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*The Audubon Terrace complex at Broadway and 155th Street, on part of the property once owned by naturalist-painter John James Audubon, must have been quite a sight when it was built, roughly between 1906 ... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 hour ago
Over the last 1/2 century (at least) we have seen our fair share of false flag attacks and so called "terrorist strikes" that have proven time and time again to be planned, organized, and carried out by th... - posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 2 hours ago
Initially when I saw the mess left underneath the feeder I blamed the squirrel. A few snowfalls later though and not only was the feeder empty (there seemed little point in filing it since I was back t... - posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 2 hours ago
*Russian violence hits British streets as exiled banker* ** *is gunned down in 'assassination bid' near Canary Wharf * * * *The Daily Mail * * * German Gorbuntsov was 'blasted with a submachine gun' ... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago
------------------------------ *Repress U, Class of 2012* *Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus* By Michael Gould-Wartofsky Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Twitter tr... - posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, President Obama's surprise choice to head the World Bank, is seen here giving Conan O'Brien an honorary doctor of arts degree at last June's commencement.* *"Thi...
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"Go ahead, George. Try it and see what happens this time." - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago
*AIM WEST delegates approved for UN Permanent Forum* Press statement Posted at Censored News AIM-WEST delegates approved to attend annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, in New York ... - posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 5 hours ago
For Immediate Release New Rochelle, NY, November 14, 2011- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Disruptive Science and Technology, a highly innovative, bimonthly peer-reviewed jo... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoOver at Greg's place today, I proposed that Barack Obama's decision to nominate Jim Yong Kim for the World Bank should be seen as a party pick -- and reminds us that elections matter. Meanwhile, at Post P...
- posted by Phila at Bouphonia - 5 hours ago
Flint, Michigan has an elected government once again: A judge has ruled that the state violated the Open Meetings Act in appointing emergency manager Michael Brown. Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rose... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 5 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Alan observes... "In 2005 political commentator (and DV favourite) Mark Steyn asked this: 'In five years’ time, how many Jews will be living in France?' The BBC would like us to ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoJust this week we have had the news of Ken Livingstone reaffirming his stand to invite and embrace, when London mayor in 2004, the Islamist cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, who condoned suicide bombing against Is...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 5 hours agoStatement from Sean Payton following penalties ~WWL
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoAs a defence goes it's probably as good as it gets; it deals with the facts that cannot be denied and it could be true. McClintic is such an incredible witness that, if Rafferty testifies, the story migh...
- Climate Tricks 4: Don't Use Air Temp. Data, Don't Mention the Sunposted by null at Government and Taxes - 6 hours agoTo continue propagating climate alarmism, end-of-the-world-unless-you-follow-us doomsday scenario, alarmists use several tricks. Here are some of them. One, not using air and tropospheric temperature data...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours ago
Friday and a new one of these to take us off into the blue yonder of the weekend! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post. - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 6 hours agoBiased BBC contributor Graeme writes; "Richard Bacon produced a very good programme on internet trolls broadcast on BBC 3 a couple of days ago, The Anti-Social Network. Firstly, I’d like to say, on the b...
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On his way to Cuba from Mexico, the Miami Herald is reporting that Pope Benedict XVI said that the Communist system which Cuba has had since Fidel Castro grabbed power in 1959 is a failure and that gover... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoThis set isn't half bad (as if anything by Hancock could be), but it isn't in the ballpark with last night's wholly-outside-of-the-realm-of-possibility performance in Memorial Hall (and the evening-attire...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 7 hours agoBeing new to birding when I moved to Alberta, it seems I spent much of my first year just trying to figure out what species there were to see here and trying to figure out what they were when I saw them. T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*California Democrats can't come up with something better than this dreck... for Congress?* On Monday evening, perhaps you all saw our teaser on the coronation of State Senator Vargas to replace Bob Filne...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 7 hours agoRCMP corporal Monty Robinson, has been convicted of obstruction of justice in killing motorcyclist Orion Hutchinson in October, 2008. Robinson was one of the RCMP officers at Vancouver Airport who killed ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoThe NYT's Richard Stevenson reports that Republicans are considering actually vetting their VP candidate this time around. It's sort of amazing how many duds they've had (I don't know how you score Dick Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHyderabad: 25 cases of swine flu were reported in various corporate hospitals in Andhra Pradesh, after which the state government has put the health authorities on alert. "Some of the cases tested positiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNELSON, B.C. - A heli-ski guide yelled to his group of four to get out of the way when he heard a ridge of snow above them break loose, but nobody was fast enough to avoid the large avalanche, RCMP say. ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoR. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13 dealing with sentencing of Aboriginal offenders was released today. The case is of great importance for any counsel dealing with criminal matters. The central issue in these ap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA wildfire that burned out of control in the RM of Stuartburn Thursday was still smoldering Friday. The blaze is one of many grass fires that have been flaring up around the province this week. Provinci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 340 PM EDT FRI MAR 23 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:58 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) SSE from Pinotepa Nacional, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoToday, President Obama named Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim as the White House’s nominee to lead the World Bank, thought by some to be an unconventional pick. Mr Obama said Dr Kim, a Korean-born physic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoArmy Staff Sgt. Robert Bales could be sentenced to death if convicted on any of the 17 counts of murder filed against him Friday for allegedly embarking on a bloody shooting rampage in Afghan villages, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man has been shot in the head and killed during the filming of an amateur rap video in Philadelphia The shooting happened in front of a crowd of about 100 people. Police say the man was in his late 20s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA horrific murder suicide has left a town in shock after a doctor, 44, shot dead his ex-girlfriend, 22, before turning the gun on himself after she revealed on Facebook she had a new boyfriend. Dr Timoth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA mother faces life in prison for starving her daughter to death and dumping her body in the trash because the baby didn't fit in with the rest of the family. Tania Coleman, 21, was convicted today of fi...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012* *Thereby protecting the guild:* Is anyone more disingenuous—more dishonest—than major mainstream “journalists?” In this morning’s Washington Post, Chris Cillizza pretends to expla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDespite its name the inch-long beast, known formally as the Thistledown Velvet Ant, is actually a wingless female wasp. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAustralia used to be home to an extraordinary collection of very large animals known as megafauna – rhino-sized wombat-like marsupials called diprotodons, giant kangaroos and a goose twice the size of the...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoJake Sherman over at Politico had an article yesterday about "how Paul Ryan sold his budget plan" which should really alarm Republicans, in my view: The party polled on Medicare in 50 battleground district...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEncircled by a growing forest of high-rise tower blocks, a couple's home has become an isolated island of dirt - cut off from water and electricity for almost four years. Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 9 hours ago*Brian Topp is the BEST choice for Leader of Canada's New Democrats!*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it. Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per sec...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours agoAnother day, another F-35 fiasco. This time it's Australia that's getting cold, make that colder, feet on the overdue, over priced, under performer. *The Canberra Times *reports that Australia's defence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA new species of wasp discovered on the Indonesian island Sulawesi is two-and-a-half inches long, and has jaws so vast that its discoverer admits, 'I don't know how it can walk.' Lynn Kimsey, professor o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA pensioner has been arrested for allegedly lacing chocolate Easter bunnies with rat poison and leaving them for children to find. Joerg-Werner Lubbe, 68, sprayed the sweets with ammonium hydroxide, re-p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA convicted Mafia mobster has been freed early from his 15 year jail term because he is allergic to the vegetables on the prison menu. Millionaire Michele Aiello, 56, told the judge at a special appeal he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man has today been found guilty of murdering a mother-of-nine who was hacked to death before being dumped in a wheelie bin. Shauna Lee, 36, was pregnant with twins when she was killed by Karl Burman an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOn the eve of her release from jail, lying mother Karen Matthews says ‘several others’ were involved in the abduction of her child four years ago, it was claimed today. Matthews, who pretended daughter S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoRemember when Steve Harper couldn't stop talking up Canada's north and what he was going to do to defend our sovereignty and interests up there? Well, he was bullshitting. That should have been apparent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA British rapist who carried out a horrific sex attack likened to The Silence of the Lambs has been deported from Australia to the UK. Leslie Cunliffe posed as a policeman to kidnap a 21-year-old woman, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA mother is facing jail after leaving her baby home alone which she partied for five days and nights. Neighbours of the 20-year-old woman heard the baby girl's screams and alerted police officers who brok...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMarch 23 - Amateur video appears to show heavy gunfire and explosions in Syrian cities as the European Union turns up the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad's government. Reuters is unable to independen...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoHarper LabourMin Lisa Raitt apparently got into it with disgruntled Air Canada employees last night at Toronto airport. Three Air Canada employees apparently greeted Raitt with a round of slow-clapping, ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 10 hours ago"Thank you for your endorsement, dumb asses."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMarch 23 - Anti-nuclear protesters rally as nuclear energy industry leaders meet ahead of the upcoming nuclear security summit in Seoul. Sarah Wali reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHundreds of homes have been inundated on Australia's Sunshine Coast after a once-in-a-century downpour. About 40cm of rain fell across the Queensland coastal region in about six hours on Thursday, spark...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 10 hours agoMost of the women in the extended family (including both daughters and Southern Mother) have read the book so there wasn't much doubt that we'd see The Hunger Games at a midnight premier. It's quite good, ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoI feel like someone just dropped me on my head – you know – that soft spot that really doesn’t exist anymore – but I still feel like I am going to have brain damage. *SCENARIO* · You are underwate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA former Russian banker is in a critical condition in hospital after being repeatedly shot in London. Detectives are treating the attack on German Gorbuntsov near the Canary Wharf business district as at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably year...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoWhite House photographer Pete Souza periodically releases a month's worth of official White House photos. They're always late. This is my favorite from the February gallery. It was a toss up between thi...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours ago*The first and basic task confronting this nation this year was to turn recession into recovery...The recession has been halted. Recovery is under way... But the task of abating unemployment and achieving...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 10 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Back during the Johnson administration Charles DeGaulle demanded the United States collateralize the loans owed to France in gold and started carting out the bullion from the treasury. ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 11 hours agoThe first full day with twelve-year-old daughter was a busy one! By mid-morning she was itching to see Southern Parents so we headed to the Ancestral Manor. An old family friend was there so Southern Man a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 11 hours agoWriting in the WSJ, Richard Katz has an insightful commentary on the decline of the Japanese electronics industry. Here is an except: The plunge in the past decade is nothing short of breathtaking. From...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago*Photos by Charity Chapman/Censored News. Thank you!* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* *CUSHING, Okla. -- Protesters in Cushing, Oklahoma, were corralled wit...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoLobbyists, Wall Street predators, financial speculators, Mormons ecstatic about the idea of seizing the government... these are the people who have filled Romney's war chest with tens of millions of doll...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago*Sarkozy is koo-koo krazy.* *Sarkrazy* is so predictable. First, the totalitarian fascist State kills kids and innocents, and then it uses their deaths to kill free speech and democracy. Below are tw...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoIran, China, Russia and India are poised to become the real beneficiaries of the blood and treasure we've poured into the Afghan War. An investigation by the British newspaper, *The Independent,* finds tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:43:37 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) Southeast of Eric, Turkey No R...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoNATO, stalwart defender of Afghan democracy, is planning to slash its financial support for the Afghan army and police by two-thirds. And, yes, that would be the very same Afghan army and police we're exp...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 11 hours agoThis is a bit of a wonky and technical post on an important debate over how we measure innovation, and in fact, what innovation actually means in the economy. Much of the debate over innovation in manufa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:17:27 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84.3 miles) Northeast of ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agoWINDMILLS OF MY MIND you know the mind works not in windmills but in doors, where the opening and closing of PHYSICAL DOORS (that you yourself pass through) signifies one part of your life (symbolically ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours agoWas in a bit of funk yesterday, it being my Dad's birthday. He would have been 84 years old had he lived. So I didn't get around to bitching about Chuck Todd's lament on the state of journalism. He's all k...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoEven if you're one of us who has never watched an episode of MTV's *Jersey Shore* reality show, you've probably been exposed to some of the cast through other programmes like *The Daily Show. *Judging by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:34:39 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) WNW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu No Ts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 49.9 km (30.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:04:05 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (50 miles) West of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu N...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoSimilar fact evidence is always somewhat problematic. Generally an accused is on trial for what the individual is charged with and not other events. As a result, similar fact evidence creates a danger...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 119.5 km (74.3 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:31 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) WSW of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Warn...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoAFRICOM Report: Combating Chinese Economic Encroachment in Central Africa Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com March 23, 2012 Since the time of the British Empire and the manifesto of Cecil Rhodes, the pu...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoOh, this is juicy. Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk saw the Harper government's hand at work when CTV reporter Bob Fife got his hands on flight logs showing the general had used an armed f...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 12 hours agoI just stumbled upon an accurate column on the Democrat’s ACTUAL view upon a Romney nomination titled *“Democrats Have No Fear Of Romney”* It provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the Obama campaign...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago"*He who opens his eyes to the possibilities of evolution* *in their endless variety will abhor fraud and violence* *and disdain prosperity at the expense* * of his fellow creatures."* * ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoHmmn, WestJet and Porter look better and better: http://natpo.st/GISJe6
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoPlease watch this excellent video about Bill C-10. It's only 4 minutes and incredibly informative and entertaining. I'm sorry I didn't see this video before the bill was rubber-stamped in the Conservative-...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoObamaCare, that most controversial law forced on the US by the former Democrat super-majority in Congress, and which was a main impetus for the meteoric rise of the Tea Party movement, is being challenged ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoHillary Clinton looks at water and doesn't like what she sees. The US Secretary of State warns that competition for increasingly scarce water supplies maywill fuel terrorism, political instability and wars...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFifteen mutilated cats have been found in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge over the past year, and police and SPCA are asking for the public's help cracking the case. Most recently, the bottom ha...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agohttp://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4706 Hat tip: Mack at Enenews
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoMainichi: No major obstacle for fuel removal at No. 4 spent fuel pool: TEPCO http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120323p2g00m0dm015000c.html TOKYO (Kyodo) -- "The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiic...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoThe image is available at Fukushima Diary http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/scattered-fuel-of-reactor-3/ This heat signature of unit 3 was produced by *Goddard's Journal *but I do not have the original li...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agohttp://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/deja-vu-nuke-gangs-old-tricks-japann-deleted-5-days-of-radiation-dispersion-data-just-after-meltdowns/ Good commentary!
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 13 hours agoAn interview with Tim Schwartz about Haiti and aid.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012* *Could Castro possibly win, part 2:* The two tribes have their alternate realities, as Krugman semi-explained this morning. (He only mentioned the * other* tribe’s alternate state....
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours agoOn Feb 28th CHEK TV in Victoria reported a voter suppression call in the riding of *Vancouver Island North*. At that time it was a live call made in the town of Woss and it appeared to be the only inciden...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours ago*The Medieval Warm Period was apparently global* Before "the cause" started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, climate scientists realized that around the years 950-1250 AD or so, the Ear...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoThis is the nerd equivalent of a dad joke. A pair of posts today from political scientists I admire prompts me to postpone my musings on the *Hunger Games* and to talk about how to get to graduate school...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoI *love* this. The CATO regulars thwart the Koch's takeover attempt with a brilliant sally. This afternoon, as the Koch PR arm was blasting out a memo about the War for Cato, the libertarian think tank's ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours agoOnce again judges have been called in to decide social policy. On Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal will decide whether a Superior Court decision that effectively legalized brothels is correct. The ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012* *Chris Matthews has fun in Havana:* Paul Krugman tackles a wide range of topics in this morning’s column. We’ll guess he tackled too many. In this brief passage, he attempts to r...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA man was shot in the head and killed during the filming of an amateur rap video in the Olney section of Philadelphia. The rap video was being recorded near the security cameras of a restaurant, which a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA veteran bus driver accused of choking a third-grade special-needs student as she was driving the girl home from school in an encounter captured on video was fired by the school district on Thursday, a di...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 13 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours agoLos caminos que conducen al desastre - Reflexiones de Fidel Global Resarch Canada, 22 de marzo 2012 Esta Reflexión podrá escribirse hoy, mañana o cualquier otro día sin riesgo de equivoca...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAuthorities say customs agents at Miami International Airport found two human fetuses in luggage coming from Cuba. A Miami-Dade police spokesman said Thursday that the fetuses were found Jan. 30 in the lu...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC host and liberal political figure, riled up a mostly-black Sanford, Fla., crowd on Thursday night in the wake of the killing of 17-year-old student Trayvon Martin. “Some peo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been among the vocal voices weighing in on calls for justice for Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old who was gunned down last month while walking home in Sanfo...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Coastal erosion in Florida. Florida Geological Survey] By Ben Strauss, bstrauss@climatecentral.org 22 March 2012 Florida is in the crosshairs of climate change. Rising seas, a population crowd...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 14 hours agoA cautionary tale is unfolding in the city of Toronto.Yesterday, for the second time in recent memory, Toronto City Council told Mayor Rob Ford to take a walk down to the bottom of John Street and jump ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Auroop Ganguly, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern, is an expert in climate change and severe weather conditions. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill] By Angela He...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago@PremierBradWall You mean like the taxpayer funded subsidy you give the Potash Industry? er.gov.sk.ca/Potash-Tax-Gui… #skpoli — leftdog (@leftdog) March 23, 2012 *Originally blogged by John Cameron at ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoThis Sunday, folks in Toronto will have a great opportunity to hear a firsthand account of the arrest and abduction of the crew of the Tahrir, the Canadian boat that tried to break the Israeli blockade o...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoIn this text, I want to discuss a particular supersymmetric search that hasn't been published yet. According to some super-secret information, this search for some cool signatures of the sbottom squark wil...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoThe NDP crowns its next leader tomorrow, and the best we can do at this point is narrow the field down to 5 possible winners. That's a far cry from September when the Brian Topp juggernaut was described as...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours agoHeadsUp! Nasdaq screen from Heads Up! 2012 on Vimeo. 22 March 2012 (NYT) – To mark World Water Day, digital animations conveying the gravity of global declines in groundwater just went on display on two...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Damon Albarn, 44. 1. Josh Putnam and John Sides on the actual effects of the rules on this cycle's Republican nomination process. 2. Good Jamelle Bouie post on independents (although I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoToulouse (CNN) -- French police had no grounds on which to arrest gunman Mohammed Merah before he carried out three attacks in which seven people died, Prime Minister Francois Fillon told French radio st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- North Korea has more uranium enrichment facilities than it has admitted to previously, a U.S. scientist charged Thursday. Prof. Siegfried Hecker of Stanford University told CNN his conclusion is ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours agoRule 63.02 (1) provides: An interlocutory or final order may be stayed on such terms as are just, (a) by an order of the court whose decision is to be appealed; (b) by an order of a judge of the court t...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012* *Part 4—The New York Times doesn’t do taxes:* What the heck did Paul Ryan propose concerning federal taxes? If you read the New York Times, you have little idea. Yesterday, the T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- The Japanese defense minister said Friday that he had ordered the country's military to prepare a missile defense system ahead of a planned rocket launch by North Korea next month. North K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- What would prompt a 23-year-old man, born and raised in France, to chase a small, terrified Jewish girl into a school courtyard, look her in the eye and shoot her in the head? The very idea brin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- Earlier this week, I got an email from a nephew who lives in Japan. "The Washington Times is reporting coup rumors in Beijing due to the ouster of Bo Xilai," he wrote. "The article talks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOregon state authorities can resume killing California sea lions that feast on endangered salmon bottled up at a dam on the Columbia River, but fewer than one-third as many as federal biologists previousl...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoThis morning the Vanderbilt Press Office issued a press release announcing a speech by KIPP's chief child abuser, Mike Feinberg, who recently relinquished his Superintendency of KIPP Houston to go on the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Drunk soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few establishe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBEIRUT (AP) -- As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the U.S. president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: "Ultimately, this dictator wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government said Thursday that a panel of experts has set a quantitative standard for approval of shipments of radioactive cesium-tainted gravel and crushed stones from quarries in Fuk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoJapan is considering giving patrol boats to the Philippines as part of its official development assistance (ODA) to help its Asian neighbor boost maritime security in the East China Sea in line with the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe most energetic laser shot in mankind's history was fired at the stadium-sized National Ignition Facility in California this month. On March 15, an array of 192 lasers fired a shaped pulse of energy tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe parents of a boy who was beaten and starved to death after being placed back into their care have been charged with his murder. Six-year-old Khalil Wimes died weighing just 28 pounds - the average wei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA 46-year-old woman has been accused of locking her newborn twins in her car while she went shopping in a mall. Amanda Nejat allegedly left the 11-week-old babies alone for as long as 40 minutes while sh...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoWednesday we looked at the beginning of a campaign the Blue America PAC is putting together to help residents of PA-17, where I used to live, understand Rep. Tim Holden's role in the fracking crisis. Hold...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:37:53 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 26 km (16.1 miles) Northwest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA curious raccoon found with its face stuck in a jar has been killed by wildlife control officials who believe it was rabid. Perched on a tree limb over 30ft in the air, the animal's distorted face blink...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAl-Qaeda's Yemen branch said Thursday that it killed an American teacher because he was trying to spread Christianity in the mainly Muslim Arab nation. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old native of Mount Joy, Penn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSerious questions are being asked as to why French security services allowed Al Qaeda fanatic Mohammed Merah to roam free for so long. The self-confessed terrorist, who killed seven in a series of calcula...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe body a 15-year-old girl who disappeared from her sister's house outside Dallas, Texas, was found horribly burned on the side of the road. Moriah Gonzales was not reported missing until Tuesday, though...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA bag of clothes found on Sunday belongs to the girl who has been missing in California for almost a week, police said. Pants and a shirt were found in a Juicy bag, which she carried to school, a few mile...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoHogs for the Cause! NOLA BBQ! ~Editilla says: Get Down! Get Back Up Again! New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson must seize control of chaotic tailspin Saints staffing shuffle in early stages Shockey wants...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThree machinists, members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, were suspended after "sarcastically applauding" Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt as she walked to her flight. ...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoDid you hear the one about the 14 employees who were fired for wearing orange shirts? If you didn’t, you don’t live in the UK or Ghana or anywhere in the U.S., because the story made the interna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThese were the distraught courtroom scenes as a family collapsed after finding out men on trial for the murders of four family members - including a baby - were to be released. Alleged shooter Edward Was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoTwo human fetuses that were to be used in a 'religious ceremony' were found in luggage coming from Cuba by customs agents at Miami International Airport, according to police. A Miami-Dade spokesman said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoArmy Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder, assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a U.S. official said today. The charges wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFalling from a sixth floor window is usually not described as lucky, but a little boy in China was actually very fortunate because he landed on a cage outside the window below. The four-year-old had to b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPresident Barack Obama has been keen to move the political conversation away from the question of whether or not he was born in the United States. But today, he was the one that brought it up, albeit as a...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoAn open letter from my friend and comrade Jonathon Hodge. *See below for picket schedule.* Dear friend/neighbor/colleague, Many of you are library users, or know someone who is, and so many of you are ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe Dutch 'bird man' who posted a video showing a successful 'test flight' of a wing suit contraption has admitted that the amazing feat was a hoax all along. Viewers became sceptical after it emerged t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMinisters were under intense pressure to suspend all contracts with beleaguered welfare-to-work firm A4e last night as a leaked internal dossier revealed evidence of widespread fraud and malpractice. A c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA 25-year-old man has been charged after five police officers were mauled by a dog during a raid in east London. Four of the officers were seriously injured in the incident, but are now in a stable condit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA former soap star who admitted driving the getaway car in a gangland shooting has been jailed for perverting the course of justice. Brian Regan, 53, who played Terry Sullivan in Channel 4's Brookside, wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA convicted rapist who committed sex offences while under police surveillance was told today that he might never be released from prison. Michael Phillips, 35, sexually assaulted a woman and exposed himse...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago*Europe's ATV space truck has blasted off from the Kourou base in French Guiana. The robotic truck is heading to the International Space Station with new supplies of food, water, air, and fuel.* This ATV ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe parents of a teenage mugging victim have slammed police for failing to apprehend her attacker - after they tracked her down on Facebook. Hannah Brinkman, 14, was left battered and bruised after being ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoI'm not completely convinced these poll numbers are right. That said, governments are not defeated by others, they defeat themselves: http://natpo.st/GRFeID "The Environics poll had the Conservatives an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwo British tourists holidaying in Florida begged for their lives with their trousers pulled down before they were mercilessly shot dead, a court has heard. Shawn Tyson, who turned 17 on Monday, is said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe British-born wife of Syrian president Bashar al Assad will be banned from travelling to European countries, EU ministers have announced - although the UK is not included. EU foreign ministers gather...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck San Juan, Argentina at a depth of 101.9 km (63.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:25:32 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) WSW of San Juan, San J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck South Australia at a depth of 10.7 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:25:16 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 317 km (196 miles) SSW of Alice Springs, Nort...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 17 hours agoDoes the state take the lead and define our culture and social attitude through law and taxation, or do we use the ‘free market’ to shape it and the state is merely there to protect it? We now face many c...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours ago Joy Arrives - A Poem *Joy arrives* *Joy dances and swirls* *Joy given freely to those whom will accept this gift* *The joy of living ones' life within the realm of freedom* *A childs' joy...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 17 hours ago*My Dad's Guacamole* I love Mexican food, but when all the cheeses and sour cream get pulled out of the equation I have come to rely upon guacamole to be the perfect topping on many of my favorite Mexican...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours agoBuyer BewareActivist Outrage Causes Major Supermarkets to Drop 'Pink Slime' Meat Activist Post, March 22, 2012 We have been reporting on the staggering amount of "pink slime" used in the U.S. food i...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours agoAT THE CROSSROADS: America 2012: What Would George Washington Do? by Patrick Henningsen Global Research Canada, March 22, 2012 *So much water has passed under the bridge of history since George W...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 19 hours ago*Abstract of this blog entry: No.* I am convinced that Anton Zeilinger understands quantum mechanics, the new rules according to which the world works. However, he has become famous for being a magician o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSadistic mafia bosses tortured and killed a treacherous gang member then turned him into a stew, police believe. Serbian gangsters beat Milan Jurisic, 37, to death with a hammer, skinned and boned him wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDivers yesterday five more bodies in the shipwrecked Costa Concordia more than two months after it ran aground leaving 30 people dead. The grim discovery was made as it was also announced that removal of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNearly 1,000 women and girls in Pakistan were murdered in 2011 in honour killings, worrying figures have revealed. A new report by Pakistan's leading human rights group has revealed at least 943 women we...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDozens of vulnerable girls were bought and sold for sex by paedophiles running a modern-day slavery ring, police revealed yesterday. Many of the 24 victims – some as young as 11 – were groomed, drugged an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGeorge Osborne’s personal finances came under fierce scrutiny yesterday after he insisted he was not wealthy enough to pay the 50p tax rate. Sources close to the Prime Minister admitted that David Cameron...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe number of children who count English as their mother tongue are now in the minority at more than 1,600 schools across England. [image: Link] The new figures show that close to one million children who...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours agoI was born, grew up, studied up to high school, in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. My parents and two siblings are still living there. Cadiz is on the northern most part of Negros Island, which is composed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThousands have joined a rally calling for the arrest of a Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. A police chief and a Florida state prosecutor have st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWinter has arrived early in eastern Victoria with light snow showers falling at Mount Buller and Mount Hotham. The temperature at Mount Buller hovered around minus 1 degree Celsius, with isolated snow sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(CNN) -- Ever the small-government idealist, Republican presidential contender Ron Paul said he skipped Secret Service protection because it was a "form of welfare." "You're having the taxpayers pay to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoISLAMABAD: Pakistani lawmakers have opened a debate on the terms of the nation's re-engagement with the United States after ties were all but severed following deadly American air-strikes on Pakistani tro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAround 2,000 Tibetans, led by monks of the local Tsang Monastery, were reported to have staged a protest rally in Songdzong town of Malho prefecture, Qinghai Province, on Mar 18, shouting for the Dalai La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIndonesia will provide United Nations peacekeeping forces with three transport helicopters and up to 4,000 troops in an effort to bolster peacekeeping efforts in war-torn sub Saharan Africa and worldwide,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAccording to their website, the American NGO, Invisible Children, claims now to have had over 80 million viewers to their YouTube video, “Kony2012,” since its release on YouTube a few weeks ago. For anyon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon’s future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFederal agents released alleged gun trafficker Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta to help them find two Mexican drug lords. But the two were secret FBI informants, emails show. Reporting from Washington— When th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMINSK - Large banners, written in Chinese characters, cordon off a zone on the outskirts of Minsk. An entire Chinese neighbourhood is under construction, with shops and towering residences soon to emerge ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.The former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan is a small country sandwiched between Russia and Iran along the coast of the Caspian Sea, which is in fact the larges...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOpponents and supporters of federalism clashed with knives, guns and rocks in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday 16 March. The violence erupted after hundreds of people demonstrated in favor a ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 19 hours ago[image: CADTM] Commitee for the Abolistion of Third World Debt IMF Banksters worst fear: Egyptians launch campaign to repudiate Mubarak's debt's *Published on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 23:59 * *Writte...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 19 hours agoWireless technology is everywhere. Whether it is the ability to send a document from a laptop to a printer in another room, or the new mobile 'phone applications which allow us to pay for goods without c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe United States and its Western allies have championed the secession of certain aspirant nations whose independence is in the national and economic security interests of globalization. For example, the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 217.5 km (135.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:48:27 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 136.9 km (85.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:02:26 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) WNW of Kira Kira, San ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:51 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) West of Puerto Ange...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoYou're a slave because you believe. Remember, stay dumb, sheoplezzz.
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agoit's not like it's a NEW PHENOMENON, the UK are a nation of Drunkards. We've always loved a good drink, in UK. And governments have known this for centuries: *if you put a nation under enough stress, *...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI have posted on Graviola before and it joins the list of useful natural anti cancer protocols that a victim needs to consider and work with. Recently we addressed the use of a concoction of ma...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThere are many instances of brief contact been established from beyond the moment of death. The problem of course is that all such contact has been one on one and impossible to independently conf...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI hate it when researchers go out and compare apples and oranges through implication but refuse to come out and spell out the wrong conclusion they want you to accept because they know better. ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe early promise of stem cell therapy is finally been realized. Most folks do not realize that surviving a heart attack is only the first step. The real difficulty is limiting the actual damage...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoSent to USA Today USA Today argues that gains made by students on standardized tests should be used as part of teacher evaluation (“Teacher evaluations, once a joke, hold a key to better schools,” March 2...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Australian Billionaire + CIA Conspiracy* *The Apollo Moon Landings Fraud: Moon Hoax Proven By Fake Rocks containing fossils of blood vessels.* *The Return of Gladio And The Rebirth of Terror Under Frenc...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago*Cut once*. Air Canada baggage handlers were staging a wildcat walkout at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport early Friday, causing some flights to be delayed. The job action began Thursday evenin...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 22 hours agoArlen Williams of http://www.GulagBound.com linked to an interesting story at The Daily Caller titled: "Lord Monckton: ‘I’m no birther,’ but Obama birthcertificate ‘plainly a forgery’ I love to hear Lord ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours ago------------------------------ *MARCH 21, 2012* Permalink *Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Large...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoRussia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has come out against the withdrawal of the international military forces from Afghanistan in 2014. In an interview to the Afghan TV channel TOLO, Mr. Lavrov said th...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 22 hours agoMarch 23, 2012 - A Dutch man named Floris Kaayk who bills himself as a filmmaker and animator recently revealed that the viral video "Flying Like a Bird" was an elaborate hoax spanning several months and c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoGrowth potential of a country devoid of natural resources remains seriously handicapped, but is less vulnerable to foreign intrigues and intervention. Conversely, a country rich in resources remains vulne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIt's hard not to think it's a big deal when a branch of the Federal Reserve system calls for the breakup of major American banks. The bank has just released its annual report, and the title of the letter ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLast Saturday, a few hundred protesters staged a demonstration in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to celebrate the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. It was almost like old times: chants, arrest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA US government-contracted private security firm is helping the Syrian opposition to overthrow the Bashar al-Assad regime, leaked Stratfor emails indicate. The same firm earlier operated extensively in Li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Chinese commercial attaché to Tehran has said that his country plans to do trade with Central Asia via Iranian northern ports. In a meeting with Iran’s Gilan Province’s ports and maritime director ge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIn the last week, North Korea has managed to drive an entire ballistic missile through loopholes in the recent U.S. and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreement of delivering food aide in ex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWorld Water Day highlights investment opportunities as global fresh water grows scarce. We're nearly 20 years into celebrating World Water Day, and the issues have only grown more complex -- and in many...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - India lost up to $211 billion in revenue by selling coalfields too cheaply, a government auditor's draft report said, sparking a furor in parliament on Thursday that added to pressure on the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNabucco - the alleged gas Holy Grail from the Caspian Sea to Europe, 4,000 kilometers from Turkey to Austria - is the perennial Pipelineistan soap opera. Part of the gas to supply Nabucco may come from A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe United Nations Security Council statement on Syria on Wednesday marks a turning point. The unanimity of opinion over the year-long crisis in Syria is appearing for the first time; why and how this hap...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoState review team finding comes as new consent plan offered by mayor, 3 council members. Detroit— A state-appointed review team unanimously agreed Wednesday that a "severe financial emergency" exists in...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agohttp://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/03/censored-fallujah-lost-generation The video with Chris Busby is accompanied by a transcript. Here is a brief excerpt from the transcript: [excerpted] "Worst of all, sin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFederal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has exhorted Europe’s leaders to take further action to beef up banks and help southern Europe claw its way back to health, warning that the world financial system is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThere are 12,200 registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. right now. And they earn $3.3 billion each year influencing Congress – mostly by way of talking with a silver tongue. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoUnion workers at Tesoro’s Anacortes, Washington refinery have authorized their representatives to call for a strike, one month after rejecting a new contract over benefit issues. While no strike deadlin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe London Book Fair is facing claims it has bowed to pressure from Chinese authorities by failing to invite dissident and exiled writers to next month's event and choosing only state-approved authors. B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe French have grown more likely to believe that Jews hold too much power in business or world finance, as well as other "classical anti-Semitic notions," according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamati...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSigns that crude futures may hit much higher levels are converging, say oil traders and analysts, some of whom predict that Brent [LCOCV1 123.33 0.19 (+0.15%) ] crude could reach $200 a barrel within the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMILWAUKEE (AP) -- A minor earthquake occurred this week near the eastern Wisconsin city where researchers have been investigating a series of unexplained booming sounds, federal geologists said Thursday. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- Authorities have interviewed at least 13 people since 2005 with ties to Iran's government who were seen taking pictures of New York City landmarks, a senior New York Police Department o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA recent Army health report draws an alarming profile of a fighting force more prone to inexcusable violence amid an “epidemic” of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the mental breakdown attracting sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe Marine Corps Times previews its cover story about anti-Obama Marines at their 'Battle Rattle' blog. According to the article, of the 792 active-duty troops and mobilized reservists who responded to t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoCounterpunch Weekend Edition March 9-11, 2012 (I must have missed this one!) Exposing the "No Harm" Mantra: The Dangerous Myths of Fukushima http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/09/the-dangerous-myths-of-fuk...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that landowners can sue to challenge a federal government compliance order under the clean water law, a decision that sides with corporate groups and puts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAsians are the fastest growing race group in the United States, reflecting a surge in immigration from the entire region over a decade, the US Census Bureau said Tuesday. As part of an ongoing analysis o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoCHICAGO (CBS) — Having summer suddenly make an appearance in mid-March is causing an ugly dark side for some people. Because of the heat wave, plants are budding early and causing “dangerously high” tree...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago“America’s toughest sheriff” says there is “tons” more potentially shocking information on Barack Obama in connection with his probe into the president’s eligibility, and he calls the media’s suppression ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAlmost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoInvisible Children filmmaker Jason Russell, who created the viral "Kony 2012" video, will remain in the hospital for several weeks for what his wife described as "reactive psychosis." In a statement rele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhen Jeff Rae was arrested last October with hundreds of other Occupy Wall Street protesters during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge, he decided to fight the charges, believing he had been entrapped. On Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHOBOKEN, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — An unusual rash of vandalism has occurred at several Garden State churches and the latest case doesn’t have anything to do with anything sacred. Kenny Butka, the parish build...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago*Note: Strangely, this is the first new cloud formation identified since the 1953. As one commenter asked, do new cloud formations just spontaneously appear? Does anyone else find that a bit weird? What ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor most of the media, the story regarding Staff Sergeant Robert Bales has moved to American soil. The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians is now under watch at a base in Kansas, with a ver...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmerican soldier Robert Bales will be charged over the killings of 17 Afghan civilians, officials have said. The 38-year-old face 17 counts of murder following a shooting rampage in the Kanadahar provinc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 27.8 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:25 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 176 km (109 miles) WNW of Puerto An...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 6.2 km (3.9 miles), the quake hit at 23:47:04 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) South of Huajuapan de Leon,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:14:45 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 156 km (96 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:42:03 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 173 km (107 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mex...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTuesday night, when DC Dems were celebrating corporate shill Brad Schneider's win over progressive icon Ilya Sheyman all over Twitter-- and way before the delayed David Gill victory over Matt Goetten was ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 1 day agoDetails here: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/aig_bailout/
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoPhotos by Justin Hayden/Censored News/Thank you! Article by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com CUSHING, Okla. -- When the hometown folks of Cushing gathered to protest Oba...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*Obama sets his eyes on Iran.* The military dictatorship behind President Obama is preparing to wage a total war against Iran. The *National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order* of March 16...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day ago(Note: this is my article today in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1288-freedom-responsibility-and-freedom-barometer ) Freedom is absence of coercion. A person...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 1 day ago[image: Paisaje de Flores (Wallpaper Ilustración Digital)]
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