Kelly Brook (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 minutes 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...
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A 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 - 18 minutes ago
AFRICOM 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 - 21 minutes ago
Oh, 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 - 22 minutes 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’s...
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"*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 - 33 minutes agoHmmn, WestJet and Porter look better and better: http://natpo.st/GISJe6
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 42 minutes 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 - 43 minutes 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 - 45 minutes 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 - 55 minutes 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 - 1 hour agohttp://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4706 Hat tip: Mack at Enenews
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour agoAn interview with Tim Schwartz about Haiti and aid.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour 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....
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On 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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. Th...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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. - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 hours agoYou're a slave because you believe. Remember, stay dumb, sheoplezzz.
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 hours ago------------------------------ *MARCH 21, 2012* Permalink *Exposed: Inside the NSA’s Large...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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! - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours agoDetails here: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/aig_bailout/
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours ago[image: Paisaje de Flores (Wallpaper Ilustración Digital)]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 13 hours ago[image: Land Rover Defender SVX (Autos Todo Terreno)]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 13 hours ago[image: Una hermosa mujer llamada Allison Lee]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 13 hours ago[image: Flores silvestres muy cerca de mi jardín]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 13 hours ago[image: Banca de Madera tipo Spaghetti by Pablo Reinoso]
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoThe New York Times is reporting that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Thursday signed new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center, a terrorism threat clearinghouse. The guidelin...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 13 hours agoTheir livery is an absolute blast. The above is their "Camo" plane. Then, there is "flying 101". Check out the rest of Kulula airlines' *funky fleet here*.
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 14 hours agoThere are three things in life that are certain: death, taxes and change. Deaths allow us to recall and remember a person in his/her lifetime, if he/she has been kind to us, to other people, or not. It is ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoReuters is reporting: "Sarkozy called Merah's killings terrorist attacks and announced a crackdown on people following extremist websites." "From now on, any person who habitually consults websites th...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoOccupy the Machine issues call to action against extraction industry [image: Image by David Dodge, Pembina Institute] From *Occupy the Machine* In Honor of Struggles Against the Extraction Industry Everywher...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 14 hours agoPhoto by John Carroll This article is from Medscape.
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoBRILLIANT! A life-changing device for paraplegics has been invented by a Turkish company that allows users to move around far more independently than a wheelchair.
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoBRICS bank next step to dollar independence Published: 20 March, 2012, 18:49 From RT.COM [image: From left to right: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian Pres...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 14 hours ago*... and the Liberals aren't coming back just yet. My vote for Leader of Canada's New Democrats is going to be made very carefully this weekend.* National Post: -Signs Show Conservatives Popularity Begin...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Here's a transcript of the major portion of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's reply -- at the Seattle-based coffee company's annual shareholders' meeting yesterday -- to the second of the two questioners in...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours agoI'll be away and offline for the next 10 days or so attending to personal matters. This is not permanent, I will be back. Meanwhile, there are 18,441 posts here for your consideration, and the "Favorites"...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 17 hours ago*You Are the Greatest Story Ever Told* *from raptitude.com* Photo by Rebecca Pollard I have great news. You are the star of the most poignant film ever conceived. An unprecedented epic saga, it is...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 17 hours ago(Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Mrs. JP for this catch. Luv ya, babe.) ...then they came after... our Facebook passwords??? Yes, folks, this is how much of a funhouse reflection of its former self our nation ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoInvestigators think they've uncovered a key clue that will lead them to solve the mystery of what happened to legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared on a trans-Pacific flight 75 years ago. Ric ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe cause of singer Whitney Houston's death was drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use," the Los Angeles County coroner's office said Thursday. She was found dead last ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 18 hours agoIt's a race (!) between converging catastrophes...and isn't my generation lucky to have ringside seats at the finish line? Even luckier is the younger generation, the one we've given this gift to. It's ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours agoRead as *Kady* does her awesome thing. ...The speaker reminded him that such complaints are more properly put before the committee itself, at which point Andrews informed the government that, given that...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 19 hours ago*Miami Herald: *Andrew J. Gunther and James J. McCarthy have an op-edexploring the so-called climate change hoax. Here's a hint: NOT a hoax. *Mashable*: Mitt Romney's spokesman's Etch-A-Sketch line turns o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Occupy Wall Street's Inequality Claims Resonate"* Stock Market Up 49%; Take Home Pay Up Just 2% by Charles Biderman “How many times do you have to get hit over the head before you figure out who's hittin...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 19 hours agoSaw this on ThinkProgress just now Yet, even in the wake of this tragedy, Senate Republicans continue to push a *reckless effort to force every state to follow the nation’s laxest gun laws:* Sen. John T...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 19 hours agoStand Up for the Saints on Black & Gold Friday~NOLA DEFENDER
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoFRENCH EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHER Jean Paul Sartre famously stated “Hell is other people,” and he wrote many books to prove it. Unfortunately, all he proved to most readers was that Hell is reading Jea...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* "Housing Recovery? Economic Recovery?* * Forget It"* by Karl Denninger "Forget it folks. When you add all this together with the demographic problems we have, you've got the ingredients for a disaster -...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*by John Laesch* As we sat down to watch election results Tuesday night, I wrote David Gill a quick text that said, "You're going to do what Cegelis and I couldn't. Pullin 4 ya." In 2006, Dick Durbin an...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours agoWe'll just *give you the job* anyway. A government employee described by Liberal Irwin Cotler as his “shadow MP” working on the federal payroll has offered some clues about his job and his publicly funde...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours agoThese two analysts speculate about the consequences of an American-Israeli-NATO attack on Iran from a Russian perspective. Highly recommended. Part 1: Part 2:
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 19 hours agoThe New York Times is reporting that the anti-Semitic Islamist murderer, Mohammed Merah, who assassinated a rabbi, his two children and another little girl at a Jewish school (the victims are pictured ab...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoA North Carolina based right wing "think" tank, The John Locke Foundation, was quick to disown Tara Servatius, their resident blogger for posting an insulting, racist graphic to illustrate her insulting, h...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*You can thank the government and its mouthpiece media for it. Black kid paid the price. * "US to investigate killing of black teen in Florida; Protesters call for shooter to be charged" by Mike Schneider...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoI've been mostly quiet about the big Etch-a-Sketch thing -- which is just as well, because all you want to know about it can be found in a great Brendan Nyhan piece over at CJR. I do have one comment, how...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoThe Ethics Commissioner throws a marshmallow at a corrupt minister of the Crown. If you *read this* you get the overwhelming desire to hose down Mary Dawson for failure to perform. It took her two years! ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 274 km (169.88 miles), the quake hit at 18:40:17 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 740 km (458.8 miles) South o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Pagan Region, Northern Mariana Islands at a depth of 204 km (126.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:22:24 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (21 mile...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoPhoto by Russell Mills*Coyote crosses the road* VIDEO http://newsok.com/president-obama-visits-oklahoma/multimedia/video/1524949054001 *For those who can stand the nausea, here's Obama pitching for Obama a...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoYou don't have to like it but you're going to have to live with it. Climate change is setting in - hard. It's already here and we're going to have to come to grips with what it means. I spoke with my dau...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 20 hours agoI have so much to say in the next few essays about the onrushing, lower-class crushing (big, big boulders) coming at us full speed, courtesy of our most polite and savvy representatives (watch their cast-d...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 20 hours agoCensored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 20 hours ago*This is re-posted from *e-IR*. I hesitated to write anything about climate and security until I had read all (or damn near all 17 articles) of the recent special issue of the Journal of Peace Research.* M...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours agoIn the video below, beginning at the 35:25 mark, Alex Jones talks about America's legacy of heroism, mentioning Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston. It is im...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 20 hours ago
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoBUT AT LEAST YOU CAN EAT 'EM. According to *WIRED*, the F-35 is turning out to be a turkey indeed. Stevie ain't gonna like that, and Big Julie is going to have to bell the cat. David Axe's article, *"Pent...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 21 hours agoMorning spent out at The Land putting up drywall (oh how Southern Man hates drywall) and cleaning brick and working through a bit of the scrap-wood pile; mid-afternoon was the run to pick up twelve-year-ol...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*Not when this is front-page fare.* *The fact is I have to be dragged to the movies now. I really don't care much for Hollywood** and its agenda-pushing mind manipulation these days. * "A history of obfus...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWe received your generous donation by mail today, and we're greatly appreciative and thank you for your help. However, you didn't include your email address anywhere as far as I could see, which we need to...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours ago"*Mohamed Merah"* *One witness described the killer as "quite fat" and having a tattoo or scar on his face. (BBC News )w * The alleged Toulouse shooter, Mohamed Merah, would appear to be an innocent patsy....
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 21 hours agoCorporate media pleads ignorance as "flickers" of Al Qaeda once again emerge. by Tony Cartalucci March 22, 2012 - The North African nation of Mali, whose borders exist within the epicenter of recent Wes...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 21 hours ago*[UPDATED]* Yglesias asks if "any real country could have an economy like Panem's?" His answer comes via a synopsis of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson's *Why Nations Fail*: The places that are rich tod...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoAt Greg's place, it's more on the Ryan budget, specifically on the mystery of why they moved ahead with it, as it clears committee (barely) and heads to the floor. I really can't remember any precedent for...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 21 hours agoIf it wasn't tragic this would be funny. "Anger issues"! Talk about evading responsibility -- it reminds one of the Japanese Emperor suggesting the Second World War had not unfolded quite as he had hoped. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 22 hours agoAbove is a graph from the St. Louis Fed's excellent data portal which shows manufacturing employment in the US (blue), Germany (black) and Japan (red) from 1990 to 2010 (2011 for the US, note 100 = the s...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 22 hours agoMexico: Chupacabras in Parácuaro, Michoacán By Arq. Claudio Mora, La Esfera Azul http://acusticavisual.net/grupolaesferaazul (With thanks to journalist Martha Flores Rodríguez for her cooperation...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours agoIn this blog, I cover a wide range of subjects.. From exposing the lies of our history, the real criminals out for world domination, and even health related issues. I cover health related issues primaril...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSUMMIT COUNTY —A devastating disease that’s wiping out bat populations across the country has spread into two popular national parks: Acadia National Park in Maine and Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoThis story began with the following cartoon by Zachary Alexander Weinersteinsmitherson-Grossman, or Zach Weiner for short, a rather well-known Internet cartoonist: This old pet physicist has to be euthani...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- A small fire broke out on the premises of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, adding that the stable condition o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCORVALLIS, OR (KPTV) - It's a spring snowstorm that packed a punch for areas from Salem south through the Willamette Valley. Corvallis was one place you could see snow fall all day Wednesday. It may loo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 12.2 km (7.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:46:46 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) SSE from Ometepec, Guerrero...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 22 hours agoIn the March issue of *New Mobility*, I have a cover story about Canadian musician Justin Hines. You can see it here. I wrote this over my winter break - just as the library job came through! Not exactly...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoIt wasn't from Republicans on Twitter I watched the joy at Ilya Sheyman's loss to "business-friendly" conservative Brad Schneider on Tuesday night, but from DC Democratic hacks. They were so celebratory t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAccording to the Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent, a Wisconsin city has hired seismologists to determine the cause of mysterious loud booms that have occurred over the past several days. The firm will place...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhen Mumbaikars woke up to a hazy Wednesday morning, they thought it was normal and the air would clear by afternoon. But it didn't and the haziness lingered until evening. Weathermen have blamed it on th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoDid you see that the airport in Little Rock is being named after Bill and Hillary Clinton? Putting aside the obvious jokes (which I made on twitter yesterday, but it fell flat, which is why I feel compell...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoTravon Martin, 17, played for his high school football team.Walking while black:Trayvon Martin's fatal shortcutBy Jay D. Jurie / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2012SANFORD, Florida -- During the intermission of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoThe administrative center of Joshua Tree National Park closed Wednesday after 11 employees in the center’s mailroom were sickened in a suspected hazardous-materials situation. The National Park Service e...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago*ZERO HEDGE* is a rather contrarian financial site, that proclaims *"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."* Hmmmm . . . nobody gets out alive. Well, Doug Casey is a guest...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoIt's always nice when BBC bias is picked up and neatly dissected by others and in The Mail today, Stephen Glover makes the following points regarding the successor to Mark Thompson. "The choice is betwee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA storm system that dumped up to a foot of rain in parts of Louisiana, causing isolated flash flooding, is now threatening to spawn tornadoes there and in Mississippi, the National Weather Service warned....
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours ago*The Sixth Estate has* a very cogent theory on how the voter suppression effort during the last federal election may have unfolded. It's important to read the whole piece but for those of you doing this o...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoPennsylvania Fracking Law Gags Physicians http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10573-pennsylvania-fracking-law-gags-physicians By Walter Brasch, The Smirking Chimp 22 March 12 [excer...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 23 hours agoI'm sure you will have read that the Toulouse terrorist, Mohammed Merah, has finally met with justice. *And a good thing too! *However why does the BBC website report keep repeating this... "He had said h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFour police officers were seriously wounded after being attacked by a pit bull-type dog during a raid in east London, with a fifth escaping with minor injuries. The Metropolitan police said the officers ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoIn 1993, the Alberta PCs were on the ropes, and many felt Lawrence Decore would end their 22 year reign in power. When the issue of MLA pensions bubbled to the surface, their newly elected leader Ralph Kl...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR. v. J.A.T., 2012 ONCA 177 is almost a course in evidence. In allowing an appeal Justice Watt reviews many areas of evidence law -- one is the proper (but limited) use of prior consistent statements. He w...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoAsahi: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201203210371.html
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoWashington's Blog has a series of posts on the role of genetically modified food and chemicals such as BPA in contributing to Americans' weight problem. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/study-genetic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTORNADO WATCH NUMBER 99 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 715 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF FAR SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI COASTAL W...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoPlease listen to this interview 15:10 onwards. Richard Bacon shows off his stupidity. The 97% figure as demolished by James Delingpole is as I have blogged previously. Richard Bacon didn't sound a) impart...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina's manufacturing activity in 5th successive drop, with the contraction deepening and inflation risks lingering.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar 22 - South Korean security forces conduct an exercise at a subway station simulating a toxic gas attack, as security tightens in preparation for the upcoming nuclear summit in Seoul. Simon Hanna report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar 22 - Portuguese strikers paralyse most public transport in protest at austerity measures and labour reforms imposed as a condition of a 78-billion-euro (65 billion pounds) EU-IMF bailout.. Nick Rowland...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoA lot of articles out there on the NRA and ALEC lately. Lot of articles and authors implying the long-term relationship between the NRA and ALEC. But not many articles detailing the length of the relations...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoin 1989, I had my first novel RED HEDZ (out of print) published by James Williamson and his Creation Records crew, brought to the book shelves via their Creation Press imprint based in Clerkenwell Road. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan left for war without paying a $1.5 million judgment for defrauding an elderly client in a stock scheme, and remains shielded fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interview...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:35:13 UTC Thursday 22nd March 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) ESE from NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters marched along Jakarta's main thoroughfare to the presidential palace Wednesday, opposing government plans to increase subsidized fuel prices by 33%. Ac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUPDATE: No new information has emerged on this situation. Major western media outlets are dismissing the story as just rumour, yet also suggest that the entire story isn't yet known. All online statements ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A footballer in India has collapsed and died during a match after apparently suffering a cardiac arrest. The news comes days after a young footballer experienced a similar attack during an FA C...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoCartoon from The Smoking Jacket.How high gas prices are hurtingaverage drivers (and voters)By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2012[This is the first of a two-part series.]High gasoline prices are prob...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*Doré v. Barreau du Québec* 2012 SCC 12 deals with the right of lawyers to express themselves freely but their duty to use that right of expression in a professional manner. A lawyer was strongly, an...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoK-schmaltz! : where’s Dr. Strangelove when you need him to bomb Arirang back to the stone age? This week is the big nuclear security summit in Seoul, with something like 60 attending countries and over 4...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThis is not an iPad. It is also not an ethical statement.Globalization is no longer the Western world's ethical quandary. The biggest story in globalization this week has been the saga of Mike Daisey, the...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012* *Others seek room at the top:* As Ezra Klein vouches for Paul Ryan’s soul, we’ll recommend this Digby post about others seeking room at the top. Digby linked to Politico. To his...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 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...
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