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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
CINCINNATI, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) — A Cincinnati high school is paying its students to come to school. The Dohn Community High School has launched a $40,000 incentive program to get students to come to cl... - posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 20 minutes ago
A few days ago, when the San Francisco Chronicle reported that state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's wife, who is an Alameda County supervisor and who is 30 years younger than her husband, was beaten up at a che... - posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 25 minutes agoAfter seeing yet another controversy regarding the outcome of the Maine elections, where once again Mitt Romney may have been declared the winner of a caucus when the final tally is in question due to only...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 37 minutes agoWas doing some research on the status of the Minnesota vote on enacting the supermajority act that is pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council and I found this article. Senate voting whether...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes agoPHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Mount Airy middle school teacher was taken to the hospital after he was assaulted by a student. It happened in a classroom at the Leeds Middle School just before 9 a.m. Monday. S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – More than 24 million voter-registration records in the United States— about one in eight — are inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicates. Nearly 2.8 million people are registered in two or more s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago
CALIFORNIA, Pa. (KDKA) — Thousands of crows have invaded a local town and university and people want the birds gone. Dave Mason from the American Legion Post in California, Washington County, says it’s e... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoLEWISVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) – A gun battle on a video game turned into guns drawn in a Lewisville neighborhood Monday. A family had to face down a police swat team for what police say was a hoax, delivered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
A renowned former ballet dancer and actress was fatally hit by two vehicles and dragged more than 600ft along the road after getting out of her car in an apparent attempt to help a wounded animal. Zina B... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago*Note: Hypocrisy is endemic. The amount of people lamenting that she's gone seems gargantuan compared to the number of people who cared about her when she was actually alive. Who felt sorry for and helpe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago
(Financial Times) -- Japan's economy shrank for the third time in four quarters between October and December, after floods in Thailand damaged production and a strong yen and subdued overseas demand hurt ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes ago(CNN) -- In a New Delhi hospital, a two-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a teenager brought her there three weeks ago, unconscious with severe head injuries and bruises, fractured arms and hum...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 54 minutes agoSaw these two reports and thought I would share snips - the titles are linked.. (The reports aren't very long and an easy read.) The American Legislative Exchange Council and Laffer are always pushing th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes agoIn the past week, since the Russian and Chinese veto in the UN Security Council, we have seen a significant rise in violence on the streets of Syria. A number of the countries that supported the vetoed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago
The sprawling housing estate of Bab al-Tebbeneh north of Tripoli sits cheek-by-jowl alongside the Jabal Mohsen estate. They are neighbours but their allegiances are worlds apart. To get to the street tha... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 55 minutes agoThis is my outlined summary of ways whereby the Japanese and US media misrepresented the Fukushima disaster. I will be providing evidence to support each of the claims made below: •Duringthe early days ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Despair has enveloped Greece. This weekend the bankrupt nation, for that is what it is, began negotiating the latest act of a drama that many fear will end in catastrophe – financially, socially and polit... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Greek MPs last night voted in favour of a controversial austerity bill as rioters again took to the streets and set buildings alight. The punishing cuts to wages and pensions are fiercely stoking tensi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThere have been projections among some Indian experts and think tanks that a limited Chinese attack along the unresolved Sino-Indian border may be imminent. This view cannot be totally faulted. They are b...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
I never could really understand how a political party could be so stupid as to pick a fight with a whole gender... I mean, like half the population. After reading Cory Robin's The Reactionary Mind I under... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoYou know it’s bad when banks are the most truthful guys in the room. Remember that historical mortgage settlement deal that was the lead news story on Thursday? It has been widely depicted as a done deal....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoGreece is a "a breath away from ground zero", Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned as he urged politicians to back an unpopular international bailout on Sunday that may have to be raised to €145bn to sav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoOne of the most fundamental principles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the principle of collective defense, wherein an armed attack on a NATO Ally constitutes an attack against all mem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoOnline collective Anonymous has pledged a “crusade” against Israel. Claiming the country is committing “crimes against humanity” and gearing for “nuclear holocaust”, the group promised a campaign against ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoWeapons from China, Russia and Belarus are fueling are fuelling serious human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region. It was stated in a report by Amnesty International. In this situation, human righ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBrazil prepared to deploy troops on the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday, as a strike by the state's police force threatened to disrupt upcoming carnival festivities and raised new questions about secu...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 hour ago[If you have even a very small contribution you could make to this blog's continued operation, it will be wholeheartedly appreciated. Thank you for your support. Peace to all!] Glenn Greenwald, whom I admi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoUNITED NATIONS – Argentina upped the rhetoric in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, accusing the British navy of sending nuclear missiles to the South Atlantic. Argentine Fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 316.5 km (196.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:36 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 207 km (128 miles) Northeast of Ndoi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Chew on this: An apology to customers is posted Sunday in a supermarket in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, where radioactive beef was sold in 2011. KYODO] Scraped from Ex-SKF, 14 Feb 2012 to 30 May...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:39:16 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 632 km (392 miles) Northeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.7 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:55:23 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:40 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 191 km (118 miles) SSW of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:39 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:46:24 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 320 km (198 miles) South of David, Panama...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 21:45:59 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Northeast of Sárti, Greece No Tsuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.6 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:13 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:24:27 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) ESE of Chichi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:21:20 UTC Wednesday 15th February 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) West of Coos ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago*Rated X for language.* There will probably be a lot of “F” BOMBS in this entry – so if that bothers you – pass on by. To start, you need to know that my life has been pretty quiet and pretty anonymous ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Better check the bottom of your shoes!* "NYPD document called for Shi’ite Muslim surveillance; ’06 report singled out mosques for religious beliefs" by Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley, Eileen Sullivan and Ma...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours agoFor the longest time, I have said that Israel did the attacks of 9-11. There should be absolutely no doubt in anyone's minds any more that statement is absolutely fact and has been backed up by a tremend...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Japanese tsunami debris on the open ocean, March 2011. Corbis] Media Contact: Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788 Jack Barth, 541-737-1607 Kathy Higley, 541-737-0675 Jamie Doyle, 541-572-5...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“The Rosette Nebula is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers - but it is the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros, some 5,000 light years awa...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*"I thought, how delightful to discover a nation that cares passionately about the physical environment in which children learn and adults work," Diane Ravitch writes of her visit to one of the schools fea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Then why do I feel like I'm going down?* "Suspect in New York torching charged with murder" December 20, 2011|By Verena Dobnik NEW YORK - A man accused of *spraying gasoline on a 73-year-old woman and s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*“Flashing Ahead of Creation”* by Chet Raymo “When the sugar water in the feeder goes sour, the hummingbirds let us know. They dip their long beaks into the tiny holes, ever so briefly, then - am I imagi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours ago*HUNGRY FOR POWER* *By Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. Feb. 13, 2012. Whites are hardwired for insane power. We learn about these crazy people by watching television, movies,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*Time to home school. * "LA teacher charged with molesting 23 kids" February 01, 2012 LOS ANGELES - A *veteran elementary school teacher* was arrested on *child molestation* charges after a *film processo...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 5 hours agoAcclaimed actor, humanitarian, and American patriot Ed Asner provided further proof on the Alex Jones show on Monday, February 13, that the bad guys in Washington and Tel Aviv are planning to stage a new ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"Newton teacher charged with sexual assault" January 19, 2012|By Travis Andersen A *second-grade teacher* at a Newton school, already accused of participating in a *global child pornography ring*, was arr...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoYour answer may be more important than you think.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago“Quit your addiction to sneer and complaint. Try a little flaunt, Call for comrades who bolster your vim and offer you risk. Corral the crones, Goose the nice nellies, Hunt the bear that hugs and the raven ...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 6 hours agoIn the interests of openness, which is one of my prime watchwords, the following is a submission I made today to Anthony Watt's site, wattsupwiththat.com (which takes a strong "lukewarm greenhouse believer...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoKuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoBilly Joel, “We Didn't Start The Fire” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA
- posted by Rev.Paperboy at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours agoCrossposted from The Woodshed [image: http://www.wikio.com]
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?"* by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts "The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringin...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago*Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?* ------------------------------ February 14, 2012 | Original here The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTO frontera - 7 hours agoPara poner cualquiera de estos mensajes en su muro de facebook, comentarios, foros, blogs, msn, etc., sólo seleccione todo el codigo con su ratón, presione CONTRO C (para copiar) y en su estado o muro pres...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*The paper that is full of love!* "Enough with the hearts and flowers, already" February 11, 2012|Beth Teitell, Globe Staff Oh, Valentine’s Day, *how do we hate thee*? Let us count the ways: In the Back ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"9/11 Cognitive Dissonance: * *Why People Are Afraid of 9/11 Truth"* by WHENDASHTF "Leading Psychologists explain why so many Americans refuse to listen or believe in the overwhelming evidence that the of...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoAre You Looking to Become an SJL in K-12 Education? The Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge College offers a unique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justice ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours ago*Alison* and others are doing a remarkable job with unvarnished notes on China, Harper, and the growing weirdness between our maximum prime minister and the Chinese state. Terry Glavin hits it on the head ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago*Are You Looking to Be an SJL in K-12 Education?* TheEducational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge College offers aunique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justice lead...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoThe Mormon Church, Karl Rove and the cadres of multimillionaires and billionaires-- mostly from the finance sector-- behind Willard Romney's quest for the presidency must be tearing their collective hair ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours agoOccupy Lubbock:Occupiers in conservative Texas cityhave support of mayor, some Tea PartiersBy William John Cox / Truthout / February 14, 2012Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupatio...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours agoPhoto by Vancouver Media Coop*Hacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The hack...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours ago*Looking to Lead Social Justice in K-12 Education?* The Educational Leadership Doctoral Program (ELDP) at Cambridge Collegeoffers a unique degree program for educators pursuing careers as social justicele...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoWith a tip of the hat to Paul Krugman, and leaving out the fairly obvious one of praising Romneycare while bashing ACA... March: Barack Obama’s budget wastes money with crazy space fantasies that only Ne...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours agoNew York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The group was infuriated by Obama's decision. Photo by Seth Wenig / AP.A week of invective:The Catholic bishops, women’s he...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 8 hours ago*Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoAn ancient holy place in Egypt once known as the "Terrace of the Great God" reveals a wealth of new discoveries, from animal mummiesand human remains to a rare wooden statue.
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performed extremely well in 2011 and now engineers at CERN want to crank up the juice through 2012.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago*Umar Patek , or his double, greets prosecutors at a court in Jakarta. Patek is alleged to work for the CIA and is alleged to have helped build the bombs used in the 2002 Bali attacks.* The trial of 'Umar...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoSupplying Gaza with fuel is a complex matter. Various political complications have arisen, and electricity blackouts in Gaza are imminent. Egypt Independent has: ”The Gaza Strip’s sole electricity station...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Inflation: the Economy’s Code Blue”* - Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh “In ordinary parlance, when there is a lot of paper or “fiat” (Latin for “let it be”) money in circulation, prices go up and our dolla...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"How Warren Buffett Looks at Stocks vs. Gold Investing"* by Bill Bonner "Where we part company with Warren Buffet… Here’s the Sage of Omaha, explaining, in "Fortune Magazine," why bonds are dangerous: "I...
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoTired of hurling birds at pigs? Try navigating a virtual high school social scene in this new game.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"I totally share the anger and disdain of this terrific report. We're being sprayed and it's indicative of the systemic insanity being exercised over us..." - Zen Gardner - http://beforeitsnews.com/story/...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe enormous pearly white choppers were probably mostly used to scare off others.
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 11 hours agoBy: Duane Craig In what could be the shape of things to come, the St. Paul, Minn., Metropolitan Council has asked its lawyers to explore legal options against 3M to help it meet new standards related to t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 11 hours agoHow Still My Heart, 1955 17.5 x 24 inches Cabro print 2010 In honor of Valentine's Day (oh, and because there is a mountain of research and tree pictures I have yet to sort through), I'm posting just a fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe head of the eurozone countries has downgraded an eurozone finance ministers meeting on Wednesday, saying Greece has not yet given the necessary assurances about its austerity plan. Ministers, who had...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 18:07:55 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) WSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanua...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoBangkok joins the list of cities playing host to "Iranian" bombings. by Tony Cartalucci Update: Not even 24 hours have passed and "Thai officials" have already determined not only that Bangkok's bomb blas...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Cupid's Lament: Global warming could melt Valentine’s Day favorites. climatenexus.org] Cupid’s Lament Technorati Tags: agriculture,global warming,climate change,Indonesia,Africa,crop failure
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours agoThe push for war with Iran is still proceeding with breakneck speed... The Israelis are now trying their tried and proven ploy of having some of their Embassies, or other Israeli targets, bombed by their o...
- posted by Kate Prengaman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoA massive surge of adrenaline caused by grief or shock can lead to a heart attack.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Costa Rica at a depth of 22.1 km (13.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:08 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) South from SAN JOSE, Costa R...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 11 hours ago*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Last fund-raising pitch before freeway:* Should Americans know the actual history of the Clinton-Gore years? A great deal of that history has been disappeared. Next week, PBS...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours agoRegarding yesterday's "bomb" in India "targeting" the Israeli diplomatic vehicle. I came by this via NiqNaq, who is quoting from the Jerusalem Post. "In the first attack, the wife of an Israeli diplomat wa...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoThere's a bunch of new, good stuff out there speculating about Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and exactly where the GOP race is now. I recommend Steve Kornacki, Ed Kilgore, and Nate Silver. I may have more to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOne of Kenner's Most Wanted fugitives, a LaPlace man accused of firing a gunshot at a car on Interstate 10 on Christmas Eve, was held under $250,000 bond Monday after being arrested in New Jersey and extra...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012 * *Making Ezra Klein dumb:* On Monday, Paul Krugman wrote a column about a very important fact. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/13/12. Krugman’s fact is a *sensitive* fact. On the othe...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoHigh temps are used to arrange gold and palladium atoms on a carbon film.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoJapan's 9.0 earthquake last year lubricated seismic faults and increased the chance that they will give way and rattle the region again.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA former cage-fighter who gunned down two gangland enforcers linked to an IRA drugs gang has been jailed for life. Drugs mule Thomas Haigh, 26, killed David Griffiths and Brett Flournoy on a remote Corni...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoThere is no congressional race anywhere in the country more important than Rob Zerban's contest against Wall Street's favorite politician, Paul Ryan. They look at Ryan and they see the perfect sieve for ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Last fund-raising pitch before freeway:* Should Americans know the actual history of the Clinton-Gore years? A great deal of that history has been disappeared. Next week, PBS...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoUSING RED HERRINGS is a key part of the exercise — in this case, kiddie porn. The way Vic Toews has it, Canada's very existence is threatened by countless hordes of deranged males downloading kiddie porn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA bungling Iranian bomber blew off his own legs when he hurled a grenade at Thai police outside a Bangkok school - which bounced off a tree and then exploded at his feet. A bizarre sequence of explosions...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Creeping Kit Seelyism:* Finally, the New York Times has explained a basic point. How the heck would that Buffett Rule work? Jackie Calmes has the honors: CALMES (2/14/12):...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoThe Keiser Report is the best news reporting you will see of this catastrophic situation anywhere. Today, he interviews, among others, James Kunstler of Clusterfuck! Give it a few moments. You won't regret...
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoIt's pretty good at sports, but will probably be used for industrial tasks.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours agoThe UV light in this bottle kills 99.99 percent of bacteria and viruses in 60 seconds.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoWillie Soon has pointed out a new conflict in between two groups of climate change alarmists. What do they disagree about? One group led by David Roberts of Grist argues that the alarmists should wait f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: The remains of a pan head catfish are seen at the O.C. Fisher Lake, Texas. Entire ecosystems are at risk of being wiped out as lack of rain and 100 degree plus temperatures have dried up lakes, r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAt least six people have died in the besieged Syrian city of Homs after it came under renewed attack by regime forces, according to pro-democracy activists. Rami Abdel Rahman of the London-based Syrian ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Negros - Cebu Region, Philippines at a depth of 50 km (31 miles), the quake hit at 15:40:06 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) Southe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFeb 14 - U.S. carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails through the Strait of Hormuz near the Iranian coast, but an official says this has nothing to do with tensions with Iran.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: A field of withered crops in the Mali’s Kayes region. Drought has ruined food supplies in the Sahel region of Africa, which includes the countries of Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Camero...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 13 hours agoThe video above is of course the much discussed Super Bowl commercial from Chrysler featuring Clint Eastwood titled "Halftime in America" which celebrates manufacturing. The video does not note that Chrys...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agohttp://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146827471/study-1-8-million-dead-people-still-registered-to-vote
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- A man attempting to attack a voting center in the southern town of Crater died Tuesday when the grenade he was handling blew up in his hands, Yemeni security officials said. The uni...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*"The asbestos industry should be served notice that we are coming for them and it would do my heart good to see somebody led away in handcuffs for all the misery that they've caused over the years." Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBaghdad (CNN) -- Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi army general on Tuesday in one of several incidents that left at least four people dead and 28 wounded, according to government officials. Gen. Aziz Hamzah d...
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- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agohttp://www1.rollingstone.com/extras/RS_REPORT.pdf
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agoWhatever code of conduct that may have restrained them in the past has disappeared
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Thailand floods: damaged cars at a Honda plant in central Thailand. Lloyd's of London has taken a $2.2bn hit from the 2011 floods. Apichart Weerawong / AP] By Juliette Garside, www.guardian.co.u...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoTepco is reporting Xenon gas is being detected at Fukushima around reactor 2. Xenon's short half-life makes it a good indicator of fission. http://enenews.com/tepco-press-handout-xenon-detected-reactor-2...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 13 hours agoI served as the Chairman of my Caucus in Belfast and I just called the State office to make sure they had the numbers from Belfast and the number they had wasn't not even close to the actually vote [sic]. ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 13 hours agoI am not an incurable cynic, really, I’m not. I spent much of my teenage and young adult life fawning over imagined and real romances, addicted to love, even if I found it in mostly the wrong places. When...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 13 hours agoBy William K. Black (Cross-posted from Benzinga.com) The fact that only 49 State Attorneys General ("AG") entered into the mortgage fraud foreclosure fraud settlement focused attention briefly on Oklahoma...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours agoI am not against all forms of genetically modified seed. However, I have researched GM seeds that produce Bt, a pesticide, and GM seeds that are "Round-Up ready" enough to know that this path of using g...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 14 hours agoAs ebooks diverge in many different directions we find that we are often still left with the same 'buy to own' business model. We have long argued for ebook rentals not just for libraries, but in general ...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoMeasuring snowfall is advancing beyond simply putting a yardstick down.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 132.4 km (82.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:20:19 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 366 km (228 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 126.1 km (78.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:40 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) ESE of Tacna, Peru No ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoBiased BBC's Alan writes; * * *"Richard Bacon* was on the other day talking about the Queen's 60th Jubilee and Andrew Marr's programme about it .Bacon thought Marr too obsequious and reverential -.what was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:45 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) East of Zakynthos, Greece No Tsu...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoChamtech's aerosol antenna can turns a tree into a powerful transmitter.
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 14 hours agoIn lak' Ech Tú eres mi otro yo. Si te hago daño a ti Me hago daño a mí mismo. Sí te amo y respeto, Me amo y respeto yo. You are my other me. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and r...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 14 hours agoHah! I did laugh at this interview with Ed Balls and his former Girlfriend Stephanie Flanders on today. To be fair to Flanders she did try to be neutral but Balls narrative that "we must go for growth and ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoAnd it's not just any version of Arizona Statehood Day -- it's the centennial. Arizona, b. 1912. Still younger than Ronald Reagan. As I've said, I've always been proud of my native state's contributions to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: (A to F) Ocean Data View (ODV) plots indicating average temporal and spatial distributions of microbial plankton at BATS. The graphs show relative abundance of (A) plastid 16S rRNA genes, (B) Cya...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012* *Part 2—Why hasn’t this fact been reported:* Sabrina Tavernise’s report appeared above the fold on the front page of last Friday’s New York Times. Let's start with some basic...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoI didn’t know the PLA likes Led Zeppelin… Here is part one, where I argued that China reasonably fits the prerequisites for Jack Snyder’s theory from *Myths of Empire*. Here is an application of it to ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoCathie asks, *"Who do they think they are?"* I ask, what are they up to? Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the ...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThis solar powered electric vehicle could log 21,080 miles by the end of the year.
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoBased on comparisons from the Stanford CREDO study of 2009, only 17 percent of charter schoolsnationwide are performing better than matched public schools. Of that 17 percent of higher-scoringcharters, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA common dolphin found stranded but alive Monday in Barnegat Bay died soon after it was removed from the beach, making it the third dolphin death in recent days. Two other dolphins died this weekend, one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe devastating effects of debris on sea lions and seals has been highlighted in a video by fishing authorities in Alaska. Horrific images show the marine animals with their necks tightly bound and cut w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRICHLAND, Wash. – Hanford Nuclear Reservation managers say they have contained a few drips of radioactive condensation found near a waste container. Federal Department of Energy officials say the contamina...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAlabama has been hit with the first U.S. outbreak of a foreign form of the virus that causes the childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease this winter, according to state health officials. T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoThe last time a Democrat won a majority in any of Arkansas' 4 congressional districts was in 2000, when Gore edged out Bush 50-48% in the first CD. It's been straight downhill for national Democrats since...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 16 hours agoLeadership races are tricky beasts to project, due to their insular nature. There are few meaningful polls, the media is being spun in twelve directions, and the air war rarely corresponds to the ground wa...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoHappy Birthday to Andrew Robinson, b. 1942 -- TV's Garak. He's famous, or at least semi-famous, for several roles, but the one that I know well and love is from Deep Space Nine...it's a series not known fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 11.8 km (7.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:08:13 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (60 miles) SSW of Kavalla, Greece No Tsunami...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoPresident's Fiscal 2013 Budget for US Army Corps of Engineers' Civil Works ~Also~President Barack Obama's budget proposal is $3.8 trillion Canadian Judge Forces American Blog Exposing Louisiana Corruption T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDutch military police say that a man they arrested for making a bomb threat at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport was a 40-year-old Russian citizen. Military police spokesman Martijn Peelen is quoted in Wester...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoEarth's first cellular life probably arose in vats of warm, slimy mud fed by volcanically heated steam—and not in primordial oceans, scientists say. The concept, based on the latest cellular and geologic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian military official said Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours ago* The King of Thailand.* On 14 February 2012, explosions hit Bangkok. An attempt has been made to blame Iran. TV reports suggest an Iranian identification card was planted near one of the explosions. Bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off, police and government officials said, but they declined to speculate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - The Greek government rushed on Tuesday to wring out another 325 million euros ($428 million) in budget cuts to satisfy euro zone finance ministers mulling whether to sign off on a rescue packa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoImage: Burning of the EU Flag is becoming a favorite pastime in Countries around Europe. (Reuters) - The European Union is likely to take action against Spain's newly installed government by May for delay...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian government forces attacked opponents of President Bashar al-Assad on several fronts on Tuesday, sending residents fleeing from one town near the capital and bombarding the city of Homs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of France, Britain and Austria and it downgraded six other European nations including Italy, Spain and Portugal, citing growing ris...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An employee at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad was detained at the Peshawar airport in Pakistan on Tuesday after bullets were found in his luggage, police said Authorities found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Moody's cut the credit ratings of six European countries on Monday amid continued anxiety over the continent's debt crisis and its sluggish economy. Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovaki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSyria (CNN) -- Fear and horror paralyzed residents in the Syrian city of Homs Tuesday, with snipers preventing anyone from moving and heavy shelling blasting through the air, opposition activists said. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIran has denied a car bomb attack on an Israeli diplomatic car in India as police hunt a "very-well-trained" assassin. The country has also denied responsibility for a foiled bombing in Georgia, despite ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA veteran cop and married father of three shot himself on his way home from work yesterday, becoming the fourth NYPD police officer to take his own life in less than a month. Highway-safety officer Matthe...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*Scientists have revealed how some cells in the body can resist attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life. HIV attacks the immune system and can weaken the body's defenses to ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 18 hours agoDo you like Valentine's Day? Do you celebrate it or avoid it? Do you celebrate it *and* avoid it? Tell us why. Three reasons, please. I don't do Valentine's Day. Here's why. 1. I don't like being told whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA freshman at Columbine High School, the setting for one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, has been accused of attacking two students with a hammer. She warned a school employee of the att...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoRemnants of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami are headed for the California shoreline - 25million tons of it. The 9.0-magnitude earthquake that struck coastal towns near Sendai on March 11, 2011...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA fish which has used a 'natural antifreeze' to thrive in the Antarctic for millions of years is under threat, scientists say. The 'antifreeze' glycoproteins in notothenioid fish - known as icefish - ena...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe strict father who became a YouTube phenomenon when he turned a gun on his foul-mouthed daughter's laptop is standing by his actions, and he has a message for his critics. The 8-minute clip on the vid...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours agoAccording to doctors in the US injure caused by a heart attack has been healed with stem cells gathered from the patient's own heart. *This test, at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, was intended to test...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA paedophile firearms officer raped an eight-year-old girl and carried out violent attacks on a series of former girlfriends. Jonathan White, 41, who worked for South Yorkshire Police,was a firearms supp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAs speculation surrounding music legend Whitney Houston's death grows, Nancy Grace insists there may be a more sinister plot in play. The TV hostess and legal commentator appeared on CNN this afternoon to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 45.4 km (28.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:48:22 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 291 km (181 miles) E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe husband suspected of killing his spouse during an Australian honeymoon scuba diving trip to get insurance money arrived at court today with his new wife as jury selection for his U.S. trial began. Ga...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 18 hours ago*In the opinion of BAE Systems torches, drones and an electric Le Mans racing car are all test beds for a new kind of structural battery. The company discovered that it had constructed a torch and a smal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA desperate Spanish village has turned back time and reintroduced the peseta in a bid to kick-start its ailing local economy. Residents in Villamayor de Santiago, 80 miles south-east of Madrid, initially...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAbu Qatada is a long-term threat to the UK, former security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones said today. She said of the Islamist extremist: 'He's unlikely to be much of a risk at the moment under...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA man was found 'frozen to death' inside his tent after going on an overnight fishing trip in sub-zero temperatures. While Britain braced itself for an almost-nationwide blanket of snow on Saturday, Febr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo explosions have rocked a busy neighbourhood in the Thai capital Bangkok, police said. A picture posted on Twitter purportedly showed a wounded man laying on a sidewalk outside a Thai school. Several...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours ago*President Barack Obama's 2013 budget request for NASA would slash spending on Mars exploration and shift funds to human spaceflight and space technology.* In 2014, while the budget is flat, the agency n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWhen poor nations become richer, their appetite for natural resources grows. Sustainability experts say policymakers meeting in Rio de Janiero this year need to think about just how much growth Earth can ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoYuliana can’t remember the last time she had a proper sit-down meal during her lunch break at the North Jakarta garment factory where she works. The 30-year-old mother of one said she simply doesn’t have ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoArmed police patrolled on January 31,2012, in a Tibetan area of Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province. Photo: AP Officials in the Tibet Autonomous Region have been ordered to recognize the "grave situation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFeb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s credit rating was downgraded by Standard & Poor’s, which cited a plunge in the country’s foreign reserves and persistent political instability. S&P lowered the ratings on l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and her Russian counterpart Sergei Victorovich Lavrov agreed to promote bilateral relations in diverse fields including trade, energy, and people-to-people con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDo you think that the calendars you get given by your aunt each christmas are just full of kitsch and clichés? They’re probably not as bad as this one: the Lycee de Kimolos on the Greek island group of Cyc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGreeks are stepping up their anti-German rhetoric, in part by increasingly comparing modern day Germans to Nazis, according to Germans who have lived many years in Greece and reports by Greek newspapers. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSome herald it as the cure for terrorism, others deride it as mindless video game warfare, but few doubt that the American era of drone warfare has arrived. From short range surveillance craft like the Ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Baja California, Mexico at a depth of 31.1 km (19.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:09:28 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) SSW from Guada...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMANILA - A recently concluded three-day port call by three Russian warships in Manila has sparked speculation that Moscow may be angling to wade into the intensifying Spratly Islands dispute in the South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Kalashnikov in Iraq, until recently, sold for US$100. Now it's at least $1,000, and most probably $1,500 (those were the days when Sunnis joining the resistance in 2003 could buy a fake Kalashnikov made...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 19 hours agoAh, Valentine's Day. I'll go ahead and link my 2008 rant, 'The Death of Twue Wove,' a.ka. 'The Grinch Who Shanked Cupid,' since I can't really top it. (Sorry for the dated political references.)However, ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn the tantrums thrown by the Western powers in the wake of the Russo-Chinese veto of their UN Security Council resolution on Syria, the US’s UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, expressed «disgust» at these two st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTHE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said the US is preparing the Philippine Navy as its “frontline force” against China in connection with the brewing conflict over the Spratly Islands. “The tra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRussia is reported to be negotiating sales of its Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile system to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani news agency APA said that Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are all in negotiat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul by a 39 percent to 36 perc...
- Link: http://youtu.be/6szIi40upf0 *Moody just downgraded* several European countries (again). Who is in charge in those countries? Why is the (poor) police fighting the (likewise poor) demonstrators, thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoUK aid to India was never about helping the needy; it was always about buying influence, post-colonial arrogance and misplaced condescension. Now it transpires, it is also about Britain’s traditional penc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRussia has launched a $1.5 billion project to create a high-energy superlaser site which designers pledge will be the best in the world. Capable of igniting nuclear fusion, the facility will be used both ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGet out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes...we're going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese situation is this: The bubble burst in 1990. But rather tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTotal should not sign oil deals with the Kurdistan region without Iraq’s approval, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Sunday, warning the French major would bear the “full con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA new report by Global Witness, an international non-governmental organisation, has warned of a high risk of corruption in natural resource contracts in Nigeria and Angola. The report, titled 'Rigged: Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMANHATTAN (CN) - A group of Ecuadorians have taken the offensive against a Hague arbitration panel that they claim will meet in secret, without transparency or accountability, this weekend to determine th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Kim Jong Eun regime was launched in a flurry of activity following the sudden death of Kim Jong Il. It is led by a collective, not by Kim Jong Eun. This is the opinion of many. The problem is the char...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGoogle has begun a $120million project at its California headquarters to build a major new test facility. The new facility, which is already under construction, will include buildings that are screened ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn a meeting with potential publishers, Knox was said to be self-assured and intelligent, quoting her favourite novels and describing her dreams of becoming a writer as she promised to deliver the truth a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAmerican billionaire George Soros slammed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview published on Sunday, warning that her policies could lead to a repeat of the Great Depression. "I admire Chancell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe public President Obama, bubbly in his reelection campaigning about a recovering U.S. economy, isn’t as optimistic in private, telling a select few that it will likely take up to two years for any reco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNEW YORK (AP) - Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games. But in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoApple has granted access to several controversial factories in China to a charity that campaigns to end “sweat shop” conditions. The technology giant, which has faced criticism over working conditions at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA total of 63 sailors tested positive for illegal substances between October 2007 and July 2011. That is more than the number who typically serve aboard one of the navy's minesweepers. Of these, 29 were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard. In a case with echoes of the Fritzl family horror in Austria, Ondrej Mauerova was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreece's plight has alerted the world to the way the EU extinguishes democracy. It is peculiarly appropriate that the country that gave the world the words “democracy” and “tragedy” should now be the be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secured better terms than shattered Greece last week. The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe 80,000 Greeks that came out in Athens yesterday to protest the latest round of bailout austerity imposed by EU-ECB-IMF troika can shout all they want. They can even express their disgust at the pollin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLibya’s interim authorities have ramped up security precautions ahead of the anniversary of the country’s revolution after threats of a counter-revolution by the former leader’s exiled son. Saadi Gaddaf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran has built up its naval forces in the Gulf and prepared boats that could be used in suicide attacks, but the U.S. Navy can prevent it from blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of U...
- link: http://youtu.be/vIizHlUMZMg -- song text here. More about the astrophysicist and song writer Dr. Brian May at the QueenZone website. John
- posted by Stephanie Carvin at The Duck of Minerva - 21 hours agoBlue moon, you targeted me standing alone...Yesterday Charli wrote a poston whether or not those opposed to the use of drones should use the concept of “atrocity law” instead of “war crimes” or human rights...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOn Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer doubled down on an assertion he made last week about the inevitability of an Israeli strike on Iran to l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California this afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This moderate-sized temblor was located close to the state's border with Oregon and close to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 66.4 km (41.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:06:08 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) Southe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck offshore Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 06:52:35 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5 miles) Northwest of Verac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 90.9 km (56.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:02 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) Northeast of Los ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 08:19:58 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) West of Kira Kira, Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:58 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) ESE ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 hours ago*A Message To The Mining and Energy Companies In South America* *By Anonymous/Operation Green Rights* *Feb 2012* We want to express our condemnation for the Norte Energia‘s project on the Belo Monte’s da...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoJewish centres, and Jewish tourists, have become linked to terrorism in India. The 'CIA-linked' planner of the 2008 Mumbai terror was David Headley. Headley, whose mother allegedly has Jewish links, visi...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoWith all the expected footdragging, Chinais beginning to accept pluralistic democratic principles at the first rungs ofauthority. Political reform in China needs tobe done thusly in what I like to call...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoI actually have little hope thatSETI will accomplish anything. Myreasoning is that a civilization makes radio noise for only a brief period oftime after which it shuts down. So notonly are we looking...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoMaybe or maybe not. The problem is that recovered fluids need tobe handled, and this means recycling were possible and reinjection into anotherformation able to absorb the water. Generally, this is no...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoFirst of all, the Brown lightsare important because they are continuously repeated. This is not intelligent activity. It isnatural bobbing and weaving in the presence of high altitude air streams. Ai...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours ago*Pollution* The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. *The Pollution Preventio...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoOn tour in Europe, France Jan 2012, Pura Fe with John Trudell. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 23 hours ago*FUCK ISRAHELL! Do they think we are all stupid? I hope and pray the Iranian leadership lose the plot and attack the filthy tribe of child-molesters in occupied Palestine and BAM! That would put and end t...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 23 hours ago*CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON:* *SUPPORT NICK DREIGER:* Nick Dreiger is a shop steward for the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers ( CUPW) in Edmonton Alberta and an organizer for the IWW. He was recently f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 42.4 km (26.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:20 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) SSE fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree children of a local pastor who had been sick were found dead at home Saturday after their father chose prayer over medical intervention, police said. A relative found the bodies of the children, ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPortions of this article are adapted from The Violence All Around, forthcoming from Harvard University Press. It was ten years ago this month, on February 4, 2002, that the CIA first used an unmanned Pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the generation of baby boomers born between 1959 and 1963 begin to retire en masse, the number of credit delinquents in their 50s or older is also growing. According to the Credit Counseling and Recove...
- 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 agoWe have been opposing the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) ever since it was conceived in the mid-1980s. The people of Koodankulam village themselves were misled by false promises such as 10,000 j...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON — Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is muddling along. So far so good. The instinct for survival shared by the Kim family and the dynastic element of the key leadership is keeping things in check. But ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe hunt for gold in northern Nigeria has left 400 children dead of lead poisoning and many more ill in the past two years, a human rights organization says. Human Rights Watch said in a release Tuesday ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Friday it would raise concerns about trade, human rights and Syria during a closely watched visit by China's likely next leader next week, despite hopes to improv...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoChief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman has said that the PAF has already updated its war fighting strategy to effectively counter Indian Cold War doctrine. Read More
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThere are two Patrick Murphys getting attention lately. The "new" one is a rich Republican who switched his party registration, tried to erase his contributions to Mitt Romney, George Bush and Charlie Cri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern East Pacific Rise at a depth of 13.4 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:12:23 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 2987 km (1856 miles) SSE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.3 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:47 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (52 miles) ESE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 131.7 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:15:38 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) ESE of Tacna, Peru No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 16.7 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:34:41 UTC Tuesday 14th February 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) SSW of Kavalla, Greece No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:07:09 UTC Monday 13th February 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoFor the last few years, I had been putting up reports about how the criminal war in Afghanistan was lost, and that we all should have been demanding an immediate withdrawal of all NATO and US forces immedi...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoWith all of the Jewish controlled media over the last while focusing the dumbed down American public on trivial matters such as the Super Bowl, there has been little attention given to the recent passage ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"It is what it is, and it was what it was. Don’t fret the could-haves because if it should-have, it would-have." - Unknown
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoHere is a conversation of interestthat took place at Enenews on this thread http://enenews.com/reporter-asks-tepco-caused-device-break-nuclear-experts-doubt-foregone-conclusion-instrument-failure When Bl...
- posted by Megan H. MacKenzie at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoimage taken from Jezebel.com This Sunday the 2012 Grammy Awards attracted more attention than normal due to the untimely passing of Whitney Houston on the eve of the awards show. During the Sunday night ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoProduced and performed by PoorDaddy and Or-Well from Enenews.com Video available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfCiy5ly6s
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoAlan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue" *"Ammonia Avenue" Lyrics:* "Is there no sign of light as we stand in the darkness, Watching the sun arise? Is there no sign of life as we gaze at the waters, Into the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A road overgrown by weeds sits inside the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan, September 2011. Stuart Biggs / Bloomberg] BERLIN, 13 Febru...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoAlan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue"
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Plus: How much damn energy does your damn brain need anyways?* from HuffPost Crime *by Ken* Yeah, sure, we all know that guns don't kill, *people* kill. But we also know that guns make the job a wh...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoSatire or reality? Truth or fiction? You decide. (Al-Qaeda's HQ)---Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri praised President Barack Obama and his administration's policy to oust the hated dictator of Syria, Pres...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 1 day ago*"How do we help students and teachers to stop blaming ourselves and each other and start working together to change the system?" — CEJ Student Activist * [image: Labor/civil rights leader and author Bill...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago2002 (Pamela & Randy Copus), “Stardust” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgdp7RfBOM&feature=related
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new computer simulation -- based on real data -- has been created to reveal how dark matter might be distributed around, and beyond, the galaxies.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“A remarkable telescopic composition in yellow and blue, this scene features a trio of interacting galaxies almost 90 million light-years away, toward the constellation Virgo. On the left, two, spiky, fore...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* “Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a * *Warning About Our Own Health”* by Jill Richardson “It's often said that we have bees to thank for one out of every three bites we take of food. In addition to producing ...
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