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*WWW.GREENPEACE.ORG* has a disturbing post by Rex Weyler, *"Canada: Climate Criminal"*. Rex offers a nice over-view of how the *Stevie Slime* came to poison us. At the dawn of the 21st century a new po... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 3 minutes ago
- It's time we stopped treating the chasm between the right and left as a legitimate difference of opinion. It's not and that's very dangerous - for them and for us. It seems counter-intuitive that, even ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes ago
A Dutch prince struck by an avalanche while skiing off-trail in Austria last week suffered massive brain damage and may never regain consciousness, doctors said today. Johan Friso, 43, is the second son o... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 minutes agoRick Santorum’s latest effort to prove he’s in the mainstream is an accusation that Barack Obama wants kids to go to college because…American colleges are “indoctrination mills” and they’ll all lose their ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 minutes ago[image: Smog and haze hover over Salt Lake City. The thick layer of smog lingering over Utah has fouled the state's mountain air so badly that health officials have warned people not to exercise outside ...
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Nevada at a depth of 8.6 km (5.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:10:49 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) NNE from Wichman, Nevada No Reports... - posted by Alison at Creekside - 21 minutes agoIn writing about the Cons' dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some "measure of responsibility" for creating a political climate in which their "rogue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed to predict the coming of the Prophet Muhammad to Earth has sparked serious interest from the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI is said to want to see the 1,500-year-old ... - posted by Gail at Wit's End - 37 minutes ago
All photos are screenshots from the movie One thing that continually astonishes me is the self-defeating, limited circularity of "progressive" activism. Perhaps in some cases, greens are just plain gree... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 45 minutes ago
I can't embed this cartoon in a large enough format to be readable, but I really did laugh out loud when I read it. Click over for Oliphant's Santorum joke. Note the punchline is in the last panel, in the ... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A satellite view of the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant after the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami of March 2011. GETTY IMAGES] By Jake Adelstein 21 February 201 On 11 March 2011, at 2:46...
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A North Stamford father trying to make his pre-teenaged son listen to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last month was arrested on a warrant Wednesday and accused of striking his son with ... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour ago
Since he clawed his way into power, Steve Harper has wasted little time turning Canada's public and armed services into political agencies of the prime minister's office. He began by gagging the public... - posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoThe app is a mobile-friendly version of the IRS's "Where's My Return?" site.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoPredictive analytics makes its mark on traffic management in China.
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The launch of an expensive new basketball shoe — timed to Orlando's hosting of the NBA All-Star Game— triggered a melee Thursday night at Florida Mall that was quelled by deputies in riot gear. The wild s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Two Greeks had a miraculous escape from this horrific car crash - after the Ferrari F430 they were driving hit a tree, split in two and then burned to the ground. Witnesses say the £127,000 Italian super... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
According to our "official" history, back on October 6th, 1973, during the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur, the armies of both Egypt and Syria launched massive strikes against Israeli forces on the Golan Hei... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoHappy Birthday to Edward James Olmos, 65. We've been rewatching BSG over on BBC America as they show it, and we're almost to the middle of season four...it's the second time through for me, and it's holdin...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoI walked away from this entry for about fifteen minutes after I posted it and I HAD TO come back and put this prologue on this entry This is my weapon This is my gun. This one's for fighting This one's for ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoWhenever the opposition tried to raise "the democracy thing" during last spring's campaign, the electorate responded with a shrug. Contempt of parliament, the in-and-out scandal, Bev Oda's "not" problem......
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Drought hits a rice field in Texas. houstontomorrow.org]By Matthew Tresaugue and Mike Glenn 23 February 2012 Rice growers have come to expect certain things from the coastal plain near Matagord...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 2 hours agoBy L. Randall Wray In an interesting post today David Brooks wrote this: "You might say that a tax break isn’t the same as a spending program. You would be wrong. David Bradford, a Princeton economist, ...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThis small, easy-to-use accessory is three lenses in one tiny package.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: The geology of Griesbach Creek in the Arctic tells an ancient tale of slow mass extinction during 'The Great Dying' 250 million years ago. Credit: C.M. Henderson] Media Contacts: Cheryl Dybas, N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA conman who made $359m from selling worthless products on the internet to customers across the globe has reached a settlement with the U.S. Government Jesse Willms, from Alberta, Canada, has agreed to se...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoThe notorious case may be coming to an end as authorities seem to agree that a dingo killed a nine-week old baby.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoUnderwater cameras are set to map Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoLloyds Banking Group today unveiled total losses of £3.5billion for last year, but insists it is in a 'significantly stronger position' than 12 months ago. The losses, which compare with a £281million pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe hunt is on for a Berlin police officer who was pictured on Facebook giving a Nazi salute, sparking outrage across Germany. The image, which officials believe to be genuine, was posted on the social n...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 hours agohttp://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protect-tomkav/ *Pauma Band Joins San Luis Rey Band In Objection To Grading Permit That* *Authorizes Palomar College To Continue To Disturb Ancestral Burial Site And * *Hum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIts walls and ceiling covered in blood, this is the shocking aftermath of another suicide attack on a Pakistan police station. Four police officers were killed today when Taliban suicide bombers armed wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoBradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks has chosen not to enter a plea at the start of his court martial. The 24-year-old also deferred a choice of wheth...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Maya Pyramid of Kukulkan. mi9.com] 23 February 2012 (AFP) – The collapse of the Mayan civilization was likely due to a relatively mild drought, much like the drier conditions expected in the com...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours ago[image: nerds-nerd-reading-book-glasses-demotivational-posters-1314307098] If there is one constant to modern social science, it is that you are always under-read. There is always some critical book you mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHeroin has been uncovered in the hotel room where an American TV producer was found next to his unconscious assistant. The lifeless body of 'Amazing Race' producer Jeff Rice was found on the balcony of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoDavid Cameron’s millionaire ‘back to work’ tsar Emma Harrison dramatically quit yesterday following a string of fraud allegations against her firm. She said she was stepping down immediately as the Prime ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoAs *Morton* says, Peter MacKay needs to go. And given the Harper Conservatives' penchant for feces flinging politics, I wouldn't be framing the requirement in the form of a request. MacKay, as shown in *...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours agoThere’s a common saying in Appalachia: what we do to the land, we do to the people. Recently, 21 peer-reviewed scientific studies have confirmed the truth of those words. Not only has mountaintop remova...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoRetired British businessman Christopher Tappin was today flying to a notorious jail in Texas to await trial after losing his two-year battle against extradition. Mr Tappin, who is accused of conspiring t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA man who threw a brick at another's head forcing him to fall onto a train track has been jailed indefinitely. Ian Tomlinson, 24, of no fixed address, carried out three attacks on men at Ipswich, Diss and...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours agoAnonymous delivered another blow on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by taking down the Web site of the Dayton Ohio Chapter of InfraGard Friday. The Ohio site was replaced with the video for Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA two-year-old boy has died after drowning in a pool of water on an unfinished ghost estate. Toddler Liam Keogh is understood to have followed the family dog from his home through a fence into a section ...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 3 hours agoBy Marshall Auerback The Europeans evidently thrive on instability and the ongoing threat of systemic risk. There is nothing else to explain the renewed hardline stance adopted by both Mario Draghi of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:13:01 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (92 miles) SSE from Ben...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNews of the World bosses ordered emails that could be used against them in court to be deleted to cover up phone hacking, leaked documents have revealed. Hundreds of thousands of emails were deleted on '...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThere is just a week to go until Google controversially changes its privacy policy to allow it to gather, store and use personal information about its users. But there is one way to stymie the web giant'...
- posted by Eric Niiler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoGreen groups win a court ruling but does this mean hydraulic fracturing will be halted?
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agohttp://vimeo.com/12519099 *SENECA HAWK ELDER* *EDNA GORDON SPEAKS OUT* *Hawk Elder EDNA GORDON with Harvey Arden* VIDEO courtesy of WORLD HARMONY UNLIMITED Producer/Videographer Perry Finkelstein worldhar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPolice were pelted with bricks and other missiles last night as hundreds of youths went on the rampage. Takeaways were targeted in an evening of disorder understood to be linked to the on-going trial of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoUS celebrity magazine the National Enquirer has enraged fans by publishing a photo of Whitney Houston's dead body in her open casket. It is understood that the photo was taken during a private viewing for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii at a depth of 5.7 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:52:45 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Volcan...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoCritics of New Orleans school charter approval process have voice on task force Lit Up Like a Parade ~A.L. Mueller, NOLAFemmes ~Hat Tweet @Gambit~@*KreweofMuses* is throwing a special parade today at thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Northern Columbia at a depth of 147 km (91.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:43:16 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) Northwest Aratoca, Colu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoSometimes it almost seems like a conspiracy. Barack Obama is not just a mediocre president, he's been a reliable tool for Corporate America since the day he entered the U.S. Senate. And Big Business coul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThis is the shocking moment a crazed commuter launched an apparently random attack on a woman - pushing her on to the tracks of the London Underground. The 23-year-old victim struck up a brief conversati...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 hours agoI can only imagine how many bitter minutes must creep slowly by for someone who has been wrongly incarcerated. Anyone who cares about the future of our planet should take just a few of their precious minu...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSlow-moving meteors during February are a well-known phenomenon but astronomers are mystified as to where they come from.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours agoSlow-moving meteors during February are a well-known phenomenon but astronomers are mystified as to where they come from.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA rescue helicopter has been filmed dramatically breaking apart just seconds after it landed in Brazil. Footage showed how the aircraft shook itself to pieces - with the doors falling off - as the rotor...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours ago*Kurt Nimmo* Infowars.com February 24, 2012 An effort to impose the sort of “humanitarian aid” on Syria that ultimately killed around 30,000 people in Libya is underway in Tunisia. CNN reports that “world...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoForeign Secretary William Hague has said Britain will recognise the Syrian opposition as a "legitimate representative" of the people, as he arrived at a Friends of Syria meeting in Tunisia. "We will int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:07:11 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) Northeast of Van, Turkey No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sea of Japan at a depth of 328.9 km (204.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:00:14 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 miles) NNW of Kanazawa, Hon...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 4 hours ago*(Click on graphic to enlarge ....)* *PARLIAMENT HILL—"The government’s controversial Bill C-30, which would give police and security agents new surveillance powers over the internet and compel web servi...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours agoWhen I try to explain diversity jurisdiction to my clients, most of their eyes glaze over. I’ll try to do it here without making you yawn. Diversity jurisdiction allows defendants to remove a case filed in...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012* *Creating a one-day postponement:* We’re off on a mission of national import. Tomorrow morning, we expect to continue our series about facts and legends. To prepare, and to p...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012* *What did he say and mean:* Paul Krugman’s new column includes some very bad news for all Americans. This very bad news appears more than halfway through the piece: KRUGMAN (...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoA New Anti-Imperialist Bloc of Nations Convened by Russia is Needed to Prevent a New Middle East War. Tarpley.net February 24, 2012 *The US tries to break up existing countries and turn them into “rump ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoLet this story be a lesson to all – that it is the people who must get rid of ALEC. We must not re-elect or elect any ALEC members to the State or Federal governments. This story makes it clear that while...
- Link: http://youtu.be/tYf5oOpi3i8 *Again Dr. Kh. Abdussamatov is in the news* with his research. The next coming *days* he will make world-wide headlines with his claim that a new Ice Age will get visible...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoNew nationwide protections for more than 500 fish species are going into effect this year.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 5 hours ago
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoPhoto courtesy: Mr Empey/CC BY 2.0 The Alberta Tar Sands project is probably the most despised example of environmental ruin there is - worldwide. Environmentally, it is such a disaster that well-paid emp...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoA little girl waves to a passing Beluga whale at the Vancouver, BC aquarium. Photo courtesy: rafe arnott / metro file The answer, in a word, is absolutely! Many year ago, my daughters and I were paying on...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoThe cooking grill for the El Diablo restaurant. Apparently, the hole gives off so much heat, it is immpossible to look directly into it. Photo courtesy: goforchris/CC BY-ND 2.0 Operating a restaurant on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIt’s been very wet in many parts of South America recently. Flooding has been reported in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. In Colombia, the rains have continued long after they would normally b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe current leader of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, wants a third term, saying the constitution's two-year limit does not apply to him, but the opposition want him out. The prospects of the voters is gloomy,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFlooding has seen large numbers of sea reptiles dying along the country's east coast. Increasing numbers of turtles are dying in Australia. The deaths are believed to be the result of last year's floods...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA powerful blast at a bus stand in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 12 people. Dozens more are said to have been wounded in Thursday's blast, with at least 10 of them in a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPhysicists who shocked the scientific world by claiming to have shown particles could move faster than the speed of light have admitted it was a mistake due to a faulty wire connection. It was Albert Ei...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoYou would expect at least the Sun, the most irreverent newspaper in Britain, to have a dig at the idea of Gender Identity Disorder and the fashion for allowing boys as young as five to live as girls (and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWomen are being granted illegal abortions by doctors based on the sex of their unborn baby, an undercover investigation by The Daily Telegraph reveals. Doctors at British clinics have been secretly filme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWe often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural. I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago'Occupy' achieved main goal Anyone who claims the "Occupy" movement has no clear message is either trying to discredit it or simply isn't paying attention. This protest always has been about economic inju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWILMINGTON, Del. — Several of the nearly two dozen employees at bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC who were approved for bonuses Wednesday had months earlier received pay raises as high as 70 percent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPresident Hugo Chavez's revelation that his cancer may have returned has plunged Venezuela into a period of deep uncertainty as it ramps up for what many expect to be the most closely contested presidenti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Vladimir Putin praised Cold War-era scientists on Thursday for stealing U.S. nuclear secrets so that United States would not be the world's sole atomic power, in comments reflecting his vision...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRussia warned Israel on Wednesday that attacking Iran would be a disastrous and played down the failure of a UN nuclear agency mission to Tehran, saying there is still a chance for new talks over the Irani...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOnly half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures. In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government - the lowest proportio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe headlines of major newspapers and TV networks this week have been dominated by rising gas prices. Drivers across the country have shared their stories on the cost - with many already paying more tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEAGLE POINT, Ore. (AP) — Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoATTALLA, Ala. (AP) - Roger Simpson said he looked down the road and saw a little girl running outside her home but didn't give it another thought. Police, however, said the man witnessed a murder in progre...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoOK, It's Friday and here is a new open thread to take us off into the blue yonder of the weekend. Please detail your thoughts and concerns here... Click through to read and contribute comments on this po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWASHINGTON, January 22, 2012—Anyone who believes that Ron Paul's foreign policy is a sign of weakness, or that he does not have the courage to defend this country, should talk to Dr. Paul's military suppo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoIt's not a good week if Richard Black does not gain the interest of our commentariat and so it is that B-BBC contributor Alan observes; "Richard Black has surfaced again having gone to ground to give himse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPumwani, Kenya (CNN) -- Asha Mohamed sits in her cramped room in Pumwani slum clutching a tiny photo of her son, Harun. He's dressed in a blue-striped tie framed by a crisp white T-shirt -- a typical 15-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) - Looks like we're all about to get way more familiar with the concept of "augmented reality." According to a report on The New York Times' Bits blog, Google is developing a set of glasses that wil...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoB-BBC contributor Alan notes; "The BBC are stilling trying to spin immigration figures and downplay the extent of immigration to this country despite Mark Thompson's admission that they had not covered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo Montreal cardiologists are facing disciplinary action over allegations they received hefty kickbacks to push patients to the top of the waiting list, the Quebec College of Physicians says. The colleg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There’s a rash of thefts in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood, with police saying in the past couple weeks, over a dozen brass door knockers have been taken right off people’s ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt's February, nine months before a presidential election, and only 22 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going. Voters haven't been this unhappy with the country since Geo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas. The...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoThanks to the BBC-lite version of the Today programme, I am unable to link you to the direct item on this morning's programme but it appears at *8.10am *and is between Evan Davies and Chris Grayling, the t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe hottest post on popular Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo right now… From Sina Weibo: @美食上海站: “Attention, everyone don’t drink Minute Maid’s Pulpy Orange Juice”. Coca-Cola has admitted that i...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoIt's very refreshing to agree with Sean Carroll (and a guy named Tom Swanson) on something. Brian Cox wanted to use quantum mechanics to defend the Gaia religious proposition that "everything is conne...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*A major conference is being held in Tunisia to seek a get through in the more and more bitter Syrian strife. On the eve of the conference, the UN and Arab League appointed Kofi Annan as their envoy to S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJanuary 19th, a logistics company that had arrived at an airport to ship seafood was discovered by security to have 10 bear paws, with the Forestry Police becoming involved to investigate. According to pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMore than 2 million people stayed at home without engaging in any work in January. Statistics Korea on Monday said 2.01 million physically and mentally healthy people had no job or tried to find one even t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUMEA, Sweden - A Swedish man who was found alive after spending two months trapped in a car in freezing temperatures survived by eating snow and hibernating "like a bear," according to one theory. The m...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe Milky Way may be teeming with more than 100,000 free-flying planets, worlds that unlike our orderly solar system are not orbiting parent stars.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Israeli military will on Monday deploy a battery of rocket interceptors from its "Iron Dome" system in the Tel Aviv region, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "Iron Dome is being incorporated into ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- The knock on the door is a sign of bad things to come. "Do you have any work?" they ask. They have fled their villages and come into the city out of desperation. Their bellies ache from hunger....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA total of 2.71 million Koreans suffer from depression or similar mental illnesses during their lifetime. Over the past year, 1.3 million suffered from the psychological disease, and three out of every 10...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- If there is a central public sentiment about economics prevailing in America right now, it seems to be this: We want to go back to our manufacturing roots. The heyday of manufacturing, the block...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoClutching at straws appears to have replaced rational thought in our economics. Just as the dancing in the streets was about to begin over the joyous drop in inflation, along came the unemployment figure...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTurkey will never allow any third country, particularly Israel, to use intelligence obtained by a NATO radar system, its foreign minister said on Friday. "We will never allow any third country to use any...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJanuary 28th, Nem Thuong village in Vietnam’s Bac Ninh province, local villagers held a ceremony on this 6th day of the lunar new year, to commemorate 13th century anti-imperial general Doan Thuong. Doan T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe father uses this method as punishment when his daughter misbehaves. The incident occurred at 3:40pm February 3rd at a shopping center in Hangzhou. The father had purchased some newspapers on their way...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours agoT*he famous author JK Rowling has announced plans to make public her first novel for adults, which will be very dissimilar to the Harry Potter books she is well-known for*. All the Potter books were publ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCAIRO - Smoking, smoking everywhere. In buses and microbuses; in theatres, cinemas, hospitals and all public places. Smoking is rife in Egyptian society and it's spreading like wildfire. Dr Hassan Tawfiq...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested on Thursday Syria's opposition will ultimately arm itself and said she would bet against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's staying in power...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA retired British businessman is due to be extradited to the United States to face charges that he illegally exported weapons parts to Iran. Christopher Tappin, who is 65 and lives in Kent, will be hande...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLloyds Banking Group, which is 41% owned by the British taxpayer, has reported a loss of £3.54bn for 2011. The losses compare to a £281m profit the previous year, due to a £3.2bn outlay over the payment ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Island of Hawaii, Hawaii at a depth of 5.2 km (3.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:02:24 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Volcan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 121.3 km (75.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:09 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) WNW of Arequipa, Peru No...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoDozens of media outlets (let me pick IB Times as an example of a good story) inform us about a new paper by Roger Davies and Matthew Molloy of New Zealand, Global cloud height fluctuations measured by MIS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Leyte, Philippines at a depth of 98.3 km (61.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:42:31 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) ENE of Surigao, Mind...
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours agoExperts in Germany and the U.S. foresee a largely fossil fuel-free future.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“Dancing Around War With Iran”* by Addison Wiggin “The Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons,” declared Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. “The Islamic Republic,...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis provides researchers with anew bench mark variable that can be readily accessed and factored in withoutputting excessive boots on the ground. It is surely worth having. Resolution of a square kilo...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is very important. I see animmediate application in mapping root behavior in proximity to biochardistributed in the soil. Everythingsuggests that biochar acts like a magnet for root growth but th...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoIt seems odd that a route flawcould have been missed in the initial analysis as that is surely were one looksfor problems. That a test has been donenow to measure the circuit and has been found culpab...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is neat. Antenna design has been terribly neglected,mostly because no one ever needs more that good enough, yet the potential fordramatic improvement has also been patently obvious to every techni...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*“The Sunburn - Iran's Awesome Nuclear Anti-Ship Missile The Weapon That Could Defeat The US In The Gulf”* By Mark Gaffney "A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing t...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*On Thursday Apple can for currently continue to sell the iPad tablet in Shanghai after a court ruling over naming rights was suspended. The company is threatening to continue the battle in US courts*. H...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoIt's all in the punctuation... From this piece of BBC reporting on the IAEA inspectors in Iran comes this line: 'In November, an IAEA report - based on what it called "credible" information - indicated th...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 10 hours agoBrad DeLong links a 2001 Washington Monthly piece by Nicholas Confessore on Paul Krugman, leading Krugman to remark, "Has it really been 9 years of pushing this rock up the hill?" DeLong says the piece is "...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*From the country's scientists, the practice of dumping millions of tonnes of waste rock in deep Norwegian fjords is coming under close scrutiny.* The Norwegian Institute for Water Research is raising a ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoFukushima steaming? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rss1KurycyQ&feature=plcp&context=C3d8564fUDOEgsToPDskK2ZJ6pDgsKiKkbgijxXXrB and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hxLKUaTqrU&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&in...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoI made it to Salem without delay. The conference on Lessons From Fukushima starts tomorrow afternoon. I had the good fortune of sharing the bus from Portland to Salem with an independent scientist who ha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoRoger Waters, “The Tide is Turning” *"A Message to Our Elitist Oppressors"* by Matthew Herrin "Your days are numbered. We are legion. We are no longer afraid. "What'cha gonna' do when we come for you", e...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoRoger Waters, “The Tide is Turning”
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoRoger Waters, “The Tide is Turning”
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours ago"hunger" "rebellion" "mutations" "killer kids" "torture and execution" "weapons" "medicine" "tributes" "weird science" This President's Day week, tickets went on sale for The Hunger Games mov...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoOhio's radical right Republican state legislature just gerrymandered that state's congressional districts. One of the effects was to push Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur into one district. Both are basic...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 12 hours agoTECHNOLOGY - Scientists have discovered a new planet called GJ1214b first noticed in 2009, but has recently been dubbed "Kevin" after Kevin Costner (because of the film "Waterworld") since the planet was r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHIROSHIMA — Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak has termed the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima an "unavoidable tragedy." He made the remark during a visit to the Hiroshima Peace...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 12 hours agoAs I explained in the video, below is a clip from the Mesa, Arizona where the Mormon audience began by booing Santorum as soon as he MENTIONED Romneycare. I have news for these Romney followers - they a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFormer Prime Minister Naoto Kan has admitted that Japan was woefully unprepared for last year's nuclear disaster and suggested that the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant should not have been built so close t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe EU Commission has warned that the eurozone is heading for its second recession and has lowered its growth forecast for 2012. The Commission forecasts that economic output in the 17 nations sharing the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the South Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 75.8 km (47.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:10:35 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- A seismic shift is taking place in the Greek political system. The series of bailouts and austerity measures implemented during the last two years has led to a fundamental political crisis affect...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMP Eric Joyce has been charged with three counts of common assault after an alleged fight in a House of Commons bar. The 51-year-old MP for Falkirk had already been suspended by the Labour Party until th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Tunisian President has told Sky News that the world can no longer stand by and "watch the massacre" in Syria. President Moncef Marzouki was speaking as Western and Arab leaders gathered for the "Fri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 129.1 km (80.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:14:44 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Colombia at a depth of 150.9 km (93.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:05:41 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) South of Bucaramanga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Peru-Ecuador Border Region at a depth of 159.8 km (99.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:56:46 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 265 km (164 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:40:39 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 364 km (226 miles) North of Raou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of just 0 km (0 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 01:00:04 UTC Friday 24th February 2012 The epicenter was 25 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 122 km (75.6 miles), the quake hit at 21:46:20 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33.4 miles) Southwest of Mog...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDallas County Judge Tonya Parker says she won't perform marriage ceremonies until homosexuals can be wed. During a Feb. 21 meeting, Parker told the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas that while she has the pow...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoHershey's Law, the private member's bill that would repeal the worst of the Dog Owners' Liability Act - that is, the pit bull death sentence - has passed second reading in the Ontario Parliament. My hea...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoJust a few years back, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), that was at the time circling the moon, was directed by operators at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to take some pictures of the supposed ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoRemember our crazy water bill? And how tried to fight it? In the end, we had no choice. We had to pay the bill or Peel would have disconnected our water. After that, our only recourse was to file in small ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 15 hours agoThere's a running joke on the internets. I can't remember it exactyly but it goes something like, want to steal a little money, rob a bank. Want to steal a lot of money, own a bank. Sadly, it's not a joke....
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*A bad night at the Upper Big Branch mine -- to folks like Don Blankenship, just a cost of doing business?* *"They're moving up in the food chain. This will cause some sleepless nights for people high up ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoFrom Miami Herald: By Kathleen McGrory and Scott Hiaasen shiaasen@miamiherald.com A legislative plan to give charter schools a cut of local school districts’ construction money would steer millions of ad...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 16 hours ago[image: image]A few years back, a friend’s father arrived home from a meeting to select National’s successor in the blue ribbon seat of Remuera after Alan Highet’s retirement. Said friend’s father, “It’...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 16 hours agoHEALTH - In 1985 less than 9% of adult Americans were obese. By 2010 that number has risen to 33.8% of adult Americans. You can see a slideshow map of the USA at http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*The Man of The Decade: Ron Paul.* Stopping an American/Israeli war against Iran should be the number one global priority. But stopping the demons of war who have captured our governments and contro...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 17 hours agoThis is the question on *everyone's* lips as *this thing detonates*. Harper might weasel himself and his government out of a great many scandals, but at some point, something will stick.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*Red Nation Films is proud to present* *Red Nation Film Festival Pre-Oscar Screening Series* *American Indian Cinema Leading Up to the Oscar* Friday February 24th, 2012 at The Sacred Space 6:30 pm to 10:...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours ago*Right here.* Transport Canada has "no regulatory concerns" with Enbridge's proposed marine operations for the Northern Gateway pipeline, clearing the way for supertankers to carry Canadian crude across t...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoUpdated *Monday, February 27, 2012 9:00 am Native Community Action Council Board of Directors Meeting Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:00 am Meet and Greet-Coffee served 8:20 am Opening Prayer 8:30 am...
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoVideo versions of the company's infamously vague instruction booklets have hit their YouTube channel.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoBehemoth bones are scanned with a laser to create smaller, precise 3D models.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 18 hours agoResearchers have discovered a mathematical formula that governs fractal-like patterns in music.
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoBy Capt, Fogg Marvelous Mitt must be desperate to have something scary to say to distract Republicans from the religious wedge issues the public is getting tired of. He'd rather not talk about religion an...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoThe Democrats are desperate to hold onto the Senate, something that looks next to impossible. Half a dozen Democrats (+ Lieberman) are retiring, 2 in solidly red states (Nebraska and North Dakota) and 3 ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours agoNew Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees remains 'very optimistic' deal will get done
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoOver at Plum Line today, I'm looking around at what conservatives are sayingabout last night's debate and making (again) the point that their reactions are part of the party deciding. At PostPartisan, I fo...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoA bacteria that causes strep throat and flesh-eating diseases makes a glue that binds molecules.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours agoThere’s been an email thread going around the advertising industry in recent weeks, started when an email from the head one big agency calling his competitors “bastards”—bastards moreover who were going ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 20 hours agoPRESS RELEASE: FUNERAL FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO WHAT: Funeral service and procession for Gulf of Mexico, recently murdered by BP, Transocean and Halliburton under suspicious circumstances. Several governmen...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoThe colorful pebble bearing a sequence of lines dates back 100,000 years and may be the first evidence of abstract art.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours ago*Guest post by Daniel Silva of the **Importers Institute* The Importers Institute has today asked the government to pass urgent legislation empowering the Port of Auckland to dismiss striking port worke...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 21 hours agoClimate Whistle Blower Outed | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoCanada this month announced that any research on mammalian-transmissible strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus in the country’s labs would need to be done at the strictest level of biocontainment, Biologica...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 21 hours ago------------------------------ How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street Posted on February 20, 2012 by Ellen Brown Original Here In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA British photographer and French journalist wounded in an attack in Syria that killed Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik have appealed to be evacuated for urgent medical ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* "How Austerity Hinders an Economy Recovery"* by Bill Bonner "This will be our last Daily Reckoning until April 17th. So, what well-chosen words can we leave you with? How about “if,” “but” and “maybe?” ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 48.2 km (30 miles), the quake hit at 19:27:57 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.9 km (27.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:26:24 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105 miles) East of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBird flu more common and less lethal - study Bird flu is believed to be a rare disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, but a US study out today suggests it may be more common and less...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“Janet Tavakoli - MUST SEE Internet TV”* by Karl Denninger “Another "must see" segment... Stay out of hot tubs and small private planes Janet...” - http://market-ticker.org/
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoKids as young as 7 years old sustain over 100 hits in a single season.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNote: You will notice from this report that humans are the only mammals that can pick up this virus which results in flu like symptoms. Below you will see another report which seems to contradict the abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 22 hours agoBy L. Randall Wray This week we’re looking at thepublic purpose. Clearly, liberals and conservatives (used in the American senseof those terms) disagree on what government *ought*to do. Still, most peopl...
- posted by oasiuddin at Technology - 22 hours agoWorld Golf Championships Live http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3111223
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoIs a true democracy a natural thing for all animals to pursue?
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 22 hours agothe claim that the United States is the only nation with the "moral authority" to wage pre-emptive war on the rest of the world, because (according to FOX) the US is NOT seeking hegemony. Apparently, invad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 42 km (26 miles), the quake hit at 16:10:19 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 174 km (107.8 miles) East of Ternate, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoAnother 'inconvenient truth':Richard Heinberg's The End of Growth"The central assertion of this book is both simple and startling: economic growth as we have known it is over and done with." -- Richard Heinb...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoNate Silver made the case this past Sunday in the NYT Magazine that Barack Obama will run a populist campaign because, all else equal, it works best for him in the electoral college. Here's the problem wi...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 23 hours ago[Angel Carretero’s “AndalucÃa Misteriosa” website (andaluciamisteriosa.es.tl) is one of the most complete and updated repositories of information available on UFO cases in the Iberian Penins...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 23 hours ago
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 23 hours agoWhen the so called "Underwear Bomber" "attack" took place at Christmas time, in 2009, I like most in the real truth movement looked upon it as another false flag attack for very nefarious reasons by the US...
- posted by Robert Lamb at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoThis Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40k, which is sort of a big deal if you're male between the ages of 13 and 60 who digs sci-fi violence and the sweet, seductive scent of acrylic paint.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA stick figure man with a giant phallus dubbed "the little horny man" is the oldest rock carving found yet in the Americas.
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 23 hours agoThe enigmatic and ingenious Zorro of environmental activism, * FreewayBlogger *, has declared it's time for people to stop driving and I couldn't agree more. There is a contest on for slogans, with a to...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 23 hours agoToday I mostly have some random photos to share with you. Don't forget to link up your photos too! Day 46- This photo is from a Style United party I hosted. Style United is a fantastic all over beauty sit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMOSCOW (AP) — Moscow and Beijing remain opposed to any foreign interference in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday as Russia worked to shore up international support for its position ahead of a majo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo seals have been put down after they were discovered with "horrific" gun wounds in County Waterford. The seals were found dead on Tramore Beach on Wednesday night. Garda have said they are investigati...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoYesterday, we wondered who would wind up with a longer criminal rap sheetby November, Howard "Buck" McKeon in California or Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm in New York. Staten Island Democrats haven't coalesce...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoTHREE 30 SECOND COMMERCIALS. Wonderful antidotes for BIG VICKIE. Enjoy. They show what teamwork can do to deal with problems. Stevie is a problem.
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoTonight Question Time comes from Tunbridge Wells. David Dimbleby is joined on the panel by Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry, UKIPs Paul Nuttall MEP, journalist Cri...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 23 hours agoFor some reason I am in a sour mood today. My brows are furrowed. It could have something to do with the news I read everyday? In as brief a period of time, I am going to cover a lot of news And awaaaayyy we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt was the two-headed baby trout that got everyone’s attention. Photographs of variously mutated brown trout were relegated to an appendix of a scientific study commissioned by the J. R. Simplot Company, ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoBill Kirchen performs at the KOOP Surfin' 17-A-Go-Go benefit at Antone's in Austin, Feb. 4, 2012. Photo courtesy Ted and Linda Branson / KOOP / The Rag Blog.Rag Radio:Commander Cody's Bill Kirchenis a 'Titan...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago*Was Gadhafi's crime that he flouted the UCC? * *Contributor: "YYC"* Ever heard of Uniform Commercial Code? Google it. It's old as dirt and most of us don't have a clue about it. It's primarily American ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoWe've been emphasizing for a few years that in the last decade, the global warming trend wasn't statistically significant and according to most datasets, it was actually negative: linear regression produce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMP Eric Joyce has been suspended by the Labour Party after being arrested on suspicion of assault after an alleged fight in a bar in the House of Commons. A spokesman for the party said the suspension w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: After the Japan tsunami of 2011, the last surviving pine tree stands in what was once a sprawling grove of more than 70,000 that towered above the white sandy shore and made it a popular tourist ...
- Why Do Corporations Who've Created No Jobs Need Another Tax Cut When Demand Must Be Increased First?posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoDon't you just love reading and listening to Robert Reich's informed opinions? He's so intelligent and down to earth in his almost intimate conversations about national economic policy. Don't you wonder wh...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoAnd I do mean post mortem. Even only having sort of half watched half of the debate, one can't come to any conclusion other than the Republican party is dead. Didn't think I'd live to see the day that I ag...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Greek Jews* There have been reports (UK's Sunday Times) of Greek rioters demanding protection money from store owners. *According to historian Richard Cottrell, the violence in Greece is a CIA-NATO 'G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoROME, Ga. — Authorities say dozens of homes were damaged by a storm that rolled through northwest Georgia, toppling trees and knocking out power to thousands of customers. Floyd County Emergency Managemen...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Fire burns on the ocean surface after the wreckage of the Chevron Nigeria gas exploration rig KS Endeavour sank. Local people fear that the fire may have contaminated the fish they normally eat. ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe glasses will function like a smartphone and will be android-bases.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Fishermen working here recently saw five ducks fly directly into a building, killing themselves. Another 120 dead ducks were found over the last six weeks. The birds’ carcasses were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSixteen Army personnel, including five officers, were killed and nine others injured in two avalanches in Ganderbal and Bandipora districts of Kashmir Valley. "Massive avalanches hit two Army Posts in Ce...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* February 21, 2012 *Greece Has a Choice - Get Out the Euro* Costas ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThirty-seven children were found to be suffering from lead poisoning in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong province, and the relevant departments have yet to find the cause of the contamination, according ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHavana, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) Several South American countries remain today in a state of emergency due to heavy rainfall associated with La Niña weather phenomenon that has unleashed chaos in the region...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A kudzu field in north Georgia. Jim Hanula, courtesy of USDA Forest Service] Contact: Qinfeng Guo, qguo@fs.fed.us, 828-257-4246, Pensoft Publishers 23 February 2012 (Pensoft Publishers) – Extensi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Wild emmer wheat, progenitor of all cultivated wheats. Wheats and barleys are the staple food for humans and animal feed around the world, and their wild progenitors have undergone genetic change...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 6 67.9 km (42.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:26:39 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Southeast from Sapp...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012* *Ruth Marcus finagles her framework:* Is the Democratic Party lousy at winning elections? Who knows? There may be better approaches the party could take. But good grief! Lo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Kerry Emanuel, atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT]By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News 22 February 2012 A number of prominent U.S. climate scientists who ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoMany times on this blog I have asked the reader the question - why would legislators intentionally support pro-business legislation at the cost of the citizenry that pays their salary. Many times I have i...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoJanet M. exemplified everything America said was beautiful in the late 1970s. Her long, straight, flaxen tresses would have made Farrah Fawcett jealous, and they hung from the top of her pretty head, down ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYUBARI, Hokkaido -- An art museum here partially collapsed from the weight of accumulated snow, an employee of its managing company discovered on Feb. 23. The museum was closed for the winter and there w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Grant Ferguson, from the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, at the Pacific Ocean. usask.ca]Contact: Michael Robin University of Saskatchewan (306) 966-1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSOMA, Fukushima -- City authorities here will prioritize decontamination of areas where children's external radiation exposure is estimated to be 2 millisieverts or more per year, it has been learned. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter the Great East Japan Earthquake damaged and closed ports, at least 4.37 million chickens being raised in Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures died, leading to a shortage of eggs in eastern Japan. J...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day ago1. Why would a modern political party turn over a large chunk of influence over their nomination process to the candidate best able to...pack the room for debates, thus ensuring that his points would be in...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoSpeedy neutrinos are so yesterday, as Katie Yurkewicz said. What is hot today is the new accurate W-boson mass as measured by the CDF at the Tevatron. A special seminar is beginning right now, at 10 ...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoI often encourage my students to distill complex analytical concepts into terse, plain English. But some things can't be boiled down to a tweet, as I discovered this week when attempting to explain Cingr...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoShould I wear a mask on the plane? When Enviroreporter Michael Collins and his partner flew they recorded alpha particles, which had stuck to their masks during the flight However, wearing one of those ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is in for a torrid weekend in Mexico City. Chancellor Angela Merkel is so concerned to get a second bailout for Greece approved by her parliamentary...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Physicists are to run new tests in May after the CERN research institute said on Thursday that its startling findings appearing to show that one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong co...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012* *Part 3—Gail Collins should look in the mirror:* The analysts chuckled when they perused Sunday’s Washington Post. The Style section featured a sprawling, two-page report ab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Greece's debt problems drove a slew of heavy losses across the European banking sector on Thursday, and bosses warned the euro zone crisis would continue to threaten earnings. From France to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over fears of an increasing risk ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Ever since their first awkward encounter - a hastily arranged meeting in a custodian's office at a Washington airport in 2007 - Iran has been one of the few issues on which Barack Obama and Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, Western military sources said, as the Taliban urge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- An explosion at a bus stand killed 12 people and injured more than 30 others Thursday in northwest Pakistan, police said More than 10 vehicles were damaged in the attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A series of explosions and shootings killed 44 people and injured more than 200 in Baghdad and elsewhere Thursday morning, Iraqi police said. Police believe the wave of attacks, most of them with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Barack Obama apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the burning of Qurans by NATO troops, calling the act an inadvertent error, Karzai's office and National ...
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- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoShould you be scared? Only a little.Unmanned aerial vehicles, have their dark side.
- posted by Christina Ortiz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoOlder adults show improved cognitive abilities after playing a video game.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSatellite measurements show nitrogen dioxide levels in the atmosphere above the mining project compare to what is seen over some medium-sized cities.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew study suggests terrorism "hot spots" are moving out of the city and into the country.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- In a dusty campsite in central Australia more than 30 years ago, a mother's cries of "a dingo's got my baby" set the stage for one of the country's most intriguing murder mysteries. The final sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- United Nations' bodies investigating crimes and human rights violations in Syria should identify perpetrators and hold them accountable, a U.N. commission said Thursday, stressing that "urgent, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBenjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOf the interrogation Sanglah party, according to Ken, could not be ascertained whether the WM had contact with poultry. "The family is still denying that the victims had contact with poultry. We are ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeven US Marines are feared dead after two helicopters collided during a night training exercise in southeast California. They were reportedly flying over mountains when their Cobra and Huey helicopters ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 60.6 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:09:15 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62.6 miles) WSW of Ta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 628.6 km (390.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:35 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) East of Ndoi Island...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoKevin Falcon is pissed. So is Christy Clark. What has them pissed? Somebody whizzed all over their parade. That's what. In the hours since the delivering of the BC provincial budget I have tried to ration...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoVenezuela: UFO Recorded in the Central Littoral Region By Hector Escalante – Ovnivenezuela CARACAS, 20 February 2012 – On Sunday, 19 February at approximately 8:00 p.m., Jimmy Ramirez managed to c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe firm behind a controversial 'back-to-work' scheme forced desperate jobseekers to take unpaid employment at their own offices or face having their benefits stripped, it has emerged. It also sent peopl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyrian forces have shot dead unarmed women and children, shelled residential areas and tortured wounded protesters in hospital under orders from the 'highest level' of army and government officials, the U...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSix swans have been decapitated and butchered for their breast meat, it was revealed today. The royally protected birds were found by rangers at Alvaston Park in Derbyshire last week. Police believe they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe body of a young man was found today at the house where double-murder suspect Stephen Farrow was arrested. As Farrow appeared in court today charged with the murder of a retired teacher and a vicar, p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Chinese gang of grave robbers was caught trying to sell a dead woman into marriage - days after her family had done exactly the same thing. The woman's devastated parents,from the rural Hebei Province n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIraq was today hit by a rapid series of attacks that killed at least 60 people in what appeared to be a strike by Al Qaeda militants determined to destabilise the country. The coordinated bombings and sh...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoFormer Secretary of Labor Robert Reich had posts up Monday and Tuesday that I found not just interesting but very related as well. But Reich did explicitly connect them. Monday was, at least in part, a po...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoLee Zurik Investigation: S&WB ratepayers funding exec’s $1M retirement plan Nagin probe warrants soul-searching by voters, media as well ~Mark Moseley, The Lens Broken records: Sheriff not complying with o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 68.5 km (42.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:25:30 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (73 mi...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoI'm sure you've seen this everywhere already, but *damn*, how could I not post it. I love this man and I love this music. He may be short of breath, but consider that he's almost 70 years old... and still ...
- Putin praises Russian Cold War spies who stole U.S. nuclear secrets (they apparently saved humanity)
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHis experience as a KGB spy would come in handy for this piece of deception. Hundreds of residents appear to be giving their whole-hearted support to Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin by turning up a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA former University of Virginia lacrosse player was today found guilty of killing his girlfriend in a drunken argument. George Huguely V was acquitted of first-degree murder, but found guilty of second-d...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to the HBP king, Ron Hunt. He's 71. Managed to get himself plunked 50 times in 1971, which is 15 more than anyone has done it in the modern (post-1900) era. Dust ourselves off and head to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA substitute teacher accused of filming himself molesting a young girl is on the run in Mexico, according to police. It has emerged that George Hernandez was investigated three times over claims he abuse...
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- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day ago*THE VAGINA PATROL (or American Taliban, take your pick) MASTER DEBATERS:* (Where's Ron Paul in this picture, btw? Raw Story cuts out Ron Paul or did CNN cut out Ron Paul? Huffington Post cuts out Ron Paul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSecurity at a U.S. school has been stepped up after a racist video rant by two of its white female students went viral. Santaluces High School, in Lantana, Florida, is on high alert for possible retaliat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThreatening letters claiming to contain lethal 'pathogens' have been sent to lawmakers and high-profile media personalities across America, it has emerged. Police revealed that more than 100 letters cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOnly half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures. In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government - the lowest proportio...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*(Click on graphic to enlarge ....)* *"Conservative values are Canadian values."* * Stephen Harper* * "Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPrime Minister Vladimir Putin has told a mass rally of his supporters that he will not allow foreign powers to interfere in Russia's internal affairs and predicted victory in an ongoing battle for its fu...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago[image: image] The Australian climate offers opportunity especially for unique holiday houses. Like this one for photographer Marian Drew and family by Simon Laws of Anthill Construction for “a one of a...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoFollowing the arrest of three young Anonymous hackers in Greece, the collective has attacked again the website of the Ministry of Justice, defacing its homepage. "The Republic in Greece has died. He died ...
- posted by Stephanie Carvin at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThe direct targeting of actors protected under the laws of war has been one of the most disturbing trends arising out of the Arab Spring. For example, the targeting of medical workers and ambulance driver...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDespite the massive wildfires that have swept the western U.S. in recent years, the region has barely begun paying down the huge fire deficit it has accumulated over the last 100 years.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn effigy of the U.S. President daubed with the graffiti 'black dog Obama' was set alight in a furious response to troops burning copies of the Koran. The furious Afghan protesters lifted aloft the model ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoComputer hackers could have the ability to take down the entire U.S. electrical grid within the next two years, the head of the National Security Agency has warned. General Keith Alexander expects the 'h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn unruly Saudi teen was held down and detained by fellow passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight after he began shouting 'Allah is great' and making references to Osama bin Laden as he swung his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 49 people were killed and more than 600 were injured today when a commuter train crashed in a busy station in Argentine capital Buenos Aires. The train, which was overcrowded with more than a tho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Christian pastor who converted from Islam is to be put to death for leaving Islam following the ruling of an Iranian court, it was reported today. Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, was arrested more than two year...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA graduate aged 21 has the same chance of being unemployed as a 16-year-old school leaver with one GCSE, official figures revealed yesterday. Around one in four of both groups is currently without a job....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian government has denied responsibility for the deaths of the two foreign journalists killed in Homs, as tanks move into the Bab Amr area in which they were killed. The foreign ministry said Mari...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA taxi driver was being questioned last night over the murders of two elderly widows found dead in their homes just a few streets apart. Andy Flood, 43, is believed to have handed himself in after walking...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA convicted rapist sexually assaulted a woman and exposed himself to two others despite being under police surveillance. Michael Phillips, 35, sexually assaulted a 28-year-old woman in Church Street, Bri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain has drawn up plans to send an aircraft carrier, Apache attack helicopters and Royal Marines to fight pirates and terrorists in Somalia. David Cameron will announce that the UK is more than doublin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice have launched a second fraud inquiry involving state contracts run by David Cameron’s millionaire ‘back-to-work’ tsar Emma Harrison. Mrs Harrison’s beleaguered firm A4e volunteered details of the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTop secret documents concerning Britain’s multi-million pound deal to develop state-of-the-art drones have been stolen in Paris, it emerged tonight. In what had all the hallmarks of a covert operation by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGermany is rejecting demands from an EU body that it should stop surgically castrating sex criminals - a practice that dates back to the Nazis - because it is ‘degrading’. Defying Brussels, the German go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn a suburban street, this is the blood-stained scene after a man brandishing a knife was gunned down by police who failed to incapacitate him with up to four Taser rounds. Last night the 25-year-old sus...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe Today website is no longer providing clips of every part of the programme. No explanation, but I assume it’s something to do with the cuts. Hmm. More importantly, as stories about failed rogue states,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe NHS is paying GPs to look after 2.5million ‘ghost’ patients, ministers admitted last night. Doctors are receiving an estimated £162million a year – footed by the taxpayer – for non-existent patients ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents of Fukushima Prefecture who evacuated following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are increasingly losing hope of returning to their homes. The finding came in a survey by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United Nations refugee agency today voiced fears for the safety of thousands of people who have fled fresh violence near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and urged all armed groups to ensure the safety ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 60,000 Liberian refugees spread in countries of the West African sub region will no longer be accepted under such status beginning July 1 this year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warns in a majo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoAnyone catch this John Humphyrs interview with William Hague on Today this morning. What fascinated me was how a discussion regarding what could be done to help those people suffering under the Assad regim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKhartoum and Juba have agreed to start the border demarcation process in order to resolve issues they started discussing before the independence of South Sudan in 2011. Khartoum — Delegations Khartoum an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAbuja — Apparently miffed over the ease, with which Boko Haram sect attacked some military formations in the country recently, the Army high command, yesterday did a major stock taking and redeployed 72 G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDouala — UK researchers have discovered how the drugs that are currently used to treat sleeping sickness work at the molecular level, potentially opening the way to tackling growing resistance to the drug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoExperts say the increasing use of agricultural land for settlement and commercial purposes is threatening food security. According to a new report most land owners around urban centres in the Rift Valley...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEast Africa, still battling a hunger crisis, should be prepared for another dry spell and further food insecurity due to the persistence of La Ni-a weather conditions that last year brought severe drought...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter many years of legal struggle, nine widows from the Indonesian village of Rawagede have each been awarded 20,000 euros compensation by the Dutch government for war crimes committed in 1947. On their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHouseholds took out more loans during the second half of last year to cover their living expenses, according to a questionnaire survey of 2,030 households released by the Bank of Korea on Thursday. "Amon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA panhandler underscores the variety of social problems Vladimir Putin addresses in his latest policy article that is heavily focused on demographics. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled his plan on s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Putin era is ending, but the authorities are doing everything possible to make it a dramatic finale. The fallout from the widely discredited State Duma elections is a sign that a fundamentally new si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSomalia's hard line Islamist rebels are reported to have taken delivery of up to 30 surface-to-air missiles smuggled to them from Libya since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. According to intelligence sourc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: The 42-year-old Iranian, Mohammad Khazaei (C), has been detained by Thai officials for his involvement in a foiled terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. (Reuters) Iran and Lebanon’s...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLibyans took to the streets on Friday to celebrate the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Muammar Qaddafi, with fireworks and slogans, even as their new leader vowed to act firmly against furth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIranian opposition group the National Council of Resistance said Thursday it has agreed to begin evacuating its long-time base in a camp in central Iraq to transfer to a U.N.-approved site near Baghdad. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere’s been an increase of news reports recently assessing portions of the legacy of the work and money spent by international forces along with aid workers in Afghanistan. If the book, “We Meant Well: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerican foreign policy for the past decade has been dominated by a focus on countering the threat of global terrorism. As a 21-year-old, I hardly remember a time before the Global War on Terrorism, rovin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIs Myanmar detaching itself from China? The question has made Western headlines recently. Reports hint that Myanmar is moving closer to the West. These are misinterpreting the changes in Asia. China is cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA restaurant selling a seasonal dish of dog meat hotpot was forced to remove its sign featuring a golden retriever yesterday, after dog lovers posted photos online and urged people to boycott the eatery. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEditor's Note: The threat of an Israeli strike against Iran, and possible US involvement in any possible war, looms large this year. Meanwhile, Iran's neighbor Syria is in turmoil. What's Iran's attitude ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the current hot topics on the Chinese Internet is the forthcoming requirement for Weibo, or microblog, users to register their real names. Starting in March, no one will be allowed to post on any o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMany Chinese students flock to the US for green cards or greener pastures. But they may end up university cash cows in those pastures, ready to be milked as needed to fill the yawning budget gaps at US sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere aren't many Chinese camping in Zuccotti Park, the home of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. Not a surprise. Chinese immigrants have long been known for being silent and invisible at political...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 526.1 km (326.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:09:13 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 355 km (221 miles) West from NUKU'ALO...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTaxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland has announced a full year loss of £2bn - further fuelling the debate about bankers' pay and bonuses. The bank, which is 82% owned by the state, posted a pre-tax los...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud Indonesia at a depth of 125.6 km (78 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:27 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 317 km (196 miles) ESE of Ge...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoI have posted previously on this blog re the last Labour government's deliberate opening up of the country's borders to mass immigration and the revelations from Andrew Neather that this was to ‘rub the Ri...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoI do not know if this is quitewithin reach yet although it is surely in our future much sooner thanlater. Far more certain are going to bethe development of warplanes flown from a remote site. Why ris...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoWell maybe, or perhaps we areteaching a computer to imitate a human pattern of thought that may or may notbe efficious. Our pattern recognitionability is hard wired in the brain and is vaster than we a...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis is an excellent experimentand it demonstrates a lot of what we have surmised. The shortening taking place needs to benoticed because there is go evidence here of the selection been affected bypred...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThe take home here is thatnatural photosynthesis is only around one percent efficient, thus leaving ampleroom for improvement. Nature has had noneed to do any better and perhaps we need to encourage na...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*New people tuned in to ITV's coverage of this year's Brit Awards than have completed so in the last seven years. In the opinion of ITV it had received 170 complaints about the climax to Tuesday's teleca...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Radioactive elements from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have been detected in seawater and marine organisms up to 600km from Japan. Analysis revealed eminent levels of radioactive rudiments ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoGoogle began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, three nations are affected: *Australia:* motls.blogspot.com.au *New Zealand:* motls.blogspot.co.nz *India:* motls...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 1 day agoThink about this if you are a rational, calm, decent American: What could the people in Afghanistan ... or for that matter in Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Wazir...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoJeremy fan at the Knicks game against the Toronto Raptors, Feb. 14, 2012. Photo by Mike Cassese / Reuters.Enter the Dragon:NBA lucks out in New Yearwith Knicks' Jeremy Lin-sanityBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Ra...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day agoThe European Union's highest court has been asked to rule on the legality of a controversial anti-piracy agreement. *In June Acta is set to be debated by the European Parliament. The agreement has so far...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*According to research from cost contrast site uSwitch, a third of homes in the UK have broadband speeds well beneath the general standard*. Hereford was the slowest city, with average speeds of 3.1Mbps. ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have spent the last few hours going over some of the Jewish controlled media outlets reports on their reasoning for having Iran attacked and destroyed, and what I found is disturbing.. Many of the report...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoToday, the blogosphere was atwitter with the news that bow-tied super-douche Tucker Carlson, last night on *Fox News*, declared that "*Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:12 UTC Thursday 23rd February 2012 The epicenter was 2585 km (1606 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHundreds of illegal immigrants from India are sleeping rough in appalling conditions in West London, a Sky News investigation can reveal. Unable to find work after the economic downturn, the men huddle to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTechnicians monitor the air for radiation during a nuclear accident drill in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province following the Fukushima disaster in Japan last March. Photo: CFP An inter-provincial squabble over ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"You Reading This, Be Ready"* "Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSoldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from obliteratin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse "Siddhartha" is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of a boy known as Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the time of the Buddha. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou might not want to read this article if you have a weak stomach. Most Americans have absolutely no idea what is going on in the dark corners of America, and when people find out the truth it can come a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAny financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy thing...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDo you want to know what the future of America is going to look like? Just check out what is happening to Detroit. The city of Detroit was once one of the greatest industrial cities in the history of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the United States today, unemployment among those age 18 to age 34 is at epidemic levels and the number of young adults that are now living at home with Mom and Dad is at an all-time high. So why are s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe stock market is way up again and many economic indicators are pointing upwards as well. Any rational judge would say that Obama's fiscal and economic policies-- despite concerted, persistent and even ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAbout five years ago, my husband and I were in the investigative stages of having a stand-by generator installed on our home. I called a company that sold one of the more popular brands and asked if the g...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoPaul Krugman wrote yesterday that it looks like Europe is going down the drain (so to speak) due to the austerity master no-minds in charge. The economies have gotten much worse since the medicine (poison)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA recent Reuters poll revealed some interesting insights into the mindset of many Americans today. A large majority (73 percent) revealed that they believe we are “off on the wrong track”. Nearly half of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of toda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBarack Obama wants to disarm America. There simply is no other way to explain his reckless behavior. On Tuesday it came out that the Obama administration is considering plans to unilaterally slash the siz...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe following are 19 facts about abortion in America....Shocking #1 There have been more than 53 million abortions performed in the United States since Roe v. Wade was decided back in 1973. #2 When you to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen most people think about America's debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government. But that is only part of the story. The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPlans to build a new generation of "fighter drones" that can wage war by remote control are set to be agreed today by Britain and France. David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy are preparing to put t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSoldiers with the 25th Mechanized Brigade near the front lines in Zinjibar Yemen. Image credit: Richard Rowley, Big Noise Films Gen. Mohammed al-Sumali sits in the passenger seat of his armored Toyota La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBy Danny Schechter Author, The Crime Of Our Time New York, New York: William H McRaven is an admiral in Obama’s Navy. He was a member of Seal Team 3, and oversaw the killing of Osama Bin Laden. He’s the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLeila is watching her baby intently, as his mouth moves trying to swallow the small blob of yellow peanut paste Dr Tayab has spooned gently into his mouth. She sits on the floor of her one-room mud house...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoI did a wrap for it over at Plum Line. Short version: these candidates are awful. I was a little more cranky than usual, so you might or might not enjoy that. My usual practice is that I watch the debate ...
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