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- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 50 seconds agoWill the massacre by an American in Afghanistan have long-term consequences? I sort of doubt it...it might accelerate what was already going to happen, but I sort of doubt that much of the coming withdrawa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes ago(CNN) -- A series of deadly explosions rocked parts of Damascus Saturday with some of the targets being Syrian government facilities, witnesses and state television reported. At least 27 people were kill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes agoResidents evacuated from their nuclear disaster-hit hometowns in Fukushima Prefecture have expressed discontent over the government's plan to compensate them in set amounts. "I can't accept the uniform c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreigners overstaying their visas as of Jan. 1 in Japan declined 14.6 percent from a year earlier to 67,065, hitting an all-time low since 1990 when comparable data became ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoBolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba has collapsed on the pitch during a game with Tottenham. He has now been rushed to hospital. Reporters at the scene said the player had stopped breathing. There was no ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 110 km (68.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:05:19 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) South of Waitotara, Whanganu...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 30 minutes agoThe Sierre crash occurred on 13 March 2012 near Sierre, Switzerland, when a coach carrying teachers and children crashed into a wall in the Sierre Tunnel. "The mystery of the bus crash that killed 22 chi...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 35 minutes agoHoping to infuriate the anti-Roswell crowd, I thought the following might do it. This involves much that has them annoyed from the mere mention of Roswell, to the fact that there is a new investigation goi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:55:23 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) ESE of Chris...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.6 km (19 miles), the quake hit at 11:24:43 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) WSW o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 86 km (53.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:09:31 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) North from Settl...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 41 minutes agoI know you all could not have helped but seen the latest news from Syria? The double explosion in Damascus. Car bombs. What kind of car bombs are these? As in how much explosive would it take to cause this ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 52 minutes ago*I call.* "New gambling era arrives at Maine casino; Celebratory mood as patrons line up" by Clarke Canfield | Associated Press, March 17, 2012 BANGOR - A new era in gambling arrived in Maine on Friday ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 10:25:05 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) ENE of Laoag, Luzon, Phi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:16:26 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 241 km (149 miles) SSE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 43 km (26.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:09:59 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSW of Severo-K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 545.5 km (339 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:02 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 311 km (193 miles) SSW of Ndoi ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour agoYou can take your life in your hands if you want. "Bicyclists embark on 500-mile trek" by Johanna Kaiser | Globe Correspondent, March 17, 2012 The cyclists will be traveling through cities and towns ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour agoOriginal here BillMoyers.com / *By Lauren Feeney* *America's ‘Inexcusable’ Indifference to Extreme Poverty -- Frances Fox Piven Speaks* *An interview with Frances Fox Piven, a political scientist ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.5* Date-Time - *Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 17:00:57 UTC* - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 09:00:57 PM at epi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.0* Date-Time - *Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 15:49:16 UTC* - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 07:49:16 PM at epi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Salvadoran officer’s case to be updated" March 17, 2012 Lawyers in the case of a former Salvadoran military officer accused of colluding in the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests have agreed to update t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"State awards regionalization grants" State House News Service, March 17, 2012 The Patrick administration awarded $5 million in grants Friday to cities, towns, and counties across the state for regionaliz...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 hour agoEarlier this week Mitt Romney botched a line from *Seinfeld*. At the Arizona debate he said, "What's the George Costanza line? When they're applauding, you sit down..." Well, *actually*, the line was said...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoMost discussion of the No. 4 spent fuel pool has focused on an earthquake causing the pool to collapse. This video is different because it reveals: 1) A crack, rather than the collapse of the pool itself, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoOld habits die hard. As Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta early Wednesday prepared to take off from this remote outpost in Central Asia for a visit to Afghanistan, the deafening sound of a war plane flyin...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*SOLIDARITY CONCERT FOR MOTHER EARTH AND INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS* SUNDAY, APRIL 15 - 2PM MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER GARY FARMER AND THE TROUBLE MAKERS BLUEDOG HIGHWAY 49 BLUES BAND and special guest...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoMarch 16, 2012 p. B3 Wall Street Journal "Chevron corp said Thursday that oil was seeping from ocean floor near its operations off the coast of Brazil, the second such leak in recent months... The new se...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 2 hours agoOver the last few days Nick Robinson and Mark Mardell have been speculating about likely topics of conversation between David Cameron and President Obama. They predict that having settled Afghanistan, the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoThis week, *Mother Jones* found 10 candidates running for Congress as supporters of the Occupy or 99% Movement. Most of them are Blue America candidates-- Alan Grayson, Ilya Sheyman, Elizabeth Warren, Nor...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Satellite view of Tropical Cyclone Luca at 3:30pm on 17 March 2012. PerthNow] By Evan Duffey, Meteorologist 17 March 2012 Tropical Cyclone Lua (17S) made landfall today near Port Hedland in West...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn artist admitted Friday to taking shortcuts in crafting an often harrowing tale about Apple Inc.'s operations in China after the veracity of his one-man theatrical show was challenged by a public radio p...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*5.2* Date-Time - *Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 15:16:24 UTC* - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 07:16:24 PM at epi...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 3 hours ago*Congratulations to all Occupiers worldwide!* *This is just the beginning!*
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Satellite view of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the Midwest and Appalachians on 2 March 2012. According to CNN, at least 36 people were killed, with the majority of the victims ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 3 hours agoIs there anyone left out there who remembers a time when the US government protected its citizens from corporate flimflammery? I didn't think so. And if you think this "peak easy oil" moment in time has no...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoEarthquake Details - This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude*4.7* Date-Time - *Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 13:47:38 UTC* - Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 10:47:38 PM at epi...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago*The blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Christian filmmaker behind the Internet’s most recent famous activism campaign, “Kony 2012,” has been arrested. For masturbating. And being drunk. And vandalizing cars. In pu...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours agoToday in Tucson! The Librotraficante Caravan Arrives in Tucson Friday Afternoon*Three Sonorans* HOUSTON (March 12, 2012) – After standing room only events this week in San Antonio and El Paso, TX; Mesilla...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoAl Jazeera reports that: 'An Ethiopian domestic worker in Lebanon who was filmed being physically abused in public has committed suicide, local media have reported. The video, first aired by Lebanese Bro...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012* *Although we have other names for it:* We’ll recommend this news report in this morning’s Washington Post. It concerns a big pile of fake facts. Uh-oh! An NPR show is “retract...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 4 hours agoAs regular readers now Southern Man has struggled with the "workout" portion of his current diet-and-fitness plan, so some time ago he signed up for a program offered by his university's kinesiology-and-ex...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012* *Part 6—Gail Collins won’t talk about Bain:* When Gail Collins jumped the pooch last week, bright-eyed readers perked up their ears and let her know they had noticed. Last Thur...
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- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNorth Korea announced Friday it would launch a rocket carrying a satellite next month, sparking widespread condemnation and US threats that it could put much-needed food aid in jeopardy. The United States...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours ago*LEFT LANE NEWS* is a car site with a sad, rather disturbing report. According to Ronan Glon, *"UK wants to use cameras to prevent uninsured drivers from buying gas"*. You see, over the last decade, the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe document (PDF), entitled Terrorism Awareness and Prevention, is presented as a guide for both “residents and workers of New Jersey,” along with employees of federal, state and local agencies, on how to...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoEgypt's veterinary authorities say foot-and-mouth disease has left more than 2,000 young cattle dead. Egypt's local press on Friday quoted veterinary official Essam Abdel-Shakour as saying that 24,500 liv...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA near-record snowfall this winter has buried Anchorage neighborhoods, turning streets into snow-walled canyons and even collapsing some roofs. But some residents are hoping for more, at least another 3.3 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoNew York City detectives have used cutting-edge facial recognition software to capture a man suspected in a shooting at a barbershop. The bullet grazed the 39-year-old man's head. He required stitches, but...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAuthorities say four family members were arrested after stripping naked outside a suburban Philadelphia high school and chanting "God is great." Upper Darby police say it happened around 1 p.m. Friday in a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA species of ape is on the brink of extinction in central Africa, even though the animals are addicted to sex. Bonobo apes live in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and often have sex every few minut...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn Iowa woman was arrested for drunk driving last night after her 15-year-old daughter--who was a passenger in her mother’s car--called 911 to contemporaneously report that her parent was “impaired” behind...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoWikileaks founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, the whistleblower group has tweeted. Wikileaks announced its inte...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoReports of extensive damage are emerging from Western Australia's Pilbara region, as Tropical Cyclone Lua continues to batter communities. The cyclone crossed the coast north of Port Hedland as a category ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA series of deadly explosions rocked parts of Damascus Saturday with some of the targets being Syrian government facilities, witnesses and state television reported. At least 27 people were killed and 97 ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoNo idea where this is located; but, I just couldn't pass it up. Photo courtesy: wallpaperseek.com Urban air pollution is set to become the biggest environmental cause of premature death in the coming dec...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 5 hours ago*Pennslyvania women: GOT REPUBLICANS IN YOUR VAGINA???* *The American Taliban just can't stop their "WAR ON WOMEN". It's nice to know that with a financial crisis, high unemployment, ruination of the env...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 5 hours agoMale mosquito feeding on a leaf. Photo courtesy: Leszek.Leszczynski/CC BY 1.0 Today, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, is holding a meeting about potential trials involving the release of geneti...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours agoThis year marks the 2nd annual Washington DC Cherry Festival photo contest,where I found the attached pictures. People are concerned about seasonal shifts, but far more detrimental to the cherry trees tha...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*And I'm not even Irish.* "St. Patrick’s Day holds mixed emotions for some" by Martine Powers | Globe Staff, March 17, 2012 His appearance does not fit the bill of a stereotypical Irishman.... * * *Wh...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"A battle within cancer fight; Biotech’s cofounder accused of stealing intellectual property" by Robert Weisman | Globe Staff, March 17, 2012 The article cowritten by Dr. Craig B. Thompson in the scien...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours agoDrew Brees' contract has New Orleans Saints in uncharted territory ~Jeff Duncan Havre de Grace won't overdo it in New Orleans Ladies ~Bob Fortus Shrimp processor hoping BP settlement will result in claim ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThat's the South African President Jacob Zuma leading the singing of "Kill the Boer" at ANC Centenery Celebrations in Bloemfontein, South Africa in January 2012. Note the lyrics enthusiastically sung and ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago"Runner in sex ring to serve 15 months; Cited for role in scheme trafficking Asian women" by Patricia Wen | Globe Staff, March 17, 2012 A 43-year-old Quincy man, who has admitted being an errand runner f...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 6 hours agoIt was almost comical yesterday to watch the Conservatives frantically insist that any election fraud was limited to the riding of Guelph -- and that it was purely accidental: Conservative partisans t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*The Boston Globe wouldn't want a bank to look bad, would it?* "Developer in fight with new lender; Original loans from failed bank now held by Wells Fargo" by Casey Ross | Globe Staff, March 17, 2012 A...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Then how am I going to get the money to pay for the Globe? I guess I just won't buy one.* "Bank of America adds to closings; 4 more in Bay State to be shuttered" by Todd Wallack | Globe Staff, March 17,...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 6 hours ago*Anthony Gucciardi discusses the dangers of Gardasil.* http://www.naturalsociety.com/
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoYesterday we took a look at the toxic culture around the resignation of Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs. Recall that one of my financial advisors, in explaining to me why he was leaving a senior VP job at o...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 6 hours agoAll publishing and media sectors are constantly looking over their shoulders at not just the dynamically changing technology, but also the impact of digitisation on other sectors. The music sector’s cont...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 6 hours agoAs you can see, strange things have been happening to this blog's template, and I've been unable to find the source and fix it. The header background is appearing in a strange (ugly!) colour. I can't find...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours agoMarch 15, 2012 Welcome to Capital Account. Bad news for underwater home owners -- foreclosure filings in february point to a rising tide in home seizures ahead, according to those who track it. Why? Th...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 7 hours ago“Hundreds, if not thousands of people think the BBC is pro Israel. And an equal number think the opposite. How on earth do you adjudicate on matters as complicated as that?” asks BBC Newswatch’s Raymond Sn...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago*WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, the whistleblower group has tweeted. * Wikileaks announced it...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoMarch 17, 2012 It's been six months since the Occupy Movement set up camp in the United States. From New York and Washington, all the way to Oakland in California, the protest has shed light on issues f...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 8 hours agoSeen from today, one of the more startling aspects of the RoboCon live and automated calls story is just how much we already knew about how *widespread * it was *nine* *months ago*. How did we come to forge...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours agoVaccine Health Truth Tolerance Lost by Dr. Andrew Moulden Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 or 3
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoM D’A: “good evening. This is Mark D’Arcy at Westminster, where a peer who quit the Lib dems renews her attack on Israel." J T: “I am not antisemitic. But I am anti-injustice.”M D’A: "Plus border tensions ...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoThe latest greenie wheeze to spend tens of millions of our hard-earned cash is a nutcase scheme to build 100 £200,000 towers to counter the effect of an alleged planetary emergency' of warming in the Arcti...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoOccupy and "The American Spring" A Time for Occupy To Blossom? Global Research Canada, March 16, 2012 *by Kevin Zeese* *National Occupation of Washington, DC Will Bring Occupiers Together to Share Ex...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoKen Livingstone's words: "These rich bastards just don't get it … no one should be allowed to vote in a British election, let alone sit in parliament, unless they pay their full share of tax. "Cameron's p...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoLodgepole pines killed by mountain pine beetle in Colorado, 2008. Photo courtesy: Jeffrey A. Hicke, University of Idaho via LiveScience Insects are essential to a healthy forest environment, but bad bugs a...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 10 hours agoA skull, possibly from a new species of human, recovered from Longlin cave in Guangxi province, China. Photograph: Darren Curnoe via guardian.co.uk Mysterious fossils of what may be a previously unknown ty...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 10 hours agoThe International Criminal Court has been in existence in its current form, since 2002. This week saw the body reach its first verdict, following a six year trial of Congolese child-abuser, Thomas Lubanga...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 10 hours ago*The good player of India’ Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player to score 100 international centuries through compiling a ton in a one-day defeat against Bangladesh in Dhaka*. The hundred was Tendu...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 11 hours ago* David Mazouz * In the new TV series *'Touch'*, Kiefer Sutherland stars alongside David Mazouz, a mute boy who is an expert on numerology. Sutherland plays the part of Martin Bohm, whose wife has been kil...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 12 hours agoJPost reports that: 'Sigmar Gabriel, the head of the German Social Democratic Party and a possible candidate for the Chancellorship of Germany, described on Wednesday Israel as an “Apartheid-Regime” on hi...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 12 hours ago*An investigation to repeat a test of the velocity of subatomic particles known as neutrinos has found that they do not travel earlier than light*. Soon subsequent to that claim, Nobel laureate Sheldon G...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoDo take a look at this bird. First and most important they have clearlyworked out the mechanics itself and consideration suggests that nothing is overthe top in terms of design issues related to metal...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoThis is important news. Salinityneeds to be handled and this is an excellent approach. In the future I alsohave high hopes that biochar will also allow the salinity problem to bemanaged. However that s...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoWe have a fundamental problemwith all forms of the chemical strategy to both weed and insect control. Somehow we have deluded ourselves intothinking that the products are generally benign and now we ha...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 12 hours agoIt appears that we do not need tosubduct continental material in order to rework it so that it may emerge as continentalrock. Instead the lighter rocks held inthe molten mass differentiate upward again...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoGoogle began to redirect the blogspot.com traffic to specific national locations. So far, dozens of nations are affected, aside from the original three, especially: *Australia:* motls.blogspot.com.au *New...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*A Jewish man has won his fight against a German museum for the return of thousands of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis in 1938*. The Berlin museum said in a report that it accepts the ru...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoMawtani reports the interesting news that: 'Iraq completes removal of radioactive contamination from seven sites (15/3/12) -- By Khalid al-Taie in Baghdad For Mawtani.com Seven demolished sites showing h...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 13 hours agoOver a period of 4 years, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission examined the Lockerbie Bombing evidence. The Commission concluded that there was masses of evidence to suggest that there had been ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 13 hours ago*Android app developers have complained concerning a hold-up in payments from Google. A few users in France, Sweden and the Netherlands reported that their banks had received the cash by noontime on Frid...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoA Con conned? Say it ain't so. But it's now emerging that those grifters at Canada's Department of National Defence knew a couple of marks when they saw them and pulled the wool over the eyes of Steve "R...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours ago... without a curling iron. She does this one for Harper and crew. Who knew?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThese heartbreaking photos show the extent of an elephant slaughter in the troubled nation of Cameroon. At least half the elephant population in Bouba N'Djida reserve have been slaughtered because the we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIt is perhaps unsurprising that a nuclear bomb set off in the nation's capital would cause devastating and widespread damage. Yet the simple conclusion did not put the government off, and they commission...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoAn unemployed and mentally ill South Carolina mother pleaded guilty on Friday to suffocating her two toddlers and then leaving their bodies in car seats in a vehicle she dumped in a river. Shaquan Duley,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan and the U.N. World Food Program exchanged notes Friday on using certified-safe food products from disaster-hit eastern Japan as overseas aid as a way to dispel fears over radioactiv...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 14 hours ago*Both The Market and Government Are Irrational* ------------------------------ March 14, 2012 | Original here One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is preparing to extend this year's unexpected jump in oil sales to the United States, adding to speculation about the response of the world's top oil exporter to sanctions against...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA new cyber attack found on Chinese websites can overwhelm Windows PCs - and the only way to stop it is to ensure your machine has the latest security 'patch'. Security experts Sophos say that all PC use...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThis footage is provided by Chile's Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena for public scrutiny
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA shocking video has emerged showing the moment a three-year-old girl was hurled from a fairground ride after slipping under the restraining bar. The child is shown with her feet in the air seconds before...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLaura Wilson was just 17 years old — a happy but headstrong girl whose love story across the racial divide would have a tragic ending. ‘She was feisty — if she had anything to say she would speak out,’ he...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoYeah, we've got a new playoff system. No, I'm not particularly happy about it. I continue to believe that the real problem here is Bud Selig, who makes changes on the fly in response to (1) his personal pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:55:33 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 1265 km (786 miles) NNE of Fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 632.6 km (393.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:49:29 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 195 km (121 miles) SSE of Baub...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 621.6 km (386.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:38:06 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 196 km (121 miles) SSE of Baub...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:30:37 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) NNW from Settlemen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:11:38 UTC Saturday 17th March 2012 The epicenter was 238 km (147 miles) So...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoI while back, I called into question all of the so called reports about the Japanese earthquake, and tsunami, that supposedly led to the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station. I have long been s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 21.2 km (13.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:31:55 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) WNW of San Anto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.2 km (15 miles), the quake hit at 23:18:19 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) SSE of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 63 km (39.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:46:37 UTC Friday 16th March 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37 miles) East of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians has been identified in media reports as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. The soldier is believed to have walked off his base in southern Afghanistan on Su...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*The Scott Walker family* No one expected Wausau's right-wing state Senator Pam Galloway to be in the Senate next year, but that's because she would have been likely to lose her recall in June. But she wo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA co-founder for Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach on Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to the San Diego Police Department. Jason Russell, 33, was allegedly fou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoLinesville, Pennsylvania, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 17 hours agoI knew this day was coming once the new bridge opened up late last year but the news still comes as a shock. Alas, I turn on the laptop this evening and learn, courtesy of Fort McMurray Musings, that the u...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoRomspen Investment Corp. v. 6176666 Canada Ltée., 2012 ONSC 1727 deals with, among other things, problems with the court system. It tells a common tale -- last week I learned of 7 documents filed for an ap...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“Have you ever seen the Milky Way's glow create shadows? To do so, conditions need to be just right. First and foremost, the sky must be relatively clear of clouds so that the long band of the Milky Way's ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours agoI am going to take some artistic license (don’t you love that phrase) here, becauseican. *What is an analogy?* Definition An analogy is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are other...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago* States of Madness: A good case can be made that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Barack Obama are clinically insane.* It turns out that the propagandist behind the KON...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Hanging On"* by Chet Raymo "I change the desktop image on my laptop every now and then, generally when I come across a new image I like. In the last year or so you'll remember that I wrote about Caravag...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 17 hours agoThe Artibonite Valley--Photo by John Carroll
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*Fritz Kreisler, composer (yes, composer):* *The "Kreisler String Quartet" (Kreisler and Thomas Petre, violins; William Primrose, viola; Lauri Kennedy, cello) plays its namesake's Scherzo à la Dittersdorf...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoThis film, based on fake events, is called: *Tough Decisions: "The Road We've Traveled."*
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoPresident Obama gave a speech about energy yesterday. If you read the media reports, you might think it was all about Rutherford Hayes and the Flat Earth Society. Much energy was expended by the leading li...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoI'm sure it was for a good cause. One of the guys behind the controversial San Diego envango-charity, *Invisible Children, *has been detained by the cops for being naked and masturbating in public. Film ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"A Matter of Priorities:* * Letting Go of the Little Stuff"* by The DailyOM "When we stop worrying about unimportant matters, we can devote so much more of ourselves to what is truly important. We experi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoNews from the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2012 NNHRC receives the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s request to the United States questi...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoDean del Mastro is *getting desperate*. Del Mastro, who has been leading his party's defence in the controversy over live and automated election phone calls, said nobody has come forward to say they didn...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.16.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Israel and Iran are, once again, the big stories this week. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, basically said he doesn’t n...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*“What is a ‘Cytokine Storm?’" * by Wisegeek "We think of external microbes as our worst enemy during an outbreak of influenza or bronchitis but our own immune system is potentially more lethal. When our ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours agoSome Filipinos are notorious for inventing wacky shop names. Here are some of them. All photos I got from the web, not one of which came from my camera. See this shoe repair shop... and those barber shops...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*I haven't read one all week; in fact, I haven't even prepared a note paper for the stories I intended (ha-ha) to read.* *Maybe you can''t even see this post over there.* Life upended across the Back Bay ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*And every other meal they serve up.* "Boston’s public schools shelve ‘pink slime’; Hamburgers, meatballs are off lunch menus until questions are answered" by Akilah Johnson and Matt Rocheleau | Globe S...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoThe ravaging of Africa will still proceed as scheduled. by Tony Cartalucci March 17, 2012 - Over the past week, as Invisible Children and their corporate sponsors performed desperate damage control, ties...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoWith BC salmon stocks showing signs in recent years of serious troubles Steve Harper seems intent on making their plight much worse yet. If the name Enbridge comes to mind, you're on the right track. T...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 21 hours agoWhat, you thought I wanted a blog header the colour of dog puke? No, I did not. The colours of my blog template have changed. On their own. And they won't change back. Blogger accepted a few changes, so ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoView more videos at: http://nbcsandiego.com.
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoIt sucks being *right*. I said sometime ago on this blog that this is a government that makes lists of enemies; lists and files containing whatever damaging or private information might be useful to them....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*I'm in love again, readers! All I'm going to do is accept the Globe's garbage as God's honest gospel and the complete and honest truth!* *Actually, it's more of an ending, sorry. Haven't read a Globe all ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAn earless baby bunny that was a rising star on Germany's celebrity animal scene had his 15 minutes of fame brought to an abrupt end when he was accidentally stepped on by a television cameraman. The fat...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours agoR v Favorite, [2008] O.J. No. 1184 holds: 11 That having been said, it is my intention to include in my final charge to the jury in this case the following instructions about police evidence: D...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoAt Greg's place today, I talked epistemic closure and running against fantasy Obamas. Two things to add: one is that anyone in the GOP should be well-positioned to escape the conservative feedback loop, it...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago"Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 22 hours agoFor a paper I am writing, I am researching *tagging* as used in social bookmarking websites, like Delicious (said to be the first successful social bookmarking site), Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, CiteULike, ...
- posted by Suzanne MacNevin at LILITH NEWS - 22 hours agoBy Suzanne MacNevin - March 16th 2012. POLITICS - Actor/philanthropist George Clooney was arrested today outside Sudan’s embassy in Washington for protesting against the Sudanese dictator / mass murderer ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Hilarious Reasons for Why We Need the Government"* by Joel Bowman "It doesn’t matter where you go, Fellow Reckoner…it doesn’t matter how far you wander or for how long you travel…you can’t escape the wo...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 22 hours ago*... Heil Harper's world to order ... ** *Contributor: "YYC"* From the Star: *Under the Canada Elections Act, anyone who compels a person to vote or refrain from voting “by intimidation or duress” faces a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"Why Are Bankers Jumping Ship In Record Numbers,* * Financial Collapse Imminent?"* by Brandon Turbeville "On March 6, 2012, I wrote an article entitled, “Mass Banking Resignations Signal A Purging Has Be...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours agoCorps of Engineers panel considers making New Orleans levee breach sites national historic landmarks~Cain Burdeau
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