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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 minutes agoNorth Korea has been attacking users of Chinese cell phones in the border region since the start of the year. The National Security Agency has adopted a twin-pronged approach, widening the scope of signal...
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here was a clash yesterday between South and North Korea outside the UN Human Rights Council, which is in session in Geneva, Switzerland, after the chief North Korean delegate, So Se Pyong, rejected a UN ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:42 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (141.9 miles) Sout... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 11.3km (7 miles), the quake hit at 00:09:11 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 282 km (175 miles) ESE o... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
Blue America is concerned about every congressional seat in the country but PA-17 is especially important for a few reasons. For one, it's the only realistic shot to replace an incumbent Blue Dog, with a ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 53 minutes ago2002, “Tanabata Moon” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1-kw_thmQ&feature=related
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"The southern Milky Way appears spectacular in this composite image taken from Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands. Few sources of light pollution exist here, home to only 500 people. *Click im...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago* “The Opposite Of Loneliness"* by joyin “The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.” - Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever" "When I read that line about intimacy in the book,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"Why Interacting With A Woman Can Leave Men 'Cognitively Impaired'"* By Daisy Grewal "Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man tries unsuccessfully to interact with a pretty woman. In m...
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*After an exhaustive study of literally a dozen or so pictures of Alfred E. Neumann, by my hand-picked team of me; a highly trained Car-park attendant with the important additional responsibility of lavat... - posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 2 hours ago
Monsegur (Sabu) had been cooperating with the FBI since last summer. He was arrested in June and pleaded guilty in August to a dozen criminal charges. Sabu also provided an FBI-owned computer to facilitat... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago
So…When are You Going to Kick Wells Fargo to the Curb? How much longer are you going to let them destroy our economy? How much more evidence do you need that Wells Fargo doesn't give a damn about the 99%. ... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*"I forgot my skates.*" *by Ken* I don't know about you, but I think this cartoon is pretty darned funny. Oh, it took me a moment. At first it seemed too ridiculously obvious to be even amusing, and then... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoThe notion of the “informed insider” is why people read message boards and blogs. Let’s talk Henry Mencken 1951 a bit more ~Slabbed
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 3 hours ago*The US Army has warned snap-happy soldiers of the dangers of geo-tagging photos after such information was used by enemies to locate and destroy four Apache helicopters. The 2007 incident was recounted b...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 4 hours ago[image: image]If you’re wondering why folk are losing interest in politics even while govt continues to eat out our substance, then the platitudes espoused today in the Battle of the Speeches gives a clu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*4.6* Date-Time - *Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 23:01:55 UTC* - Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 09:01:55 AM at ep...
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*Blogger's Note:* The graph above was derived from earlier work by Emmanuel Saez (the author of the article below) and Thomas Piketty. It was not part of the new work by Sae... - posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours ago
This is my article yesterday in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1285-personal-irresponsibility-and-government Personal irresponsibility can take many forms, am... - posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FOTO frontera - 5 hours ago[image: Paisajes Naturales Landscapes] [image: Paisajes Naturales Landscapes] [image: Paisajes Naturales Landscapes] [image: Paisajes Naturales Landscapes] [image: Paisajes Naturales Landscapes] [image: Pa...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoHere's a most excellent dissection of Biased BBC "favourite", Richard Black by Jonova. Do give it a read please. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 6 hours ago[image: TSA Waste] Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoThe 2012 U.S. presidential race is shaping up to be a struggle between Goldman Sachs candidate Mitt Romney and fellow Goldman Sachs candidate Barack Obama on one side, and anti-Goldman Sachs candidate Ro...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours agoThe 2012 U.S. presidential race is shaping up to be a struggle between Goldman Sachs candidate Mitt Romney and fellow Goldman Sachs candidate Barack Obama on one side, and anti-Goldman Sachs candidate Ro...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoFalmouth, Maine, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"3-D"* by Chet Raymo "So, we watched for the last few weeks as Venus and Jupiter drew closer together in the evening sky. Who needs television when such beauty is there for the taking? Last night they ma...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.2* Date-Time - *Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 21:38:56 UTC* - Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 06:38:56 AM at ep...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that lo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"The Wish to Be Generous"* "All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, al...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoLet's see...I have one over at Plum Line about the GOP nightmare scenario in which Santorum keeps "winning" every Tuesday night but Romney, meanwhile, locks up the delegates he needs. Could be fun! I have ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*6.4* Date-Time - *Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 21:13:11 UTC* - Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 07:13:11 AM at ep...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoThe *NY Times* just ran an astounding OpEd by Greg Smith, an executive director of Goldman Sachs, explaining why he resigned today. Aside from being the head of Goldman's equity derivatives business in Eu...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours agoSurprised at hearing news that the managers of New Zealand’s only toll road, the Silverdale to Puhoi Highway, are only now beginning to chase up non-paying drivers? No wonder, says Liberty Scott, becaus...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 7 hours agoAn academic study published today by the Institute of Physics (*see my footnote below) called "Modelling sea-level rise impacts on storm surges along US coasts" suggests that rising ocean waters due to gl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*“The Great American Bubble Machine”* by Matt Taibbi “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrap...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 8 hours ago*"If you throw a rock into the night and you hear a dog yelp ... you hit the dog"* * Bingo. Saskatchewan residents can now be assured that Premier Brad Wall is desperately scrambling to find the tens of m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:14:22 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (93.6 miles) Northwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck off West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:07:41 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 153 km (95...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 8 hours agoAnd Republicans lie their faces off. With the proverbial certainty of death and taxes, it appears the world's most cowardly Speaker in the history of man, is going to cave into his crazy tea party caucus a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 8 hours agoWorth keeping an eye on for the pathetic excuse this may offer for Turkey to launch an attack. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was working to find out information on the whereabouts of r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHOUSTON (Reuters) - A shooting at a courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, on Wednesday wounded up to three people, and a judge interviewed outside the courtroom after the shooting said one person may have died. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to make a donation this month if you haven't already done so.Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting and writing that we do. We need y...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"A Response from Goldman Sachs, * *From Chairman Lloyd Blankfein"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – "The following letter to Goldman Sachs’ worldwide clients was issued today by Goldman ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Handicapping the Collapse"* By Jim Willie CB "Scattered diverse and almost uniformly unfavorable and dangerous events are unfolding, as the global economy and financial structure undergoes the equivale...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 8 hours ago*Guantanamo Prison's True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington* *By Angola 3 News for Truthout.org** * [image: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2012/03/14/book.jpg] British journalis...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 8 hours agoToday I went to the Occupy Wall Street snark attack "1% for Romney" march around the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, where the desperate candidate was hoping to replenish coffers depleted by the ongoing prim...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoThe BBC continues its 'Altered States' series of reports to convince you that the US has somehow become more divided and racist since the election of a black President in 2008. It wouldn't be called 'Alter...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"U.S. Deficit Growing– Not Tax Receipts"* by Greg Hunter "Monday’s post closed with, “...The nonpartisan agency projected the government will run a deficit of $229 billion in February, the highest month...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThree prominent members of main Syrian opposition group have broken away, accusing the group of serving the interests of foreign countries. According to a Syrian National Council (SNC) official, Haitham a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Syrian army has reportedly arrested a number of terrorists responsible for the massacre of civilians in the restive city of Homs, Press TV reports. At least 15 civilians, among them a woman with her f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMANIZALES, COLOMBIA (CBS) -- A rising smoke plume from a Colombian volcano put nearby cities and towns on alert as it continued to emit smoke, vapor and ash Monday. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano, located ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoScientists think fossils found in China may be from a different species of human being. The remains, including skulls and teeth, are about 11,500 to 14,500 years old. They show features from modern and a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA "sophisticated cyber-attack" on the BBC has been linked to Iran's efforts to disrupt the BBC Persian Service. In a speech Director General Mark Thompson plans to say that the internet attack coincided ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoVigilant Citizen March 14, 2012 *The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate age...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoVia Greg, Reuters is reporting that the House GOP's efforts to produce a budget with appropriations bills coming in lower than the debt limit deal's caps may produce a government shutdown this September. A...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 9 hours agoA Bevy of Earthly Saucers By Manuel Carballal (Translated by Scott Corrales) [From the book SAUCERS UNMASKED: THE MANMADE UFO CONTROVERSY by Manuel Carballal - In Memory of Andreas Faber Kais...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 9 hours agoDaily Kos: The Cult of Personality v. Expertise in the Education Debate
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMarch 14 – President Barack Obama says he and British Prime Minister David Cameron agree to increase pressure on Syria but Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “will leave power”.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration is leaving open the possibility of giving Moscow certain secret data on U.S. interceptor missiles due to help protect Europe from any Iranian missile strike. A deal i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Bashar al-Assad always said Syria would be different. When the Arab uprisings first erupted more than a year ago, the Syrian president confidently said his government was in tune with its peop...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoWe goofed, big time. When Europeans settled in North America they believed it was "what you see is what you get." As they planned for growth and expansion they didn't understand that what they took as n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoGaza City (CNN) -- Israeli aircraft targeted two "terror activity sites" in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said early Wednesday, in another round of tit-for-tat that appeared to end a shaky truc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- Flesh and blood covered the ground near Somalia's presidential palace Wednesday after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt, killing two people and wounding four, a law enforcement offic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- At least 112 bodies have been recovered after a packed ferry capsized in Bangladesh, police said Wednesday. At least 35 survivors have been rescued, said local police chief Sha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- It's late in Iran on a dark night, moonless or with heavy clouds. Suddenly the silence is broken by sonic booms, followed by the sound of jets roaring overhead. Flying in tight formation, Israe...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/environmental-groups-call-for-tighter-regulation-of-extreme-genetic-engineering/2012/03/13/gIQAzKPZAS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines Environmental group...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 10 hours agoBecause my husband is a nerd and wanted to try out his new iPad stylus and a new app he downloaded (ShowMe), he put together this quick explanation of how we came up with our favorite irrational number, pi.
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours ago*Activists in Argentina have been pushing ** **for a debate about the legalisation of abortion* ACCORDING TO THE *BBC*, the Supreme Court in Argentina has ruled that *women who have an abortion after being ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(CNN) -- The civilian death toll mounted in Syria Wednesday as the U.N.-Arab League envoy for the country, Kofi Annan, considered a response from Syrian authorities to proposals laid out in weekend meeti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 60 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:26:25 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 225 km (139.5 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Michoacán, Mexico at a depth of 72.4 km (45 miles), the quake hit at 16:31:42 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) NNE from Las Guacamayas,...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoHate to link to Pravda on the Potomac, but can't resist Alexander Burns' lament for the uninformed voter. Actually it's a piece about polling, which everybody on the A list seems to be talking about this m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPOLLUTION checks are to be carried out at a Midland river where five swans have mysteriously died in as many weeks. The RSPCA say due to the decayed state of the birds, they are no nearer discovering the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPUNE: Detection of about 12 Swine flu cases in the last fortnight has put the health authorities here on an alert, as two patients are reported to be in a critical condition. While some of the cases hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFire crews are making headway on a raging grass fire near Maple Creek, in southwest Saskatchewan, officials say. The wild fire is burning north of the Trans-Canada Highway and led to the evacuation of at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAFTER the outbreak in Tuburan, the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) admitted there are three suspected typhoid fever cases in Malabuyoc District Hospital. Dr. Cristina Giango, IPHO head, said t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSIOUX CITY -- A Midwestern heat wave fueled Tuesday's record-high 80-degree weather, breaking a record set in 1946. National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Jansen said the warmest March 13 on record...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoVarious liberals have been arguing that Mitt Romney is an unusually dishonest politician, and wondering when and whether he'll wind up developing a reputation for it. David S. Bernstein (my brother), a vet...
- posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 10 hours ago"Something that gives the common man the most uncommon of freedoms.When ordinary hands can possess such an extraordinary instrument that symbolises the full measure of human dignity and liberty...." Cha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA new strain of epidemic hemorrhagic fever has been found on Jeju Island, the first time that the infectious disease has broken out on a Korean island. A team of researchers led by Song Jin-won, a microb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHealth officials in the northern highlands region of Cajamarca report a doubling of dengue fever cases so far this year compared to the same period in 2011. According the news source, Peru21, the Diresa ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirting the rules." Making an election-year pitch to Americ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMud at the bottom of a dam lake near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is heavily contaminated with radioactive cesium, government research has shown. Tsukuba University professor Yuichi Onda, c...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoIt's going to be a tough century for places like the state of Florida. For all its many challenges, the greatest one facing this retirement Mecca is climate change. Low-lying Florida has water problems, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAustralian mother Allyson McConnell drowned her two young sons in a bathtub and left them in the water to "rot", the boys' father has told a Canadian court. Curtis McConnell wept on Tuesday as he recalle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTubes from old television sets can be recycled into radiation-proof materials suitable for use at temporary storage sites for contaminated soil and waste, two Japanese companies have found. Shimizu Corp....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Radioactive materials released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant into the atmosphere were found 5 centimeters beneath the ground three months after the breakout of the nucle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoHAMAMATSU, Shizuoka -- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has conducted tests of prototype moon exploration robots here, that were designed by several institutions to become part of Japan's nex...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLiberals like and admire Bill Moyers-- a lot. But this episode with Stockman (above) isn't going to offer comfort or solace to Democratic Beltway Insiders any more than it will please Republican Beltway ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours agoPortraits of a Generation:Jonah Raskin's Rock 'n Roll WomenBy Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / March 14, 2012[Rock 'n' Roll Women: Portraits of a Generation, by Jonah Raskin (Santa Rosa, CA: McCaa Books, 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTOKYO (AP) -- A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeast Japan late Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. The stron...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago*Via klaus.cz* Dear Ms [Miroslava Němcová] Chairwoman of the Parliament, I am using my authority given to me by the article 50 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic and I am returning the bill drafted...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoIf you're like me, you love working on your own computer and feel rather constrained on any other computer. This is largely due to the fact that we spend so much time customizing our computers to our exact...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn Army officer in Washington state threatened to blow up the state capitol, personally kill his girlfriend, and hired a hit man for $150,000 to kill his estranged wife and his superior officer. Lt. Col....
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago*... Allan Rock is his understudy* *No public observers and no media allowed at his cross-examination. Welcome to the new Canada. * *UPDATE:* *March 14, 10:30 PM* Student representative Joseph Hickey emai...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 12 hours ago3.14 has long been celebrated as π Day in celebration of the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. More digits of π than you really need to know. We celebrate π Day with games and puzzles a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoTwo more reasons to say *j'aime le Quebec*. Two days ago, the Cons' ridiculously wasteful, unnecessary, and inhumane crime bill was passed in the House of Commons. The leadership of Quebec wasted no ti...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoI have long been a proponent of everyone refusing to take any vaccines, because of the deadly Mercury that is contained within them. There have been countless reports over the last few years, of how Mercu...
- *These were exciting weeks*. Installing and continuously upgrading the bleeding-edge KDE 4.8.1 desktop. What a difference from Gnome 3 and Unity. KDE 4.8 exposed itself as a solid OS, with an interesting au...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA serial thief who tried to make £2m by selling a stolen copy of a rare first collection of Shakespeare plays has been found dead in prison. The body of 55-year-old Raymond Scott was found in his cell at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA suspected car bomb attack has taken place at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, Sky Sources have revealed. The explosion came as US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta flew into Camp Bastion. It is believed that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 7.7 km (4.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:54:19 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) So...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago* Future Scene: President Barack Obama Addresses A Hypnotized America, And Demands Persian Blood.* According to Russian diplomats, America is giving Iran one last chance before the bombs start to fall....
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoMany of us called the war on Libya that was launched by the United States and their NATO allies last year exactly what it was.. A criminal war of aggression for the possession of Libya's oil wealth, and t...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoPlease watch this video of my friend Chris Vassey, a former sergeant in the US military, speaking at a recent Afghans For Peace vigil in Toronto. Chris has sacrificied so much for peace, much more than m...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours agoIshiUC Berkeley theater department apologizes for ‘Ishi’ productionB*y Peter Glazer, UC Berkeley Theater* *Posted at Censored News* The current production of John Fisher’s play “Ishi: The Last of the Yahi”...
- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours agoThis week, a number of high-profile journalists and bloggers are engaged in a debate about presidential persuasion. Among other examples, they have been discussing the George W. Bush administration's selli...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoMarch 13 2012 The Wall Street Journal "The June 7 fire at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, 19 miles north of Omaha, caused an electrical failure that knocked out pumps circulating water in a pool with spe...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 13 hours agoFrom the no-longer illustrious (but Murdoch-generated, so there's that) Wall Street Journal: North Carolina County Sues Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi, JPMorganChase, and MERS Over Robo-Signing A North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 8.7 km (5.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:04:09 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA mom who killed her daughter in a brutal scissor attack wanted to clear an ‘evil presence’ from her Nevada home, police said. Danielle Yvonne Slaughter, 27, was found by police on Sunday, naked and bloo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwo people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a two-year-old boy. The child died after falling ill at a property on Kilbourne Road, Belper, Derbyshire, at 10.45am on Tuesday. Police say he was ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA swarm of quakes has struck in the Pacific region, particularly off Japan. The first of the Japanese quakes was measured as a 7.0 mag, but was later reduced to a 6.8. However, many stations in the area re...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012* *Buddy, can you spare a dime:* We’ll admit that we were surprised by yesterday’s Washington Post. On the front page, Dan Eggen reported about the state of campaign fund-raisin...
- posted by Alana Tiemessen at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoThomas Lubanga Dyilo listens to the verdict in his trial on March 14, 2012. (c) Photo courtesy of the ICC-CPI / Evert-Jan Daniel /ANP.The verdict is in for the ICC's first trial. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo has b...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoMarch 13, 2012 [Paraphrasing] China controls most of the mining and processing of rare earths--95%. Rare earths are critical for modern electronics used in industrial production and the military. The US...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago30 Years of Secret Official Transcripts Show UK Government Experts Cover Up Vaccine Hazards To Sell More Vaccines And Harm Your KidsChild Health Safety, March 14, 2012 An extraordinary new paper publi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBrooklyn Bridge was dramatically closed for three hours last night after a crane on top of a tugboat scraped 20ft of protective sheeting from its underside. Firefighters and police raced to the New York ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours agoBrees speaks out on contract and 'Bounty Gate' Louisiana's Republican primary may matter this time: James Gill River Birch landfill executive seeks dismissal of fraud charges~Paul Rioux Louisiana's ambiti...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 13 hours agoLast year in Haiti, dozens of Haitians were killed in southern Haiti because they were believed to be spreading cholera. One-hundred and seventy-nine years ago in the United States Irish immigrants workin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Anguri, 26, steps on stones to cross a river in a rural area near the remote village of Chharchh, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on 24 February 2012. Vivek Prakash / REUTERS] By ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSyrian forces are carrying out more than 30 types of torture on prisoners, a report claims. Amnesty International said civilians held by security forces in the crackdown on anti-government protests were ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Manteo, N.C., residents navigate streets that were flooded by Hurricane Irene in August 2011. Rising tides are likely to mean more frequent coastal flooding. John Bazemore / Associated Press] By...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012* *And then too, the same old model:* It’s always amazing when Maureen Dowd rises to fight the scourge of misogyny, as she does in this morning’s column. It’s even more amazing...
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