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Ethanol Subsidies: Not Gone, Just Hidden a Little Better
Corn ethanol, it turns out is actively worse for the environment than even gasoline, farmers responded to the subsidies by reducing the amount of farmland used for food production, and this drove up the price of staple food worldwide. What's more, back when the subsidies were enacted corn farmers were already doing pretty well. We were shoveling $10 billion in ag welfare to a group of people who were already pretty rich. In fact, ethanol subsidies are such obviously appalling policy that it's one of the rare areas that both liberals and conservatives agree about. In theory, anyway.
Deficit hawks, environmentalists, and food processors are celebrating the expiration of the ethanol tax credit. This corporate handout gave $0.45 to ethanol producers for every gallon they produced and cost taxpayers $6 billion in 2011. So why did the powerful corn ethanol lobby let it expire without an apparent fight? The answer lies in legislation known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which creates government-guaranteed demand that keeps corn prices high and generates massive farm profits. Removing the tax credit but keeping the RFS is like scraping a little frosting from the ethanol-boondoggle cake.Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect.
The RFS mandates that at least 37 percent of the 2011-12 corn crop be converted to ethanol and blended with the gasoline that powers our cars....[As a result] the current price of corn on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is about $6.50 per bushel—almost triple the pre-mandate level.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 58 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoPlastic wrap made with a layer of blue cheese fungus cleans itself.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoUsing off-the-shelf LEDs, an Arizona man built a wearable television set.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours agoTHIS WEEK IN DISCOVERY NEWS: A Mexican Warlock and the End of the World together at last. If this were an epic movie by Peter Jackson it might make a million or three. STORIES YOU HAVE TO READ: First Hybri...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 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.
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 hours agoUrl 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agohttp://www.paulcraigroberts.org.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 hours ago“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” - Robert Cody
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 hours agoR.E.M., "Everybody Hurts"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 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 ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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! - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:16:53 UTC Friday 6th January 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No Rep...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Taranaki, New Zealand at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:51 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Northwest of Hawera,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 22 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:28:44 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) Nort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck offshore Baja California Sur, Mexico at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:22:42 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) SSW of...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago"What's lighting up the Cigar Galaxy? M82, as this irregular galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing out...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Batu, Indonesia at a depth of 38.3 km (23.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:14:48 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (93 miles) West of Padan...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Wiggling A Finger"* by Chet Raymo “Do a little exercise for me. Stick out your arm in front of you. Now wiggle your index finger from side to side. Now bend it back and forth. Now wiggle your pinkie. "...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic at a depth of 60.7 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:02:40 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) West of Santo Dom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Pacific-Antarctic Rise at a depth of 15.9 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 21:55:22 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 2079 km (1291 miles) NNE of Mou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago* "The Prophet"* Presented by Paul Coughlin "When I first came across this text I was deeply touched by it's wisdom and spiritual depth - it seemed to offer that timeless advice just at the right moment....
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 13 hours agoby Kurt Haskell Although the underwear bomber trial concluded in October with a plea deal, Umar filed a motion on December 12, 2011 to replace stand-by attorney Chambers. This motion is too little too lat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours agoBrno, Jihomoravsky kraj, Czech Republic. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Truth is, you're always going to lose when you play a game of cat and mouse with the cat." - Cory Eberhart
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoAnd while I'm at it, I might as well post this. And now back to Quebec.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"Next Generation Cloaking Device Demonstrated"* by PhysOrg ․ "A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstr...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoAnother brilliant dumb idea up in smoke. It's the "Just In Time" management concept designed to reduce overhead, and max out profits, by ordering supplies and material when they're immediately needed ra...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoCan it be? Are progressive people supporting right-wing libertarian Ron Paul for the US Presidency? In 2008 I wrote on supposedly liberal people supporting hillary clinton. I didn't agree with that choic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 14 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 ca...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*I was hard on here after she blew the election against Brown; however, as the old Taoist story** says, it's all how you look at things. * *Now I'm glad she lost because she turned out to be a real ballsy ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"Ex-Chelsea housing chief’s son is fired; Held $60,000 job on Appeals Board" December 02, 2011|By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff The son of the embattled former Chelsea Housing Authority executive director Mic...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*by Ken* Probably you also got this e-mail from ThinkProgress's Judd Legum: SUBJECT: *Koch Brothers get into the cloning business* Dear ----------- , The Koch Brothers are worth $50 billion. They’ve ban...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 16 hours agoPOLITICS - With Kim Jong-Il dead the future of North Korea has become very uncertain. If you haven't heard already, Kimg Jong-Il, the supreme leader of the isolated "Hermit Kingdom" North Korea has died, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Democrats fight fire with fire as the **two factions** of the corporate war party play musical chairs.* * *"Democrats take page from GOP playbook; Turn to super PACs to level fund-raising" October 25, 20...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 17 hours agoI'm a little bit behind in posting this tidbit from The Angry Bear featuring the notiorious black news hole (WaPo) and the "newspaper of record," so I'll catch up today. It's an important commentary about...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoVery little in life is truly inevitable. When briefing policy makers, I would try to point out that a lot of it wasn't even predictable (at least in any scientific sense). But surely what is happening in I...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.1* Date-Time - *Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 23:14:48 UTC* - Friday, January 06, 2012 at 06:14:48 AM at epicenter - Time of ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTOfrontera - 17 hours ago[image: Nueva serie de paisajes naturales (10 imágenes)] [image: Nueva serie de paisajes naturales (10 imágenes)] [image: Nueva serie de paisajes naturales (10 imágenes)] [image: Nueva serie de paisajes n...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“An Inner Choice: Peace”* by The DailyOm “Peace starts within us- we cannot bring to the world what we do not have to offer. Often we look at the outside world and find it in a state of seeming chaos or...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago*And on the 7th Day… * Riot Squad/Photo Column of the Americas*Arizona’s Apartheid War Against Mexican American Studies* *Special length column * *Column of the Americas* *By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez * ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Wait until you see who made out the most.* "Hospice care has become an industry with growing issues; Some doctors also work as directors of the facilities" December 16, 2011|By Peter Waldman, Bloomberg N...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoWho said profiting from the 2012 doomsday hysteria was a bad thing?
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoJust because a volcano bubbles doesn't mean it's ready to blow.
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 19 hours agoOrthodox children wearing outfits intended to invoke the Holocaust during a rally in Jerusalem, Dec. 31, 2011. (Photo: AP/Bernat Armangue) Shortly after reading Phil Weiss' "Trivializing the anti-Semitism ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoInnovative TED Talks Once Again Tainted by Globalist Salesmen. by Tony Cartalucci January 5, 2012 - UK politician Paddy Ashdown, during a recent TED Talk, claims power is shifting from nation-states to a ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Eat up, but don't get sick. * "Tiered health plans cutting costs, restricting options" by Robert Weismanand Chelsea Conaboy | Globe Staff, November 28, 2011 Told he had an aggressive form of prostate c...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 19 hours agoChemtrails above the Catalina Mountains near Tucson (photo credit the blogger)Chemtrails over the Brittany coast in France (photo credit the blogger)Chemtrail over San Carlos Mexico [note normal contrail o...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 19 hours ago2012 has started in an unexpected manner. After many unsuccessful attempts, I have found work. As a result my free time has been greatly reduced, especially considering the daily three hours travelling ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoEarlier today we took a look at the Republican civil war that's ripping up the GOP in Maine. Tuesday night GOP consultant Frank Luntz warned that he expects far worse nationally, at least in regard to th...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA dynamic luminous ceiling brings the sky inside, turning a cubicle farm into an atrium.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"New Nationwide FEMA Camps Should Raise Eyebrows"* By Alan P. Halbert "Of all the rumors flying around on the internet, one just refuses to die, and it concerns America's FEMA camps. In a nutshell, there...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.5 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:55:47 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) SSE...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoJudges of Montana's Supreme Court have defied the US Supreme Court and refused to apply the perverse *Citizens United *decision in their state. The court upheld Montana's right to regulate how corpora...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 20 hours agoFriends, I need to apologize for the last few days of nothingness here (sorry to all commenters who let me know they couldn't access my Comments section as well) as I may have been hacked. Yes, it's a comm...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 20 hours agoDB posted this below but I wanted to give it more prominence. Kate Dailey - BBC News, Washington. No bias there, no sirree! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA bank account-raiding worm has started spreading on Facebook, stealing login credentials as it creeps across the site, security researchers have revealed. Evidence recovered from a command-and-control s...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoIf you haven’t read this article about the Phoenix protest against the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), you should! It has amazing insight and information written by a Canadian journalist ...
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoThe amount of mucus you get when you're sick can be frightening, but it's purpose is to help. Here's a look at how it works.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours 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 hours 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 - 21 hours agoA magnitude 2.8 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of 0.3 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 19:49:43 UTC Thursday 5th January 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) Northwest from Summit P...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours agoLevee breach sites ARE historic ~Kaare Johnson ~Louisiana State Review Board Believes Levee Breach Sites Not Historic
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours agoTis the season for crowded gyms. Keep track of progress, while maintaining your sanity.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoThis device offers a silly way to charge up your electronic device.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours agoSome long-hyped tech breakthroughs have decent odds of going retail; unless they don't.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoWhy January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.We need to be ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoFailed monsoons in 14th and 15th century coincide with the Khmer Empire's collapse in SE Asia.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe parasites that cause the transformation may provide a clue to the mysterious colony collapse disorder.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago(update: I've been corrected, I should say "out of the two major parties, Ron Paul is the only NOT mass murderer racist. Or I should say: "OUT OF THE ONLY TWO PARTIES ALLOWED ON TV, I'D VOTE FOR RON PAUL",...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA bustling thoroughfare 98 million years ago was a coastal plain full of waterways.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLotus is a solar-powered electric vehicle charger that goes beyond charging.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 "cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThe transmission of diseases from Old World to New may have been a two-way street.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe number of twins born in the United States has doubled in the last three decades.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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