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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 minutes ago*Schubert's "Trout" gets a robust, energetic performance by baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, matched by an especially adroit, buoyant account of the piano part by Gerald Moore. The maker of the video cl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 34 minutes ago"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Fred Allen
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- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.3* Date-Time - *Saturday, January 07, 2012 at 03:21:27 UTC* - Saturday, January 07, 2012 at 12:21:27 PM at epicenter - Time o... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“From Sagittarius to Scorpius, the central Milky Way is a truly beautiful part of planet Earth's night sky. The gorgeous region is captured in this wide field image spanning about 30 degrees. The impressiv...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“More often than not, we feel so enmeshed in the life we have that the prospect of change appears remote or impossible. Thus, we continue on the tracks that we have laid down for ourselves, we are unable ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoJoshua Tree, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Question Everything"* by Chet Raymo “Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) read Lucretius, and practiced a Lucretian style of life, at least after he retired from politics to become a gentleman farmer and wr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality whic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Thoughts: The Creation Ground of Experience"* by The DailyOm "During the day we can monitor our thoughts to see if we are investing our energy where it isn’t useful. Our thoughts are powerful forces in ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA hot air balloon crash in New Zealand early Saturday killed 11 people -- the pilot and 10 passengers -- officials said. No one survived the crash, which happened on the outskirts of Carterton, a town n...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*by Juan* Let me get this straight. Monkeyboy's mom, Barbara "Do I look like the Quaker Oats guy?" Bush brings him 'round to the hospital to see his miscarried and quite dead sibling in a jar and dang if... - posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 3 hours agoThis article has now been downloaded 500 times.It is the most downloaded free-access (open-source) scientific article about planetary warming physics.One reviewer said:"Follow the link to a 22 page article w...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoCheck out this story in the Washington Post: U.S. rescues Iranian hostages, with good timing. An excerpt: For the U.S. Navy, it was like hitting the public-relations jackpot: An aircraft carrier cruising ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*You will excuse me** if I'm not all jazzed-up about the suit.* "SEC sues federal loan executives for fraud; Syron, former Boston Fed chief, is one of six facing civil charges" December 17, 2011|By Jenifer...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago
Longtime peace and environmental activist Norman Solomon may be is certainly the gold standard of progressive candidates for office. He doesn't have to pass any litmus tests; he defines the tests themselv... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoLt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson gave a great, sincere speech about patriotism at the 2011 presentation of the Sam Adams Award in Washington. The ceremony was hosted by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*"**State Street, JPMorgan Chase and others acted as middlemen, collecting profit as they funneled the central bank’s cash to the funds"* "State Street profited as Fed middleman; Boston bank loaned $89b du...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoWhen a helicopter pilot needed to alert several Mount Rainier campers that a deadly attacker was on the run, he used a low-tech solution: coffee cups.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Let me hock up a real good one for them. * *"High-frequency techniques are used by Wall Street banks and hedge funds.... They can move millions of shares around in minutes, earning a 10th of a penny fro...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Germans stabbed in the back?* The elite appear to be divided into factions. *1.* In the 1930s, one faction within the American elite saw Britain as the enemy. WAR PLAN RED was the US PLAN TO ATTACK ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoEven French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a rousing speech about her today. But is it really Joan of Arc's birthday?
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoApollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell sold his mission notebook in auction for $388,375. NASA's not happy.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aw...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*Excerpt: "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45"* by Milton Mayer *"But Then It Was Too Late"* "What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*As if they needed one. * "Building an empire, one home at a time; He operates the largest foreclosure law firm in the state, and these hard times have made Mark P. Harmon a very busy man. Some critics as...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe search for alien signals on Kepler's exoplanets has turned up its first results -- sadly, the signals are not alien.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoSaltwater can't be counted on for isolating python populations.
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoDirect links between the gas extraction process and quakes in Ohio and Oklahoma point to a seismological side effect.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe impact of the devastating weather which has swept the country is shown by the state of these wind turbines - which couldn't withstand the strength of the gales. The huge blades - 15ft long - flew off ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago* * *"Bring on US Debt Default, Otherwise,* * It's Permanent Deficits and Unemployment"* By Gary North "Throughout the West, unemployment remains stubbornly high. Unemployment in these European nations ran...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoFriday evening and as requested, a NEW Open Thread for you all. Enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe embattled Syrian regime, reeling from a suicide bombing in the capital Friday and continued violence in several anti-government bastions, vowed to confront its foes with stern resolve as more than 6...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Hopes, Fears and Preparations for 2012"* by Bill Bonner "Prepare for the worst; hope for the best… Gold, stocks, oil…little movement yesterday. Michelle Bachman decided to drop out of the race for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice in California are warning the homeless to be on alert amid fears they are the target of a serial killer responsible for three murders in two weeks. Charities are handing out torches and whistles t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 hours agophoto and caption credit here The Trinity Root - 9/11 Memorial "On September 11, 2001, debris from the collapsing World Trade Center towers knocked over a giant sycamore tree that had stood for nearly a ce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe US Navy has rescued 13 Iranian sailors being held by pirates on a captured fishing boat in the Arabian Sea, according to the Pentagon. The incident came despite increasing tensions between the two na...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Central East Pacific Rise at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 18:54:40 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 2699 km (1677 miles) SSW of Acap...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoThe mother of all consumer electronic trade shows is on.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 10 hours ago*Христос Раждаєтся – Славімо Його! Веселих Свят! Merry Christmas to my Orthodox friends ... Ukrainian, Greek and Russian!*
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 10 hours agoBy: Duane Craig From Lincoln, Nebraska, the JournalStar.com reports a CVS pharmacy that is supposed to be built where 16th Street and South Street intersect, will be delayed due to soil contamination. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA storm battered France and Switzerland on Friday, with three people injured in a Swiss train derailment, hundreds of thousands left without power and a grounded ship spilling oil off Brittany. In France,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice said that if Britain had a French-style “Good Samaritan” law, 22-year-old Adam Lowther would have been charged with failing to render assistance. An inquest heard how Lowther was cycling along a to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoResidents on the Western Downs are cleaning up after what they describe as a 'mini tornado' swept through their community. John Merrill says a storm front brought wind gusts of more than a hundred kilomet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoKUCHING: A student and her would-be rescuer are missing after both fell into a monsoon drain during massive flash floods that left the city crippled. Kho Ying Oi, 19, and Herman Sihas, a 29-year-old petr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOne of France’s biggest mail-order fashion retailers has apologised for publishing a photo in which a naked man appears behind a group of children advertising beachwear. The nudist can clearly be seen st...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNasa has entered into a row with Commander Jim Lovell, one of its Apollo 13 heroes, after he auctioned a flight document which helped him steer the stricken craft back to Earth during its failed flight to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 25.6 km (15.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:06:41 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 140 km (87 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:42 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours ago*And what about a guy with a clash of financial interests and the spouse of a radical Marxist wife?* Climate activist blog Mother Jones has posted this interesting video that complains about the conserv...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoPhoto Youths of the Peaks*Indigenous Caravan Travels to San Francisco from Arizona to Stop Snow Made with Reclaimed Sewage Effluent* *Fate of Human Health Impacts To Be Decided in Legal Battle at 9th Circu...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 10 hours agoSeveral websites operated by Sony have been attacked by hacktivist group Anonymous, allegedly for the corporation's support of the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Sony Pictures website and its Faceb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA two-year-old girl died in Malawi’s northern region district of Rumphi following a heavy hailstorm that hit the area and rendered hundreds of people homeless. The hailstorm which started on 29th Decembe...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe holiday spirits seem to have finally cleared our collective bloodstream and it's back to the old nonsense. Stuff like pathetic pleas from Dippers who can't think of anything else but for the Libs to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoImage: Previous Eruption at Lascar Volcano Chile Chile’s government declared a state of alert following a series of tremors at the Lascar volcano in the northern region of Antofagasta, home to some of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:11 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) Southwest of Ahome, S...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAfter eating the shared stew, three people fell sick. Two recovered, but forestry billionaire Long Liyuan did not.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAtom-sized wires could lead to extremely small electronics and quantum computers.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAfter eating the shared stew, three people fell sick. Two recovered, but forestry billionaire Long Liyuan did not.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours agoThe NFL Players Association in advance of the Super Bowl to be held in Indiana and in response to the Indiana legislatures push for " Right to Work" legislation has released the following statement (my emp...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Newtie & the Supreme Court, suspicious death? nah!, fashion arrest, Rush says it's not the heat -- it's..., and more* * I can only assume that he really doesn't remember. * *by Noah* *7/14/11 -- History?...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoChina's state media have warned the US against "flexing its muscles" after Washington unveiled a defence review switching focus to the Asia-Pacific. In an editorial, official news agency Xinhua said Presi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of just 2.6 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:58:53 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) ENE of Coachella, Ca...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Nahun Menjiuar, who works for Taylor Shellfish Farms of Shelton, drops his Pacific oysters bags in the water to clean them at Totten Inlet near Olympia Wednesday, 4 June 2008. LARRY STEAGALL / KI...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:56 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.1 miles) Northwest of Jarocin, Poland No Reports o...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoPlastic wrap made with a layer of blue cheese fungus cleans itself.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoCats, bulls, ibis, baboons and raptors were pampered in life, but then killed and mummified to honor ancient Egyptian gods.
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIn its first season, Portlandia created an instantly iconic piece asking a waitress what the life of the chicken they were about to order was like. So, we thought we'd ask, too.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoUsing off-the-shelf LEDs, an Arizona man built a wearable television set.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012* *Well worth reading:* For what it’s worth, we think it’s a positive thing when Republican voters hear Ron Paul talking about the war/empire machine. We wouldn’t vote for Paul ou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFourteen people were wounded in separate shootings across the city Thursday. Two people were shot at 50 W. 85th Street about 11:45 p.m., just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway, police said. They were sittin...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDoctors say Marco Antonio Fuentes is well enough to go home today. At last. Fuentes has spent 374 days at Community Regional Medical Center, the longest uninterrupted stay by a patient at the Fresno acute...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012* *Part 2—What Santorum said:* What did Rick Santorum say? And why did Rick Santorum say it? The second part is easy, of course. He said it because he’s a racist. But *what* did ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours ago*GM HQ, aka "The Tubes"**JIMMY HOFFA.* *How Jimmy Hoffa Was Buried Under GM’s World Headquarters.* Really. Rather inspirational. Now, are there any big building sites in Ottawa? Do Conservatives mix well w...
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThis week in Discovery News we talk about the end of the world and magic!
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 13 hours agoAfter several nights of threats, the OccupyOakland vigil at 14th and Broadway was dismantled last night by police, and this latest incident in a series of aggressive arrests has prompted the Interfaith Al...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*The Brad Wall government is about to start funding private religious schools in the province. Tax money will now be used to teach students that the Universe is 8000 years old and that 2 of every creature...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoAnother day, another explosion in Damascus, Syria. Civilians killed. Destabilization continues. The explosion took place near Hassan al-Hakeem Basic Education School. This terrorist bombing is the third to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Teuga Patolo stands in king-tide waters that surround her neighbour's house, 8 December 2011. Rodney Dekker / Oxfam] Presenter: Campbell Cooney Speaker: Tatuau Pese, secretary general, Tuvalu Red...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoA mineral brought back by the first men on the moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface is found on Earth.
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/UzsnX2gnI1I --- sing along text: here, do your best... See the flowers fly on stage! Olé... Have a *quiet* weekend! John
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: The MV Rena has broken in half, 6 January 2011. Salvors are preparing for the Rena to become further damaged in a storm set to batter the stricken boat over the weekend. Maritime NZ] January 6 (...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoPeople with lots of education may be at risk for food allergies, though being an immigrant can be protective.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoMinnesotans – Our ALEC legislators are planning on taking workers on and we have to be ready this next legislative session to take the legislature on. Minnesotans – we cannot let ALEC’s focus on increasing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoCanterbury residents are being urged not to be alarmed by predictions that aftershocks could be recorded in the region for many years to come. Seismologists from GNS Science today briefed city councillors...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoNext weekend, Liberals from across the country will head to Ottawa for the party's Biennial convention. The full agenda has been posted on the party's website - among the highlights: - *Michael I...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoYesterday *USAToday* reported that Obama "is putting his personal stamp on a rejiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government predicted two weeks after the nuclear crisis erupted at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March that the worst scenario would involve an explosion at the No. 1 reactor a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLand sales slowed sharply in China last year, according to a series of industry reports that highlight the deepening woes of debt-laden local governments that depend on land auctions as a crucial revenue ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAt least three explosions struck Friday near Baghdad's Green Zone, where a parade to mark Iraq's Army Day was taking place, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attacks, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSouth Sudan's Council of Ministers has declared Jonglei state a "humanitarian disaster area" and called on international aid agencies to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance. The declaration c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOne of the architects of the now-stricken euro says the European Central Bank was aware of tensions in the common currency which could lead to problems. Professor Otmar Issing, now the president of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLast year was supposed to be the make or break year for Europe's debt crisis. Neither happened. That means the chronic uncertainty that investors grappled with for most of 2011 is likely to continue, if ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:01:33 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoA new device gives you the best of both worlds -- an e-reader that's a page turner.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoThe truth, gosh…it’s just “so long and so complicated…” ~Disenfranchised Citizen ~And academically speaking, it’s got to be hard to be Board Chairwoman, Glenna Kramer, so I have taken it upon myself to off...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoThere’s nothing certain in life but death and taxes. So what made you think you wouldn’t be taxed on your employment law settlement? I ask people this all the time when they express absolute shock that tax...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 15 hours agoFor a "world-class" broadcaster that costs us BILLIONS, the BBC seem *ever so slow* when it comes to picking up stories concerning Diane Abbott; Ms Abbott has also provoked outrage from cabbies with anothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA suicide bomber blew himself up in the Syrian capital on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 46 others, Syrian state media reported. The incident took place in the al-Midan quarter of Damasc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 8 km (4.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:25:41 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Chris...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA new strain of the swine flu virus called A(H3N2) may now be spreading through person-to-person contact, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. The announcement comes after a number of warnings concerni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHong Kong authorities say two more dead birds have tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, adding to health worries in the city. Agriculture officials said Friday that two black-headed gulls f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 15 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:21:35 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) East of Chri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHundreds of people living near a volcano in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara were evacuated on Thursday because of increased volcanic activity, the Antara news agency reported. About 500 peo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTORONTO: Scientists have singled out mercury as one of the major factors behind the earth's greatest extinction 250 million years ago, obliterating most marine and land species. "This was a time of the gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:21:35 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) East of Christchurc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDissident Republicans blamed for planting device under driver's seat of car in Ligoniel area of north Belfast A serving soldier was the target of an attempted bomb attack in north Belfast, it has emerged...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDavid Cameron has promised to do "everything possible" to stop other EU states discussing the single market without the UK. He said it would be "wrong" for states which signed up to a new eurozone pact t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRoadside bombs killed five Nato service members in southern Afghanistan on Friday, the alliance said. Nato did not identify the troops or disclose what countries they came from. The deaths brought to nine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoNorth Korea has poured scorn on South Korea’s suggestion that there is a “window of opportunity” to rebuild inter-Korean ties, stressing its new leader will instead focus on strengthening its atomic arsena...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRoadside bombs killed two Shiite pilgrims amid a string of explosions in Baghdad on Friday, the day after the country's deadliest sectarian violence in more than a year left scores dead, officials said. ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 17 hours ago*Nope.* That was the short version of this blog entry addressed to the impatient readers. But the more patient readers may continue. ;-) *Motto:* A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoChoking on his words, a desperate Australian man kidnapped by rebels in the Philippines pleads for his life in a chilling ransom video sent to his wife. Retired soldier Warren Rodwell stood before a came...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA woman may have been targeted for a hate crime while shopping in a Florida Walmart on New Year’s Day. The 62-year-old mother of two, who is Pakistani and was wearing a traditional Middle Eastern tunic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCasey Anthony's parents today said that they feared for their daughter's safety after a video blog appeared which showed her talking about her new life and her hopes for the future. The woman cleared of c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUnderage girls are still secretly being held by the followers of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs for sexual purposes, it has been reported. A number of allegations have surfaced against Jeffs since he was j...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn American teenager managed to convince police, a court judge and U.S. immigration that she was an illegal immigrant before having herself deported to Colombia. Jakadrien Turner, 15, ran away from home i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe U.S. and Israel are planning a massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf in an attempt to face down Iran over its sabre-rattling in the region. But the Islamic Republic is also preparing war games ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe trial of Joran van der Sloot, accused of the murder of a young Peruvian woman, begins today, nearly seven years after he became the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of an American teenager. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA scientific panel says it cannot conclusively determine the cause of a diseased fish outbreak in Gladstone Harbour in central Queensland. The panel released its report today into the ongoing sick fish pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBarack Obama vowed today to maintain the best-equipped military in history, despite dramatic defence cuts which top Pentagon leaders admit will increase the risks to the U.S. 'Our military will be leaner,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA suicide bomb in Damascus in Syria has killed and wounded several people, state television has said. An official said the explosion appeared to have been targeted at a bus carrying policemen in the ce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfghan police arrested two British private security contractors and two Afghan colleagues and ordered their company closed down after finding a cache of weapons in their vehicle, it was revealed today. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Central Kazakhstan at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 09:16:59 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (55.2 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA senior Taliban commander has been killed in a strike by British attack helicopters, the Army said. A spokesman said the death came as forces sought to disrupt insurgent activity in the Kopak region of N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe federal government is proposing to grant a permit to allow the developer of an Oregon wind-power project to legally kill golden eagles. This first-of-its-kind move is being watched very closely by conc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLabour frontbencher Diane Abbott was threatened with the sack yesterday after she was accused of making racist comments. The Shadow Minister for Public Health dived disastrously into the Stephen Lawrenc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHundreds of British holidaymakers are tonight trapped in the ski resort of Zermatt in Switzerland following a massive avalanche. A downpour of snow and ice has blocked all road and rail links into the Sw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA terrified householder grabbed a carving knife and fought a ‘fencing match’ with machete-wielding burglars, a court heard yesterday. During the struggle, an intruder was stabbed and died from his injuries...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) will hold new naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz in February, state-run Press TV quoted a military commander as saying on Friday. The Guards' Navy Commander ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGunmen opened fire on a church service in Nigeria on Thursday, killing six people and wounding 10, the church's pastor said, the latest in a string of attacks that has raised fears of sectarian conflict in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIran faced the prospect of cutbacks in its oil sales to China and Japan as new measures to block Tehran's crude exports over its nuclear program appeared to be driving its economy to the wall. The develo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo lovers were jailed yesterday after their murder victim 'bugged' his own clothing before his brutal death. Former Scott Davidson, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment whilst his 19-year-old girlfrien...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Bishop of Bath and Wells was tucked up in his four-poster bed when the wind blew in the roof of his episcopal palace. He tried to flee but it was too late. The chimney stacks came crashing down, plung...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBlacks Leisure has announced it is going into administration and suspended its shares on the London Stock Exchange. The troubled retailer said its 306 stores, which employ some 3,500 staff, will continue...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoThe BBC likes Professor Stephen Hawkings and he was on Today this morning.His *profound atheism* is a quality that they admire and his physics background provides a convenient distraction when he comes out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Bio-Bio Chile at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:08:38 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) WSW of Lebu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles), the quake hit at 07:04:16 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) ENE of Christch...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoA prized bluefin tuna, all 269-kgs of it, fetched $746,000 Cdn. at the opening tuna auction in Tokyo. The price is said to be symbolic, the buyer paying a huge premium to snag the first prized specimen ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoThe invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya were only the beginning. When the Pentagon's top strategists and geopolitical planners said that they envision endless war in this century, they meant they wil...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoI have made my own opinion clear. Diane Abbott should have the right to say what she wants, no matter how seemingly racist or 19th century it is. I also believe she should have been disciplined by Miliba...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis recent report from Focus Fusion continues to show greatprogress. Here they have learned how tomanage the size of the plasmoid itself which will be critical in order to workwith increased densitie...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI really would like to see all volcanoesproperly located and aged. This is longand time consuming work, but every university that has a geology departmentneeds to make this its mission. I never knewth...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe conjecture that the Galaxyhas a bar appears rather optimistic. Outof 360 degrees of arc, we are supposed to land in line with the Galacticbar. The odds are simply too low and theimaging is just t...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWe learn that there are twoactive ingredients and that one is producing psychotic symptoms and the otheris not. I am not too sure where any ofthis goes as nothing is said about the individual effects...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoEvery Thursday (at 10 am PST), join us on Google+ for a live (and interactive) webcast stuffed full of spacey goodness.
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours ago*Mike Adams* is, beyond doubt, one nasty piece of work. In his latest Conservative outing he tells the tale of one Allison, a depressed white girl who, despite her wisdom and energy found herself in the ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoThe BBC's love of the EU is blind and knows no bounds. Here, Richard Black - showing crass ignorance of the laws of supply and demand - bellyaches that the nasty Chinks (his spitefulness makes Diane Abbott...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBritain would take military action to prevent Iran blocking the Persian Gulf to cut off oil supplies, the Defence Secretary said yesterday. Philip Hammond warned the regime in Tehran that the UK will not t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDisruptive pupils are being bribed up to £100 each to stay away from lessons during Ofsted inspections, it has been claimed. Despite having good attendance records, poorly behaved students are being paid ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFecal contamination of public beaches caused by sewage overflow is both dangerous for swimmers and costly for state and local economies. Current methods to detect *Escherichia coli*, a bacterium highly ind...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe U.S. Food and Drug and Administration announced only days before Christmas that it has decided to back off a 34-year attempt to regulate the use of antibiotics in livestock feed for animals intended fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA former inspector for a company that did work on TransCanada's original Keystone pipeline is accusing the Calgary-based company of a cavalier disregard for the environment. Mike Klink was an engineer for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Mindoro, Philippines at a depth of 169.8 km (105.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:37:20 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) WSW of Batangas, Lu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Central California at a depth of 7.3 km (4.5 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:09 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) Southeast of Coso Junction, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoParasitic flies that turn honeybees into night-flying zombies could provide another clue to cracking the mystery of colony collapse disorder. Since 2007, thousands of hives in the US have been decimated a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a domestically-produced clean, green, renewable alternative. Researchers with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSpaceship Earth enters 2012 belching smoke, overheating and burning through fuel at a frightening rate. It’s feeling pretty crowded, and the crew is mutinous. No one’s at the helm. Sure, it’s an antiquat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFirefighters in Chile battled three huge wildfires Monday that have burned about 90 square miles (23,000 hectares) of forest, destroyed more than 100 homes and have driven away thousands of tourists while ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago*Editor's note: Stephen A. Cheney is a retired Marine brigadier general and the CEO of the American Security Project, a nonpartisan think tank. He spent 30 years in the U.S. military, serving as inspector ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 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 noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"Let Me Walk In Beauty" "Oh, Great Spirit, Whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, Hear me. I am a man before you, one of your many children - I am small and weak. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoChina may be flexing its growing economic and military muscles, but the country's leadership is concerned about its vulnerability on a more nebulous front: culture. The Chinese authorities are clamping...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA man who allegedly tried to break into the home of a recently widowed Oklahoma woman -- who shot and killed his alleged fellow intruder after calling 911 -- was freed Thursday on bail despite a first-de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHungary's currency plunged to fresh lows against the euro on Thursday after the country failed to attract enough investors at a government bond auction to reach its target. Analysts warned that the centr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNew York's governor on Wednesday proposed making the state the first in the country to take mandatory DNA samples from anyone convicted of a crime, including relatively lesser offenses. Governor Andrew C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoIsrael, US to hold largest ever missile defense exercise this spring; thousands of US soldiers will be deployed in Israel. Israel is moving forward with plans to hold the largest-ever missile defense exer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoResidents of Leesburg, Florida were shocked to see their local Social Security office turned into a random Homeland Security checkpoint Tuesday morning, as DHS officers armed with semiautomatic rifles and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThere were 11 earthquakes in eastern Ohio in 2011. Most of them were not very powerful and caused little damage, but some people are asking about emergency plans if a major quake hits the area. The new p...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” - Robert Cody
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Obama administration will unveil a "more realistic" vision for the military on Thursday, with plans to cut tens of thousands of ground troops and invest more in air and sea power at a time of fiscal re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A new wave of execution-style shootings in Sweden's third largest city has left police puzzled, raising concerns that Malmo has become a magnet for gang-related killings. On Thursday doze...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFrance sold 7.96 billion euros ($10.2 billion) of debt, with 10-year borrowing costs rising in the country’s first bond auction of the year as credit-rating companies threaten to cut the nation’s AAA grade...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAn Army veteran who has lived the last 20 years of his life in a wheelchair had his car stolen with his prosthetic legs and wheelchair mount inside the car. Armando Fontaine, 71, lost his legs about 20 y...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over a painting valued at $30 million, according to police. Carmen Tisch, 36, was arrested after scratching, punching and, well, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours agoR.E.M., "Everybody Hurts"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*Editor's note: Ger Duany is a former child soldier and one of the 'Lost boys of Sudan,' a name given to the thousands of young boys who were separated from their families during the country's civil war. H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAs the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world's rich people. It only takes $34,000 a year, after taxes, to be among the richest 1% in the world. That's for each person living under the sa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“Closing Cycles”* by Paulo Coelho [Several times I've received via Internet some texts attributed to me, which I did not write, as the text below. I made several changes and decided to post it here. - ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoForgot your passport? There’s an iPad for that. At least in the singular case of a Montreal photographer who left home without the important document on his way to the United States. Martin Reisch said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoUS researchers have unveiled the first three so-called "chimeric" monkeys - created by fusing cells from different rhesus monkey embryos. The advance that led to the birth of Roku, Hex and Chimero could h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMonster soldier ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes that trigger their development. Scientists believe the "supersoldier" ants may be a genetic throwback to an anc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 80.4 km (50 miles), the quake hit at 04:31:14 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) Eas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northeast of New Zealand at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:11:00 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) Northeast of Gis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 7 km (4.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:13:35 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) Northwest of Gole, Turkey No Rep...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoI probably shouldn't get all worked up. Just skimming the report yesterday by Texas on the Potomac I noticed some errors, but... Jerry Lewis being among even an error-ridden "12 most endangered incumbents...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:06:52 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (7.8 miles) North Pervari, Turkey No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:20:58 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northeast of C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:38:48 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 680 km (422 miles) South of As...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI want to say thanks to Survival Acres not just for this latest post - a very lengthy but brilliant interview with Chris Hedges - which I found there. When I first suspected that life as we have known and...
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