- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 minutes ago*"Debt Beats the Economy in a Growth Race"* by Bill Bonner "Get out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes…we’re going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese si...
- posted by Christina Reed at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 minutes agoDetails on the Russian drilling expedition in Lake Vostok tell of a small geyser of drilling fluid that was collected at the surface after the lake was breached.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago(Reuters) - Syrian government artillery barrages killed dozens of civilians in Homs on Thursday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad, bolstered by Russian support, ignored appeals from world lead...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 minutes ago*"It is a sad day for the earth, the people, and our broken system of justice. I am sorry." Save the Peaks Attorney Howard M. Shanker* Ninth Circuit rules against Save the Peaks 2012 Censored news reporter...
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I used to think that photography was in everything I did, but NOW after starting this project it really is in everything that I do. My husband is starting to hide his face more than ever in photos. What di... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 57 minutes agoFeb. 9 - The death toll from the heavy snow that has blanketed large parts of Japan rises to over 80. Simon Hanna reports.
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*"Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-c... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes agoFeb. 9 - Turkey vows to help the Syrian refugees fleeing violence across the border. Nick Rowlands reports
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(Reuters) - The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launche... - posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoFive people are dead in a village in Nepal after the same leopard attacked them.
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Tonight Question Time comes from London. David Dimbleby is joined by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, Alastair Campbell, Shirley Williams (apparently not dead yet, it seems), Alan Partridge Steve Coogan... - posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 1 hour ago
The rise of the Jewish nation is inextricably linked with the rise of the banking families. In the first part of this article the positive actions of the Rothschilds were looked into. However, the relat... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who was stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are no... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoWhile Professor Noam Chomsky was in Tucson this week he was asked about the Mexican American Studies ban. *By DA Morales* *Three Sonorans* http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/02/08/video-noam-cho...
- posted by DNews Editors at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoA Damascus resident gives DNews an exclusive interview on the chilling juxtaposition of fear and normality there.
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Powerful video... and it's been watched by over 18 million people on YouTube. *Religion puts you in bondage While Jesus sets you free Religion makes you blind Jesus makes you see* I spoke to a candida... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoOver at Plum Line today, I talked about the possible effects of an improved economy -- and why it's possible that conventional wisdom is too pessimistic. See Ezra Klein this morning for more on the latter ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour agoBy Eric Johnson 8 February 2012 SEATTLE – Debris from last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan is already washing up on Washington beaches, and much more is expected. Oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbsm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA Dragons' Den 'conman' allegedly blew £230,000 on living a life of luxury instead of his satnav for skiers product that wowed the show's judges. Jean-Claude Baumgartner, 50, is charged with duping Peter ...
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*Folks, you may fluff this off as just a coincidence the choreographers choose this esoteric occult theme for the half time show, but, if you do the research, you will discover the ruling elites take it ... - posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 2 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Dome Rock Industries was busily handling hazardous waste in Quatzite, Ariz., when it got sideways with the local environmental folks. The company recently agreed to pay a $25,000 settlemen...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 hours agoLook! Down on the ground. See that small speck at the lower left corner on this picture of Mars? It's alien technology...
- Link: http://youtu.be/WK2LpUoqX6A -- click here to see enlarged Thanks Marian for the head-up! Enjoy a good weekend, John
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoYobs as young as 10 rolled a monster snowball into a busy main road as they terrorised passing drivers and pedestrians. The 20-strong gang pelted cars, buses and vans with snowballs and were confronted b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHimalayan glaciers are melting far more slowly than predicted, according to a new satellite study from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previous estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA top food scientist jumped to his death from the roof of his work laboratory just hours after being made redundant, an inquest has heard. Dr Clive Blackburn - who developed products for big brand names i...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Cover of 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines', by Michael Mann, 2012.] As anyone with the slightest interest in Earth’s climate knows, the *Merchants of Doubt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA deaf girl of 10 was trafficked into the UK, repeatedly raped, kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court heard today. The orphaned youngster from Pakistan, who is prof...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoThis photo of an Occupier at Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square) was taken several weeks after the footage of police brutality was posted on YouTube and elsewhere. Considering the government's treatment of the ci...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoIgnoring the beauty contest in Missouri and taking the ballot vote in the caucus states (which he'll probably underperform in delegate selection, given that he's the least organized of the candidates), her...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 3 hours agoLocked water tap in Kipsaraman, Kenya. Image from oxfam.org.uk.As benign as Lucifer:The privatization of waterBy Richard Raznikov / The Rag Blog / February 9, 2012Beginning about 20 years ago, it dawned on t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 3 hours agoI've lost track of how many times I have struggled through reading scientific research, posting the most relevant sections here on Wit's End and thought, whew, I'm done now! Surely, *this* study proves de...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours agoTepco Injects Boric Acid Into Reactor as Temperatures RiseBy Tsuyoshi InajimaFeb 6, 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. injected boric acid into a reactor at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent an ac...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoToday, Feb 9, in the WSJ print edition "Southern Nears Reactor Approvals" p. B3 "Federal regulators are expected to give Southern Co the green light on Thursday to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *As always, Chris and the Times can’t explain:* Wedge issue fights can boil up fast, especially in election years. Clarity tends to take a hike. Inevitably, your nation’s bigg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoKATHMANDU — A leopard dragged away and devoured a 14-year-old girl in western Nepal in what is thought to be the fifth deadly attack by the same animal in just two months, police said on Thursday. The yo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNine members of an al Qaeda-inspired terror group that plotted to bomb the London Stock Exchange and build a terrorist training camp have been jailed. The group also planned to send five bombs through the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA man has been arrested after a 12-year-old girl was stabbed in Wigan, police say. The girl, who had been stabbed twice in the back, was treated for a punctured lung. Her injuries are not believed to be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Papua Region, Indonesia at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:18:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) North of J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMEXICO CITY — Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 Indians and other people who suffered food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico. But the leader of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLa Paz, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) The alert for increased cases of dengue and hemorrhagic fever was declared on Wednesday in the Bolivian department of Beni. The head of epidemiology at the Departmental Heal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn oil platform was partially evacuated earlier this week when a gas leak was detected, Shell has said. Of the 76 staff on the Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea, 48 were returned to shore by helicop...
- 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSYDNEY (AP) — A 10-foot tiger shark has attacked a swimmer off a remote beach in Australia's third attack this month. That's as many attacks as the country generally sees in an entire year. Western Austr... - posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoSent to the Baltimore Sun, Feb. 9 We should all “worry about overwhelming students, schools with tests” (2/7/12). As the Sun points out, the new testing will be extremely time-consuming. There is no sci...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 3 hours agoMy kid can't go - she's gotta new TV show that's failing....can you send your daughter to kill them Iranians? gotta' show to catch on Fox - now grab your rifle and kill them crazy Iranians! These "people...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago------------------------------ Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded [image: Nevada Election Result Likely Fraudulent, Ron Paul Votes Seemingly Discarded ava...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 3 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Rick, Rick, Rick.....before you attempt to instill unnecessary fear into the hearts of your sheep again, we ran out of the desert camo for you but here is a left-over bright orange jumps...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agohttp://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/9849-is-america-a-police-state Perhaps the real question is, "why have we allowed this to occur?"
- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours ago[image: Luftverschmutzung in Liaoning China] Photo credit: lhgszch on Flickr. Back in December 2009, I wrote a post for the Duck called "Wal-mart Isn't Green." Jared Diamond had written a provocative op-ed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAfter being isolated for more than 30 hours, a 37-year-old paperboy, SA, suspected of being infected with bird flu died on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the isolation room of Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCAIRO: With all eyes on Egypt’s new parliament in January, 13 cases of the H5N1, or bird flu, were reported in Egypt, highlighting that the deadly virus was making a return to the North African country. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoShillong, Feb 9 (PTI) Eighteen days after culling of bird-flu affected poultry ended in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills, residents of a locality and government officials were in a tizzy after more than 100 pi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoVietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has had only two H5N1 influenza patients in the last two years and both of them are dead. Thus, the H5N1 epidemic has returned, remarked Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoArgentina should be in no doubt that Britain will "defend the Falkland Islands properly" against any threat to its inhabitants' right to self-determination, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Mr Came...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe capsized Concordia is shifting closer to a dangerous drop off as workers scramble to contain contamination.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThis week more than 200 dolphins were found dead along a 106-kilometer stretch at the beaches of Lambayeque. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the deaths. According to El Comer...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoIt's easy to think of the Security Council as essentially a reflection of great power interests when we see outcomes such as the failure of a resolution calling for President Assad's departure. However I...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoA zero-gravity roller coaster will make you hurl...down the tracks at 100 miles an hour.
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoRFID tags may soon be cheap enough to stamp on paper.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *What the heck happened to Seamus:* This was an amazing morning on the op-ed page of the Times. As usual, Collins and Kristof bordered the page. But this morning, each scribe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Bank of England has agreed to extend its quantitative easing (QE) programme by £50bn to give a further boost to the UK economy. When completed, it will bring the total amount of QE stimulus to £325bn....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia has another bizarre way to keep commuters off the roofs of trains: swat them with brooms drenched in putrid goop. "For anyone who is still up there, it'll be like a w...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoNerve Gas May Be Used on UK Rioters, Scientists Fear By Steve Connor, The Independent UK 08 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/9869-nerve-gas-may-be-used-on-uk-rioters-sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNEW DELHI (AP) -- India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier in recent weeks as it moderni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSome 1.1 million computers have been infected with a virus that displays obscene images that can't be erased without sending money to its suspected creators, Kyoto Prefectural Police announced on Feb. 8. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA temporary storage site for radioactive waste generated under a model decontamination project around the disaster-struck Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was unveiled to reporters on Feb. 9. To prevent rad...
- posted by ProfPTJ at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoSocial/Science/Fiction preliminary course outline SIS-419.B01, Summer session 2012 Professor Patrick Thaddeus Jackson This course will meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00pm-4:10pm, from 21 May until 28 June,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFeb. 9 - One dead and 13 wounded in a truck bomb attack in Thailand’s restive south. Nick Rowlands reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFeb. 9 - Local Maldivian television airs footage showing ousted president being led away by police. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - The second U.S. drone attack in two days in Pakistan's North Waziristan region killed five people on Thursday, including a senior militant commander with links to al Qaeda, Pakistani intellige...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFeb. 9 - A report finds the CTV building which collapsed in the New Zealand quake last year was not constructed to required standards. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States is seeking more access to Philippines ports and airfields to re-fuel and service its warships and planes, diplomatic and military sources said on Thursday, expanding its pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs with rocket and mortar fire on Thursday, activists said, as divided world powers struggled to find a way to end the vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country's financial...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012* *Part 4—Helene Cooper tries to explain:* “Journalists” are deeply involved in the joy of the flub. Just consider one reaction to Candidate Romney’s latest. Romney had been ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago*Castle Romeo was a lithium-deuteride fueled H-bomb** **exploded 1 March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. ** **It yielded 15 megatons and** **had a fireball 4 miles in diameter.* PAKISTAN HAS DOUBLED THE SIZE OF ITS N...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 5 hours agoMy inbox is flooded with action alerts from all different groups, which I feel obligated to pass on, even though many (most?) people who read this blog probably get these petitions through multiple sources...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 21 km (13 miles), the quake hit at 13:24:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19.8 miles) Northeast o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple is facing demonstrations on Thursday at a half-dozen of its retail stores around the world from customers concerned about how Apple's suppliers treat their factory workers in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoKiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Suffering in the grip of a brutal winter where temperatures have not risen above freezing in nearly a month, Ukraine has seen a wave of deaths related to the cold, and the country'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- The deposed president of the Maldives was facing arrest Thursday, a former foreign minister said, as political turmoil gripped the capital following days of violent clashes in the Indian Ocean na...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBrussels, Belgium (Financial Times) -- Representatives of eurozone bail-out lenders are scrambling this morning to finalise an agreement with the Greek government after last-minute demands by Athens thre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Beijing (CNN)* -- Do you ever get the feeling you are being watched? Closed circuit cameras recording your movements, strange noises on the phone line, phone calls that suddenly stop, emails being monit...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA new app helps you focus on a smart phone and see where you're going at the same time.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- Germany is expelling four members of the Syrian Embassy, citing the arrest this week of two men suspected of spying on Syrian opposition groups in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoHappy Birthday -- and there are lots of great options today -- to Carole King, b. 1942. Carole King is 70! Another songwriter and performer, by the way, who has been oddly overlooked by the Kennedy Center ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoCorps to appeal EPA ruling to kill their huge, badly engineered pumps project ~Corps lackeys at the Mississippi levee board are asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 5 hours agoFebruary 8, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) *Impunity in Port-au-Prince* *By AMY WILENTZ* Port-au-Prince, Haiti IT has been painful to watch as Jean-Claude Duvalier, who inherited the brutal dictatorship t...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoFred Upton (R-MI) and Aubrey McClendon are attempting to commandeer the natural gas market. Aubrey is the CEO of the largest shale oil interest in the world, Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy; Fred is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- The United Nations was expected to take up an Arab League proposal Thursday calling for a joint monitoring mission in Syria as President Bashar al-Assad escalated a devastating assault against a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- Some of the bravest, noblest women and men I have met are members of the United States armed forces. To them, military intervention is not about winning a debate on television or sounding smart o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA court has thrown out a legal bid to free whales from SeaWorld by campaigners claiming they are enslaved. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) claimed that five killer whales at the San D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoEurope's largest volcano burst into life last night - stranding a top Italian football team on the southern island of Sicily. Lava spewed down the sides of Mount Etna as home side Catania met Roma to pl...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 6 hours agoBold black and white stripes might help zebras evade disease-carrying flies but that's not the only benefit.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIran today warned it is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests around the world if America attacks the Islamic Republic. The U.S. has tried to force Tehran to scrap sensitive nuclear w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe White House said the U.S. was not considering arming rebels in Syria but that no option would be completely ruled out as the Obama administration struggled to find a way to quell violence and end the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThis is the horrific moment a man was captured on CCTV as he attempted to abduct a seven-year-old girl in the middle of a Walmart supermarket. Brittney Baxter was in the toy aisle of the store in Bremen, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGroupon was hailed as a firm for the future when, valued at $15billion, it became the biggest IPO since Google. But investors who stumped up $20 per share when the online deals site went public last year...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA 'perfect storm' of rain falling on freezing ground creating roads like ice rinks has caused dozens of crashes as forecasters warn more snow will fall today. More than 97 road accidents have been report...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoIsn't this amazing? Many other wild shadow creations by Tim Noble and Sue Webster can be seen on a slideshow on Environmental Graffiti and on this *Daily Mail* story. BuzzFeed brings us examples of shad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the Crozet Islands Region at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 11:21:09 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 1733 km (1077 miles) Southea...
- posted by BAL at WPB to NYC - 6 hours agoThe Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
- posted by BAL at WPB to NYC - 6 hours agoThe Eleventh Hour - Why we must not allow BP to settle out of court by Cherri Foytlin They are calling it “the biggest environmental litigation in the country’s history.” And why shouldn’t they? It is the ...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 7 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* 'Mormanism' is a cult which believes Joseph Smith is a prophet! But believing Joseph Smith a prohet is no 'kookier' than any number of unquestioned shibbboleths an...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 7 hours agoTemperatures fell to -13 degrees Fahrenheit in Berlin as the current cold front that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe makes its way west.
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours agoThe Amelia Case: UFO Contact in Necochea (Part Two) By Guillermo D. Giménez 1989 was a fruitful year for UFO sightings in the city of Necochea and throughout the region. We can also ment...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Hoover and boy* Darwin Porter has written* 'J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women'*. *The world's largest porn stash, under-age boy lo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours agoStevie Wonder, “As”, “Songs in the Key of Life”
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Greek leaders failed on Thursday to agree on reforms and austerity measures, the price of a bailout to avoid a messy default, forcing Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to go to the country's...
- Le Roy Illness: Did chemical spill from 1970 train crash cause high school Tourette's-like outbreak?
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs the Tourette's-like illness continues to plague Le Roy school and baffle health experts, questions are now arising around the cleanup of a 40-year-old chemical spill that contaminated some of the local... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA new wonder fuel dubbed ‘fire ice’ could be buried under the Scottish coast, according to government ministers and experts. They suspect that massive quantities of methane hydrates reserves are locked o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 09:21:57 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) West from Miahuatlán, Oa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA passenger plane landing at an island airport got caught-up in RAF war games involving 14 military aircraft. A report into the 'needless incident' today heavily criticised military planners and said the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBritain hit back last night after Argentina vowed to complain to the United Nations that the Falkland Islands were being ‘militarised’. Politicians and military veterans mocked President Cristina Fernande...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA veteran TV anchor in Denver, Colorado, was rushed to the hospital after a dog that recently survived a harrowing rescue bit her in the face during a live TV segment. Max, an 86-pound Argentine Mastiff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAfter more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have confirmed that they reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA psychopath dubbed the ‘Cold Cat Killer’ is believed to have struck for the 34th time - after lacing chicken with anti-freeze. Dozens of moggies have died agonising deaths after ingesting the harmful li...
- Paul McBride 'suffocated six-month-old son then hanged himself after breaking up with baby's mother'
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA father suffocated his six-month-old son in the bath and then hanged himself, an inquest heard today. Paul McBride, 39, of Lancashire, killed baby Ollie shortly after the break-up of a ‘turbulent relati... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA father shot dead a young couple after allegedly becoming upset that they deleted his daughter on Facebook. Marvin Potter, 60, has been charged with the first degree murders of Billy Payne Jr, 36, and h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man who became a global internet sensation after he was caught on camera throwing an apparent fare-dodger off a train will not be prosecuted, it emerged last night. Alan Pollock was captured hauling Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:24 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) ENE of Visoko...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours ago* MacArthur* On 5 February 2012, at Voltaire Network, *Thierry Meyssan has an article about the decline of the USA; and about Syria. **www.voltairenet.org/a172632** * According to Thierry Meyssan: *1.* T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe Australian Medical Association is calling on the State Government to do something about the increasing rate of Ross River virus. The number of recorded cases in WA has doubled in the last year. The s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory is a step closer to reality, after the ALP and the coalition revealed they had struck a deal on laws to allow a facility to be built. Despite calls from a l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe agricultural industry is expected to suffer losses of at least $750 million as a result of the devastating NSW floods, with tens of thousands of livestock at risk. As floodwaters from Queensland and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoQueensland Premier Anna Bligh says there is "no end in sight" to the flood crisis in St George, as the town deals with a rising river, a damaged weir and inoperable sewerage systems. The Balonne River...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSlaughter poultry of unknown origin is a risk of epidemic spread. (Inspector) - Bird flu (CGC) has made two recurrent deaths from the beginning of the year. Concerns about new varieties of the virus appea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAlteration of H5N1 virus in poultry in the absence of vaccine against the disease is an increased risk of virus mutate to spread from person to person. Afternoon 7-2, National Steering Committee for hum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMANILA, Philippines – Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAlain de Botton’s suggestion of a “temple to atheism” has received quite a bit of press coverage. It is just one of many suggestions that stem from his new book, Religion for Atheists, which looks at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn 2006 the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet began an investigation into the curious rise of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing, which had come from a small community on a volcanic island and become an unlikely g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoI’m never been sure about Newt Gingrich. On the one hand he doesn’t recognise that Palestinians exist – a remarkably stupid and tactless thing for a potential world leader to say, as my colleague Michael ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoInequality won’t go away. The gulf between rich and poor concerns conservative commentators more than almost any other issue, as rightly it should. Niall Ferguson was making the point over the weekend tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLEAKS of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable. The problem underlines the continuing challenges ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTOKYO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The operating rate of 54 commercial nuclear reactors in Japan stood at 10.3 percent in January, marking a record low, according to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum on Friday. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe codfish catch is declining, and nets are coming up empty. What to do? For some, the answer is to kill the marine mammals that compete with humans for fish. In Canada, where a resurgent population of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAS the death toll in Syria has climbed to perhaps 7,000, proponents of humanitarian intervention are asking, quite reasonably, why the West does not intervene as it did in Libya last year. Not only was Li...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoUS "prepares military options" to back terrorists in Syria. by Tony Cartalucci February 9, 2012 - After world opinion categorically denied Wall Street, London, and it's NATO forces a replay in Syria of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Europe and the Muslim world seem to be on a collision course that could have major political, economic and ideological ramifications. January 23, 2012, may well come to be remembered as the cruci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Doctors studying to become dermatologists have, for years, shared exam questions by memorizing and writing them down after the test to become board certified, CNN has confirmed. Reports of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Kim Stevens has a problem that affects tens of millions of Americans. If left untreated, it could lead to the death of someone she loves, someone who's part of the family. Stevens' dog Dodger, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck of the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.3 km (28.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:09:40 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Alaska Peninsula at a depth of 83.4 km (51.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:26:46 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) ESE of Cold Bay, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 65.5 km (40.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:59:01 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) South of Arawa, Bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 94.9 km (59 miles), the quake hit at 05:18:44 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Northeast of Luganville, Espiritu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoUnited Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon has warned there could be far worse bloodshed in Syria to come as he condemned the "appalling brutality" of the Assad regime. Amid fears the violence seen in Homs may be...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"Wolverine: Magneto's right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you're on the right side? Storm: At least I've chosen a side." - X-Men (2000, Director Bryan Singer/Screenwriter Tom DeSanto). "Col. Clau...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThis seems to be our week for good news on the damage repair front for the human body. First nerve repair and now a way to speed heal a broken bone. Perhaps we will also see an end to the sa...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoI find it difficult to believe that after a thirty year experiment in steady economic growth brought about by reforming the tax code, that any economist would suggest that a massive lift in taxes...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoThe rail gun is every high school student’s dream machine. The only problem with it was that it consumed the firing mechanism. Not much fun as a weapon’s platform. This work is now informing u...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 11 hours agoWhat is missing in this discussion is how the Antarctic in particular drains this surplus accumulated heat and puts it all back in balance. The core of Antarctica is a close as one can get to t...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 12 hours agoThis in response to a question in Uploading animated .gif image to Blogger post which asked: "please tell me how to change height and width of that image?" The answer is very simple if you just know a lit...
- posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas at FOTO frontera - 12 hours ago[image: Un hermoso mono - Cute little monkey]
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours agoSusan Rice: No Shame, No Honour, No Integrity. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Witch of War. Hillary Clinton: No Patriotism, No Honesty, No Decency. Just A Bloodthirsty, Crazy, and Wicked Wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:11 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 281 km (174 miles) East from Ambon, Mol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe events of 1989 are crucial to any understanding of the present world. The air is filled with noisy outrage about the moral emergency of the day. We are, according to the leaders of every major politic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe rural population dwindled even though many baby-boomers are retiring to the countryside, falling below 3 million for the first time. The Korea Rural Economic Institute Thursday said the rural populati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBullying at work may be much more serious than it appears. In a survey conducted by the job portal Saramin on 2,975 office workers early this year, 45 percent of respondents said that bullying occurs in t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoModern children 'lack the attention to read Dickens' A generation of schoolchildren lack the skills needed to read Dickens after being “reared on dreadful television programmes”, a leading author has warn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA mysterious illness is causing calves to bleed to death on German farms. Veterinarians are stumped over what is causing the deaths: vaccines, genetically modified feed or perhaps even the first mother's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTrace amounts of leukemia-linked carcinogens were found in semiconductor-producing factories of Samsung Electronics Co. and other chipmakers, a governmental authority said Monday. “We found that cancer-ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPope 'exorcised two men in the Vatican', claims new book Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, according to the Catholic Church...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNearly half of UK children under the age of 12 are using Facebook despite being too young to do so, according to a new piece of research. Facebook requires its members to be at least 13 years-old to use ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSalut souverainistes. For those wanting more details on the euro break-up plan drafted by French economists, here is the link to the L’Observatoire de L’Europe website. A few extracts, loosely translated...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*Buck & Chuck* Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley hasn't exactly been some flaming prairie populist. The Wall Street/K Street axis knows he can always be counted on to do exactly what they tell him to do. Always...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAbout a dozen officers responded and moved all customers outside. They say the problem was a classic dilemma: supply and demand. There were 150 customers, but only 90 pairs of shoes for sale. They sold o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoWith beach landings, 25 naval ships and an air assault, the United States and eight other countries are staging a major amphibious exercise on the US East Coast this week, fighting a fictional enemy that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Senate has passed legislation that includes a provision allowing airports to replace TSA screeners with private security, opening the door for the widely loathed federal agency to be marginalized from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - China is scouring the world for alternative oil supplies to replace a fall in its imports from Iran, as it seeks to negotiate lower prices from Tehran, and has been drawing heavily on Saudi Ar...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 14 hours agohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9067025/Apocalyptic-blast-at-Russian-power-plant-stops-motorists-in-their-tracks.html
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoArgentine president, Cristina Kirchner, has announced Argentina will appeal to the United Nations over the Falklands Islands, claiming Britain had militarised the South Atlantic in a speech in Buenos Aire...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans. The issue arises from a lawsuit filed by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA group of Republican lawmakers is protesting the removal a reference to God in the patch logo for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The 35 lawmakers, led by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), wrote ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoCADDO PARISH, LA (KSLA) - The Caddo Parish Commissioner pushing for a ban on pajamas in public is not backing down. Michael Williams' proposal hasn't even been introduced yet, but it stirred up a lot o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPAKISTAN yesterday warned Britain to help stop the American "Drone Wars" that are slaughtering hundreds of its innocent civilians. The nuclear power chillingly declared it "has the means" to retaliate un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo sisters have been charged in St. Croix County Court with sexually assaulting a man with a pliers and giving him urine to drink. Valerie M. Bartkey, 24, and Amanda L. Johnson, 17, both of Somerset are ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGunmen loyal to President Bashar al Assad murdered three entire families in Homs on Tuesday night, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The families were shot dead in their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 44.5 km (27.7 miles), the quake hit at 03:55:21 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) SSE of Miyazaki, Kyushu, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Spain at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 02:51:301 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) Northeast of Yeste, Albacete, Castile-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:37 UTC Thursday 9th February 2012 The epicenter was 268 km (166 miles) South of Sorong, Papua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 333 km (206 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 29 km (18 miles), the quake hit at 21:24:59 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) SSW of Tonala, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 160 km (99.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:57:17 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 297 km (184.1 miles) East of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:57:26 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northeast of Kirkagaç, Turk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 167 km (103.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:022:29 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago* "As the Earth Allows the Rain: Sitting with Feelings"* by The DailyOm Taking the time now to sit with your feelings and acknowledge them will save you much distress down the road. It can take great cour...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours agoSanctions: They Worked Against Saddam. Why Not Against The Tyrants in Israel And America? I don't believe in sanctions. Hell, I don't even believe in the United Nations because it is a fraud and a lie. A...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Sometimes, you can put some night sky in your art. Captured above Japan earlier this month, a picturesque night sky was photographed behind a picturesque frosted leaf. The reflecting ice crystals on the l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoRemember this? Susan Boyle's first audition. Simply incredible...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 16 hours agoI am always surfing through different websites and articles in my constant search for new and interesting material that I want to present to my own readers right here in this blog. I usually take a very ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“Wiggling A Finger”* by Chet Raymo “Do a little exercise for me. Stick out your arm in front of you. Now wiggle your index finger from side to side. Now bend it back and forth. Now wiggle your pinkie. "...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“In 2003 the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.” - http://www...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoChuck Wild, Liquid Mind III, “Balance” (Galaxies) "I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so com...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours agoHouse Floor today: Greg Walden (R-OR): ...some of the conferees were not available to meet because they weren't exactly in the country. So that wasn't going to happen until we were both back in session. N...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoNo new information was reported about the escalating issues at Fukushima building unit 2. Another unit is also having a significant increase in heat, but the unit number seems to change in the Tepco and ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Map of All Mercury Emissions from U.S. Coal-fired Power Plants, November 2011. EPA / Environment America] By Sue Sturgis 2 November 2011 Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoChisinau, Republic of Moldova. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoCRISTINA IS NOT HAPPY. According to the *Scotsman*, *"Argentina in UN protest at warship in Falklands"*. ARGENTINA’S President Cristina Fernandez last night vowed to complain formally to the UN Securit...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*And not getting very far because my BG reports have clogged the streets*: "Rolling protest ties up Moscow traffic" Associated Press, January 30, 2012 MOSCOW - Thousands of cars flying white ribbons or ball...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Superbug Pneumonia: 37 States, 50% Mortality Rate"* By ActivistPost "This is possibly our biggest infection control dilemma yet. Although cases of this particular pneumonia infection have been on the ri...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours agoBolivian President Evo Morales; United Native Americans at Occupy United Nations in San Francisco: Bad Bear's photo of Peltier rally in Reno on Saturday.*Censored News passes its 1 million hits mark, with...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Old Man, Old Man”* "Young men, not knowing what to remember, Come to this hiding place of the moons and years, To this Old Man. Old Man, they say, where should we go? Where did you find what you remember...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoA massive swarm of asteroids may be getting swallowed by the black hole.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago"British used a fake rock in Moscow spying" New York Times January 20, 2012 LONDON - A former British senior official has confirmed *Russian accusations * that the *British spy service tried to use a fake ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*Plus a confidential to Shelly A.: Give it all up for Noot* *by Ken* "Sign of G.O.P. Unease With Romney," eh? *Ya think?* (Not to be outdone, the *Washington Post* today has Dan Balz exploring "Mitt Romn...
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoSevere tropical cyclone Jasmine is causing problems for Vanuatu's southern islands.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 20 hours agoOur canine friends get us in ways that no other animals do.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* "New DHS Report: If You Love "Individual Liberty" Of If You * *"Believe In Conspiracy Theories" You Are A Potential Terrorist"* by Michael Snyder “Do you love America? Are you against a one world economy...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoNot that it should be unexpected, but one of the weirdest claims coming out of the right-wing cadre of Republican governors these days-- you know, the guys who are firing public employees as fast as they...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 21 hours agoMuch is written of the Rothschild banking dynasty. For many, this family is seen as the focal point of the international menace we know as Zionism. Certainly the dynasty have been key movers in world ev...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ *Will Iran Be Attacked?* ------------------------------ February 8, 2012 | Original here Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran....
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoMysterious sounds heard and recorded around the world have fueled conspiracy theories.
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoWikipedia also provides tools to spot mischief; learn how to use them.
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 22 hours agoI voted for Newt here in Florida but am thrilled by Santorum's victory. This is a victory for conservatives. In the general election, I'll support any one of the 3 conservative candidates out of the 4 in t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*I'm sorry the recent titles of my posts have trended towards the potty, but when that's what you are working with.... * "Islamist militants admit to London bomb plot" by Alan Cowell and John F. Burns | ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*I hope he used a **toilet**. * "UK judge grants bail to Muslim radical" Associated Press" February 07, 2012 LONDON - A British court ruled yesterday that an extremist cleric described as one of Europe’s...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours ago*A few years back, when global warming was near the top of the national and global agendas, a surprising new activist suddenly took the field: the Pentagon. In 2009, it called climate change a “threat” t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Relative Sea-Level Rise (RSLR) trend lines for the Sabine Pass North (a) and Grand Isle (b) NOAA tide gauges 941 illustrate the significance of geological stability on RSLR, and the difference be...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoInteresting post HERE on the DT from Ed West concerning the BBC; "The difference between the makers of Fox’s political programmes and the BBC is that the former believe they are in a battle of ideas while ...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoA new model shows the Americas will stay in the Pacific "ring of fire," closing the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, forming the supercontinent "Amasia."
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWhile 2011 continued the downward trend in shark attacks in the United States, other countries weren't so lucky.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoWe hear about presidential sex scandals more than in the past. But they're hardly new.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA public opinion poll of Greek citizens show they've lost patience with their political leaders and want new elections, as Greek party leaders continue their delayed talks on a second EU/IMF bailout. Joann...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - European air safety officials extended checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet on Wednesday and said the widespread defects could pose a safety risk if left unremedie...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoWhat you're looking at appeared in full page format in the *Sydney Morning Herald. *It was published in reaction to a call by whacko global warming denier Lord Monckton for Australia's "super rich" to f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - Syria's army pounded the rebel city of Homs on Wednesday as Turkey sought international action to protect civilians from former ally President Bashar al-Assad, a move that risks the wrath ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday enlisted five EU nations to help crack down on offshore tax evasion by Americans and ease the burdens the effort has imposed on many banks and financi...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoIt is announced that the native puppet Stephen Harper is *visiting* his colonial masters in China in order to further enhance the flow of raw materials from the Canadian colonies. Some observers suspect th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHANOI, Feb 8 (NNN-VNS) — Vietnam’s Department of Animal Health has warned that there is a high risk of a large-scale outbreak of bird flu without drastic preventive measures in the near future. Bird flu ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Mississippi State University researcher has uncovered the first molecular evidence linking live poultry markets in China to human H5N1 avian influenza. Henry Wan, an assistant professor in systems biol...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago*— Dassault Rafale —* 450 MILLION DOLLARS EACH, somewhere around that, is the cost of acquisition and service of Canuck F-35's over their projected lifespan, for a total around 30 billion dollars. OUCH! ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"We Lie With Statistics: MSM (Inflation)"* by Karl Denninger "It just never stops, does it? "The numbers are proving Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s critics wrong. More than a year after Repu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBhubaneswar: At least 38,000 poultry birds were killed in three daysn the capital city following detection of the H5N1 virus at the Government of India’s Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO). ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUS biosecurity board expert warns against details of H5N1 bird flu getting into wrong hands. The bioterrorism expert responsible for censoring scientific research which could lead to the creation of a dev...
- posted by Lilith eZine at Lilith News - 1 day agoPOLITICS - The concept that wealth trickles down is a complete sham. Yes, technically, money flows in all directions of commerce. But tax cuts for the rich doesn't = the middle class and the poor making mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:43:57 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) Southeast of Os, Kyrgyzstan N...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThis link was posted at Enenews, which is inexplicably down now: Rising temperatures at Fukushima raise questions over stability of nuclear plant http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/08/fukushima-ris...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoScientists have discovered why an irregularly shaped and hydrogen-shrouded starburst galaxy looks so weird.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoLorne Gunter's article on today's release of short form Census data is so bad that it necessitates a response. Point-by-point: So the 2011 census results are being released today, or at least some results...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThe Arizona Republic Feb 28, 2012 p. A2 The short article quotes "activists" who claim the contamination in Nigeria is "the worst outbreak of lead poisoning in modern history." The article notes that "at ...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoSometimes you see something that just makes no sense. I stumbled across several web sites that proclaimed that Philip Corso was the highest-ranking officer to talk about Roswell. Overlooking that much of w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWELLFLEET, Mass. -- Crews were working to rescue three more dolphins that stranded along Cape Cod beaches on Wednesday. The stranded animals were found inside Wellfleet Harbor at the Herring River. One of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNewly formed underwater volcano offers scientific opportunities but has disastrous effect on island's fishing and tourism. The formation of an underwater volcano off the coast of El Hierro, the southern-...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"When Emerging Markets Shape the Developed World"* by Bill Bonner “America is back,” said the President of all the Americans, “Anyone who tells you America is in decline or that our influence has waned, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA series of minor earthquakes which hit off Reykjanes in southwest Iceland last night and appeared to have subsided around 10 am picked up intensity and continued until 2 pm. Currently, there is no notabl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Natural History Museum in London, which has acquired the rare Martian meteorite, plans to unlock its secrets. Heralded by sonic booms and a fireball, the paperback-sized lump of Martian rock smashed i...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 day agoOf course the good news is that with Santorum's three (highly suspicious) wins last night, Romney's presumed ascendency to the nomination is over. Now it's a race, and Ron Paul is still very much in it des...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt least 10 people have been killed and more than 20 people injured when a car bomb exploded near a cafe in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police say. A police commander told the BBC it was a suicide attac...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoDavid Gibert's Love and Struggle:A brother with a furious mindBy Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012Also see Mumia Abu-Jamal's review of David Gilbert's Love and Struggle on The Rag Blog.[Love and S...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoAuthor and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, is a prisoner at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.David Gilbert's Love and Struggle:Days of rage, reb...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Meteorologist Jeff Masters. cchronicle.com] By Christine Shearer 6 February 2012 If you are interested in weather, chances are you have visited Weather Underground and read the posts of its dir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Missouri teenager who was 15 when she was accused of killing her 9-year-old neighbor -- just to see what it felt like -- was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. The case's matter-of-fact brutality r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoResidents of Homs say the Syrian army is carrying out a ferocious bombardment against helpless civilians. Residents in Homs said on Wednesday that the noose was tightening around their besieged city, wit...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAt the end of last year John Nichols did a piece for *The Nation* called The Progressive Honor Roll of 2011. They gave Raúl Grijalva the title "Most Valuable Representative." Not just the most valuable in...
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe total amount of ice lost to Earth's oceans from 2003 to 2010 would cover the entire United States in about 1 and one-half feet of water.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA rare species of seabird once considered extinct has been found in Japan's Ogasawara Islands, researchers have announced. A group of researchers from the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoAuthor and former member of the Weather Underground, David Gilbert, photographed at the Auburn Correctional Facility, Auburn, N.Y. Photo from Indybay.com.Days of Rage, Rebellion and RevolutionBy Mumia Abu-Ja...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: A shoe shine man sits in front of a closed shop in central Athens Wednesday, 8 February 2012. Keith Miller / worldblog.msnbc.msn.com] By Keith Miller, NBC News correspondent 8 February 2012 AT...
- posted by Lorene (just Lu) at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoHello and happy Wednesday! How did your week of letting your kind words be heard go? I have to be honest... mine did not go so well. I was doing well and then it all just kind of fell apart. At very least...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoMitt Romney enters today...in excellent shape. To be sure, he's already lost out on the goal of sweeping to an easy nomination in January and he's been forced to fight through Super Tuesday...but that happ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPort Stanley, Falkland Islands (CNN) -- Britain on Wednesday dismissed a complaint from Argentina about the "militarization of the South Atlantic" as tensions rise over the Falkland Islands, over which th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeople in Homs have said the latest attack on their city is the worst in five days of shelling, and many fear the Syrian government's forces are preparing to launch a ground assault. In the areas of Bab...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIf you box and want to keep your brain working, wear headgear.
- posted by Sheila Eldred at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoLetting babies use their own hands to eat might have a positive influence on their long-term diets.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day ago*It May be Overpriced Crap But We're Good with It. * The man now in charge of the Pentagon's weapons purchases has lambasted the F-35 programme, denouncing it as "*acquisition malpractice*." "*I can spend ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 29.4 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:53 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 mile...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*Well, the newer and higher figure is real: the lower one may be from a silly yet pedagogical calculation of a SuperBowl organizers' anomaly by Sean Carroll but it's not far from the obsolete value (arou...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*I expect this page to disappear fairly soon .... Garry Breitkeuz.com *
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 1 day ago"Twas brillig," saith the slithy Toews "To waterboard outside our nabe." All mimsy went the newsy slaves To hear the mome rath outgabe : "Tis Ethical Torture now, my son! - The wires that shock for me and y...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoOK, this is a NEW Open Thread for your use! Enjoy. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA top Iranian military official is activily aiding the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in suppressing popular unrest throughout the country, a top member of the National Syrian Council said on Mond...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInformation coming out of Israel and Arab news outlets. We will update you as soon as possible.
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThat's right. Apparently the FDA has no limits on the amount of lead found in cosmetics, although it does limit the lead content that can be found in the color ingredients used in cosmetics. This is an ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoIf I would be choosing among two otherwise identical candidates, I would choose the evolutionist. Although it plays a paramount role in our understanding of the pillars of biology and any historical scien...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoIraq and Afghanistan are being denied sovereignty. They are essentially colonial subjects of the US, as dramatically evidenced by this article in the Washington Post: CIA digs in as Americans withdraw fr...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAdam Greene is on his stomach as a pack of police officers pile on him, driving their knees into his back and wrenching his arms and legs. One officer knees him in the ribs; another kicks him in the face...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The Balonne-feeding Maranoa River breaks its banks at Cashmere West station about 20km upstream of St George, Queensland, Australia, 9 February 2012. Lyndon Mechielsen / The Australian] By Andre...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Would you have a beer with this strategist:* Monday evening, Chris Hayes guest-hosted for Rachel Maddow. At one point, he interviewed Celinda Lake, a well-known, high-rankin...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*AIM West urges support for Navajo/Apache hate crime victim* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com FRESNO, Calif. -- AIM West urges support for Patty Dawson, Navajo/Apache hat...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoGuest Post by Joel Oestreich A few days ago I met the woman in the attached photograph. Her name is Karima. She is a college graduate who was born a male and, at 21, had gender reassignment surgery. Some ...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhen maritime traffic quieted following the 9/11 attacks, whale stress levels plummeted.
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNew 'smart textile' could be used to power medical-monitoring garments and gadgets buried in your clothing.
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 day agoBy: Duane Craig As far back as 1994, people living near the Madison Kipp Corporation in Madison, Wisc., have complained about health concerns such as eye/nose/throat irritation, metallic taste in the mout...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIn case you missed it: Tory MP Stephen Woodworth wants human rights for unborn children A Conservative MP is defying his party’s leadership with a move to rewrite Canadian laws to extend human rights to u...
- posted by Jesse Emspak at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA cockroach's body chemistry could power tiny implants.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoIn areas lacking access to advanced eye care, glasses with liquid lenses bring new focus.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoGar Alperovitz. Image from Vimeo.America Beyond Capitalism:Rag Radio interviews Gar AlperovitzBy Thorne Webb Dreyer / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2012Political economist and historian Gar Alperovitz, author o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 1 day ago
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoSo last night there was a three state primary, essentially a three state killing spree of the second inevitable nomination of Willard Romney, a man who more resembles a Stepford born-and-bred game show ho...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day ago33.5 million or 9 million, depending on who you ask. I blame the scrapping of the mandatory long form census for this discrepancy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Iran is capable of carrying out military strikes on U.S. interests all around the world if the Islamic Republic is attacked by the United States, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing "cult of violence" and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, issuing a warnin...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Why is Lawrence surprised:* We like to give credit where credit is due. Last night, on the O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg went off. He discussed an ongoing campaign to ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint, prompting clashes between po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Anja has been scrubbing floors and washing dishes for two euros an hour over the past six years. She is bewildered when she sees newspapers hailing Germany's "job miracle." "My company exploi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - As the Obama administration weighs worst-case scenarios for Syria, one stands out: a civil war that develops into a proxy battle between Arabs and the West on one side, and Russia and Iran on ...
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoMore people than ever are meeting online and the Internet can be a great way to find romance -- with caveats.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Greek parties will try on Wednesday to agree to a reform deal in return for a new EU/IMF rescue to avoid a chaotic default, after repeated delays which have prompted warnings that the euro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Hiding behind a culture of "omerta" -- the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence -- would be deadly for the Catholic Church, the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Syrian forces thrust into the rebellious city of Homs on Wednesday, killing dozens of civilians by the accounts of opposition activists, and Turkey appeared to be preparing a new push agai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Libya after Gaddafi, is it any better? Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Basha...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoIt's the late, great Joe Raposo's birthday, born February 8, 1937. Wonderful, wonderful, songs. Right to the good stuff: 1. Dave Weigel has fun. Not bad. 2. Steve Kornacki, before last night, on the GOP...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA low-slung skyline. A slate gray sky. Rumbling. Close your eyes. It could be the sound of rolling thunder. Instead, it's another shell falling on a neighborhood in Homs. "You don't know if the rocket i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen the Arab League asked for U.N. Security Council endorsement of its call for a new government in Syria and sought the imposition of sanctions to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Russians...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player It’s the end of the world as they know it. For a growing number of Americans, preparing for the end of days is a full-time business, whether the e...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoDon't even know where to begin with this IG report ~Library Chronicles Garland Robinette's loan is a low priority for lender Fred Heebe~James Gill Just another Hump Day at the office here at Slabbed New Me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEmails posted on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission website after the Fukushima disaster last March have revealed the agency was kept in the dark about the scale of the crisis. The correspondence, po...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012* *Part 3—At the Post, flub never dies:* We’re all sons and daughters of Flubber now! For that reason, we might want to understand the way flub culture works. First law in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour men went on trial today accused of killing orangutans and other endangered primates at a palm oil plantation in Borneo. Phuah Chuan Hun, manager of the plantation in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Born...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoRight Wingers to Learn the “Koch Truth” For those of us that have been fighting the regime of the Koch brothers and their friends – to us, this would be self-evident, but I feel I need to point it out to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Nasa spacecraft has captured an avalanche of fine ice and dust thundering over a cliff near Mars's north pole. It's not the first avalanche captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Chinese father has sparked anger after posting a video online which showed him forcing his son to run around and do push-ups in the snow, wearing only his underpants. Filmed in New York on Chinese New...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo youths who started the M1 fire 'high fived' each other when they realised what destruction they had caused, a court heard today. When Luke Matthews, 18, heard how much news coverage the fire, which cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA pilot on an Indonesian airline was arrested just hours before he was due to command a flight after testing positive for crystal meth. The 44-year-old pilot for Lion Air, Indonesia's largest domestic air...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day agoThe Amelia Case: UFO Contact in Necochea (Argentina) By Guillermo D. Gimenez On February 4, 1988 a strange circle measuring over a meter and a half in diameter, covered in fungi, was found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gays who are 'repeat offenders' was reintroduced in Uganda's parliament today. The controversial move likely to draw fresh condemnation from Western...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*(Not the progressive)* As Markos pointed out at Daily Kos yesterday, the Ohio Republican Party is looking like it's going to the bottom of the lake in November. But 'til then, they're still running the s...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 1 day agoMark Mardell addresses the difficult subject of US foreign Policy without committing the new BBC crime of “Value Judgement.” Poor Obama is in a sticky spot. In a period of of electioneering, he must wrest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBBC journalists have been told not to call hate preacher Abu Qatada an 'extremist'. Using such a term to describe the man once called 'Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe', is making a 'value judg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDetails of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked - potentially into the hands of terrorists - an expert has warned. A furore e...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoJust like ALEC - right wingers experimented on Minnesotans last night at the caucus in one town. The right wing media in Minneapolis (and that is all we have) is falling all over themselves this morning t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 70.9 km (44.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:49 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSW of Tona...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iran Border Region at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:28:59 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (11.8 miles) East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:51:36 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Ecuador at a depth of 69.8 km (43.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:54:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) ESE of Esme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:06:27 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 12:01:37 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) West...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoAn unexpected temperature spike this week in a nuclear reactor at the embattled Fukushima plant, has required emergency countermeasures.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago(Santorum won all three states last night... Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, swing states, where Republicans sent a clear message to GOP Central: NO LIKE MITT! Voters were uncomfortable with the "I...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Scientists in the US have successfully made human being brain cells in the lab that are a correct copy of hereditarily caused Parkinson's disease. To make the human neurons the scientists used a techniq...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Internet addresses which tie to the video streams have been posted to a variety of admired message board sites. Feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 112.4 km (69.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:39:41 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) WSW of Tona...
- *KDE is a Linux desktop environment* that rather unexpectedly has stepped forward as a suitable alternative for the desktop experiments and developments from Ubuntu's Unity, Gnome 3 shell and (Linux Mint)...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*A scientist from the University of Queensland used time lapse photography to capture the footage. Coral might appear solid and inanimate, but unexpected new footage of a mushroom coral inflating itself ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day agoAccording to researchers noise from ships stresses whales researchers have measured stress hormones in whale faeces, and found they raised with the density of shipping. B*ut the new study, reported in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUp to 120 defence force personnel will leave Brisbane on Wednesday to help flooded inland towns with the massive clean-up task. Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says he hopes their arrival will b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: ABC The South Korean government says it has written to a dozen Sydney councils asking for any information they might have about Korean nationals who are involved in prostitution at local brothels. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: AAP An E.coli warning has been issued to some parts of the NSW Central Coast after the bacteria were detected in the water supply. Residents in Kariong are being advised to boil all water used for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: AAP A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of NSW, with residents being told to prepare for large hailstorms and flash flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued the warning ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA group of men has stormed the Syrian embassy in Canberra, smashing up the ground floor, as protesters attacked five other Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East. Australian Federal Police say ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere are grave fears for a woman whose car was swept away in flood waters in the inland Queensland town of Roma. But rescuers managed to save a boy who was also in the car when it was driven into the wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: AAP Communities across northern NSW are assessing widespread damage to homes and roads on Saturday as easing weather conditions have led to floodwaters receding for the first time in five days. Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBandung - SA (37), patients who died of suspected bird flu in Hasan Sadikin Hospital this afternoon, Tuesday (02/07/2012), will be buried to a TPU Ciburuy, tomorrow. The family did not allowed to see or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOpposition activists in Syria claim dozens of civilians have been killed by government forces in the central city of Homs following another night of shelling. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Hu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs the continent continues to experience social, political and economic upheaval, we ask if African unity is achievable. The 18th African Union (AU) summit ends on Monday in Ethiopia with 40 heads of st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe botched launch of Phobos-Grunt highlights Russia-US distrust, failed rockets and conspiracy theories. Los Angeles, CA - On Sunday, January 15, the sorry tale of Phobos-Grunt came to a fiery end. Afte...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHere's a story that the BBC seems to a tad reluctant to cover for some reason. B-BBC contributor Alan observes; "No mention of this story on the BBC website despite it being on 'Drudge' hours ago and th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBeijing, China - From July 2005 until this past December, China's renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily. But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set by the Peoples' ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWater management is a major problem in the country where many farmers risk losing their crops and income. While some areas in Thailand are still reeling from last year's floods, other areas are sufferi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWe ask if the US should reconsider its 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' approach to crime and punishment. The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting copyright infringement. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a global effort to protect intellectual property ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change. Current projectio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTrends can be difficult to detect in real-world data, and the noisier the data, the tougher the task becomes. A longer time series can help limit the impact of noise, but these can be difficult to come by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: ©Scripps Institution of Oceanography Despite worldwide efforts to curtail plastic use — to ban plastic grocery bags, to switch to reusable water bottles instead of disposable plastic bottles, and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force. Deep concern over this was recently relayed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHouse prices have failed to rise in any given month since the summer of 2010. House prices have failed to record any monthly increase for a year-and-a-half, with the pressure on household budgets and th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCarlos Fuentes, Mexico's greatest writer, claims that legalising drugs is the only way to end the devastating violence that has claimed 50,000 lives in five years. Latin America reveres its authors like...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 22.8 km (14.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:52:25 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) NNE fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhile IDF analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference describe the weapons aimed at Israel, instructors teach kids to put on their gas masks. While top military analysts at the 2012 Herzliya Conference descri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHome Front Command may run out of protective kits in three months, leaving millions vulnerable to unconventional warfare. Unprepared: The Home Front Command is poised to run out of gas masks within month...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFormer astronaut Janice Voss, one of only six women to make five forays into space, died Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Website for this image** * The job of the Royal Airforce is to indulge in sex orgies, kill innocent civilians and help run concentration camps? *1.* Foxy Roxy is a former RAF sergeant. Transsexual Foxy R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has made a visit to a privileged school for the children of the party and military elite in a bid to bolster his image. Video provided by state media KRT showed Kim'...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThere are moments when you listen to the BBC when the clouds suddenly part, the sun breaks through and the person being interviewed layeth a smackdown on the BBC interviewer. Such was the case this morni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI had a very strange experience yesterday evening on the Tube. I sat down next to someone without looking who it was, got my Kindle out, and was startled to hear them ask "Good book, mate?" I looked over...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe raging debate over Mario Draghi’s credit rescue has refused to die down. A disturbingly large number of credit experts warn that the ECB life-line is not the "game-changer" that the markets seem to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe... From the coalitions we've built to secure nuclear materials, to the missions we've led against hunger and disease; from the blows we've d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Federal Reserve has now committed to keeping short-term interest rates near zero for almost three more years. They have also committed to a 2% inflation target. Some say QE3 is just around the corner,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoALCAHUANO, Chile — Eric Pineda, a dock agent in this old port south of Santiago, peered deep into the Achernar’s hold at a measly 10 tons of jack mackerel — the catch after four days in waters once so ric...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWeakened by chronic infighting and the demise of its long-time financier Moammar Gadhafi, the African Union is turning instead to the embrace of its richest new ally: China. Col. Gadhafi, the Libyan dict...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn average salaried worker with a family of more than two would have to save 10 years of salaries to lease an apartment in Seoul's upscale Seocho district, a survey shows. According to property website D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe number of apartments under W200 million in the Seoul metropolitan area dropped by 320,000 in the past five years (US$1=W1,124). According to property information provider Dr. Apt, out of 3.16 million ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA study of 642 junior and senior high school students by a team of researchers from Catholic University St. Mary's Hospital showed that 9.5 percent or 61 were addicted to the Internet, most of them to onl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFewer people in Seoul discuss their problems with family members. The proportion of Seoul residents who said they do not turn to relatives with personal issues nearly doubled from 8.1 percent in 2007 to 1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMedia articles predicting an Israeli war on Iran are just fearmongering designed to increase sanctions and hysteria. Washington, DC - Talk about deja vu all over again. In September 2010 The Atlantic's J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSteven Pinker, author of "The Better Angels of Our Nature", argues this may be the most peaceful era in human existence. Despite the seemingly endless stream of news stories focusing on violence, crime a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEWPORT BEACH - A new economic order is taking shape before our eyes, and it is one that includes accelerated convergence between the old Western powers and the emerging world's major new players. But the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBulawayo, Zimbabwe - From downtown shops that stock cheap clothing and shoes that fall apart after one wear, to mining concessions in platinum, gold and diamonds - the Chinese finger is now in virtually e...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoRick Santorum wins Minnesota and Colorado, and tosses in the Missouri beauty contest to boot. Yikes! I'm with everyone else: I didn't see this coming. In the last couple of days, sure -- the polling didn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:08:43 UTC Wednesday 8th February 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeas...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoYes they do as this story makes clear. What I find somewhat intriguing is that the total number of lived lives approaches 100 billion. Why I find that interesting is that it coincidentally is ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoIt appears that smart design configuration has allowed commercial grade solar cells to be produced with real efficiency in excess of 20% for the first time. Plenty of lab top efforts has been cla...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoAs we come to appreciate the astounding civilization of the Minoans that ended with Thera, we have also come to understand that the successor empire was Atlantis based on the delta south of Sevi...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoJust understanding the chemical basis and even knowing it is chemical is important in terms of understanding memory. I will go a little further. It is very important to be interested in what ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day ago"I can't strut my stuff / when I got those lock‑step blues." - Blind Lemon Jefferson, *Lock Step Blues* (1928) During a Special Edition of *NBC*'s Today Show, broadcast live on Sunday before the Super Bow...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*REGINA -- Critical in the subtle battle for the hearts and minds of those in the so-called "new Saskatchewan" has been the portrayal of the self-entitled left of the "old Saskatchewan". Or at least, that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith the allocation of gas masks and bomb shelter information to embassies Israel, as well as a marked deterioration in relations over the past several days between countries in the Mideast including Iran,...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day ago"Hollywoodism and Cinema" at the 30th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran. Image from Islamic Republic News Agency.In Iran: Meeting Ahmadinejad,trashing 'Hollywoodism,' and eating KabobBy Danny Schech...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia’s General Staff gears up for large-scale strategic military exercises in view of possible Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran. Russia’s Defense Ministry has begun preparations for the Caucasus 2012 s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSome 2 million Americans adolescents experienced a bout of Mental Health page on depression" major depression last year, but only about a third of them got any help in dealing with the sadness, irritabili...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWorking 11 hours a day may not only make you more tired -- it could also make you more depressed. A study of civil servants in England found that working excessive hours was linked with more cases of maj...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUCLA's Anderson School of Management and Stanford University are among more than 100 colleges using Turnitin's database to detect plagiarism in application essays. The student's admissions essay for Bost...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoReporting from Atlanta— Ronda Storms is a Republican state senator from Florida. She is also a mom who buys the groceries for her family of four. A few months ago, Storms, 46, started noticing that some f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA recent IRS report showing that current and retired federal employees owe more than $3.4 billion in income taxes is fueling a drive on Capitol Hill to fire -- and prohibit the hiring of -- tax delinquent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAnother in an occasional series in which Wall Street Law Blog posts excerpts from primary source documents that flat out contradict Wall Street's revisionist history of the financial crisis... Top execut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe escalating fuel crisis pushed bakeries to close their doors on Thursday, as protesters in several governorates blocked railways and clashed in queues outside gas stations and butane gas depots. In Mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe official line from the United States and the European Union is that Tehran must be punished for continuing its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. The punishment: sanctions on Iran's oil exports, whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014: 'To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ens...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe battle over biometrics between the Unique Identification Authority of India and India's home ministry has ended in a compromise, according to a report in NDTV, India (25 Jan). The Unique Identificati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter 40 years of economic growth based on debt, the era of “debt capitalism” has come to an end, says Wolfgang Streeck. The Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Col...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe GCC should seize the initiative and propose talks if western powers are unable to start negotiations with Iran. In spite of bluster from belligerent hawks in the United States and Israel, it is highl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe Obama campaign is probably too smart to take much solace in the nice-looking chart above showing his popularity rebounding among blue collar whites. Good headway but these people, while understanding ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not abandon the multibillion-dollar Iran gas pipeline project, despite the threat of sanctions from the United States if Islamabad went ahead with the plan. “There is no change...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING — A Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft based in Shanghai will expand its coverage this year to include areas of the East China Sea disputed with Japan, according to recent reports by local med...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite harsh weather conditions, the Arctic is becoming a global hot spot, with non-Arctic countries like China, India and Brazil pursuing “observer” status on the Arctic Council – an intergovernmental b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA US drone has killed 10 suspected militants in northern Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, according to security officials. The drone programme, which is part of US counter-terrorism efforts, was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoArgentina has vowed to formally complain to the United Nations about Britain sending one of its most modern warships to the Falkland Islands. The country's President Cristina Fernandez announced plans t...
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