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A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:40:11 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 168 km (104.6 miles) South from... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Bonin Islands, Japan at a depth of 40.8 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:12:30 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (125 miles) North from Chi... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 44 km (26.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:49:52 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26.7 miles) East... - posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 minutes ago
City 3.0 already up and running. by Tony Cartalucci City 2.0 is "the city of the future" according to the "TED Prize," which seeks to create a "platform" to "connect and empower individuals and communit... - posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 14 minutes ago*900ft Jesus* has more on the Harper denial sprinkled with some in-and-out in Quebec. Watch them. It is telling if they're actually doing things that look like legal positioning on topic of their PR spin ...
- Konrad Adenauer was the West German chancellor who oversaw the post-war German economic miracle. The Konrad Adenauer Prize – linked to the CDU – has been given to various scientists, journalists, and po...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 minutes agoI'm more than a little dismayed about some of the comments I am reading about Breitbart this morning. Maybe Breitbart would be thrilled about the passion people are using when speaking about him. The mos...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 18 minutes agoGo read *Gods & Other Monsters*. And if your French is up to snuff, take a look at what *Le Devoir* has dug up. Direct billing to the ridings for services which were provided to the national campaign. ...
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------------------------------ *Connor Boyack on KSL regarding Bomb Iran Billboard** * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ilzv-jkvh4&feature=colike Uploaded by cboyack on Feb 25, 2012 This video aired o... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 27 minutes agoThis post follows up a discussion earlier this week which introduced the notion of the gasoline (expenditure) intensity of the economy. A reader (Thanks RC!) observed that the UK has seen a dramatic shif...
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This week was categorized by food for me. I made 6 or 7 new recipes, from stuffed peppers, to mango tostadas. Every now and then I just get the itch to create in the kitchen. What did you photograph ... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 38 minutes agoI wrote over at PostPartisan this morning about the question of whether Republicans would, if they get unified government in 2013, get rid of the filibuster. I don't think they would, but I do think they'd...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 53 minutes agoHarper finance minister Jim Flaherty, *announced* that we will *finally *be hearing how he plans to manage the nations finances.(Emphasis mine) The federal budget will be delivered on March 29, Finance Min...
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 54.3 km (33.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:05:37 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (89 miles) West from Kashi,... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 hour agoI am currently mulling over the idea of working on a second edition of *The Honest Broker* (CUP willing;-). I have received a lot of excellent comments, suggestions and critique on the original, and ther...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012* *Where the cheering ends:* If you’ve watched MSNBC the past two nights, you’ve seen a lot of cheerleading about President Obama’s triumphant speech to the UAW on Tuesday. Last ni...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoGuatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, left, with his Defense Minister Ulises Ansueto Giron, during a ceremony in Guatemala City in January. Photo from AFP / Tico Times.Otto Perez Molina and the Drug War Pe...
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By: Duane Criag Since the discovery of a plume of groundwater contamination in Clearfield, Utah, 168 homes have been sampled for indoor chemical vapors, according to an article in the Standard-Examiner. E... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoDisturbing Video of Fukushima Emissions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijnh36Vr-0&feature=plcp&context=C3ad6107UDOEgsToPDskLbpLaA3WR9qzDiXhC4h3Fg Enenews: Report: Massive smoke between Reactors No. 2 ...
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"I called you a putz cause I thought you werebeing intentionally disingenuous." - Andrew Breitbart on Twitter minutes before his sudden death. It's only fitting that in the final minutes of his life, And... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoEnvironmental Health Perspectives has an interesting article about the risks of CT scans given they involve relatively high exposure to ionizing radiation. I have extracted passages from the article that...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoAndrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:26:45 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) Northwest of S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:07:48 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29.2 miles) East of Sary...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoNorth Korea recently agreed to halt its nuclear weapon program and allow monitors. But how did such a poor nation become a nuclear power in the first place?
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoGobbling up the Commons. Cartoon by Ahmed Abdallah / 3arabawy.On the verge:The privatization of everythingDoes anyone have to ask what happens to law enforcement and the judicial system once the state agrees...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 hour agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox News analyzes Bill Clinton's monologue above. The pipeline will clearly be beneficial, the expenses are infinitesimal, so let's just build it on any other r...
- posted by DNews Editors at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoNow that NASA is pulling out of the Europe-led mission to Mars, Canada may have been left in the cold.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoAfter a very uncomfortable three-day ride, passengers of a disabled Italian cruise liner are back on land at the Seychelles.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 hour agoSwarms of robots could potentially do the work of teams of humans, from building structures to playing music.
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour agoThe rush to war with Iran is on... I, and others, do suspect that something terrible will be happening on the Jewish celebration of Purim which occurs next Thursday, March 8th. Will it be Israel's long so...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoBy Capt. Fogg What's worse than a bunch of creepy old man religious perverts conspiring against the health and well being of women? Well, perhaps a creepy young woman trying to make sure -- using copious...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012* *And look where he ended up:* Yesterday, we discussed Andrew Rosenthal’s use of the pleasing term “bigot.” See THE DAILY HOWLER, 2/29/12. Later, we were reading the Q-and-A from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Chukotka, Russia at a depth of 14.6 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:56 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) NNW from Provideniya, Ru...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012* *Part 3—The Times doesn’t care:* Why are we pitiful helpless know-nothings when it comes to budget issues? Good question! Tomorrow, we’ll review what John King did—and didn’t do—...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoWill Israel strike? Image from Gestetner Updates.Bombing Iran:Will they or won't they?Iran insists it is not producing or about to produce nuclear weapons... Israel is known to possess at least 200 nuclear w...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago* OTTAWA — A leading American expert on dirty political tricks says the robocalls scandal is a "shock to the system" of Canadian democracy. "I was actually quite surprised because I thought that's a prett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoReports of dozens of stranded dolphins, whales, and sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico continue to pile up in the first two months of 2012, with federal officials tallying 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIN reporter Megan Gorrey's excellent feature article, "Future's bright for koalas", in last week's Advertiser, I am quoted as saying: "We've only had two [koalas] which have died of less than old age". T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoMALKANGIRI: Hundreds of animals have reportedly died of an unknown disease in the past one week, at many villages of Tandiki panchayat under Korukonda Panchayat Samiti. So far, 100 animals, including cows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoHarvard Medical School has suspended new experiments at the New England Primate Research Center after a cotton top tamarin monkey died Sunday, the fourth monkey death at the lab in less than two years, Car...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoCARLSBAD -- The New Mexico Department of Health is reporting that 32 pet dogs from the Carlsbad area have been euthanized since December 2011 because they were exposed to known rabid animals. They were n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA gas-fuelled fire, with flames as high as 5m, may burn for months in waters off the Niger Delta in south-east Nigeria, Chevron has told the BBC. Two workers died after January's explosion at the KS Endea...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoMarch 1, 2012 In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss pirating Repo Man and jack-booted accountants here to help you. In the second half of the show, Max talks to J.S. Kim of Sma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA couple have been found guilty of the barbaric murder of a 15-year-old boy who they believed was a witch. Eric Bikubi and Magalie Bamu, both 28, subjected her younger brother Kristy to four days of bru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSEOUL, South Korea — Surprise and skepticism met the announcement that North Korea would freeze most nuclear activities in exchange for food aid from the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Cli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSyrian rebels say they are making a "tactical retreat" from the besieged district of Baba Amr in Homs because of worsening humanitarian conditions. The decision was made to spare some 4,000 civilian reside...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours agoEver since the somewhat CDO* Southern Man discovered the "statistics" page on geocaching.com last fall he's been a little...obsessive about his geocaching. In particular about "streaks" (consecutive days w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA tourist bus crashed at the border town of Koh Kong on Tuesday killing two and wounded 44 others including three US nationals. A 22-year-old Russian tourist died immediately at the scene. "The second pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRAWALPINDI: A Holy Family Hospital spokesman has denied reports regarding bird flu cases in the hospital. He said that some reports had been published in a section of the press that suggested that the dise...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 3 hours agoTonight Question Time comes from Dewsbury; home of Mohammad Sidique Khan who was ringleader of the group responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings. David Dimbleby is joined on the panel by ex Sec o...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Jack Davenport, 39. I liked Coupling quite a bit. And now, the good stuff: 1. What Krugman said. Also, what DeLong said. Look, either (for example) there are or aren't people in the Neth...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoNew Orleans Saints guard Carl Nicks doesn't want the franchise tag~James Varney Trout Point figure pleads not guilty in New Orleans fraud scandal ~Slabbed Sign the petition urging funding for the St. Clau...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoPentti Arajarvi, the 63-yaer old husband of Finland's lady President, seemed rather taken by the cleavage of his neighbour at the state dinner, 43 year old Princess Mary of Denmark. Princess Mary clearly ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoGetting money out of politics has emerged as one of the core objectives of the occupy movement, but for former Brooklyn Democratic District Leader, U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador and OWS Activist, George Martin...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 4 hours ago*Who said this? * *Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice-President* * * *His level of hatred is so high against Assange also said: * *"Sadly he didn't have a car accident on the way there."* * * *All E-Mails Here*
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoThank you, Thomas Walkom! You are a voice of reason in a sea of media ignorance. Read this column to learn the truth behind Ontario's breed-specific legislation. Thanks to the efforts of MPPs from all t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - A remote control bomb injured 15 police officers and one civilian on Thursday as a police minibus passed close to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's ruling AK Party, police said. Kurdish s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - An Iraqi student shot dead his American teacher and then shot himself in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Thursday, the provincial governor said. "There was an argument between the...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours agoShips and Saucers: UFOs at Sea By Scott Corrales The waters of the Western Mediterranean, while not as mystery-prone as the legendary Atlantic, have nonetheless been a source of enigmas. ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours agoShips and Saucers: UFOs at Sea By Scott Corrales The waters of the Western Mediterranean, while not as mystery-prone as the legendary Atlantic, have nonetheless been a source of enigmas. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFeb. 29 - More than 7,500 dead since the start of the revolt in Syria, with more attacks in Homs and Sarmin. Sophia Soo reports NOTE: They have time to stand around open in the street looking relaxed t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoFeb. 29 - Mourners pray for killed Syrian rebels as government reiterates commitment to evacuate foreign journalists. Nick Rowlands reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoMar. 1 - South Koreans, Japanese and Chinese react to North Korea's nuclear breakthrough. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Vladimir Putin is all but certain to return to Russia's presidency with the same swagger, bravado and fighting talk against the West as when he entered the Kremlin 12 years ago. But the count...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Elite Syrian forces trying to destroy rebels besieged in Homs pounded the shattered district of Baba Amro on Thursday, despite international alarm at the plight of civilians trapped there. Sn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA group in the Netherlands has launched the country's first mobile euthanasia unit. Six specialised teams, each with a doctor, will be able to carry out euthanasia on patients at home whose own doctors r...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoMadagascar is proactively protecting 4,000 square miles of marine resources from human exploitation.
- posted by Sarah Simpson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA 340-ton granite boulder is avoiding California freeway traffic and taking two hours to make a right hand turn.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoA drop in natural gas prices in 2009 encouraged consumers to switch from coal.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoNASA had 5,408 computer security lapses in 2010 and 2011, including the March 2011 loss of a laptop computer that contained command and control algorithms for the space station.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:19:47 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 200 km (124 miles) WSW from Sib...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Two NATO soldiers were shot dead on Thursday by two Afghans, including a man believed to be a soldier, NATO said, an attack that is likely to raise further questions about the future of the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Western trade sanctions against Iran are strangling its oil exports even before they go into effect, a U.S. advisory body has found, amid warnings that any shortages will only push up crude pri...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*Famous Bronze Age archaeological site Flag Fen in Cambridge shire will host a first-of-its-kind dig that makes the public essential to the development.* Lisa Westcott Wilkins, managing director of Dig v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - The euro zone's manufacturing sector contracted for the seventh straight month in February, with factories in the bloc's struggling indebted states facing some of the toughest conditions on re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CNN) -- Majid Shoukat Khan, a terror suspect who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pleaded guilty Wednesday to all charges as part of a deal that requires him to testify against other detainees. Kh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CNN) -- Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announced its responsibility for the presidential palace attack last Saturday in Yemen's southern province of Hadramout. The attack resulted in the death of 21 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoConsumers are worried that rice badly tainted with radioactive cesium will find its way onto the open market after the government announced on Feb. 28 that farmers would be allowed to plant on land with c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CNN) -- Weary residents may get some good news Thursday as the monster storm system that already battered many Midwestern states and caused a dozen deaths is expected to weaken. The National Weather Se...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*According to US researchers the belief that older people tend to suffer worse sleep may be false - in fact the reverse may be true.* They were also asked about their race, income, education, mood and ge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CNN) -- Conflicting reports emerged Thursday over the fate of the center of Syrian resistance in the besieged city of Homs amid what the opposition describes as an ongoing assault by President Bashar al-A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe new international mediator for Syria has demanded an end to the killing amid reported warnings of an escalation in violence and the closure of the country's UK embassy. Fears have been heightened a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*After the British singer died aged 66 in Florida Davy Jones' Monkees bandmates have led the tributes to their long-time friend and fellow-adventurer.* The Monkees, frequently described as the first man...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*A study has discarded claims that Triceratops and the lesser known Torosaurus are one and the similar type of dinosaur*. Nicholas Longrich and Daniel Field, of Yale University, looked at 35 specimens asc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Radioactive cesium released into the atmosphere in the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant amounted to between 30,000 and 40,000 terabecquerels, possibly equal to 20 to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA mother with a history of drug abuse drowned her son in the bath to make sure his father didn’t win a custody battle over him. Amanda Smith, 33, killed 3-year-old Jacob, called 911 and then sprung out o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA convicted murderer with an ‘extensive’ criminal history was accidentally released from custody while awaiting a court appearance in South Carolina, according to police. Detectives are now hunting Thoma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLate winter storms forced school and road closures from Seattle to upstate New York on Wednesday, but the snow was welcomed in California as it suffers through one of the driest winters in history. The b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says the 'Holocaust never happened.' Arthur Jones, 64, who organizes neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler’s birthday, hop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIf you suffer from arachnophobia, you might want to steer clear of applying for a job with this South African company. For the spiders here are so tough they wolf down snakes for breakfast. An office rec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA teenage paedophile whose gang may have sexually abused more than 139 under-age girls has had his sentence reduced by three years. Jake Ormerod used social networking websites including Facebook to groom...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoCONFERENCE: Moratorium to Stop Foreclosures Global Research Canada, February 17, 2012 A CALL TO A NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO DEMAND A TWO YEAR NATIONAL MORATORIUM TO STOP FORECLOSURES *Saturday – March 3...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn this adorable video, the inquisitive furry animal is caught on camera exploring the hallway, although he does seem a bit cautious at first. Yabbra is one of only two Koalas in the U.K., according to th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe father of a teenage girl who was allegedly the victim of a child abuse gang, told a court today that he joined the British National Party 'after what had happened to her'. But he said that he had 'no...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoFebruary 29, 2012 German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging her lawmakers to support the new rescue package for Greece. This despite worries that Athens will need even more cash in the future, and sugge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThinking caps that enhance intelligence and mind-controlled missiles could be a major part of a ‘Star Wars’ future for the human race, academics claim. They are investigating the ethical dilemmas posed by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIf you thought heating your home during winter was tough, spare a moment for these villagers in China's Shandong Province. They have been risking life and limb in the pursuit of warmth by carrying giant ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA teenage girl who plotted the killing of a schoolboy on Facebook before kicking him in the head as he bled to death was facing jail yesterday. Victoria Osoteku was 18 when she armed a 20-strong mob who ‘...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBritain was embroiled in a trade war with Argentina over the Falkland last night after Buenos Aires urged firms to boycott British goods. The UK summoned the Argentine chargé d’affaires in London to the F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn 11-year-old girl was raped in a McDonald’s toilet in a campaign of sex attacks involving up to eight underage members of a street gang, a court heard yesterday. The teenage accomplices took turns to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAfter a wild rollercoaster ride for the past two months since voting began in Iowa, Republicans can now calm down and look at the man who is overwhelmingly likely to be the candidate charged with unseatin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRising numbers of pupils taken out of private schools by parents who can no longer afford the fees are ending up in tough comprehensives as competition increases for top grammars and academies. One admis...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis result is extraordinarilyimportant because it effectively proves the alien provenance of thisskull. An actual mutation is located in ahighly conserved gene in the Mitochondrial DNA se...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is a long article but it isworth reading. We rethink the wholeissue of memory and it appears that PTSD will soon be generally curable. Thisis hugely important and shows us a way forward with trea...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoMany attempts have been made toreform our calendar and they have all proven temporary. It is obviously an intractable problem thateven with a global regime such as we have today, no one feels any compe...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoIt appears that somehow theflatworm retains telomere integrity throughout an extended series ofregeneration steps. This is a cleardirection in which to search for solutions to establishing cellularrep...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoDon't worry Matt/Anonymous I have not deleted your comment re my article on how the BBC and others report 'global warming' in such a biased manner, and why. I will be responding to your ill-judged and oh s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDoctors should have the right to kill newborn babies because they are disabled, too expensive or simply unwanted by their mothers, an academic with links to Oxford University has claimed. Francesca Miner...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoPhoto courtesy: MrTavis Now, here's a project I can really sink my teeth into. What an absolutely marvelous idea! A public food forest. Who would have thought? Strange as it may seem, for most of human hi...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoDill is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus (approx. 1500 BCE); the ancient Egyptians used it to relieve headaches. Stems of dill were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II. To the ancient Greeks and Romans, dill...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoPhoto courtesy: woodleywonderworks/CC BY 2.0 Lack of access to clean drinking water is a huge problem for many people in the world, and their only recourse is to drink the water at hand, which may be cont...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 9 hours agoToday, Rembrandt (1606-1669) is known as one of the world's most famous portrait painters; but, in his day, he was criticized for his work. Some said his intimate portraiture was too personal or too eccen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSo the Draghi Bazooka II will be just under €530bn: Goldilocks, if you like that kind of liquidity. Not too high, not too low. Instant thoughts: This is about €330bn of new money once you strip out roll-o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAnonymous defended WikiLeaks when it was facing a funding cutoff, but the release of the Stratfor emails appears to be the first direct collaboration between the hackers and the anti-secrecy site. WikiLe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that Israel's leaders must guarantee not only the country's security but also the very existence of the Jewish state. "The leaders of the state o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRiots in the volatile Chinese region of Xinjiang left at least 12 people dead Tuesday, state news agency Xinhua reported, in the latest unrest to rock the country's remote northwest. The news agency said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIran challenged Azerbaijan on Tuesday over $1.5 billion in arms it said were purchased from arch-foe Israel, state media reported, in a sign of further strains between the neighbouring countries. Azebaij...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe fallout from Koran burnings at a US airbase, which triggered a week of violence, has widened as Afghan ministers cancelled a visit to Washington and Western nations expanded withdrawals of civilian st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoU.S. defense manufacturers and exporters maintained their global lead in the latest tally of international arms market deals recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The SIPRI re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHear the sound of chewing out in our vast forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and fir, the chewing that’s already destroyed half the commercial timber in important regions like British Columbia? That’s the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMONTEREY, Calif. — On a fog-shrouded morning in Monterey Bay, wildlife researchers are out to capture a southern sea otter named Blanca — part of a three-year project to learn why her species, hunted to n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEnvironmental groups on Monday urged Gov. John Hickenlooper to yank ads paid for by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association in which he claims there has been no contamination of groundwater associated with d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoClean air regulations cost the United States about $21 billion per year in lost productivity, a University of Chicago economist said this afternoon. But the benefits of environmental regulation—improved h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoReporting from Seattle— The Keystone XL battle isn't over. The Canadian company behind the controversial pipeline announced Monday that it would proceed immediately with a shorter version of the project s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to order emergency measures that might prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, despite a warning that the exotic fish pose a "dire threat" to the region's e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFRANKFURT – A systematic and broad failure of regulation is the elephant in the room when it comes to reforming today’s Western capitalism. Yes, much has been said about the unhealthy political-regulatory...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 10 hours agoSometimes the real message is not in the headlines but half hidden in the text. The news that Jackie Collins, is to digitally self-publish a rewritten version of her bestseller,’ The Bitch’ in the US sho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNEW YORK – The future of capitalism is again a question. Will it survive the ongoing crisis in its current form? If not, will it transform itself or will government take the lead? The term “capitalism” u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTOKYO – On March 11, a year will have passed since Japan was struck by the triple tragedy of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident. According to figures announced by the country’s National Police A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHilary Wainwright examines the possibility of forging a new kind of political economy by learning from the best of both today's radical movements and those of the 60s and 70s. The ability of the Occupy m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWe know that suicide is a terrible problem in Nevada, with a rate 50 percent higher than the national average. Among military veterans and especially young veterans, however, it’s a crisis, according to n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA group of business leaders—including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg—are planning to pour substantial funds into the Occupy Wall Street...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCorporations, today, are holding the largest amounts of cash, relative to assets and net worth, ever recorded. The velocity of money (the frequency at which money is spent, or GDP relative to base money) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoI’ve long thought that the red line that would indicate an intolerable assault on Asia and her assets runs through Iran. However, at the moment I’m not so sure. What I mean is, that a war with Iran, onc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt was a kindergarten class piece of art that Jessie Sansone probably won’t want to hang on the refrigerator anytime soon. After Jesse Sansone’s 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun, cops handcuff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA populist movement has emerged from the heartland of America that is campaigning for a fundamental change in economic policy. European nations are locked into a fixed exchange rate system and struggling ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIs it all over but the (anti-American) shouting -- and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin charged Monday that the United States and NATO alliance acts increasingly without regard for long-established international norms and threatens global security. In a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoArgentina edged towards a full ban on British goods today by calling on firms to boycott them in the escalating row over the Falklands islands. Industry minister Debora Giorgi telephoned the bosses of abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoISLAMABAD — Iran has offered to supply Pakistan with 80,000 barrels of crude oil per day and a $250 million loan to help build a gas pipeline from the Iranian border, a Pakistani official said Wednesday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIran has announced its readiness to receive payment for oil in national currencies of importing countries, as well as in gold. This was announced by head of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic, Mahmo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe shift of president might be accompanied by a shift in foreign policy. “I am convinced that global security can be achieved only together with Russia and not by trying to sideline her, weaken her geopo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRebel groups in Sudan said Feb. 27 they had captured a Sudanese army garrison near the border with South in an operation that they claimed to kill 130 government forces. Meanwhile, Sudan government asked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(ANSAmed) - TUNIS - Algeria has altered its approach and is using an iron fist against unfaithful civil servants. The "numerical" results of the new stance are, to say the least, quite surprising. In Janu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLOCKEFORD (CBS13) – Born out of necessity in this brutal economy there is now a different type of child support. This one involves teenagers looking for work in record numbers — trying to help their pare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDETROIT (WWJ) – Following a string of brutal killings and attacks, a city councilman is making bold suggestions to keep violent crimes down — including forcing gas station owners to hire security guards. ...
- Forget $5 gas, the new worry is $6 gas: Middle East strife threatens to push prices to record levels
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCould oil expert John Hofmeister's prediction of $5 gas in 2012 be too low? As tensions continue to mount over Iran's nuclear program, some analysts say . . . well, maybe. The first two weeks of February... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe leaders of OPEC are "sitting around their table, setting the price of oil and laughing at us because we have no leadership," real estate mogul Donald Trump told CNBC Tuesday. That includes U.S. ally ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 10 hours agoTwo Bibles were found at the compound where the CIA claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed. Pakistan officials found the Bibles at the 'Osama bin Laden' house when they came to demolish the building in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIn a development that could chill the dedication of every soldier in the field, the U.S. government has refused to deny reports by the government of Afghanistan that NATO has agreed to have the soldiers w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNSNews.com) – The healthy eating campaign has the U.S. military in its sights. During a panel discussion Thursday on how government can promote healthy eating habits, the U.S. Army touted its mess hall...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe American Mustache institute earlier today made this surprising announcement: After barnstorming the Nation’s Capitol in support of the proposed Stache Act (details and white paper here), the office of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAn instructor at a midtown high school was arrested Tuesday on sex abuse charges for allegedly forcibly touching a 14-year-old student in a sexual manner -- the sixth such incident involving a New York Ci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNewly legless amphibians live out their lives in underground burrows, tending their slimy pink young, which emerge from their eggs as miniature adults. If they sound like something out of a monster movie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe researchers behind a 2007 documentary detailing “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” have uncovered evidence in a first-century Israeli tomb of the Biblical figure of Jonah, who was famously swallowed whole by a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoChick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disaste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTsunamis generated by the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan last March dragged 3 million to 4 million tons of debris into the ocean after tearing up Japanese harbors and homes. Scientists believe ocean cur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least 11 people are dead after tornadoes tore across six states in the US Midwest, obliterating homes and businesses. Six of the victims were killed when a house was lifted up and fell on them as the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 02:12:30 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29.8 miles) Southe...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoJapan Nuclear Disaster Update #43: Why do We Feel the Need to Be Alarmist http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/japan_update_43.php hat tip Anthony at Enenews http://enenews.com/cesium-spikes-to-hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Colombia at a depth of 91.3 km (56.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:41:09 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) WNW of Tulua, Colombia No Reports...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 16.1 km (10 miles), the quake hit at 01:00:01 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:43:29 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 1228 km (763 miles) NNE of Fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:15:59 UTC Thursday 1st March 2012 The epicenter was 288 km (178 miles) East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:50:48 UTC Wednesday 29th February 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Vanuatu No ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDavid Rathband, the policeman shot and blinded by Raoul Moat, has been found dead at his home in Northumberland. The body of PC Rathband was discovered by police at his home in Blyth last night after offi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoBill Moyers had a fascinating discussion with brilliant culture critic Neil Gabler this week. It's worth watching (above); they talk about the difference between heroes and celebrities and how it impacts...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 13 hours agoBy L. Randall Wray Ok: 32 comments and counting. Must be a record. Way too manyto respond to. I guess we need another full blog. You either love them or youhate them. Apparently there’s no in-between. Al...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 13 hours agoImage from KXL.com.Progressive social movements andthe reactionary forces that oppose themBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / February 29, 2012“Of course, Big Labor's coercion of employees into paying union dues ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijnh36Vr-0&feature=plcp&context=C3ad6107UDOEgsToPDskLbpLaA3WR9qzDiXhC4h3Fg Pure Water posted the link at Enenews http://enenews.com/report-massive-smoke-between-reactors-no-...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 13 hours agoI have written two short papers in the past on this question, "Why do Many Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?" I will post them here first before jotting my current thoughts on the subject. *(1) November 25...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 13 hours agoAs Michael Winerip points out in his commentary below, the line has been drawn between those who believe that a 26 point margin or error is good enough to make high stakes education policy decisions, and t...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoJust the other day, I presented a great article that comes from "Horse237" who writes the blog: Video Rebel's Blog (www.vidrebel.wordpress.com), entitled: "There Never Was An American Empire Only A Machine...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 14 hours agoFor the most part my morning bus ride in to work is a routine thing, with the exception of the occasional breakdown as happened yesterday and again last week. Two mechanical problems in as many weeks.....a...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoOccupy activists in the studios of KOOP-FM, Austin, February 24, 2012. From left, Richard Bowden, Joe Cooper, Mo McMorrow, Nate Cowan, Brian J. Overman, Lucian Villaseñor, and Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer. P...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours agoThe internets are insane today. I read this profile, What Every Happened to Ted Turner and thought it was quite good, if a little sad. I've actually been wondering about Ted for a while. It seemed like he ...
- posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 15 hours agoWhat a surreal world our political masters inhabit. We have credible allegations of electoral fraud, and all our Government can say is "Nuh huh, it weren't us! You called us names!" For a law and order part...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 15 hours ago
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*In breaking news, James M. puts London in his rear-view mirror (see below)* * "Hello? Beasts of the Field? This is Lou, over in Birds of the Air. Anything funny going on over at your end?" * *by Ken* "It'...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours agoThe global infowar is intensifying. The minds of men and women are awakening worldwide. The truth that the 9/11 terror attacks were committed by the shadow totalitarian governments in Israel and the Un...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoThis time last year, the Tories found themselves engulfed in scandal - Carson, Contempt, In & Out, Oda... The opposition parties were licking their chops at the prospect of bringing the government down. W...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 17 hours agoEVERYWHERE YOU GO in the www, *you leave a trail*. You can minimize your visible trail, and in a BIG VICTOR world, anonymity is a great idea. * WEBMONKEY* is the webware part of the WIRED world, with an a...
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