Image via Wikipedia- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes 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...
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A 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 - 12 minutes ago
A 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 - 13 minutes 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...
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POLLUTION 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 - 24 minutes ago
PUNE: 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 - 25 minutes ago
Fire 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 - 25 minutes ago
AFTER 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 - 25 minutes ago
SIOUX 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 - 26 minutes 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 - 28 minutes 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 - 33 minutes 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...
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Health 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 - 46 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (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 - 47 minutes ago
Mud 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 - 50 minutes 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 - 51 minutes 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...
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Tubes 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 - 51 minutes ago
TOKYO (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 - 51 minutes ago
HAMAMATSU, 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! - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago*... Allan Rock is his understudy* *No public observers and no media allowed at his cross-examination. Welcome to the new Canada. * *Contributor: "YYC" * Speaking of dangerous men ... Bush and Cheney ma...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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!) - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours agoBrees speaks out on contract and 'Bounty Gate' Louisiana's Republican primary may matter this time: James Gill More of U.S. at risk to sea level rise Louisiana ArtWorks stalemate costing New Orleans $600,...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:43:12 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 221 km (137 miles) South of Kushiro,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe butler accused of holding millionaire socialite Anne Bass hostage for 12 hours in her Connecticut estate and injecting her with a 'deadly virus' is to face trial today. Masked assailants convinced th...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago"The most dangerous drug addiction in America is television. It takes over your head. You have suspension of belief. It takes over your senses. Now, it's 24/7. . . We've got like a hypnotized nation. It's ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agohttp://occupywallst.org/article/6-ways-to-get-ready-may-1st-general-strike/ *On May 1st, Occupy Wall Street has called for a General Strike.* We are calling on everyone who supports the cause of economic ju...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoSo many open tabs and so little time... 1) Ken Livingstone on tax avoidance. Oh dear Ken, hoist by your own petard? 2) Daniel Hannan asks 'What makes Question Time audiences so Left-wing?'. A good questi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA group of teenagers have been accused of wrecking a $500,000 home in a copycat of the film 'Project X.' The teens threw a party at the empty Texas home before going on a wrecking spree with the building...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA British pensioner and his Thai wife have been found brutally murdered in a beach resort bungalow on the Gulf of Thailand. Police were today holding a security guard, a chef and a local fisherman over t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe New York advertising agency behind a plan to use homeless people as walking wi-fi hotspots has been forced to back off the controversial plan. The Homeless Hotspots initiative was trialled at the SXSW...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn orbiting Nasa space telescope captured a dark, planet-sized object flying close to the sun on Monday - and extending what looks like a refueling tube into the star's surface. The black, Death Star-lik...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoEditor's Note: Seems Kony 2012 not only made Joseph Kony famous, but also the now not-so-hidden agenda of Wall Street and London's AFRICOM. I wonder if the makers of this informative and entertaining vid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA young mother was stabbed to death in front of her four-year-old son after someone changed her Facebook status to 'sleeping around'. Leanne McNuff, 24, was knifed just an hour after phoning her best frie...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012* *Part 3—Where does stupidity come from:* With apologies for the blinding stupidity which follows: When Mitt Romney pulled off the road in 1983 to clean up after his pet dog, d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Goldman Sachs exec has dealt a deeply embarrassing blow to the firm by quitting in an open letter in which he lambasts the working environment as 'toxic and destructive'. Greg Smith, an executive direc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe video, replayed half a dozen times to appalled court staff, lawyers and relatives in the Broome Magistrates Court, shows a blurry Aboriginal figure tearing along the street. It's 4:00 am on Christmas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHundreds of corpses have been discovered rotting in an abandoned room of a university in Germany. Students and staff are in shock after the grim discovery in the cellars of the anatomy department at the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbour. Last week, a giraffe died with a beachball-sized wad of plastic food wrappers in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoForeign Minister Bob Carr says Australia should stay open to nuclear technology, despite Japan's recent nuclear disaster. Senator Carr, a proponent of nuclear technology, said the push towards nuclear en...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOne in three of today's young Australians will go on to develop diabetes, according to new figures released today. A new assessment of national health data released by Diabetes Australia today shows 1.5 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice are investigating the death of a baby found in a washing machine at a house on Brisbane's north in January. The newborn girl was found, wrapped in clothing, at a Bald Hills home on Australia Day. ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoA new regulation is coming up for discussion and in the US Congress that would increase private industry profits – at the expense of YOUR HEALTH! It is a new proposed rule entitled: Modernization of Poultr...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 hours agoLa CNT convoca Huelga General el próximo 29 de Marzo *Contra la Reforma Laboral, los recortes y las agresiones contra la clase trabajadora.* *La CNT rechaza cualquier negociación sobre derechos conquist...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to Grace Park, 38. Still (re-) watching BSG, just finished the first half of Season 4... Anyway, let's get to the good stuff: 1. Excellent post from Daniel Drezner about public opinion and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:05:05 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 22.2 km (13.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:40:19 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 21.8 km (13.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:41 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:02:11 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (145.6 miles) Sou...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoI can never repeat these paragraphs from Mike Lux's book, The Progressive Revolution, too frequently: If you look at our country’s long history, from the days of the first stirrings of our revolutionary...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.5 km (5.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:49:24 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) Sou...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 5 hours ago*Mark Naison, professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York, blogs at With A Brooklyn Accent.* By Mark Naison All over the nation, teachers are under attack. Politician...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoHi there folks. I wanted to update you on where we are with the appeal to get in the cash to be able to move Biased BBC onto its own dedicated server with the capacity to grow even further in the years a...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoWhen is a rocket not a rocket? When it's a 'Schrödinger’s Rocket'. Israelly Cool has the details: 'The Qassams, Grads & mortars are both real and unreal, both true and illusory, depending on which person ...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 6 hours agoA re-examination of the KONY 2012 viral youtube video. Did the CIA just use social media to manufacture consent of the American people to call for "humanitarian intervention" in Africa? (NOTE: "humanitaria...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDressed in a Muslim veil and surrounded from all angles by armed officers, this was the astonishing scene yesterday as a tranquil seaside resort was plunged into a full-scale terror alert. Scores of offi...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 7 hours agojamesmcmurtry.com "We Can't Make it Here" Lyrics "Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign Sitting there by the left turn line Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze One leg missing, both hands fre...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours agoEncyclopaedia Britannica have announced what we all thought had already happened and that it will cease production of its printed 32-volume Encyclopaedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica remains the oldest Engli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Cheltenham Festival began yesterday with its most tragic day for six years. Three horses were put down after suffering serious injuries. Spectators and TV viewers watched in horror as the first, Scot...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*A study of 99 men attending a US fertility clinic found that a diet high in saturated fat has been linked with a reduced sperm count. They also found that those eating rubbish food diets had poorer spe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTsunami Warning/Advisory Issued at 18:12 JST 14 Mar 2012 ******************Headline****************** Tsunami Advisories have been issued for the following coastal regions of Japan: PACIFIC COAST OF AOM...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.6 km (16.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:08:37 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJohn W. Whitehead March 12, 2012 “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMaverick US Congressmen Rep Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) and Rep Lousie Gohmert (R-Texas) may have laid the foundation of what may eventually turn out to be yet another disastrous US foreign policy fau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(ANSAmed) - ATHENS - At one of the most difficult stages yet of the economic crisis engulfing Greece, which is now in its fifth year of recession, the country's hotel sector, once of the world's most flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPakistan’s continuing engagement with the production and export of Islamist extremism and terrorism continued to produce a bloody blowback at home, with a total of at least 6,142 persons, including of 2,7...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhen Nato murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in cold blood, observers predicted that his demise would not mark the end of the war but would in fact mark its escalation. Libya has been in the eye of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSummary The latest chapter in the Iranian nuclear saga contains some signs that coordinated unilateral sanctions from the United States and the European Union are actually working. But, will China’s rel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThere is a terrible rule of war. Whatever new weapon that you introduce onto the battlefield, your adversary will eventually acquire it as well. Indeed, they will often use an industrial-strength version o...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*A novel world speed record for the best 3D-printed nano objects has been claimed by researchers in Austria*. To produce the automobile about 100 layers, each consisting of 200 single printed lines, wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Australian reports today that the rumors surrounding the potential theft of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter data from BAE Systems by Chinese spies in 2009 should be taken with more than a grain of salt. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLast week I highlighted a Chicago Fed report that, counterintuitively, found that in the wake of the Great Recession, people in higher income brackets are actually more pessimistic than anyone else about ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBaku-APA. Pakistanis have condemned the United States over its interference in the country’s southwestern province of Balochistan,APA reports quoting Press TV. On Friday, thousands of activists held a de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoRussian experts have hailed the decision by BRICS countries to replace the US dollar by own currencies in mutual credit lines. An agreement to this effect is expected to be signed during a BRICS summit w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt is not surprising that these days – as tectonic shifts materialize within the system of international relations, formerly uncontested global authorities like the UN and the OSCE are sinking into seriou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Pentagon has already declared World War III and President Barack Obama and the Congress never even carried out their constitutional duties to approve the use of American military power for war. One m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt the moment, we find ourselves in the middle of a turbulent phase of the global evolutionary cycle which commenced in the 1980ies and is projected to end by the middle of the XXI century. In the process...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe United States government and military revels in death and pornographic intimidation. The videos and photographs of howling Iraqis celebrating the hanging of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein after his U....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA 12-year-old girl has died after being struck by a rugby ball at a school in Basildon, Essex, the East of England Ambulance Service has said. Leonie Nice was catching the ball during a lesson at Woodland...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man suffering from the deadliest form of skin cancer has told Sky News how a new drug brought him back from the brink of death. Charlie Jones woke up two weeks ago from emergency surgery on tumours that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA bus crash in Switzerland has killed 28 Belgian tourists, 22 of them children, according to reports. The bus reportedly hit the wall of a motorway tunnel in the Swiss Alps, near the border with Italy. ...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 9 hours agoStephen Woodworth, MP House of Commons Dear Sir : Thank you for your recent expression of interest in my uterus. Unfortunately we have no openings at this time commensurate with your job skills. However w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 81.5 km (50.6 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:40 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 149.2 km (92.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:29:30 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 479 km (297.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:53:01 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10.8 km (6.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:51:56 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 969 km (602 miles) Southeast of Qaqort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 0 km (Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 06:30:20 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) East from C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 107.2 km (66.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:28 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) WNW of Kira Kira, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 118.8 km (73.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:05:40 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) South of San Andres Tu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*Off-topic and sad:* Ray Munroe died. You may remember one of 42 comments, mostly on particle physics, he left on this blog. RIP. Let me begin with the quarks. There are three generations of quarks. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 40.2 km (25 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:01 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) ENE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:05:39 UTC Wednesday 14th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) East of Sar...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoMarch 13, 2012 In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss how a video not featuring Justin Bieber went viral and how Max Keiser started a gold stampede. They also talk about "the whit...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours agoThere was a news report yesterday in India on how the government issued a compulsory licensing (CL) on an anti-cancer drug Nexavar, stilll under patent until 2020 by Bayer. The report was posted in the ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoMarch 13, 2012 Radiation, Coverups and the Legacy of Fukushima by grtv One year on from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan's northeast, details continue to emerge about how the crisis wa...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoCheap missiles have now beeneliminated from the attacker’s arsenal. This surely means that the Arab foes will burn off their inventory andgive it all a rethink. One in ten for aweapon system that canno...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoYes, maybe it is time to take thelowly gondola seriously. The obviousapplication is to link stations on a major transit line in a city to close byhigh density destinations that are not conveniently rea...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoIt appears that natural aminoacid generation is taking place in Space over both low temperatures and alsowith high temperatures. Thus without anycontribution necessary on a planet, it appears that a w...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoI have just completed reading thebook The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism by Kevin D. Williamson andmust recommend it heartily. It certainlyhas allowed myself to bring greater clarity to the s...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago[image: Girls in Cairo, Egypt] *Egypt 2010, before it got bad karma. Photo by* Joel Carillet It is good to visit countries with good karma. Which factors might produce *bad* karma? *A.* Materialism. Think...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago*FIRST 13 NATIVE AMERICAN ATTORNEYS TO ARGUE BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT COME TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME * * * *“The First Thirteen” Event Unites Native American Legal Pioneers to Share Their Collecti...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoIn September 2008, in the month when the Lehman Brothers collapsed, the 1997 physics Nobel prize winner Dr Steven Chu has made a calculation of the optimal gasoline price in the U.S. He published his findi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA bus crash in Switzerland has killed 28 Belgian tourists, 22 of them children, according to reports. The bus carrying the Belgian visitors crashed into a wall of a tunnel near the border with Italy. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBEERSHEBA, Israel—Facing the worst barrage of rockets from Palestinian militants since 2009, Israel is getting a boost from a new interceptor system that destroys missiles in midair before they fall on po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoVice President Joe Biden addressed 87 wealthy Democrats last night attending a fundraiser at the home of Sen. John Kerry in Georgetown. As they dined on grass-fed New York strip steaks and white truffle m...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 12 hours ago[image: image] Auckland’s Economics Group has kicked off for the year, ,meeting every Thursday at Auckland Uni Business School. Here’s a note from about tomorrow night’s discussion: *“Why study econom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA 29-year-old substitute teacher in La Mirada was arrested Monday on suspicion of sexually molesting a student at Los Coyotes Middle School, according to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department officials. The m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAside from preparing the cases of the Megaupload defendants, a team of lawyers is working hard to grant the site’s users access to their personal data. The cyberlocker is working out a deal with the Dep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) — Armed with the go-ahead from the governor and Illinois General Assembly, Mayor Emanuel plans to move a step closer to installing speed cameras in Chicago – maybe a whole lot of them. But ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCHICAGO (WBBM) - City Hall is apologizing. Parking tickets issued during Friday’s funeral procession for a Marine from Beverly have been voided. People started expressing their outrage on Facebook soon af...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- As more details emerge about the massive $26 billion foreclosure settlement between the five biggest mortgage lenders and the states' attorneys general, a growing number of borrower...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA new high-speed railway in northern Sweden has already claimed the lives of 200 reindeer since it opened three months ago, forcing the farm owner to move to safer pastures. The train line, which runs be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBUENOS AIRES — China has poured billions of dollars into Venezuela’s oil sector to expand its claim over the country’s massive oil reserves. But Beijing is getting relatively little for its investments, a...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoI you'll recall, anyone who questioned the Harperite rock-solid, give-no-ground commitment to purchase 65 F-35 Lightning II fighters, was labeled an unpatriotic, troop-hating, surrender monkey. That's bec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAKRON, OH (WOIO) - Two Akron men slapped with charges after stealing a couple's dog and demanding ransom. Around 7PM Friday night, a resident in the 300 block of Upland Avenue reported his dog, a Dalma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLaw enforcement officials across the country are puzzled over a crime wave targeting an unlikely item: Tide laundry detergent. Theft of Tide detergent has become so rampant that authorities from New York...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrom drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoDanish researchers have announced a rather wild hypothesis: Perhaps we are getting fatter and fatter because of the increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere. No, this is not 1 April – and this is not an Ap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFALCIANO DEL MASSICO, Italy - The mayor of a small town in southern Italy has forbidden residents to die, because there is no cemetery for them to buried in. Giulio Cesare Fava, the mayor of Falciano del...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIn the universities of Athens, the city where Plato taught and Cicero studied, campuses are covered in anarchist graffiti, stray dogs run through buildings and students take lessons in Swedish with the ai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEuropean politicians are on the hunt for new sources of revenue as the continent’s fiscal situation worsens. The level of desperation is clear in the latest move from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Fed just announced that the latest round of bank stress tests will come out Thursday at 4:30 PM ET. As a reminder, this is the doom scenario banks will be stress tested against: The supervisory stre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThere is never a good time for an American serviceman to go on a shooting spree in Kandahar, methodically murdering 16 Afghan men, women and children – some in their beds. But coming soon after a wave of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Swede who survived two months without food in a snow-covered car weighs just six stone (40kg), nearly a month after his rescue. "He is still in a very poor condition and bedridden," a source told Swe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEfforts to return the animal to the wild in Borneo thwarted by loss of nearly 80 per cent of its natural habitat. The release of more than 600 orangutans into the rainforest of Borneo has been postponed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHong Kong, China (CNN) - If you look at China’s annual National People’s Congress, now in session, you might think this country is one of the richest in the world. The NPC's 75 richest legislators - from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWhen the federal government guarantees a student loan, that loan is subject to accounting treatment that was established by the 1990 Fair Credit and Reporting Act (FCRA). It should come as no surprise tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAlthough Bank of America (BoA), along with other big banks like Wells Fargo, Citibank, Ally/GMAC and JPMorgan Chase, recently reached a very favorable settlement of potential criminal fraud charges relate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIslamabad, March 10: The US has asked Pakistan to abandon the Iran gas pipeline project and counselled Islamabad to explore alternative energy. Deputy US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Hoagland said Pakis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA funny thing happened on the way to figuring how to get President Obama not to sign HR 347. Yesterday late afternoon, I was on an urgent national conference call to discuss how to stop the bill. HR 347 i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIslamabad: Pakistan has said that the United States had sought permission to open its consulate in Balochistan but it was refused. During a weekly briefing on Friday, foreign office spokesman Abdul Basit ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office reminded those countries, who have given asylums to Baloch separatists, to discourage anti-Pakistan secessionist activities within their territories. Foreign Office Spo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee has put forward a proposal to impose an international naval blockade of Iran’s oil exports prior to any military strike against the country. In a Fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe times they are a-changin’. According to the EIA the United States exported more petroleum products than it imported in 2011 for the first time since 1949. Though declining, American refiners still imp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAMERICA has agreed to hand over control of Afghanistan's biggest prison to the Kabul government, removing a key obstacle to a new strategic agreement that would result in US troops staying in the country ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHarrisburg (9661MF), Pennsylvania’s insolvent capital, says it will miss general-obligation bond payments for the first time next week as its receiver seeks approval for a plan to sell assets. The city, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man who was sprung from a prison van eight months ago as he stood trial for firearms offences has been arrested in Amsterdam. Merseyside Police confirmed that Anthony Downes, who was wanted for abscond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEight Belgian police motorcycle escorts have been injured after a car ploughed into them outside the royal palace in what officials say was a suicide attempt. The officers were waiting to escort the Qata...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoInvisible Children disables comments on viral propaganda video + meet the real Joseph Kony. by Tony Cartalucci March 14, 2012 - As the US State Department, USAID centric Invisible Children psy-op KONY 20...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoMy Plum Line wrap is up. I'm afraid I said what I seem to always say: we stay on the same path, Romney is going to be the nominee unless some external unpredictable major shock happens, but this part of th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoMy Plum Line wrap is up. I'm afraid I said what I seem to always say: we stay on the same path, Romney is going to be the nominee unless some external unpredictable major shock happens, but this part of th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoKodo Drummers, “Live at the Acropolis” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nLUXQS8hY&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:16:17 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 84.5 km (52.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:06:48 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) WNW of Tapachula...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 185.6 km (115.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:58 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22 miles) West of Puno, Peru No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck VANUATU at a depth of 188 km (116.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:43:31 UTC Tuesday 13th March 2012 The epicenter was 266 km (165 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu Sa...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 13 hours agoDoes TUSD fear ninja attack from batboy? This is how TUSD treats community... in fear that it may get attacked for dismantling the highly successful Mexican American Studies Department.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSouth Korean and Russian scientists have vowed to work together in an attempt to clone a woolly mammoth from remains found in Siberia. The giant Ice Age animal last roamed the Earth some 10,000 years ago ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours agoAriel Zevon is Warren's daughter. And she's done a great job in putting the foreclosure crisis to song. The more I watch it, the more I love this video! Spring is almost here and that means the Occupy ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 14 hours agoIf you were worried the GOP parade of fail was about to end, have no fear. The twitter tells me Little Ricky wins both Mississippi and Alabama. Willard comes in third in both states. None of the polls pred...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoOne of the most highly criticized subjects that I cover in this blog is the total fraud of the Apollo Moon landings... I will state it clearly for everyone to understand: We NEVER put men on the moon dur...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoPompous professor. Image from Canadian Mysteries.Holding onto the joy in teachingWe are the best teachers when we aren’t afraid of the dark.By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / March 13, 2012I am a tenured prof...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 15 hours agoThe film titled "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists", is directed by Brian Knappenberger and features commentary by Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist who researches Anonymous. The documentary...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*Darth Vader Commands You To Stop Joseph Kony In 2012. Join The Resistance. * "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain. The rotten invisible ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"Over 400,000 light years across NGC 6872 is an enormous spiral galaxy, at least 4 times the size of our own very large Milky Way. About 200 million light-years distant, toward the southern constellation P...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoI have long shown that the situation at Fukushima Japan, with the meltdown of at least 3, and most probably 4 reactors, is far worse than what the Japanese Government, and the controlled media has been sta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"In the Middle...* of a life that's as complicated as everyone else's, struggling for balance, juggling time. The mantle clock that was my grandfather's has stopped at 9:20; we haven't had time to get it ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3sThcwmx3rs
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 16 hours ago*CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO:* *DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT DRUMMAND'S DREADFUL DIRECTIONS:* Always on the lookout to squeeze the poor even further the McGuintygovernment of Ontario has recently received a commissi...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 16 hours agoI came across a report published yesterday--on a website called HealthyCal.org, which I know nothing about other than it is edited by Daniel Weintraub, who used to be a great opinion columnist for the Sac...
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