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- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 minutes agoThe most overrated element in Mitt Romney's big Florida win? Has to be his new debate coach. Sure, you can make an interesting story of the fact that Romney had access to the best that the conservative net...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 minutes agoIt's nine years since Columbia fell from the sky, ending the lives of Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon, David Brown, William McCool and Michael Anderson.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 minutes ago"The financial-market crisis is not over but has grown into a vicious sovereign-debt crisis. Nevertheless, monetary policy makers of the major economies go on to practice the same sort of policy that has...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 30 minutes ago*"Persistent Questions About the Future of the US Economy"* by Bill Bonner "We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past few months. Not much action in the markets yesterday, so let’s stop here and take st...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 50 minutes agoThe Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico is one of the most recognizable radio telescopes in the world. But who is its namesake?
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 50 minutes agoIn other countries, Siri's voice sounds male.
- posted by kcfoodtruckgroupie at MadAsHellLiberal - 53 minutes ago
First They Came for the Catholics Michelle Malkin must have thought she was being very cute when she titled her column this way. Or maybe this is a pathetic bid for attention from someone who doesn’t re... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 0 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:31 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) SSW of Wells, Nevada No Reports of Da... - posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoMore than a million green turtle eggs were laid last year on one of the Turtle Islands in the Philippines.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago
(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to my friend Dee Dee for the heads up.) I reminded my readership recently of Tip O'Neill's famous observation that all politics is local. The same is equally if not moreso true for... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoWill Newt fight on to the convention? Will he continue attacking Romney, or will he back off? What are the incentives at play here? As Ed Kilgore notes, party leaders will presumably now lean on the disgr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine — a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clea... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012* *History should be recorded:* For the third time in fourteen years, we’ve launched our annual fund-raising drive. We wouldn’t ask if there wasn’t a need. We hope you’ll cons...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012* *Greenberg reviews Matthews’ book:* We purchased and attempted to read Chris Matthews’ book about Dear Jack. We took it Durham over Thanksgiving. We took it to Maine at Chri...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012* *Part 3—And the New York Times can’t explain taxes:* We the people rarely know what the falafel we’re talking about. In fairness, we’re lovable in our incomprehension. We ke...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
They're complete boneheads, the lot of them. The real contest between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney at times seems to be which of them can talk without jamming a foot or two in his mouth. This time it'... - posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours ago
Since Sunday, Anonymous hacked and defaced the web page belonging to the American Nazi Party. The action is a continuation of the ongoing Operation Blitzkrieg - #OpBlitzkrieg. Press release announcing O... - posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoSmall enough to store just about anywhere, this vehicle is perfect for city living.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours ago
We're flooded with stories about Greece and the Euro and the European Union leaders and their deals. Blah, blah, blah. What these stories almost always overlook are the real victims, Europe's young peo... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A plant is seen on the cracked bed of the dried area of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang lake in east China's Jiangxi province. China Daily / Reuters] By Harold Thibault, Guardian Weekly 31 Janu...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThis vending machine lets users trade goods without having to visit a creepy swap meet.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoThe Wall Street Journal February 1 2012 p. A3 print edition "Nuclear reactors in the central and eastern U.S. face previously unrecognized threats from big earthquakes, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Detailed design of the euro symbol, €] 31 January 2012 (PA) – Unemployment in the 17-nation eurozone ended 2011 at 10.4 per cent, a new record high for the single currency since its launch at th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoCount the carriers. One US Navy fleet aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf is routine. Now there are two, the Lincoln and the Vinson. A third is scheduled to deploy to the Gulf in March and a four...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoYou may or may not be aware that wrangling regarding a new Syrian resolution at the UN is ongoing at this time. The West is insisting Assad step down. I find this demand so surreal. How is it that the West...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours agoThis three-minute clip presents a lovely summary of the *MV Rena* salvage operation. The hull breaks in half at 2:30 due to wave action. Contiainer Ship Rena – Timelapse Technorati Tags: Oceania,polluti...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 2 hours agoMarshall's latest take on the state of the Euro crisis can be found here. For those following the situation there, you won't want to miss this.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Indigenous Tarahumara drove to another community to receive humanitarian aid in the midst of a drought. The drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has lef...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoUnfortunately for Minnesota - those nasty ALEC critters are crawling out the mopboards and doing all types of nasty this year. *Minnesota is being screwed by the ALEC GOP!* I've already written a tremendo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoWest Bank levee board raises concerns about Marrero floodwall with Corps of Engineers~Paul Rioux Trout Point figure dead in New Orleans ~South Coast Today U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop La. Citizens I...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agooccupyvision on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free *From Quanah Parker Brightman at United Native Americans, Inc.* Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSecurity forces in Algeria use water cannon and tear gas to disperse angry residents who say authorities failed to properly investigate a local murder.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMEXICO CITY - Swine flu is back in Mexico, the epicenter of a world pandemic three years ago that panicked people around the globe. The country registered more cases of all types of flu and more incidents...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoA welcome advance in boosting disaster risk reduction and preparedness in poorer countries has arrived in the form of a new data service being provided by the World Meteorological Organization. Comprehe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNineteen Bogota-stationed soldiers were put in quarantine after a mysterious infection killed a soldier of the presidential guard, newspaper El Tiempo reported Wednesday. The soldier died Saturday of a l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoDHAKA, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's authorities destroyed nearly 140,000 birds and eggs until last month since mid November when this season's first outbreak of bird flu was detected, an official said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFour of the 16 swans found dead on Mill Pond last month tested positive for a low-pathogenic form of Avian Flu, said Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife outreach coordinator Marion Larson. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoCOLOMBO : Sri Lanka on Wednesday ordered the culling of thousands of chickens amid fears that a flu strain discovered at a farm could mutate into the more virulent bird flu virus. The Department of Anima...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 3 hours agoWhen the West stops playing whack-a-mole in Afghanistan, the Talibs, with the backing of Pakistan, are poised to return to power. That is the conclusion of a secret US military report, *The State of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe environmental group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has offered a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of those responsible for shooting at least seven sea lions in Washington...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Rescue helicopters are airlifting supplies and evacuating dozens of people from snow-covered villages in Serbia and Bosnia, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's severe cold spel...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoOK, here goes; I'm going to try this daily, for a while at least. And I'm not sure if this will be fun or dopey, but I'm going to try out a new feature as part of it -- birthday greetings. The idea is tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoOpponents of Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin erected a huge banner reading "Putin, go away" on a rooftop facing the Kremlin on Wednesday in a bold display of disapproval of his plan to return to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoVIENNA (AP) — A senior U.N. nuclear expert on Wednesday announced plans to revisit Tehran soon after a "good trip," indicating progress on his team's quest to probe suspicions that the Islamic Republic is...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoBy linking sounds to patterns of brain activity, scientists may be on the way to helping us hear the thoughts of other people.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSex is so dangerous for some that they actually castrate themselves during the act but it makes them stronger.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoA British man found about two dozen bizarre clear blue gel balls in his garden, sparking a mystery.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoConservatives have been constantly, and successfully, chipping away at women's right to choose at every opportunity. They haven't been able to overturn *Roe v Wade* yet, but they make it more difficult fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBEIJING (AP) -- Tibetan separatists who attacked police stations with rocks and molotov cocktails sparked last week's deadly violence in Sichuan, the Chinese government said Wednesday, countering claims b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe village government of Kawauchi, near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, has begun calling for its residents to return, but many are staying away, wary of radiation. Takayuki Sekine, 36...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that it has found radioactive water leaking from a broken pipe connected to the No. 4 reactor of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi power plant, but ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 51 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:16:39 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67.6 miles) South of Banjar, Indo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRussia signaled on Wednesday it would veto a draft U.N. resolution calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down unless it explicitly ruled out military intervention to halt the bloodshed touch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRiot police disperse 'Occupy Miami' protesters and arrest three at a park in central Miami. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHigh seas and strong winds halt salvage and recovery efforts on capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Italian island of Giglio. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoThe oft times talked about “free market” does not exist. A "free market" cannot exist If the market is controlled by outside forces. When the corporations in the market are buying state and federal legisl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn his Saturday column in the New York Times, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter James B. Stewart tallied up his tax rate and found it to be a shocking 74 percent of taxable income. Is he possibly the most t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoChinese government representatives directed a U.S. businessman to obtain valuable technology manufactured by chemical giant DuPont and U.S. authorities were seeking on Wednesday to keep him in jail ahead ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoToday, February 1, Canadian post-secondary students all over the country are mobilizing in a Day of Action to demand increased education funding and a reduction in tuition fees. In Ontario, post-seconda...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoA B-BBC reader notes; "The BBC claims here that the President, Prime Minister and people of the Czech Republic are all against the pact. "The country's influential - and Eurosceptic - president, Vaclav ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCNN's Arwa Damon reports on an amateur video that appears to show an entire family slaughtered in Syria.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoOk, I think it is important to be fair and I have to say that I thoughtthis discussionregarding the de-Knighting of Fred Goodwin was in fact pretty balanced. Michael Fallon was on the defensive and rightly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA newspaper ad funded by Hong Kong residents on February 1 to protest the influx of pregnant mainland Chinese women. Hong Kong (CNN) -- Tensions between Hong Kong residents and visitors from mainland Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoORANGE Volcano is exhibiting heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption, timeframe uncertain, OR eruption is underway with no or minor volcanic-ash emissions [ash-plume height spe...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoCan you please look at this headline and this headline and discuss the difference! Quite remarkable and thanks to the B-BBC reader for drawing this to my attention. Click through to read and contribute co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange said Wednesday that it plans to end its proposed merger with the parent of the Frankfurt exchange, after European officials blocked...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoShall we hang the bankers? Here's a new Open Thread for you.... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition fight goes to Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday for two days of hearings on whether he should be sent back to Sweden to face allegations ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoUnited Nations (CNN) -- At least 20 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, opposition activists said, as diplomats at the United Nations prepare to debate once again how to respond to the mounting...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Simeulue, Indonesia at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:22:51 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (153 miles) West of Sibolga,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it. "It is a marriage of conve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA second man has been arrested after the bodies of two men were found in a pond in Canterbury, Kent. The 28-year-old was was held by police on Tuesday night on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs. P...
- posted by Patrick Porter at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours agoWhen he isn't comparing himself to Ronald Reagan (whose withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, arms control negotiations with Gorbachev, nuclear abolitionist visions and moderation on immigration, and general ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours ago*Comparison of dentists, climate scientists, astrologers* The Wall Street Journal just published a letter to the editor Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate which was signed by a few dozen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFour radical Islamists have admitted planning an al Qaeda-inspired plot to detonate bombs at the London Stock Exchange and other targets. The group had planned to send five bombs through the post to vario...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTanker trucks loaded with water have become the lifeline for a Texas lakefront village that came precariously close to becoming the state's first community to run out of drinking water during a historic d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNearly half of U.S. households are just one piece of bad luck - such as a job redundancy or a medical emergency - from poverty, it has emerged. A staggering 43 per cent are 'liquid-asset poor', meaning th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Police are pressing the three adults who were home the night missing toddler Ayla Reynolds disappeared to provide a full account of what happened,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFor a few hours this weekend, it looked like the weather monitoring station at Jim River Maintenance Camp in north-central Alaska might have broken the record low temperature for the whole United States. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIran is likely to launch terrorists attacks on US soil if the isolated Islamist regime feels threatened, American intelligence officials believe. Citing last year's thwarted Iranian plot to kill the Saudi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA soldier wounded in Afghanistan three years ago admitted today that he killed a 4-month-old girl he and his wife were trying to adopt by banging her head against a hard surface and throwing her into a cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe stunning image of a UFO was captured on video last week, but is it an alien craft, or is there a simpler explanation? Anthony Piceno, of American Fork, Utah, said he was drawn to the sight in the air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA police officer suspected of having sex with an underage girl was fatally shot by his best friend on the force during a sting operation that erupted in gunfire, it has emerged. Officer Alberto Covarrubi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA skull unearthed in Morocco is the earliest African ancestor of modern crocodiles, say researchers. The crocodile, known as Aegisuchus witmeri, had a huge armoured head, like a bony shield, and lived ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Royal Navy’s most sophisticated warship has been ordered to the Falklands in a display of strength as tensions rise with Argentina. Britain is sending the £1billion Type 45 destroyer Dauntless on a s...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 8 hours agoObama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday 1/24/12, and the Republican response from Mitch Daniels, are still being dissected and discussed. I've discussed it elsewhere (including at one of LA's Drinking ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHuman traffickers are coaching adult asylum seekers to act like children so they can claim more benefits when they reach Britain, a court has heard. The claim emerged during a judicial review challenge br...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA cold snap that has left dozens dead across Eastern Europe will reach Britain by the weekend. Temperatures are set to plunge far below freezing point making the country even colder than the South Pole. ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*US research suggests that women who get certain ulcer drugs have a small increased risk of hip fractures in later life, mainly if they smoke.* Women should not be put off by means of proton pump inhibit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA Lithuanian charged with battering a retired couple to death in their home was a violent criminal who had already been kicked out of the UK. Rimvydas Liorancas, 37, who was awaiting trial for murdering C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIndia has snubbed British industry and awarded a £13billion deal to supply fighter jets to France. The contract was lost despite Government claims that the UK’s £1billion aid package to India would help ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCHICAGO (CN) - The Illinois attorney general claims Standard & Poor's defrauded investors by systematically misrepresenting the credit analysis of structured finance securities. "This lawsuit seeks redre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWho is the European Union’s so-called “oil embargo on Iran” really aimed at? This is an important geo-strategic question. Aside from rejecting the new E.U. measures against Iran as counter-productive, T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCan India use its transfer station card for NATO military cargo in the American-Indo-Pakistani “big game” in Afghanistan? While U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Pakistani counterpart, Hina...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Manitoba, Canada at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:31 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 165 km (102 miles) Northwest of Brand...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*A self-guiding bullet that can turn itself towards its target is being urbanized for use by the US military. The team accuracy has accepted out both field tests and computer simulations, and says engine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWith the US and the EU imposing fresh sanctions against Iran, India is exploring all possibilities to keep the Iranian oil flowing as it is critical to its energy security. One of the options being discus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoGreece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds flowing to his country. He said that the proposal,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBusinesses in certain Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have been asked by their governments and members of the governing families to reduce trade with Russia because of its “arrogant” position toward...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFrench Prime Minister François Fillon announced that France has halved its 2012 growth forecast Monday, adding pressure on incumbent President Sarkozy's hopes for reelection just a day after he revealed m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUkrainian President Victor Yanukovych has been seeking to renegotiate the gas supply deal approved by his predecessor and signed by then Prime Minister and now jailed, Yuliya Tymoshenko. Ever since he wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIMF experts believe that high oil prices will allow the Russian government to take measures to strengthen, protect and reform the economy. Russia is benefiting from the rising tensions in the Middle East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWell, the crack of the matter is actually relationship between the civilian Government and the military. The Judiciary is very, very important component of it and there seems to be an awful lot of mutual ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNearly 2 billion dollars that was given to the U.S. Defense Department to cover its Iraq related expenses has gone missing. According to other reports from the special Inspector-General for Iraq reconst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussia would continue delivering weapons and ammunition to Syria, Russian Interior Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. “We’ve signed contracts (with Damascus) and we must keep to them,” Mr. Lavrov said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSakurai Kunitoshi is a member of the Okinawan Environmental Network, professor (and until 2010 the President) of Okinawa University, and a Councilor of the Japan Society of Impact Assessment. He spoke to N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe latest Chicago Crime Commission gang report is out, and it totals an enormous number of gang members in Chicago—68,000 or more. According to Jody Weis, who now runs the Commission, that makes Chicago ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWhat happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man has been killed after being struck by a train at a level crossing in Stoke-on-Trent, British Transport Police said. The pedestrian was hit by a cross-country service on a crossing near Wedgwood sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man has been found dead in a house in Lincolnshire after police negotiators were involved in a stand-off for several hours. Lincolnshire Police said a "significant number" of officers were at the prope...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoWyre Davies is a nice chap. Like Eric Idle, Wyre always looks on the bright side of life. He was in Tunisia, happily soaking up the atmosphere of optimism surrounding the glorious Arab Spring and basking i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 69.1 km (42.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:14:27 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) WNW of Ben...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 379.2 km (235.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:42:12 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 2.6 earthquake has struck Arizona at a depth of just 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 06:25:26 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8 miles) SSE of Winslow, Arizona No Rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 34 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:56 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 409 km (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 37.5 km (23.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:45 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) WSW ...
- Url movie: http://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo Url movie: http://youtu.be/KMA23JJ1M1o -- Use the Pause button to see the 3 subject cases (horizontal rows)! The left top picture is what was presented to the test s...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoI promised to review this bookafter I got a chance to actually read it because we have extensively posted onthe European Bronze Age here on this blog and have made a number of informed conjectures. The...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is an interestingaddition. Right handed amino acids are anecessary precursor to the formation of core sugar molecules. Again the formulation of life remains a longway off but we are seeing more ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoWhat has occurred in the Middle East and this is a direct result in school based indoctrination,is that the strongest emergent political movement is the Muslim Brotherhoodwhich is best understood as a ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is important informationbecause it puts volcanic action in the center of considerations on climatechange in the Northern Hemisphere and pretty well rules out solar variation asa primary driver. I ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*Researchers have established an outstanding method to recreate words, based on the brain waves of patients thoughts of those words. *The team focused on an area of the brain called the superior temporal...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*Samsung's patent deals are being looked into by the European Commission. The commission’s opinion is that it needs to recognize if Samsung has failed to live up to a commitment to license key technologie...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"Our military’s officer corps has become a culture of Petraeus worshiping yes-colonels who pine to become yes-generals. The only warriors who count anymore are the bull feather merchant marines who conju...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago"Gandalf, "Where the River Joins the Ocean" • Close your eyes, relax, and let the images come as you listen to this. What do you see? What do you *feel*?
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoThe writing has been on the wall for a while now, but after tonight's blowout for Mitt Romney, I can't see any path to the nomination for anyone else. Over at Plum Line, I put it this way: At this point, ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoPhil Keaggy, "Epilogue: Amazing Grace"
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago*DEFENSE TECH* follows military happenings world wide. Of interest, India has decided to buy 129 French Rafale fighters after comparing *"against everything from the Eurofighter Typhoon and Mig-29 to th...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 12 hours agoAs a Florida resident I have to apologize to conservatives for what happened here in our primary election. There’s an axiom regarding Florida that if you are –in- Florida, “you have to go north in order to...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago* Gary Hyde* On 19 January 2012, we read of *the collapse of the trial of arms dealer Gary Hyde.* *Hyde had been accused of helping to organise a shipment of arms from the UK to Nigeria. *(BBC News - Ga...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoUpdate: Or people could decide to protest Alfonso Soriano's contract during Cubs-Sox at Wrigley, which is—uh oh—at the same time. The Occupy Wall Street Movement, which spread quickly to Chicago, Oakland,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago"Ancient Rome Reborn Digitally" by ScienceDaily "Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni officiated at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe undisputed Arab leader in the 1950s and 60s, Gamal Abdel Nasser was a source of influence on the Egyptian neighbors fighting two wars with Israel. In the war of the 1950s, a power balance between the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) -- Dozens of Kentucky prisoners released just weeks ago because of the state budget crisis are back in trouble. New data shows they are not obeying the law. But those who've lived o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 100.2 km (62.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:39:22 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) Northeast of Tacl...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoBakersfield, Yuma, Fresno, San Diego and Phoenix ALL HAVE DATA MISSING for both beta and gamma from Jan 27 to Jan 29 (roughly) for EPA's Radnet. And each of these cities has a beta spike after the missin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJanuary 30, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Illinois' bills are piling up and could jump to over $30 billion, according to a report released Monday on the state's fiscal crisis. The Chicago Civic Federation's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSINGAPORE: The shutdown in Sudanese oil supply could drive up already record premiums on spot crude markets as top Sudan customers China and Japan scramble for alternatives even as they weigh the impact o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRatings agency Standard & Poor's warned it may downgrade "a number of highly rated" Group of 20 countries from 2015 if their governments fail to enact reforms to curb rising healthcare spending and other ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBanks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This. What will their future be – and what is the government’s proper financial role? The inherently symbiotic relationship between banks and governments recently has been ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSHANGHAI, Jan 30 – China laid out more specific plans to turn Shanghai into a global financial centre by 2020, listing a series of targets for the next three years to make the city a hub for yuan trading....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoResearchers with Symantec have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors. The at...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoThe robot special effects are pretty funny Part one is here, where I noted how teaching IR in Asia taught me how to stop worrying and love American empire, and that American social science’ monolinguism ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoBefore the final votes were counted tonight, Santorum was already running (at least online) a new ad for Nevada (above). Yep, here we go again. You know, I ran across this cool interactive-ish graphic an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoI am not surprised that Hebrew indeed has a popular expression, ‘Hold me back’. It’s a convenient thing to say in a street fight when you tell the bystanders to hold you back so that you don’t hit the big...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNEW DELHI: French company Dassault Rafale today bagged India's biggest-ever contract for supplying 126 combat aircraft for the air force, edging out European competitor EADS in the multi-billion dollar de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. home prices fell for a third straight month in nearly all cities tracked by a major index. The declines show that most homeowners are not reaping the benefits from some signs of an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt's no secret that Occupy DC protesters aren't exactly fans of Fox News. So when the protesters noticed a Fox van illegally parked on K Street Monday, they took advantage of the situation. Several dozen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Samar, Philippines at a depth of 61 km (37.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:30:54 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) NNW of Guiuan, Samar,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Montara man walking two lapdogs off leash was hit with an electric-shock gun by a National Park Service ranger after allegedly giving a false name and trying to walk away, authorities said Monday. The ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 13 hours agoIn which we learn that journalist Scott Pelley of CBS News is the only journalist currently featured on mainstream media (MSM) that actually cares whether we have a President who is a murderer or not. (Alo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThis month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department reported that China imported 102,779 kilograms of gold from Hong Kong in November, an increase from October’s 86,299 kilograms. Beijing does not ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFLINT (WWJ/AP) - The mother of a 14-year-old Flint boy who was beaten last week says she hopes a video of the attack posted on Facebook leads to arrests. Trina McNeil told The Flint Journal that video of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIndia said Monday it may use its own currency, the rupee, to pay for oil imports from Iran in the face of a US-led sanctions campaign aimed at forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme. India has s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIt was good times at the Federal Reserve 5 years ago: Low interest rates instituted by then-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan had housing prices booming, the stock market was rising and Fed members were—literally—...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMONUMENT, Colo. (CBS4) – She says she was just trying to help a friend, but now two students from Monument face expulsion after one loaned another her asthma inhaler. Alyssa McKinney thought her friend, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoABU DHABI (Reuters) - Coastguards and naval forces of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) group of Arab countries have contingency plans for a possible attempt by Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a Kuwai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBRUSSELS (AP) - Investors participating in a deal to slash Greece's massive debt would face an overall loss on their bond holdings of more than 70 percent, a person involved in with the negotiations said ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoFrench Rafale fighter jet has emerged a winer in the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition to for the sale of 126 fighter jets to the Indian Air Force. Read More
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoThe Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats. In response to requests fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoJim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A burgeoning population of huge pythons - many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big - appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoPakistani army Chief General Kayani has witnessed formation level training exercises in Bahawalpur Cantt and Khairpur Tamianwali. T Read More
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoPakistani soldiers were able to foil an attack by over 300 Taliban militants on a security check post Read More
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTHE HAGUE - An elephant in Amsterdam's zoo has made history after being fitted with a jumbo-sized contact lens following an eye injury, a statement said Monday. "Win Thida is the first elephant in Europe...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoYoung recruits of the Chinese People's Armed Police Force (CAPF) under go strict trainin. Read More
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBeijing appears determined to contain the volatile situation in an ethnically Tibetan region of southwestern China by sending in thousands of extra security forces. The move comes against a backdrop of a...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 13 hours agoFrench Rafale fighter jet has emerged a winer in the Indian Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition to for the sale of 126 fighter jets to the Indian Air Force. Read More
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA New York airport screener who removed two pipes from a traveler's bag and set them aside Monday morning prompted a security scare six hours later when the next shift saw the pipes and feared they might ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNEW HAVEN — The principal of Clinton Avenue School is on leave after students in the lunchroom experimented with a bizarre fad in which kids try to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon. Thousands of YouTube vi...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago* (You'll have to endure a 20 second ad first ... )* Thanks to Huffington Post for embed ability.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Region Metropolitana, Chile at a depth of 43.8 km (27.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:43:26 UTC Wednesday 1st February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) Southwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 110 km (68.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:17:52 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 350 km (217 miles) East of Vostok, Kuril...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 172.5 km (107.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:58:02 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.2 km (26.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:24 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) ES...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:25:09 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 13 hours agoIt looks like planners helped to kill people in Christchurch. From the ongoing Christchurch inquiry: The building at 605- 613 Colombo St, … was green stickered following the September earthquake. The Bo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago* "Choices"* by Dr. Shad Helmstetter *1* “No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoFor the longest time, I and others in the real truth movement have been trying to get the message out to everyone about how the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States were done by the criminal s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"Will our Sun look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is one of brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star. The outer gasses of the...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoMemorial to the massacre of the people of El Mozote, El Salvador. Image from No Fixed Address.‘Removing the veil’:El Salvador apologizes for State violenceon 20th anniversary of Peace AccordsBy Leah Wilson a...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoWhat allowed dinosaurs to get so big? A few factors were at play, including bird-like lungs, egg-laying and less need to chew.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours ago*Strange Rumblings in Arizona:* *A Battle to Defend the K-12 Raza Studies Department at Tucson Unified School District from Racist Republicans* * * Editorial by Elias Serna Posted with permission at Censor...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago* Here's our Bob with, uh, some other guy, back in the day. * *“I think both parties are miserable. I don’t know what they stand for anymore.”* *-- former MD Rep. Bob Bauman, in an interview with the Washin...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 16 hours agoThe last line from the newscaster is classic: "Experts at the scene today don't think anyone killed the birds *intentionally*." Right. We killed them *un*intentionally. According to a review issued joint...
- The WAGES of Sin...an Environmental ScourgeWit's End - 16 hours agoThe witchhazel in front of the porch began blooming before Christmas, its heavenly scent perfuming air so warm it feels as though it should be spring - in fact, it still has green leaves! Global warming f...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoNewt Gingrich warned Floridians that, if he won their state primary, he would be the Republican nominee for president. That was apparently enough to bring an end to the Gingrich rampage that took fire wi...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoBy snake pit I mean the Florida everglades, a former refuge for a wide variety of small mammals now being overrun by introduced pythons. Sightings of prey species such as possums and racoons are down by a...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoSmartCap uses sensors to monitor brain activity so workers don't fall asleep at the wheel.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoForget the conspiracy theories, it was actually the universe that conspired against Phobos-Grunt, knocking out its onboard electronics with high-energy particles.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*And he's being smug about it!* "Romney flexing his strength in Florida" January 30, 2012|By Michael Levenson and Matt Viser HIALEAH, Fla. - Mitt Romney barreled through South Florida yesterday, bolstere...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Much unsaid as Mitt Romney cites his tie to Mexico" by Michael Kranish | Globe Staff, January 31, 2012 MIAMI - Mitt Romney, who rarely discusses his ancestry, has repeated a striking comment in Florid...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Starlight"* by Chet Raymo "Poor Calvin is overwhelmed with the vastness of the cosmos and no small dose of existential angst. He is not the first, of course. Most famously the 17th-century French philo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoSzamotuly, Wielkopolskie, Poland. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*The agenda-setting, script-writing string-pullers awarded it to him. * *Here is your MSM narrative*: "In Bible Belt win, Newt Gingrich’s sins were salvation" by Sarah Schweitzer | Globe Staff, January...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*He just **doesn't remember** for whom he voted.* "Romney attacks on Gingrich similar to Bush-McCain 2000" by Glen Johnson | Globe Staff, January 31, 2012 MIAMI - Newt Gingrich complains Mitt Romney ha...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 17 hours agoRodney Smith cleans a new Think electric car at the Magnum Drive plant in Elkhart, Ind. Photo by J. Tyler Klassen / The Elkhart Truth / AP / Pro Publica.How the stimulus revived the electric carAlthough elec...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago"We have different interpretations of religion. We have fascist interpretations and totalitarian interpretations, and we also have democratic interpretations. What happened to Iran after the Revolution was...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people; Interstate 75 was shrouded in haze, smoke" by Mike Schneider | Associated Press, January 30, 2012 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A long line of cars and trucks co...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 18 hours agoTen Questions on Romney’s TaxesRuss BakerJanuary 25, 2012 Comments Everybody’s talking about Mitt’s taxes, but questions always remain. Here are a few: Can we expect to find anything crooked in Romney’s ...
- posted by Kate Weaver at The Duck of Minerva - 18 hours agoThe Economist lead story this week on China's Paradox of Prosperity offers some fascinating fodder for a lecture on constructivism: "In this issue we launch a weekly section devoted to China. It is...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Actually, nobody "needs" to be corrected. They know when they're acting up, or will soon find out. Poor behavior within your proximity, however, is always a tip-off that someone else might correct what t...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 18 hours agoImage from Dippity.'Goodness' Vs. 'Rightness':The ethics of birth controlThere is a systematic way to find out what the benefits and harms are: observe reality carefully.By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / Janu...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoTo hear Steve Harper tell it, Canada's finances are a mess. He ought to know, he created the mess. Yes, the federal government has a "structural deficit" that won't simply go away once the recession end...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoIs the Buffett Rule -- that rich folks should pay at least as much in taxes as the middle class -- a good idea? I'm sure there are reasonable arguments pro and con. But you won't find any good ones in Doug...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 19 hours ago*"A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that situation as an historical reality susceptible to transformation." — Paulo Freire* [image: Resist Arizona Book Burnings and Rac...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 19 hours agoJudging by her high school yearbook photo, my guess was that Ann Coulter was voted Most Likely to Blow a Dead Elephant.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Bad Sheldon's on the right.* There couldn't be an uglier face for Big Money taking over our country and destroying our democracy than organized-crime gambling billionaire Sheldon Adelson. We've been foll...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours agoHere we are again, having the same tired, washed-out old arguments: [image: image] YET AGAIN WE SEE all the political classes jumping into the trough for a mud wrestle over the so-called “Principles of ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 20 hours ago*Zeppie said **Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent implementation of standardized testing reviews** is unhealthy and wrong.* *"I don’t believe in stressing kids out so that they have no childhood," Zeppie said. ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoWhile I'm not a fan of the 60 vote Senate, I generally can't fault Mitch McConnell for doing what he can to gum up the works in that chamber. It's true that the minority party has a choice to make between ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*Or is it a shadron or NLSP?* Eva Halkiadakis of my graduate Alma Mater, Rutgers, has presented the newest results of the CMS searches for physics beyond the Standard Model: *Update on Searches for New Ph...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Pamela and Randy Copus are the duo known as 2002. Randy Copus plays piano, electric cello, guitar, bass and keyboards. Pamela Copus plays flutes, harp, keyboards and a wind instrument called a WX5. Both ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"Clinging To The Core When Our World Falls Apart"* by The DailyOm "When external factors shift we have an opportunity to rediscover our core which is the only truly safe place to call home. There are tim...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago“In time a man disappears from his lifelong fields, from the streams he has walked beside, from the woods where he sat and waited. Thinking of this, he seems to miss himself in those places as if always h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Consumer Confidence Sucks"* by Karl Denninger "This was a surprise? Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly dropped in January as gasoline prices picked up and more Americans said jobs were hard t...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours agoDesperate for war, US prepares to blame Iran for false flag attack. by Tony Cartalucci January 31, 2012 - "...it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“US Deficit Tops $1 Trillion 4 Years In A Row”* by MSNBC “A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the U.S. government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, a s...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 22 hours agoBy: Duane Craig The Environmental Protection Agency has billed two potentially responsible parties $6.5 million to cover the agency's costs to date in remediating the CTS of Asheville National Priorities ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 hours agoWho REALLY Pays Taxes Monday, 30 January 2012 Richard D Wolff Photo: @bastique As US capitalism suffers from a crisis now in its fifth year with no end in sight, the Republican presidential candidates and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic re...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 22 hours agoSecretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (Photo: *Press Trust of India*) "The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoA UN report examining population increase concludes that, by 2030, just 18 years from now, we'll need 50% more food, 45% more energy and 30% more water to meet humanity's needs. Secretary general Ban ki-...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 22 hours agoThe Gay Secretary But there is one thing that those in the bowels of power in DC, Tel Aviv, and Geneva need to realize; *Chinese military leadership has gone on record as stating that they will unhesitati...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoIt's not going to happen this year, but it could happen sometime: a deadlocked convention. Or, an open convention. Or, an undecided convention. I'm pushing deadlocked, but any of those are fine. And I have...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago(Just heard about this on the Ed Schultz Show) If you think there is nothing you can do – you are wrong. Read this story of determined 99%-ers. Read about the history of the story here: *Century Aluminu...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 23 hours agoThe Gay Secretary This goes back to the warning made by Sun Tsu in "The Art of War" that the army with the moral law on their side is the army that wins. Once again I will predict that the US will lose th...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoBBC World Service journalist Piers Scholfield asks a question about Super PACs: What's "a force for good" in the eyes of a BBC World Service journalist? The link takes you to this article about a Vermont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAMMAN Jan 31 (Reuters) - An explosion set on fire a crude oil pipeline feeding a Syrian oil refinery in the city of Homs on Tuesday, residents said. A tall plume of smoke rose from the pipeline in farmla...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA gun that uses a magnet to fire a projectile at Mach 7 is on track to become battle ready.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThe drug is meant to help those suffering from pain from cancer.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHolidaymakers have been warned to watch their words after two friends were refused entry to the US on security grounds after a tweet. Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to "destroy ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoURGENT: PROTECT SACRED QUITOVAC FROM GOLD MINING O'ODHAM LANDS -- (Jan. 30, 2012) Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, speaks on the urgent need to protect Quitovac from gold mining. Quitovac is the sacred ceremonial ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Is Now The Time To Move Away From Major U.S. Cities?"* by Michael Synder "As the U.S. economy falls apart and as the world becomes increasingly unstable, more Americans than ever are becoming "preppers"...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*WHITE FAMINE RELIEF* *Mohawk Nation News* *http://www.mohawknationnews.com* * * * MNN. JAN. 30, 2012. Is white privilege ending - lower infant morality, easier bank loans, a white house, ivy league educa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 54-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the bodies of two men were found in a pond, according to Sky sources. The bodies were discovered in Reed Pond, near Tennyson Avenue in Ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoArmed police are involved in a stand-off at a house in Lincolnshire, where an officer has been injured and people are being told to stay away from their homes. Sky News' correspondent Mark White said: "A...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach & Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman* When Roland first fell off the turnip truck that brought him from Maine to Los Angeles, we used to argue a lot about "illegal" im...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss Fred Goodwin has had his knighthood "cancelled and annulled" having brought the honours system into disrepute. There has been increasing political pressure for th...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIt's mainly this: Lockheed has mastered the game of spreading around a government's money to see to it that government has to keep sending it more money. Not socialism exactly, but... *The jet fighter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bullet that can steer itself has been developed by national security researchers for widespread use by the army. US military researchers have developed the technology that will see regular army soldier...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Colombia at a depth of 57 km (35.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:52:48 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (79 miles) Northeast from Villavicencio, Co...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAll the King's horses and all the King's men cannot save America from its own stupidity. There are many examples of American hubris but one that stands out is the legacy of Dick Cheney's frolic in Ira...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA wife went on trial today accused of goading her lover into killing her husband to avoid an expensive custody battle over their young children. Morgan Marie Mengel, 35, convinced 21-year-old Stephen Shap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. navy has awarded a $10 million contract to research a power supply for its hi-tech 'rail gun' - an electromagnetic weapon that hurls projectiles at 5,000 miles per hour. 'This new system will dra...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis Kickstarter project replaces your car's CD stereo with a smart phone.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago(Here's the political nonsense that the Saskatoon Star Phoenix Editors want you to believe) .... *"Without any changes, Canada will be hard-pressed to provide any social or institutional programs beyond ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoPhotographer Garth Lenz' visual journey through the Alberta tarsands. .
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoLast night when I was driving home I was listening to 950am left talk radio (which can be podcasted from anywhere in the world) and I heard something that was VERY distressing to me - personally. In 2010 ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoI have a small confession to make. I don't like cake. I know, that makes me crazy or something. Another confession? My husband doesn't like it either. I guess crazies gravitate together. Even with both o...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoFlorida primary day. I wrote something over at Plum Line arguing that it matters whether Romney wins by a narrow margin or by a landslide because it will influence how he behaves over the next five weeks, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Link] For months they have been forced to wander a desolate landscape, lost, confused and alone. The thousands of dogs and cats abandoned in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis have endured d...
- posted by Suzanne MacNevin at Lilith News - 1 day agoBy Suzanne MacNevin. I had a comment on a different blog (Feminist Truths) a few days ago from a loser claiming that men are the unequal ones. Ha. Here is some interesting facts for those people who don'...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Will the future be served:* Filling in at the Washington Monthly last weekend, Elon Green made it look *very* easy. Responding to Maureen Dowd’s latest breakdown, he offered ...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe bills hope to shield the public from seeing undercover videos at factory farms.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIt's easier to grow bigger in the sea with the water holding up your weight, say researchers.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA farmer was understandably left fed up to the gills by the sight of fish after a staggering 20 tonnes of mackerel spilled onto his land from an overturned lorry. It was travelling towards Ardglass in Co...
- posted by Carlos at Viva Bolivia - 1 day agoA history of Bolivian mining with a list of its most important mineral resources From 1557 to 1985, mining dominated the Bolivian economy. By 1987 mining accounted for only 4 percent of GDP, 36 percent of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoA main cause of deforestation in South America and Asia has been clearing land for palm oil production. Palm oil has become a major source of biodiesel, a supposedly green fuel. Not so fast. *The Gu...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoHolder & Obama’s Propaganda is “Belied by a Troublesome Little Thing Called Facts” By William K. Black [excerpt] "The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago"Treasury Investigates Freddie Mac Investment" By SHAILA DEWAN Published: January 30, 2012 the New York Times [excerpted] "The Treasury Department is investigating a report that Freddie Mac, the mortgag...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* France * Hugh Cuthbert, a top rated UK fund manager, says the euro crisis is probably over. He believes that Europe now has the funding, and austerity, needed to end the 'sovereign debt' problem once an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAuthorities are investigating the cause of a huge fire in New Delhi, as slum dwellers look for new homes. Sarah Wali reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIran is keeping the option open to develop a nuclear weapon but U.S. intelligence agencies do not know whether it will eventually decided to build one, the U.S. intelligence chief said on Tuesday. New U....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAttacks in southern Pakistan city kill six, including a woman and young girl. Travis Brecher reports.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agopopseal Slidell, La. *If you liked the leftist assault against Palin, just wait. The yet to be exposed weakness of Romney is the touchy subject of religion. The left will turn over Mormon rocks and find ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Somali militant group Al-Shabaab says it has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from operating in the regions it controls, accusing the organization of distributing expired food. In ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's information minister escaped an assassination attempt unharmed Tuesday, his office manager said. The minister, Ali al-Amrani, was headed to the prime minister's office when ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe BBC really is the last bastion of defence for bloated Public Sector finances. Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; 'Public sector workers will be “dramatically” better off in retirement and receive si...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Chris and Eugene and Jack Welch oh my:* Embarrassment is watching your own side do it. Last night, a repurposed Chris Matthews and two scripted guests were complaining about...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoA Biased BBC reader observes; "Sean Coughlan,BBC education correspondent, reporting here on the BBC web page today about a Twitter-linked session of the Education Select Committee: "... when Mr Gove was a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*Found a questionnaire on social justice on Common Dreams**.* Hated the way it was formatted – but the questions are good and the answers are sourced/cited, so that’s a good thing. Found this ALEC related...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA self-guided bullet flies like a missile and can hit targets more than a mile away.
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you're heavier than your doctor, you're more likely to be told you're overweight.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Coal-fired power plant in Oxnard Dunes, Oxnard, California, on 9 May 2009. Rennett Stowe / flickr] By Valerie Volcovici 24 January 2012 NEW YORK – U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 pe...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoI have covered the topic of vaccines many a time on the blog. The fact that they are mostly ineffective, often contaminated or prone to going wild and spreading the disease they are supposed to prevent. And...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:36:05 UTC Tuesday 31st January 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northwest of Huesa, Spain No Repor...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoThe battle over Mexican American Studies- TUSD has been going on since 2006... intensely since 2009. HB 2281 was signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in May 2010. We have been telling people about this insidious meas...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012* *Part 2—How we the rubes remain clueless:* At one time, a person could count on two things. He could count on death *and* taxes. Over the past forty years, that bargain has bee...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 1 day agoBy William K. Black The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the Bush administration’s record, which is a very large statement. Syracuse University’s TRAC issu...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoLast summer DC's Mayor Gray selected a real estate consulting and loan outfit from Illinois to "study" the public schools of DC to determine which will live and which will die. Yep, the pick to do the "re...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoNo Obit for Roy D’Aquila???? Rampant speculation has begun ~Slabbed ~Editilla Brotellas~ We're keeping a close watch on Slabbed as t day a Nova Scotia Judge will rule whether two, 2-bit hooligan partners of...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPerched on the rim of Kïlauea volcano's summit caldera, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) has watched over one of the world’s most active eruptors since 1912.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*Fr**om the Hill * *Increasing number of ethics probes rattles House Republicans* *By Jordy Yager - 01/30/12 08:32 PM ET* By next Monday the House Ethics Committee is slated to decide whether to formally ...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMark Thompson describes the moment when he was in charge of dimming the lights of a whole town in the name of astronomy.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoHere's your chance for action today. It's probably best - if you are a Minnesota resident to take this action. Andrew's Round Table was formed after the anti-gay marriage amendment was pushed onto the 20...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRESEARCHERS say melting Arctic sea ice is enticing more killer whales to Nunavut waters where they are competing with Inuit hunters for food and threatening to replace polar bears as the North's top preda...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAlthough the DCCC either tries to sabotage them or ignores them, there *are*progressive candidates, sometimes a *very* different thing from "Democratic Party candidates," running for Congress across the ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoYesterday, I looked at the ten names being tossed around most frequently for Liberal leadership - Rae, Leblanc, Trudeau, McGuinty^2, Garneau, Brison, Coderre, Cauchon, and Kennedy. Today, a look at some l...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago*STOP War Against Iran.* *STOP Economic shocks.* *NO MORE S.O.P.A / A.C.T.A. / Biden-Sinde-Wert-Law / ... * *NO MORE Censorship.* *OPEN DATA.* *FREE Manning, FREE Assange, FREE Anons.* *FREE KNOWLEDGE.* *...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoLots of good stuff today, so getting right to it: 1. Very interesting study from Lynn Vavreck and Ryan D. Enos about how candidates can affect voters' perceptions of reality, centered on Newt's rhetoric a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoChris Hedges: What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health...
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