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FAIRBANKS, Alaska— A faulty valve is suspected of having caused a leak at a North Pole refinery. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says the leak of about 1,800 gallons of crude oil was discovered Sunday dur... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
RAWALPINDI, March 2: As many as 40 nurses of Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) rushed to the emergency ward of the hospital on Friday after they suffered suspected food poisoning. The nursing students came to... - posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 minutes ago
------------------------------ *Go here for original* Friday, March 2, 2012 Arizona Election Fraud: Access Tucson Breaks Media Blackout (The show was a success and video will be posted soon). Fr... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
Steady rain has set in across northeastern Victoria, bringing a renewed threat of major flooding as swollen rivers overtake several rural communities. The army was called in to the Shepparton area ahead ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 minutes ago"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and several foreign ministers of European and Arab countries met in London yesterday ahead of the international “Friends of Palestine’’ meeting in Tunis. They dis...
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"Missing: 5.4 million workers" February 08, 2012|Katie Johnston, Globe Staff Millions of Americans have vanished from the US labor force in the past three years, many of them so discouraged by long, fruitl... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 33 minutes ago"Pa. airport scrutinized after scare" Associated Press, March 03, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - A day after a sport utility vehicle crashed through a fence and sped onto a runway, causing an approaching plane to hav...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 38 minutes ago"Banks face backlash as they bid for top sites" February 20, 2012|By Todd Wallack Across the region, *financial institutions are gobbling up prime commercial spaces*, edging out other merchants and *spark...
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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 14:45:13 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) SSW from ... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 41 minutes ago"Emotions have been on display during the past two weeks in a courtroom of Suffolk Superior Court, as a prosecutor presented the case against two men charged with plotting a home invasion that led to the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago(CNN) -- Thirteen people were shot outside a nightclub in Tempe, Arizona, police said Saturday. No fatalities had been reported from the shooting, which occurred late Friday, but two people were in seriou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoSchool shootings are far more frequent in America than in other countries, although terrible massacres have occurred in Russia, Israel, and several European nations. In the high-crime neighborhoods of in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes ago(CNN) -- Syria endured more bloodshed and misery Saturday as regime shelling persisted in Homs and a car bomb exploded in Daraa, where the anti-government uprising was born last year. "Where is the free ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 46 minutes ago"At least 12 dead as storms ravage Midwest, South; Dozens hurt in tornadoes; towns in Mo., Ill. take brunt" by Jim Suhr and Jim Salter | Associated Press, March 01, 2012 HARRISBURG, Ill. - A predawn* to...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 48 minutes ago"Washington congressman Dicks says he will retire SEATTLE - Democrat Norm Dicks shocked the political establishment yesterday, announcing he will retire at the end of the year. The top Democrat on the pow...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 52 minutes ago*SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2012* *Epilogue—Why we’re so pitifully clueless:* At the start of the last GOP debate, Gilbert Fidler of Gilbert, Arizona asked a perfectly sensible question. The honor was granted by...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 54 minutes agoI'm driving today, trying to dodge the bad weather. So no blogging till this evening. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
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Issued/Updated: Mar 03, 2012 at 1403 UTC Expires: Mar 03, 2012 at 1900 UTC SEVERE WEATHER THREAT CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS ALC061-069-031540- AL . ALABAMA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE GENEVA HOUSTON $... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
(CNN) -- As daylight emerged through the clouds Saturday, rescuers searched for survivors after a string of vicious storms obliterated entire towns and killed dozens of people throughout the South and Mid... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoSome 3,500 people have been told to stay away from their homes in Australia as flooding threatens large swathes of the state of New South Wales (NSW). Up to three-quarters of the state is covered by wate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 127.1 km (79 miles), the quake hit at 13:35:53 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) WNW from Happy Valley, Alas...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 hour agoToday is International Women's Day. We've come a long way. And we've still got a long way to go. Globally, the picture looks much worse. See the current issue of Socialist Worker for a collection of IWD...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 hour ago------------------------------ Defending Clean Elections is about more than Clean Elections. 29 Feb 2012 07:20 pm *Posted by: Donna* I’ve been meaning to blog about this since I saw it Satur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.4 km (22 miles), the quake hit at 13:26:12 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles) ENE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:19:55 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 180 km (111 miles) West of...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 hour agoI think I'll side with WOMEN on this one, instead if DISGUSTING PIG Rush Limbaugh. Remaining DITTOHEADS: start exercising your RIGHT HAND if you're a righty (your LEFT HAND, if you're a left), because if...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 hour agoI've got a short piece in the Boulder Daily Camera today on Rick Santorum's comment last week about that "snob" in the White House who wants to see more college graduates. Here is how it ends: Given ho...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 hour agoHurricane Katrina flood ruling upheld by federal appeals court ~Mark Schleifstein ~The ruling also clears the way for a September trial by other Lower 9th Ward residents over whether the corps and the Wash...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago*Blue America is supporting independent-minded New Hampshire Democrat Carol Shea-Porter for Congress against corrupt teabagger Frank Guinta. The crazy teabaggers who seized control of the New Hampshire le...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoMarch 3, 2012 The eurozone's January unemployment rate has hit an all-time high, leaving a record number of people jobless. Press TV has conducted an interview with Max Keiser, a journalist and broadca...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoMarch 3, 2012 UK web surfers have caught a grim glimpse of the future with Internet users being threatened with 10 years in jail for "illegal downloading" after a prominent music file-sharing site was s...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 53.1 km (33 miles), the quake hit at 11:01:47 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) South of Coquimbo, Chile No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoURGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 67 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 440 AM EST SAT MAR 3 2012 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Red Cross says it has been told by Syrian authorities it cannot enter the devastated Baba Amr district in the city of Homs until mines and booby traps are cleared. Its aid convoy arrived on Friday bu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*And she's already trailing** Brown in the polls**. * "Backing unions a delicate mission for Elizabeth Warren" by Noah Bierman | Globe Staff, March 02, 2012 Organized labor leaders have been among Demo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMar. 2 - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu dismisses talk of renewed negotiations with Iran aimed at preventing it from building a nuclear weapon. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoMar. 2 - Chunks of the Argentine glacier Perito Moreno break off and splash into water.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - At least 15 people were wounded on Saturday when a suicide bomber drove a four-wheel drive vehicle packed with explosives at a paramilitary police base in a Sahara desert town, local media and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed two people and wounded several others in the southern Syrian town of Deraa on Saturday, the Syrian state news agency Sana said. "The terrorist explosion led to the mar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - BP Plc has reached an estimated $7.8 billion deal with businesses suing over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company said on Friday, but the oil giant still faces claims by the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The recent burning of Qurans at a NATO base in Afghanistan involved five American servicemen and a local translator, according to a NATO official familiar with the investigatio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCuliacan, Mexico (CNN) -- Walking around the main cemetery in Culiacan, Mexico, is like being in Disneyland for the dead. Known as Jardines del Humaya, the cemetery holds huge mausoleums made of 30-foot-...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago* Malta* *120 French Officers & Troops, Supporting Syria Rebels, Captured* *The Sectarian Nature of the Battle in Syria* [image: childhood (16) on the road] *canecrabe* SYRIA: HOMS IN THE HELL OF ARMED G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(CNN) -- A devastating storm system moved across the United States on Friday, spawning a slew of tornadoes that contributed to at least 28 fatalities in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. National Weather Serv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSENDAI (Kyodo) -- The number of deaths officially recognized as related to the March 2011 disaster, such as those resulting from the stresses of living in evacuation shelters, totaled 1,331 in five prefec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 192.5 km (119.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:05 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 201 km (125 miles) Northeast from Calama,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 94.1 km (58.5 miles), the quake hit at 09:24:14 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 198 km (123 miles) Northeast fr...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoFormer Graham County Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack ( http://www.sheriffmack.com/) closes out the January 31st public event in Las Vegas, Nevada. He explains how a county commissioner and a county sheriff...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAOMORI (Kyodo) -- A Russian expert on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster told a symposium in Aomori Prefecture on Friday that it is imperative to cleanse food of radioactive substances released by the Fu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHAVANA (Kyodo) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro took part in a gathering for Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO on Thursday in Havana and called on them ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has notified the government of a plan to set up a new temperature gauging device replacing a troubled thermometer at a reactor at its crippled Fuku...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- The science minister and other top ministry officials decided to withhold radiation forecast data from the public four days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNearly a year has passed since the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and while some progress has been made in decommissioning the power station, operations continue to be plagued with proble...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSome 6,800 metric tons of rice straw contaminated with radioactive substances leaked from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant remains in eight prefectures with no immediate prospect of dispos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLocal governments and farmers in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures have been struggling unsuccessfully to dispose of hundreds of metric tons of rice straw, sewage sludge and ash tainted with radiation from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAstronomers have been left scratching their heads after the Hubble Space Telescope found a huge, dark lump in space which should not exist. The dark matter in the distant galaxy cluster Abell 520, 2.4 bil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThere is a one in eight chance of a solar 'megastorm' before 2014, according to a Californian scientist - and other space weather experts agree that Earth is facing a burst of violent activity that will p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBarack Obama last night delivered an extraordinary speech at a fundraising event in New York, comparing himself to legendary civil rights leaders. The US President gave a speech in which he likened himsel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe parents of a toddler who died from malnutrition months after being released from foster care have been charged with her murder. Jennifer Dalhover, 36, and Joseph Sandoval, 21, from Los Angeles, appear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn American-born jihadist was sentenced to 27 years in prison today for trying to join the mujaheddin in Afghanistan so he could kill U.S. troops. The judge called Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu, 23, a traitor...
- Mars will glow red in the sky this weekend... and you'll be able to spot it even without a telescope
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStargazers and astronomers are excitedly waiting to see Mars in the night sky this weekend when the planet is at its closest to Earth in over two years - making glow visibly red even to the naked eye. Th... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA former BBC and ITV presenter has been jailed for six years after admitting to a string of sexual assaults on 'starstruck' schoolgirls. Peter Rowell, from South Gloucestershire, used his position as a DJ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThis was the horrific scene after a 200 tonne boulder hurtled on to a picturesque French village, killing a motorist. The massive rock not only turned over a car being driven by the unidentified victim, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHe is nicknamed the ‘Teflon Don’ because criminal charges against him never seem to stick. Accused of three murders and a conspiracy to flood the UK with cocaine, Arran Coghlan was always cleared or char...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours agoThe work of the CIA, MI5, MI6 and MOSSAD? The 'Bedford suitcase' may have contained the bomb that brought down PanAm 103 over Lockerbie. *The Bedford suitcase was put on PanAm 103 at London's heathrow air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Dominica Region, Leeward Islands at a depth of 142.8 km (88.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:40:28 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) Sou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThey have the same distinctively shaped nose; the same eyes; same mouth; same high forehead; same jawline; the same arched eyebrows. So could the woman in this grainy passport photograph — wanted for qu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoImage: Major General Andrew Mackay, said the mission in Afghanistan had been a 'series of misadventures and strategic blunders' Britain was accused tonight of covering up nearly 60 per cent of airstrikes ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 14.4 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:15:30 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (88 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Chukotka, Russia at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 08:10:57 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) NNW from Provideniya, Russia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA legal aid bill of more than £5 million was paid for by taxpayers to defend a fraudulent businessmen who still owns millions of pounds worth of property. Before he was jailed for fraud in 2008 Virendra ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSchoolchildren dressing up as Nazis and a billboard advert showing Hitler were just the start. Thailand's obsession with so-called 'Nazis chic' just won't go away - despite it provoking anger and astonis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA leading investment banker is accused of stabbing a cab driver, threatening to kill him over a fare and then bragging he wouldn't be arrested because he pays $10,000 taxes. (not bad when earning 2 millio...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 7 hours agoAlan Boyle of Cosmic Log discusses an amusing picture of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520 which is 2.4 billion light years from us, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The positions of the colors ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA hospital patient plummeted to his death from the fourth-floor after leaping out of a window on his ward. The man - who has not been named - jumped from the West Block of the Queen’s Medical Centre in N...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 7 hours ago* * *Late yesterday afternoon, I read something that sent chills down my spine...** ** **Mr. Ray Finkelstein [got chosenite?] QC, a left-wing former Federal Court Judge with no media experience, at the req...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWhen the parishioners of St Mary’s saw the state of their 13th century church after thieves tore lead worth £50,000 from the roof they tried to be forgiving. But it seems even the most lenient-minded cou...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoThe surprise here is that thefriction produced by falling raindrops is a source of energy release equivalentto the associated wind turbulence and can not be ignored as one is inclined todo. One only h...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoOnce in a while you see a story that is also inspiring. Here we have a string of new ideas been triedout and properly funded in a way that plausibly short circuits a lot of theresearch approval proces...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoI am not sure that I buy thisthesis, but the claim is that the oven bird has fewer habitats. At the same time it is argued that there isless leaf litter left on the forest floor. Perhaps, except less ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 7 hours agoI have never been comfortablewith the name of ‘antimatter’ and this work conforms to that opinion. We are still dealing with large structures inthe particle universe and while destructive pairing is pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe march of secularism means Britain may no longer be a Christian country in just 20 years, a report said yesterday. If trends continue, the number of non-believers is set to overtake the number of Chri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis astonishing series of pictures, Simferopol Zoo in the Ukraine, illustrates how, in the world of the brown bear, there are no agonised disputes over corporal punishment of children. First, the mother ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 362 km (224.9 miles), the quake hit at 06:00:44 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 211 km (131 miles) WSW of Ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAround 3500 people across NSW face an indefinite wait before they can return to their homes as continuous heavy rain swells rivers across the state. Almost 2000 people in Sydney's flood-threatened north-...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours agoA Swedish study looked at all women diagnosed with cervical cancer in Sweden amid 1999 and 2001 suggest that Women diagnosed with cervical cancer as a result of a smear test have a far better chance of b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFour men have been jailed over a prison riot which saw masked inmates running amok, setting fire to buildings and overpowering guards. Trouble flared at Ford Open Prison when inmates rebelled at alcohol ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:06:31 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) SSW of Obihiro, Hokkaido, ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoAn Alberta MP, Tory naturally, thinks it's high time the Harper tyranny put an end to opposition questions. A supposed million dollar cost of responding to a few hundred written questions from opposition...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago*Thousands of citizens are anticipated to line the streets of Belfast afterward for the funeral of comedian Frank Carson, who was born in the town *. He was a usual on both Irish and British TV throughout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 81.3 km (50.5 miles), the quake hit at 04:48:40 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) ESE of Surigao, Min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 120.6 km (74.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:52:13 UTC Saturday 3rd March 2012 The epicenter was 109 km (67 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Northwest Territories, Canada at a depth of 17.8 km (11.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:29:22 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago*According to the agency's inspector general hackers gained full functional control of key NASA computers in 2011. Mr. Martin outlined how the society suffered 5,408 processor safety incidents between 201...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 66.3 km (41.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:22:18 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) Northe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 21:30:49 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 147 km (91 miles) Northeast of Kashi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 60.6 km (37.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:52:29 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 123 km (76 miles) NNW of Ternate, Molucc...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUPDATE: US National Guard has been deployed in at least two states. Citizens are being warned to not venture outside to clean up; more storms incoming. UPDATE: As many as 90 tornadoes may have touched dow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAt least 20 people have been killed in the US after dozens of tornadoes tore through several states. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another five in neighbouring Kentucky and two mor...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago*Sex wins* and the Christian fundies lose. Spurred by hundreds of requests from the public, the principals of the annual Taboo Naughty but Nice Show will bring back the recently cancelled show to Abbotsf...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 9 hours ago*A number of Scandinavian trees survived the previous Ice Age, demanding an extensively detained idea that they were killed off by the enormous ice piece that covered the area*. According to the research...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoJeez, take away their prepared script and they go straight to the waste treatment plant. Now there is evidence that the Harper Conservatives *used US calling companies* during the last election campaign. ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours agoGeorge W. Bush and George Washington. Ancient Iran and Islamic Iran. War and Peace. America's dangerous obsession with regime change in the Middle East has accelerated the decline and collapse of the ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 11 hours agoMany people remember a few years back, where in a major interview with several news medias, the Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, said clearly that it was his hope to have regime change happen in Israel. H...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*Provided by the Globe*: "Details emerge on Ohio shooting suspect" Associated Press / March 1, 2012 CHARDON, Ohio - The teenager accused in an Ohio school shooting struggled with a broken family and did p...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*Think of it as an education as to the way the world works, kids. * "Lynn officials add lesson to 29 teens’ suspensions" February 28, 2012|By Akilah Johnson LYNN - A *videotaped afterschool brawl in which...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Hazing issue ensnares Dartmouth president; Student’s account shakes campus" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff, March 02, 2012 HANOVER, N.H. - When Jim Kim became president of *Dartmouth College* in 2009...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Casino talk hits a chord in Taunton" March 01, 2012|Brian MacQuarrie and Martine Powers, Globe Staff TAUNTON - Mayor Tom Hoye called a casino resort a one-time chance for this struggling city. Mashpee Wa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*If no one wants the job.... * "Deadline near, state gaming panel seats unfilled; Pay level may be narrowing candidate field" by Mark Arsenault | Globe Staff, February 27, 2012 A number of potential ca...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*I'm trying to get to the antique show.... * "For casinos, road to approval starts with traffic relief" February 22, 2012 |Mark Arsenault, Globe Staff As it prepares its bid for a casino resort in Brimfiel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours agoMeditative landscape shots & Enya's beautiful song "Boadicea" from the album "The Celts". - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKQwgpaLR6o&feature=related
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 12 hours agoI thought I would post a few aerial shots I've found of the city to give you an idea of the lay of the land here so to speak. Downtown Fort McMurray looking southwest with the Athabasca and Thickwood Heig...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“On the right, surrounded by blue spiral arms, is spiral galaxy M81. On the left, marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. This stunning vista shows these two mammoth galaxies locked in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in y...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHR-Gx7fS0&feature=channel_video_title
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agof the guns have fallen silent in Homs, they have done so only in the sense described by the Roman historian Tacitus: “They created a wasteland and called it peace.” After a savage bombardment lasting more ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours ago(By *American Zen*'s Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) (*Update*: From reader BushSucks21: "Hello mike. Good work. One little item however. The story of granting personhood to sperm was a protest bill re...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMariano Rajoy, prime minister of Spain, said the budget deficit would be 5.8pc of GDP in 2012 - more than 30pc higher than the 4.4pc target agreed by Brussels. In a move that was heralded in Spain as defi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA powerful severe storm system moved across the United States on Friday, spawning a slew of tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana that contributed to at least eight fatalities and threatened even more death ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA day after Syrian forces overran the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, opposition groups said Friday that government forces had executed 14 civilians there and the Red Cross said an aid convoy seeking to d...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours ago*Let's just nuke up some popcorn, sit back and relax, and enjoy the thugs and loons duking it out.* *"[Charles] Koch's actions in Kansas court yesterday represent an effort by him to transform Cato from a...
- posted by Catelli at Not Quite Unhinged - 13 hours agoDid you know that Shaw has proxy servers that it makes available to its customers to use? That surprised me. I refuse to use proxy servers. For one, they break the Internet. To use a proxy server, you confi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“Four Fiscal Phonies”* by Paul Krugman “Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama’s deficits are leading us toward a “Gr...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoI might start looking closely at all three HarperCon won elections and combing through the complaint files. Harper has had one immediate goal for his party since taking the helm: Majority. He failed to ac...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoNuclear power is probably mankind's only real hope of weaning our civilization off fossil fuels in time to avert runaway global warming. By nuclear power I don't mean the first or second-generation reactor...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoAt the heart of this generation's retread argument for post-partisanship in all things political, there is another, though more dangerous, version of rule by the experts lurking there. Society engineered ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours ago*Lawsuits aside*, I do think it is a lovely and truthful thing indeed to read that a business that did business with Conservatives is publicly declaring themselves to be *"shunned, avoided, and exposed to ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoWaves of tornadoes at this time of year? The U.S. doesn't get tornadoes until much later in the year or at least that used to be the case. But that was then, this is now. It can't be climate change, tha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 15 hours agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com *Updated all evening* The Stratfor e-mails,published by Wikileaks, reveal a State Department source telling Stratfor thatmore than one per...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours agoHumanity is struggling to survive Its forces of altruism and foresightedness struggleagainst the forces of greed and corruption. Unfortunately, time is running out for survival. Listen, you who run org...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoCorps of Engineers is liable for Katrina flooding damages!~A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled the federal government isn't entitled to immunity from lawsuits bla...
- posted by Phila at Bouphonia - 16 hours agoA Daily Caller columnist recently argued that the government should force food stamp recipients to buy low-grade food in drab packaging, in order to teach these soi-disant "poor people" a tough lesson abo...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 16 hours ago*FBI (more) on Body* *Email-ID 1666377* *Date 2011-05-02 15:11:03* *From burton@stratfor.com* *To secure@stratfor.com* Down & dirty done, He already sleeps with the fish.... ** Fred's Note: Although I don'...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 17 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *This is your New York Times:* Good grief. Andrew Rosenthal is the editorial page editor of the New York Times. This is his attempt to analyze “Santorum’s Woman Problem:” ROSENTH...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoCommerce City, Colorado, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“The Big Kill”* by Chet Raymo “Here's an interesting graph from the May 11, 2006, issue of “Nature,” from a paper by R. Dale Guthrie titled "New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 17 hours ago*The Conservative War Against Women* For organizations which argue that if we just had more gays... or women... or African-Americans (you pick the group) everything would be so much better (at least for t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*“Evidence”* “Where do I live? If I had no address, as many people do not, I could nevertheless say that I lived in the same town as the lilies of the field, and the still waters. Spring, and all through...
- *Since numerous Linux KDE updates still rain in* and having received a letter from my Pension Fund explaining they probably can only continue paying less (due to new regulations) in the near future, I'll ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoSorry for the relatively slow posting this week; for some reason every time I turned around something was keeping me away from writing. Should be back to a normal pace next week. Can't wait to be working w...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoWhat's most infuriating about the fierce debate over global warming is everything that's left out. The denialists act as though the fact and severity of warming is the issue instead of the larger issue o...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago*Guest post by Vedran Vuk of **Casey Research** * Recently, my parents were considering purchasing some real estate. As the financial professional in the family, they asked me, "What do you think? Will ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 19 hours agoProfessor Lawrence Ball, Johns Hopkins University, NBER, and IMF (if you can believe he's complaining!) argues that the need to please your immediate community (social psychology) explains quite a bit abou...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*I took it hook, line, and sinker. * "In experiment, US offers up to $500 for fishermen not to fish; Approach leaves Mass. saltwater devotees uneasy" by Jenn Abelson | Globe Staff, March 02, 2012 Pat J...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours agoIn effect, that's what it is. It is an election campaign action squad of the Conservative Party of Canada. Their job? Concentrate efforts to win swing ridings for the Conservatives. From the *Hill Times...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 19 hours ago*FiveThirtyEight*: Nasty Nate Silver looks at the Democrats chances of picking up Olympia Snowe's seat. Short version--it's probably a Dem pick-up. *BradBlog*: Brad Friedman on the possibility of a brokere...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Smells like bulls*** to me*: "Snowe shocks GOP with decision not to run again" February 29, 2012|By Tracy Jan and Bryan Bender WASHINGTON - Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican senator from Maine known ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*It's just up the road, folks.* "Christian owner sought for school; Falwell’s university is at top of list for 217-acre campus in Northfield" by G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Globe Correspondent, February 28,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours ago*Anonymous* dropped its Vic Toews bombshell today. It's a very serious allegation of abuse of power which, if it stands, goes to the heart of the Harper government. I did a post on it this morning but, b...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours agoCochabamba conference by Michelle Cook, Navajo*RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: RESTORINGINDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT* *International IndigenousConference APRIL 4 - 6, 2012 * *at Haskell India...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMore tests are to be carried out at the Norfolk and Norwich University hospital following the discovery of a bacteria blamed for 3 babies' deaths in Belfast. Higher than normal levels of Pseudomonas have...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*President Barack Obama is a mass killer of innocent civilians. This demonic madman is anti-American and anti-human scum.* *The Atlantic*: Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoA Jewish man was riding on the subway reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached the newspaper ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"Facebook: World’s Most Appalling Spying Machine"* by Madison Ruppert “A report published by the London Sunday Times has revealed that Facebook has been accessing and reading the personal text messages ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON — High levels of pollution may be turning the planet's oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, with unknown consequences for future sea life, researchers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunfights, military airstrikes and a large suicide bombing on Friday killed as many as 70 people in the tribal agencies bordering Peshawar, the provincial capital of northwestern Pak...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*I really should start looking before I leap.* "Birthdays well worth the wait; Feb. 29 celebrants say joys outweigh complications" February 29, 2012|By Billy Baker, Globe Staff For leapers, those born on ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 hours agoSteve Harper used the Chretien-era "sponsorship scandal" as a springboard to power. Even though Paul Martin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Gomery Commission, Harper didn't hesitate to smear Martin ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA gruesome ‘Alien-like’ parasite which eats the tongues of bream and then 'replaces' them in its victims mouths is spreading in the Mediterranean. Almost half the fish in some areas are infected with the ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*Life is a movie. History is a crime drama. The world is a theatre. *
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoIt's not just that he's a waste of good room air or even that he *continually falls asleep on watch*. It's that he clearly can't stand veterans. When Jim Lowther and David MacLeod, of Veterans Emergency...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours ago*1. Political scandal.* 2. *Ally. * 3. *Shooting war. * It wouldn't be the *first time* for a Conservative PM.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoImagine if this scary customer turned up in your wardrobe. Meet the world's largest moth, known as Attacus or Atlas, as it serenely sits on a road in north-east India. With its astonishing 25cm or one fo...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoMy student, Eun, brought this new legislation to my attention and provided the links. It has passed the House and is moving to the Senate. Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illeg...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoTenure Perches in the Soul by Douglas Storm I. “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoYou might want to check your complaints registry regarding polling station staff in the 2008 election. It is hearsay on my part, but I trust the source, that conservative operatives were boasting about inf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago(CNN) -- Residents in northeast Alabama assessed the damage Friday caused by at least two apparent tornadoes in the area, including blows to a high school and a prison. There were no immediate reports o...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoTGB Newswire, 12 July 2012: Concern among Canadians is growing after the entire body of Conservative MPs appears to have vanished. RCMP yesterday finally confirmed rumours that the prime minister and his f...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 21 hours agoThere's a report circulating in Washington from a Democratic think tank, the Center for American Progress, that enumerates the dozen House votes in which Republican Members of Congress most clearly voted ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Western Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:33 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 184 km (114 miles) NNW of Lumarin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe Syrian government has blocked the Red Cross from entering the stricken Homs neighbourhood of Baba Amr amid reports of revenge killings by government forces. A convoy of seven trucks loaded with emer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe bodies of Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and a French photographer have been handed over to the Red Cross by Syrian authorities. Ms Colvin and Remi Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in the besi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Screenshot of the 2012 Weblog Award winners for ‘Best Science or Technology Weblog’ and 'Best Canadian Weblog'. The winners are notorious deniers of climate science. http://2012.bloggi.es] In a ...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 21 hours agoFoster Freiss thinks that women should forget about birth control pills and “put an aspirin between their knees.” Rush Limbaugh thinks that any woman, who seeks to have her employee insurance pay for her ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoIf they contain anything *like this*, Elections Canada will need respirators to find the guns through the smoke. Astrid Dimond said she had been called six times for Conservative donations during the la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 168.4 km (104.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:31 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 195 km (121.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:48:25 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 384 km (238 miles)...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: In this photo released by The Royal Australian Air Force, an Australian Air Force helicopter flies over flooded property during an evacuation of flood victims, 29 miles south of Charleville in Qu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoNate Silver has an excellent look back at how pre-primary polling is doing this year. The short answer is that polling a week out is way off, and only in the last three days are the polls really accurate. ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoBy Environment News Service 29 February 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10219-fifteen-near-misses-at-us-nuclear-plants-in-2011 WASHINGTON, DC, (ENS) - The Union of Concerned Sci...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 22 hours agoI had heard from my thesis adviser at Brown University, Philip J. Bray, stories of his thesis adviser at Harvard, Norman Ramsey. Despite the fact that Brown and Harvard were separated by only about 40 mil...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours ago[image: This graph shows the correlation between rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa with rising CO2 levels in the nearby ocean, at Station Aloha. As more CO2 accumulates...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoBonuses Dip on Wall St., but Far Less Than Earnings. New York Times. By Kevin Roose. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/as-bank-profits-plunge-wall-street-bonuses-fall-modestly/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours agoYears ago, we would discuss a potential collision of the Earth with the 2004 MN 4 asteroid – also known as 99942 Apophis – on Friday, 13th of April, 2029. The estimated diameter of this rock was 270 mete...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 22 hours agoI'm just going to make this short and not-so-sweet: Rush Limbaugh is a human being only in a biological, anthropological sense in which pus runs through his hardened veins and arteries instead of blood. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.2.12”* by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "The Middle East is hot and getting hotter. Reports are out that the Pentagon is preparing aerial refueling for Israeli Jets. U.S. militar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“When People Come to Believe that Deficits DO Matter”* By Joel Bowman “Here’s a headline for you, Fellow Reckoner: “Blood and spittle on pub floor, to little avail” That was on the front page of the Sydn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also warned U.S. ally Israel that a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoGreek bond holders are going to be required to take a 70% loss on their holdings. So far, however, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said that the Greek bailout will NOT trigger cred...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 145.4 km (90.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:28 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) Southeast of...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoIsraeli prime minister Benny Netanyahu is in town and his visit makes plain that he's not interested in friendly countries supporting Israel, it's their obedience he's after. No problem with Steve Harper....
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours agoIsrael is a vampire state. It feeds on American blood and money. Without them, it cannot survive. Pat Buchanan *writes:* "S.R. 380 points directly toward a U.S. war on Iran. Who wants that war? Netanya...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 23 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *What the heck has Obama proposed:* Yesterday, the far-reaching Blunt amendment went down to a narrow defeat. It would have let every employer pick and choose what to include in hi...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoVia *Kady*. - *Elections Canada has received a high volume of complaints in recent days as a result of MPs and political parties calling on the public to send information to the agency. More th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Icebergs in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon, which is constantly growing as the Vatnajökull glacier – Europe’s largest – melts. Photograph by Olaf Otto Becker from his book, 'Under the Nordic Light:...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Aerial view of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, nearly a year after the meltdowns. Workers begin pouring cement onto the seabed at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on 28 February 2012...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 23 hours agoRight now the Cons are "reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay in the last election before Elections Canada investigators arrive next week*,*" rep...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 23 hours ago"You can't kill and talk at the same time." - William Luers,former U.S. Ambassador & senior State Dept. official In 2006, after Palestinians democratically elected Hamas to the shock and chagrin of both ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNASA’s inspector general revealed in congressional testimony that a space agency computer was stolen last year with the command codes to control the International Space Station. In a statement given to a ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *Queen of the fragrant begonias:* The sheer stupidity of the upper-end press corps is often a thing to behold. Why are we the people so hopelessly uninformed about major budget to...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoCitizens of Nerd Nation, I invite you to ingest (if you haven't already) this Geek-Hall-of-Fame-Worthy post. Therein, Rod Hilton explains how to properly introduce newcomers to the Star Wars films. Ther...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoI love it when Charlie Pierce gets optimistic. He gives a rave review for President Obama's speech at a community college in New Hampshire yesterday. I especially liked this part: If that is the way Obam...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The KS Endeavor fire at the Funiwa Field in Nigeria, 23 January 2012. Chevron] By Emma Amaize and Sam Oyadongha 2 March 2012 Forty-eight days after the January 16, Chevron Nigeria Limited, rig g...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoDid Vic Toews reward one of his mistresses with an appointment to the Manitoba Court of Queens Bench? That's the allegation and, it's claimed, the reason Harper removed Toews as justice minister to protec...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Dravosburg man killed his fellow security guard, stole more than $2 million from their armored vehicle after picking up money at a casino, visited his parents' home, then took off, authorities said on We...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Thunderstorm supercell forming over Lusk, Wyoming. B. Keagen of Casper, Wyoming via winchesterweather.org.uk] By JEREMY PELZER Star-Tribune capital bureau 23 February 2012 CHEYENNE – State Rep....
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012* *Part 4—King of the potted plants:* In this morning’s New York Times, Floyd Norris devotes his Business Day column to Rick Santorum’s budget proposals. What Norris finds isn’t pre...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Drought risk in 2012 across England and Wales. environment-agency.gov.uk] 24 February 2012 (BBC) – Ongoing dry weather over the spring and summer threatens to place more areas of England in a st...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to the great Laraine Newman, 60. Overshadowed by the multiple comic geniuses around her, but still very funny. And the good stuff: 1. Who are you going to consult to understand what happen...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: ENDANGERED: A sea otter in Monterey Bay, where food supplies are limited. Universal Images Group / Getty Images] By INGFEI CHEN 27 February 2012 MONTEREY, California – On a fog-shrouded morning ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoWhat The Mayan Elders Are Saying About 2012 Carlos Barrios, a Mayan Elder is a ceremonial priest and spiritual guide of the Eagle Clan. What follows are his insights: *“Anthropologists visit the temp...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoIt remains to be seen just how involved the Conservative Party was in Robocon, but it certainly doesn't help that they can't keep their story straight. It was all Michael Sona, it was rogue third parties, ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Flooded industrial park in Thailand, October 2011. Getty] By Patrick Thibodeau, pthibodeau@computerworld.com 1 March 2012 Scientists expect that climate change will increase the frequency and ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*Owe Aku International Justice Project: Planning and Strategy for World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014* Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas gather in Puno, Peru for the 4th Continental Indig...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoColson Whitehead is now officially one of my Favourite Writers. I last gushed about him here, after reading his excellent novel *Apex Hides the Hurt*. That post also contains links to earlier raves, especi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoThere is seemingly a bottomless well of nonsense on disasters and climate change. I have long ago accepted that such nonsense is, like the presence of arguments rejecting the basic science of climate cha...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day agoI'll avoid the pitfall of quoting Polonius about brevity (hint: Polonius is a blowhard being satirized by Shakespeare and not passing on pearls of wisdom). So instead, I'll credit Stephen Krashen [1] for h...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago*Contributor: "YYC"* To all those who visited today on the strength of my promise to be back in action by Friday, thank you very much. But sorry, I've been having some Bell Canada phone jack probs that hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 50.5 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:40:13 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) Northeast from Kara...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoProudly, A Putz: From the Last Person Andrew Breitbart Publicly Insulted ~CenLamar Blood drive being held for shot officers; recovery could take quite a while About all this brouhaha surrounding Jerl Kers...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoBBC Radio 4 lunchtime news included a piece about the latest EU summit. I did like the way the reporter referred to the imposition of new governments on Greece & Italy with just the words 'change of govern...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIn 2010-- a year when Republicans surged everywhere-- I think less than 5 Democratic incumbents actually *increased* their support from the voters. One was Chellie Pingree of Maine, who Rachel Maddow int...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoAt Research Fortnight I have a critique up of the UK House of Lords report on departmental chief science advisers. The House of Lords report can be found here in PDF. Here is an excerpt: [M]any of the r...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 1 day agoThe National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), which is the employee-side lawyers’ organization, just released a study called *Judicial Hostility to Workers’ Rights: The Case for Professional Diversit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPYONGYANG, North Korea — A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoZAMBOANGA CITY -- Ninety-nine people were hospitalized for suffocation, nausea and eye irritation, while thousands of residents were evacuated after a chemical leaked from an ice plant in a west coast vil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:18:38 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 112 km (69 miles) ES...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day ago*I am so pleased this morning.* My blog was mentioned in an piece of correspondence from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The ALEC assholes are monitoring me. And well they should. And...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThis petition from Avaaz calls on the RCMP and Elections Canada to expand their investigation beyond the one riding in Guelph, to third parties, including all robocall contracts, and all ridings where misc...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 day agoYou know, I really want to believe this thing will grow uglier and get out of control. Massive, systematic and coordinated misinformation, all with the express purpose of disenfranchising voters? If this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 12:11:30 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) Southeast...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHaaretz's editor-in-chief Aluf Benn says PM's planned trip to Washington will be the most fateful of his political career. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington will be the most...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo men have been found guilty of stealing from a Malaysian student as they pretended to help him during last summer's riots in London. Ashraf Rossli, 20, had been in the UK for just a month when he was a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Red Cross convoy has arrived in the Syrian city of Homs and is set to deliver supplies to the Baba Amr district after a month-long siege. The Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent have organised the seven-l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIstanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A bomb appearing to target police officers exploded Thursday in an Istanbul neighborhood near the ruling Justice and Development Party headquarters in the city, authorities said....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister for 41 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in the Darfur region. Abdel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The remains of what was Christchurch Cathedral, whose shattered spire became a symbol of the New Zealand city's quake devastation, is to be dismantled after Anglican church officials said the ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The opposition accused Syrian forces of executing 10 people Friday in a shattered rebel stronghold in Homs as Britain's leader warned President Bashar al-Assad's regime will face a "day of recko...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Spanish photographer Javier Espinosa painted a harrowing picture of life inside the shattered center of Syrian resistance in Homs in the days before a full-scale assault by President Bashar al-A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA female northern bald ibis has fled Tokyo's Tama Zoo and remains on the loose, the zoo's operator revealed on March 1. The zoo in the capital's Hino district was alerted to the escape when it received a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHad the March 11 tsunami struck at high tide, it likely would have overcome tidal barriers in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, the Mainichi has learned. The astronomical tide level at high tide in Kisarazu, C...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*All other than two of the EU's 27 leaders have signed a new treaty to enforce budget regulation within the community. Critics argue that the pact is mainly a political gesture aimed at reassuring taxpay...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs Japan prepares to mark the first anniversary of the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the facility remains plagued with problems despite Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's declaration that t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEU leaders - except those from the UK and Czech Republic - have signed a new fiscal treaty to enforce tougher economic scrutiny. The Treaty for Stability, Co-ordination and Governance was signed by 25 of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChilling new details have emerged revealing the shocking scale of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the incredible bravery of the technicians, firemen and soldiers who risked their lives to avert a total...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoI get very sick of the way the liberal media laud praise on the United Nations as being some sort of arbiter of right and wrong, some sort of defender of peace and liberty. This United Nations Human Rights...
- Ryan Giggs Loses Court Case Against the Sun over Affair Claims...He even used the Human Rights Angleposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA damages claim by footballer Ryan Giggs against the Sun newspaper over an alleged affair was thrown out by a High Court judge today. The Manchester United footballer claimed that The Sun "misused" priva...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChimpanzee populations that live as neighbours have more genetic variation than humans from different continents, a study has found. The findings are believed to have important implications for chimp con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn assistant to an American television producer who died after taking contaminated cocaine in Uganda faced cameras on Thursday for the first time since her arrest. Kathryne Fuller, 29, who remains paraly...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Research suggests that babies born just a few weeks early have a slightly higher risk of health problems in infancy. Previous work has focused on babies born very prematurely, before 32 weeks. According ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoThe impeachment trial of Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Senate is almost a month now, but I have not watched any of the live proceedings on tv. Sometimes I catch them on the evening ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*An amazing prototype device which can generate electricity from waste water produced by US researchers. *Using a method called reverse electro dialysis (RED), fresh water and salt water are placed in alt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.6 km (15.9 miles), the quake hit at 10:11:43 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 128 km (79 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA homemade bomb was left on a Greek subway train by left-wing extremists amid rising public anger over spending cuts. Police immediately shutdown the station in Athens after a man phoned two television s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating chocolate was captured on a school bus videotape saying she planned to run the child ''til she can't run no more,'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia today accused its tiny neighbour Latvia of making 'attempts to whitewash Hitler’s flunkeys' by allowing a parade which honours the role of the Baltic state’s veterans who fought for the Nazis in th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Israeli veterans of the Red Army* (http://www.forward.com/articles/103839/) During the Cold War, Russia and Israel did exchange secrets. Is Russia still in bed with Israel? According to WikiLeaks: Russia...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*An outstanding display of a means to boost the information-carrying capability of radio waves has taken place across the lagoon in Venice, Italy.* The key lies in the distinction between the orbital and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMore than 80 children have suffered appalling abuse after being branded as witches in a crimewave fuelled by medieval beliefs imported from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The scale of the problem – with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA narrow and forbidding rock that stands higher than the Empire State Building, it does not look like the most welcoming place to set up home. But that did not stop an insect which was thought to be extin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo transplant patients were forced to undergo six cycles of chemotherapy after a botched NHS operation gave them kidneys infected with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Robert Law and Gillian Smart ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA Nasa notebook was stolen last year that contained the instructions for controlling the International Space Station, the Agency’s inspector general has revealed. Paul K Martin told the U.S Congress yest...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoHere's a brand new shiny Open Thread to take us all off into the weekend. Enjoy! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPetrol prices are expected to reach an all-time high today as unleaded prices accelerate towards the £100 fill-up. Unleaded has already climbed to within a fraction of the record 137.43p per litre set in...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoWe have heard a LOT from the BBC concerning the SWP and the alleged success of some of their campaign tactics in recent times. Biased BBC contributor Alan picks up on this raises a number of points; "The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBrussels has drawn up a secret diktat which could force Britain to admit 12,000 workers from India despite soaring unemployment at home. The order is part of an EU-wide plan to boost trade with India. EU...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDavid Cameron yesterday announced an historic shake-up of the welfare system, vowing an end to the culture in which claiming benefits is regarded as an acceptable alternative to work. The Prime Minister ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLast year, the Obama administration celebrated the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading figure in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), as the latest military victory in its new counter-terrorism st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn many ways India is an economic success story, showing record growth over the past two decades. But in that same period of time, income inequality in the nation has doubled, ranking India last among emer...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThe BBC can be very quick to spin one story into another, if it suits them. But isn't it curious that they can run an item here on the disturbingly low levels of numeracy amongst those leaving our schools ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmazonia is much more than just the earth's lungs: it is home to 20 per cent of the world's fauna, 20 per cent of its fresh water reserves and countless animal species. In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazil st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Costa Concordia and other cruise ships owned by the same company were hotbeds of sexual harassment, drinking and drug abuse, former crew members have claimed. Two female ex-crew members have reportedl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDon't throw out that broken toaster: it's key to our prosperity. Redesigning the economy so that all waste is reused or recycled would be good for business, according to two new reports. For centuries th...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 42.5 km (26.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:49:39 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (43 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCrimes committed by boys under 14 are increasing, and some commit crimes in full knowledge of the fact that they are too young to face criminal charges. According to the Justice Ministry, the number of yo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPro-life campaigners have welcomed publication of an article arguing killing newborns should be "permissible", saying it showed there was no moral difference between abortion and infanticide. The article...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRobert Gates, the former US defence secretary, had a salty phrase for summing up the problem of negotiating with North Korea. "I'm tired of buying the same horse twice," he said while attending a security...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoI know we have discussed this previously but I am not prepared to let the BBC run a contrived headline such as "Iran conservatives contest poll for Parliament" without comment. As ever it is their use of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI was a Girl Guide. Not a very good one – fear of spiders and a general dislike of the cold saw to that – but for four years I pulled on the blue jumper and pledged an oath of allegiance to God, Queen and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWho said this? “If you take the National Health Service for example, 90 per cent of all patient journeys begin and end in our primary care system, with our family GPs. They are all privately run business...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) — Crews cleared splintered plywood and smashed appliances from small-town neighborhoods Thursday, a day after tornadoes killed 13 people in the Midwest and South. But the forecast he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA patient undergoing surgery was set on fire when the solution used to clean their skin ignited, an NHS Trust has confirmed. The incident happened at Scarborough Hospital in North Yorkshire on Monday, Feb...
- 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 39.9 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:20:54 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 299 km (186 miles) East ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 1 day agoThanks to the BBC's wonderful new policy of NOT linking the various items it runs on the Today programme (Well, you never know who might be listening), you will need to go to listen again and tune in to th...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoMarch 1, 2012 Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, dest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew Yorkers say Mad Men creators should not have used the 'falling man' image in their latest campaign for the hit US TV show. Adverts for the television series Mad Men are "cruel and insensitive" says ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu uttered the kind of Washington gaffe that consists of telling the truth when inconvenient. According to Politico, Chu admitted to a House committee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to CNN, the Pentagon comptroller said during a congressional budget meeting that it cost "about $850,000 per soldier" per year in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn angry California mother is alleging abuse now that her 18-year-old daughter is living with her former high school teacher, who left his wife and children to move into an apartment with the young woman....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe NBC10 Investigators track down a rider who admits to jamming cell phones on a SEPTA bus. The rider explains why he does it. An expert says this is a public safety concern. Imagine you are on a Septa b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- If you're amazed - and maybe even a little alarmed - about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Crete, Greece at a depth of 45.9 km (28.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:04:01 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32.8 miles) South of Ierápetra, Cret...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRussia on Thursday accused the United States of trying to influence its election process by funding opposition groups in advance of Vladimir Putin's expected return to the Kremlin in the weekend poll. "T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSTOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — City leaders seeking a way to dig out from under massive debts have taken a step toward making Stockton the nation's largest city to file for bankruptcy. However, thanks to a new ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMADRID (AP) — A tiny Spanish village has voted to lease land for growing marijuana as a source of desperately needed revenue — a unique but legally questionable way of battling an economic crisis highligh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPORTLAND, Ore. - Businesses in Northeast and Southeast Portland were damaged overnight and the vandals explained their actions in e-mails, police said. The vandalism comes ahead of a planned Occupy Portl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOne of the great honors of my service to Tennessee is having the opportunity to represent Ft. Campbell which is home to the storied 101st Airborne, the 5th Special Forces Group and the Army’s 160th Specia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMANTUA, Ohio (CBS Cleveland) – Just one day after a school shooting devastated Chardon High School in Ohio, a local teen was arrested after posting a new Facebook profile picture that showed him posing wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLONDON (AP) -- The British government summoned Argentina's top diplomat to the Foreign Office on Wednesday to explain his country's decision to ask 20 leading companies to stop importing British products ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThis piece from the BBC is interesting re the Work Experience scheme and Right to Work campa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDENVER (CBS4) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Jewish Health in Colorado both have issued a warning about nasal washes after two people have died from using tap water to do the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoForget the modest 3.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the government's widely used measure of inflation. Everyday prices are up some 8 percent over the past year, according to the American Insti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sharply criticized the New York Police Department on Wednesday for not informing federal law enforcement agencies — at least to his knowledge — about th...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis may work out to be a ratherclever way to separate planet related reflected light and a quick sieve forplausible life bearing planets. Reflected light happens to be polarized allow separation from ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoI will make an effort to repostthis monthly log from Bill Warner. Weusually see occasional items that make it into the press and see little of theunderlying ongoing conflict that we really need to know a...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoWe already know that during thesame epoch, that Ice Age hunters were operating along the Alaskan and Siberian coastlinesin kayaks. We know this because we haveskeletons showing massive upper body deve...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis is truly Earth’s dawn forestand I find the large woody vines most interesting. I presume that they were rooted, and then thequestion becomes how so rooted and how did it interact with the mounds ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoI have not forgotten about you but work and an even more deserving blogpost have taken priority.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCongress risks taking the economy over a “massive fiscal cliff,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned lawmakers on Wednesday. In remarks that hit Wall Street stock prices, the central bank boss s...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoSource: https://www.accessnow.org/policy-activism/press-blog/access-internet-human-right-censorship-privacy *Sign This Petition To Show Your Support For All Freedom Loving Folks In Canada* *Dear Prim...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoThe crisis of public trust and confidence in national governments is shaking the foundations of illegitimate power and authority in the West and in the East. Over the weekend, elections will be hel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck France at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:15:51 UTC Friday 2nd March 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) Northwest of La condamine-châtelard,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina cut its holdings of US debt by $118 billion as its own reserves fell in the fourth quarter, newly revised US Treasury figures showed Wednesday. China's holdings of US Treasury securities fell 9.3 pe...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day ago*In the climax to the Danes’ experiments, cloud seeds flout the theories* *Guest blog by Nigel Calder, a veteran science writer* Near to the end of the story that starts with stars exploding in the Galaxy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) took a break from his presidential bid to pursue one of his favorite pastimes — criticizing the Federal Reserve. Paul returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to question Fed Chairman...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWMATA issued a statement saying its advertising has been ruled by the courts as protected under the First Amendment, and the Authority does not decline ads based on their political content. "WMATA does n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWestern spy agencies for years have kept watch on a craggy peak in northwest Iran that houses one of the world’s most unusual nuclear sites. Known as Fordow, the facility is built into mountain bunkers de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJERUSALEM — Russia has upgraded a surveillance station it maintains in Syrian territory in order to provide Iran early warning of an Israeli attack, according to the Israeli security-related blog Debkafil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The last few months have witnessed a dramatic turn in the way democratic politics are conducted in a sovereign country that is also a member state of the European Union. The depth of the economi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- When the first sod was laid on Donald Trump's billion-dollar championship golf resort in Scotland last April, few people could have predicted that less than a year later the whole project would b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMagic mushroom shake? Opium pizza? Bucket of whiskey anyone? Welcome to Vang Vieng, former traditional farming village, now hot point of drugs, booze, techno and partying and Laos’ hottest backpacker hau...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoZookeepers in earthquake-prone Japan have to be ready to catch the wild animals should they ever escape from their cages. And what better way to prepare than with a drill? Ueno Zoo in Tokyo decided to ma...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoWhat Donald Segretti says is very, very important. *Rod Mickleburgh phoned the head Ratfucker of the Nixon Watergate scandal* just to see how the Harper campaign robo-call affair all played out in his min...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA video filmed inside a crowded Saudi Arabian jail has surfaced on the Internet, angering activists who decry prisoners’ living conditions. Our Observer, an activist who has spent time in Saudi jails, say...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn China, one’s hukou, or permanent residence status, can be perceived as either a birthright, or an insurmountable obstacle. It dictates everything from where you can live to what kind of social servic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe scale of the sums being lost in Whitehall due to crime and error boggles the mind. There are moments when even the most hardened cynics are made to gasp in disbelief at the scale of the incompetence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Apple's stock market value topped the $500 billion mark in early trading Wednesday, another record high for what was already the world's most valuable company. The half-trillion dol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting coastlines seems, at first, to be bordering on the insane. How can what ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoChina and Japan will soon conduct bilateral trade directly in yuan. In 2010, trade between the two countries amounted to 260 billion euros. Could the Chinese yuan emerge as the second world currency after...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite the Falklands sabre-rattling, British aid to Buenos Aires continues to flow. Did you know that your taxes are supporting loans going to Argentina? As President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cont...
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