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As I stood in the checkout line at my local grocery store on Saturday I almost gasped aloud as the cashier read the total. I couldn't figure it out. I hadn't bought anything unusual. Sadly, the total has... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 minutes ago*"Collapse Coming– Not Recovery"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The way the latest unemployment numbers were reported by the mainstream media (MSM), you would think the Great Recession was over and t...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 25 minutes ago*[image: _McGrath001]This week, Dr Richard McGrath feels the wind in his hair.* An article in the 10 Feb, 2012, edition of the *NZ Medical Journal *is devastatingly bad news for cycle helmet zealots. Wr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
Fearing the outbreak of bird flu in Moshav Shalva near Kiryat Malachi, Israel’s veterinary officials gave the order to destroy tens of thousands of turkeys. In addition, a quarantine was placed on that co... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes ago
HONG KONG - The country's veterinary authorities have reported two new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian flu in wild birds. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) was sent follow-up report no. ... - posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 36 minutes ago
*... it starts with "T" * *Contributor: "Brian H"* Reaction to Afghan civilian shooting *... a brutal rampage that killed 16 civilians* Why isn't the "T" word being used in the case of the 16 Afghans shot ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes ago
The first case of bird flu was registered in South Korea over the last ten months, local authorities reports. Forty chickens died in one of the bird farms in Chungcheongnam-do province. The tests should ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, arming himself against election-year attacks on his energy policies amid painfully high gas prices, welcomed a report on Monday showing a one million barrel-per-day dec...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 59 minutes ago
Climate activists start to realize that carbon trading won't work. For example, Airbus and six European airlines have informed Ms Connie Hedegaard, the European Climate Holy War Czar, about a very surpri... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:55:10 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 251 km (156 miles) North from Ter... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoVARANASI: Two children died of food poisoning while more than 30 were admitted to a community health centre in Ghazipur district on Sunday night. The food and civil supply department officials collected ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoLow levels of mustard agent vapor were detected in an igloo Monday morning at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County, officials said. At this time the leak poses no danger or risk to the citizens of Madi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe virus was identified as part of a rabies surveillance research project funded by the Wellcome Trust and was investigated following an unusual incident when a child was attacked by a civet – a cat-like ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoChrystia Freeland March 8 Reuters http://blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland/2012/03/08/the-1-percent-recovery/ [excerpted] "a new Saez paper is hot news. And his latest, which set Twitter abuzz this week,...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour ago
If there's anything better than Princess Leia sunbathing in her ROTJ metal bikini, it's got to be Princess Leia and her body double sunbathing in their ROTJ metal bikinis. - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Twins adopted by an American woman, 28, were found abandoned on a freezing Russian street with a note saying she no longer wanted them. Sasha and Masha are just 15 months old and the 'cruelty' of the moth... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoI'm not sure whether I should give this one to BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski, who posted the clip, or to the Dutch TV correspondent doing the interview, but here's a wonderful clip of what happens when your ...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour ago
So it was a bit of a chaotic weekend here. First a power outage early last Friday morning that threw downtown into darkness for much of the morning and then some wet snow last night that led to several fen... - posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 hour ago
*Not according to Conservative Senator Elaine McCoy* *Contributor: "YYC"* On the "About" page of Senator McCoy's website is a prominently-placed quote from Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDo... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 hour ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein.) “*This incident is tragic and shocking, and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoChildren as young as four will learn to speak Mandarin thanks to a BBC series that starts today. An animated bug called Wei, who wears rollerskates and a crash helmet, will teach young viewers basic voca...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoBusily working on large extensive post, sure to bore you all to tears. So enjoy this little interview. It is right on topic and informative. Cook is a writer, author, and Professor of English at the Univers...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoI love being outside and every weekend I hike Friday afternoon and Saturday. Sunday I swim, hike or ride the stationary bike. I've been doing this for years and my body is accustomed to the exercise. So ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles Poorly constrained), the quake hit at 16:30:09 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) WSW fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn armed siege at a pensioner's home ended today when her 40-year-old son who held her at knife-point gave himself up. A police spokesman said the man was talked out of the home in Sandwell, West Midland...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 hours agoIt would appear that there is a cunning plan to give Scotland a sort of 'fake' independence. The idea is that the Scots will be given as much independence as the North American Indians, the Australian Ab...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago*Tim Johnson (R), David Gill (D), Matt Goetten (on the right in the photo, but in between politically)* Last Wednesday we wondered aloud what the hell is wrong with Steny Hoyer. The DCCC makes a big show ...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 2 hours agoA more accurate headline: Little evidence that nonfiction curriculum enhances reading skills Sent to the New York Times, March 12 The headline “Nonfiction curriculum enhanced reading skills” (March 11) is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn Austrian metalworker accidentally switched on an oven that two colleagues were inside cleaning - leaving them to slowly cook to death. Detectives investigating the horrific deaths in the massive oven s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA sports coach accused of sexual activity with an 11-year-old boy has had his trial delayed - so he can train an athlete for the Olympics. Decathlon trainer Chris Bowman, 48, who has been charged with abu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNicolas Sarkozy received up to £42million from Colonel Gaddafi to fund his election as French president, it was sensationally claimed today. Extraordinary evidence made public in Paris is said to prove th...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 3 hours agoAccording to the current liberal-Marxist ethos, which guides the whole of Europe, there is no such thing as race, and those who argue otherwise are evil, vicious and criminally insane. Like all products ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 3 hours agoI know I'm not the only Canadian who is frustrated by the media's constant use of the phrase "robocall scandal," as if we're all fired up over a few unwanted phone calls. (Dr. Dawg has an excellent post ab...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours agoI don't know about you, but I've been wondering when the other shoe will drop. As you know I'm a believer (h/t The Monkees) in Paul Krugman's theory of creating meaningful jobs first in order to create a r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 54 km (33.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:05:21 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) Northwes...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago. Ofelia Zepeda, O'odham poet and professor, reads her poetry at the Tucson Festival of Books. Listen as the O'odham words reflect the sounds of the desert quail. Photo and video by Brenda Norrell/Censored N...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoThe new ABC/Washington Post poll this morning has produced a ton of buzz (at least as far as I can tell from my twitter feed) because Barack Obama's approval rating fell from 50% in their last poll to 46% ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:01:35 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) SSE of Mingaora, Pakistan No Reports ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012* *By law, it's crazy to think that:* In our view, Melinda Henneberger was right on target—strongly so—in Saturday’s Washington Post. With considerable accuracy, she described the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck offshore Oregon at a depth of 0 km (0 miles Poorly constrained), the quake hit at 11:37:20 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18.6 miles) WNW from Ya...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012* *But then they give Romney a pass:* In Sunday morning’s Washington Post, Fred Hiatt did some good fact-checking. His work involved Rick Santorum’s recent statements concerning No ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoComing Back Richer ~moosedenied ~This just in: Drew Brees doesn't owe you jack shit. It's *we *who are indebted to *him*. And don't even start with the whole "Drew owes the Saints because they took the risk...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 4 hours ago*@TheLiberalLady: Another gr8 day 2 be a liberal!! We need 2 work every day to move our programs forward -- recapture the hope from 2008 -- support our prez!! @jurassicpork59 @TheLiberalLady And just who...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoTo the anonymous commenter who made some interesting points re seat allocation at recent Question Time in Middlesborough: that sounds interesting, have you more information and source for your allegations?
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 4 hours agoConsidering the dietary abuses of the weekend (chocolate pancakes and birthday brownies on the same day!), not a bad weigh-in; a few pounds up from previous lows but not too bad. Southern Man has got to st...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 4 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Big, Sexy Girl Beats on Man.. Imagine what her boyriend must edure before and after sex!
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoUnlikely partners unite after natural and man-made disasters Xavier University being transformed by influx of money following Federal Flood Post-Federal Flood environment creates entrepreneurship hub Bla...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 4 hours agoBy Capt. Fogg Henry Kissinger -- the name could be a metonym for dishonest defense of imperialism and reckless disregard for the consequences of military action, and so it's no surprise to hear him tell u...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Global water demand: Baseline scenario, 2000 and 2050. Source: The Environmental Outlook Baseline, output from IMAGE suite of models. oecd.org] Paris (AFP) 7 March 2012 – Water management needs u...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Cover of 'Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Resources', INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS, 2012]San Francisco, 12 March 2012 (SPX) – Climate change has been studied extensively, b...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 5 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012* *Part 1—What Neil Swidey said about Collins:* On January 8 of this year, Neal Swidey returned to the scene of the crime. Swidey, a Boston Globe reporter, recalled the piece of wor...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 5 hours ago[image: 4478141208_8caeba59d9] This is my Asian pivot. Here is part one, where I argued that there is no constituency in the US to support an Asian pivot besides the some businesspeople. 2. Connected to ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoHappy Birthday to Barbara Feldon, 79. Years old, that is; she is, of course, 99 and always will be. The good stuff: 1. Josh Putnam on the delegate count. See also, as I think I've mentioned, Democratic C...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 6 hours agoAuthor: Duane Craig The Environmental Protection Agency is hunting for the sources of soil, air and water pollution that may be contributing to a cluster of cancer cases in Sandusky County, Ohio. Thirty-f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoDEER PARK, N.Y.(PIX11)— A remote stretch of roadway in Suffolk County has become a dumping ground for mutilated animals. "We found about 12 bags, with about 20 or so dead chickens, dead roosters, and we...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 6 hours agoEver wonder how you can become an educator, education expert, or education reformer? Well, since *60 Minutes* has bought into the most recent con-de-jure, the Khan Academy, let's consider how people becom...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours agoA Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities by David Swanson Global Research Canada, March 12, 2012 Source: warisacrime.org, March 11, 2012 *PREAMBLE* Whereas the Universal Declaration ...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 6 hours agoOur first stretch of mild weather hit this past weekend so I had to take full advantage of it by heading out for a walk. I decided to head over to a storm pond I like to frequent in a nearby residential ar...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoYesterday we talked about how Congressmembers on the take from the armaments industry and from defense contractors-- particularly Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Sen. John McKeon (R-AZ)-- are advocating for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoJAIPUR: In a sign of intensifying man-animal conflict in parts of Rajasthan, four persons were killed in animal attacks in less than one month, jerking the government into action. Morpali Meena (55) and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 131.6 km (81.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:32:49 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) West from Kuril'sk, Kuri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPOMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Children at a South Florida beach made an unusual discovery in the sand. 7News viewer Linda Williams sent in photos of a dead reef shark, partially buried in the sand on Pomp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Azores Islands Region, Portugal at a depth of 13 km (8 miles), the quake hit at 12:10:21 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105.4 miles) Southea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHUNDREDS of big carp have died in one of the major pans at Strandfontein wastewater treatment works adjoining Zeekoevlei, temporarily ruining one of the Peninsula’s premier freshwater fishing spots. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 4.3m female great white shark was found dead at Fish Hoek beach on Sunday morning, says the SA Whale Disentanglement Network’s Mike Meyer. Shark Spotters research manager Alison Kock said the shark had ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAN OUTBREAK which killed around 40 carp in Danson lake on Friday could have been triggered by people releasing fish, Environment Agency experts say. Tests revealed no problem in water quality and only ca...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoIdiot! A very good article here from the pressofAtlanticCity: By DIANE D’AMICOEducation Writer pressofAtlanticCity.com Southern New Jersey towns with the highest unemployment and poverty in the state w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoImage: He’s behind you: the farmer (wearing jumper) and his wife, left, watch Nicolas Sarkozy on the campaign trail in the Pyrenees region Photo: BERNIERE PATRICK Sometimes, Nicolas Sarkozy just cannot he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Greece's deep recession and unpredictable elections threaten to turn the biggest debt restructuring in history into yet another short-lived reprieve, although the existential threat posed to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoReuters) - A car bomb killed a schoolgirl on Monday and wounded 25 others at a school in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, the scene of sporadic street fighting between Free Syrian Army rebels and Presid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Dozens of civilians were killed in cold blood in the Syrian city of Homs, opposition activists and Syrian state media said on Monday, although they disputed responsibility for what both sides ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - The massacre of 16 villagers by a U.S. soldier has triggered angry calls for an immediate American exit from Afghanistan as Washington tries to negotiate a long-term presence to keep the count...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- Scores of Japanese citizens filed a lawsuit Monday in an effort to block the restarting of a nuclear power facility as tensions remain over atomic energy in the country a year after the Fu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGaza City (CNN) -- Fresh airstrikes early Monday in Gaza led to the death of a 15-year-old boy, the fourth civilian killed in four days of bombing by the Israeli military, Palestinian medical and securit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) -- Gunmen stormed the mayor's office Monday in the town of al-Dhuloiya in northern Iraq, killing five security guards, police said. The mayor was not in his office at the time of the attack. Al-Dhul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- U.S. airstrikes targeted militant hideouts and arms caches in separate attacks over three days in Yemen, killing at least 64 suspected al Qaeda insurgents before the strikes ended Su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLONDON (AP) -- Protesters have gathered at a British nuclear power station and blocked off its entrance to mark the first anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima power station in Japan. The Stop New...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Thousands of people formed human chains in Germany and France to protest against the use of nuclear power plants on Sunday, the first anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea said Monday it will take ''firm action'' if China continues to lay jurisdictional claim to Ieodo, a submerged outcropping of rocks in the waters south of southern Jeju Island,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Antinuclear protesters took to the streets in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami which triggered the nuclear crisis at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- The mayors of towns and villages in the Futaba county of Fukushima Prefecture have shown mixed responses to the central government's request that three of the eight municipalities in the coun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoForensic experts say a mass grave discovered in southern Mexico with the remains of 167 people is around 1,300 years old, it was originally thought the grave was only 50 years old. The experts and anthro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA gunfire attack was launched outside a house in a small Maine coastal town, killing one and injuring three others, police said as they struggle to determine who pulled the trigger and why. Shots were fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA vintage mortar shell discovered in a Texas home turned out to be a live World War 2 explosive. A military bomb squad was called in when the shell was found in the yard of an empty house on Friday. Pol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis photograph shows Kalu with his wife, Nicole, at the White House for an energy briefing in September A CEO allegedly lured foreigners to America to work for a nonexistent university before setting th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe US military was responsible for four airstrikes in a southern Yemen province where al-Qaida-linked militants control several key towns, according to Yemeni military officials. They claimed the airstr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA student who threatened to go on a shooting rampage was arrested on Sunday. University of Maryland student Alexander Song posted a message on a website detailing plans for a campus shooting spree that ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours ago*Postmodern revisionism of Bohr's answer to Einstein's box is deeply flawed* The Physics arXiv Blog discusses a recent preprint EPR before EPR: a 1930 Einstein-Bohr thought experiment revisited by Croatia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMs Perez was waiting at Amarillo airport with her boyfriend Eric and his mother on September 20 and suddenly, while inside, Perez felt something stinging the back of her neck. ‘I felt a nasty pinch when ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 12-year-old boy lies on the ground, stripped to his waist and with five bullet holes in his chest. His name is Balachandran Prabakaran and he is the son of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the sec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPerth is sweltering through a record-breaking eighth heatwave. The Bureau of Meteorology defines a heatwave as three consecutive days at or above 35C. The record was reached during the weekend and on Mond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe US military have unveiled their infamous non-lethal weapon - an electromagnetic beam of fierce heat. When the Active Denial System (ADS) is activated, it beams a high-frequency electromagnetic ray be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPagan prisoners are demanding the right to pray naked and wear hooded robes in their cells. Under prison guidelines, they are allowed to wear only robes without hoods to ensure their faces can be seen. ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 8 hours agoSource: Noticias Caracol & Planeta UFO http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/regional/periodista-grafico-captura-dos-ovnis-en-barrancabermeja/20120310/nota/1652387.aspx Date: 03.10.12 Colombia: UFO ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoScientist have discovered the fossil remains of an ancient armoured fish in the act of snaring its prey. The remarkable find, dug in Bavaria, south Germany are some 120 millions years old, and show that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoImage: Dano Sonnex murdered French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez in New Cross after failed police checks Hundreds of dangerous criminals who are on the run – including murderers and rapists – ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA town's police department has been closed amid claims of a cover up after an officer allegedly used a taser to subdue a nine-year-old boy. Nearly 2,000 residents of Mount Sterling, in Ohio, have been lef...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHostage negotiators are continuing in their attempts to free an elderly woman being held captive in her own home by a knife-wielding man today. Officers were called to Perry Hill Road in Sandwell, West Mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Yorkshire Ripper has launched a legal battle for a state pension. Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe plans to go to the European Court of Human Rights arguing that he has a right to draw the benefit becaus...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 9 hours agoLots of posts these days about whether to go to grad school for a PhD, including by Dan Drezner. Drew Herrick has a nice post that not only presents his views but heaps of links to past posts by various f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Afghan parliament has demanded a public trial of a US soldier who allegedly killed 16 civilians, as the Taliban vows revenge for the deaths. "We seriously demand and expect that the government of the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNATO troops in Afghanistan are on high alert after the Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 innocent civilians - including nine children and three women - who were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. sold...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoMonday morning - a fresh week dawns - and time for George to welcome you to a new Open Thread. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoAnother item from Biased BBC's Alan... "Interesting that the BBC who won't allow climate change sceptics a fair hearing give an anti-monarchy pressure group (run by a Labour MP) free airtime....and not th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Liberal Democrat minister has ordered Government lawyers to oppose the right of Christian workers to wear a cross. On the instructions of Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone, they will call on Europ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoImage: On trial: Dr Karen Murphy, who forgot her son was in the car During these hectic times, many things can slip your mind - but could you ever forget your own child? Emma Taylor, 36, from Buckinghams...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Alan writes; "Richard 'Blackout' Black strikes again...or rather doesn't.....the Sunday Express reveals that environmental campaigners* are being hired by energy companies to lob...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours ago'enable us to invite a balanced cross-section of people' - I wonder if a FOI request would shed some light on this balancing process?
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours agoThe devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan has turned one year ago yesterday. I won't make expanded discussions here, will just show many "during and after" the EQ and tsunami, or "befo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoI've been waiting to see how the BBC would cover the recent missile terror attacks on Israel from Hamastan and finally, this morning, the BBC Today programme deigned to cover it @ 8.21am Naturally, Humphry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIs Syria's civil war a prelude to a larger Mideast conflict that would involve Israel, Iran, the Arab Gulf countries minus Oman (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain) and Israel? So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists on Thursday launched a mission to the seabed off Japan where a massive quake triggered last year's devastating tsunami, to get their first proper look at the buckled ocean floor. Researchers f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA year on from one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history, Japanese scientists are warning anew that Tokyo could soon be hit by a quake that will kill thousands and cause untold damage. Greater T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChina has abandoned controversial plans to make it legal to "disappear" criminal suspects following a huge public outcry, in a move hailed as a victory for judicial reformers. Proposed changes to China's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSeawater circulation pumps hydrogen and boron into the oceanic plates that make up the seafloor, and some of this seawater remains trapped as the plates descend into the mantle at areas called subduction ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"The Power of Disengagement: Playing Mind Games"* by The DailyOM "Life should not be lived through a series of mind games, but from truth and looking deep within. For better or worse, many people have be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDepression is common enough - afflicting one in ten adults in the United States - that it seems the possibility of depression must be "hard-wired" into our brains. This has led biologists to propose sev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSouth Korea's defence chief on Wednesday urged his soldiers to launch strong counter-attacks if provoked by the North as the two Koreas exchanged tirades despite a recent nuclear deal. Defence Minister K...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoI listened to this remarkable interview on BBC Today concerning the likely reaction by the Taliban to the killing of 16 Afghanistan people by a deranged US soldier. (Like they need an excuse to kill our s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe global spending on cyber warfare systems is expected to remain robust over the forecast period due primarily to the increased importance of such systems in modern warfare. The formation of the US Cybe...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours agoThis is from an American friend working and living in Tokyo, Marc A. Its funny how alarmism and statism can magnify things. ------- By looking at the way TV stations and politicians are behaving, it doesn'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoChina's cyber warfare capabilities would pose a danger to US military forces in the event of a conflict over Taiwan, according to a report by a US congressional advisory panel released Thursday. The repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIsrael is "completely unprepared" to cope with the consequences of a war, a lawmaker in charge of home front preparations has told AFP, as tensions rise over a possible confrontation with Iran. Zeev Biel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTaiwan's military said one of its drones was missing and believed to have crashed on Wednesday, the first such incident since the sophisticated pilotless aircraft was introduced two years ago. Ground crew...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Florence police say a 9-year-old girl stabbed her grandmother after they argued about whether she could watch television. Investigators said the girl stabbed her 64-year-old grandmothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the State Department's list of money-laundering centers but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country. The 2012 International Narc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEurope has ring-fenced Greece's debt crisis for now but its escalating recourse to legal legerdemain has shattered the trust of global bond markets and may ultimately expose Portugal, Spain, and Italy to g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFitch just downgraded Greece from "C" to "restricted default." This designation hardly comes as a surprise, since the ratings agency had previously said that the country's planned debt restructuring would...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAttention U.S. taxpayers: You now own a piece of a French car company that is drowning in red ink. That’s right. In a move little noticed outside of the business pages, General Motors last week bought mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoKABUL, March 12 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament condemned on Monday the massacre of 16 civilians by a lone U.S. soldier and said the Afghan people had run out of patience with their lack of oversight...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRussian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, two of whose alleged members face up to seven years in jail for a "punk prayer" they staged in Moscow's main cathedral, have received unexpected backing from a group...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBeware of too much good luck, warns a classic Greek myth – a lesson that a Michigan woman who won a $1-million state lottery jackpot has learned the hard way. Michigan’s Department of Human Services has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) — An illegal immigrant from Guatemala will be able to collect $750,000 he won from a lottery ticket he purchased in 2010. A Houston County Superior Court jury ruled in 27...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe U.S. government last year announced a $10 million award, dubbed the “L Prize,” for any manufacturer that could create a “green” but affordable light bulb. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the prize w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoReal-Time Advice: Twitter gets credit for bringing about change. But for some, it also costs hunks of it. Sticks and stones may break bones, but 140 characters can do a whole lot more damage. While Twitt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA neighbor has stalked Edna Geisler for two months. He lurks in her front yard, screeching at her constantly, even jumping out occasionally and attacking her when she dares wander outside alone. "I'm af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWhile not shocking to most, the jump in temporary workers that we cited earlier is perhaps the biggest indicator of job 'quality' gains. As we discussed here last month, the US market economy remains mir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in February vs. expectations for 206,000, continuing a recent trend of decent hiring activity. The unemployment rate held at 8.3%. But America remains mired in the lon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit surged to the widest imbalance in more than three years in January as imports hit an all-time high, reflecting big demand for foreign-made cars, computers and food...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPHOENIX (AP) -- The pink underwear worn by inmates in Arizona's largest county are a hallmark of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff. They also have become the target of criticism by an appeals co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPowerful but misleading marketing that for years pushed the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin has left potentially tens of thousands of Canadians with the burden of addiction, critics claim. OxyConti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUnemployed Canadians continued to find work hard to come by in February as 2,800 jobs were lost across the country. However, a surprising decline in the size of the labour force meant the unemployment ra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAs Japan prepares to mark the anniversary of last year’s devastating natural and nuclear disaster, many of the evacuees in a city near the ruined Fukushima Daiichi plant wonder how long they will have to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOlder workers have flooded into the job market since the recovery that began in the summer of 2009, TD Economics said Thursday, eclipsing other age groups in terms of gains made in the labour market. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCanada’s youngest job seekers, who have taken the biggest unemployment hit since the recession began, face challenging job prospects “for several more years,” an analysis by TD Economics suggests. The re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoCoca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel colouring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens come ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOn December 31, 2011, Raul Oiada, a Romanian physicist and self-taught rocket scientist (who taught himself English so he could read the books to teach himself rocketry) and Steve Sammartino, an Australi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northwestern Kashmir at a depth of 66.2 km (41.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:26:14 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) Northeast from Chitra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe bodies of 47 women and children have been found dead after a "massacre" in the Syrian city of Homs, the opposition and activists have said. The 26 children and 21 women - some bearing stab wounds - wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe Taliban has threatened revenge attacks after an American soldier killed 16 civilians, including nine children, in Afghanistan. In a statement on their website, Taliban militants said they would "take...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoEmergency services are letting some NSW residents return to their flood-ravaged homes during daylight hours under escort to assess the damage and start cleaning up. But evacuation orders remain in place ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAuthorities are bracing for a higher than anticipated flood peak at Barmah, in northern Victoria. Staff from the State Emergency Service (SES) and volunteers have spent the night sandbagging an area two ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 11 hours ago*Gooey chocolate cake! (sugar free and gluten free!!)* When it comes to desserts I am a bit more of a fruity dessert person, but every once in a while I get in the mood for some chocolatey goodness. I rea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Central Peru at a depth of 61.2 km (38 miles), the quake hit at 06:34:58 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) SSE of Ica, P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:22:08 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 588 km (364.5 miles) Southeast of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Northwestern Kashmir at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:45 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) Northwest of Gilgit, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 20.3 km (12.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:55 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) SSE of Lar, Iran No Reports o...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 11 hours ago*The main idea is basically a microwave mounted on top of a Humbie. If you express yourself against the establishment, they will issue you "burn waves". * * * *The new idea of the country who calls himse...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours agoThe Light *Love Light and be free!* *Light - this is a creative act of Divine Nature. It distinguishes the created from the uncreated, the temporary from the eternal, the transitory from the real.* ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago*China posted its main trade shortage in at least a decade in February after imports of supplies jumped as companies built up supplies. Price development has been one of the major troubles in front of Ch...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoBig Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat by Christopher D. Cook It is no longer news that a few powerful corporations have literally occupied the vast majority of human sustenance...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThe problem of a major solarevent is the same problem that we had with understanding tsunamis until severalyears ago. No data existed in the modernera that could be relied on and whatever else existed...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThe evidence keeps coming in andwe now have a review article by Lon Coleman here stepping up to the plate. I comment throughout the article so read itcarefully. Otherwise, the evidencecontinues to co...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis describes a protocol thatmay just allow individuals to cleanse themselves of HIV once and for all. There are two steps. The first is to strongly activate the immunesystem itself with safe inocula...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis article is a much neededantidote to the inveterate pessimists out there who allow wishful thinking torun far ahead of the facts. The USA issuffering from self inflicted economic damage brought ab...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoProf Brian Cox is a physicist who was the main presenter of the one-hour-long 2011 BBC special, "Guide to the Moon", among many other programs. You may expect him to know something about the Moon; you may ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago*According to the artist **Damien Hirst's public gallery in south London, which is being urbanized to show his individual skill collection, will open in 2014.* On or after 4 April, the Tate Modern will d...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*A 19-year-old university student has been named the UK's Cyber Security Champion following a rivalry sponsored by the aptitude agency GCHQ and quite a few leading tech firms.* On Saturday Mr. Millican w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolice investigating the deaths of two young women in Wakefield have said they were stabbed to death. The bodies of Kimberley Frank, 17 and Samantha Sykes, 18, were found at a flat in the Eastmoor area o...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago------------------------------ Guest Post: Our "Let's Pretend" Economy: Let's Pretend "Job Growth Is Best Since 2006" Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/09/2012 14:12 -0500 Original here *Submitted ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*The coupling of Jupiter and Venus in the sky is set to reach its closest point in the coming days.* Venus is the brighter of the two, and Jupiter will appear to move in a line past it for the rest of th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." - Bruc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:03:37 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 328 km (204 miles) South from David, Panama No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSAN JOSE, Calif - SAN JOSE, Calif. - The price to make Silicon Valley gadgets and computers in China - the assembly line for the global tech industry - is going up, forcing tech companies to rejigger supp...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*"Recipe for Greatness"* by Zane Grey "Recipe for greatness — To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDamascus, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The Syrian authorities that ensure the restoration of citizens' peace in Homs found new caches of military supplies, computers, modern communication devices and transmissio...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoA U.S. soldier is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan people. Civilians, we are told. As if all the Afghans and all the Iraqis slaughtered by US bombs, raids, drones, guns, white phosphorous, and torture wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoChina’s re-emergence as a world economic power raises important questions about what we can learn from its previous rise and fall and about the external and internal threats confronting this emerging econo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLibyan leader Mustapha Abdul Jalil on Wednesday said he would defend national unity “with force” if necessary, after tribal leaders and a political faction declared autonomy for an eastern region. “We ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoToday, energy security is not only the principal driving factor behind the economic development of any state but also the most contested field among states as well. Faced with acute energy crisis Pakista...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRussia’s political course toward the US will remain unchanged, although one cannot be 100 percent sure that the relations between the two countries will always be flawless, Russia’s deputy foreign ministr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAt the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of "shock and awe" had stumbled in from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. US police forces had been "m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainfo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoReported US Military Ramp-up on the Border Follows Years of ATF-Sanctioned Gun Running U.S. troops deployed to the US/Mexican border last week may well be there, in part, to deal with the blowback from A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 645 PM CDT SUN MAR 11 2012 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA WESTERN MIS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAKE CHARLES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL EVANGELINE PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ST. LANDRY PARISH IN CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe pairing of Jupiter and Venus in the sky is set to reach its closest point in the coming days. Despite being vastly far from one another in space, the conjunction will make them appear just a few degr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - U.S. officials warned on Monday of possible reprisal attacks after 16 Afghan villagers, mostly children and women, were killed in a likely "rogue" shooting by a U.S. soldier that weakens the W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoLiquid Mind, “Society Of Dreams” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1swN4D9gXE&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice negotiators are trying to save a woman in her 80s who is trapped in a house with a man who has a knife. Specialist officers from West Midlands police have been at the house near Oldbury for sever...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoThat "tweet" was from *Kady O'Malley* who was reporting on the activities at the Manning Conservative Self-Stimulation event in Ottawa. At the time one Daniel Hannen was speaking. His relevance will be ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMortgages worth 95% of the price of newly built homes are to be made available under a new loan guarantee scheme supported by the Government and developers. The NewBuy Guarantee is targeted at 100,000 pr...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 15 hours agoToday is Southern Man's birthday! He was going to haul a box of grading in to the office and work until mid-afternoon at which time he was to pick up a friend at the airport but Teen Daughter was adamant ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has called an incident in which an American soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, "tragic and shocking". In a written statement, Mr Obama said: "I offer my c...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Love That (Not Man Apart From That)" * "Then what is the answer?— Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:30:26 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 582 km (361 miles) Southwest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:02:40 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) ESE of I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Batan Islands Region, Philippines at a depth of 164 km (104.68 miles), the quake hit at 21:31:41 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42.1 miles) S...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*“Children of Gods, Scions of Apes”* by Kahlil Gibran "All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:33:59 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50.8 mil...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 15 hours agoA few weeks ago, Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society and Nobel Laureate, gave the Richard Dimbleby Lecture for the BBC (here in PDF). In it he presented a rather simplistic and two-dimensional...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*The Mott Iron Works, founded by Jordan L. Mott in 1828, and the source of the name given to the southernmost area of the Bronx, Mott Haven, is mostly forgotten and almost entirely gone -- but this sign re...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoAbout 4 months back, Presidential candidate, Newton Gingrich, went on an Israeli news cast and said to the Israeli reporter that the Palestinians were an "invented people" and thus according to that clown,...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 15 hours agoArguably the first definition of "service intellectual" was given in my 2006 essay "Gradual change is not progress" [1]:"Comfortable First World liberal and left intellectuals claiming to work for change oft...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“Big, beautiful NGC 5584 is more that 50,000 light-years across and lies 72 million light-years away toward the constellation Virgo. The winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." - Robert Frost
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"A Letter from Rick Santorum: Introducing SantorumCare™"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – “Today, former Senator Rick Santorum issued the following letter to the American people. Dear ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: Satellite image of Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex on 2 February 2012, almost a year after the tsunami. DigitalGlobe] By Alan Boyle 9 March 2012 Satellite images tracked the catastrophic impac...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 16 hours agoYaron Brook discusses Ron Paul’s prediction (hope?) that the Federal Reserve might collapse. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours agoIn the 1997 American Legislative Exchange (ALEC) 24th Annual Meeting program one of the private sector members that is noted in the program is: *JR Simplot* In the same 1997 Annual Meeting program Bonnie C...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 17 hours agoIn December I was contacted by a journalist named Christine MacDonald who wanted to ask me a few questions about extreme events and climate change: Hi Prof. Pielke, I am writing an article for E Magazin...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 17 hours agoGot wankers?*The video is a classic case of "BUSTED", the soulless fucking moron featured in this video is the typical selfish pathological liar and fame-junky that the filthy yiddish khazars always choose...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoOwyhee, Nevada, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse"* By Nomi Prins "Several years after the Wall Street-ignited crisis began, the nation’s top bank CEOs (who far out-accumulated their European and other ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoI can't find that old video of President Obama referring to Paul Ryan as "serious" and giving Village credibility to his corporate-written harebrained schemes to reverse the New Deal, destroy Medicare and...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoEditor's Note: March 12, 2012 - This article was originally published on September 26, 2011 regarding a murderous land grab made by Ugandan dictator-for-life Yoweri Museveni on behalf of a British corporat...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agoWhen you consider that the American Legislative Exchange Council distributed an article to their members in 2000 that included this statement: I was honored to serve as the Junk Science sub-committee Chair ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 19 hours ago*... after the horse has escaped. * *Contributor: "YYC"* There's all this talk on the Net about how Obama is about to be impeached for war crimes. Don't count on it happening. The Resolution that's just ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago"Ancient Stoics believed that all beings had the sacred fire of the Logos within them." - *Olly Robinson*, "Stoicism and Gurdjieff," September 17, 2008. "The US Govt needs to make body pics available ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoCNN posted and op-ed today from the Women's Media Center co-authored by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem. They want the FCC to take legal action against the toxic gasbag Limbaugh since his boss...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"Every Western schoolchild is dutifully taught that the Near East is "the cradle of civilization," and that the first civilizations arose in Egypt and Mesopotamia....From there civilization spread to Cret...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 21 hours agoIn an excellent article in The Atlantic which explores "Why Companies Fail," Megan McCardle theorizes that it comes down to inertia. A company going in a certain direction for a long period of time will b...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agoThe hash-tag #VetthePres is catching on on Twitter and refers to the need to subject Barack Obama to the same degree of vetting that the liberal media demand for any Republican candidate for President. I b...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours ago*Rally Against Money in Politics * *and the American Legislative Exchange Council* *Fight the Corporate Attack on Democracy* *STOP the "Right to Work" * *STOP the "Voter ID" Laws, * *Defend the Rights of...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 21 hours agoDavid Shearer, the Leader of the Labour Party, has finally made a headline. (I give his official title here just so you know who he is. That you wouldn’t know if I didn’t tell you he is a measure of how...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 21 hours agoGo to any major college campus in the United States and you will find a group which is actively anti-Israel. Those same folks very often will wrap themselves in the flag of "peace." But how many colleges ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoWhat percentage of the vote will the top third party or independent candidate draw in the presidential election this November? And who will that candidate be?
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Gen. Petraeus Guarantees We Cannot Win This"* by Rutabaga Ridgepole "We cannot win. We will inevitably lose. And you don't have to take my word for it. Just ask General David Howell Petraeus, current Di...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoDavid Cay Johnston goes looking for the suffering sad residents of a socialist country. Unsurprisingly, he can't find any. In fact he finds regular working class people doing much better than our own. Funn...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoNo real reason I haven't blogged this week. Just feeling a little burned out. But I think I'll blame it on the solar flares. Original photo. Scary but beautiful. Or you can watch the animation again.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoAs chairman of the House Armed Services Committee-- and one of the country's chief proponents, and best paid shills, for the armaments industry and for every kind of defense contractor willing to write a ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 22 hours agoA friend at church has gotten the itch to buy some lake property so she and Southern Man headed a few hours west to check it out. It's about thirty years old but sprawls across four lake lots, with a dry ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago"Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition says it is not one mentally-unbalanced US soldier on a rampage that killed 16 civilians, including nine children. The US and its allies have been on a rampage i...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoI liked this from Stephen Pollard. Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard Reply Retweet Favorite · Open Have a look at BBC's coverage of the 500,000 Israelis having to run to shelters to escape bombing. Good lu...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 23 hours agoDalrok has a post up that every married man, or every man considering marriage, should read concerning the ease with which women will destroy their families out of nothing more than "feeling unfulfilled." ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 23 hours agoWhen the Alliance party collapsed in the late nineties its activists headed in two directions: into the Greens to turn the environmentalists red, and into the unions to rebuild them*. We know how succes...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoThe students who refuse to be silenced and their banned books: Students from the Mexican American Studies classes in Tucson, now forbidden by Tucson public schools, with the banned books by Chicano and Nativ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoInfections with the influenza virus A (H1N1) recorded an increase in Guatemala, with 55 confirmed cases and four deaths. In addition to the deaths of two adults in hospitals in the capital, the Ministry o...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoWhen will Rick Santorum drop out of the race (or at least concede it's over): After Tuesday (Mississippi/Alabama/Hawaii)? After March 20 (Illinois)? After April 3 (Maryland/Wisconsin/DC)? After April 24...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has called an incident in which an American soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, "tragic and shocking". In a written statement, Mr Obama said: "I offer my c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 63.5 km (39.5 miles), the quake hit at 19:02:59 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 m...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoFukushima Anniversary: Theatre of the Absurd http://enformable.com/2012/03/fukushima-anniversary-theatre-of-the-absurd/
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 33.7 km (20.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:00:51 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 m...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoI've fucking had it up to here with Facebook. And so have countless tens of thousands, at least. Since Zuckerberg's IPO took Facebook public, a lot of funky shit's been going down. I've managed to keep m...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *MARCH 09, 2012* Permalink *"Beautiful Souls": Eyal Press on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo Palestinian parties say Egypt is playing a major role in efforts to end violence between terrorists, IDF; Hamas says its working with Palestinian factions to broker ceasefire. While Hamas and the Pal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice negotiators are trying to save an elderly woman trapped inside a property with a knife-wielding man. Officers were called to the house in Sandwell, West Midlands, on Sunday morning after concerns ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*11 March 2012 murders in Kandahar. Back in 2010, four US soldiers killed unarmed civilians in this part of Kandahar. They were found gulty of forming a "kill team" that murdered Afghan civilians for sport...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day agoProtect children from the effects of poverty Sent to the New York Daily News, March 11, 2012 Paul Peterson says we should “Fix public schools before child poverty,” (March 11), arguing that low parental in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:28:17 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Southeast of Özalp, Turkey No Reports o...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day agoMy response emailed to Mr Nocera concerning the New York Times article titled "The Phony Settlement" found at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/opinion/nocera-the-phony-settlement.html?_r=1 Dea...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoHow we remember an event shapes how we act in the present and future. Memories of 3/11 are being carefully engineered in the mainstream media. On March 10 *The New York Times* offered an editorial by Sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Carlsberg Ridge at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:11:09 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 935 km (581 miles) West from MALE, Maldiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.8 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:29 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 m...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"This world government, being openly set up now, and the butchering of our basic freedoms in front of everybody right now, is the beginning of the end. Once the globalists have their world government, they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain's leading banks are facing new allegations of mis-selling complex financial products to hundreds of small businesses despite them having little knowledge of what they were buying, a Sunday Telegra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened in a key election rally Sunday to pull France out of Europe's 25-nation visa free zone unless the EU does more to keep out illegal immigrants. Sarkozy, who th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan has said he is "optimistic" following a second round of talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He said he had handed over "concrete proposals" to end the bloods...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kabul warned on Sunday that anti-American reprisals are possible after Western forces went on a rampage in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 15 civilians. (9 Chil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fresh tirade against the West, saying the Islamic Republic does not fear military action, Iranian media reported on Sunday. "The Iranian n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Families cried and held handkerchiefs over their faces to fight the smell of death as Congo Republic held a mass funeral for more than a hundred victims from last week's explosions at a weapon...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Tenor José Cura as Samson in Karlsruhe, 2010. We're going to hear him later (perhaps not all that happily). For now, let's recall from Friday night's preview how Saint-Saëns' opera begins.* *CHORUS OF HE...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day ago*“In the not too distant future, we anticipate that the cyber threat will pose the #1 threat to our country,” said Mueller at a conference. “We need to take lessons learned from terrorism and apply them to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 289 km (179.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:08:09 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56.4 miles) Northeast of PORT-VILA, Efate, Va...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoDennis Kucinich and “Wackiness”The now-defeated congressman consistently opposed destructive bipartisan pieties - and is therefore "crazy"Glenn Greenwald Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Credit: AP Photo/Harry Hambur...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Saskatchewan New Democrats will choose a new leader early in 2013. The decision to hold a leadership convention in February/March 2013 in Saskatoon was made at a party provincial council meeting this we...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoI'm just way behind in reading things that I'm not going to write about immediately, but I better get this up now rather than wait until I get caught up. So here goes, but I probably need more help than us...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- At least five people died and three were wounded when an apparent car bomb exploded near a church in central Nigeria, a witness told CNN. The attack hit St. Finbar's Catholic Church in Jos, a ci...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoPerhaps I should call them "beautiful events" because they involve the beauty quark and not just ordinary strange quarks. ;-) On Friday, Antoine Marzin of Oklahoma gave a Moriond talk about the ATLAS se...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoI once was able to walk, upriver to roam in glorious solitude through an extraordinarily pretty state park, called Hacklebarney, from my friend's pond. Over many years he had stocked it with an incredibl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSo much for my plans of a once-in-a-lifetime motorcycle trip from Panama to Vancouver Island. That route, it seems, has become Murder Alley. While we're all becoming aware of violent crime in Mexico, it'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA curry house that Home Secretary Theresa May officially opened has been raided by her very own immigration officers. Five suspected illegal workers from Bangladesh were detained at her local restaurant ...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day agoRemember the film Sleeper by Woody Allen and the part where information about the benefits of hot fudge sundaes and chocolate are discussed? Woody was right. Chocolate is good for you. So I am here to s...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoTo hear Big Oil and its political minions tell it, the Athabasca Tar Sands will be restored to their pristine state once the black sludge is finally gone. This stands right up there with their promise, l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoInternet spies triggered a security scare at Nato and in Britain after creating a fake Facebook account of its most senior commander to harvest personal details from his high-level friends. Chinese hacke...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLocal resident Kristyn Dominy risked her life to save that of another driver on W. Ozello Trail — even though the other driver had made a rude gesture at her just moments before. According to the Tampa Ba...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWomen, check. The young, check. Minorities, check. Moderate conservatives, check. Liberals, check. The poor, check. The soon to be poor, check. The Republicans, it seems, have done a dandy job alie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Iron Dome system has intercepted 90 percent of missile attacks on urban centers during the latest rocket bombardment from Gaza. The expensive systems were inaugurated last year amid controversy over it...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day agoFederal Legislation Poised to Take On Affects from the 2010 BP Deepwater Drilling Disaster by Cherri Foytlin on Sunday, March 11, 2012 The search for justice for the communities of the Gulf Coast affected...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoAfghan president Hamid Karzai is accusing a US serviceman of gunning down 16-people including 9-children and 3-women. Another 5 Afghans were said to have been wounded. A report in *The Guardian* claims t...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoThe war against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Arizona is not hyperbole. The man who ran a campaign to "Stop La Raza" explains the military strategy waged against the Mexican American Studies Department...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoThe End of Japanese Illusions~NYT ~Photograph: Yuriko Nakao, Reuters "Real existence"~Library Chronicles ~Brees had no knowledge about the "real existence" of the bounty program. From this we can reasonabl...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day ago(a) I have written four books on writers: Barbara Kingsolver, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph Ellison. Much of my time as a teacher of writing has also been spent searching for and listening to w...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoI inherited a new companion a few months ago in the form of a cat. A neighborhood stray kept showing up at the back door late last November and has slowly become a member of the household. I'm not really s...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWe've been talking a lot lately about the Republican War Against Women, the Republican War Against Education, the Republican War Against Science, and the Republican War Against the 99%. Today's Republica...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoIf you're in the GTA, here are the details. Rallies are being held across Canada. Check this Facebook page or do the Google to find an event near you. Demand a full public investigation. Demand a new elec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA rogue US soldier has shot dead 16 Afghan civilians - including nine children - in their homes after leaving a base in the middle of the night, Sky sources have said. The Afghan victims also included wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe roof of an under-construction pump house at a proposed power plant site in Rajshahi collapsed yesterday afternoon, leaving at least nine workers injured. Fire service officials said they did not find ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVANCOUVER - One person is dead and five others have been injured following two avalanches in British Columbia's backcountry. Coroner Barb McLintock said the fatality occurred Friday afternoon near Sparwo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt seems that the swine flu menace has hit Jaipur with 6 cases being reported in the last 10 days. An eight year old was the latest victim who tested positive for the influenza on Saturday. Out of the six...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDrive to clean Dhaka's kitchen markets has not started yet, despite health experts' serious call to disinfect those after H5N1 avian influenza lurched from poultry farms to slaughterhouses. The Institut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the worst live export tragedies is finally over leaving 2,750 cattle dead out of 5,600 on board a Brazilian ship headed to Egypt. The remaining animals are on land, after being stranded in the Red ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Experts have been trying to determine why seemingly healthy Hawks have been found dead throughout New York City parks. Several hawks have died in the past couple of weeks alone, in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLike something out of science fiction, a deadly, alien fish virus is set to invade Quebec waterways, threatening the province’s multi-billion-dollar recreational fishing industry. The highly contagious a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s. A study, presented in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, looked ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe populations of almost half of the world's seabirds are thought to be in decline, according to a study published in Bird Conservation International. It found that 28 per cent of species are in the hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBRUSSELS: The dark clouds hanging over the eurozone have receded along with the threat of a Greek default, but the latest bailout for Athens may not be the last. After nine long months of negotiations, ...
- U.S. SOLDIER OPENED FIRE ON CIVILIANS IN KANDAHAR UPDATE: 16 PEOPLE, INCLUDING NINE CHILDREN, KILLED
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSKY SOURCES: 16 PEOPLE, INCLUDING NINE CHILDREN, KILLED AFTER U.S. SOLDIER OPENED FIRE ON CIVILIANS IN KANDAHAR More to Follow... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 14th-century castle in Slovakia has been gutted by a fire which broke out shortly after a group of tourists had left the historic building. Local media has reported that the blaze at Krasna Horka castl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration is exploring options to halt the bloodshed in Syria but is deeply skeptical of military intervention out of fear it could worsen the humanitarian crisis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar. 10 - The Israeli Army and Islamic Jihad both release videos showing firepower following two days of attacks that left 15 people dead in Gaza. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar. 11 - Tens of thousands of protesters march in Bahrain demanding democratic reforms.
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoI was going to give this BBC report on the latest Israeli/Palestinian violence but what's the point? I know it's biased crap, people who have the brains to think for themselves know this to be true and as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- The death toll has risen to six following an attack on a Kenyan bus station that left dozens wounded, the Red Cross said Sunday. At least 68 people are undergoing treatment at a N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Islamic militants ambushed Ethiopian forces in southern Somalia Saturday and hours-long fighting left scores of people dead. The fierce firefights killed 86 Al-Shabaab fighters, said Diyad Abdi K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Authorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said. The remains were discovered inside a cave on the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGaza City (CNN) -- An Israeli airstrike killed a 13-year-old boy in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said, bringing the number of dead there to 17 in three days of strikes. At least 35 have be...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoThe Teacher and Visionary Peter Deunov 1864 to 1944The Good *All of you can do good, because there is good in the hearts of all of you.* *Love gives birth to the good.* *The good is the foundation of life...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 103.6 km (64.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:10:54 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 431 km (268 miles) SSW from NUKU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- After laying out plans aimed at halting the bloodshed in Syria, Kofi Annan, the special U.N. envoy to the country, will meet again with President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday in hopes of getting an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- One year ago, a series of events began with an earthquake off the cost of Japan that culminated in the largest accidental release of radioactivity into the ocean in history. We have to be carefu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoKABUL — A U.S. soldier was taken into custody in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a few hours after he opened fire on Afghan civilians, killing 10, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The shooting took place a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- About 2,000 people have staged an anti-nuclear protest in Taiwan's capital as they observed a moment of silence to mourn the victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIITATE, Fukushima -- Before the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in March last year, the residents of this village rich in natural resources used to live in harmony. Now,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The weather agency warned Sunday of heavy snowfall and strong winds mainly in eastern Japan and coastal areas along the Sea of Japan through Monday, while also warning of lightning strike...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVIENNA (Kyodo) -- The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that human errors were among the factors that exacerbated the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. "Ther...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The sum of compensation paid so far by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to people affected by the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant is equivalent to only a quarter of the around...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The central government on Saturday asked three towns in Fukushima Prefecture to host temporary storage sites for contaminated soil and waste resulting from the nuclear crisis at the Fukus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere's no such thing as bad publicity - or so Harold Camping would have you believe. The radio preacher was ridiculed last year after he claimed the world would end on May 21, and then again on October 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBarack Obama called Vladimir Putin yesterday to congratulate him on winning the election as Russia's next president. Obama and Putin spoke on Friday, five days after Putin won a return to the presidentia...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 1 day agoAt one end of the value chain we have ebook pricing, which today is in need of a sustainable model that is in the consumer interest. After all, they are the final arbitrator and the only one who actually ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:08:06 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) WNW from Shiraz, Iran No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man accused of stabbing a judge and shooting a detective in a Washington courthouse before getting his mother to pick him up has been arrested. Steven Daniel Kravetz is suspected of shooting and stabbin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA man has been arrested and charged with posting more than 100 threatening letters containing white powder to members of Congress. Investigators said Christopher Lee Carlson, 39, of Portland Oregon was i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMTA Police Seeking Public's Help to Identify Man Wanted For Assaulting and Possibly Abducting Woman at Ronkonkoma Station The MTA Police Department is asking the public for help identifying a man witness...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 12-year-old girl is suing her school district after staff at Minnesota middle school searched her Facebook and e-mail accounts. The sixth-grade Minnewaska Area Middle School student, named in court doc...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*David Cameron, left, whose great-great grandfather was Emile Levita, a German-Jewish financier. *UK prime minister David Cameron says that Dow Chemicals is a "reputable company". Dow Chemicals, linked...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoExclusive New Video: The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA twisted thug who decapitated a beloved pet cat is being hunted by police. The cat's headless body was found by a horrified homeowner in Dorset. The owner is said to be distraught after being informed of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYou probably didn’t notice but, at the end of February, Oldbury nuclear power plant, on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, shut after 45 years of operation. If it were any other variety of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe last decade has seen the number of foreign offenders locked up every year in English prisons more than double, with only a few actually completing their full sentences. With the majority of them guil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPerth is sweltering through the eighth heatwave of the summer and autumn seasons, the first time such an event has happened since records started being kept in 1897. The Bureau of Meteorology defines a h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: A neutron star, the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, shown to scale against a satellite snap of Manhattan. At first glance it may look like a scene from the lates...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 17.7 km (11 miles), the quake hit at 08:41:30 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 78.5 km (48.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:33:07 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (67 miles) WSW from Kushiro, H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 100 people yesterday demonstrated against a planned cull of wild geese on Lake Windermere in the Lake District. Protesters waved placards saying ‘Kill the Cull’ and chanted slogans such as ‘Giv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe BBC has re-hired six members of staff less than two years after they were given lucrative redundancy pay-offs. The six are among more than 1,000 employees who received severance packages worth up to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoProtesters against Vladimir Putin’s 'rigged' elections faced truncheon-wielding riot police across Russia yesterday in a clampdown against unauthorised demonstrations. In Moscow, 20,000 protesters were m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron is being ‘forced’ to pay a personal visit to a feared Central Asian dictator as part of a deal to secure the return of Britain’s military equipment when our forces pull out of Afghanistan. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.0 earthquake has struck Utah at a depth of 5.5 km (3.4 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 08:07:54 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) ENE of Cedar City, Ut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe families of British construction worker Chris McManus and an Italian hostage had paid £1million to secure their release, it was claimed last night. Reports in the Italian media claimed the money was ...
- Iraqi students Stoned to Death for being Different: 90 Killed, Number of deaths could be even higher
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoImage: Iraqi activists said this unnamed teenager was brutally killed by religious police for having an 'emo' hairstyle Youngsters in Iraq are being stoned to death for having haircuts and wearing clothe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 507.2 km (315.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:45:12 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 426 km (264 miles) South of Ndo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 72.6 km (45.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:25:45 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) West from Naha, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago"Don't run around this world looking for a hole to hide in." - *Rumi*, (Translated by Coleman Barks). "Even more emphatically than Aeschylus, Herodotus respects the Persians and considers them capabl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman and her partner have appeared in court charged with the murder of her four-year-old son in Coventry. Daniel Pelka died of a head wound after being found unconscious at his home in the Holbrooks a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPeshawar: At least 10 people were killed and several other injured when a blast hit funeral ceremony near Peshawar city of Pakistan;s Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province on Sunday. Police and rescue teams rushe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice divers are continuing to search for body parts belonging to former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie after her brother is charged with her murder. Tony McCluskie, 35, was formally charged on Sat...
- U.S. Soldier Kills at Least 3 Afghan Civilians as he left Base in Kandahar due to a Mental Breakdownposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA US soldier in Afghanistan is reported to have killed at least three Afghan civilians after walking off his base in Kandahar province. The soldier then surrendered to the US military authorities, the BBC...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day ago[image: pic.twitter.com/1pcTiKzi] Featured here is Cecil Rhodes who helped the British Empire literally conquer a massive swath of Africa from the north all the way to the south, the portion over which R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSmoke from controlled burning at Portland in Victoria has spread across south-eastern South Australia to Adelaide, prompting numerous calls from members of the public to fire services. A 230-hectare burn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo people have been killed on WA roads and another two have been seriously injured in a busy night for Perth police. A 33-year-old man was killed when his car hit a tree in the Bunbury suburb of Usher a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMemorial services will be held around Japan today to mark a year since 19,000 people were killed in the country's largest recorded earthquake and tsunami. People in Fukushima and throughout the tsunami z...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA NSW Riverina hamlet has been evacuated and residents of another area have been given the all-clear to return home after six days. The 1000-strong town of Darlington Point was cleared as the swollen Mur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northwest of the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 441.3 km (274.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:40:11 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 311 km (193 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:28:36 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (71.9 miles) Southeast of Bam, Iran No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Poland at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:27:37 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Northeast Polkowice, Poland No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southereastern Iran at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:00:06 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (84.9 miles) Southeast of Bam, Iran N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Chukotka, Russia at a depth of 15.9 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:42:36 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) North of Provideniya, Chuk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 159.8 km (99.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:12 UTC Sunday 11th March 2012 The epicenter was 251 km (155 miles) ESE of Enarotali, Papua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.3 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 23:25:43 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 458.4 km (284.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:53:56 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 337 km (209 miles) Southw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 87.5 km (54.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:58:11 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 44.2 km (27.5 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:10 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) North of Al ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoWhile his show doesn't sound quite like an NPR station yet, almost 100 advertisers have pulled the plug on sponsoring Limbaugh since he went on his latest deranged tirade, part of his never-ending misogyn...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoMy son came home from school just this week, and he said to me that his entire class had been made aware of a viral Youtube video about a LRA rebel named Joseph Kony, and an organization called "Invisible ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago*THE WALRUS.* AIRSHOW augers-in, as Chuck would say. Worthy of note. Written by Jason Sherman and drawn by David Parkins. Check out the Laughssection.
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCheck out the live Ustream feed here! He's on hour 6 so far. Awesome!
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." - William Hazlitt • Graphic: MC Esc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoLiquid Mind, “Gold In The Shadows”, “Terra, Earth” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5IWJWEOIDg&feature=related
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Big beautiful spiral galaxy M66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. About 100 thousand light-years across, the gorgeous island universe is well known to astronomers as a member of the Leo Triplet of ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoThe original chart was comes from a document that was released by White House economic advisors Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein on January 10, 2009. Based on these predictions, Dear Leader easily conv...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 1 day agoAnonymous gathered near the Pompidou Center in Paris on Saturday with the objective of attract ordinary citizens' attention to the violation of rights and freedoms. In particular, the group is protesting...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAuthorities have found the remains of 167 people, believed to be at least 50 years old, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, officials said. The remains were discovered inside a cave on the Nuevo Ojo ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Daylight Saving Time 2012: Change Your Clocks!" * by National Institute of Standards and Technology “As if you weren't already sleep deprived, you'll get an hour less shuteye Saturday night no matter wh...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoTomorrow officially marks the one year solemn anniversary of the greatest nuclear disaster in human history. One year ago, tomorrow, an earthquake, and resultant tsunami, occurred off the coast of Japan ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*A survey taken at the initiative of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn found that 66 percent of restaurateurs who aced the city's new "sanitary grading system" rated it "poor."* *"I think the fact is ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoWhat are *Time Magazine* and CNN going to do now? They can't sell to America and the West a catastrophic war against Iran on the idea that war will liberate the women of Iran from Islamic despotism. Irania...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*"Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic,"* by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett (January 2013).
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 1 day agoWritten in response to a very nice article in the local newspaper. A suggestion for the Book Swap: Don’t include incentives Sent to the Cañon City Daily Record, March 10, 2012 I was very pleased to read th...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoMake It Right at a crossroads halfway through its Lower 9th Ward rebuilding Central La politics blogger greg aymond reported near death ~we saw that
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoPlease post/forward and spread far and wide. * * * * WHY WE ARE RUNNING/WALKING (AGAIN) Historic Pilgrimage: Wed. March 14 – Fri March 16 Tucson to Phoenix By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez Why would a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoTrabzon, Turkey. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Pitching One's Mansion In The Place Of Excrement”* by Chet Raymo Stephan Pastis's comic Pearls Before Swine had a couple of strips recently about Donny the Dung Beetle. The gist of which was: If you thin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoCalifornia's 25th CD has been, politically speaking, one of the sleepiest in the state. A humongous district, it stretched from the northeast corner of L.A. (Santa Clarita) east and north through the Ante...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go." - Theodore Roethke, "The Waking"
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?"* "Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives- tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the bran...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:55:49 UTC Saturday 10th March 2012 The epicenter was 214 km (132 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago* **"**This is an automated phone call** to tell you that your voting station has been moved"* *OCCUPY CANADA* is a Facebook group of pissed-off Canucks. Just so's ya know.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoNo further comment is really needed here when the decision next November is between the policies of somewhat-progressive-seeming (but not really) Obama and the Rethuglican Clown Parade of the moment. (But ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Major Eric Joyce* Eric Joyce became a UK Labour Party Member of Parliament in 2000. In November 2011, Joyce brought attention to shady deals in the Congo. "Elements of the DRC government, in particular t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt has been reported that whales are still being seen floating at the San Francisco Bay. At the beginning of this week, about two gray whales were spotted at the Golden Gate. Since then, the bay is bein...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNguyen Van Binh, Head of the Department of Preventive Health under the Ministry of Health, stated on March 9 that Vietnam had recorded four cases of bird flu since the beginning of this year, two of which...
- posted by cc'd at Carbon Copied - 1 day agoAs my laptop flashes warnings to ‘Solve PC 4 issues’ while rhythmically activating pixels to march in command, I sit here weathering news of new days bringing a calm before the storm and grimace as my tens...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritain could be facing another 18 months of potentially disrupted power grids, satellites and flights during a “few rough years of space weather”, according to a leading expert. Space scientist Maggie ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day agoIf religion represents the beginnings of philosophical thought, then mythology is the means by which this early, primitive form of philosophical thought is portrayed. But not all mythology is equal. As...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVIENNA (AP) — Nine years ago, the United States invaded Iraq after telling the world that Saddam Hussein had covert weapons programs that could build nuclear arms. In the end, nothing was found. Today, ac...
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