DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 7: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at a rally in the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Campus on February 7, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. According to early results, Santorum defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) in Missouri, Minnesota and is in a tight race with Romney in Colorado. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
ANKENY, IA - JANUARY 03: Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks to supporters during a rally on the night of the Iowa caucus at the Courtyard Des Moines Ankeny on January 3, 2012 in Ankeny, Iowa. According to early results U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) came in third in the Iowa GOP caucus behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who were neck and neck. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)Fight against Solitary Confinement in California Prisons Goes to UN
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 minutes ago*Along with his delegates.... * "Santorum seeking to coax delegates" March 22, 2012|Michael Levenson, Globe Staff Rick Santorum’s campaign, pushed to the brink after losing badly to Mitt Romney in Illino...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 minutes agoSaturdays are deadly for blogging. Nothing much happens in the news cycle so I end up spending too much time on twitter. Thus did I witness the most blazing display of Wingnut Brigade idiocy since -- well ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 minutes ago"Ron Paul, who has an ardent following but has yet to win a nominating contest, was campaigning in Alaska on Sunday. “Do I believe I can win? Yes,’’ he said on “Face the Nation.’’ “Do I believe the chances...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 11 minutes ago*The Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement: A Public Forum to Support the California Prisoner Hunger Strike* *Friday, April 6, 2012, 6pm - 8pm* UC Hastings College of the Law Louis B. Mayer Lounge 198 McAl...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 24 minutes ago"Jury right, webcam victim’s parents say" Associated Press, March 24, 2012 TRENTON, N.J. - The parents of a Rutgers student who committed suicide days after his roommate used a webcam to see him kissing an...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 29 minutes ago"Role of widow examined in shooting" March 16, 2012 DECATUR, Ga. - A corporate engineer who fawned over a female subordinate was found guilty but mentally ill Thursday of shooting the woman’s husband to d...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 33 minutes ago"Dozens of drivers stopped to grab fistfuls of money after thousands of dollars spilled from an armored truck on a Maryland highway Friday and created what one motorist called one big “snow globe of cash.’...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 50 minutes agoMarch 22 2012 "The guidelines will lengthen to five years — from 180 days — the amount of time the center can retain private information about Americans when there is no suspicion that they are tied to te...
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The DCCC, as expected, hasn't taken us up on our challenge to match a $5,000 check to Rob Zerban, the candidate running to defeat Paul Ryan. Blue America has already contributed over $5,000 to Rob's campa... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoI know that I have posted the video and stills of the (in)famous Feleicity Kendal Good Life nipple-slip before but I have now found a slow-motion video that I think bares (deliberate misspelling) repetitio...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoMichael Ignatieff in the current New York Review
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour agoRally ’round the family. With a pocket full of shells ~moosedenied
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoMar. 24 - Clashes erupt in series of demonstrations in Bahrain, as police disperse protesters with water cannons. Michaela Cabrera reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Saturday said it would again gauge interest from the oil and gas industry to explore federal waters off the Alaska coast, another bid to expand domestic energy prod...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoSeemed like a quiet week to me, unless I'm missing big things. Syria leads the international news, I suppose. At home...hmmm...I wrote a lot about the Ryan budget, but I don't think it will have major con...
- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 hour ago*Digital photography and photo-editing in Linux* are gradually equaling and even surpassing options that we were accustomed to from Adobe's expensive Photoshop and Lightroom. It is a development that I fo...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 hour agoThe Big story this weekend is that “a congressional committee is investigating how $1.6 billion in customer funds went missing from bankrupt brokerage MF Global said Friday that it’s found evidence that th...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 2 hours ago
Spring has sprung, meaning Republicans will be flocking to their respective campaign trails redefining March Madness. Republican Wisconsin Rep. Don Pridemore and Republican state Senator Glenn Grothman h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago(Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it will hold a special parliamentary session next month during which the reclusive country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is expected to be given a top title aim...
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A teenage boy has been shot dead in violent clashes over the decision to suspend a football team in Egypt. Violence erupted late yesterday and continued until early this morning as thousands of fans came... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoI haven't posted about the killing of Trayvon because so much has already been said and I can't seem to write anything coherent myself. Every time I think about it, I'm overcome with rage and grief. But, C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoAn amateur astronomer has managed to capture recent images of Mars which appear to show cloud like formations on Mars. Wayne Jaeschke, from West Chester, Pennsylvania, noticed the formations which can be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA former international ice skater who knocked a woman unconscious with a champagne bottle 'for no reason' has been jailed. Rachael Pagani, who had 'tremendous potential' as a young ice skating champion, ...
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- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoPropublica http://www.propublica.org/article/why-pentagons-new-fighter-jet-will-cost-more-than-1-trillion "The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the Pentagon’s big plan for future warplanes — it’s slated to re...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*You justices better wipe that blood off your hands before you see St. Peter. * "Supreme Court won’t halt execution in Texas slay case" February 28, 2012|By Bob Drummond WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court *r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA cargo ship and a tanker have collided in the Dover Strait during poor visibility. The ships were both damaged above the water line but did not have to end their journeys, the coastguard said The tanke...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA reactor at the Beznau nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down due to a technical problem. The shutdown at the plant in northern Switzerland happened on Friday night and is expected to last fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPatna: At least 10 children died in a village in Bihar's Madhubani district due to a disease commonly referred as 'khasra' or measles, an official said on Saturday. Patna: At least 10 children died in a ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Driver acquitted in fatal Megabus crash" Associated Press, February 29, 2012 SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A bus driver was acquitted yesterday in the deaths of four passengers killed when his double-decker crashed i...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours agoPreacher admits end-time prophecy error *I've had it with those guys. * "Calif. teacher on leave over porn video allegation" March 08, 2012 OXNARD, Calif. - A *junior high teacher* was placed on leave as ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAt least 10 people have been killed and 25 others, including woman and children, injured in an airstrike by Kenyan fighter jets on a southern Somali town near Kenya border, Press TV reports. Residents to...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"STUNNED -- Employees and relatives of the owners of the Lam Buffet in Siler City, N.C., watched in horror from the parking lot as firefighters battled a blaze at the restaurant yesterday. The News & Obser...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoMumbai, March 24: Seven people were injured due to an explosion on a South Korean ship off Mumbai Saturday, an official said. No casualties were reported. "Some work was in progress on the ship off Mumba...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Batter up!* "Red Sox clubhouse abuse scandal grows" March 05, 2012|Bob Hohler, Globe Staff Eight more men have made sexual abuse allegations against former Red Sox clubhouse manager Donald J. Fitzpatric...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Turkey’s Ataturk Dam was completed in 1990. It is the largest of a series of dams along the two major rivers of the region, the Tigris and Euphrates, which both have their headwaters in southeast...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*By opening the gates*: "The justices refused to order closure of shipping locks on Chicago-area waterways to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes. The court said it would not hear an appeal f...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 3 hours agoReuters is reporting that a Montana man tried to board a flight at the Sacramento International Airport carrying a loaded handgun and three loaded firearms in his carry-on bags. A Montana man was arrest...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Ex-security chief gets 3 years in ’10 mine blast" Associated Press March 01, 2012 BECKLEY, W.Va. - A former security chief convicted of lying to investigators about the April 2010 explosion that killed 2...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Virginia Tech officials to testify at trial" Associated Press March 05, 2012 RICHMOND - The hours leading to the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and the actions of Virginia Tech administrato...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Native Nations Water Rights Symposium* PHOTO:At the Native Nations Water Rights Symposium in Tucson hosted by Red Ink magazine. Ofelia Rivas, O'odham Solidarity Movement, Dr. Karletta Chief, Dine' hydrol...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 3 hours agoAngry Birds cartoons are fun. My older daughter used to love them. Lower photos: angry cat, angry dog, and angry satanic leaf-tailed gecko... The angry grasshopper, angry horse, angry squirrel, angry li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- A top defector from the Syrian military said Saturday that armed rebel groups have aligned under the leadership of the Free Syrian Army. Uniting all efforts will bolster the anti-regime movement...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- As I walked the streets of New York the other day, I saw several white youths with hoodies, tattoos and nose rings. Not one time did it enter my mind that they could be skinheads. While walking...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoFrom the "how f__king stupid can they get?" file. Las Vegas is fast running out of water. The city fears it may not even have drinking water next year. It's reservoir, Lake Mead, is already at danger...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 4 hours ago*... has the same end game.* *Contributor: "YYC"* End GameIn all the media verbal diarrhea producing conflicting reports about the French shooter, believe it or not there is some good information, importa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAtlanta (CNN) -- It began with scant details released by the military about a heinous allegation: A soldier slipped away from a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan and went on a shooting rampage at ne...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoYesterday it was US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warning that many parts of our world are on the brink of instability and warfare triggered by global warming and the world freshwater crisis. Now it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- President Barack Obama travels to South Korea Saturday on a three-day trip centered on an international nuclear security summit in Seoul. He is due to arrive in Seoul early Su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- President Barack Obama travels to South Korea Saturday on a three-day trip centered on an international nuclear security summit in Seoul. He is due to arrive in Seoul early Su...
- posted by Kate Weaver at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoI've been conspicuously silent on the matter of who would or should succeed Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank. This was because I was convinced that it was coming down to a Hobson's choic...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 4 hours agoThere are many things I'd like from a political party but, for now, there are two key priorities. One is a total ban on bitumen tanker traffic through BC inshore waters. The other is a commitment to d...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 5 hours agoSICK, SICK, SICK..... with news that there's a paedo-ring being investigated here in Oxford, is it any surprise with LIFETIME's "Dance Moms" pulling a "Topless Showgirls For Minors" stunt like this? O...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours agoMarch 24 Wall Street Journal page A3 [excerpted] "Texas moved closer to allowing low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states to be trucked in and disposed at a site in West Texas, which would becom...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 5 hours agoA photograph from NASA showing the 500 km. diameter asteroid Vesta. The photo was taken by NASA's orbiting spacecraft Dawn which is now moving on to a scheduled encounter with asteroid Ceres in 2015.
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago------------------------------ http://youtu.be/T9tUQxsrQGw ------------------------------ The *Battle of Athens* (sometimes called the *McMinn County War*) was a rebellion led by citizens ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago*THE MAYLAY MAIL* has a disturbing report about intolerance in Malaysia. According to Ram Anand, *Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender (LBGT) lifestyles have been equated to social ills like prostitutio...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 5 hours agoNow that Blue Dog Tim Holden's district has changed appreciably-- from a Republican district where he was comfortable voting a conservative line to a solid blue Democratic district where he's a fish out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThree men have been remanded in custody accused of preying on vulnerable young girls and grooming them for sex. Brothers Anjum Dogar, 30, and Akhtar Dogar, 31, both of Tawney Street, Oxford, and Kamar J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 157.9 km (98.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:39:25 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) West of Juliaca, Peru No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:24:09 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 148 km (91 miles) South of Gizo, New Ge...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoOwen Jones, in his own words, is '...a lefty currently based in Hackney; and I grew up in Sheffield, Falkirk, and above all Stockport (get in touch if you want a list of Stocky-related facts…) I’m a former...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 6 hours ago*SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2012* *Chris Matthews assembles the facts:* Yesterday afternoon, Barack Obama made a decent person’s sane statement concerning the death of Trayvon Martin. This is what the presiden...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 6 hours ago(Tip of the leather and tinfoil biker cap to Towleroad.) Rick Santorum (R-Amazon.com) has a new campaign spot up on Youtube and it's so creepy it's actually unlisted (only those with the link can access i...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 6 hours agoAbby Zimet over at Common Dreams has been keeping up on the War Against Women by the Radical Republicans. A couple of her articles are well worth your time to take a look at – some will piss you off – som...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: A Fijian woman collects watercress. Damaged ecosystems should be restored and rehabilitated to combat climate change. KELVIN ANTHONY]By Moleen Nand 23 March 2012 AS the world braces for tougher...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Premature deaths from ground-level ozone: Number of deaths per million inhabitants in 2010, and projected to 2050. OECD (2012), OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050] Urban air pollution is set to ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours agoBy LESLIE KAUFMAN 23 March 2012 Dolphins in Barataria Bay off Louisiana, which was hit hard by the BP oil spill in 2010, are seriously ill, and their ailments are probably related to toxic substances i...
- posted by Capt. Fogg at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoBy Capt. Fogg "You know, if I had a son he would look like Treyvon," said the president and I guess that's true to some extent. He'd have dark skin, of course, but I took it to mean that his son would be ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA man wearing a ski mask storms onto a Howard County school campus and attacks a student, and the whole thing is caught on tape. Meghan McCorkell has more on the video that’s gone viral. That video has ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Montana man who allegedly fed vodka to a dog was arrested on an animal cruelty charge after investigators found the animal’s blood alcohol content to be more than four times the legal limit (for humans)....
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA teacher at Tallulah Elementary School lost her job after not noticing two third graders participating in oral sex under their desks. The News-Star is reporting that the teacher was fired for not keeping ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoCivil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Friday that he's grateful the rest of the country has sat up and taken notice of the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin. But he can't help but wonder: Why has it taken ...
- posted by Matthew 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 wit...
- posted by Patrick Porter at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoLooking back on the disaster (or extremely Pyhrric Victory) that was the Iraq War, Stephen Walt reflects: 'The remarkable thing about the Iraq war is how few people it took to engineer. It wasn't promoted...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 7 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 Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoYesterday afternoon at a press conference, the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense circulated a “wanted dead or alive” poster for George Zimmerman for shooting to death a Florida teenager four weeks a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours agoAs reported on Think Progress earlier this week: And again yesterday on Think Progress: The Obama campaign is looking to dispel any notion that it is running away from t...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoThe Danes manage to work out that Barack Obama is like a stuck record, I wonder if the BBC's satirical news programmes will pick up on this story or will they continue to verbally felate Barack Obama? I t...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 8 hours agoI had a number of errands to run downtown yesterday as it always seems I do on my days off. This time, however, I wasn't going to complain. When I last went downtown at the end of my last shift, it was to ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*On the front page. * "The winter that wasn’t; High highs, high lows inspire a regional identity crisis" by David Filipov | Globe Staff, March 23, 2012 This will go down as The Year We Had No Winter. I...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Jury acquits Alabama lawmakers, lobbyists of corruption charges" New York Times, March 08, 2012 NEW YORK - For the *second time*, *federal prosecutors* in Alabama *failed to convince a jury* that politic...
- posted by Cliff Bob at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago*A few sensitive souls expressed dismay this week when a Romney official declared that the campaign would “reset” itself for the general election after the primaries. Virtually all of the shock was insin...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Man opens fire at Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital" by Associated Press | March 09, 2012 PITTSBURGH - A gunman who opened fire after entering the lobby of a psychiatric hospital at the University of Pi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago5 found dead after firefighters leave Autistic girl, 9, shot brother, Ark. police say
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*This is what happens** when you stand with workers and threaten to cut off debt payments to banks here in AmerKa. * "Still optimistic, Blagojevich steps from spotlight into federal prison" Associated Pr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"As members of his community watched quietly in court, an Ohio man admitted Thursday that he defrauded fellow Amish in 29 states out of nearly $17 million.... --more--"* * *Also see:* Amish in beard-cutt...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Caught my the Boston Globe*: "In politics, sports always in play" March 16, 2012|By Noah Bierman On Monday, Senator Scott Brown’s campaign questioned Elizabeth Warren’s Red Sox Nation credentials. On Wed...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"State hampered by reliance on an unsavory witness" by Sarah Schweitzer | Globe Staff, March 23, 2012 In too many ways, court observers say, it was a * prosecutor’s nightmare*: a morally reprehensible k...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours agoBecause the members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).in Minnesota knew the governor would veto any legislation to this effect – they went with a constitutional amendment. The ALEC membe...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*If you are not on Facebook you don't get the job?* "Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords" by Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland | Associated Press, March 21, 2012 SEATTLE -- In their ef...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours agoFabricator to leave artist enclave *Related: Sunday Globe Special: Taking Texting to an Art Form*
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 9 hours agoWho knows? Lawrence Martin writes this morning that: Just a little more than a week ago, Mulcair was riding a wave of endorsements from party members and media pundits. Now though, there is doubt. You ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"Report: Arrest made in Rhode Island cow thefts" March 19, 2012 Police in the Rhode Island town of Tiverton say they've made an arrest in a * rare case of cattle rustling*. The Newport Daily News reports th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 9 hours agoThere are two strains of thought about how to go after North Carolina's most disliked Republican congressman. One is to run a Democrat, Terry Bellamy, who's not as extreme as McHenry but more or less fits...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 9 hours agoSince the the distinctive blue-green Grant McEwan Bridge was pulled down in recent weeks, the view just isn't quite the same. In this photo, the newly-built Athabasca Bridge is in the foreground, blockin...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"N.H. measure would force motorcycles to pipe down" March 09, 2012|Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff The inimitable *engine roar* of Harleys has become a sound of summer beloved by many, revered as an emblem ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*It was front-page, above-the-fold, and with large photograph in my local.* "POWER PROTEST -- Activists marched to the local corporate offices of Entergy Corp., which operates the Vermont Yankee nuclear po...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"Casino vision divides Foxborough" March 04, 2012|By Jenna Russell As residents here got their first look this weekend at the resort casino envisioned by developer Steve Wynn, in the form of an artist’s re...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"Wis. town longs for relief from mysterious booms" March 22, 2012|Dinesh Ramde and Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press Bemused curiosity is turning into worry and aggravation for families in a small Wisco...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 9 hours agoI purposely haven't blogged about the NDP leadership contest, as I don't do party politics. But now we're down to the very end, and I'm worried. A mere skim of the headlines at Progressive Bloggers is eye-...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours agoScientists, arborists preserve capital’s century-old cherry trees
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*I would go over to the ****Friendly's**** for breakfast except it's closed. * "Doctors see ‘cinnamon challenge’ as recipe for disaster" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, March 24, 2012 It is known as “th...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 9 hours agoI expect in the days and weeks ahead, we'll see lots more temper tantrums about high gas prices from the citizens of what Bill Hicks calls "Spoiled Rotten Nation", not to mention about so-called "natural" ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 155.1 km (96.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:46:23 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) East of Tacna, Peru No R...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoBut what is Tit Tuesday, I hear you ask. 'Originally Posted by *boardinwork* Ahhh Tit Tuesday. It's not that far off now gentlemen. Don’t pretend like you don’t know what I’m talking about. You know? That...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours agoHow many "bad apples"? ~Library Chronicles A Letter From Who Dat Nation’s Heart ~Jason Calbos NOAA: Barataria Bay dolphins are unhealthy ~Amy Wold ~Also~ From the NYTimes ~Aaaand our pal Disenfranchised Ci...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoReception for the Native Nation Water Rights Symposium on Friday night, hosted by Red Ink. The symposium is all day at the University of Arizona, Chavez Building, on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Censored n...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoThe Telegraph reports the following, under the headline 'Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying': 'Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff h...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoI see that "America's first black President" (to quote Mark Mardell) has decided to weigh on and heaven forbid, gain a little political capital from the killing of the black teenager Trayvon Martin. Natur...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago*President Obama has nominated Korean-born US academic Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank*. Dr Kim is a leading figure in global health. As well as his work at the WHO, he co-founded...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 11 hours agoJust because you are not interested in "gay marriage" does not mean the advocates of "gay marriage" are not interested in you. The BBC has been a relentless propagandist for the gay lobby and a good exam...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoHang onto your DNA - the 1% wants that, tooBy Scott Johnson Food Freedom News, March 23, 2012 First, they took your manufacturing, then your jobs, then your homes, then the whole economy. Next, they ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Mother suspected in deaths was ill, kin say" March 21, 2012 ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis-area woman suspected of fatally shooting her three daughters and herself suffered from depression and bipolar disorder, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA series of mysterious booms and bangs that spooked locals in a US town this week may have been triggered by tiny earthquakes. Police received more than 600 calls within three days from fretful residents...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe China Post news staff--A market in New Taipei City was closed yesterday for disinfection after a chicken sample collected there was found to be H5N2 positive, officials said. But the city officials m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAbout 350 chickens have been culled in a farm in Nepal following confirmation of an outbreak of bird flu. Bal Krishna Bhusal, chief of the district public health office, said that health officials have di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoScientist says orca found on Washington state beach may have been blown up The U.S. and Canadian navies are being asked to hand over details of live fire exercises and sonar use around southern Vancouver I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPolice in northern Vietnam have seized five tons of pangolin and iguana carcasses destined to be shipped to restaurants in China. State-run newspaper Thanh Nien says police found the frozen carcasses in a...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 12 hours agoPoland's Monsanto Action Lays 1000s of Dead Bees on Govt Steps by Rady Amanda Food Freedom News, March 22, 2012 *Ag Ministry begins process to ban MON810* On March 15, over 1,500 beekeepers and thei...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe giant asteroid Vesta possesses many features usually associated with rocky planets like Earth, according to data from a Nasa probe. Vesta has been viewed as a massive asteroid, but after studying the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoLONGMONT -- Two people are dead after two small airplanes collided over the southeast side of Longmont just before noon Friday, sending one plane spiraling to the ground, while the other clipped a power l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Tornadoes touched down in a half-dozen states on Friday, killing one woman whose mobile home was flipped by a twister and causing damage to homes and businesses, authorities said. The 60-year...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 12 hours agoI had missed this one, it's a *second interview* with Stew Webb (who seems to have intimate connections with Tom Heneghan & Leo Wanta, in case that's gonna put you off) on the subject of *THE OCTOPUS, PRO....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn “noticeable” increase in seismic activity at the Soufirere Hills Volcano has resulted in the closure of the Zone C area near the volcano, which had been reopened for daytime entry in December. Dr Paul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJIZAN – A tremor has hit three villages in Sabya governorate in Jizan region – Mashlaha, Al-Hayja and Al-Wajeeh. The Director General of the National Center for Earthquakes and Volcanoes Hani Zahrani said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMar. 23 - Army staff sergeant Robert Bales charged with 17 counts of pre-meditated murder, six counts of attempted murder over a pre-dawn shooting rampage in Afghanistan. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMar. 23 - Activists say Syrian forces have fired dozens of mortar rounds at Homs. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMar. 24 - Heavy rains in Ecuador trigger floods that killed 20 people and forced thousands from homes. Michaela Cabrera reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- Syria, which has long accused Arab and Western satellite news networks for fabricating and falsifying events, now has CNN in its sights. State-run Syrian media asserted Thursday that CNN journali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- A fishing trawler swept away more than a year ago by a tsunami off the east coast of Japan has been spotted floating near British Columbia, Canadian officials said Friday. "It looks fairly sound...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSanford, Florida (CNN) -- Hours after President Barack Obama said the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teen in Florida requires national "soul searching," a lawyer for the man at the center ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 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 - 13 hours agoOne person has been killed and more than 20 others injured in a crash on the M5 motorway in the West Midlands after a coach and lorry collided. The accident happened on the southbound carriageway between ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoA commenter has pointed out some new battles between Joy Christian and some saner physicists that take place at the arXiv.org preprint server and at fqxi.org, a funding agency mainly for crackpots. If you...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMOSCOW (AP) -- A U.S.led NATO missile defense plan that Washington says is aimed at deflecting potential Iranian threats will break existing nuclear parity with Russia and prompt it to retaliate, Presiden...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs decided Friday to hold a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture, where the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi power plant is located, on July 28, ahead o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is considering providing patrol vessels to the Philippines through a development aid program to help the Southeast Asian country improve its maritime security capabilities, senior g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Environment Minister Goshi Hosono said Friday the government has asked Gunma, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures and five major cities in the prefectures to help dispose of about 280,000 t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSEOUL (Kyodo) -- Senior Japanese and South Korean officials on Friday agreed that the two countries will call on China to play an active role in preventing North Korea from launching a satellite on a long...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is set to deploy three Aegis destroyers in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch in mid-April if it falls within Japanese waters,...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 13 hours agoI had a very strange encounter yesterday. In the course of business I met a relative of the man who murdered Mussolini. He took great pleasure in describing how his relative had been a Partisan working ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoKAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The Japan Coast Guard continued searching for two missing fishermen in the East China Sea on Saturday while rescuing four others after their boat capsized off Amami-Oshima Island in s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolice in Oklahoma City have launched an investigation after surveillance camera footage emerged which showed officers apparently dragging a mentally ill man face down by his feet. James Heidebrecht was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFollowing recent news of the New York Police Department's counter-terrorism surveillance of Muslim communities new information reveals their monitoring stretching back to 2004 on liberal political activi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoInformation about innocent Americans could be stored by the intelligence community for up to five years. New Obama administration guidelines will allow the National Counterterrorism Centre to hang on to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe bodies of five people were found scattered inside a San Francisco home today in what police said was a possible murder-suicide, across the street from a private high school in a quiet, middle-class ne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTrayvon Martin may have attacked a Neighborhood Watch captain before the man shot dead the unarmed teen in a gated community in Florida, it emerged yesterday. An anonymous witness of the incident has cla...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 14 hours agoIn the 'Life of Brian' there is a scene where the Jordanian Liberation Front ask the question, 'what ever did the Romans do for us?' We found ourselves asking the same about Amazon and answering with the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA money-grabbing wife was sentenced to life imprisonment for setting up the murder of her cancer-stricken third-husband to cash in on his insurance and because she was tired of caring for him. Sandra Jes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Region Metropolitana, Chile at a depth of 66.7 km (41.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:28:33 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) NNW from SAN...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours agoA teacher at a school in France asked her class to observe a moment's silence for Mohamed Merah. The 56 year old female teacher described Merah as a 'victim,' and said his links to al-Qaeda had been fa...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*According to Scientists gene dissimilarity could give up to a child's birth weight. The gene considered is supposed to take action as a growth suppressor, reducing birth weight. The gene is already know...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoOne of the more ridiculous rumors floating around last week was that Ben Fulford was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured on the island of Montserrat and that a clone had taken his place. Why anyone ga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoHumiliated: A French woman accused of sleeping with Germans has her head shaved by neighbors in a village near Marseilles. Just imagine living in a world in which law and order have broken down completel...
- Borat's mock national anthem is played out at medal ceremony in Kuwait....INSTEAD of the genuine one
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoOrganizers of a sporting event in Kuwait have an old wound in Kazakhstan disemboweled. They played the burnt version of the anthem, a parody of Borat. Accidentally? The song they played instead of the r... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoRussia's gangster violence exploded on to the streets of London when a banker was gunned down entering his luxury Docklands home. German Gorbuntsov was in the foyer of his apartment block near Canary Whar...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 14 hours agoit's not necessarily a 'film analysis' post, but, in passing, and having watched, last night, the Roland Emmerich adaptation of the 'authorship question' concerning one William Shake-Speare, namely the fil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:57:48 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (16.1 miles) Southeast of Ercis, Tur...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 hours ago*A study suggests that the previous identified population of woolly mammoths did not inevitably die out because of inbreeding and lack of genetic variety*. Scientists working together in the UK and Sweden...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSYDNEY, March 24, 2012 (AFP) - - A senior US official has warned North Korea's upcoming missile launch would be aimed south for the first time and impact in an area "roughly between Australia, Indonesia a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA recent spate of furious eruptions on the surface of the sun hurled a huge amount of heat toward Earth — the biggest dose our planet has received from our closest star in seven years, NASA scientists said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPeople living near the epicentre of Australia's biggest earthquake in 15 years have reported being shaken, but otherwise escaping unscathed. The 6.1 earthquake struck near Ernabella, in South Australia's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:55:10 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) North of Chania, Crete, Gre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice in Peru have said that three Britons and three Italians are among 27 suspects arrested this month after a huge haul of cocaine was seized. Police said the British suspects were detained along with ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoA real causation pathway for tackling this problem opens the door to either an outright cure and reversal or at least the capacity of hauling the effect. With any luck, over the next decade, a cr...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis has always been one of those all too obvious technical problems clearly solvable by technology when performance and speed aligned to allow it to happen. This work suggests that we are effect...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoBefore modern humanity overran the world, every niche was filled by adapted primates over a million years at the least. The arrival of modern humanity brought numbers and the inevitable extinctio...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 15 hours agoThis item is yet another reminder of just how deep we are now able to get in understanding the complex behavior of molecules and that we are no longer bystanders. All good stuff. This particul...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 15 hours ago*According to information from a NASA probe the giant asteroid Vesta possesses many features frequently related with stony planets like Earth. One significant transitional characteristic of Vesta can be ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 15 hours agoGlaciation cycles – swings of temperature that change the global mean temperature from a maximum to a minimum that differ almost by 10 °C and back – occur in quasiperiodic cycles with periodicities betwe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSix men will appear before magistrates today charged in connection with a police investigation into the suspected exploitation of dozens of young girls in Oxford. A total of 13 arrests were made by polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:49:58 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10.5 miles) Southwest of Abu al-hassa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 16.3 km (10.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:25:35 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) North from A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Namibia at a depth of 13.9 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 01:58:38 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 230 km (142 miles) SSE of Ohopoho, Namibia No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20.1 km (12.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:37 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 178 km (110 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:58:38 UTC Saturday 24th March 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) South of Huajuapan de Leon,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:47:45 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) South of Huajuapan de Leon, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:37:42 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) Southwest from Ometepe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Buryatiya, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:31:36 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55.8 miles) Northwest of Bagdarin, Bur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 54.7 km (34 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:18 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) NNE of Br...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 16 hours agoMessage from the Galactic Federation of Light 3/23/12 *As Channeled by Greg Giles* The governments of your world are playing a game of quid pro and quid pro quo. (Latin: What for, what for what.)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Western Montana at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:04:43 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) ENE of Sheridan, Montana No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:19:38 UTC Friday 23rd March 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, Oa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 16 hours ago------------------------------ *MARCH 22, 2012 *Permalink* * *"Too Crooked to Fail": Matt...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 16 hours agoAnd this is why old Keith Richards is considered Britain's true bluesman - Little Red Rooster Christ, where did the years go?
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 16 hours ago[image: Los Alpes de Francia - French Alps] [image: Los Alpes de Francia - French Alps] [image: Los Alpes de Francia - French Alps] [image: Los Alpes de Francia - French Alps]
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 17 hours agoMind if I'm a grumpy old guy for a minute? What's up with all these spring training night games? OK, a bit of research. 2002 (Media Guide had four, count 'em four, pictures of Barry Bonds on the cover): t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*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 - 18 hours agoOver 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 - 20 hours agoInitially 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 - 20 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 - 21 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! - 21 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...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 21 hours ago"Go ahead, George. Try it and see what happens this time."
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 21 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 - 22 hours agoFor 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agoFlint, 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 hours agoStatement from Sean Payton following penalties ~WWL
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 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 SunGovernment and Taxes - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoSaturday and bumping the Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day 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...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 1 day agoOn 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago*Brian Topp is the BEST choice for Leader of Canada's New Democrats!*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoHmmn, WestJet and Porter look better and better: http://natpo.st/GISJe6
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 day agohttp://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4706 Hat tip: Mack at Enenews
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day agoAn interview with Tim Schwartz about Haiti and aid.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 Earth...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 w...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoNew Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson must seize control of chaotic tailspin Saints staffing shuffle in early stages Shockey wants action from the league over his outing as suspected ratfink Online 'bounty...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 day ago
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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