (about 32 million yen or $400,000) up for grabs. But the occupations o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA man whose decapitated body was found on a grass verge after a fire in Greater Manchester has been identified. John Grainger, 32, was discovered by firefighters after they had been called to a wooded ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:33:22 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) North of Iraklion, Crete, Gree...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 38.5 km (23.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:08:34 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) Eas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:48 UTC Friday 27th January 2012 The epicenter was 296 km (183 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 66.5 km (41.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:04:19 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 129 km (80 miles) WNW of Ambon, Moluccas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 313.6 km (194.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:04:06 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) WNW of F...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours agoCarlwassilie.acyn@gmail.com nikospastos@hotmail.com http://akbigvillagenetwork.blogspot.com/ ...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 18 hours ago*CANADIAN LABOUR QUÉBEC:* *RIO TINTO LOCKOUT SOON TO ENTER SECOND MONTH:* In the town of Alma Québec the lockout of employees of Alcan will soon be into its second month. 780 members of the United S...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 18 hours agoCommunity meetings, rallies, emergency mobilizations, and a five-hour Council meeting ended with the Peel Regional Council voting not to close 12 publicly-funded daycare centres - yet. The Council voted un...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago*Suspensions lifted for Tucson's "Niños Heroes" Wakefield M.S. students (And banned books petition)* *Acoma Pueblo's Simon Ortiz speaks to students today* *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* *http://w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours agoBy arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 January 2012 When it was someone else's problem (Chernobyl), Japan was telling the truth about the effect of radiation, particularly on children. Here’s Tokyo Brown Tabb...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Yosemite HD"* by Project Yosemite "This video is a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. All timelapses were shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a variety of Canon L and Zeiss CP.2 Len...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 19 hours agoBeen wondering about that off-the-charts stock market? Not really. (Published on Zerohedge) Biderman Explains The Bullish Market Ponzi Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/26/2012 "All markets trade their ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*By Quanah Parker Brightman* *United Native Americans,Inc* *Unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com* *(510)672-7187* SAN FRANCISCO -- The Native American Community, with support from the Occupy Movement ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*No, that $374,327 isn't in Monopoly money.* *"Now is not this ridiculous, and is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity -- explain it if you can."* *-- the Dragoons, in Act I of G&S's Patience* ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA civil court in Munich has blocked a British publisher's plans to print excerpts of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Germany later this month. The court ruled Wednesday that British publisher Peter McGee's ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 20 hours ago*Update 9:34 AM Jan. 27: Last evening the State Board of Education pulled the "Scarlet Letter" reprimand action item from today's agenda. * The commentary below was provided Knoxville, TN educators who ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago“A mere 12.5 million light-years from Earth, irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 lies within the confines of Canes Venatici, the constellation of the Hunting Dogs. About the size of our Milky Way's satellite g...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature." - Voltaire
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"I once was a little child who longed for other worlds, but I am no more a child for I have known fear, I have learned to hate, how tragic then is youth which lives with enemies, with gallows ropes. Yet, I ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoRiot Police face off against Occupy Wall Street activists in Oakland, California. November 2011. Source: Noah Berger, Associated Press. State of Emergency Communique #1: "Opening A New Theater of War In T...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoSam: "It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Fertilizers and Ocean Dead Zones. unep.org / source: World Bank, World Development Indicators] Industrially produced nutrient fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus) are essential to global food secu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Elephant at 'Elephants and Friends', Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Lauren Hayhurst via orientaltales.com]26 January 2012 (AP) – Thailand's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat o...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoIf you try to find a recent issue of Inside ALEC - you can't. Our good friends at the American Legislative Exchange Council - have stepped up their secrecy - they are hiding everything now. This was the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoRosemère, Quebec, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 21 hours agoPoland on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement, sparking more demonstrations by Internet users who have protested for days over fear it will lead to online censorship. After the signing,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Edward Bernays: Propaganda And Power"* by Administrator “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Tho...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“Best Places in the World to Retire, Or Escape, To”* by Daily Reckoning Contributor "If you had $20,000 a month to retire on — you could live lavishly pretty much anywhere on the planet. But we’re intere...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe spiders possess a unique vision that allows them to quickly capture prey.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe weekly Google+ Space Hangout aired live once again today, discussing everything from angry solar storms to even angrier black holes!
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThe weekly Google+ Space Hangout aired live once again today, discussing everything from angry solar storms to even angrier black holes!
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoChemists have found a chemical that can absorb radioactive gas.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*And now they want to tar Ron Paul supporters? * "‘Anonymous’ hackers target US security think tank" December 25, 2011|Cassandra Vinograd and Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press The loose-knit hackin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoI forget which MSNBC wag said it the other day, but someone did mention that Gingrich hasn't been using dog whistles in up-country South Carolina and the Florida Panhandle, he's using a *fog* whistle. And...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe number of known multi-planetary star systems has just tripled.
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 23 hours agoStudents who were suspended from Wakefield Middle School in Tucson for walking out earlier this week spent the day attending MAS classes at the UA. So did a suspended Pueblo H.S. student. In the second c...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSubmarine vents provide a substrate for life well after the vents themselves become inactive.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA panel suggests towns volunteer to host dumps that would last for generations.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoOglala VP: Continued Resistance to Keystone XL Pipeline Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Persian Gulf Option One: A False Flag"* by Patrick Henningsen “Remember the Maine!”, was the cry back in 1898 from William Randolph Heart’s New York Journal – a forerunner the modern Murdoch press. Then...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 1 day agoThe tallbloke climate site appears to have warmly (and all too quickly) embraced the "Unified Climate Theory" of Nikolov and Zeller. Here I offer my physical understanding, and my reasons for rejecting tha...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoLooking over some of the most recent entries on the *ThinkProgress Security*blog, posts by neoconservative "Israel-Firster" witch-hunt targets Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, along with associate Ben Armbrust...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Obama's Fairness Doctrine"* by Bill Bonner “The US is going to hell,” we told the group at the Watergate last night. “You mean the economy is really going to get worse, huh?” “No, I mean it’s going to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA seven- month- old Libyan baby died in an Athens Children's hospital on Friday in the first fatality linked to the H1N1 flu virus of the new year in Greece, local authorities reported. According to loc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA number of overseas Israeli diplomatic missions had security scares Monday when they received envelopes containing a suspicious white powder, raising fears of an anthrax attack. While the Foreign Ministr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFighters return to their old frontline after war crimes suspects released and four soldiers killed in attack on local garrison. A powerful sense of deja vu grips the men of Libya's national guard as they ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree white teens have been charged with race hate crimes after allegedly tying a noose around the neck of a black classmate and calling him 'n*****'. The trio, reportedly annoyed with the boy's relation...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoA 5 - 10 minute read that will make you smile from CMD. *Spoof Program Handed Out at Walker's State of the State Address* Submitted by Sara Jerving on January 26, 2012 - 10:51am Well-dressed women in suit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorking excessive overtime without a single day off during the week, living together in crowded dormitories and standing so long that their legs swell and they can hardly walk after a 24-hour shift. Thes...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThere I've said it. I'm just too damned dumb to accept atheism. And, the way I see it, so are you even if you won't admit it... yet. It's the whole faith thing that stops me in my tracks. What is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Dutch citizen convicted of killing a Peruvian student in a fit of rage is suffering from deteriorating health after being transferred to a high security prison, it has been revealed. Joran van der Sloo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Special Forces soldier has been jailed after being accused of using an electric dog collar to punish two small children. Michael Lee Mitchell is also accused of torturing the girls by making them carry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAltai in southern Siberia sits right at the centre of Russia. But the tiny, mountainous republic has a claim to fame unknown until now - Native Americans can trace their origins to the remote region. DNA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRail bosses were accused of giving its workforce a 'bribe not to strike' as it emerged staff could earn up to £2,500 for working during the Olympic games. In what was described by union bosses as a 'trul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 172 km (106.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:47:21 UTC Thursday 26th January 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16.7 miles) Northeast of Ma...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoAfter the successful 24 hours of virtual reality – Al Gore's online project in Fall 2011 that was watched by dozens of people in the whole world, mostly by the readers of WUWT, the world's most followed cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain and the United States have dropped down a league table which rates the freedom of the press across the world, it emerged today. The UK’s slide from 19th to 28th place is partly blamed on fallout f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran has indicated it is ready to revive talks with the West as Tehran cedes ground in the face of toughened sanctions. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted international pressure will not force Ir...
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