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Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. - posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 minutes agoWe all get serious mucus when we're sick, but it's here to help. Learn how mucus fights to protect your body.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 minutes agoA decision to have police in a Pennsylvania town shoot stray dogs raises an uproar -- and a review.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 minutes agoBecause payroll is part of my job and because I like getting my pay direct deposited into my checking account every couple of weeks I found this piece of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) legisl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes ago
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- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 56 minutes agoHistory shows that military, political, and ideological preparation for war eventually leads to war. So there is going to be a war between USrael and Iran + allies if only because so many armaments and wea...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 58 minutes agoHistory shows that military, political, and ideological preparation for war eventually leads to war. So there is going to be a war between USrael and Iran + allies if only because so many armaments and wea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Cover of 'Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future' by Peter D. Ward.] Tamino poses the question: What’s the chance that if...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe federal government may grant a permit to kill protected golden eagles to an Oregon wind farm, and conservationists are applauding the move.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoApple is to sue a company for making an ultra-realistic foot-tall scale model of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. Apple laywers have reportedly sent a letter to Chinese company InIcons demanding the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 39.8 km (24.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:58:23 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoDescriptions of the Pentagon’s very latest non-lethal weapon projects have been leaked online. Publicintelligence.org recently published the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate’s ‘Non-Lethal Weapons Refe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoCases of whooping cough have more than doubled in the last year - although peaks of this kind are normal, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Figures for England and Wales show there were 421...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoTis the season for crowded gyms. Keep track of progress, while maintaining your sanity.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThis device offers a silly way to charge up your electronic device.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA planned EU green tax to cut carbon emissions among the world's airlines was thrown into doubt today after China threatened not to cooperate with the plan. The China Air Transport Association (CATA) said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoMass killer Anders Breivik is not psychotic and has not been put on medication, according to prison psychiatrists monitoring him. The revelation is in direct contrast with the November findings of two cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGoogle has said it will manually change its search rankings to 'demote' its own Chrome web browser for two months - after the site was caught breaking its own rules by paying bloggers to write posts promot...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“Keeeerrrruuuunnnchhhhh (Don't Rely On Credit!)”* by Karl Denninger “No, folks, it's not just individual people who should not rely on various forms of credit. It's also companies... "On Friday, Decembe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:25 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 1449 km (898.3 miles) West of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoPosing for a secret camera in a jail cell packed with goodies, this is teenage murderer Liam Ryan as the outside world should not be allowed to see him. Ryan, 19, is currently serving a life sentence at ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"The Arithmetic of a Revolution"* by Bill Bonner "Hey… That rascal, Alan Greenspan, is back in the newspapers. And this time he has something sensible to say: “The emerging fight over the future of the ...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSome long-hyped tech breakthroughs have decent odds of going retail; unless they don't.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoStudy says rapidly thinning sea ice in north Atlantic has ravaged seal numbers, making annual commercial seal hunt superfluous. Canada faced fresh calls to shut down its commercial seal hunt on Thursday, ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 2 hours agoYou have probably heard about 365 project, a project where the a person takes a picture every single day for the entire year. This year, for the first time, I have decided to complete one. I have always th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAlarm was raised over a possible outbreak of bird flu following death of over 600 poultry at Ganganagar in Dhalai district in the past three days, official sources said on Thursday. Blood samples of infe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA two-inch break in a pipe leading to a chlorine bleach tank caused a chemical spill Thursday at Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear plant on the Mississippi River near Red Wing, but officials said no ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA British national working for the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped Thursday in Pakistan's volatile southwestern province of Balochistan, police and Red Cross officials said. Khalil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPolice in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, said Thursday they have arrested a senior figure in the Pakistani Taliban and several other alleged terrorists. A police statement said Abdul Qayyum Mehsud and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Dallas teenager who ran away from home more than a year ago somehow wound up deported to Colombia after U.S. authorities mistook the girl, who lacked identification, for a Colombian national. Now her...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago*Reptilian Louie Gohmert on gov't salaries, Obama hit for being for education, slavery wasn't so-o-o bad, naked gunwoman, and more* Said Labour Party MP Tom Watson: *"This is a victory for decent people up...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAttackers killed at least 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in strikes that targeted Shiites and renewed fears of sectarian violence, authorities said. The deadliest attack was a suicide bombing targeting S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 32.5 km (20.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:39 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (73 miles) SSW of Firuzabad, Iran No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:47:05 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) EN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 197.6 km (122.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:26:27 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 118 km (73 miles) West of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours agoWhy January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.We need to be ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Alabama at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:00:48 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3 miles) West of Jasper...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours ago*First Voices Indigenous Radio* *ON THE AIR: WBAI 99.5 FM Every Thursday at 9 AM Eastern* www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org Listen to Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota from Cheyenne River, S.D., online at WBAI...
- posted by Rev.Paperboy at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoCanada's ethical snake-oil salesman and Glenn Beck wannabe Ezra Levant continues to keep it classy. As far as I can tell, Ezra's objection isn't that Chiquita Banana keep paying right-wing death squads ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoIt's not quite mind-reading, but dogs do monitor our eye movements and voice tone to predict our intent.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoFailed monsoons in 14th and 15th century coincide with the Khmer Empire's collapse in SE Asia.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoIt's not quite mind-reading, but dogs do monitor our eye movements and voice tone to predict our intent.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012* *Recalling the folk Ensign shtupped:* This is a *very* dumb day in the New York Times. Right at the start of her news report, Helene Cooper just can’t seem to figure something ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe parasites that cause the transformation may provide a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoNative demonstrators march on La Paz to protest highway construction. Photo from AFP.Letter from Bolivia:'The repression strengthened us!'The ragtag band walked day and night in flip-flops, and the hearts of...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoCast of Outside People at the Vineyard theater in New York. Inset photo: playwright Zayd Dohrn.We’re all outsiders now:Zayd Dohrn’s new play, Outside PeopleThe play -- which is part situation comedy, part s...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012* *Prince Nicholas in the can:* This is a very dumb day in the New York Times. Just consider the way Gail Collins closes her column, live and direct from New Hampshire: COLLINS...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 4 hours agoThis post will veer just slightly off the trees-dying-from-ozone purpose of this blog, because the methane issue is beyond radically terrifying. Emissions in the Arctic have increased by a third in just f...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 4 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Private water wells have been mysteriously contaminated with volatile organic chemicals in Rockford, Illinois, according to this report in WIFR.com. The area affected extends from the Cott...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: The California Aqueduct carries water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Southern California as urgent calls for California residents to conserve water grow. David McNew / Getty Images] By Jens...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else - 5 hours agoThe EPA will study the effects of fracking in 2012. In 1965 the Oak Ridge National Lab developed this process.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoThe New Mexico 2012 Legislative Social Calendar shows this meeting for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - to recruit new members. Any chance we can get some New Mexico #Occupy people on th...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 5 hours ago*I decided I'm voting for the ONLY candidate that's not a MASS MURDERER RACIST, Dr Ron Paul:* (How to win the "racist" accusation argument against Ron Paul: even though Ron Paul isn't a racist, just say, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Christine Shepard, postdoctoral fellow with the Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Team. grist]By Robert Lalasz 3 Jan 2012 Let's say the rise in sea level that climate change will bring us -- fr...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012* *Parker’s willing assistant:* Following up on our previous post: Ashley Parker was Maureen Dowd’s “research assistant.” But who is Michael Barbaro? Last September, the Hampde...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoWe had our third and final awesome breakfast at Chez Hubert, then said goodbye to the Crying (or possibly Laughing) Dresser and hit the road. Station touristique Duchesnay is about a half-hour from Quebec ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA bustling thoroughfare 98 million years ago was a coastal plain full of waterways.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoLotus is a solar-powered electric vehicle charger that goes beyond charging.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Graeme Thompson writes; "Is this an impartial BBC journalist engaging Republican nomination candidate Rick Santorum, or a sneering, jeering Obama supporter trying to lob custard pie...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago*THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012* *Parker spots the stiffness:* Yet another awkward hug! On the scene for the New York Times, Parker and Barbaro were flawlessly able to spot it: BARBARO AND PARKER (1/5/12): *O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAttorney General is to review sentences given to Gary Dobson and David Norris for the Murder of Stephen Lawrence after request of members of the Public. Huge numbers of the public called into police stati...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoBefore the Christmas, I discussed the EU plan to introduce a climate protection racket on all airlines whose flights end on the EU territory. (You may decide whether the three-word term is derived from "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNortheastern Ohio has been rattled by close to a dozen earthquakes since last spring. It's not an area that is known for them. Now, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports that an expert on quake...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours agoBeing a constituent in CD6 and unfortunately having Bachmann as my rep - she finally said something yesterday that was the absolute truth. “I am a very real person, I am not a politician,” she said during...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoDutch villagers have been asked to leave their homes and farms because strong winds and heavy rain have led to fears of coastal flooding. Some farmers in Tolbert in the northern province of Groningen refu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTYPHOID cases have persisted in Mufulira with 30 new cases recorded yesterday morning, bringing the total number to 1,279 since the water-borne disease broke out two weeks ago. Mufulira Town Clerk Charle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFATEHABAD: Fear of leopard attack created panic in Chandpura village of the district on Tuesday. On the complaint of villagers, the forest department has deployed a team in the village to catch the animal....
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 6 hours agoI am doing a complete 360 today. If you have been following along for a while, well, you'll understand that is what I do occasionally. Plus, I need a break from the heavy gloom and doom of war and killing,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo young women believed to be Taiwanese nationals were found collapsed in a Tokyo apartment Thursday morning with stab wounds to their necks, police said. The women were taken to hospital but confirmed ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 6 hours ago2011 was an eventful year in Canadian politics. We were treated to a historic federal election in the Spring, and five provincial elections in the Fall. Alison Redford and Christy Clark defeated the establ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoTeabagger Paul LePage was an accidental governor. In 2010 he won with a mere 38% of the vote, less than 10,000 more votes than Independent Eliot Cutler. Cutler and Democrat Libby Mitchell polled over 317,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoKASHIWA, Chiba -- The municipal government here suspended the operation of one of its main incinerators again on Jan. 5 as a storage facility at the waste disposal factory was filled up with incinerated as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo dead black-headed gulls found in Hong Kong were tested H5N1 positive, Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said. The dead gulls, a migratory bird commonly seen in the special ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJAKARTA: The Centre of Vulcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) on Thursday declared that seven out of 127 volcanoes in Indonesia are in danger status of level III (alert), according to China’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCatania, Italy - A 5,000 m smoke column high could constitute danger for airplanes. The Etna volcano has greeted new year with an eruption of Strombolian type this morning that has provoked a 5,000 m smok...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe transmission of diseases from Old World to New may have been a two-way street.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoThe number of twins born in the United States has doubled in the last three decades.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBombs have exploded in two northern Nigerian cities, less than a week after the country's president declared a state of emergency in the region. Authorities said there were no casualties late Wednesday whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA vicious fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives, clubs and even stones left 31 people dead in a prison in a drug cartel-plagued state in northern Mexico, authorities said. Another 13 prisoners ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA male nurse has been arrested by detectives investigating the poisoning of patients at Stepping Hill hospital following the death on New Year’s Eve of a fourth patient. The 46-year-old man was arrested ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 7 hours agoJim Henderson on his retirement Watch and listen in to QB Drew Brees and Sean Payton coaching up teammates during the Saints win over the Panthers in Week 17. Mathieu motivated by family tragedies C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 15-year-old boy who died from "unspeakable savagery and brutality" was attacked by relatives who believed he was a sorcerer involved in witchcraft, a court has heard. The victim, Kristy Bamu, was found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe euro has dropped to its lowest rate against the dollar in 16 months as concerns continue over the health of Europe's banks. The euro fell to $1.2831 against the dollar and was at an 11-year low versu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA woman and a 10-year-old boy have been taken to hospital after a tree fell on their vehicle in Hertfordshire. Emergency services were called to the incident in Shenley at about 07:50 GMT. The woman and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Arab League has turned to the United Nations for help after admitting "mistakes" in its Syria monitoring mission, which has come in for withering criticism for its failure to stem bloodletting. Meanw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMore than 50 people have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least 30 Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoShadow Health Minister Diane Abbott has apologised for comments she made on Twitter, amid claims they were racist. She said she had not meant to generalise when she wrote: ''White people love playing 'di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFears that China could soon be facing its own Lehman-style banking meltdown are being fueled by a National Audit Office report which found 531 billion yuan (US$84 billion) worth of irregularities in local ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNigeria's main trade union groups called Wednesday for a general strike and mass rallies beginning next week if a controversial government decision to take away fuel subsidies is not reversed. Angry pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAuthorities found the bodies of 15 Pakistani security personnel in the country's northwest tribal region, officials said Thursday. The security officials had been kidnapped two weeks ago in Tank, an area ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJury selection begins Thursday for a Marine accused in the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the last person to be tried in a case that became a lightning rod for critics of the war. Staff ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA British report issued Thursday called for "decisive action" to contain the growing problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia. "We conclude that for too long there has been a noticeable gap between the ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoOn November 7th, 2007, Garrett Lisi celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (yes, he is a commie!) by posting his notorious "theory of everything" to the arxiv.org website...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours agoSource: Diario Victoria Date: 01.03.12 http://www.diariovictoria.com.ar/2012/01/se-inauguro-la-nueva-sede-del-museo-ovni/ Argentina: The New UFO Museum (Museo OVNI) Last night was the offi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 104 km (64.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:13:15 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (16.5 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSouth Korea is "open to dialogue" with the new North Korean leadership, despite harsh recent comments from Pyongyang, Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan said Thursday. Kim told reporters not to read too much...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoA bacteria-filled filter is being perfected to prevent bad industrial smells from spreading over a whole town.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA former Libyan military officer who fought against ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi's troops last year was picked to head the country's armed forces, a move that comes as tensions flare among rival militias. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA landslide in a remote area of the southern Philippines has killed 25 people and left more than 100 missing, the governor of the local province said Thursday. It is the latest natural disaster to strike...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA man accused of trying to break in to a woman's Oklahoma home is scheduled to be in court Thursday as he faces murder charges in the shooting death of his accomplice. But Dustin Louis Stewart, 29, did...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Pakistani Taliban have killed 15 kidnapped troops in revenge for military operations against them near the Afghan border, a Taliban spokesman said Thursday, vowing further such attacks. Pakistani for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNervousness about euro zone sovereign debt sent the single currency to a 15-month low and hit European stocks on Thursday, with the first French bond auction of 2012 seen as a test of recent efforts by pol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 66.1 km (41.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:15:34 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) SSE of Escuintla, Guat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA trailer park babysitter accused of bludgeoned a nine-year-old girl to death before dismembering her body with a hacksaw has pleaded not guilty. Michael Plumadore, 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had been loo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic at a depth of 10 km (6.2miles), the quake hit at 09:35:29 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) SSE of Ocoa, Peravia, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDetroit, which has one of the highest crime rates of large American cities, will close the doors of its police stations to the public from 4pm each day, reopening 16 hours later at 8am. From Monday, many...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoThe BBC is always open to giving the pro-Euthanasia lobby as much publicity as possible and they do not disappoint today with this new report. (They love death like we love life.) As is the case in this re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"What if, from now on and forevermore, people stopped using the word "evil" and replaced it with "ignorance"? Yeah, less fear, more better; global transformation. Evil, on its own, does not exist, and yes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe New Year's Day shooting that left four dead in a wealthy suburb of San Diego was a murder-suicide involving a 25-year-old Navy pilot who killed himself, authorities have confirmed. John Robert Reeves,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree Australian soldiers have been wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. The soldiers were travelling in a bushmaster vehicle, 60 kilomtres north west of multi-national base Tarin Kot, when t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBarack Obama picked a fight with Congress yesterday as he forced through his nominee for a national consumer watchdog by taking advantage of a loophole in the law. The controversial move is an opening sho...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoWhy haven't the anti-racist BBC sacked her from her regular gigs? [image: Screen shot 2012-01-05 at 07.12.03] With the Lawrence case omnipresent, why is the BBC so MUTE on Diane? UPDATE [image: Diane Ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoJorge Saavedra (right) stabbed Dylan Nuno with a pocket knife after he had ran from the school bus in Naples, Florida to avoid a fight. Under the 'stand your ground' law people living in Florida are allow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoComputer hackers from the Anonymous 'hacktivist' group have attacked German neo-Nazi groups, crippling a reported 15 websites and exposing the names of hundreds of extreme right wing supporters. A Tweet s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBritain's failure to prosecute Somali pirates who attack ships, seize hostages and demand huge ransoms ‘beggars belief’, a withering Parliamentary report said today. Nine out of ten piracy suspects detain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA former Scots Guardsman was under arrest tonight on suspicion of killing the mother of his twin boys after she was found strangled in their home. John McGrory, 46, was detained by detectives investigating...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThreat: Jean Leonetti (Pictured), France's minister for Europe, says the French and Germans have already decided to introduce a financial transaction tax on the City of London. The French yesterday revive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHalf of those claiming unemployment benefits would prefer to lose their handouts than do a stint of unpaid work. Figures show that 20 per cent of those ordered to take part in four-week community projects...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoFormer senior NSA official Thomas Drake gave an impassioned and angry speechabout the degeneration of America from a free society into a fascist police state at the 2011 Sam Adams Award on November 21, 2011...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFierce winds tore through the country again last night after a brief respite from the storms that resulted in two deaths. Gusts topped 100mph in the Pennines as the gales continued across England and Wale...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 51 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:56:38 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21.7 miles) Southwest of Gra liyiá, Cre...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 12 hours agoThe American Institute of Certified Tax Coaches has a neat graphic of the Republican presidential candidates' tax proposals. Three want to impose a flat tax, that would of course massively benefit the rich....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago*Following nearly a half-century of war and a jubilant independence on July 9, 2011, leaders of the world's newest nation, South Sudan, came to Washington D.C. to express cautious optimism for what is like...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJUBA, South Sudan: At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world's newest - and desperately destitute - nation hosted a lunch this month for Liu Guijin, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoShi'ite youths chanting slogans against Bahrain's royal family clashed with riot police across the Gulf island kingdom on Saturday, trying to block highways in a second day of protests, residents said. "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBP’s fund to compensate those affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been frozen after the US courts ordered that a portion of payments to victims be collected to pay lawyers. Louisiana judges have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChina has declared victory in its war against lowbrow television after forcing channels to axe more than two-thirds of their prime time light entertainment shows and replace them with news broadcasts. An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe end of the euro may prove chaotic, but recovery will come – sooner rather than later. Geoffrey Howe is guilty. Whatever he actually said about Liverpool’s problems during some early Thatcher Cabinet ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours ago*Lamentations and panic overtook Al Gore's terrorist training camp as the most recent year dropped out of top ten* The final RSS AMSU satellite rankings for the year 2011 are exactly as I predicted them a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSo, 420 parents have been cheating on their schools’ application forms, according to* The Daily Telegraph’s front page report *yesterday. Desperate mummies and daddies have been caught lying about their ad...
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- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIgot this material from Dale Drinnon who sent me his recent posting on theapparent reaction to the story about a Mayan site been found in Georgia. As he makes abundantly clear, Mayan maizeculture sprea...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis is a strong reminder that weneed to update our deer harvesting practices rather badly. They were put in place when it looked likethe local farm boys were going to drive the deer into extinction. ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIt appears possible to model the brain’s response to learning stimuli in order to optimize memory at least. We are still a long way from having an effective protocol but we now know such a protoc...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis is worth knowing about and it satisfies certain misgivings I have had about physical training over the years. The Tabata protocol is described, and then modified by the author to make it m...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*The CIA's Michael Scheuer and Ron Paul * Michael Scheuer was the boss of the CIA unit which tracked 'CIA agent' Osama bin Laden. Michael Scheuer now works at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON: The United States said on Tuesday that a gas pipeline project Pakistan was negotiating with Iran could violate US restrictions on major financial deals with Tehran and Washington was already di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPAYDAY loans and unauthorised overdrafts have become a common method of paying the rent for up to a million people in Britain, a charity for the homeless has discovered. Shelter Scotland, which campaigns...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Idaho at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 07:20:10 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) ENE of Georgetown, Idaho No Reports of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago*Tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest on Monday night to protest the country's new constitution, which took effect on Jan. 1. The document, in combination with other recent laws,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGreece will crash out of the eurozone unless it can agree the terms of a €130bn (£108bn) international bail-out agreement an Athens official has warned, signalling the start of another tense countdown for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAlmost one million Britons have taken out an emergency ‘payday’ loan to help pay their rent or mortgage in the last year, according to Shelter, the housing charity. The high degree of borrowing highlight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHigher-ups within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are pressuring rank-and-file officers to rubber-stamp immigrants’ visa applications, sometimes against the officers’ will, according to a Homelan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoClergy member's letter to 12,000 followers attacks church leader's 'obsession' with money. A simmering conflict at the Church of Scientology has been made spectacularly public after a former member of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFacial recognition is becoming a bigger part of law enforcement and homeland security. It's also growing in the commercial sector, which has all kinds of privacy and ID misuse implications. That's why the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGoogle's policy of penalising companies by removing them from its index for infringing rules on paid links may have come back to haunt it. Google is wrestling with a thorny conundrum: should it block its o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe South Korean and US military will soon sign a new plan to counter any North Korean attacks and hold regular exercises, Seoul said Wednesday, amid wariness over the North's power transition. "We belie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe sudden death of a billionaire in southern China is causing police to ask: Was it murder by cat meat? Long Liyuan, 49, died on Dec. 23 in wealthy Guangdong province after sharing a dish of slow boiled ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPlanned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo) According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) receive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWhile not news to Zero Hedge readers who knew about the final debt settlement of US debt about 10 days ahead of schedule, it is now official: According to the US Treasury, America has closed the books on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA stray cat that survived two trips to a Utah animal shelter's gas chamber now has a new home. Officials at West Valley City's animal shelter in Utah say the cat named Andrea hadn't been adopted for 30 d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe number of new prescription drug shortages in 2011 shot up to 267, well above the prior record and about four times the number of medication shortages in the middle of the last decade. Figures just re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe starkly contrasting economic trajectories of countries inside the eurozone were highlighted on Tuesday as Germany reported unemployment at 20-year lows while Spanish jobless figures rose for the fifth ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoChina's State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) promulgated the "Entertainment Ban." From January 1, the amount of TV entertainment programs are being limited. On New Year's Eve, 34 TV ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDrainage oil refers to the used and discarded oil that is collected from the drains of restaurants or homes and “resold” at a much cheaper price than unused oil to be reused. The above Chinese news repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe International Year of Chemistry failed to tackle the worrying proliferation of potentially damaging chemicals. You would be forgiven for not noticing, but today marks the end of an official year of “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWind farm operators are on course to earn up to £10 million this year for turning off their turbines. Official figures disclosed that 17 operators were paid almost £7 million for shutting down their farm...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*It goes on and on and on**.... * "Yaffa Yarkoni, singer who chronicled Israel’s many wars" by Tia Goldenberg | Associated Press, January 02, 2012 JERUSALEM - Yaffa Yarkoni, a singer who *belted out war...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Rabbi expected to plead guilty to sex abuse" by Michael Rezendes | Globe Staff December 14, 2011 In a case that highlighted concerns about sexual abuse in Jewish communities, a *rabbi* who taught a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSecretly-filmed footage from poultry farms suggests many egg producers on the Continent will flout a European Union ban on battery hens which comes into force today. The graphic images, shot in the last ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*So we are led to believe. * "House GOP yields on tax cut" December 23, 2011|By Jennifer Steinhauer WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders agreed yesterday to accept a *temporary extension* of the payroll ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoViolent protests have broken out across Nigeria against the government's decision to end fuel subsidies, amid the ongoing state of emergency declared last week. Protesters formed human barriers along mo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Police find body of man wanted in killing of ranger; Spotted during aerial search of Wash. park" by Mike Baker | Associated Press, January 03, 2012 MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. - An armed Iraq war...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*According to researchers at Oxford academy, an early medical trial of a hepatitis C vaccine has made known promising outcome. The attempt is to target the inner workings of the virus, rather than the va...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIconic photography company Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy in the coming weeks if efforts to sell off digital patents fall through, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says "pe...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Video image leads to arrest in LA arson spree" by Michael R. Blood Associated Press / January 3, 2012 Authorities arrested a man Monday in connection with dozens of suspected arson fires that destroyed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDetectives investigating the killing of Stephen Lawrence say they have received new information in the past 24 hours about his death. It comes as Gary Dobson and David Norris begin life sentences for the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA three-year boy is in a critical condition after being mauled by a tiger at a roadside zoo in Russia. The tiger was tied to a post behind a small fence when the attack happened at the zoo in Blagoveshch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA 15-year-old student armed with a pellet gun has been shot dead by police after he pointed it at officers. Police were called to Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday morning after ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*UK scientists have found anomalous numbers of a novel crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have dubbed The Hoff because of its hirsute upper body. The crab occurs in astounding densities. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA German man has been charged with 37 counts of arson linked to a series of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year. Harry Burkhart, 24, was charged with 28 counts of arson of property and nine counts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe UK would respond militarily if Iran carries out its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, the Defence Secretary is expected to say later. *Philip Hammond* will use a speech in Washington DC to warn Ir...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Related: Montana Supreme Court says corporations are not people * "With big state surplus, Montana bucks US trend" by Christopher Palmeri, January 1, 2012 Montana was one of only two states to report sur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA teenager has been charged with the murder of a young mother, who was found dead in a car in east London. Myles Williams, 19, of Pond Farm Estate in Hackney, was charged with the murder of 20-year-old K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 97 km (60.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:55 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) South of Gorontalo, Sul...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*They are to blame for everything.* "Detroit faces takeover by state; Michigan could gut union pacts in bid to save city" December 03, 2011|By Corey Williams and Ed White, Associated Press DETROIT - The ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*Google has gained hundreds of patents from IBM as it continues its rational property spending binge**. **Additional patents integrated a technique for by means of web-based applications across further de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 30.2 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:40 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 114 km (70 miles) NNE of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Aisen, Chile at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:54:35 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 343 km (213 miles) West of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:02:05 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (103 miles) East of Kira Kira, S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 522 km (323.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:00:09 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 533 km (330.4 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:28:49 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) East of Christc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 43.2 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:53:36 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) Northeast of Lat...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 15 hours ago*Scott Thompson, the president of online payments firm Paypal named as its new head of US web portal Yahoo. Currently Yahoo is undergoing an intentional review as it has failed to keep up with rivals suc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoMiss McConnell flipped out Wednesday morning when President Obama, sickened by Republican partisan obstructionism meant to wreck the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on behalf of their Wall Str...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"4 expelled over band death; Hazing suspected at Florida A&M is common practice" December 02, 2011|By Christine Armario and Errin Haines, Associated Press ATLANTA - Four Florida A&M University students ha...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoDowntown Austin seen from near the intersection of Loop 360 and US 290/71 West. This photo was taken in early September 2011. The brownish yellow- and red-leaved trees in the left and bottom right foreground...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"As gulf drilling nears, a warning; Engineers’ report cites oil firms’ attitude on safety" December 15, 2011|By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press WASHINGTON - BP and the other firms drilling for oil in the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"Lights blamed as thousands of migrating birds crash in Utah" December 15, 2011|Associated Press ST. GEORGE, Utah - *Thousands of migratory birds were killed* or injured after apparently mistaking a Walma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA landslide in a remote area of the southern Philippines has killed 25 people and left more than 100 missing, the governor of the local province said Thursday. It is the latest natural disaster to strike t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Anybody got a light?* "Flavored mini-cigars luring many teens" December 14, 2011|Washington Post WASHINGTON - They come in ice cream flavors such as strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. They are packaged ...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 16 hours agoTranscript: I would like to thank the people of the state of Iowa who participated in the caucuses. As I make this video, 97 percent of the results have been reported – but- it is clear that the vast ma...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago"Championing rights for all, 3 women accept peace prize" December 11, 2011|By Bjoern H. Amland, Associated Press OSLO - Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship, and sexual violence in Liberia and Y...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Lurking behind dust and stars near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, IC 10 is a mere 2.3 million light-years distant. Even though its light is dimmed by intervening dust, the irregular dwarf galaxy still...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Knowledge And Understanding”* by Chet Raymo "Allow me to quote a paragraph from philosopher Peter Hacker's review of Galen Strawson's “Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics.” Hacker outlines the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago* "You are Life"* "You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can fe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Greed has poisoned men’s souls- has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"The Calcium Supplement Problem:* * As Serious As A Heart Attack"* by Sayer Ji "Osteoporosis is not caused by a lack of limestone, oyster shell or bone meal. Heart attack, however, may be caused by suppl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"A New Imam, A New Outlook; Leader of Roxbury mosque says he brings a welcoming vision" December 03, 2011|By Omar Sacirbey, Globe Correspondent He grew up as a preacher’s grandson in Oklahoma, attending Chu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*Seems to be part of a pattern.* "Turkey cancels oil search plans in Syria; Also threatens to cut supply of electricity" November 16, 2011|By Selcan Hacaoglu, Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey yes...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*Horse-race handicapping is apparently fun for some people, but for me it's only entertaining when it's done by Frank Loesser, whose "Fugue for Tinhorns" is served up here by Stubby Kaye (Nicely-Nicely Jo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago"Turkey apologizes in deaths of Kurds" November 24, 2011|By Selcan Hacaoglu, Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s prime minister *apologized* yesterday for the first time for the *killings* of nearl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*And the Globe turned on me*: "Turkey’s prime minister on Sunday *welcomed efforts toward reconciliation*between the rival Palestinian factions during a meeting with the Hamas premier of the Gaza Strip, Tu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago"Turkey outraged at French vote" December 23, 2011|By Elaine Ganley and Suzan Fraser PARIS - Ties between France and Turkey, strategic allies and trading partners, abruptly unraveled yesterday after Frenc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” - Mr. Spock, “Star Trek”, "Amok Time"
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 20 hours agoClimate change activist Bruce Melton, left, with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer, in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio.Environmental activist Bruce Mel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoCouncil Grove, Kansas, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"When the Public Sector Debt Bubble Blows Up"* by Bill Bonner "What’s ahead for 2012? We gave you a hunch yesterday. The price of gold will probably go nowhere this year. We have a feeling that 2012 is n...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoFlag of the Texas Farmers Alliance. Image from HHS AP US History.The hidden history of TexasPart VIII: Populism, labor organizing, and white chauvinism in Texas, 1876-1890By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / Janu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted." - Winston Churchill
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours ago*DAMMIT JANET!* is keeping a weather eye on the emerging pack of Conservative anti-choicers intent on imposing their authoritarian religious will on the women of this country. Go read and then return. The...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Why the Spirit of Protest Seemed to Travel at the Speed of Light in 2011"* by Joel Bowman "No discernible New Year’s Eve hangover for the markets, Fellow Reckoner. The Dow, like those insufferable indiv...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 21 hours agoThe title of the post is the start of a song parody to the tune of "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks that I do not have the time, nor the inclination to finish. But what a fitting song for such a meaning...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Praemonitus, praemunitus." "Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDetectives investigating the killing of Stephen Lawrence say they have received new information in the past 24 hours about his death. It comes as Gary Dobson and David Norris begin life sentences for their...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*I'm going to be sick*: "Book claims to tell Strauss-Kahn’s side; But ex-IMF chief distances himself from the account" December 02, 2011|By Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press PARIS - A new book purports ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*You are beautiful just the way you are, ladies*: "France considers risk of faulty implants" December 22, 2011|By Angela Charlton PARIS — Emmanuelle Maria’s breasts were burning and globules of silicone ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago"Suit over ‘Jew or not Jew’ app dropped" November 25, 2011|Associated Press PARIS - French antiracism groups dropped a lawsuit yesterday against Apple Inc. over an iPhone app called “Jew or not Jew?’’ afte...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours agoSenator Wellstone: They Killed Him For 9/11 Questions By Julius Sequerra January 4, 2012 Before It's News “There are so many things going on re 9/11 that just don’t make sense”. -- Senator Paul Wellstone ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoLast Wednesday we looked at how the Tea Party has set out to destroy the political careers of mainstream conservatives Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). But they aren't the only relatively mainstr...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Prince Andrew and girl, 17, who sex offender friend flew to Britain to * In December 2000, Jeffrey Epstein, 'Prince Andrew's billionaire paedophile friend', visited Sandringham. Epstein was given permi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"9 Ways To Boost Your Immune System"* by Paul Fassa "Drugstores and Walmarts are promoting walk-in flu shots for the “flu season.” The late and early months of each year seem to be when more of us catch...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoGet loud sound without ruining your eardrums.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA technique for cloaking events could also secure computer networks.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Money Power Runs America"* by Stephen Lendman "Wall Street does it by controlling money, credit and debt, as well as manipulating markets for private enrichment. House and Senate millionaires do it t...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 23 hours agoFor those keeping score at home, Anomalist Books has just published *Reflections of a UFO Investigator*, a look at my journey through the world of UFOs. This book begins with my very first UFO “investigat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Hormuz Wild Card"* By Greg Hunter "Iran is threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz if more sanctions are installed against it. Tensions are mounting between the U.S. and other nations as Ir...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoThe Bank of North Dakota: The country's only publicly-owned state bank.The Case for public state banks:Meet Occupy Wall Street's favorite bankerBy Ryan Holeywell / SolidarityEconomy.Net / January 4, 2012See ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Russian military says the doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft may reenter the Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 15.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has appealed against a fine issued by an Argentine court relating to the deaths of 14 babies in clinical drug trials. *The world's second-largest drug manufacturer** ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Santa Cruz Islands at a depth of 101.6 km (63.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:57:00 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 489 km (304 miles) East of Kira ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEuropean governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian oil, EU diplomats said Wednesday, dealing a blow to Tehran that crowns new Western sanctions months before an Iranian election. The...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoTo me, there is nothing more frustrating than reading a cook book with a dozens of ingredients that I have never even heard of before. I like my recipes for every day, to be simple, with easy to find in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:04:30 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 191 km (119 miles) Northwest of Niue Isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 122.5 km (76.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:14:524 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMichele Bachmann has ended her run for the White House after a disastrous sixth-place showing in Iowa early this morning that saw her campaign collapse in the state where it began six months ago. 'I am no...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOnly four days into the New Year and the first four exoplanets of 2012 have been spotted orbiting four distant stars.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe 2012 U.S. presidential primaries have begun. Barack Obama is nearly guaranteed to get the Democratic ticket. The G.O.P. race started with the Iowa caucus. Just to be sure, a caucus is a gathering of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMANILA, Philippines – A total of 1,105 cases of an influenza-like illness were recorded in Baguio City in 2011, according to health officials. A significant rise in the figures was noted by authorities fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Free Syrian Army plans to kick off "huge operations" this week against "vital interests" of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the force's commander said Wednesday. "We prepared ourselves for this s...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Today's GOP foreseen 170 years ago, Delta supports the troops, Palin invades the U.K., Evan Bayh's true colors, and more* * Just let 'em go! (See 6/6.) * *by Noah* *6/4/11 -- Who needs Nostradamus? Almos...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy: Duane Craig Flooding in NY SubwayResidents in the lower Hudson River area of New York discovered fuel-laden water in their basements after the heavy rains from tropical storm Irene. The fuel is though...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice investigating the sudden death of a billionaire fear he was killed when he ate the poisoned flesh of a cat. Tycoon Long Liyuan died in Guangdong province in *China* after having dinner with two bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southwestern Kashmir at a depth of 40.5 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:31:29 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) South of Srinagar,...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoMarcos Barraza of Nuestro Pasado Extraterrestre shares with us this document from 1972 - the first official report by Argentina's "Gendarmería Nacional" concerning a UFO incident. He writes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:51:50 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) North of Bela, Pakistan No Report...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe Grand Warlock, who is the leader of sorcery in Mexico, is predicting in his New Year's forecast that Obama will fail to win reelection.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA computer code has been designed to hunt and destroy enemy viruses.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Protest against the police.* On 4 January 2012, an Indonesian court found a boy guilty of stealing a pair of worn-out sandals. Indonesian boy convicted of stealing old sandals Two of the boy's friends ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Genius of the Price System"* by Jeffrey Tucker "The other day, a local hamburger joint was advertising a 99 cent hamburger, and I took the offer. It was great. I wondered how they can make money th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTons of dead herring that washed up on a Norwegian beach on New Year's Eve are now gone, and no one is sure how they got there or where they went. Local resident Jan-Petter Jorgensen told Norway's TV2 he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnother top Iranian official weighed in Wednesday about the tensions brewing between his country and the United States, the latest salvo in the war of words over the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMr Justice Treacy today warned that three or four of Stephen Lawrence's killers remain "at large" and urged the police not to close its file on the murder. Mr Justice Treacy expressed hope that the jaili...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012* *Rosenthal takes a stand:* Yesterday, we finally did it. We don’t read a lot of blogs. Yesterday, we added Andrew Rosenthal’s blog, The Loyal Opposition, to our highly exclus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck British Columbia, Canada at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 16:25:36 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (68 miles) WSW of Mosquito L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Washington at a depth of just 0.8 km (0 miles - poorly constrained), the quake hit at 16:01:46 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) NNW of E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 147.5 km (91.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:35:51 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 290 km (180 miles) WNW ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Sudden hair loss in a woman who lives in Minami Soma and was exposed to Fukushima fallout. Numayu no blog http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kmasa924] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 2 January 2012 Teeth and...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoThe West has got a problem with the created Syrian opposition. It is being reported the so called opposition is in disarray. Which it likely is, since Syria is a nation of complexities. With the "oppositio...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoThe blogger recommends that you visit his new site and sign up for his News Letter, which informs you by e-mail of each new post. ------------------------------ *The Outlook for the New Year* -----...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis silicone flexible light is washable, so there's no excuse to put off dirty projects in dark places.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoNow that the Billy Mumy caucus has finally ended and the bad people have, alas, escaped the cornfield to metastasize across the nation, let's take stock of what we learned or *should've* learned last nigh...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Who can blame them?* *"Europe’s leaders are evidently hoping to use the shadow of impending crisis to speed the process to promote a new European Union treaty to enforce budget discipline."* * * *Proble...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoHackers call for building a secure satellite communications network, safe from government interference.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Protesters march in Lagos, Nigeria, over an increase in fuel-prices, 4 January 2012. Samuel Osabuohien / iReporter via CNN] By Stephanie Busari, CNN 4 January 2012 (CNN) – Car tires were set on ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Ex-editor details brazen tactics; But executive at Murdoch tabloid defends actions" November 30, 2011|By Sarah Lyall, New York Times LONDON - He admitted that he and his colleagues *hacked into people’s ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012* *Part 1—Candidates on the scale:* In yesterday’s Washington Post, Charles Lane reported a gloomy statistic from a Gallup survey. Will Barack Obama be re-elected? We have no i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 400 km (248 miles), the quake hit at 14:21:20 UTC Wednesday 4th January 2012 The epicenter was 322km (199.6 miles) Southeas...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"UK public employees stage 1-day strike; Protests over government cuts amid debt crisis" December 01, 2011|By David Stringer, Associated Press LONDON - Paramedics, emergency crews, teachers, and even some ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Teen killed amid London shopping frenzy" Associated Press, December 27, 2011 LONDON - A *teenager* was *fatally stabbed* yesterday after an *argument broke out in a sports store* on London’s most famous ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Can you sing along**, reader? * "Britain to allow female submariners" December 09, 2011|By Associated Press LONDON - Women will be allowed to serve on submarines for the first time in Britain’s history, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Enjoy, readers*: "Activist-poet leads Irish presidential vote" October 29, 2011|Associated Press DUBLIN - Human rights activist and poet Michael D. Higgins headed for victory yesterday in Ireland’s pres...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe finding shows that brucellosis has been in Albania since at least the Middle Ages.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoStudents from MIT have created a suit that limits dexterity, flexibility, motor and visual skills.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*And are then insulted for it. * "Calm is the unusual order of the day at protests in Greece" December 02, 2011|By Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press ATHENS - As 20,000 Greeks marched yesterday in centra...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Sometimes I find the Boston Globe is stuck in the past. * "Top Italian mob boss is captured in bunker; Zagaria had been on run since 1995" December 08, 2011|Associated Press ROME - Police captured one of...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe video above was the first commercial hit my independent record label, 415 Records, ever had. It was our first #1 on any radio chart. The first Republican governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFlood water has closed riverside footpaths and a footbridge across the River Wye in Hereford. The Environment Agency has issued flood warnings for the River Wye from Hay to Hereford. It said the river wa...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*The Euclidean version of a black hole solution naturally encapsulates a lot of black hole wisdom* The Euclidean spacetime with signature \(({+}{+}{+}{+})\) is a natural arena for Feynman's path integrals...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) says it is preparing for the worst if Mount Ijen in Bondowoso, East Java, erupts. “The BNPB will stay alert and keep strengthening existing posts,” BNPB info...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*ELEVEN Earthquakes in and Around Youngtown Ohio tied to fracking operations.* Until 2011 - the Youngstown area had had NO earthquakes. Kasich’s Response – PRO-BUSINESS (He’s such a good ALEC ALUMNI puppe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease has been found throughout Hong Kong's brand new, $670-billion government headquarters. The checks were prompted after the education secretary came down with t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn antinuclear town assembly member here was found shot dead in his car after he went out with a shotgun to hunt crows, police said on Jan. 3. Yasuhiro Uemura, 64, a member of the Minamiise Town Assembly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago*The southern province of Hau Giang recently detected the first outbreak of bird flu in a household raising 450 chickens in Long My district.* When ten out of their chickens died, the household informed lo...
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