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- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 9 minutes ago
*[A]* *[B]* *[C]* *[D]* (Apologies for the surface noise in *[A]*, which you'll no doubt realize comes from an LP.) *by Ken* This week we're finishing up the series we began last week of "Impressions ... - posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 35 minutes agoCello/sci-fi/heavy-metal nerds, all my favorites rolled into one.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 46 minutes agoMexico's president called on U.S. officials to stop gun trafficking across the border Thursday, saying the move would be the best thing Americans could do to stop brutal drug violence. "The criminals have...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 56 minutes agoHaven't heard this new Bruce Springstein album yet and the reviewer is bit hyperbolic but the quotes from the Boss are good. "A big promise has been broken. You can't have a United States if you are tell...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 57 minutes ago*Let's start at the top, shall we?* "Mild winter in Lower 48 is harsh elsewhere" February 02, 2012|Associated Press WASHINGTON - Snow has gone missing in action for much of the United States the last cou...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago
*CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN* *TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings* *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* TUCSON -- A high school student who addressed the school board this Tuesday about the Tucson... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Below the Surface: Finding Deep Strength"* by The DailyOm "When we look back on our lives we see that we have survived many trials and often to our own amazement. We have all faced moments in our lives ...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 1 hour agoMOSSAD at it again? This time destroying WHOLE countries, including JAPAN? The use of nukes to cause earthquakes or Tsunamis was researched way back in 1940's. This is old science given a new 21st Century...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Marijuana in car gift-wrapped, police say COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho - A Washington state man faces felony marijuana trafficking charges after an officer found 3.3 pounds of marijuana wrapped up as Ch...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Indiana governor signs right to work into law; Law prohibits mandatory union fees" by Monica Davey | new york times, February 02, 2012 Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who had once said that he did not w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Malnourished Wis. girl abused for years" by Associated Press | February 16, 2012 MILWAUKEE — A severely malnourished Wisconsin teenager found walking barefoot in pajamas outside in the cold last week h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoVangelis, "Hymn" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7fnZ-AQNE&feature=fvwrel
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoIn case you haven't done so already, you'll want to read Dr. Dawg on the Vic Toews phony scandal, internet surveillance, and the mind-boggling hypocrisy of the both the Conservatives and the mainstream med...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody," George Vecsey writes. "It was easy to joke about that. The best hug of all was with Jesse Orosco at the end of the 1986 World Series."* *"Up close, Carter w... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Who said they could?* "Risking union ire, Romney slams Santorum’s labor votes" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff, February 17, 2012 Mitt Romney is taking an antiunion stance in Michigan, attacking Rick...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Santorum’s bid fueled by 2 wealthy contributors" February 09, 2012|By Shira Schoenberg Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum’s super PAC is funded almost entirely by two men: Foster Friess and John Templeto...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*And Mitt stepped in s***! * "Protesters rally against Romney at dog show NEW YORK - About a dozen demonstrators - with a few pooches - rallied against Mitt Romney yesterday outside the Westminster Kennel...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours ago
...get them away from the computer. Because what follows is so incredibly no more suitable for young, innocent eyes than it's work safe. Because JP just got over his seemingly years-long, terminal case of... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Obama fund-raising tapping the 1 percent SAN FRANCISCO - President *Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent* and *raising campaign cash among the 1 percent*, walking an *election-y...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours agoMitt Romney wins Maine caucuses Click to continue reading this article or to log in to BostonGlobe.com. *What do you mean* "Page not found. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Here are a few suggestions t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoRainy Friday night here and my belly is full of Indian food. Finally. Been craving it forever and can't get it in the little city. Been such an ugly couple of days in politics. Don't feel like blogging abo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*So that is the smell coming from my paper!* "Life sentence for ’09 attempt to bomb airliner; Nigerian man pleaded guilty to plot, Qaeda ties" by Nick Bunkley | New York Times, February 17, 2012 DETROI...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 4 hours agoMemorial Service
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Now you know why tuition rates are skyrocketing, kids. * "A pricey - and familiar - perk for new UMass head; Year’s sabbatical after 5 on the job" February 04, 2012| By Todd Wallack and Mary Carmichael, ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoWatch the video, focusing on the smaller frame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVN6ekM9qwI&feature=plcp&context=C3acdaaeUDOEgsToPDskKawp5N59zmg8xKI_qb-saO
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 5 hours agoAnd more, of course there is more! Isn't there always? First the ships in the Mediterranean- This is eerily reminiscent of a story from last year- which originated in Israel, and seemed quite bogus at that...
- posted by Phila at Bouphonia - 5 hours agoThe Obama administration will no longer defend the constitutionality of denying veterans' benefits to same-sex couples: The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couple...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“Are the nearest galaxies distributed randomly? A plot of over one million of the brightest "extended sources" detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) shows that they are not. The vast majority o...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 5 hours agoFor some bizarre reason, the Wilbert Smith documents have gained new life and I’m not sure why. Smith was a Canadian radio engineer who worked with, or for the government and was well thought of. He was, f...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours agoLost the link, but read this morning both Texas and Pennsylvania primaries are being pushed back until probably May or June because it will take that long for the courts to decide if their convoluted redis...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoRegina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Tuning In"* by Chet Raymo "I have mentioned here before my friend and neighbor Dwight, he of the preternatural powers of observation. To walk with Dwight is to realize that I go through life half blind...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoA commenter asks: A lot of people think that the Republican Party is heading towards irrelevancy demographically because of its increasing trend to the right unless there's some kind of significant change...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*In-your-face on the front page*: "He’s become sort of a global figure and a global star.... somewhat of a cult figure.... It’s all been a blur.... *That's what happens when you don't read the article.* ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*I can already here the screaming out there for my appropriation of the word for this porpoise*: "Dolphin strandings remain a mystery; Creatures are dying on the Cape in huge numbers" by Brian MacQuarri...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"8 Reasons Why You Act Against * *Your Own Better Judgment"* by Mark Sisson "We all make poor choices against our better judgment. It’s kind of what makes us human – the tendency to actively and willfull...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours agoRemember when the Bush/Cheney people threw all the Clinton holdovers out of the government? I do. You gotta love those Dims, don't you? And have any of you been wondering about anyone's (not sitting on a h...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"MIT president Susan Hockfield to step down" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff, February 16, 2012 Susan Hockfield, who as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has launched major effor...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoTN asks: Do you have any idea what the GOP is thinking by going all-out on this war against contraception? I can't imagine what possible political benefit it could have. They might as well campaign in fav...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am." - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adve...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Emotional start for trial in deaths of 4; Two men charged in Mattapan killings" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff, February 17, 2012 The trial of two men accused of executing four people on a Mattapan str...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo German fighter jets F-4 Phantom were sent to the sky over Baltic Sea to escort of Russian bombers. “Today in the morning two German fighter jets, part of the NATO Air Policing mission (deployed in Siau...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoFirst, here's how their war on regulations *isn't* toxic, just annoying. Have you ever been on the phone-- or in the middle of something important-- when you've been interrupted by a robocall? I signed up...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoGreat new video from Navajo, Hopi, and Indigenous youths telling their own stories, with Native youth mentors describing video making in Flagstaff, Ariz. http://youtu.be/F2F85d7iGX8 Outta Your Backpac...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Alan comments; "Mark Mardell suspects Pat Buchannan of being *a racist *based on some quotes from his book...some of which are reproduced below....though they seem nothing that you ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoI tend to agree with *pogge*. There is nothing that has been posted on Twitter about Vic Toews that wasn't already a matter of public record. His demand for an investigation, (and the releasing of the Harp...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 7 hours agoTeen Daughter is ill (a cold, with the aches and fevers and headache and all that goes along with it) so she is curled up on the futon for our favorite family cure: the movie marathon. Unfortunately we did...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHeavy snow has claimed the lives of 103 this winter, topping the 100 mark for the seventh time since the end of World War II, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency stated on Feb. 16. While high, the nu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoABIRA, Hokkaido -- A Japan Freight Railway Co. (JR Freight) train derailed and crashed into the wall of a snow shelter here after failing to stop at a red light on Feb. 16. The crash happened at JR Higas...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago(Updated below) Matthew Carroll-Schmidt asks: Do we have any idea what the real delegate count is right now? Excellent question! There are basically two flavors of delegate counts out there right now. On...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- A sodium detector at Japan's prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju went out of order, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Thursday. But neither sodium leakage nor d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- Italian authorities on Friday arrested eight people in possession of an estimated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. Treasury bonds, according to Italian paramilitary police and an Italian news agen...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago***Thais* There is a plot to break up Thailand. *Reportedly the plan is make the Patani region, in the south of Thailand, a separate Moslem state. * *This Moslem state would be like Kosovo - 'a Moslem Maf...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 8 hours ago*John Baird and the Ottawa Citizen seem to want a 'probe' to determine the source of @Vikileaks30. Probe what? ... the republishing of documents from the public record??* *-Ottawa Citizen seems to be a b...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 8 hours agoFBI's nation-wide stable of patsies can be switched "live" at any moment. by Tony Cartalucci February 18. 2012 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has once again proven that the only thing America...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe FBI has confirmed the arrest Friday of a man suspected of plotting a suicide attack against the U.S. Capitol, which was first reported by Fox News. The unidentified man was arrested after a lengthy und...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoFine, have it *your way, Vic*. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will request a parliamentary investigation into a Twitter account that's being used to post his personal information and is linked to an IP ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoVolunteers are drafted in to repair extensive damage to the UK-based component of the LOFAR array.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoFeb 17 2012 p. A3 "Workers in technical fields ranging from architecture to software design account for 4.9% of the labor force in 2010, according to a new analysis of Census data being released on Friday...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*Priorities*, don'tcha know? - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Weekly News Wrap-Up 2.17.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The big story is the continued threat of World War III in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, this week, sanc...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 8 hours agoSo the government which used the *private* medical records of Vets activist Sean Bruyea and Vets Review Board member Harold Leduc to smear them, and the *private* government correspondence of diplomat Rich...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute gives RT's Marina Portnaya his predictions for the headlines of tomorrow. OWS movement, US presidential elections, economic embargo on Iran ar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago* “The Role of Youth Unemployment* * in Staving Off Default”* By Bill Bonner "The headlines still focus on Greece. It is broke. Here is Lucas Papademos, describing what an orderly default would mean. In t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 9 hours agoThe world is now teetering on the edge of madness, where the criminal terrorist state of Israel along with their slave puppets in the United States and NATO, are now rushing headlong into a confrontation w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fOaCemmsnNk “5 Minutes of TRUTH That Got Judge Napolitano Fired from Fox News”
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 9 hours agoWhile I have been focused here lately on incompetence in modern climate science (and in modern science generally), it needs to be emphasized that scholars throughout history have been thoroughly misguided ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoAn oldie but goody. Daniel D. asks: Does the weakness of the Republican presidential field have anything to do with Obama's strength as an opposing candidate? Were younger guys who would've been stronger ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Moochers Against Welfare”* By Paul Krugman “First, Atlas shrugged. Then he scratched his head in puzzlement. Modern Republicans are very, very conservative; you might even (if you were Mitt Romney) say...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoNavajos protest Peabody to protect homelands in Navajo capitol of Window Rock, Ariz. Photo Sierra Club.*Navajo and Environmental Organizations Partner to Appeal Peabody’s Kayenta Coal Permit* *Appeal aims ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoThen: Cyrus The Great freed the Jews. Now: Jewish pharaohs, with a state of their own, want to enslave his descendants. The Jews and modern day Romans in Washington want to wage war against Persia. Why ...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoBetween concrete-clad South Korea and deforested North Korea, the demilitarized zone (DMZ) stands in sharp relief as a verdant refuge for rare plants and animals.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours agoWould you go to the zoo to see a cloned wooly mammoth? Zoos are trying to figure out the future of their industry, and the ideas are big.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoA Biased BBC reader draws our attention to some interesting information concerning one of our ..ahem..favourite BBC propagandists.... "For further analysis of how the BBC’s environment correspondent Richa...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoAw, look who DM'd Owen Jones after his Question Time appearance last night: What do you suppose she said? "You were awesome. We love you in the newsroom." "Agreed that left ideas don't get enough hearin...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoDid you know that the BBC doesn't think that Jerusalem is in Israel? Check out this excellent post over on The Elder of Ziyon. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 10 hours agoA new Open Thread for you to take us off into the blue yonder of the weekend! ENJOY. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoBryan asks: I'm working through Polsby's How Congress Evolves, which details how liberal Democrats overcame the conservative coalition in the House. In the course of doing so, the House reforms seem to ha...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoOnly the BBC would dare to present Gordon Brown as some sort of model politician, not on the make, in any way. As B-BBC Alan points out; "Evan Davis stands guard over *the corpse of Gordon Brown's dignity...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago*Jymn at LFR* has some stuff up on the Vikileaks30 twitter feed, the one that is sticking lines from Vic Toews divorce files on the interwebs. The posts are apparently sourced to House of Commons IP. I'...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 11 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Washington state is moving ahead with thecleanup of hundreds of parcels of land in Everett, where smelter operationsmore than 100 years ago contaminated the soil with arsenic, according ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLong before he ever reared his head as a politician, *DWT* came across dirty FBI agent/crime figure, "Mikey Suits" as part of our investigation into organized crime figure "Gus" Kontogiannis and Duke Cun...
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoSingers need to train their vocal chords just like athletes train; but even the fittest singers strain with age.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoTwo linguists aim to save endangered languages using digital multimedia and the Internet.
- posted by Saladin at A Voice In The Wilderness - 11 hours ago*Strike The Root* [image: Photobucket] by JGVibes. Although the common perception of human nature is very negative, the truth is that most people who aren’t mentally ill have a very difficult time comm...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoA Biased BBC reader notes; "I heard this story on Radio 1's Newsbeat last night, they were trying to claim that in the US 1 in 10 young people have been physically attacked in a relationship but then fou...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoBiased BBC's Alan reports.... "The BBC trumpets on its frontpage a Greek tragedy for Greece's historical artifacts.....*'Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a museum in Ancient Olympia -...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAbout 66 percent of people surveyed suffer from nomophobia, or "no mobile phone phobia."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoParo the seal robot is being offered to people made homeless by the disaster.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:52:22 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 714 km (442.6 miles) Northwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Jan Mayen Island Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:45 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 724 km (448.8 miles) Northwest o...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Climate science: What is more likely? A massive conspiracy with 90 percent of the global scientific community creating a hoax to ruin the world economy, or oil companies spending obscene profits ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 11 hours ago*This review for Wuthering Heights is full of spoilers, but I would surprised if you don't already know the story. * It took me a long time to read Wuthering Heights. I have seen so many different versi...
- posted by Trace Dominguez at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoScientists' strange sexual tendencies, the dark history of Valentine's Day and mysterious sounds. Time for This Week in Discovery News!
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoCommercial aircrafts are usually piloted by two men and it is so for a good reason. On Wednesday, captain Mr Jaroslav Váňa (58), a great and beloved pilot and a lover of his old Škoda 120 car, almost co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA member of the Dutch royal family was severely injured in an avalanche at an Austrian ski resort Friday, local authorities told CNN. Prince Johan Friso, 43, a son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 * *Expanding what Ezra Klein said:* Everybody has said it—once. Back in 2006, Ezra Klein sketched the remarkable history of the 2000 campaign for the White House. On its face, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago[image: Link] Space scientists have caught a delayed glimpse of a cosmic blast that dazzled observers when it was seen from Earth more than 150 years ago. Astronomers are trying to unravel the mystery of ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 12 hours ago------------------------------ http://youtu.be/nQolgjRoHW4 *Judge Napolitano's Last Freedom Watch 2/13/2012* Uploaded by littletammy20 on Feb 14, 2012 I will miss him I hope another network picks him up...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:25 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) West of Lumaring...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoGreat graphic that aptly demonstrates the revolving door in action at one of the most ruthless American corporations Monsanto Employees in the Halls of Government By Jeremy Bloom, Red Green and Blue 16 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:28:20 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 6.3 km (3.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:39 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoCharlie asks: Is there anyone who analyzes where the MONEY in the primary season is being spent? TV? local parties? local consultants? Who is benefiting from an extended primary? Great question, but I on...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoCharlie asks: Is there anyone who analyzes where the MONEY in the primary season is being spent? TV? local parties? local consultants? Who is benefiting from an extended primary? Great question, but I on...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012 * *Who does Obama’s accommodation accommodate:* Our public discourse rarely makes sense. Often, twists and turns in the public discourse seem to happen by magic. For ourselves...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoBPA's Obesity And Diabetes Link Strengthened By New Study. The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/bpa-chemical-hormone-obesity-diabetes_n_1276996.html?ref=daily-brief?utm_source=Dail...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoNew Poor Grows From Greek Middle Class By Johannes Korge and Ferry Batzoglou, Der Spiegel 17 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/355-europe/10011-new-poor-grows-from-greek-middle-c...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 12 hours ago*Had public outrage not raised the red flag on Vic Toew's internet security Bill, Canadian freedom, as we understand it, would have taken a serious body blow. The Conservatives tried to sneak this intrusi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 98.8 km (61.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:46 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (93 miles) North of Calama, Antofa...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoChinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a day before to heading to Damascus to push for an end to the conflict there. China and ...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoThe app features interviews, music and concerts performed by artists in NPR studios.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 13 hours agoA while ago in the theater, I saw a preview for "The Hunger Games", a truly creepy movie that will likely become a doomer porn classic. It's so presciently malevolent that I may not be able to stand to w...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoFurther to the saga of dumping Rogers, this morning I ordered internet service through TekSavvy. (I had already called for information on how to switch and called Rogers to cancel my service.) The cus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFlags will be lowered in New Jersey Saturday, the day of Whitney Houston’s funeral. But a Marine mom in Arlington says it’s an honor Houston doesn’t deserve. When Phyllis McGeath heard Gov. Chris Christ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012* *If you don’t like the tax code, just wait:* If you don’t like the tax code, just wait! At one time, this bromide concerned New England’s famously changeable weather. Now, it...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Ohio electric generation, by fuel, 2001-2011. EIA] By Valerie Volcovici 24 January 2012 NEW YORK – U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will be 7 percent lower than their 2005 level of nearly 6 bi...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoOne bright spot in an otherwise dismal news cycle yesterday was the announcement that Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC. He blamed the vast left conspiracy, specifically Color of Change and Media Matters....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: M4 motorway near Swansea. walesonline.co.uk] By Claire Miller 14 February 2012 CAR use in Wales has decreased dramatically since the start of the economic crisis in 2007, latest figures show. T...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Units five and six of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station are seen through a bus window in Futaba, Japan Saturday, 12 November 2011. David Guttenfelder / AP] By arevamirpal::laprimaver...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology logo] By Sou from Bundangawoolaran 7 February 2012 Today the Bureau of Meteorology issued a Special Climate Statement: Australia's wettest two year p...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 14 hours agoI'm pleased to announce that I've signed with Career Press to publish my new book, tentatively titled *Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Fired, or S...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012* *Part 4—It’s time for the royals to act:* Are black kids doing better in school? How about Hispanic kids? Low-income students? Very poor children in very poor neighborhoods? H...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoWaste becomes psychedelic public art.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoAn 'invisibility cloak' of rubber bumpers can send ground vibrations around buildings, keeping them intact.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoYou don't need sources inside Apple to have a decent idea of what the next iPad will be like.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoMardi Gras hangover remedies (trust us, you'll need them!) ~At Right: Hugemendous Editilla Crush, Actress and New Orleans native Patrica Clarkson was the honorary Muse as she rides in a giant shoe down St....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoWell, it's Friday, and it's raining here, and my solution: Question Day! You ask 'em, I'll answer. Leave your questions in comments below, or tweet them or email them, and I'll give it my best shot. In th...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoLast night the king of hackneyed superlatives, Arne Duncan, was on Jon Stewart's show demonstrating once again that there is an Orwellian platitude for every serious question, a punishing lie inside every ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoTwo of the Wisconsin legislature's best members-- one from the Assembly, Mark Pocan, and one from the Senate, Chris Larson-- have teamed up to pull back the curtains of one of America's most insidious and...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Roger Craig. He's 82. When I was little, the Giants were a great team, and my memory stretches back to the end of that era, but my real memories of being a Giants fan was 1972-1985, when ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoLike many Canadian activists, I am currently being bombarded with emails from Leadnow and Avaaz, pushing their "Cooperate for Canada" campaign. We are being urged to join the political party of our choice,...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoTechnically, "because I didn't have observational data." Working with experimental data requires only calculating means and reading a table. Also, this may be the most condescending comic strip about statis...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoArchbishop Desmond Tutu and seven other Nobel laureates have written British prime minister David Cameron warning that Athabasca Tar Sands bitumen "*threatens the health of the planet." *The group is ur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Capital flight, soaring borrowing costs, tanking currency and stocks and a central bank forced to pump vast amounts of cash into local banks -- that is what Japan may have to contend with if i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Angela Merkel's hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Optimism grew on Friday that Greece has finally done enough to secure a second bailout despite worsening relations with Germany, but doubts remained over lenders' demands for tighter supervisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- An explosion killed five people and injured several others in Pakistan's tribal region on Friday, a senior government official told CNN. Authorities were still trying to dete...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAnthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting from Iraq, died Thursday while reporting in eastern Syria, apparently of an asthma attack, The New York Times said. He was 43. The newspaper...
- After considering this contribution several weeks I believe the time has come to present the German psychologist, text-writer and comedian *Georg Schramm*. He belongs to the few excellent German 'kabarett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTrips of a lifetime for thousands of holidaymakers have been wrecked after the collapse of an international budget airline. At least 4,000 passengers are stranded and sleeping on airport floors because A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe parents of an eight-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin's Lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to denying him medical tr...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe odds of living a long life are much lower than previously thought.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDavid Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy will today unveil plans for Britain and France to dramatically step up defence and nuclear co-operation with a new pilotless fighter jet. The two leaders will use a summ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Venus Express spacecraft has peered through the crushing and poisonous atmosphere of the planet, and found that it's spinning slower than expected. Using the orbiter's VIRTIS spectrograph at infrared ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe editor of a leading science journal has said that it is hi duty to publish details of controversial research into a mutant H5N1 bird flu virus. Far deadlier than normal flu, the H5N1 strain kills roug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe West is losing the heroin war in Afghanistan – ten years after Tony Blair pledged that wiping out the drug was one of the main reasons for invading the country. Despite spending £18billion and a conf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA member of staff from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has lost a USB stick containing a safety assessment of a nuclear power plant. The data was misplaced by an employee of the Office for Nuclear R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoInfighting in the Eurozone risks 'utterly destroying' Greece, a Foreign Office minister warned last night. Lord Howell, father-in-law to the Chancellor George Osborne, told peers that Britain was pressin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA British Airways flight steward has been charged with making a mid-air bomb threat, police said today. Matthew Davis, 22, was on the Tokyo to London flight with 150 passengers on board when it is allege...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 33.8 km (21 miles), the quake hit at 11:26:48 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) NNW from Santo (Luganville), Vanua...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 17 hours agoLeaked documents highlight a think-tank's plan to seed climate change confusion.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPolice in Telford are appealing for information after a concrete block was dropped from a bridge over a busy road and hit a passing vehicle. The incident happened just before 10pm last night(Thursday 16 F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA US federal agent who pulled a gun on his boss and repeatedly fired at him has been killed by a colleague, the FBI has said. The agent started shooting at his supervisor at about 5:30pm local time in a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA bus driver who deliberately crashed his vehicle into a cyclist knocking him off his bike has been jailed for 17 months. Gavin Hill was shown on CCTV in an exchange with cyclist Phillip Mead before he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoI’d like to make a statement about the growing crisis in the Americas. It’s time for justice. It’s time for liberty. It’s time to end the ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology. It’s tim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBritain should play its part to end this Greek tragedy by standing up for the underdog. For all of my adult life, support for the European Union has been seen as the mark of a civilised, reasonable and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoYesterday’s cold, sparse unemployment figures had a human face. Michael Taylor, an unemployed teacher, appeared on the BBC 10 O’Clock News and spoke in uncompromising terms of what it meant for him to be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoISLAMABAD - The proposed transnational Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is fast emerging as a geopolitical disquiet between the two major powers - the United State...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoScientists fear that with the disappearance of the Arctic sea ice in summer coupled with the rapidly rising temperatures across the entire Arctic region, trapped methane could be suddenly released into th...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoBolivia: Government Responds to UFO Information Request By Carlos Guzmán Rojas, C.I.F.E.E.E.A.C. [This information was provided by Carlos Guzmán, director of Mexico’s C.I.F.E.E.E.A.C. researc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMany Americans know that despite the economic depression Americans are suffering under, the politicians in Washington are still sending well over $3 BILLION tax dollars every year to the Jewish state of I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoGermany’s Wolfgang Schäuble is entering into ever more dangerous waters. His apparent demand that Greece postpone elections scheduled for April, and impose a technocrat junta (a l’Italiana) for another ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Government’s decision to scrap Vince Cable’s loan shark wheeze to punish numerate graduates who repay student debts as promptly as possible is a welcome outbreak of common sense. But it should not be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoOver the last several weeks, there have been many news headlines containing the words "Iran" and "nuclear capability." If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drumbeats of a fresh war in the Middle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDuring his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned the American people that one of the greatest threats to freedom came not from enemies abroad but from “the conjunction of an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIAE made up of former Energy ministers said in a release that the current energy situation in Argentina is no surprise: it was expected since there are “no long term policies for the industry, a total lac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe anti-religion enforcers of the ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) are out in force once again, sniffing for any sign of faith, worship, or Christian symbols at schools, court houses, or ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago“Parents are useless. The state is God.” That, says NaturalNews.com editor Mike Adams, was the message conveyed when a North Carolina state agent told a preschooler the lunch her mother had packed for her...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIn 2010, American Thinker posted an interesting defense of a flat tax, noting that it would help preserve privacy and freedom of speech by eliminating the need for the federal government to know virtually...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe debt chickens are coming home to roost in Greece, and the hen house is collapsing. As the hard-pressed Greek parliament convened to vote on an enormously unpopular austerity measure insisted upon by i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945 has become an increasingly contentious memory for thousands of Germans. Historians have debated the military value of the old a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMiddle East oil transit routes are at risk from Islamist revolutions and Iranian threats. Does Syria present an opportunity for the West to bypass the most troubling oil chokepoints? Is that a strong driv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGreece's culture minister has resigned after armed robbers raided the ancient Olympia museum - the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The thieves took bronze and pottery artefacts just weeks after the coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:32:59 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) Northwest of Van, Turkey ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 491.2 km (305.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:26 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 175 km (108 miles) ESE of Lambasa, Vanu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEgyptian Salafist preacher Mohammed Hassan has called for the replacement of U.S. aid to Egypt with local donations, Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported on Wednesday. Egypt receives around $1.3 billion annu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago'Corporate paedophilia' is a worrying global trend on the rise. For those who might have missed it, Witchery has just launched a new clothing range for eight- to 14-year-old girls called "8fourteen". In a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 224.5 km (139.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:17:54 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) WNW of Abra Pampa, Ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 17.1 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:05:05 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) WSW of ATHENS, Greece No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Russian energy giant has a lot riding on the success of a massive new gas field 250 miles above the Arctic Circle. So does Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. The priest in the seat next to me is grippin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Eurasian steppes historically represented a serious security dilemma for Russia's rulers; without natural barriers to hinder the advance of invaders, the flat Russian borderlands proved nearly impossi...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours agoThree 'Iranian' bomb suspects at a restaurant in Pattaya. Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, left, was arrested in Malaysia, Mohammad Khazaei, centre, was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and Saied Moradi was badly ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe report from The New York Times on Wednesday about the foreclosure settlement reached between five big banks and 49 states’ attorneys general made it appear that justice was being served. The $26 billi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere’s an old adage that goes something like this: “The human capacity to create technology exceeds our capacity to understand its impact.” Lots of people have referred to this idea, Einstein perhaps mos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 11.4 km (7.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:01:17 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) NNW of Lebu, Bio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 18.5 km (11.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:47:19 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) WNW of Palopo, Sul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMoody's warned last night that it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions in another sign that the eurozone debt crisis is spreading throughout the global financial...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(FOX19) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is back on track after winning the Maine caucuses. What the headlines haven't told you is that what happened in Maine is the messiest caucus Repu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:54:35 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) Southeast of Masterton, New Ze...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 83.8 km (52.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:24:20 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) Northeast of Tern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA suspected gunman is among two people who have been found dead in the charred remains of a house in Hollywood, Los Angeles. His body, and a second dead victim, were found after the blaze was out and fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGerman President Christian Wulff is to resign over a loan scandal, he has announced. The country's opposition party had called on Mr Wulff to step down from the largely ceremonial role after state prosecu...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 19 hours ago*A deal with France to strengthen co-operation in the development of civil nuclear energy signed by UK. An announcement about joint development of a future unmanned aircraft is also expected.* UK and Fre...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago"The earth turns, but we don't feel it move. And one night you look up. One spark and the whole sky is on fire." - From "Gangs of New York." (2002, Director Martin Scorsese, Screenwriters Jay Cocks, Stev...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoSmokey, 12-year-old gray and white tabby cat in Northampton, England has the world's largest purr according to Guinness World Records. Alisdair Tait/Northampton College/Associated Press. Photo courtesy: cb...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIn fairness, it has nothing to dowith the next generation. It has to dowith cell replacement which can be upon us in a couple of decades. It is easy to imagine a protocolthat reverses senescence and su...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is not a common event in Europe, but the mechanism is now quite clear. A colder period of climate could well producedevastating conditions and even freeze the Rhine and the Thames. Thus answerin...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is a reminder that humanityhas always been keen to take his favorite plants home with him and to establishtheir horticulture close at hand. Sometimesit did not work, but those were the exceptions....
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThere are a number of reports outthere that tell of a reptilian derived species that is humanoid and appears tolive within the earth. I have alsoposted a report of an interview with one such creature ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoPhoto courtesy: don_macauley/CC BY 2.0 Freshwater, or river, dolphins are by their very nature a rarity in the world. Only four species are known, with two in Asia and two in South America — one of the As...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoVery short clip; but, shows exactly how this is designed to work. Video courtesy: youtube.com The fierce summer heat in the Gulf has led to concerns about conditions for players and fans at the tourname...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agoGiant African land snails are shown to the media as the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announces it has positively identified a population of the invasive species in Miami-Dade cou...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoWould giving poor students more books solve the achievement gap? Matthew Haag/Reporter mhaag@dallasnews.com Feb. 16, 2012 DMN reporter Dianne Solis is attending the 41st annual convention of the Nationa...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 23 hours agoA high school student who addressed the school board this Tues about the TUSD-MAS controversy was reportedly pulled out of his classroom yesterday by security personnel. There is more to the story (and thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoRussia’s options regarding the situation in Syria and Iran are limited. But if somebody needs the Russian support in Syria and, especially, in Iran, that would come at a price, argues Yevgeny Satanovsky. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the most comprehensive analysis of its kind to date, scientists have used NASA satellites to gauge just how much of the world's ice has been lost to the oceans. Their results? Data collected over eight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itsel...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Diné CARE Opposes Kyl, McCain legislation settling water claims with Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe* By Dine' CARE Censored News Dilkon, Arizona (Navajo Nation) -- Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:01:32 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) East of Qumqo'rg, Uzbekis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 18.8 km (11.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:58:15 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) North of Sutcliffe, Nevada No Re...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoO'Reilly and Hannity and Beck and those clowns always bring up a ridiculous and totally imaginary so-called "war against Christmas." In the video above you can see with your own eyes the right-wing Repub...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThanks to billionaire's legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work. With his long limbs and delicate gait, Lord Mandelson could no doubt manage a quite convincing turn in Thunderb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAndrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a cu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOil is the lifeblood of modern society, powering over 90% of our transportation fleet on land, sea, and air. Oil is also responsible for 95% of the production of all goods we buy and ultimately drives the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the week of Xi Jinping, China’s vice-president who is inching toward taking up the oars as China’s helmsman by the end of the year at a defining period in China’s modern history as well as in cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAMMAN — Booming sounds continued to be heard in Amman and other central parts of Jordan on Thursday for the second day in a row. Residents of Amman, Madaba, Salt and the Jordan Valley said they heard the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoORMOND BEACH, Fla. - An Ormond Beach woman was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of stealing $4,000 from her son -- a U.S. Marine -- while he was deployed in Afghanistan. Paula Barker, 43, was arreste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — People in the Tri-State Area are living longer than ever, and if scientists have their way, life expectancies will continue to rise. Technologies today could allow the next generat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMIAMI (CBS4) – People who are looking for the perfect match, both men and women, go online seeking a certain kind of arrangement. A “sugar baby” is typically younger and eager for adventure. A “sugar dad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia and Iran are continuing to send arms to the Syrian regime that can be used against protesters, a top State Department official said today. "Iran is resupplying Syria and through Syria has supplied ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSanjay Wagle was a venture capitalist and Barack Obama fundraiser in 2008, rallying support through a group he headed known as Clean Tech for Obama. Shortly after Obama’s election, he left his California ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Petco groomer cut off part of a puppy's ear and then tried to cover it up by gluing it back on, claims its devastated owner. Grandmother Gladys Kapuwi, who is now suing the firm, claims she took Pomeri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter a year-long reprieve from rising foreclosures, the numbers are going up again. One in every 624 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in January, up 3 percent from the previous month, accor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Rich Arzaga owns a luxury home in San Ramon, California, but he's not betting on it as an investment. The founder and CEO of Cornerstone Wealth Management, who bought the 5,000 sq. ft. proper...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina, the largest foreign lender to the U.S., reduced its holdings of Treasuries in December to the least since June 2010 amid efforts to assist Europe in addressing its debt crisis. The world’s second-...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago*300,000 Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto in Federal Court: Decision on March 31st to Go to Trial* Original here Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it woul...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoYes, I have not been covering the situation in Greece in any of my articles so far. I have long looked at the collapse of the Greek economy and the enforcement of evil "austerity" measures by the crimina...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Obama's border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000 dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today. "U.S. Customs and Border P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Ask a small farmer in Indonesia about the impact of the global financial crisis on his daily life and he will answer, "Crisis? What crisis?" As farmers, we know what a big crisis is. In 1997, we ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHeavy snow in recent weeks has already wreaked havoc across Europe -- now it is damaging some of the continent's most recognized historic monuments. The Colosseum in Rome has been forced to shut after sma...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoThe entire Heartland document episode has become far more interesting than a typical tale of an advocacy group paying off shills now that it seems clear that one of the documents that was leaked was in f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Nigerian student who confessed to trying to blow up a US passenger plane headed for Detroit with explosives concealed in his underwear has been jailed for life. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 50.5 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:57:31 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) West of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:22:59 UTC Friday 17th February 2012 The epicenter was 624 km (387 miles) Northea...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoSet the Record Straight on Monsanto Monsanto’s marketing efforts would have you believe that its product line—centered around genetically engineered (GE) seeds and the chemicals used to grow the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 73.5 km (45.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:14:41 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) Southwest of...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have for years now been bringing forward important information right here in this blog about how truly dangerous and unnecessary vaccinations truly are. Many people are finally realizing that what th...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoI've been trying to find words to express my disgust with this turn of events all day. I've been unsuccessful in coming with anything more coherent than why the fuck are these vile, God bothering assholes ...
- posted by Economic Perspectives from Kansas City at New Economic Perspectives - 1 day agoBy William K. Black Daniel Indiviglio, a columnist for Reuters, wrote a column(“Dogma show”) denouncing the agreement to extend the payroll tax reduction. He was distressed by what he considered *faux *fi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Liquid Mind is deeply relaxing and soothing music for relief of stress and anxiety, meditation, healing. Music By Chuck Wild, “Liquid Mind V: Serenity - Awakening.” Images courtesy of ESA, NASA and The H...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“These two spiral galaxies make a photogenic pair, found within the boundaries of the northern constellation Draco. Contrasting in color and orientation, NGC 5965 is nearly edge-on to our line of sight and...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*This is the panel of witnesses invited to testify before Chairman Darrell's hearing this morning on the birth-control insurance mandate. Hmm, now what could be wrong with this picture? (Thanks to ThinkPro...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoAnna Nieto Gomez & Cihuatl Ce Platica & lunch March 1, 2012 Thurs 11am-noon Cesar Chavez #205 University of Arizona Kicking off Women’s History Month , one of the original feminists of the Chicana/Chica...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*One would hope.* "Iranians suspected in Bangkok explosions; Israeli official ties attack to terror campaign" by Thomas Fuller | new york times, February 15, 2012 Israeli officials said *Israeli forensi...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoThe NYTimes has a story today about confidential documents obtained from the ultra right wing Heartland Institute, which has a new program to bring propaganda to schools to counter the climate science that...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." - Henry Miller
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoWellingborough, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places, I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, "hurry, you will ...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day agoToday was............stressful. A relief. Perplexing. Kurt & I attended the sentencing of Umar. We were allowed to give victim impact statements. We arrived about 30 minutes early, and I got to meet the t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” - Orson Welles
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*It made me laugh hard*: "NATO expects help to fund Afghan Army" by Robert Burns and Slobodan Lekic | Associated Press, February 04, 2012 BRUSSELS - NATO’s top official said yesterday that the alliance *...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I suppose it doesn't really matter anymore since the Globe is printing and distributing the Herald. * "Nonprofit admits it pays five in 6 figures" by Stephanie Ebbert and Travis Andersen | Globe Staff,...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I'm folding and flushing them, folks! * "MGM latest big casino operator to look at Bay State" January 12, 2012|By Mark Arsenault MGM Resorts International, which operates some of the most elaborate gamb...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Natural Law”* by Chet Raymo “I suppose I learned about the Roman Catholic "natural law" tradition in a philosophy or theology class as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in the 1950s, but...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoJust so readers of Wit's End won't imagine that *all* I do (as opposed to *almost *all) is blog about trees dying from ozone pollution, as evidence I present pictures of favorite paintings taken when I we...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe phenomenal run of the former third string, undrafted point guard is about more than just basketball skills.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn unpredictable environment might explain infidelity and divorce -- at least in birds.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*There is money out there, and plenty of it.* "The Institute of Contemporary Art, just five years after opening its first permanent home, is flexing its *newfound financial muscle*. The ICA will announce ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Old foes gird for slots parlor fight" February 07, 2012|By Mark Arsenault The *dawn of casino gambling* in Massachusetts has *revived the rivalry *of Gary Piontkowski and George Carney.... The competitor...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoWhat do you mean, *"no plan B"*? Other allies, such as Australia, have placed orders for Super Hornets -- the newer, beefed up version of the CF-18 -- to hedge against F-35 delays. It's not necessary for ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United Nations General Assembly passed Thursday by an overwhelming margin a nonbinding resolution endorsing the Arab League plan for the Syrian president to step down. The vote was 137 in favor and 12 ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoThe #TellVicEverything meme has exploded on Twitter today, in response to Vic Toews' proposed legislation to force Internet service providers to monitor their customers’ online activities and turn the info...
- posted by Jennifer Ouellette at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoPhysicists at Fermilab usually don't pay attention to the hums and growls emanating all around them -- but to contemporary composer Mason Bates, it's music to his ears.
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction.They won’t get in our way." - International terrorist and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel. Source of...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoHouse Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is at it again, holding yet another inane hearing. This was the scene in his committee room this morning: Yes, his first panel of witnesses was solely com...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoBuck McKeon is fighting for his political life-- and not just within the confines of the House Ethics Committee, where he stands accused of taking a massive bribe from Countrywide's predatory then-CEO Ang...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoFrom Blogger today: Since the first post on August 8, 2008: Pageviews all time history: 1,032,888 Thank you all for stopping by, it's been an honor and privilege to share this with you. - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“U.S. Dirty War on Iran” * by IRD “In December Iran announced that it had brought down a US drone- by the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit- with insignificant damage. The aircraft was apparently f...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Thefts rose 26 percent on MBTA in 2011; Bicycles, smartphones were leading targets" by Eric Moslowitz | Globe Staff, January 24, 2012 A rash of smartphone, bicycle, and catalytic-converter thefts spurre...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"In tight local market, no relief for renters, apartment hunters" January 26, 2012|Jenifer B. McKim, Globe Staff Rents in the Boston area hit *record highs* in the last quarter of 2011, pushed up by incre...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Is a US-Iran War Inevitable?"* by Doug Casey "US-Iranian saber-rattling or impending shoot-out? In his usual, candid manner, contrarian investor Doug Casey talks about why he believes it’s serious this...
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSkeptics are questioning the cold fusion claims made by Italian physicists last year -- and issuing a challenge.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"The Venus flytrap’s precarious survival in the wild along the coast of the Carolinas faces an added threat from poachers looking to cash in by uprooting and selling them.... --more--"
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day agoTHIS STORY APPEARED IN [image: Boston Articles] *Sorry I didn't read it, dear readers. I rarely -- if ever -- read Metro or Business sections stories anymore. * *Hell, who am I kidding, I can't even make...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoLeonard Cohen, “Hallelujah” • This song just keeps running through my head, no idea why, but might as well share it with you... - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"A Greek Debt Crisis Recap"* by Bill Bonner "The Dow down 97 points yesterday. And the Greek story nears its conclusion…The Germans agree to bail out the country…at least for a while…and the Greeks agre...
- posted by Lori Haskell at Adventures with Kurt and Lori - 1 day agoby Kurt Haskell Every victim of a crime in Michigan is entitled to make a statement in open court regarding the impact of the crime on their life. The statement is limited to the victim's physical, emot...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago*Another short ramble around a few things that caught my eye this week…* - A new report suggests an earthquake in Wellington would dwarf the economic damage of the Canterbury earthquake . The rep...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoBecause the spirit of vengeance and justice won't be kind to it. Pray that the victims of Israeli terrorism and Israeli aggression will forgive Israel.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoIt's nice that these groups are finally working together, isn't it? I feel about this development as warmly as I felt when hearing earlier today that the Congressional groups had finally reached a mutual d...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn the fight against cancer, these nano-robots could be the equivalent of sending in SEAL Team Six.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA total of six lives were saved by Sweden's massive swine flu vaccination programme, according to a new report, despite 60 percent of the Swedish population getting vaccinated. In Sweden, 60 percent of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHONG KONG - The Centre for Food Safety has ruled out any cause for alarm after a pig tested positive for the human swine flu virus H1N1. According to The Standard, the center said the positive sample was...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 1 day agoTonight Question Time comes from Nottingham. David Dimbleby is joined by Ken Clarke, John Prescott, LibDem Susan Kramer, businesswoman Julie Meyer* and a random lefty freak called Owen Jones. In fact ign...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Department of Preventive Health announced on Wednesday that Vietnam has recorded the first human case of swine flu caused by the H3N2 virus, Tuoi Tre reported. However, the case, a two-year old girl ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe dzongkhag has seen four outbreaks in two months Just as the report from Bhopal laboratory in India officially confirmed that a bird flu or H5N1 virus had killed the 87 birds in Tshimasham, last Decembe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists met behind closed doors in Geneva Thursday to discuss whether controversial research on a mutant form of bird flu capable of being spread among humans can be made public. The two-day gathering...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is offering to resume talks over his country's nuclear program as soon as possible, according to a letter he sent to the European Union. CNN obtained a cop...
- The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Here We Go Again: Fukushima Nuclear Reactors In Nuclear Meltdown Once Again!Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoThere have been numerous controlled media reports, and actual reports coming from both the Japanese government and officials from TEPCO themselves, that have stated that the reactors at Fukushima are now i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"You Will Not Believe Some Of The Things * *Americans Are Doing Just To Survive"* By The Economic Collapse Blog "You might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have ab...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoOver at Plum Line, I ask: what if Santorum manages to stay very popular...but his campaign continues to be a shoestring operation. Could he wind up winning the bulk of the primaries and caucuses and still ...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThis woman is 51 yrs old. She is TV health guru Gillian McKeith, advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and health, and promoting yoga exercise, a vegetarian diet which is high in organic fruits...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Britain will share in a Falkland Islands windfall when oil starts flowing there later this decade and, with taxes and royalties estimated at up to $167 billion (105.7 billion pounds), the pote...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDead: The case relates to the fatal stabbing of Meredith Kercher, 21, a British student who shared a flat with Knox in Perugia, found in a pool of blood After months of tense battling between publishers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the shocking moment a man is blown off his feet after lighting a firecracker on a manhole cover. CCTV footage shows the man being thrown ten metres through the air by the force of the explosion. ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoIt sometimes ain't easy trying to install authoritarian rule in Canada. If you're Harper or a minion, you open yourself up to all sorts of problems. Propose a sweeping electronic snooping bill, and people ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoWith the failure of the latest Mossad attacks on Georgia, India, and Thailand, to try to sway world opinion into supporting Israel's upcoming attack against the innocent and peaceful nation of Iran, it doe...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoThen the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government's dictates nor to pay its bills nor to send their children to die in that government's wars, and may with full moral justif...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Coming Crisis will be issuing a major announcement within the next few days. As you already know from visiting us, the CC is a website that strives to break all molds. We have already made several eno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA senior Scientologist was locked up, beaten and tortured by the controversial religion's tyrannical leadership, a court has heard after an attempt by the Church to silence her spectacularly backfired. D...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day agoShort on time again today....so I just want to post this story. I had bookmarked it last week. What makes it so very interesting is that it spells out exactly what the NATO backed terrorists have been up t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpain is steadily becoming a nation of 'ghost towns' - with empty apartment blocks, streets and weed-filled gardens where bustling communities were supposed to move. Entire housing estates built during t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*The Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook* By Brenda Norrell Censored News Feb. 16, 2012 What could be more fun today than following the hearing on Homeland Security spying on Faceb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The loudest noise that Thongma Danoi had ever heard was followed 20 minutes later by the strangest sight: a dazed and bloodied Iranian carrying two wire-adorned devices through the usually sle...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoSource: George Hoberg
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoBlue Dog congressman, Tim Holden (PA-17), insists that he and his fellow legislators are personally entitled to earmark our tax money. He bases this case on perceived tradition in the Northeastern Pennsyl...
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLipstick applied several times a day, every day, can add up to significant exposure levels.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:20 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) NNW ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIs the American presidency being transformed into a quasi-monarchy? What else do you call it when 196 enormously rich people can use their money to elect the president of their choice? *At a time when ...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 1 day agoPOLITICS - We predicted it a long time ago. The bailout of Greece's economy would only fail because they're not fixing the real problem: Lack of manufacturing. We're not alone in our predictions. Many Eu...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn unprecedented number of dolphins have been beaching themselves in recent weeks, and experts are grappling as to why.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFrom climate change to bike-share programs, some see nothing but a United Nations plot.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoHunger Threatens 500 Million Children By Paul Vallely, The Independent UK 15 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9990-hunger-threatens-500-million-children [excerpt] "A q...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAn integral part of America's decline is its faltering ability to impose its will on the world, by force if necessary. Its colossal failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan are proof positive. For Washing...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *There’s only a few days left:* We know. We said we’d preview our upcoming Chapter 7 over at our companion site, How He Got There. We may do so in the next few days. For tod...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *What makes Willie Geist run:* This morning’s New York Times is a mess. But let’s close with Willie Geist. This morning, he was reading the news on his eponymous show, Way To...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 200 metre cordon was placed around a cargo plane during a radiation scare at Auckland Airport. The Fire Service was called to the international section of the airport just before 8pm and confirmed that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago23 cases of dengue fever, 16 cases of leptospirosis and 14 cases of typhoid have been confirmed from the Western Division however the Health Ministry said it has not reached the level of an outbreak. Min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJAMMU: Three persons, including an eight-month-old were buried alive and ten houses damaged in separate incidents of avalanche and landslide hits in Kishtwar, Ramban and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kash...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn Wednesday, flooding at the Encantada Lake caused a large avalanche of mud that swept through a camp belonging to the San Juan mining company, burying at least 27 homes in the lower llapo district in Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIRUT: The Beirut River mysteriously turned blood red Wednesday after a stream of unidentified red liquid began pouring from the southern bank of the river in Furn al-Shubbak. The source of the liquid ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA SICKNESS bug which causes violent diarrhoea and vomiting has now closed 12 wards at a Worcester hospital. Ambulance crews have been forced to take patients to other hospitals and 12 wards are now parti...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoLow Intensity Warfare: UFOs vs. Earth? By Scott Corrales (c) 1994 [This article originally appeared in Tim Beckley's Unsolved UFO Mysteriesmagazine in 1994. The electronic file was recently re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the UN secretary general accused the Syrian regime of potential crimes against humanity on Thursday, the top Syrian envoy to Canada blamed terrorists for civilian deaths and said President Bashar Assad...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoAudit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures by Gretchen Morgenson Feb 15, 2012 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/business/california-audit-finds-broad-irregularities-in-foreclosures.html...
- AN EXCELLENT ACCOUNT OF THE APPALLING PRESENT-DAY GREEK TRAGEDY AND WHAT THE SOLUTION FOR IT MUST BEposted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 16, 2012 *Austerity Policy Destroying Greek Society* Dim...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) or * I Am Lego*. Oh, the poor Republican Party. It must be a lot like being the last man on earth in a post-Apocalyptic America, an Apoc...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoArizona Daily Star Ariz. bill advances; teachers would be fired quickly, districts penalized 'Partisan doctrine' in classes targeted Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services | Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *Pulitzer Prize-level work:* We hate to say it, but Rachel Maddow has done some good reports this week. If you omit the first and last moments in the segment, one such repor...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago*POOR, WHITE AND REPUBLICAN*: a comment from George Packer, published by the *New Yorker*. *PLEASE* read it. *F.D.R. called him “the forgotten man,”* but that was long ago. By 1972, he was a member of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInside Syria (CNN) -- Syrian security forces resumed their fierce shelling of opposition targets in Homs Thursday but appeared to be losing their tight grip in the northern region. Government troops wer...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*HELTER SKELTER* *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. FEB. 14, 2012. This is the culture of the invaders to Great Turtle Island. Gold has an objective value. Paper is a mortgage ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoPhoto Showcase is here! Basically it is a chance to show off any image you have taken in the last week/month/just a photo that you love. In my case, I will be sharing my 366 project, but in your case, sh...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThese batteries could help boost the prospects of wind and solar energy.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe vehicle maker has illuminated and motorized the back seat buckles to expand on safety features.
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoArgentina: “Shining Object” in the Skies of Oro Verde Date: 02.14.2012 Source: Diario UNO (Entre Rios) and Planeta UFO http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/Un-objeto-brillante-en-el-cielo...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoArgentina: “Shining Object” in the Skies of Oro Verde Date: 02.14.2012 Source: Diario UNO (Entre Rios) and Planeta UFO http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/laprovincia/Un-objeto-brillante-en-el-cielo-de-Oro-Verde...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoAustin, Texas, Late Summer 2011: This is not autumn in Central Texas. These are cedar trees (juniperus Asheii). The fall leaf drop does not begin here until about mid-October and extends through the first of...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoRecently, Mike Innes tweeted playfully that he feared the Duck had become a "creative writing" blog due to the proliferation of satirical posts about pop cultural topics. This tweet was in response to my r...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoWillie Nelson. Image from OTRC.Occupy the Food System:Willie Nelson and 300,000other activists sue MonsantoBy Jane Ayers / Reader Supported News / February 16, 2012Little did Willie Nelson know when he recor...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoRecently, Mike Innes tweeted jokingly that he feared the Duck had become a "creative writing" blog due to the proliferation of satirical posts about pop cultural topics. The implication (confirmed in a sec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways, depending on who you ask. Some people believe global cataclysm will occur when Earth's magnetic poles reverse. When north goes south, t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoThis FOX News correspondent has a message to US women soldiers who fall victim to rape - enough already. And, of course, she kept her job at FOX.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe CMS Collaboration organized its first hangout via Google+: The selection of beverages and babes wasn't too wide. Instead, the event was a video conferencing session with a physicist in the CMS cavern...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoHOMELAND SECURITY loves body scanners. According to *Jalopnik*, *that's how the security staff gets their jollies*. Erin Gloria Ryan's report, *"TSA Agents Singling Out Sexy Women For Multiple Body Scans...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012* *Interlude—Irate academics speak:* Is man (sic) the rational animal? That’s what Aristotle is said to have said. But how much did Aristotle know? He also “defined motion as t...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoInfant formulas, cereal bars and other foods made with organic brown rice syrup can contain high levels of arsenic.
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy: Duane Craig There is a long story of radioactivecontamination across New Mexico, especially in the northwestern portion of thestate, where recent estimates of cleaning up just one site will require ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day agoOn CBC's The Current yesterday, internet law prof Michael Geist and Paul Gillespie, a former Toronto Police sergeant and CEO of *Kids' INternet Safety Alliance, *faced off on the potential for invasion of...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoFrom Maureen O'Reilly, library workers' union, Toronto Public Library (emphasis mine): + + + + + It hasn’t taken Ford and company long before launching a new attack on our public library. Frustrated tha...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoAnd this is a Harper Conservative's brain on pure room air Now read *Cathie* ... Then *Kady*.
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoSome people have obtained several documents from the Heartland Institute, a libertarian/conservative U.S. think tank. These documents show that the folks in the Heartland Institute are climate skeptics who...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis natural-color satellite image, collected on February 10, 2012, shows the site of the El Hierro eruption. Credit: NASA An underwater eruption off the Canary Island of El Hierro has been going on for...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMystic Krewe of Nyx rolls for the first time in Mardi Gras splendor ~Mardi Gras Parades Tonight! ~Knights of Babylon*~Uptown 5:45 p.m.* ~Knights of Chaos~Uptown 6:30 p.m. ~Krewe of Muses*~Uptown 6:30 p.m.* ~...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTypical Republican vote counting shenanigans, normally used against Democrats to subvert free and fair elections, are being used by the GOP Establishment against the Republicans running against Romney, t...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoI have been reading Gerald Coles for a long time, and I am glad to see Anthony Cody hosting him here to get underneath the neoliberal rhetoric of the Times to see its real influences: Gerald Coles: The Gr...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to LeVar Burton -- hey, that's the second Star Trek one this week! Apparently, Geordi was...er, will be also born on February 16. Ah, the good stuff. 1. Charles Franklin tells newspapers a...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDigging up the Antarctic ice in Lake Vostok could be a good test run for looking for life beyond.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThis app translates light and color values from video to create a custom soundtrack.
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThe Harperites have resurrected the unjust, immoral, and, according to international treaties to which Canada is a signatory, illegal bill formerly known as C-11. Jason Kenney doesn't want so much riff-r...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*A red pulsar bike found abandoned in Delhi. Delhi police, 'believed to be under the control of Mossad', have ruled out that the bike was used by the 'Mossad' attacker on 13 February 2012. * The 13 Febru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAncient eruptions in the Pacific Northwest may have been caused by the tearing of a titanic slab of rock. Ancient giant eruptions in the Pacific Northwest may actually have been caused by the tearing of a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLike a stream of air shooting out of an airplane's broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon are the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Canadian company wants to continue test drilling for copper and other minerals near Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington, but environmentalists worry the move could open the door to mine development...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday accused Iran of "exaggerating" progress on its disputed nuclear programme a day after Tehran unveiled what it said was its first domestically-pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - European shares fell and the euro eased to a 3-week low on Thursday as a delay in deciding on a crucial bailout for Greece unnerved investors and halted the rally for riskier assets like equit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFUKUSHIMA -- Massive levels of radioactive cesium have been detected from gravel at a quarry near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after high radiation was detected at buildings using gravel from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea has been trying to hire top nuclear experts from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in the wake of the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. South Korea is looking to expand its nucle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday he will step down in June and Washington pledged to put a replacement candidate forward within weeks for a job that has always gone to an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The European Union trade commissioner brushed off on Thursday the potential impact of any Iranian suspension of oil supplies saying such a threat would not sway Europe from its opposition to I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - China disapproves of armed intervention or regime change in Syria, a minister said on Thursday before leaving on the first official trip to Syria since Beijing blocked a U.N. resolution callin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Four months after one of Japan's biggest corporate scandals, police and prosecutors on Thursday arrested seven men, including the former president of Olympus Corp and ex-bankers, over thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReuters) - Moody's warned on Thursday it may cut the credit ratings of 17 global and 114 European financial institutions in another sign the impact of the euro zone government debt crisis is spreading thr...
- posted by Mark Thompson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAstronomer Mark Thompson shares his tips for the perfect photo of the night sky, but ultimately it's a game of trial and error.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Greece expressed hope it was within days of finally securing a 130-billion-euro EU/IMF bailout to ease its debt crisis but markets reacted skeptically on Thursday as acrimony grew between Athe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A bus carrying school children burst into flames after a collision with a truck outside the Palestinian city of Ramallah on Thursday, killing at least six people, authorities said. Dozens more w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The United Nations General Assembly is set Thursday to take up a symbolic resolution condemning President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown in Syria after China and Russia blocked the Security...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- A group that set off explosions in Bangkok this week intended to strike Israeli diplomats, a Thai police official said, intensifying a heated argument between Israel and Iran a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The Australian government has angered koala conservationists by again delaying a decision on whether to add the national icon to the country's endangered species list. Last year, a Senate inquir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan's debt levels have ballooned to a level that makes Greece look like a steward of capital. Wall Street has noticed, and it's placing its bets. FORTUNE -- With the European sovereign debt imbroglio ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTripoli, Libya (CNN) -- One of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's surviving sons has had his phone cut off and been placed under house arrest in Niger after warning of a revolt against Libya's new gov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday. Militi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA stepfather who admitted repeatedly punching, suffocating, dropping and kicking his wife's two-year-old daughter has been sentenced to up to 20 years in jail. Brandon Bishop, 25, was given ten to 20 yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe man accused of killing his new bride as they honeymooned in Australia wept as a police interview tape was played out in court, in which he described his failed attempts to resuscitate his wife. Gabe ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA college lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend had a 'blank stare' and lied about visiting friends on the night she died, a former teammate claimed yesterday. Ken Clausen testified at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 85.5 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:12:46 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) WNW fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA one-year-old girl died and her five-year-old sister remains in critical condition after their mother tried to drown them in a baby bath in their Los Angeles home. Police suspect that Lorna Valle, the m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea has staged a military parade to mark what would have been late leader Kim Jong-il's 70th birthday. State television footage showed people gathered in the cold at the square outside Pyongyang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou could be forgiven for thinking it was a polar bear that had wandered off the ice and somehow found itself in a forest. But this golden, almost white, beautifully unique creature is in fact a white va...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Turkey at a depth of just 3 km (1.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:03 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) Northwest of Darende, Turkey ...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe British Antarctic Survey is taking planetary protection measures to reach Antarctica's subglacial Lake Ellsworth next.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoBeauty and the Geek pants create the ultimate "jeans and keyboard sandwich."
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA new material from paper and old food containers can make laptops greener.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA severely malnourished 15-year-old girl was allegedly forced to live in the basement of a home by her parents for years while they beat her, starved her and even forced her to eat her own faeces. The Wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than two dozen senior officials at the Department of Health are being paid their salaries via private companies in an attempt to avoid tax. Leaked emails last night revealed at least 25 senior staff ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAftershocks of the bomb explosions in New Delhi and Bangkok had barely subsided on Wednesday when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dropped another bombshell by showcasing the country's advancements i...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 1 day agoWhat separates Amazon from the crowd and makes it a true bookseller may be its understanding of the lifecycle of books and of consumer needs and desires. It has always excelled at customer service, but it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreek anger with the way they believe Germany has taken over their economy is boiling over on the country's streets. In recent days, protesters have burned German flags and defaced the Bank of Greece's h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis is the dramatic moment a Greek woman threatened to jump from an Athens office block - because she was about to lose her job because of the euro debt crisis. Lambrousi Harikleia said she would commit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCivil servants are scooping £2million in bonuses each month, despite a pledge by ministers to stamp down on spending. Whitehall bureaucrats have been handed sums of up to £187,500 – more than the Prime M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of of just 1.5 km (0.9 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 10:35:27 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNato has voiced regret for the killing of eight civilians in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan last week. The coalition dropped two bombs on February 8 in Najrab district in Kapisa province, after move...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Bank of England has ruled out help for savers and pensioners and warned that any attempts it made to improve ‘negligible’ returns on their nest eggs would tip the economy back into recession. Britain...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe BBC has been accused of a cover-up after spending almost £350,000 on a legal battle to suppress an internal report about bias in its Middle East coverage. A seven-year campaign to gain access to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAROUND 580 foreigners landed a job in the UK every day last year while the number of British-born workers collapsed, official figures revealed today. The Office for National Statistics said the number of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFalklands hero Simon Weston yesterday branded Sean Penn an 'idiot' and a 'fool' over his comments about Britain's ownership of the islands. Former Welsh Guardsman Weston, 50, hit back at the Hollywood act...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMohamed Kendeh, whose crimes include robbery and 11 sex assaults, was allowed to stay in the UK because of his right to a 'private and family life' under the Human Rights Act A woman who was sexually ass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA jilted boyfriend set himself alight outside his former lover’s house after she dumped him by text, an inquest has heard. 'Volatile' Maysam Mayani, 26, drove to Sona Khamseh’s flat in Chelsea, west Lond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe full scale of how the banks are still failing to lend to Britain’s desperate small firms emerged yesterday. Despite a series of public promises from senior ministers and bank officials, lending to bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:36 UTC Thursday 16th February 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) Southwest of Ayía galíni, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA fire that killed at least 358 people at a Honduras prison was started deliberately by one of the inmates, according to a local politician. Paola Castro, the governor of Comayagua, said: "One inmate got...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia has sought to water down a draft UN resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria, while welcoming the regime's pledge to hold a referendum on a new constitution. The General Assembly is to vote on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Prime Minister says he will "fight with everything I have" to prevent Scottish independence. David Cameron will come face-to-face with Scotland's first minister in Edinburgh today for talks on the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has called on the Chinese companies to play a greater role and share in building strategic projects in Iraq, saying that his country wishes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA U.S. “alphabet soup” agency-sponsored themed revolution in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean comprising twenty-six atolls, stands to plunge the nation, heretofore considered a tropical ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis winter has been a serious test of strength, not only for electric power systems in Central Asia, but also for their good relations with neighbours. Unprecedented cold in February affected not only E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWho will benefit from the new set of Greek austerity measures, which got a violent response from the crowd on Sunday? Author and consultant Adrian Salbuchi says it’s the bankers, who are responsible for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Wells Fargo Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase charge homebuyers who go into default inflated fees and interest rates, customers say in a federal RICO class action. Lead plaintiff Latara Bia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJEDDAH — Various groups in the Kingdom have intensified their campaign to boycott Russian and Chinese products after the two countries vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Presid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe White House announced plans on Monday to help “Arab Spring” countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt. In his annual bud...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn explosion on Aurangzeb Road in New Delhi damaged an Israeli embassy car, and injured its occupants.Tal Yehoshua Koren, the wife of the defense attache at the Israeli embassy was seriously wounded. She ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHow poignant that the first anniversary of a true Arab pro-democracy movement in the Persian Gulf - then ruthlessly crushed - falls on February 14, when Valentine's Day is celebrated in the West. Talk abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a little brick-walled taverna in Athens, over a lunch of Cretan salad and stuffed grape leaves, a Greek journalist named Aris Hadjigeorgiou was holding forth one day in late November about the calamito...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoXi Jinping, likely to be China's next president, visits President Obama in the White House this week. This visit ensures that the ongoing currency war between the United States and China will be on the li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain sold over £1m worth of weapons including rifles and artillery to Gulf kingdom during last year's unrest. Britain has continued to sell arms to Bahrain despite continuing political unrest in the G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Obama administration’s claim to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East has been tarnished by recent reports it will sell military hardware to Bahrain despite the regime’s brutal crackdown on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnmanned Aerial Vehicles, often referred to as "drones," don't get a lot of good press. Usually, when a drone makes the news, it's just completed an airstrike somewhere across the world, likely in the Mid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBack in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres i...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHow interesting. I happened to be listening to the BBC Today programme this morning and around 6.55am there was an item on the French Presidential election. Those of you will follow these things will kno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlaska glaciers have been shedding about 46 billion tons of ice each year, making America's Arctic state the world's single biggest contributor to glacier-fed sea level rise outside of Greenland or Antarc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter years of complaints and workers' suicides in China the technology giant faces up to the human cost of its gadgets. Thousands of Chinese factory workers will be given the chance to detail the punish...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Javanese Girl * The media is lying about Syria. *High-Tech Trickery in Homs? Al Akhbar English* [image: Pose - D7K 1223 ep] *India by* Eric.Parker The 'Holocaust' is complex. Nobody alerts us to *Paul ...
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