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- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 minutes agoPeter Madelson in November: “I was loyal to Gordon Brown who I didn’t agree with entirely and I will be loyal to Ed Miliband.” That's reasuring...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 9 minutes agoWriting in the journal *Psychological Science*, Simmons et al. (2001, here in PDF) identify a problem in the psychological literature which they call "false positive psychology." They describe this pheno...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 minutes agoGuessing commenter's identity is no game: Stephanie Grace~Also this from WVUE~Jason Berry is a blogger and runs the blog American Zombie. He was once an anonymous poster facing legal action. "There's an al...
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(CNN) -- Syrian forces stormed the town of Douma this week, fired at the home of activist Mahmoud Saab, wounded the father of two and then hanged him from the balcony of his home. Activists reported this... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- An Iranian man held in Malaysia and accused of involvement in an alleged terror plot in Bangkok resisted extradition on Thursday, claiming he had been in Thailand only for a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces fired mortars and heavy machine-guns Wednesday in an attack on the southern city where the anti-government uprising began, propelled by recent military victories over rebels a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 minutes agoKAWAGUCHI, Saitama -- A 92-year-old woman and her 64-year-old son were found dead in their apartment here on March 14 by a neighbor, it has been learned. According to prefectural police, the mother, Fuyo ...
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) took and released photographs on March 14 of the pressure suppression chamber of the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant and the utility said... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
The municipal assembly of Naraha in Fukushima Prefecture, a town which has been completely evacuated due to the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster, on March 15 unanimously approved a motion that... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes ago
Two teenagers have had a lucky escape after being attacked by sharks within minutes of each other while surfing off New Smyrna Beach in Florida. A boy and girl, both 17, suffered bite wounds in the first ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes ago
A 3-year-old boy shot and killed himself at a Washington gas station after finding a gun in his family's car. The family had made an early-morning stop at a Shell station off Interstate 5 in Tacoma last ... - posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 35 minutes ago
Source: http://prof77.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/more-and-more-evidence-of-a-bankster-takeover-of-us-government-none-so-blind-as-those-who-will-not-see/ An Insider’s View of Wall Street Criminality: Toxic... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
Shocking CCTV footage of New York State's top jail warder savagely beating a handcuffed and pepper-sprayed inmate was released this week. The brutal video shows Tioga County Jail's Lt David Monell punching... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
An altered American flag had some veterans seeing more red than white or blue. A flag that had President Obama's face displayed where the stars typically are was displayed in front of the Florida Democra... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes ago
A teacher hatched a plot to kill her fourth husband for $1.2million life insurance, prosecutors have claimed at her trial. Elain Young, 57, is charged with planning and carrying out the murder of her hus... - posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 47 minutes ago
*About Sabu Treason* "That night, after everyone found out, it was a bit chilling," said Gregg Housh, one of the few people associated with Anonymous who speaks publicly using his real identity. But in th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoA man armed with three knives went on a stabbing spree in a Columbus, Ohio office building on Wednesday, starting in the admissions office of a technical school and injuring four people. The rampage stop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes agoStartling new information shows the FBI never questioned members of the Saudi Royal Family before allowing them to flee the United States in the days immediately following the September 11, 2001, terroris...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA man accused of sexual abuse today gunned down four people outside the courthouse where he was standing trial, leaving one woman dead. Bartholomew Granger, 41, apparently shot his 20-year-old daughter an...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny!- 1 hour agoGrotesquely rotund Republicans like James Sensenbrenner (R-WI, 375 lbs) and Rush Limbaugh get hysterical about Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign. They take it very personally... although they call it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA Detroit father who told police his two-year-old daughter was abducted during a carjacking was charged with her murder yesterday, more than three months after the child disappeared. D'Andre Lane had beg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA 40-year-old woman has been arrested in London in connection with an alleged terror plot against a synagogue in Milan. Scotland Yard said the woman was arrested at 4.30am at an address in south London. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA married man, who denied killing his former lover in a Sky News interview, has been found guilty of her murder. David Gilroy was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh of murdering Suzanne Pilley, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoBoxing champion George Groves is living in fear of gunmen who have threatened to shoot him dead in the ring during a live TV fight, it has been claimed. Mr Groves, 23, from Hounslow, West London, was war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:23:12 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:15:19 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 100 km (62 mi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoMany of us have already heard about a physicist guest star of The Big Bang Theory, my most favorite sitcom (or TV program, for that matter: let's not hide things), who may be even more famous than Brian ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours agoIt has become to increasingly grate on me the way that the athletes representing this country at the London Olympics are called Team GB. The team's website is even called TeamGB. There's just one problem...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFor centuries the cliffs of Dover have stood watch over the Channel, a symbol of this country’s defiant spirit. But their chalky whiteness is a clue that they are not as sturdy as we might imagine. In fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe shooting of a seven-year-old boy by his autistic sister, 9, was not an accident, a police spokesman has said. The nine-year-old girl pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting while their parents were ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn Afghan man who apparently targeted U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in a suicide attack at Britain's main base in Afghanistan died of his injuries this morning. The civilian had sustained severe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 338.4 km (210.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:28:58 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (110 miles) Nort...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAngry Moroccans are demanding a change to the country's strict Islamic penal code after a 16-year-old girl killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist. An online petition, a Facebook page and c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoChina must change its political system or it could once again face a catastrophe on the scale of the Cultural Revolution, said Wen Jiabao, the country’s premier. In a candid press conference that was bro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHeritage sites around the country will be ruined by wind farmsafter 300ft turbines were given the go ahead near one of England's most important historic ruins, the National Trust warned yesterday. Lyvede...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA residential home manager altered her birth records and claimed to be the long-lost daughter of an 82-year-old man in her care in a bid to inherit £300,000, a court heard. Beverley Jeffs tampered with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe claimant count in Hull was 8.6pc in February, up 0.9pc on the year, an analysis of the latest jobs figures by Centre for Cities shows. The national average claimant count was 5pc. In Grimsby, the cl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe foundation of the international food industry, monopolized by large corporations that hold zero regard for your health, is cracking. As more and more individuals begin to realize that they are eating ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoWhen we look at broad measures of jobs and population, then the beginning of 2012 was one of the worst months in US history, with a total of 2.3 million people losing jobs or leaving the workforce in a sin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe FBI conducted a three-year investigation, dubbed "Seizing Thunder," into a animal-rights and environmental "terrorists" in the Pacific Northwest that devolved into widespread—and seemingly pointless—...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSixteen Dead, Nameless “Lone Gunman,” We Have Heard It All Before. The village is Balandi, outside Kandahar in Afghanistan. Thus far the dead are 16, shot in their homes, not just said to be “women and ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA soldier’s widow says his fellow Army Rangers wouldn’t do anything to help him before he took his own life – after eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.The Army found Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann’s bo...
- posted by Stephanie Carvin at The Duck of Minerva - 3 hours agoThe Duck crew getting ready for their annual meet-up in 2011.*We are now two weeks away from the start of the annual International Studies Association convention in sunny San Diego. In 2010 the Duck develo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoWealthy Afghans are carrying about $8 billion − almost double the state budget − in suitcases out of the country each year, an amount likely to rise as the exit of foreign troops nears and threatening to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoImage: Karl Marx argued that in any society, those in charge have the power to propagandise their worldview In the US, the dominant political discourse consists of ideas put forth by the ruling class. N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoISLAMABAD: Russia and Iran have shown interest in laying the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline and the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has formed a Federal Cabinet body to take stock of the offer, Geo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoRecent bomb attacks on railway tracks across the Sindh province indicate the rise of a separatist movement that takes inspiration and strength from the freedom movement in Balochistan, political analysts ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Acknowledging Our Pain: Rescuing the Rescuer"* by The DailyOM "Sometimes the motivation to help others may be an extension of a deep desire to heal a wounded part of ourself. Some people seem called to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOil prices are now higher than they have ever been -- except for a few frenzied moments before the global economic meltdown of 2008. Many immediate factors are contributing to this surge, including Iran’s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAustralian special forces have been operating in several African countries over the past year gathering intelligence on terrorist activities, a report said on Tuesday.The Sydney Morning Herald said 4 Squa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSince September 11, 2001, America's policymakers and politicians have found themselves looking with increasing ferocity at threats - whether real or imagined and regardless of country of origin - that cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Goldman Sachs executive 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 has received s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe 24 largest independent pension systems in California, including Sacramento County's, are facing a combined $135.7 billion in long-term obligations that they won't have the assets to cover, a new Stanf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAlthough most taxpayers are immersed in the daily struggle of trying to make ends meet in a sluggish economy, one of the biggest fears of government observers in Hawaii is the looming elephant in the room...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHow would you feel if you worked for a state or local government for 20 or 30 years only to have your pension slashed dramatically or taken away entirely? Well, this exact scenario is playing out from coas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoDETROIT -- As the city of Detroit struggles to find a way out of a massive funding crisis -- one that has left parts of the city streets without cops or street lights -- another crisis has been brewing. W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin on Monday warned that the city is in "severe financial stress" that demands immediate action and presented a 10-year plan calling for more concessions from city workers. Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThere is a new kind of literature on Pakistan in the market which claims to present an alternative view of the country, a view that is more positive and talks of the huge potential of the Pakistani state ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe warnings and revelations of truth regarding current events that the alternative community is exposing are having a profound effect. This uncensored research is based on real history, news trends, acc...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*Studies proven that new proof has associated the environment in the womb with increased body weight in later life*. Scientists then linked these changes to a higher Body Mass Index in children aged abou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTens of millions have seen the Kony2012 video after US charity, Invisible Children, released the clip online - now a charity has showed the film to the people who suffered at the hands of the Lord's Resist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAs Stockton, California inches toward the largest municipal bankruptcy since the Great Depression, many accusing fingers are pointing at public employee pensions. One finger belongs to New York City Mayor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe current-account deficit in the U.S. widened more than forecast in the fourth quarter to $124.1 billion, the biggest in three years. The gap, the broadest measure of international trade because it incl...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours agoThe 'Powers That Be' would appear to have decided that Obama is to be reelected. Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy have done what they were told to do - such as supporting the CIA's Arab Spring. The Republican...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoducators and public employees deserve a safe and reliable retirement plan. Currently, the retirement and health care plans covering them have an unfunded liability (promised benefits versus assets to pay ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFederal trials may have to be suspended if severe budget cuts that Congress has currently scheduled for January actually take effect. "The judiciary is on the cusp of a financial crisis of significant pr...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoHere you go, an overdue New open thread to detail the bias! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoOne of our many readers notes; "I emailed the below to The Today Programme about BBC correspondents and why Jim Naughtie had to go to the USA - needless to say I have had no reply except the automatic th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Treasury is planning to take advantage of Britain's historically low interest rates by taking out loans which will not be repaid for 100 years or more. Chancellor George Osborne will use next week's B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - A budget battle in New Jersey's capital city has some extremely unpleasant fallout, including a toilet paper shortage at police headquarters, fire stations, senior centers and municipal office...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCitigroup was one of four large US banks that flunked stress tests aimed at seeing how they would hold up in a new economic crisis, Federal Reserve data showed Tuesday. Three others -- Ally, Suntrust and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Senate Tuesday killed legislation to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to encourage companies to use natural-gas powered vehicles. The legislation also would have benefited wealthy backers of the Demo...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoInteresting catch of a little non-reporting from the BBC by Alan... "BBC draws a veil over uncomfortable subject.... "A 7 hour stand off by armed police with army bomb disposal experts on hand to check a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSAN DIEGO (CBS) — A Southland high school teacher was on leave Tuesday after a 14-year-old student claimed she was forced to urinate in a bucket after the teacher refused her request to use the restroom. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRussia will send a team of cosmonauts to the Moon, 60 years after Neil Armstrong’s Apollo mission effectively ended the US-Soviet space race. A spacecraft will “conduct a demonstrative manned circumlunar ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOne of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoBrain scans of NASA astronauts who were in space for more than a month revealed potentially serious abnormalities that could set back plans for longer deep space missions, according to a study published T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCHICAGO (AP) - Boaters cruised along the river in downtown Chicago. Golfers smacked balls in Minnesota. And an ice-breaking mission on Maine's Kennebec River was the shortest in recent memory because the...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 4 hours agoBiased BBC correspondent Alan writes; "You have to look hard to find this story on the BBC website: Imam dies in mosque arson attack in Belgian capital http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17346927 It...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*US system HBO has cancelled its lavish TV horse-racing drama Luck after a third animal was wounded and put down during manufacture.* It debuted in the US in January and will see its first season finale ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice in Honolulu are asking for the public's help in finding the answers to a horrible mystery: How did the fingers of a child end up in a trash bin at a housing complex? The fingers were found a month...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWhen British Prime Minister David Cameron visits President Barack Obama this week, one detail may stay bottled up: the labels on the wines the White House pours at the state dinner tomorrow night. For Ob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPresident Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRussia insisted yesterday that it would not halt arms shipments to Syria even as evidence mounts that the regime is committing crimes against humanity, with a rights group today releasing a sickening doss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoIt's the most talked-about military site in the world. Just 18 miles southeast of Tehran, the Parchin military facility, suspected of housing a containment chamber to conduct high-explosive tests, has lon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAt the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s regular press conference last week, spokesperson Liu Weimin’s revealed that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was awarded ”the Best Friend of American Worker” by the US Internat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe UK's credit rating could be downgraded after an influential agency revised the country's outlook from stable to negative. Fitch Ratings said the British government needed to contain the expansion of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA US soldier accused of shooting dead 16 Afghan civilians is reported to have been flown out of Afghanistan to Kuwait, as around 1,000 protesters have reportedly taken to the streets near Kandahar. The s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 204.2 km (126.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:18:39 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) SSE...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 5 hours ago*Salmon with new potatoes and dill sauce!* Growing up in Sweden I was exposed to a lot of typically Swedish foods. As much as I love the well-known Swedish meatball dish with mashed poatoes and lingonberr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.2 km (17.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:50:42 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 240 km (149 miles) SS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of 14.4 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:31:23 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) North from Ocotillo W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:30:34 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) North from Ocotillo W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Iran at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:17:06 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85 miles) East of Yazd, Iran No Report...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*In southern China the remains of what may be a previously unknown human species have been recognized. *Scientists are calling them merely the Red Deer Cave people, following one of the sites where they...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:40:57 UTC Thursday 15th March 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) Northwest of Patrai, Greece No Repo...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoWe walk together on this part of the journey.Life – A Journey of Discovery. *“ The theme of the Grail story is the bringing of life into the wasteland ---- The wasteland is people out of authenticity livi...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThe BBC have an article entitled 'Gaza-Israel clashes: The view from each side' and it is as one-sided as you might imagine. To start with the article as written as two parts but it is always the Gaza stor...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago*Paul McBride* On 4 March 2012, Paul McBride, a top Scottish lawyer, was found dead in his room at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore, in Pakistan. Paul McBride QC was Roman Catholic and gay. McBride...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*Squads of disposable mini-satellites able to give investigation to soldiers at the push of a button are being measured by the US military. It adds that every group should consist of concerning 24 satell...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land- 6 hours agoMarch 14, 2012 KONY 2012 Hides US Support for Repressive Ugandan Regime by grtv As most of you have either seen or heard by now, a video produced by the NGO Invisible Children, called "Kony 2012", th...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago[image: Save Evans Adult School and all of LAUSD DACE Photo by Yoon Jung Lee.] Photo by Yoon Jung Lee The essay first appeared March 13, 2012 on the *National Coalition for Literacy* site as part of their ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoDailyKos has brought us a nice example showing how problematic it is to rely on majorities and how the counting depends on the ways how the poll is engineered. In the article called Michael Mann is a Mod...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“The Empty People- * *Those Who Love Money Above All Else”* - By Tom Dennen "Joe Sixpack's death came during his enlightenment during a bank holiday on a Main Stream Medium (MSM), talking heads show hos...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis is the real joining ofteaching and technology. Without anyparticular forethought, Khan simply made it work with his first student andthen chose to give it away on U-tube. Whathe really did was to ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoI fail to see how a proteinalready in place and doing its job is too likely to suddenly begin doing abetter job. I am missing somethinghere. In the meantime we understand thatthis is an important pathway...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThis is a letter report on theNgorongoro Crater in Africa from Al Sears whois engaged in an extended tour mixing business and pleasure. These types ofnatural refugia are well worth paying attention to a...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoOh ... you've already heard that one? Right. That's what the Harper central campaign was counting on. He's already made news, he already looks irrationally obsessed, he can deny all he wants and the "low...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agohttp://mediaroots.org/lawrence-livermore-lab-the-continued-nuclear-arms-race.php I grew up near here... Hat tip: Wideawake
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoNoah wrote at Enenews March 14 at 8:06 p.m. in response to the article: Enenews: "Nuclear Insider: Surprise at how much cesium is moving through environment — Crops with no direct contact to Fukushima fal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew York (CNN) -- Most New Yorkers believe the city's police act appropriately in dealing with Muslims, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. In the poll, taken amid a tumultuous pu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- Marine Le Pen officially entered the French election race on Tuesday, saying she had secured the backing of 500 elected officials required to stand in the French presidential contest. Le Pen, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- After 244 years, Encyclopedia Britannica will cease production of its iconic multi-volume book sets. Britannica usually prints a new set of the tomes every two years, but 2010's 32...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agohere 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 - 9 hours agoA 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 - 9 hours agoA 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!- 10 hours agoBlue 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 11 hours 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...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 11 hours ago*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 - 12 hours agoMonsegur (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 - 12 hours agoSo…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! - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 15 hours ago*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 - 15 hours agoThis 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 hours ago[image: TSA Waste] Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 hours agoFalmouth, Maine, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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!- 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 hours agoDaily Kos: The Cult of Personality v. Expertise in the Education Debate
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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...
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