BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 24: A view of the city previously devastated by the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and subsequent tsunami, on December 24, 2009 in Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the 9.1 magnitude quake, suffering a huge hit from the following tsunami and resulting in around 130,000 deaths. Throughout the affected region of eleven countries, 230,000 people in total were killed, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Masjid Raya Baiturrahman, Banda Aceh's Grand Mosque. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 23: A view of Banda Aceh City as the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake and subsequent tsunami approaches on December 23, 2009 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the 9.1 magnitude quake, suffering a huge hit from the following tsunami and resulting in around 130,000 deaths. Throughout the affected region of eleven countries, 230,000 people in total were killed, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago(CNN) -- Even though Syria has signed off on a U.N.-backed peace initiative, activist groups said there's no evidence yet that the regime is carrying out the plan on Wednesday. At least 15 people, inclu...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hollywood has destroyed Washington - or New York or Los Angeles - lots of times with nuclear bombs detonated by terrorists. It turns out to be harder in real life. Thinking about the u... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 79.4 km (49.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:07:47 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (62 miles) SSW of B... - posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 minutes ago
***Satellite data from NASA shows fires in Aceh. Fires have long been used to clear areas for palm oil. * Aceh province means a famous tsunami, mad Islamists who torture women, and, the killing off of oran... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 minutes agoI teach public relations so I know how it works. One of the "Fathers" of public relations is Edward Bernays. The incredibly interesting video, "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis, explicates Bernay...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 minutes ago*Infowars.com * *Wednesday, March 28, 2012* Alex talks with psychiatrist, former State Department official, author, and publisher Steve Pieczenik. He is the author of several books, including State of Eme...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon will press Congress for more money for Israel's Iron Dome system designed to intercept short-range rockets and mortars, a boost for Israel as the Obama administration tries... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 48 minutes ago
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Conceding strained ties, President Barack Obama on Tuesday welcomed Pakistan's review of its relationship with the United States, saying it was important for the two countries t... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Tuesday rebuffed President Barack Obama's criticism of its plans to launch a satellite aboard a rocket, calling his stance confrontational and vowing to go fo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Material that can be used to make nuclear bombs is stored in scores of buildings spread across dozens of countries. If even a fraction of it fell into the hands of terrorists, i... - posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 55 minutes ago
Echo, the company that bought Haloscan a few years ago and runs the fast comments on this blog, the main platform for discussions on this blog, will stop the service on October 1st, 2012. They have been ... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 59 minutes ago*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012* *Overbye goes there again:* We’re on a semi-reduced schedule this week, in service to a mission of national import. That said, why not read the New York Times’ latest report fr...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour agoThis morning was the second session with Southern Man's Personal Trainer. It was hard; Southern Man hadn't done forty minutes of cardio in a long, long time. Southern Man wants to go home and take a nap no...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoBy Chico Harlan, Published: March 27 The Washington Post SEOUL http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-has-lots-of-plutonium-on-hand-little-way-to-use-it/2012/03/27/gIQA7jjyeS_story.html?wpis...
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With all the troubles that are going on in the United States of America these days, many in that former land of the free have been eying Canada as a land of refuge to escape all the problems and loss of fr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 51 km (31.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:45:18 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65.7 miles) South of B... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Israeli troops opened fire at a group of suspects along the Egyptian border on Tuesday, two of whom had crossed from Egypt, a military spokesman said, indicating that several of them were wounded. The inc... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
North Miami Beach police said surveillance video shows dozens of high school students demonstrating in the Trayvon Martin case Friday ransacking a Walgreens store. The incident occurred during a walkout f... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012* *Part 3—Triumverate straight outta Kafka:* We’ll admit it. The analysts were disappointed by Kevin Drum’s take on the “controversy” surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin. Th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 hour agoWND has an anteresting article, here's an extract: 'After months of searching, investigators commissioned by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio to examine Barack Obama’s eligibility for office fou...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoStronger booms heard in Clintonville: fox11online.com The booming and shaking continues in Clintonville. Clintonville police say they received about 65 calls Tuesday night, from people reporting three ...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 hour agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#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. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that the radiation dose inside the crippled No. 2 reactor stood at an extremely high level between 31.1 and 72.9 siev...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A shipment of pangolin skins from Guinea bound for Thailand and seized at the Belgian airport. Belgian authorities later found that the CITES document accompanying the hides was forged. Belgium C...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago*"The puzzling thing about Brad Wall's decision to cut the film tax credit (albeit, after a three month extension to July 1) is the unusual stridency we're hearing from the Saskatchewan premier. After a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Lee Creek phosphate mine, 28 May 2005. MasterGeorge / flickr] By Cory Nealon, cnealon@dailypress.com 24 March 2012 AURORA, N.C. – The sun was about to set when Robert L. Shirley drove his beig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoScams offering rights to mines including the Hishikari Mine in Kagoshima Prefecture, one of the world's richest gold mines, have become rampant, prompting one company to issue a warning to consumers. The...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 2 hours agoA colleague in the reinsurance industry emailed me this morning to ask my thoughts on the return period for the magnitude of losses from US tornadoes in 2011, based on a preview of our tornado normalizat...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoHappy Birthday to Diane Wiest, 64. "Don't Speak." Actually, everyone is terrific in "Bullets." I'm not sure whether or not it's in my top-5 Woody Allens, but surely it's in the top five of the post-Mia Far...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 2 hours agoIn retrospect, maybe it wasn't such a good idea for Alison Redford to call the election after a month of wall-to-wall scandal and controversy. Two more polls have been released today - let's start with t...
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posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA baby girl from Dallas is in hospital after her schizophrenic mom slashed her throat with a steak knife, police said. One-year-old Mariah Busby was on Monday found soaked in her own blood in the arms of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoOfficials found the bodies of an elderly man and woman at a destroyed home that was a victim of the still-raging Colorado wildfire that was thought to have started from a protective burn. The couple, who...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoPolice have arrested the drunk man suspected of fighting and fatally pushing a 20-year-old college student under a New York City subway but continue to search for him. Ryan Beauchamp, 33, was found by po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoSeven members of a Michigan militia have been cleared of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government as a judge dismissed the most serious charges against them. In a shock defeat for federal authorities, D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA Jewish schoolboy was punched in the back of the head and beaten up in the latest anti-Semitic attack to hit France. The 12-year-old was walking near his Jewish school in southeastern Paris yesterday wh...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Deforestation in Nigeria. deforestation-facts.blogspot.com] By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Johnbosco Agbakwuru 26 March 2012 Lagos – Following the prevalence of heat wave in Lagos State and other part...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 2 hours agofox games"Children play soldier, grown men die." anon PROFIT is the root of all evil. NEED TO KNOW intelligence agencies protect profits. EVERYONE is a slave to this game. For example, *and you'll undo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoFor most criminals, a long prison term is a lonely and sobering experience. But it has proved more like a lock-in at a bar for these inmates at a Brazilian jail, who were pictured on Facebook partying wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoThe husband of an Iraqi-American woman who was found bludgeoned to death with a threatening note lying beside her yesterday made an emotional appeal for justice. Shaima Alawadi, 32, was taken off life su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA British politician revealed that a turf war between the CIA and the FBI fumbled a massive intelligence-gathering mission very easily could have prevented the September 11th attacks. In testimony to Par...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: In this photo released TEPCO, a worker operates an endoscope to take photos of water in the Unit 2 reactor's primary containment vessel at the the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear powe...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 3 hours agoAhem:[image: Link] The maximum penalties for violating these sections of the Elections Act are severe: a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment for up to five years, or both. Moreover, a person convicted o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA 13-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly shooting his 37-year-old mother dead in their home. Police responding to the home of Gretchen Crooks, of Osage, Iowa, on Saturday night found the woman...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAccording to legend, a black fox brings bad luck, but an amateur photographer could hardly believe his good fortune when he spotted the rare animal near his house. It is believed to be only the second ti...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe number of Britons struck down with Lyme disease caused by blood-sucking ticks has more than trebled in the past decade. Figures show that in 2010, 905 cases of Lyme disease were reported to the Healt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoOil has been discovered in northern Kenya, the country's delighted president has announced. It is the first time black gold has been found within the east African nation's borders - and the commercial vi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBillions of potentially habitable planets may exist in our galaxy, the Milky Way - including 100 'super Earths' within 30 light years from our solar system. A survey of red dwarf stars in the Milky Way f...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoNew Orleans has a defender of democracy in Orleans Parish School Board President, Thomas Robichaux. Robichaux is clearly aware that as the public space recedes in these late days of casino capitalism, cor...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours agoThe inference in the title is intentional. Hilary is a whore for war and more. Whores aren't all about sex. There are other types of whores. They are venalindividuals. People who can be bought or owned for ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe moon has been orbiting Earth for nearly four billion years - but for most of that time, it's had at least one unseen companion. The 'minimoons' are only a few feet across, and each tends to do a stint...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA British schoolboy plunged more than 100ft to his death in Dubai after an alcohol-fuelled row. Harry Harling, 15, wrote online that he was enjoying ‘beers and tanning’ with friends in the United Arab Em...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoGun bill would turn state into Wild West ~James Gill Talk of Bill Parcells stepping in for New Orleans Saints heats up~Mike Triplett Sipp, Allen, Martin Protesters Vandalize City Monuments~NOLA DEFENDER ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoGoogle faces an inquiry and – potentially – massive fines over allegations it is abusing its dominance of the internet and searches. European consumer groups have sounded the alarm over concerns that the ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours agoLike Dorothy and her companions, Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Dalton McGuinty's Liberals are skipping down that yellow brick road, hoping that the Wizard of Austerity will take them back to the go...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoBritain was embroiled in a fresh diplomatic row with Argentina today after being accused of deploying nuclear weapons to protect the Falklands. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg blasted the ‘unfounded, bas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe eurozone bailout fund should be increased to 1 trillion euros to provide 'the mother of all firewalls', the head of a leading international development body said today. Angel Gurria, the secretary ge...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoOne more day of oral arguments in the Supreme Court case on, basically, the individual mandate in the health care legislation that the GOP derisively calls Obamacare. The health care mandate, as Rachel e...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 3 hours agoIt all seems so simple and tucked out of the way, but this simple stone marker commemorates the discovery (at least by Europeans) of the Methye Portage. This portage, formed an important link in the over...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA fireman marches through the still smouldering trees and darkly scorched earth in a scene reminiscent of the aftermath of an Australian bush fire. Elsewhere, flames and billowing smoke rise from what loo...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoMarch 27, 2012 Obesity is one of the main health problems in America. But it turns out that big corporations in the US are cashing in on making people fat. To tell more about how lobbyists are fattening...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 3 hours ago*Oscar-winner Kate Winslet and director James Cameron have been in London for the red carpet opening of a novel, 3D version of Titanic.* According to Director James Cameron the new version of Titanic wou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoU.S. troops sit tightly beside one another in a packed aircraft as they await their departure to Afghanistan, in stunning pictures taken today. The servicemen sit aboard the military plane at the U.S. Tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFears were growing today that a single spark could lead to a repeat of Britain's deadliest rig disaster. A huge gas leak at a platform off the British coast may lead to an explosion like that seen in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAn elderly woman was sliced in two when she was hit by a plane as she tried to take a short cut across a runway. Sinangele Asuza, 78, was struck by a light aircraft on Monday as it came in to land in the...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoThere's a bit of a controversy boiling over in southern Alberta. It seems Steve Jeffrey, owner, publisher and editor of the Chestermere *Anchor Weekly * is in *a spot of trouble*. (Bold mine) Ossie Sheddy,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA hit-and-run driver mowed down a woman on a pedestrian crossing as he rushed to sign on and collect his benefit money. Balram Singh sped through a red light and ploughed into Kate Allan as he raced to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSeven work colleagues were mown down by a black cab after a 'furious row' with a taxi driver. The seven railmen, wearing fluorescent uniforms, were left flattened on a pavement after the taxi ploughed in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoForecourts across Britain have started to run dry this morning as motorists rush to the pumps ahead of a possible driver tanker strike. It comes as a Government minister today suggested people should prep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA Pakistani former dancing girl left fighting for life by a 'horrific' acid attack has committed suicide a decade after being heavily facially disfigured. Fakhra Younus, 33, leapt to her death from a six...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFor years, successive governments have insisted that extremist preacher Abu Qatada cannot be kicked out of Britain, claiming it would breach his human rights. Perhaps we should have looked to Italy as an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the final quarter of 2011 - more than an interim estimate of -0.2%. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the worse than previously forecast data was driven by a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*According to a study major changes are desirable in agriculture and food utilization around the world if future generations are to be sufficiently fed. Even though there are provincial variations, clima...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoCabinet Office minister Francis Maude has told Sky News people should fill up jerry cans of petrol in case of a strike by fuel tanker drivers over the Easter weekend. Despite insisting there was no nee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe owner of a fishing boat in Japan that drifted across the Pacific after getting washed away from its moorings by last year's huge tsunami does not want it back, a Japanese official said Tuesday. The 6...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolar bears are ideally suited to life in the Arctic: Their hair is without pigment, blending in with the snow; their heavy, strongly curved claws allow them to clamber over blocks of ice and snow and gri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAs the USA simmers through its hottest March on record — with more than 6,000 record high temperatures already set this month — a new study released Sunday shows that average global temperatures could cli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very likely" caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said on Sunday. Scientists at G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoClimate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency said Friday, releasing data showing that 2001 to 2010 was the warmest decade on record. The 10-year period was also marked by extr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoGreenpeace reiterated its call for an end to deforestation in Brazil by 2015 and globally by 2020 during its launch of an awareness-raising expedition down the Amazon River aboard the Rainbow Warrior. "B...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 4 hours agoMedical Benefits Settlement Agreement Summary Part 1 – Personal Health Claims March 25, 2012 To date, unfortunately, the restrictions concerning individuals who will be entitled to the medical settlement b...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 4 hours agoMarch 28, 2012 How has the OWS movement transformed over the last 6 months? How newsworthy are the ongoing protests? Is OWS fatigue only growing? And has the movement achieved anything on the groun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoRuling allows city to draw nearly 84,000 acre-feet of water from four thinly populated valleys of eastern Nevada. Contentious plans to pump water across 300 miles of desert to Las Vegas were given the gr...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours agoImages are the lifeblood of a blog. Without good pictures, it's difficult to keep readers engaged. But, how do you get good images for all those posts? Most bloggers whip open Google Images, type in a few ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFirearms officers were stripped of their duties after a picture of them larking around with a shotgun was discovered, it has emerged. It shows a pair of marksmen from Greater Manchester Police in their f...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 5 hours ago*US technology firm Apple has offered to repayment Australian clients who felt misled concerning the 4G capabilities of the new iPad.* The Apple iPad's third version went on auction preceding this month,...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThe left claim to be the nice, reasonable, caring side of politics; the truth is somewhat at variance. In the UK the hatred spewed by the left at Margaret Thatcher and any other politicians who dare(d) to ...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 6 hours agoWhat do apps and ebooks have in common and what do they have that makes them different? When is a book an app and an app a book? At first the answer appears simple and straightforward. An app is a program...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 6 hours ago*Weekly Find: Reggae Ready!* Carribbean food is amazing. I have always loved it, but since my recent time with Mr. DJ Konvex (who is part Jamaican) I feel that enjoying these foods has become a bit more o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA proposal to loosen federal fish habitat protection rules threatens Canada's water quality, fisheries and its international reputation, scientists warn. In a letter sent Thursday to Prime Minister Steph...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoUS President Barack Obama said Sunday it was unclear who was "calling the shots" in North Korea under its new young leader and stepped up demands for Pyongyang to abort its planned rocket launch. Obama s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSouth Korea is preparing to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it strays into the South's territory during a launch planned for next month, the defence ministry said Monday. The South Korean and US mili...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoJapan was Monday left with only one working nuclear reactor after Tokyo Electric Power Co. shuttered its final generator for scheduled safety checks. The vast utility's entire stock of 17 reactors are no...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSudanese aircraft and ground troops attacked multiple positions in South Sudan's oil rich border regions Monday but were repulsed after fierce battles, Southern President Salva Kiir charged as he warned o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChina's Premier Wen Jiabao has said corruption is the biggest threat facing the ruling Communist Party, warning of a change in the "nature of power" if it is not curbed. His comments come amid growing pu...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours ago"Since the 1980s our biggest social questions have been decided by judges. Abortion, gay marriage, medical marijuana, Canada's obligations to citizens imprisoned abroad and now prostitution are all highly ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoJust one funny irrelevant link. The People's Daily, the most important Chinese daily with the circulation of 3-4 million, just posted an amusing description of my hometown, Pilsen - Cold war, cold beer...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoHi all! The sun is shining outside and the world is looking good. Our own world at Biased BBC is about to change however, as you will have read in the post below this from All Seeing Eye. We're moving to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 20.2 km (12.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:54:16 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 144 km (90 miles) WSW from B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected in 2004 in obser...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA worldwide network of hackers has managed to gain access to the most secure networks on the Internet. The leaderless and faceless group, known as Anonymous, has infiltrated networks of the CIA, Interpol,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMariano Rajoy expected to win Andalucia regional elections, then order further austerity measures. Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, faces the toughest week of his three months in office as he is for...
- posted by All Seeing Eye at Biased BBC - 7 hours agoWe've all seen the serious problems on the Biased-BBC site over the last few weeks. Please let me explain them and also say what we have been doing to sort them out. Two separate problems occurred almost...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoYour editor's fingers are a little rusty after a full week away from the keyboard. But our hands were not idle! We rediscovered the pleasure of discovering information the old fashioned way last week, ana...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours agoAlex Jones reviews THE HUNGER GAMES film based on the teen novels by Suzanne Collins, "It is 100% Agenda 21. And is our actual future. This is called Predictive Programming. Mega Cities and Gladiatorial Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoToday legendary trader and investor Jim Sinclair told King World News that gold has taken a major step towards becoming the currency of choice when it comes to international trade. Sinclair also said th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMoscow: Meteor-1, the Soviet Union’s first fully operational weather satellite, will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the US Strategic Command said. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNew Delhi: The country’s new energy companies were being “crushed” due to the dramatic slashing of prices of solar equipment by Chinese industry and the government will have to adopt regulatory measures t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEvery quarter the Office of the Currency Comptroller releases its report on Bank Derivative Activities, and every quarter we find that the Too Big To Fail get Too Bigger To Fail. To wit: in Q4 2011, of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The company that makes "pink slime" suspended operations Monday at three of four plants where the beef ingredient is made, saying officials would work to address recent public concer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWASHINGTON — US trade authorities on Thursday announced an investigation into yet another Chinese export product, this time the veritable kitchen sink. The US Commerce Department said it is examining whe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWhat is the place of the Federal Reserve System in the American financial and economic structure? Prior to the Federal Reserve’s founding in 1913, U.S. monetary policy was conducted by the Treasury. Like...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA deep rift between Egypt's ruling military leaders and the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which dominates the post-Mubarak era Parliament, indicates that the country is headed toward a state of political cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago* Japan veers from nuclear summit agenda to criticise rocket plan * Obama warns against complacency in fighting nuclear terrorism * Summit statement light on substantial goals * Japan's Noda spells out le...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoI note that the BBC's Poll Tracker has just reappeared as a link on the main politics news page. It has been noticeable by its absence for some months now but coincidentally just as a few polls show a Labo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoGeorge Zimmerman son of judge with sealed closed arrest record in Fla. 27 Mar 2012 'Now we know why George Zimmerman didn't get arrested... No Words... According to court records, George Zimmerman is the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe murder detective tasked with investigating the death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin wanted to charge George Zimmerman with manslaughter but was overruled by prosecutors, it was reported last night...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPHILADELPHIA (CN) - A wave of class actions against Google claims the search giant's new privacy policy, which aggregates information the company collects about users across various Google platforms, viol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIt seems that 2012 onwards, the world is on the brink of Third World War. All sane and peace loving men would pray that it is averted. For, the horoscope of the times, points towards a global catastrophe ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWith central banks around the world printing money to pump into their financial systems to prevent them from seizing up, the argument for a return to the gold standard has become popular again. The gold ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSyria state television shows video of president walking through defeated rebel stronghold; no further details available in report on alleged assassination attempt. Opposition forces in Syria reported Tues...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 8 hours agoAmazon is launching its Kindle touchscreen e-reader in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy on 27th April but there is still no news on its Fire tablet. The Kindle Touch will not be discounted with ad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAnti-war protest comes amid growing Facebook campaign linking Israelis and Iranians; campaign leaders: We have nothing to do with the protest rally. Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEasy money and bad decisions tanked our economy, and we're not out of the woods yet. The fix applied so far: more easy money. Will it work, or are we going to create a new asset bubble without solving the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSEOUL: The security summit that began here on Monday was supposed to be an opportunity for president Barack Obama and other leaders to find ways to keep nuclear material away from terrorists. So far, North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEIJING: China's state-run media on Saturday described the Dalai Lama as a US-controlled "Nazi" and blamed the Buddhist leader for inciting Tibetans to commit self-immolations to protest Chinese rule in Ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBeijing: In the thick of maritime disputes with several of its neighbours, China said on Tuesday it is mapping South China Sea (SCS) with an aim to step up exploration for oil and gas and to reinforce its...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe U.S. dollar has probably been the closest thing to a true global currency that the world has ever seen. For decades, the use of the U.S. dollar has been absolutely dominant in international trade. Thi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMost people now don’t talk about the war in Iraq like they used to. Obviously politics and elections have taken much of the discussion in Washington. But there is still a lot to be discussed. For that w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDespite the US economy's wallowing debt problem, we probably shouldn’t count America out just yet. A new report from Citigroup says that North America has the potential to become the next "Middle East". W...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoExpanding the definition of “cracker,” a t-shirt featuring the photo of the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now available for purchase. As seen at Left, the shirt has a picture of George Zimmerman and the ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoOccupy May Day 2012 *Global, 99 Occupy the World* BEGINNING MAY 1, 2012 NO WORK - NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO BANKING - NO TRADING THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET WILL TAKE TO THE STREETS ... #OLA & #OLB ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAxton Betz had just rented her first off-campus apartment in West Lafayette, Ind. when the power company told her she needed to pay a $100 deposit to turn on the electricity. Betz, who was 19 at the time,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than a dozen historic landmarks in Baltimore may be up for sale soon. But as Gigi Barnett reports, the city first wants to know how much they will bring in first. The city says it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo tiny asteroids zipped close by Earth today (March 26), passing between our planet and the orbit of the moon, but posed no threat of impacting our world, NASA scientists say. The two space rocks flew ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago* Squarcini* Certain top French intelligence officials have suggested that Mohamed Merah, the alleged gunman in Toulouse, worked for French intelligence. Merah has been linked to the *Central Directorate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:42:26 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) West of Coos B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:39:40 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (83 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.4 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:14:00 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 166 km (103 miles) E...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoSometimes one gets lucky. I am reading an odd item written by Tonio Andrade on the short historyof the Dutch Colony, or more correctly the Dutch trading base established onTaiwan during the early seven...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoIt is really uncomplicated. The EV needs a three hundred mile range and adeclining price structure in the battery technology. Several strategies are been pursued to getthere. The problem is that they...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is another major leap in thedevelopment of the electron microscope and is a huge increase in range andmagnification and also certainly welcome. Let us leave it as that asimaging has left us all in...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoA couple of remarkableobservations may be made here. The firstis that this island was unoccupied until 1200 years ago. The same can be said of a large number of thelarger islands around the world and ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI have just posted a comment to my piece about how the American left is silencing opposition, often by violence or threats of violence. In reply I received this comment: 'Anonymous said... Firstly, you'r...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoEd Stelmach, back when he was still the premier of Alberta, looks ahead to a day when he wouldn’t have to put up with all the nonsense. Now that day has come, and it’s likely many of his Progressive Conse...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoGreek Government Robbed Public Institutions to Complete the Bond Swap by John Ward Global Research Canada, March 27, 2012 *“But Lucas my dear, if you run out of poor people, you can always steal from t...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMarch 27, 2012by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding the release of female detainee Hana’ ash-Shalabi who has ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMarch 24, 2012 by David L. Wilson MR Zine The 66-day hunger strike of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan brought overdue attention to Israel's practice of detaining Palestinians for lengthy periods witho...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMarch 20, 2012 Indybay.org Viewpoint Discrimination and Selective Prosecution at Work in Charges Against Independent Journalists SANTA CRUZ, CA — District Attorney Bob Lee has embarked on a full frontal as...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoMarch 26, 2012 Support Eric Dear friends, We wanted to let you know that a beautiful new zine of writings by Eric is now available from the good folks at Because We Must. You can order it online here: ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoPublished on Friday, March 23, 2012 by Common Dreams Obama's Unconventional Choice for World Bank President - Common Dreams staff The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American ph...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 11 hours agoBilly Wilder would be on every short list for greatest screenwriters ever. I always gotta root for the writers who get to direct, and he was a hell of a director, too. Wilder managed to make classics in se...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago*Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America* ------------------------------ March 25, 2012 | Categories: Guest Contributions | Tags: homeless in america, Dear Readers: Only in ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ *Tool Time: Bloomberg Policing Homeless Diets* http://youtu.be/k65ttFM1Zgs Uploaded by TheAlyonaShow on Mar 22, 2012 NYC's Mayor Michael Bloomberg found a new demogr...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours agoConsider these seven points: 1. Disdain for the environmental movement 2. Distrust of mainstream science in general 3. Distrust of the mainstream media 4. Loyalty to the party 5. Libertarian economics as Go...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoMessage from the Galactic Federation of Light 3/27/12 We would like to say we are humbled by the efforts of our Lightworkers in the field who are working very diligently towards our shared goals. ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoI imagine the day, probably within twenty years, when Stephen Harper, former prime minister of Canada, will sit in the prisoner's dock to stand trial. Harper and his co-defendants will be tried for crimes...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCurrent theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then cooled down nat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis wasn’t supposed to happen. In Congress drive to clean up its act and pass the “Stock Act” to provide transparency to Wall Street holdings members have, taxpayers are getting stuck with the bill. Sen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe housing market started off the new year with a thud. Home prices dropped for the fifth consecutive month in January, reaching their lowest point since the end of 2002. The average home sold in that m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThis week prices jumped another six cents, bringing the national average to around $3.90 a gallon. Maryland’s average is even higher at $3.93, inching ever closer to that dreaded $4 mark. “It’s just too...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe debt collector on the other end of the phone gave Oswaldo Campos an ultimatum: Pay $219 a month toward his more than $20,000 in defaulted student loans, or Pioneer Credit Recovery, a contractor with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoOttawa (CNN) -- Ontario's top court has legalized brothels, saying Canadian prostitution laws unfairly discriminate against prostitutes and their ability to work in safe environments. A panel of five ju...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 12 hours agoMy elder brother who died of prostate cancer more than five years ago would have been 57 years old this week had he survived the disease. His diabetes plus emotional sadness when his wife died several mont...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoDuring the current long drawn out Republican primary season-- obviously planned down to the tea by David Plouffe-- a normal reaction would be to wonder, what serious person votes for any of these freaks? ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe captain of a US airliner was tackled by his own passengers after he ran up and down a packed jet screaming about bombs and al Qaeda. The JetBlue plane, en route from New York's JFK airport to Las Veg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(Reuters) - Hydrofluoric acid (HF) leaked from an alkylation unit at BP Plc's 406,570-barrels-per-day refinery in Texas City, Texas on Tuesday morning, triggering alarms in the plant and warnings to area ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Pakistan at a depth of just 3.7 km (2.3 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:19:22 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoEmergency workers have rescued a man submerged in suffocating mud on a Georgia building site for nearly an hour. Dramatic video showed that when firefighters arrived at the scene in Atlanta they were ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA British man has been arrested in Somalia on suspicion of having links with the Islamist militant group Al Shabaab, according to local police and African Union peacekeepers. The suspect was detained at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoRussian police have arrested two men suspected of cannibalism in two separate cases involving at least seven victims. A suspected serial killer from the town of Penza, some 348 miles (560km) southeast of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAn exclusion zone has been put in place around a North Sea oil and gas well, where a plume of gas was seen rising above the water after a "serious" leak. The potentially explosive natural gas is escaping...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe drought which has hit rivers and groundwater supplies is spreading throughout England, the Environment Agency has said. Swathes of east and south Yorkshire from Chesterfield up to Scarborough are off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSatellite-operated lasers, not "Armageddon"-style bombs, could deflect asteroids headed for a catastrophic collision with Earth, Scottish scientists believe. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 20.5 km (12.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:27:24 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 231 km (143 miles) E...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoSoros leverages "human rights" for personal gain - as does his global NGO empire. by Tony Cartalucci March 28, 2012 - Bloomberg's report, "Soros Loses Case Against French Insider-Trading Conviction," in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 89.1 km (55.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:13:50 UTC Wednesday 28th March 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (124 miles) NNW...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Nepal-India Border Region at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 23:40:14 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) Southeast of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:46 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (49 miles) Northwest of Dob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Qinghai, China at a depth of 31.2 km (19.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:54:56 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) WNW of Gyegu (Yu...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoBy Associated Press, Published: March 26 LONDON — Britain’s financial regulator said Monday that it had fined the queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 million pounds ($13.8 million) for failing to maintain ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoUpdate by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation March 27, 2012 6 Eb, 5 Mac, 8 Manik Dratzo! We return! The time for the great shift in consciousness draws c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 3.4 earthquake has struck the Greater Los Angeles Area, California at a depth of 13.7 km (8.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:30:33 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) N...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 14 hours agoShe’s either a great actress, or this guy should reconsider his marriage vows. Or maybe sue her factory school for spewing out someone this innumerate? What do you think, is she sufficiently pretty to c...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoI got this short comment today from someone I have known a long time who has some amazing contacts: *"Today is supposed to begin the arresting of those who did not resign."* That's about all I...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 15 hours agoThose of you interested in the human body might appreciate this new web service. It was originally started by Google but has since been spun off to zygotebody.com. Unfortunately it requires a WEBG...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 15 hours ago** *Contributor: "YYC"* Have been up to my ears in real life (all good stuff, except for the dentist) and haven't had what it takes to analyze the Snooze. Here are some things, however, that I've recently...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*Only The Dollar Is Falling, Not The Sky.* "There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die:...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago* Come April, the magic number of monthly free NYT content clicks drops from 20 to 10. * *by Ken* While working on last night's post, which included links to a pair of Paul Krugman columns along with my re...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoStorm relief intended for home buyers is redirected to Superdome
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoI really hate whiny babies. I work with a lot of whiny babies - Oh poor me - I wish I had a... - everybody's always picking on me. Today the American Legislative Exchange Council released a two paragraph ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 16 hours agoThere's a scene toward the end in the 1991 classic, *What About Bob?* in which Dr. Leo Monroe has had it with his "patient" Bob Wiley. Bob's followed the doctor to his summer home in New Hampshire and ing...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 17 hours agoWe're down to the home stretch in the fight to save civilization from the ravages of runaway global warming. A report in *Scientific American*warns we're within just one decade of tipping points that will...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA plane from New York to Las Vegas had to be diverted to Texas after its captain "went nuts" and began yelling about a bomb. The JetBlue flight 191, which had 135 passengers on board, had been airborne fo...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoThe *poor pilot likes* 'is minister? What is he major, your dad? Between this and the *F-35* and Chinook rigging nonsense, I do wonder if the gold-ringed numpties currently running the RCAF even understand...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago[image: image]Why would you want to see a film in which teenagers are forced to fight to the death for a live TV audience? Sounds monstrous, doesn’t it. Perhaps we want to see it however for the same re...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 18 hours agoToday is an important test of Fox News and “sister companies” like The Wall Street Journal because this is “individual mandate day.” The Supreme Court has been hearing arguments on that isolated issue upon...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 19 hours agoBSoD or Blue Screen of Death"Is there a 'mischievous ghost creator' in the GIG or Global Intelligence Game?" On a security level, COMPARTMENTALISATION seems like a really good idea. This way T.H.E.Y. or T...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoA couple of days ago I had an opportunity to sit down for a long chat with a brilliant and enthusiastic young progressive Democrat, Vipin Verma, who's running for Congress in Florida's brand new 6th congr...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoAt Post Partisan, I talked more about delegate counts, caucus states, and Romney's lock on the nomination. For Greg, I did the old political scientist blogging standby: the "calm down, everyone" post. Thi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours agoMy guess is the NDP will back the budget, at least to the extent of having a couple of members stay out of the voting -- but it will be close and we may be campaigning again in April for a May election.....
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours ago[image: image]It’s the Law of Unintended Consequences all over again. NZers rely on a sophisticated second-hand market for imported, used, inexpensive Japanese cars. Government introduced new exhaust emi...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 19 hours ago*Unfortunately there are no 'truth in advertising' regulations when it comes to political attack ads. As I post this, Stephen Harper's propaganda-meisters are preparing TV ads that are going to carry the t...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOfIENN2tk&feature=b-vrec
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 20 hours ago*R. v. D.A*., 2012 ONCA 200 is a good illustration of the need for trial judges to be careful in giving reasons that fully set out the basis for judgment. In *R v. Sheppard* [2002] 1 S.C.R. 86, the Su...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: Aerial view of workers involved in cleanup efforts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with oily water around them near the South Pass of the Mississippi River along the Gulf coast near Venice, L...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoWell, the story of Trayvon's murder has become a war of the leaks. This latest twist in the law enforcement angle is troubling. The lead homicide investigator in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 20 hours agoWith German Pancakes, you typically let the butter melt in the dish before adding the batter, making one large pancake. Did you know you can add the butter to the batter so you can make little baby panca...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago* Fat European with a tatoo on his face* *Source: Merah didn't send French attacks video** * Reportedly, the Toulouse shooter made a video of his attacks, and the video was sent to Al-Jazeera, the news ne...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*Wikipedia:* The Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the Hurrian city of Ugarit which date to approximately 1400 BC. One of these tablets, which i...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoA clip from the Lindsay Gary's commentary at the Daily Cougar: . . . Of my graduating class at KIPP, I was one of about 20 black students in a mostly Hispanic population. Being the minority wasn’t easy, an...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoGasoline pump, Naples Italy, March 11, 2012 Photo from la Republica. Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Reality check: America's gas pains?Most Americans have not lived anywhere other than in America, and...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours ago"Operation Mocking Bird, the CIA begins recruiting Mainstream Media to broadcast propaganda. On 9/11, the world sees the second aiplane strike the WTC, live, the Fox Helicopter footage," thus begins this y...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoAdmit I laughed sardonically when I saw George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat. My first thought was, thanks all you wingnuts for defending a member of the party of your imagined evils. Wondered how the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago26th March: The swine flu threat can no longer be brushed aside as minor with the number of cases up to 211, traversing five states and claiming 16 lives. Yesterday Gujrat also reported one case, a 25-year...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 21 hours ago
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoMumbai: Testing times lie ahead for citizens. After a brief interlude for a greater part of last year, Mumbaikars are feeling the chills again, as the dreaded swine flu virus is back to stalk the city. Wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A 17-year-old has died of bird flu in Indonesia. He is the country's sixth fatality from the virus so far this year. Health ministry spokeswoman Murti Utami said Tuesday the boy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLanzarote and Fuerteventura see their tourism-dependent economy threatened by plans for exploratory wells in Atlantic Plans approved by the Spanish government this month to start prospecting for oil off ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWILDLIFE medics were last night keeping a close eye on a dolphin which stranded itself on Cromarty beach yesterday. The Scottish SPCA, members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue and the coastguard ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA sperm whale became stranded on Snæfellsnes. According to Skúli Alexanderson, a local resident, the whale is easy to get to and several passers-by have gone down to look at it. “You can go up to the whale...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe eurozone needs "the mother of all firewalls" if it is to protect the EU's single currency from debt contagion, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. Angel Gurr...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours agoBegin a neverending nuclear winter with every country whose religion or oil industry doesn't line up with our interests. Make the water you drink unsafer. Make the food you eat unsafer. Make the air you br...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 22 hours agoThe Gay Secretary The reality here is that *no one in their right mind* in the US State Department, White House, or Pentagon can *possibly* offer the American people* any* honest metric by which "progres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBritain's largest cemetery is on fire after the "tinder box dry conditions" sparked wildfires. The blaze is raging over 17 acres of the 500-acre Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey. Around 40 firef...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPARIS – A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman's attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera news network -- but not by him, French police said Tuesday, raising the specter of a...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 22 hours agoDistracted, busy, insanely busy, working but nothing to show for it. Here's a video:
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*Ghana by Eli Shany אלי שני * Ghana is having elections. *Ghana is doing well. * Its economy is growing at nearly 10 % a year. It has oil, cocoa and gold. The World Bank now describes Ghana as a 'middle-i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoGobabis — Three workers from Farm Kroonster 448 in the Omaheke Region died in the Gobabis State Hospital last week from an illness related to anthrax. It is suspected that five farm workers of Farm Kroons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFloods brought by rain over Southern Luzon hit at least three areas in Oriental Mindoro Tuesday, with authorities evacuating at least 20 people to safer ground. Office of the Civil Defense Region IV-B he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoLOUISA, Va. (AP) - Dominion Virginia Power is repairing a leak in a steam generator pipe at its North Anna Nuclear Power Station in central Virginia but the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission s...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours agonot happy with chemtrailing our lower atmosphere, NASA are starting a pilot scheme to chemtrails the upper reaches of the atmosphere to calculate the 'higher jetstream''s trajectory. Imagine if more Privat...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoVia Kady, from his *committee theatrics* on Anonymous' videos: "I don't believe Members of Parliament should be held hostage," Toews notes, and praises the speaker for upholding the Lamoureux ruling on...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 23 hours agoFirst, I don't buy the criticism John Van Dongen is just trying to keep a job in politics and thinks he would lose as a Liberal in his riding. My experience had been that he is an ethical person and I acce...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours agoIncidents of anti-Semitism are now commonplace in much of Europe; all over Sweden, in Amsterdam & Rotterdam, in Paris, Marseilles & Toulouse and now in Brussels: 'At around 15:40, four individuals of Ara...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHundreds of dead fish were spotted at Ransom Canyon Lake Sunday. Wildlife officials say they "highly suspect" the culprit is Golden Algae. Texas Park and Wildlife biologist Melissa Dudley explains that nea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s defense ministry says an air force helicopter has crashed off the island’s southeast coast and five crew members are missing. The ministry says the S70-C chopper disappeared fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoGuatemalan volcanoes Santiaguito and Fuego increased their activity in the last hours and the authorities recommended on Monday took all the necessary precautions with the surrounding air traffic. The di...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoYou know, this whole F-35 business is absurd to the point of hilarious. Here's the government and air force trying to buy the most expensive warplane ever, sight pretty much unseen, from a company so full ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 hours ago'Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSAO PAULO — Four members of the same Brazilian family were killed by a lightning strike during a heavy storm in the Amazon region. Brazil’s national space institute known as Inpe tracks lightning strikes ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoToday our old friend, former Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter (D-NH), will be joining us for a live blogging session at Crooks and Liars at 2pm (ET). Carol's unlikely grassroots victory in 2006 over a Rah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoReuters) - A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday as the French firm w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of just 1.1 km (0.7 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:22:00 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 227.4 km (141.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:49:48 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSyrian President Bashar al Assad has toured a former rebel stronghold devastated by his forces as Damascus accepted a UN-backed deal to end the bloody conflict. Mr Assad was shown around the Baba Amr di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 108.1 km (67.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:46:38 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) Northeast of Iquique, Ta...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR. v. Mernagh, 2012 ONCA 199: [15] Where the intervention is in the context of a Charter case, whether an intervener has an important perspective distinct from the immediate parties is an important...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 26.2 km (16.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:21:03 UTC Tuesday 27th March 2012 The epicenter was 189 km (117 miles) ESE...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago*NATURAL NEWS* has a very disturbing report. The state of Michigan has a thing about pigs: *"Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day ago[This blog is owned and operated by an unemployed, single woman who depends on the kindness of strangers for all its operating costs, not to mention any personal comforts like food and car insurance. Your ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoWe were treated to a pair of Alberta election polls last night - both showing the PCs and Wildrose in a statistical tie. Given previous 2012 polls have shown Redford between 5 and 37 points ahead, this co...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Well over 10,000 computers used in attack on NDP leadership vote "The company that organized the electronic voting system at the NDP leadership convention is now blaming an orchestrated attack involving te...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoJustices Send Back Gene Case By ANDREW POLLACK Published: March 26, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/business/high-court-orders-new-look-at-gene-patents.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoBiased BBC contributor Graeme writes; "After Jihad, the premier evil that threatens our country is homosexual fascism. I found it striking that as strongly worded as Cardinal O’Brien’sopposition to...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoAs the saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words but sometimes links to news items help a little. Such as this item from Chile in which four men, including the one above, were arrested in connection with...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoA rare positive catch. Brendan Nyhan notes that the NYT and reporters Elisabeth Bumiller and Alliison Kopicki do a great job in writing up the latest Times/CBS survey about Afghanistan -- by placing the re...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoPeriodically, I find very interesting articles that usually do not fit in the overall theme of this blog... But I find to be intriguing enough that I want to share with everyone who reads my material. I c...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThis video is just plain wrong, isn't it? *Thanks(?) to Breitbart TV for the spot.*
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.” “His family should be outraged at the fact that they...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 day ago*Brad Wall continues to amaze. His small minded mentality is driving the film industry from the province of Saskatchewan. In spite of rational and logical arguments to the contrary, Wall has decided to kil...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 1 day agoNakum Journal, an Indigenous Journal is available through Amazon. The first two issues of this journal (hardcopies) are available at: http://www.amazon.com/Nakum-Indigenous-Cultures-Institute/dp/1475028822...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTrayvon Martin was suspended from school three times in the months before he was shot dead by a neighborhood watchman, it emerged today. The new claims, revealed in a leaked school report, paint a differen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA 5-year-old girl jumping on a bed was injured by a bullet early Saturday when a gun beneath the mattress went off, police said. The incident occurred at about 12:22 a.m. Saturday at a Marquette Park resi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA luggage room at one of Logan Airport’s terminals was evacuated Monday morning after a strange odor was detected in a bag. Authorities cleared out the screening room at terminal A, which serves Delta a...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We don’t know if it’s true:* Did George Zimmerman tell Sanford police the truth about the events of February 26? We have no way of knowing. But in this morning’s edition, the Or...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *The Washington Post catches up:* We’re on a semi-reduced work schedule this week due to a matter of national importance. For that reason, we’ll take this occasion to clap oursel...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *We’d have to say it depends:* In this morning’s New York Times, three journalists report the results of a new survey concerning the health care law. To read the report, click he...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day ago[Enenews]: Atlantic: Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech — “Seemed to suggest that the nuclear crisis is not over” — Left out of all major evening news programs (VIDEO) http:/...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Mal Reynolds himself, Nathan Fillion, 41. You know, Castle is reasonably good fun (although I haven't actually seen any of it this season, I don't think, so I have no idea whether it's sl...
- 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 Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoSpring has arrived, and with it the natural urge to reconnect with the land. As an Urban-dweller presently trapped in an area which resembles the opening scenes of Monty Python's Meaning of Life, (albeit ...
- Propranolol: A Drug to Silence Free ThoughtsNews From Atlantis. - 1 day ago<img alt="" border="0" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAMMAAAESCAIAAADPCPbDAAAgAElEQVR4nOy9d3RbVRb2DSGE0ElCSCchhSSkQxpt6AMMDH0gGcoMDH2YoYWQkF4oAVIdx71bvV6Vq6veuyzJtoot2ZZsdVmyJNuyrXrfP44j...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago*March 27, 2012* Washington's relentless pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and alleged whistle-blower Bradley Manning, is no secret. And for some experts, the US government's high-profile...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoThe Council of Canadians, representing electors in seven ridings where "irregularities" have been clearly reported, is pushing the voter suppression scandal into *federal court*. A citizen advocacy group...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoEmpires Then and Now by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research Canada, March 27, 2012 *Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, be
- cause the value of the re...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2012* *Part 2—Journalist dons a new hat:* Watching the press corps assemble the facts is often a troubling experience. Yesterday, we considered a factual conflict about George Zimmerma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar 27 - A wind-driven wildfire scorches around 3,000 acres in Colorado; believed to have been ignited by embers left over from a controlled-burning operation. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoR. v. D.A.R., 2012 NSCA 31 has useful language regarding narrative evidence: [23] Narrative evidence may be admissible for a variety of purposes: to understand the unfolding of events surrounding an offenc...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoSteny Hoyer, the Democratic face of transpartisan political corrupt in the DC Establishment, was in Easton begging voters there to support one of his endangered cronies, Tim Holden. In a lie big enough to...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoAs I mentioned in yesterday's post I had spent the afternoon down around the Snye. While I had a few errands to attend to I couldn't quite contain my inner child who suggested I cross over the Clearwater w...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoLawrence Martin writes this morning that Canada is about to take a sharp right turn. In the process, several of the country's sacred cows will be sent to the abattoir: If there’s a theme, it’s market e...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoSean Payton and New Orleans Saints Scheduled to Meet with Bill Parcells Today ~Bleacher Report Payton surprised by penalty harshness, plans on coaching Saints again ~Hat Tweet~*New Orleans Saints* @*Sa...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago*UPDATE # 1 BELOW * The Syrian government has agreed to accept a peace plan proposed by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, al Jazeera television quoted his spokesman as saying. "The Syrian government ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Stuffed into a time capsule, this ancient university town's local newspaper would give future historians a good idea of the pain that Europe's first financial crisis of the century inflicted o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama voiced doubt on Tuesday on the prospects for progress with Moscow on missile defense until after the November U.S. election as he staunchly defended remarks caught on ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The Supreme Court confronts the core of President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Tuesday when it hears arguments on whether Congress had the power to require most people in the United States...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - A massive cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out of the North Sea from a leak at Total's abandoned Elgin platform forced wider evacuations off the Scottish coast on Tuesday and an air and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Syria has accepted a ceasefire and peace plan drawn up by U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan, his spokesman said on Tuesday, even as Syrian troops thrust into Lebanon to battle rebe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Financial Times) -- To listen to many eurozone policymakers, one would imagine all is now well with their two-year long struggle with the sovereign debt crisis. Progress on plans for a beefed-up "firewa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- President Barack Obama expressed hope Tuesday that the United States and Pakistan can arrive at a "balanced approach" to relations as he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- North Korea said Tuesday that it would not abandon its plan to carry out a satellite launch next month despite recent warnings from President Barack Obama over the move. The North "will not give...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and miles from the ruptured well at the heart of the disaster, researchers reported Monday....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- World leaders are meeting in Seoul this week to discuss how to deal with the threat of nuclear terrorism. The effort to prevent the misuse of nuclear materials and the spread of nuclear weapons ...
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