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Orchid on a Tree (Photo credit: Jim Epler)Earth Organization Conservation view of Hidden Crisis in Gulf- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 minutes agoTrying to get back into the posting thing, so starting with a couple of quick takes on what our zany Republicans are up to lately. Dick Cheney cancels a speaking appearance: TORONTO — Former U.S. vice-p...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 4 minutes agoThey've tried and tried. But they'll never get rid of Dennis (the Menace to Rethug Society)! Even when they try to project his pristine ethical bearing as robotic. It is a laugh riot (on them) though. (Cl...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 minutes ago
*Dr. Lee Rogers with his daughter Lily, age 4 minutes* In the last few weeks Dr. Lee Rogers has been talking a lot with us about ending the occupation of Afghanistan, ending the use of bodyscanners by the ... - posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 31 minutes agoBefore my additional discussions, may I post a comment from a friend, Joshua Lipana, to my article last week in interaksyon.com, *Macroeconomics for Micro Concerns*, http://www.interaksyon.com/article/2632...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 38 minutes agoSince I wrote yesterday about not overinterpreting a single poll, I figure I should probably say something about the CBS/NYT poll that came out later in the day and which showed a much more dramatic approv...
- Last night my relatives visited for dinner. When the conversation touched on Fukushima, they told me authoritatively that they heard on the "news" that exposure levels of 100 millisieverts or less are "saf...
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There is still some 474,000 metric tons of earthquake and tsunami debris piled up in coastal areas of the Fukushima nuclear disaster no-go zone, the Environment Ministry announced on March 12. The debris... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Japan has been fighting an urgent and difficult battle to dispose of accumulated plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel as it has become increasingly unrealistic to realize the country's long and exp... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A top PayPal executive has been killed after being hit by a commuter train as he stood with his bike on the tracks in California. The body of Eric Salvatierra, 39, PayPal's vice-president and a married f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
The founder of Megaupload has claimed that 'a large number' of US government officials are members of his file-sharing website. Kim Dotcom, who is currently under house arrest in Auckland, New Zealand, s... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
New images of Saturn's second-largest moon have been released by Nasa. The pictures of the moon Rhea unveiled by the space agency were captured by the international Cassini spacecraft during a recent fly-... - posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 hour agoI finished up my post on Friday suggesting that there would be an attack on Syria. So we shall pick up with that thought in mind- Of course, it is rather obvious that Syria has long been under attack by t...
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The Gay Secretary The nature of the murders, including 9 children, seems almost designed to provoke the maximum shock and anger among the Afghan people. There are two possible reasons for doing this. T... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012* *Voters maybe don’t:* Last night, at the start of his show, Lawrence O’Donnell was nice enough to show us the chimps at play. He compiled a set of video clips. The chimps were at...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoUnions and the Keystone dilemma. Image from Kansas Watchdog.Dirty vs. green jobs:Labor's Keystone dilemmaOutside of Washington, the very same unions that support the pipeline are down in the trenches fightin...
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------------------------------ *MARCH 12, 2012 * Permalink *Contamination Fears Linger for... - posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoTHERE IS A MEDIEVAL Italian proverb, *"What you cannot possess, abuse"*. A very insightful look into the male as moron. Well, 700 or so years on, and today's Goppers strive to prove how they just don't get...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours ago*Dean Del Mastro, March 1*: "*We learned that Joe Volpe paid over $25,000 to Prime Contact, a calling company with offices in North Dakota. These calls were made on behalf of the Liberal party. I see that ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 2 hours agoSen. John F. Kennedy speaks attempts to allay fears about his Caltholicism before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on Sept. 12, 1960. Photo from Houston Chronicle / AP.Religion and secularism in t...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012* *Until we read it again:* Yesterday afternoon, we were very impressed with this post by Ed Kilgore, headlined “The New Misogyny.” He went on at considerable length. He even name...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoFour Acadiana parishes declare flood emergencies BREAKING: Fred Heebe files suit against Times Picayune commenter Henry L Mencken, claims commenter is assistant US Attorney Sal Perricone ~Slabbed What Up ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoPeter Deunov - 1864 to 1944 Love *Love is the world in which the Divine Spirit lives.* *The greatest world known to sages of all times, the world of which Christ speaks, is the world of Love.* *And when w...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Spider webs cover the Australia landscape, 7 March 2012. After a week of record rain, floodwaters across eastern Australia have forced the ground-dwelling spiders—and at least 13,000 people—to fl...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012* *Part 2—Treating Times readers like dogs:* There was a time when you wouldn’t have heard about Mitt Romney’s dog. For better or worse, Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley wouldn’t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Sony's sensor manufacturing plant in Thailand submerged under flood waters roughly 3 meters (~10ft) high, 25 October 2011. The shutdown of the 502,000 square foot, 3,300 employee plant doesn’t ju...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 2 hours agoI have submitted this posting as a comment on the tallbloke site: adolfogiurfa (March 12, 1:58 am) wrote, "There is nothing of the above without the SUN…" tallbloke responded, "...Hans plays safe and trea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSince their video advocating against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony became an internet sensation just one week ago, the charity Invisible Children has come under severe scrutiny. The charity’s ties to far r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA volunteer captain of a Florida neighbourhood watch, who shot dead a black teen and then claimed he acted in self defence, had a 'history of aggressive tactics,' it has today emerged. Neighbours in Geor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn investigation is underway to discover what caused more than two dozen hockey players to suddenly become violently ill right before and during games on Sunday night. The Taylor Sportsplex, in Michigan,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA pregnant woman's body was found on a rooftop in 1989 after a horrific attack: Her head was missing. More than two decades later, on Monday, Veronica Bowen's boyfriend was charged with murdering her out...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Greg Norton, 53. I suppose for those who don't want to click -- the guy who plays bass, not the first baseman. 1. Steve Kornacki has a fun review of the recent history of fantasy VP pick...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoGrizzly photos have surfaced of Donald Trump's millionaire sons smiling broadly next to the dead carcasses of wild animals that they shot while on a big game hunt in Africa. Though the two men- Donald Tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA white supremacist accused of killing four people in a violent road trip has pleaded guilty to two of the murders, sparing him the death penalty. David Joseph Pedersen, 31, admitted to shooting his fathe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoStudents burned effigies of Barack Obama and chanted 'death to America' in eastern Afghanistan today - as anger towards the U.S. soldier who massacred 16 civilians on Sunday continued to rise. Taliban mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPolice in Utah are trying to solve the mystery of the murder of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found bloody and bruised in a nearby river hours after running away from home. Annie Kasprzak's family re...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Lorax 2-Minute Finale: * *99% Sing ‘Let It grow,’ 1%: ‘Let It Die’"* by Carl Herman "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." - Dr. Seu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoInternational Space Station astronaut Andre Kuipers captured spectacular aurora blazing over Antarctica and Australia during last week's solar storms. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThis was the scene of devastation after a gas explosion obliterated a bungalow - but left a neighbouring property untouched. The force of the blast, caused by an ignited leak after thieves stole copper p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoOlympic bronze medallist boxer Darren Sutherland was found hanged after losing confidence in his ability following becoming a professional fighter, an inquest heard today. The 27-year-old Irish sportsman...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoBack* here* I mentioned that the Manning Centre (and its money body) should have its not-for-profit status removed. *Here's why*.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoYahoo is suing Facebook over patents, just weeks before the social-networking heavyweight is due to cash in with its initial public offering of stock. Yahoo Inc. said in a court filing on Monday that Fac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA marketing stunt where homeless people were turned into walking internet hotspots with T-shirts proclaiming 'I'm a 4G hotspot' has caused outcry in Texas. Branding agency BBH was forced to defend its 'H...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“Mourn not the dead. But rather mourn the apathetic throng - the cowed and meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.” - Ralph Chaplin
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*“Scientists Say America Is Too * *Dumb For Democracy To Thrive”* By Mike Moffitt "The United States may be a republic, but it’s democracy that Americans cherish. After all, that’s why we got into Iraq, r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThis is the first picture of soldier Ian Lowe posing with smiling girlfriend Leanne McNuff - the woman he is suspected of stabbing to death in front of their four-year-old son. The 24-year-old, from the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoImage: Evil: Roy Whiting, killer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne. Around 100 paedophiles have been chemically castrated under a Government scheme to stop them reoffending. The sex offenders volunteered to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA teenager will appear in court after being arrested for allegedly making comments on Facebook about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan last week. Azhar Ahmed, 19, is said to have posted t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA passenger jet has rolled off an airport runway and crashed into an embankment in Atlanta, in the US. Two maintenance workers were testing the engines on the Delta 737 in the early hours when the brake...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoFew Democrats-- and none from North Carolina-- voted more frequently with the GOP since the 2010 elections than fumbling Blue Dog Heath Shuler. It made him so unpopular among Democrats in his western Nort...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 4 hours agoAfter the stir caused by a recent piece of yellow journalism it is refreshing to hear of an upcoming visit by CBC commentator Rex Murphy. Murphy will be in town next weekend to host an edition of Cross Cou...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 4 hours agoTED has enabled many great speakers, their vision and thoughts to be shared across the globe. Many would have never known about the likes of Pranav Mistry’s Sixth Sense without TED Talks. The eloquent ed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNicolas Sarkozy has denied "grotesque" claims he received a £42m donation from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - as an opinion poll offered France's president a welcome boost. A document published by left-wing i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOne-third of NSW's communities have been declared natural disaster zones as the worst flooding in decades continues to threaten parts of the state. Four more natural disaster zones were declared on Tuesda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFire crews battling a blaze in the South West are hoping cooler conditions will allow them to re-establish containment lines. The fire broke containment lines between Balingup and Nannup this afternoon a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFire crews will work through the night to extinguish a blaze which shot fireballs into the sky earlier today at an oil waste disposal factory in Adelaide's northern suburbs. The Metropolitan Fire Service...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMystery surrounds an unidentified flaming object that crossed the skies of Melbourne last night. Many Victoria residents were left perplexed after spotting the 'low-flying fireball' at around 8.40pm, an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDefence Minister Stephen Smith has dismissed as untrue reports that an SAS squadron was involved in secret operations in Africa. Troopers from the secretive Victorian-based SAS 4 Squadron mounted dozens ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoForgive me for mentioning something non-BBC, but has anyone seen a more spectacular own goal than the Guardian’s unintentionally truthful advertising campaign? “The Whole Picture” goes the slogan. Everyo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn egg farm in West Belconnen has been broken into overnight and its production equipment largely destroyed. Police say the offenders broke into the Parkwood egg farm in Macgregor sometime between 11:00 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe weather bureau has upgraded its advice on a cyclone threat for parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Forecasters say a cyclone should develop off the Top End coast tomorrow morning. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAustralian mother Allyson McConnell drowned her two young sons in a bathtub before driving to a restaurant, ordering lunch and then jumping off an overpass onto a busy freeway, a Canadian court has heard....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAround 100 firefighters are tackling a blaze at an oil waste depot at Wingfield, in Adelaide's northern suburbs. The fire, which began at 11.30 Tuesday morning, is in a large building on Wing St containi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDHAKA - Stop-gap measures by the Bangladesh government to stave off economic crisis look increasingly fragile, with foreign currency reserves declining again last month, reversing a brief recovery in Janua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAdrian Schoolcraft of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) 81st precinct in Brooklyn noticed some disturbing trends within the department and in response to his brave move to step forward, his superiors...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIn yet another sign that the looming American debt crisis is close to spiraling out of control, February’s monthly federal deficit was the highest ever recorded — $229 billion, according to a report releas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoLeaders throughout Latin America are increasingly hinting that they may defect from the United Nations-inspired and U.S. government-led “War on Drugs.” But the Obama administration, despite adding trillio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoI wrote in Asia Times hardly twelve days ago: “We are not quite there where the epic film on the Vietnam-War era Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola was set. But one can almost hear Ride of the Valkyri...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFears over the credibility of debt papers in major troubled economies have begun to mount after the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) acknowledged a credit event for Greece. The ISDA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIntroduction: There is clear and overwhelming evidence that the uprising to overthrow President Assad of Syria is a violent, power grab led by foreign-supported fighters who have killed and wounded thousan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoU.S. President George W. Bush coined the term “Axis of Evil” when refering to North Korea, Iran, and Iraq in his 2002 State of the Union Address. There are reasons to believe that like several of his stra...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoEver since its creation, the US has had a role to play in combat operations worldwide. Today the country’s public opinion is dominated by warfare, making American society all-too-easily manipulated and tu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoISLAMABAD: As the US and Pakistan struggle to patch up frayed ties, plans for a Pakistani-Iranian natural gas pipeline further threaten the fragile partnership. Pakistan desperately needs new energy sour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBrazil has put currency wars back on the global agenda. In 2010, the country’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega complained that unwanted foreign inflows were driving up the Brazilian real and he introduced ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago“When the dollar collapse comes, it will happen two ways – gradually then suddenly. That formula, famously used by Hemingway to describe how one goes bankrupt, is an apt description of critical state dyna...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*According to a study by **researchers at Harvard Medical School, A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectation. Substituting red meat with fish, chicken or nuts lowered the risks.* The researcher...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSure, Washington used taxpayer money to prop up the banks that played a crucial role in wrecking the economy. But at least the government turned a profit on the bailout, right? Not exactly. According to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThis is the first article in an ongoing series examining the role of UAVs - commonly called "drones" - in our lives, as well as the implications and applications of this ever-more common technology. Part...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago* "I Rescued A Human Today”* by Rescue Me Dog "Her eyes met mine as she walked down the corridor peering apprehensively into the kennels. I felt her need instantly and knew I had to help her. I wagged m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThomas Drake on life inside the National Security Agency and the price of truth telling Thomas Drake, the whistle-blower whom the Obama administration tried and failed to prosecute for leaking informatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere -- this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week. "You're not gonna s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more experts but more problems; more medicines, but less healthiness. We've been all th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDisapproval of President Obama’s handling of the economy is heading higher — alongside gasoline prices — as a record number of Americans now give the president “strongly” negative reviews on the 2012 pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPresident Nicolas Sarkozy threatened in a key election rally Sunday to pull France out of Europe's 26-nation visa free zone unless the European Union does more to keep out illegal immigrants. Sarkozy, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — The next influx of UC students may be asked to state their sexual orientation. In January, the Academic Senate recommended that upon accepting admission offers from a University of C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoDeclares president's use of military without approval 'high crime, misdemeanor' Let the president be duly warned. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoGulfport, Mississippi (CNN) - Republican Rick Santorum has for quite a while taken issue with candidates on the trail who use a teleprompter. It's a dig on President Barack Obama, and more recently has be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOn Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, protesters gathered for an Occupy Wall Street “day of ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAfter nine months in a flood victims' shelter, Daviana Padron now lives in a free apartment, works in a cooperative bakery and her kids attend a new school in the Venezuelan city of Caribia. The coastal ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAs words and articles became digitized over the last 15 years, they began to float, there for the plucking and replication elsewhere. Words like “curation” and “aggregation” became the language of the real...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCHICAGO (STMW) – It gets so quiet during the second movement of the Brahms Symphony No. 2, you could almost hear a pin drop. Or a sneeze. Or a fist hitting a face. Such was the case Thursday night at Orc...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*The first whole presentation of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's opera Mittwoch aus Licht is to premiere this summer. At the beginning of the piece, the four musicians are lifted into the air in ...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoMustafa Barghouti was given a nice gentle time by Evan this a.m. Not that I prefer the Humphrys method of interrogation, which hardly gives the interviewee a chance to state his case. But Mustafa was given...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.” - Gregory David Roberts, “Shantaram”
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTEENAGER WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO KILLING PENSIONER RICHARD MANNINGTON BOWES DURING LONDON RIOTS NAMED AS DARRELL DESUZE
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Cyprus Region at a depth of 52.7 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:44:54 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) SSW from Alanya, Turkey...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:07:03 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) West of Brooking...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 87.2 km (54.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:28:37 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe fourth warmest meteorological winter on record is being followed up by a mild March. Highs this week will be as much as 20 to 35 degrees above average at times in the Midwest and Northeast. This kind o...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*According to the firm that microcontrollers based on the Flycatcher architecture will pave the way for the internet of things the spread of the net to a wider range of devices.* The Cortex -M0+ structura...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPart of a trend, she likens the bill to men legislating ‘a woman’s womb.’ COLUMBUS – Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, rec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CBS News) Meir Dagan has been described as "hard-charging" and "stops at nothing." For more than eight years, Dagan made full use of those qualities as chief of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, wher...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe U.S. and South Korea plan to deploy a high-powered American surveillance aircraft to watch North Korea during the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul on March 26-27. The E-8C J-STARS is capable of track...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorth Koreans were dancing in the street at false reports of the death of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak spread like wildfire, the North's official Rodong Sinmun daily reported on Sunday. "Rumors o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWashington feared a military confrontation between North and South Korea following the North's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in November 2010, a former White House insider writes. Jeffrey Bader, the ex-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFormer News Of The World editor Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charlie are among six people arrested by police investigating phone hacking, according to Sky sources. Police said five m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoVladimir Putin won re-election this week largely by campaigning on a few themes: fear, paranoia, and an obsession with loyalty and betrayal, according to his critics. And to hear those close to Mr Putin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — The California State Supreme Court has ruled school districts must be responsible to reduce the risk of children being molested by staff members. Otherwise, they may face civil lawsuit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBOIS D’ARC, Mo. -- An elderly cattle rancher recently came face-to-face with three thieves on his property, and he took the matter into his own hands. The thieves might have been arrested if Vance West ha...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoFurther to my earlier post about the BBC's non-correction of misleading information on the Today programme I gave emailed feedback to the Today programme and also made a formal complaint to the BBC. Here ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoACTON (CBS) – Among the jumble of signs and sandwich boards along Route 27 in Acton, you won’t see one for Bridgett the missing Husky. And that makes her owner frustrated. “It makes me really angry and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoACTON (CBS) – Among the jumble of signs and sandwich boards along Route 27 in Acton, you won’t see one for Bridgett the missing Husky. And that makes her owner frustrated. “It makes me really angry and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSir Salman Rushdie claims an investigation into price fixing of ebook sales by Apple and publishers will only result in destroying the income of writers and further encourage the belief that consumers can ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPresident Obama has been trying to cool down the war fever that suddenly gripped Washington early this month. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit and the flurry of statements surrounding it hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Portland, Ore. couple was awarded $2.9 million on Friday for the care of their Down syndrome baby, who they argue would not have been born if doctors had not been "negligent” in their pre-natal care. Ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that struck regions across the Midwest last week -- information that may have v...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 7 hours agoWe have to respect that there are only so many hands that can access the till before it becomes uneconomic. One of the challenges faced by public libraries and bookstores is that they are totally dependa...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*Government tactics for nuclear power peril handing control of the UK's weather and energy policies to France, according to four senior environmentalists.* Mr. Cameron recently signed an accord with Fren...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Hobart woman says she is on the verge of handing her severely disabled twins boys over to Child Services, because of a lack of disability respite. One of Anne White's six year old twins has autism, the o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPolice in northern Greece say a 12-year-old girl has been arrested along with three of her relatives after selling her 10-week-old baby son for 12,500 euros ($A15,500) to undercover officers posing as adop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAt least 150 people are missing after a ferry packed with about 200 passengers sank in Bangladesh, police said. Divers have so far recovered 30 bodies, including women and children, from inside the sunke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAn Afghan government delegation has been attacked as it visited the site where a US soldier is accused of killing 16 civilians. The group, which included two of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brothers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDavid Cameron and Barack Obama have pledged to keep up the "essential relationship" between Britain and America, as the Prime Minister prepares to head to Washington for talks with the president. Mr Cam...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours ago*In the wake of the diamond Coxtroversy, Twistor59 has asked at the Physics Stack Exchange:* This question is related but my question here is much more elementary than discussions of the Pauli principl...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoYesterday the BBC Radio 4 Today programme broadcast an interview with Dr Aryeh Kontorovich who lives in Beersheva in southern Israel and Dr Mona El-Farra, vice president of the Red Crescent in Gaza. This ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoHere is an explaination and translation from Swedish to English for those interested: http://ccwlja.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/expressens-double-standards/ The Dirty War on WikiLeaks is Now Trial by Media ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours agoHeartbreaking and heartwarming at once. Wish I knew the back story for this photo. [original here]
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoA Franco-German team, Cornelia Meinert et al., has performed an interesting experiment: N-(2-Aminoethyl)glycine and Amino Acids from Interstellar Ice Analogues(ChemPLUSchem, an expert journal) ---------...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWe are finally getting creditablenumbers on total sea ice volumes to work with. Importantly, the long term sea ice has experienced a decline that endedin 2008 at half the original volume some thirty yea...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThe problem continues to be thatalmost no one gets a set of eyeballs on the culprit at all. The victims are found, with scant tracks andno tracks in and out with forced entry or its like. We surmise ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoLet us give James Cameron a cheerfor doing this. The original dive wasrather unsatisfactory and now we are tackling it in a well equipped manner andalso in a way no government would ever be able to jus...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWe forget that Woody and a wholerange of counter culture artists arose during the first half of the twentiethcentury and then got a huge second wind during the massive emergence of theyouth culture duri...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 10 hours ago*"Lone Gunman" is BULLSHIT! Any Ex-servicemen knows that a lone soldier cannot leave a secure base in a war-zone WITHOUT official Operational Orders, particularly if he is on Guard Duty! Oh, what about th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least 150 people are missing after a ferry carrying 200 passengers sank in Bangladesh early this morning, police have said. More to follow...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoPart of the Amazon. Photo courtesy: Ivan Mlinaric/CC BY 2.0 Possibly this should be blogged in green, the colour of deception. Or perhaps red, the colour of blood. Check out the details; and, draw your own...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:38 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) NNW from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Convertibles are selling well at the Mercedes Benz dealership in Sendai in North Japan. This seems odd, because Sendai is hardly the kind of place you imagine driving around with the top down. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoChina is continuing to beef up its military. This is apparent from the country’s defense budget for 2012, which was made public at the opening session of the People’s National Congress on Monday. The cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBEIJING (AFP) -- China‘s inflation rate slowed sharply in February and factory output eased, data showed Friday, adding to evidence of a slowdown in the economy and giving Beijing more room to relax credi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHe did it again. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won another presidential election. While the outcome was no surprise, neither was the controversy that greeted his victory. Despite Putin’s claim tha...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoStephen Lauten has laid out a very plausible track and concludes that the voter suppression that appears to have occurred could only have been a well coordinated plan carried out by a very knowledgeable gr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoNickelback, “If Everyone Cared” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY&ob=av3e
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 19-year-old man is to appear in court today charged with murder, kidnap and false imprisonment following the deaths of two young women in a flat in Wakefield. Kimberley Frank, 17 and Samantha Sykes, 18...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIsrael has agreed to a ceasefire with Palestinian militants in Gaza following four days of deadly cross-border violence. Egypt, which has been mediating between the two sides, brokered the ceasefire whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA serving British soldier has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death. Ian Lowe from 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment is being held in connection with the de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Madeira Islands, Portugal Region at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:05:30 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) Nort...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“You think you will never forget any of this, you will remember it always just the way it was. But you can't remember it the way it was. To know it, you have to be living in the presence of it right as it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTHE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LOWER MICHIGAN NORTHWEST OHIO LAKE ERIE LAKE HURON EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 735 PM UNTIL 300...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), the quake hit at 02:11:29 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) Southeast of Reporoa, New Zealan...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoPaulo Coelho talking about how the doctor told him that he was going to die in 30 days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kvDC3_daEHQ#!
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Dominican Republic Region at a depth of 19.2 km (11.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:15:05 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) Northeast ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:23:13 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.8 miles) East of Van, Turkey No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Comoros Region at a depth of 14.8 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:56 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) North of MORONI, Comoros No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 261.1 km (162.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:38:10 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) North of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“Large galaxies and faint nebulae highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81, the largest galaxy vis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 175.4 km (109 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:35 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) SSE of Pematan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 364 km (225.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:20:51 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 516 km (319.9 miles) East of Labasa, Fiji No Tsunami W...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 64.7 km (40.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:37:36 UTC Monday 12th March 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) West of Curico, Maule, Chile N...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“Hurry, Hurry, Step Right Up...”* by Chet Raymo “When P. T Barnum said "There's a sucker born every minute," he got it wrong. The people who came to his American Museum, and later to his various traveli...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoThe latest polling in Alabama and Mississippi-- the heart and soul of the modern, unreconstructed Republican Party-- shows that the presidential nomination is too close to call. Their hearts are with Newt...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoReaders, it does appear that the rush to war against Iran by Israel and their slave minions in the United States has been temporarily put on the back burner. As I write this report, the criminal and terro...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoIt does appear that the upcoming attack by both Israel, and their compliant slaves in the United States, against the peaceful and innocent nation of Iran, is temporarily on hold for the time being. Howeve...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 14 hours agoThe bodies of Afghan civilians loaded into the back of a truck in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district of Kandahar (AFP) "Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago*Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman displays his number tattoo. ** **(photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images)* *WHEN THE BOTTOM LINE IS EVERYTHING:* IBM at Auschwitz, New Documents. Among the newly-released documents ...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 15 hours ago*Anonymous shut down the Vatican's Web site for the second time in five days, and hack into the Vatican Radio's database and posted a list of user names and passwords.* A Pastebin post details what Anon...
- posted by West End Bob at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoScore one for Our Side! From today's Seattle Times: *Cheney deems Canada too dangerous for visit * Toronto - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney canceled a Canadian speaking appearance because of sec...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 15 hours ago*Anonymous leaked the source code from Symantec’s Norton Antivirus 2006 onto The Pirate Bay. **The files **includes **source code for software products like the corporate edition, the consumer version, and...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago"The president had offered a new definition of “aggression” against this country and a new war doctrine to go with it. He would, he insisted, take the U.S. to war not to stop another nation from attack...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours agoUsually when I blog about drones and extrajudicial execution, someone leaves a comment to the effect that terror suspects are "legitimate military targets" under the re-envisioned laws of war. The question...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAn apparent arson attack on a mosque in the Belgian capital killed the institution's imam and left another person injured, a police spokeswoman said Monday. A suspect was in custody in the deadly fire, wh...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMore than 200 people in South Sudan have been killed in a three-day spree of cattle-rustling attacks that ended Sunday, a state governor said Monday. Kuol Manyang, governor of Jonglei state, said members o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*VS.* *Obama*: Guilty of War Crimes Against Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Palestine, Iran, and America (The 9/11 False Flag Attacks and Cover-Up is a NWO/Israeli crime against A...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 18 hours agoAll photos of delectable decay in this Nobel?Rot series are from the demonic genius of Peter LippmannOver the weekend, Skeptical Science hosted a guest post written by Andy the geologist, in which he desc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoWesley Chapel, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoAlso: Russian Elections and Syria's Destabilization
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoThis is now bigger than just Rush. Advertisers are stampeding away from hate radio. Think Progress has the latest count showing 141 companies don't want ads aired on Rush Limbaugh or any other hate radio s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Unjust Wars, Then and Now”* by George F. Smith "According to the Federation of American Scientists, nine countries account for the approximately 20,500 nuclear weapons known to exist, with the United S...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 19 hours agoAs you know, I agree with Dr. Krugman. The problem is that no one else in power does (in this country anyway). And that our illustrious Harvard-educated President didn't appoint him to any government post th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoAt PostPartisan, I have some fun at the expense of a Santorum campaign strategy memo. Over at Salon, I look at the results of the Nyhan et al. article about the effects of ACA on the presidential election,...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*Simon Ortiz: Indigenous Sing the Americas* *Article, photo and video by Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, reading from the threads of...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours ago*-by Noah* By now, we all know that not even John McCain or John Kerry could flip-flop like Mitt Romney. Flip-flopping habitually like Romney does, just means that there’s no there there. The man has no ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmAyKbx_Lds&feature=youtu.be
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoFormer RNC chief Michael Steele validates my conspiracy theory today. He explicitly admits in rigging the GOP 2012 primary calendar, his goal was to end up in a brokered convention. Of course, he says it...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." - Rudyard Kipling
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoRoss Douthat yesterday argued that the triumph of Mitt Romney means that the basic sanity of Republican voters is underrated: But against this backdrop, the party’s voters have behaved remarkably respons...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* "Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives * *Market Dwarfs World GDP"* by Peter Cohan "One of the biggest risks to the world's financial health is the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market. It's complex, it...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an international terrorist, mass murderer, and war criminal. Humanity must stop him. Visit the *"Stop Netanyahu 2012"* page on Facebook. Sign the *petitio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"The Horrific $1.5 QUADRILLION Derivatives Bubble" That's $1,500,000,000,000,000 by Michael Snyder "Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 21 hours agoFurther to our chat about the tone-deaf 1%: go here for Brian McFadden's latest in the *New York Times*.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 21 hours agoAs 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 - 21 hours 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 - 21 hours 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 - 22 hours agoFearing 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 - 22 hours agoHONG 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours agoThe 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours agoClimate 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 surprisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours 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 - 22 hours agoIf 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 - 22 hours agoTwins 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 - 23 hours 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 - 23 hours agoSo 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 - 23 hours 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 23 hours 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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. - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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~Also...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 1 day 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 KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?* First off, you *can* click on it to enlarge it. And then if you're just crazy wild to hobnob -- excuse me, make that to *exchange ideas* -- with prominent thinkers like ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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'...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Croat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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