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Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google FriendConnect. - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 seconds agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 0.4 km (0 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:47:12 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes agoStudents from Yale University have made the amazing discovery of a species of fungus that devours one of the world's most durable, and therefore environmentally troublesome, plastics: polyurethane, report...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 minutes agoTuesday Blue America will be officially endorsing Rob Zerban for Congress-- looks like I let the cat out of the bag-- and he'll be our special Valentine's Day live guest over at C&L (1pm, CST). When I spo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes agoOver the last three years, gonorrhea has become increasingly harder to treat with antibiotics, making it now a reality that perhaps we may be facing a gonorrhea strain for which no current medications wou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes agoThe $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoBy Sue Sturgis 2 November 2011 Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1 Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago(Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday Russia faced turmoil because Vladimir Putin was unable and unwilling to carry out fundamental reform of a tightly-controlled political s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes agoMOSCOW (AP) — A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenag...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 minutes agoAn elementary school teacher in Newfoundland, Canada has reportedly been put on paid leave as district officials investigate a claim she sprayed a student with an odor eliminator to mask his fishy-smellin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago(Reuters) - Spreading drug violence, kidnappings and carjackings in Mexico have led the State Department to increase the number of places it says Americans should avoid for safety reasons for the second t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoGoogle is to pay computer users to browse the web so the search giant watches every link they click. 'Panelists' in the new Google Screenwise programme will be paid up to $25 in Amazon gift cards. The p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes agoAUCKLAND, New Zealand – An Air New Zealand plane was quarantined after landing at Auckland Airport carrying children with flu-like symptoms, TVNZ reported. The Boeing 777-200 landed in Auckland Monday mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes agoMillions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes agoTRIPOLI, Libya — As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted. When the guns fell sile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — The LAPD is fighting crime from a high-tech war room that gives it eyes all over the city. The surveillance hub is now a model for police forces around the world and KCAL9 got an excl...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 35 minutes agoTomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of one of the most evil and diabolical actions done against innocent people in all of our history. I am of course talking about the needless and unnecessary firebombing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes agoBy NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services SEATTLE -- A computer in Josh Powell's former home in Utah had animated images that depicted "incestuous" sex between parent and child, Pierce County author...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoThe Greek parliament has approved an austerity bill aimed at securing a second bailout as riots spread across Athens. Before the parliamentary vote, serious violence broke out in the capital and spread ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 27.4 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 03:32:06 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 74.4 km (46.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:28:37 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) Northeast of Talca, Chile N...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 47 minutes agoFor reasons unnknown, Blogger will not allow me to follow my friend's NN's blog for more than a few hours. It insists on dropping Stacked-NYC from my reading list. Because of this, I missed Charles Dickens...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Mozambique at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:49:31 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) NNE of Nacala, Mozambique No T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 69.9 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:28 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (2...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 57 minutes agoOne Town's War on Gay Teens | Politics News | Rolling Stone: "Asked on a radio program whether the anti-gay agenda of her ilk bore any responsibility for the bullying and suicides, Barb Anderson, co-author...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 59 minutes agoThe US media is still going hog wild with their totally false message to the dumbed down American public that Iran needs to be attacked to prevent that peaceful nation from acquiring nuclear weapons. What...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Buryatiya, Russia at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:40 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17.4 miles) Southwest of Taksimo, B...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoIn celebration of African American history month, thousands of Texas schoolchildren attended a screening of the film "Red Tails," about the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the first black aviators to serve in the U...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago*"It is not legally or morally acceptable that these so-called “schools of choice” that are concentrated in urban communities and supported with public funds, should be permitted to operate as segregated l...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 hour agoThere are many good reasons to read David Scheffer's All the Missing Souls: its insider story of the war crimes trials, written by one of their architects, the in-depth case studies on Bosnia, Rwanda, Camb...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 hour agoReally busy week (shocker). Had dinner with my friend, Mel, on Tuesday night. Was really nice to catch up and talk about her upcoming wedding and other things going on with both of us. :). Need to plan a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Sadly, I'm still buying and reading it. * "Seafarers outraged that captain jumped ship" by Karl Ritter | Associated Press, January 20, 2012 STOCKHOLM - Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 hours agoAl-Qaeda Taglines: Al-Qaeda: The best enemy, and friend, that the petrodollar can buy. Al-Qaeda: The gift that keeps on giving. . .if you're a foreign policy psychopath working in Washington, London, and...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Only briefly*: "Chain reaction prevented at Japan plant" Bloomberg News, February 08, 2012 TOKYO - Tokyo Electric Power Co. was forced to use boric acid at its crippled Fukushima atomic plant to prevent...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Abandoned fishing boat stranded on shore. Joe Edwards] Contact: Rupert Crilly, rupert.crilly@neweconomics.org, +44 (0)207 820 6389 10 February 2012 Research published today by *nef *finds that p...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*Globe mostly misses.... * "Terrorist leader killed in Philippine raid" New York Times, February 03, 2012 MANILA - Philippine military officials said yesterday that an *early-morning raid had killed * one ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*That's what the Globe has me digging through*: "US warns of terror threat in Bangkok" Associated Press, January 14, 2012 BANGKOK - Thai police were questioning a Lebanese man with alleged links to Hezbol...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"US diplomatic relations with Myanmar reinstated" by Seth Mydans and Steven Lee Myers | new york times, January 14, 2012 WASHINGTON - The *United States restored full diplomatic relations* with Myanmar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Tastes sour.* "Fungicide find halts orange juice imports" January 12, 2012 WASHINGTON - The United States temporarily halted shipments of imported orange juice from all countries and said it will destroy...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"Blaming the problem on the richest of the rich ignores an equally important driver, [Besharov] said: two-earner household wealth, which has lifted the upper middle class ever further from less educated ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoHad to go into TCF again - about the account I closed three weeks ago. WHY? Because Even though I signed the closure papers Even though they gave me the money that was left in the account, at the time I c...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*The second term is pejorative and unfair; however, it is attention-grabbing.* "Killer says he’s sorry in Peru" January 12, 2012|By Frank Bajak LIMA - Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty yesterday to the 2...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 hours agoHeartbreaking video of rescue attempts to save dolphins stranding on Cape Cod - "in record-breaking numbers". Ric O'Barry (an amazing environmental activist with a profound history I had never heard of...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 4 hours agoIt’s not quite “come on sucker, lick my battery” stuff, but economists are warming up for Valentine’s Day with the #FedValentines tag on Twitter [hat tip Offsetting Behaviour]. My favourites, from the Sa...
- posted by Economic Perspectives from Kansas City at New Economic Perspectives - 4 hours agoBy L. Randall Wray In the nextseries of blogs we will turn to *what*government *ought to do*. This serieswill specifically treat only sovereign government—one that issues its owncurrency. From the earlier...
- posted by Economic Perspectives from Kansas City at New Economic Perspectives - 4 hours agoBy L. Randall Wray Sorry for being late. There were really only two issuesraised (ignoring the comment about MMR vs MMT—which I’m not going to addresshere). The first concerned the orthodox belief that t...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoMy friends and colleagues over at *Tidal Station* have taken the time to chop into the "marine plan" issued by Enbridge for their northern gateway pipeline transfer terminal at Kitimat. While most marine...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours agoWashington and Al-Qaeda are coordinating together in Syria. This isn't a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." This is a case of sponsoring a terror group to create chaos and kill innocent Syrians ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 4 hours agoWill Iran Be Attacked? 44 US military bases surrounding Iran . . . Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research, February 8, 2012 PaulCraigRoberts.com Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military a...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoOmar Suleiman is known as "Egypt’s top spy chief." Read Professor Lisa Hajjar's article called, "Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo," for more information about this bad guy. The article was written on Febru...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDear Jeremy Paxman & BBC, With complete shock and horror, we followed your interview with the British citizen of Syrian descent Danny Abdul Dayem! He, clearly, was on a mission to take full advantage of t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“It is lovely indeed, it is lovely indeed. I, I am the spirit within the earth. The feet of the earth are my feet; The legs of the earth are my legs. The strength of the earth is my strength; The thoughts o...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoI’m not going to discuss biased media especially NATO aligned warmongering mouthpieces, I’ll just put a small example and leave the readers to decide. BBC has built credibility over decades of hard work by...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoBat Yam, Tel Aviv, Israel. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago* * *“95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness”* by Marc “At the cusp of a new day, week, month or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoYou all in the mood for a good laugh? Cause this is hilarious! Who would believe this rubbish? How much did these "activists" get paid to stand around with English Language signs?? Can you say, staged photo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRelations between the United States and Iran, already strained by U.S. sanctions on Iran's central bank and Iranian naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, are on the verge of spinning out of control. Wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoKeep close for more stories on Greece's precarious situation.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"On Being Good"* by Chet Raymo “A 2006 issue of "Science & Spirit" has a long section on the origins of morality, a topic of some interest to readers of Science Musings. Harvard professor of psychology ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoAs we mentioned a few days ago, California criminal Congressman Lucky Bucky McKeon started and chairs, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus, a polite way of saying the Drone Caucus. This is little more than ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries? Or when rich countries that ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoNothing too creative this week...we've had a bunch of essays recently evaluating Barack Obama and his presidency (most of which are still on my To Read pile, alas...). So I want to do an Obama question. L...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Illusion Of Economic Recovery – Feelings & Facts"* By James Quinn “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein "*Until Debt Do Us Part:* T...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 7 hours agoTraditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend's eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as Anonymous downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States CIA.gov. The CIA webs...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours ago[image: image] Yes, folks, the trial of the Urewera 18, 16, 15, 4 has *finally* got under way this morning in Auckland’s High Court. So we may *finally* hear some facts about what this motley lot are ac...
- posted by Economic Perspectives from Kansas City at New Economic Perspectives - 7 hours agoBy William K. Black (Cross-posted from Benzinga.com) Golf is one of the sports associated with the CEOs of big banks, so it is not surprising that Jamie Dimon is expert at seeking to invoke Winter Rules w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them." - Richard Bach
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:17:35 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) South...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours ago[image: image] *“Socialist governments traditionally make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”* - Margaret Thatcher His ambition, he said, was to make Auckland the world’s m...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours agoI’ve written many times about the benefits of Montessori education for your youngsters, not just through their early years but right on through primary and high school. *If* you can find them in your nei...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"The Law of Jante" by Paulo Coelho "'The Law of Jante?' Of course I had never heard of this, so he explained what it was. I continued on my journey and discovered it is hard to find anyone in any of the ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoRick Santorum still has hardly any endorsements from elected and other prominent Republicans, many of whom have done a good deal of whining about Mitt Romney. Why not? Are they really for Romney? Do they h...
- posted by Patrick Porter at The Duck of Minerva - 9 hours agoIn a reflective post not long ago, Robert E. Kelly noted: "...we are elated that the Libya operation worked, (against all odds given the Iraq experience and what we know about foreign intervention in LDCs ...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 9 hours ago*CANADIAN LABOUR ONTARIO:* *PENSIONERS AND ALLIES OCCUPY 21 ONTARIO TORY OFFICES:* ** **It's called "Blue (collar)-Grey Power", an alliance of workers and pensioners to oppose Tory plans to gut Canada...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoWant a good idea of what's happening in our world? Two views of the same spot in Shanghai, one as it was in 1990, the other as it was just 20-years later.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The most important leader of Peru's leftist Shining Path insurgency has been found dead by security forces after being shot in a remote jungle rife with drug trafficking, President Ollanta Hum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFeb. 12 - Rescue workers save a young girl after her village in southern Kosovo was buried under 33 feet of snow as Europe struggles with the harshest winter in decades. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad business. "We need help from the government....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The Arab League threw its support on Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacek...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Black-masked protesters throwing petrol bombs created a wall of fire on Sunday outside Greece's parliament as lawmakers inside looked set defy public rage by endorsing a new austerity deal to ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*Or government assistance and aid, as it were*: "Changes in autism definition could reduce diagnoses; Proposed tighter criteria considered by researchers" by Benedict Carey | New York Times, January 20,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoBill Moyers points a finger Bill Moyers Essay: Who Shipwrecked Our Economy? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo .
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*They hired labor from Pennsylvania?* "State investigates use of Pa. shelter workers" January 20, 2012|Casey Ross, Globe Staff Contractors using laborers from a Philadelphia church shelter to renovate Bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ascension Island Region at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:09:21 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 173 km (107 miles) ENE of Asce...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago"US judges balk at rigid child porn sentences; Say guidelines often demand punishment beyond severity of crime" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, February 12, 2012 As law enforcement officers and p...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours ago*United Opt Out National endorses Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together by creating ACTION in solidarity. * *PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST FOR ALL INFORMATION ON THE OCCUPATION. WE OPT OUT OF CORPORATE...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoWhat happens when you have a newspaper mired in scandal, several of its key personnel arrested, and a gaggle of unruly journalists suspicious that you're about to throw them to the wolves? That's the pr...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours agoMardi Gras Parade Cams Y'all!!! ~St Charles Ave ~WWLTV Parade Cam @ Gallier Hall! ~Barkus XX, @small_affair <other/> ~Nola Parades today~Krewe of Carrollton...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*By way of an opening tease, we hear this c1982 Vox recording by the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec of "*Reflets dans l'eau*" ("Reflections in the water") from the First Series of Debussy's Images for P...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 11 hours agoI was playing online poker around 6 pm last night when I heard on the radio that Whitney Houston had died. Whitney Houston, a willowy church singer with a towering voice who became a titan of the pop c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBritish-Born Syrian 'Shot For Protesting' (7th Sept 2011)
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoGuatemalan president Otto Perez Molina is proposing that Central America become a zone where drugs are legal to make, possess and transport. *Mr Perez Molina will test the waters by discussing the subject...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours ago20-years ago off the Aleutians a cargo ship lost some containers in a heavy storm. Among that cargo were nearly 30,000 bath toys. Since then some of these toys have circumnavigated the world. Tracki...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Woodland caribou are on the verge of dying out in Alberta, where tar sands development adversely affects the herds. British Columbia Forest Service] By Dean Kuipers 9 February 2012 Woodland car...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoWhole Fraud: The Myth of So-Called Natural Foods By Ronnie Cummins, CounterPunch http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/9927-whole-fraud-the-myth-of-so-called-natural-foods
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: A radiation decontamination worker is lifted onto the roof of a school gym in Iitate, Japan. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times] By HIROKO TABUCHI 10 February 2012 IITATE, Japan – As 500 workers ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoSoggy old Britain is facing the prospect of mega-drought. Even at the height of winter, aquifers are being used to keep English rivers and lakes from running dry. *Andrew Chapman, a senior environment pl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours agoIn this short video, produced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue and Research team staff and volunteers help as many dolphins as possible during one of the largest c...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoI guess we can still be grateful that the internets haven't been shut down yet (with a huge "thank you" going out to Global Research), but I imagine the plans are being finalized as we breathe. Washington ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoStreet clashes have been breaking out in Athens as tens of thousands of people gather in anticipation of parliament's vote on a fresh raft of austerity measures. The country's prime minister, Lucas Papa...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoOh there's a hoax all right, a well-funded, carefully scripted hoax that's being played out by the denialist community and its backers, the fossil fuelers. And, as the pieces continue to fall into place...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa* On 8 October 2011, in Colombo, in Sri Lanka, Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, *an adviser to Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa, was killed in broad daylight* during a shoot-...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours ago**Tabuchi, H. (2012, Feb 10). A Confused Nuclear Cleanup. The New York Times: "Cleanup workers: [excerpted] “We are all amateurs,” he said. “Nobody really knowshow to clean up radiation.” Nobodymay reall...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoby HARVEY WASSERMAN at Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/10/we-may-yet-lose-tokyo-and-alaska-and-georgia/ [excerpted] "As the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves a construction/operati...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 13 hours agoThe political discourse is finally turning towards a much-needed conversation. The Susan G. Komen fiasco generated robust outcry from the usually subdued progressive left, forcing even the conservative me...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 13 hours agoI am not normally a lucky person, but I am when it comes to HTML. I can program by myself, but it takes me hours of frustration. I took one class in college on the subject and by pulling out all of my note...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Babuyan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 22.7 km (14.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:37:13 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours agoBEE COLONY COLLAPSE is scary — without pollination, food becomes a problem. *GRIST* is concerned with how we live, proclaiming itself to be a "Beacon in the Smog". Well, there's a report by Tom Philpott ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours ago* * *CRACKED* IS DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, which helps with these trying times. Danny Gallagher has an entertaining post, *"The 5 Least Surprising Toy Recalls of All Time"*. #5. The Cabbage Patch Snacktim...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoGemini is a constellation high in the winter sky and can be easily seen this week after dark.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoElephant seals are spending more time in deeper, cooler waters as temperatures warm. The change may limit their feeding.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- Turkish fighter jets targeted suspected Kurdish militants in overnight airstrikes along the country's border with Iraq, the military said Sunday. The airstrikes targeted a shelter and a cave bel...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoBetter late than never, I hope: Syria is the headline again, no? Also, I'd say that the announced decision to cut US personnel in Iraq matters. Why? It's another indication that this administration is wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe death toll in a magnitude-6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines rose to 41, with 67 people still missing and feared dead, the Office of Civil Defence said on Sunday. The toll rose after rescue te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 53.8 km (33.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:13:35 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) South...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 14 hours agoStriking firemen in Belgium have turned their hoses on the thugs of the Establishment - who for once, have found themselves powerless to impose their tyranny! Bravo. It is wonderful to see the scum of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMANILA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of families were evacuated Sunday as a low pressure area brought more rains in southern Philippines resulting to flash floods, a senior government official said. Unde...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoRelease the Hounds! Krewe of Barkus XX ~ Mission: Impossible - Canine Protocol Armstrong Bark Reloaded! Mardi Gras Indian history, intricate beading traditions highlighted in videos ~Katy Reckdahl ~Editill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAN evacuation order has been issued for residents of Walgett, as more than 5000 people remain isolated by floodwaters across northern New South Wales. Power has been lost at Namoi Village at Walgett, spar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*I have a confession** to make, readers. **I'm late for mine** this morning. * "Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies" by Nekesa Mumbi Moody | associated press, February 12, 2012 LOS ANGEL...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDHAKA — Two prominent television journalists in Bangladesh were brutally stabbed to death on Saturday at their home in the capital Dhaka, police said. The motive for the slaying of the husband and wife w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAn 18-year-old Tibetan nun has set herself on fire in western China in the latest protest against Beijing's handling of the Tibetan regions it rules, an activist group said. Free Tibet said in a statemen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters took part in rallies across Europe on Saturday against an international anti-piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe head of the suspended Arab League observer mission to Syria has resigned as League foreign ministers meet to decide their next move in the crisis. League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi told its memb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:16:01 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 183 km (113 miles) ESE of...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 14 hours agoFootball is a game. It involves a group of men in shorts kicking a bag of wind from one end of a field to the other, with the objective to kick it into an area marked off by posts and a net. That is foo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*Seasoned with insults from the New York Time. Hope it's to your liking.* "Safety net catches middle class more often than the poor" by Binyamin Appelbaum and Robert Gebeloff | New York Times, February 1...
- posted by oasiuddin at Technology - 14 hours agoWales vs Scotland Livehttp://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=32482&pst=1365970
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoWhen I started blogging, a friend told me not to write about sex. "Just announce you're gay, put it in a political context and shut up about all the sex," he insisted. I didn't ask him if that rule includ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"A girl who soared, but longed to belong; Elizabeth Warren grew up amid the infinite expanse of Oklahoma, the finite expectations of her place and time, and financial pain at home. The lessons of those y...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 15 hours ago
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoUS plan-B after UN veto - deploy Al Qaeda "foreign legion." by Tony Cartalucci February 12, 2012 - It is now a matter of established public record that the "Libyan rebels" the US, through the UN and NATO...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMexico City, Feb 12 (IANS/EFE) Eighty-one people have so far died of swine flu in Mexico this year, while at least 3,522 have been infected with the virus, health officials said. From Jan 1 till Feb 9, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoImage: Douglas Bergen. Late on Saturday afternoon, a common dolpin was still swimming in circles in an Ocean City lagoon. The common dolphin was first spotted earlier this week and is far from its normal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe number of unexplained dolphin deaths on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, rose Friday, with rescuers tallying the toll at 103. About 160 common dolphins have been found since the animals began stranding thems...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoApex, NV (KTNV) - A disturbing sight in the desert, piles of dead coyotes found with their mouths tied shut has left people wondering, who was behind it all? Terry Snyder, a hunter, isn't startled by the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA second cat has been found crucified and hanging upside down in Mosta, the fourth such incident involving animals since October. The cat was found nailed to a wooden cross on a door in Baskal Buhagiar S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoCOOKEVILLE -- No one really seems to know why three bald eagles have been found shot to death in Tennessee in the past year. The bodies of the national symbol have been found in Cumberland and Bledsoe C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAlaska's Cleveland volcano keeps grumbling away, with a lava dome continuing to grow, and the alert level remaining at "watch," according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory. A status update on Saturday s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoArab foreign ministers are meeting in Cairo on Sunday to decide their next move after a resolution on Syria failed in the UN Security Council last week. Officials say the ministers could discuss a joint ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHELSINKI (AP) -- Presidents from eight European Union countries have urged a quick solution to the financial woes that continue to plague the continent and threaten Greece's future in the eurozone. Portu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMADRID (AP) -- Nine people were arrested early Saturday after scuffles broke out between police and protesters after the government approved sweeping labor market reforms aimed at reviving Spain's ailing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTOLUCA, Mexico (AP) -- Authorities say a mob in central Mexico has beaten three suspected kidnappers to death. Mexico State prosecutor Alfredo Castillo says the mob also set two of the men on fire during...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. provided a contamination survey map of its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to the U.S. nuclear regulator nearly a month before its official disclosure to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday the temperature at the bottom of the No. 2 reactor at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant rose further to 82 C, but the reactor has not gone cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, urged Syrians not to rely on the West or Arab governments in their uprising to topple President Bashar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said Rome will not need bailout funds to overcome its debt crisis, but he reiterated that Europe should build large financial firewalls to "impress the marke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFeb. 11 - Snowfall and rough seas over the past days have brought operations on the cruise liner to a standstill.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFeb. 12 - An Israeli airstrike kills at last one man in the Gaza Strip, leaving another wounded. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFeb. 12 - South Korea conducts military exercise despite North Korea’s denunciation. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Rio de Janeiro's police and firefighters declared a strike Friday, just a week before Carnival kicks off, raising fears of violence and crime as tourists arrive for the famed pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBaghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi interior ministry official was assassinated while driving in Baghdad, one of several deadly attacks Saturday reported by police. Gunmen fatally shot Haider Shamkhi, the go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo American women were arrested during a demonstration Saturday in the capital of Bahrain, with state news and one of the women's husbands offering divergent accounts as to whether they were then deporte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAthens, Greece (CNN) -- The parliament in Greece is expected to vote Sunday on austerity measures demanded in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country. In a speech Saturday evening...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNote: Does the start of this video from Today look like a pro Assad or anti Assad Rally? By Michael O'Hanlon – Special to CNN As the violence worsens in Syria, the United States and international comm...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoPutting the BBC in charge of a project to arbitrate the accuracy of weather forecasting organisations in the UK is a bit like Josef Mengele running research into the science of eugenics. They (from the Tru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the coast of Southern Peru at a depth of 75.2 km (46.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:17 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) South o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA 15-year-old leapt to his death from the roof of his high school, as horrified classmates looked on. Drew Ferraro climbed a building on campus and took a running jump off a ledge, right after the fourth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo Earth-sized planets circling perilously close to their dying star may have once been part of a single gas giant ripped to shreds by the force of gravity. The pair are just under Earth's radius and or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTorture of a citizen of Rkdalin that died A terrified Libyan man is beaten and tortured with electric shocks by youths who appear to be former revolutionary fighters. The images, taken from a video ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere was once a time when preachers standing on street corners predicting the apocalypse would have been deemed crazy. Shoppers would cross the street to avoid the archetypal banner-waving man loudly pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSixteen City workers, including several Royal Bank of Scotland employees, have been arrested in a series of dawn raids as part of a probe into alleged tax offences involving millions of pounds. The opera...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago"The More you work, the Better off you will be" David Cameron. Changes to tax credit will mean 'going out to work makes no sense' for some couples, Rachel Reeves, the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSwoop: Police seized copies of the Red Issue magazine which printed a Luis Suarez-themed KKK mask to incite Liverpool fans. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson called race-row Liverpool striker L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoInterpol has been criticised by human rights groups after Saudi Arabia used the organisation's red notice system to get a journalist arrested for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Hamza Kashgari, 23, was d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIran's leader issued a new threat to the West yesterday – warning that his country would soon unveil ‘big new nuclear achievements’. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not elaborate on the announcement – b...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 20 hours agoUS "democracy promotion" = foreign-funded sedition. by Tony Cartalucci February 12, 2012 - AP reported that US General Martin Dempsey has met directly with the military leaders of Egypt to discuss an Egyp...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago*Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson - and CIA Mind Control* On 12 February 2012 we learn of the death of the American singer Whitney Houston, at age 48. Osama bin Laden "was obsessed with the singer W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoPolice forces across Britain have been warned to beware of a flood of high-powered stun guns disguised as mobile phones which are being smuggled into the country. Operated by pressing a button on the sid...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*Anonymous hacks Mexico’s mining industry in defense of Indigenous* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Anonymous hacked Mexico’s mining industry in defense of Indigenou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.3 km (0.2 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 06:41:50 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) East from Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the South coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 22.2 km (13.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:56 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 259 km (160 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 76.1 km (47.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:55:54 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) South of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:09 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10.5 miles) Northeast Bozova, Turkey ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:41:00 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 299 km (186 miles) Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 3.6 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.3 km (0.2 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 04:19:00 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 4 km (2.4 miles) NNW from Pan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of just 0.9 km (0.6 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:06:09 UTC Sunday 12th February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) NNE from Pan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Switzerland at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:25 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8 miles) SSE of Zurich, Switzerland No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck The Chagos Archipelago Region at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:53:07 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 606 km (375.7 miles) South...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything." - William Faulkner
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:43:35 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) SSE of SAN JOSE, Costa Rica...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck The Chagos Archipelago Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:06:44 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 615 km (381.3 miles) Southw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.5 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:55:49 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSyrian forces loyal to President Assad have entered the besieged town of Zabadani on the Lebanese border, according to reports. The regime troops moved on the town, east of Beirut, after agreeing a ceas...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoIndia has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it modernizes its military to...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoThe only thing left before India signs the estimated $800 million deal with GE Aviation for 99 GE-F414 engines now, is the clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). The Price Negotiation Comm...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoAnother ballistic missile early warning system, the fourth in Russia, is being deployed in the Leningrad region. Earlier, such radars were deployed in the Kaliningrad, Krasnodar and Irkutsk regions. Thes...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoIsrael says it has successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and designed to intercept projectiles that might be fired at the Jewish state...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoAn engineer at Russia's Plesetsk space station has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of selling missile test data to the CIA. Lt-Col Vladimir Nesterets, a senior test engineer at the station, ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoThe Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) fighter jet of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force displayed with rockets & bombs in ground attack configuration. Read More
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 22 hours agoImages of the Jinggang Shan (999 /井冈山) Type 071 Yuzhao class amphibious transport dock (LPD) has been commissioneD. Read More
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoRecently, I went and poured over some archives from other real truth seekers, and I came across a real gem from my good friend, Whitewraithe, and I realized that I had not included it anywhere in my own bl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoYou know, I spent a lot of time in India, wandering around looking for myself in the early '70s and, more recently for business and for vacations. Usually I write about India on my travel blog, especiall...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 1 day agoBy Pavlina R. Tcherneva A few weeks ago I called for a technocratic debate on the merits of the JG, relative to other fiscal policies. A number of bloggers took the charge but the debate was not immune to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoArtist: Gaelic Storm Great scenery from ''Planet Earth'' series, episode ''Mountains''. Music is a Celtic (Irish) music mix.
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoAs I have always stated.. I am always surfing the internet looking for great articles from researchers out there that are trying to convey the message to the world about exactly who the real criminals are ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“The pleasures of this world are delightful from a distance before the actual test. From a distance they appear to be refreshing water, but when you approach them, you find they are a mirage. The world’s b...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoCorps of Engineers nominee agrees with Sen. David Vitter on need for major change in agency
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Beautiful island universe M94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for astronomers, the brighter inner part of the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"A vacationing businessman was walking along a beach when he saw a young boy. Along the shore were many starfish that had been washed up by the tide and were sure to die before the tide returned. The boy ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Opposite of Loneliness" * by JoyIn “The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.” - Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever" "When I read that line about intimacy in the book...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day agoDealing with the sh** - Why You Should Support HR3562 by Cherri Foytlin My Grandma Gracie used to tell me if something was sh**, call it sh**, (she had a way with words, that lady). Well, I am coming to y...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Antlers such as those on this 13-point buck were rare in Texas in 2011. The drought of 2011 had a devastating impact on the deer herd. gosanangelo.com]By Kim Gierke Special to the Standard-Times ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Winter chill: A man braves freezing temperatures in Spain, as the death toll from Europe's cold snap continued to rise, 3 February 2012. Picture: AP] By Sahit Muja, NY Economy and Politics Exami...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLegendary pop singer Whitney Houston died at a Beverly Hills, California, hotel at age 48, officials said Saturday night. The entertainer, whose incredible talent was discovered at an early age, was prono...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA:* *HAVE A HEART: SUPPORT THE UFW IN CALLING FOR A BAN ON METHYL IODIDE;* This Valentine's Day give a gift to farm workers and rural residents in California and ask that the t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Read more here (if you feel you must).* *by Ken* So let me get this straight. Because Willard Inc. edged out Ron Paul by three percentage points among Republicans who participated in the Maine caucuses ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoA headline predicts: "Earth Summit is Doomed to Fail, Say Leading Ecologists". Twenty years after the original convocation to save biodiversity, the next, scheduled for this June, is expected to be an a...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago*This is the first in what may become an occasional series. Over the last year or two, I've drifted out of regular blogging. The usual excuses apply: too much work and not enough energy. I am so badly behi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoCastle Rock, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Just a couple for you, dear and beloved readers*: "Also yesterday, a US military official acknowledged that the *Pentagon has begun to review potential military options* for dealing with the upheaval in ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoMitt Romney picks up two narrow wins today: the Maine caucus and CPAC straw votes. Of course, CPAC isn't a delegate contest at all...but it can't hurt Romney to remind people that not all conservatives ha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright..."* by Chet Raymo "Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago"Governments leak more secrets than any other entity." - John Young On purpose. And as we know, friends, one of the main reasons is to increase the money flow to the Defense Department/National Security or...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 9, 2012 *Will Government Bank Mortgage Deal Help or Hinde...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Is my soul asleep? Have those beehives that work in the night stopped? And the waterwheel of thought, is it going around now, cups empty, carrying only shadows? No, my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoLiquid Mind, "Moment of Grace Part 1" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61vm_nLNYg&feature=related • After today's posts below, we can all use this... - CP
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"Please return to your homes, a curfew is in effect." - I, Robot (2004, Director Alex Proyas, Screenwriters Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman). Transcript of speech by Robot Obama, March 21, 2013: Good eve...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAlien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoJust ten days ago, you could have read about Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists". Because this is another blog entry about a play in the Pilsner Chamber Theater, you must start to think that I am the u...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago"I am beginning to think that Christianity has a lot in common with Marxist-Leninism... God is dialectical materialism; Christ is Karl Marx; the Church is the Party, the elect is the proletariat, and the...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*EMILY's List-- no friends of progressives* The GOP could just as well send me requests for donations. And I'd be as likely to give to them as I am to EMILY's List. In fact, whenever anyone sends me any n...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“The Answer We Don’t Want to Know”* By John Mauldin “2012 will be the 11th time in my short life that I will be able to participate in the choosing of a president of the United States. While it may just...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“No one ever *does* live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.” - Stephen King, “Wolves of the Calla”
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoSaw this on Think Progress today. Besides making me angry – it also occurred to me that this is probably one of the only jobs bills that the GOP will offer – or on the other hand they may write lots of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMagistrates’ courts in the Zimbabwean capital Harare were forced to close down on Friday after a suspected typhoid outbreak affected magistrates and staff. The building that houses the courts in central...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoI am not writing this because Microsoft is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – which by the way they are. I am writing this because of the inane stupidity of Microsoft and their...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoA B-BBC reader asks; "During the milder than normal November/December of 2011, I saw a weather report on the BBC which used a graphic comparing temperatures to the average for the time of year. From memo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe dolphin could still be seen in the Ocean City, N.J. waterway late Friday A dorsal fin is grabbing people’s attention in an unusual spot: a back-bay lagoon in Ocean City, N.J., just feet from homes...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoBiased BBC's Alan reports; 2The truth of the allegations against Jimmy Saville are not proven in any way and that is not the point of this.....here the BBC felt that the mere accusation was enough to 'ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe warning came late Thursday morning. Around 11:30 a.m., some of the white sea bass at Redondo Beach’s LA Conservation Corps SEA Lab were swimming erratically. Some were even belly up. Brent Scheiwe, ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoBBC seem pretty happy about this news! They rolled the NOTW and it seem to me that they would just love to ensure that The Sun sets. Thoughts? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLONDON -- North Korea began to enrich uranium in 1998, the year after the construction of light-water nuclear reactors began in the country under a 1994 agreement with the United States, the Mainichi has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMITO (Kyodo) -- Civic groups submitted to the Ibaraki governor on Friday about 51,000 signatures and a petition demanding that the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power station be scrapped, bringing the total number ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA citizens group formed by intellectuals Shinichi Nakazawa, Tatsuru Uchida, and writer Seiko Ito ran a full-page anti-nuclear power ad in the Feb. 11 edition of the Mainichi Shimbun. The ad reads in larg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSaudi Arabia has tried to find a way to get round Russia’s and China’s vetoes on the Moroccan-tabled Security Council resolution on Syria by circulating a similar draft, which it is hoping will win the su...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoCleanup at Fukushima. U.S. experts said they were not getting accurate details of the scope of the Fukushima disaster after reactors melted down last year. Photo from AP / Daily Mail.(Not to mention Alaska a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Sir Jimmy Savile* - *Website for this image* The BBC stopped an investigation, by *Newsnight*, into allegations that BBC TV entertainer Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused a teenage girl at the BBC's Televi...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA shocking new video reveals a disturbingly calm Captain Francesco Schettino after the Concordia struck a reef.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* “Dollar and America on the Road to Ruin”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “In the last week or so, I’ve noticed an unusual amount of really well written and researched articles warning of impending doom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNasa's Cassini spacecraft has captured a spectacular view of the crescent moon Enceladus in front off the planet. The orbiter captured the famous jets of water ice spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*CENSORED NEWS VIDEO * *Dine' Louise Benally: No to coal fired power plants!* *Louise Benally responds to Navajo Attorney General in DC this week attempting to halt US EPA air pollution standards on Nav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe U.S. Ambassador to Syria has blamed the country's government for attacks on civilians and has taken the unusual step of posting a military aerial photograph on Facebook to back his claims. Robert For...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 day agoAccording to the station's site, the new song "It's Just Life" has been redacted until March 20, when the new album drops. Nevertheless, it's a damn fine set.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The 2012 Environmental Performance Index and Pilot Trend EPI for 132 Countries, 2000-2010. epi.yale.edu] The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Pilot Trend EPI (Trend EPI) rank 132 c...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Earth Summit 2012 logo. earthsummit2012.org] By Fred Pearce 10 February 2012 LONDON – We can forget about fixing the planet's ecosystems and climate until we have fixed government systems, a pan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 'psychotic' stalker who broke into Madonna's estate and threatened to slit her throat has been captured following his escape from a mental hospital. It was feared that Robert Dewey Hoskins who walked o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSerial killer John Wayne Gacy raped and killed 33 men and was executed for the murders in 1994, but today new details have emerged that suggest the notorious 'killer clown' may not have acted alone. Chic...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Christian Parenti at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of 'Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi', 25 April 2009. David Shankbone via wikipedia.org]By Randolph T. Holhut, American R...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining"* by Matt Taibbi "Everybody on Wall Street is talking about the new piece by New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, entitled "The End of Wall Street as They Knew It." ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPhotos of a stadium being built on the site of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - led by convicted paedophile Warren Jeffs - have emerged, raising concerns about its purpose....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Envisat ASAR satellite radar image showing large slick (black) from major Shell oil spill off Niger Delta. Image taken 21 December 2011 at 9:30am local time. Courtesy European Space Agency via sk...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoAmerican Scofflaw *were "push-polling" specific target demographics in which a specific outcome could be pre-determined by where the polling was done. * Certain areas of New York and South Florida would ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, 26 March 2009. Marvin Moriarty courtesy USFWS]MADISON, Wisconsin, February 9, 2012 (ENS) – Wisconsin bat scientists are going u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe CIA's website has been targetted by computer hackers believed to have stolen the personal information of more than 46,000 people. Members of hacking group Anonymous have claimed they were behind an at...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: California Mountain Yellow-legged Frog. Roland Knapp / anuranblog.blogspot.com] Contact: Jeff Miller, (415) 669-7357 2 February 2012 SACRAMENTO, California – The California Fish and Game Commiss...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoAmerican Scofflaw Ah, but you see, you have to remember what elements are actually "winning" this war; the drug dealers and the banks who launder the drug money, and the defense contractors, providing me...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Boehner (r) with Ethics Committee miscreants McKeon & Bachus* Many people recall the pre-ethics circus Hastert and DeLay ran when they controlled the House. It was a free-for-all that featured a series of...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria on 23 January 2012. Chevron] Yenagoa, Nigeria (IRIN) – Nigeria’s Bayelsa State government said yesterday it would speed up the release of mone...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 1 day agoThe Bishop Hill site today asks why persons in authority talk about healthy scientific skepticism, but deny its applicability to the climate science, a.k.a. global warming, debate. I submitted the followin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 18.7 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:14 UTC Saturday 11th February 2012 The epicenter was 348 km (216 miles) ESE of Petropavlov...
- posted by Refreshingly Twatted at No Shit Department- - 1 day agoThe more ye look, the more ye shall find....Remedies like this one, with all this potential for good, are NEVER accepted by mainstream medicine. Why not? THAT IS THE QUESTION OF THE DAY... Why, with the...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI've spent much of the past two days trying to draft a blog post on Alberta's 2012 budget. After all, this was not only Allison Redford's first budget, but a pre-election document - surely, there would be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded districts of Homs city on Saturday in a campaign to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, whose ally Russia said it would not support an Arab peace plan cir...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoHOW WE SEE TIME depends on how we live. Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoIf you have 16 minutes, you may watch Murray Gell-Mann who was interviewed by CERN's Paola Catapano on January 23rd. *Click here if you see no video above.* Gell-Mann talks about the likelihood of the...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoFeb 11-12 B4 print edition of the Wall Street Journal The article explains that the International Energy Agency cut its oil-demand forecast once again after projecting further economic weakness in Europe....
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