Looking across the lake from Station Road, Bishop's Waltham There are two lakes, one north of the B2177 and the other south. This is the lower, southern one. It is man made, Station Road being a kind of dam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Crabrock Point A meadow of flowers on the north slopes of 851035. Below is the southern end of Man Sands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Southern facade of the Man Mandir Palace, Gwalior (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Small Town Southern Man (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 31 minutes agoSince I've been thinking a lot about 1972, it's worth noting that April will mark the 40th anniversary of the first baseball strike, which cost most teams around eight games that spring. I'm afraid I'll h...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 33 minutes ago
*homas Allen sings the second song, "*Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld*," from Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, in a 1991 performance conducted by Václav Neumann. (See below for German and English texts.)* *by ... - For whatever reason Southern Man is cautiously dipping his toe back into the dating pool. Why? He probably couldn't even answer you. Men seek relationships for three reasons: physical pleasure (and, yes, t...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour agoSouthern Man's personal trainer has him on Wednesday and Friday mornings and this morning he again put Southern Man through the wringer. And It Was Good.
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour agoThe incomparable Richard Feynmann is a legend in physics, and deservedly so. In addition to his numerous contributions to theoretical physics he had a gift for explaining complex topics in simple terms. He...
- *Your progress is watched with loving amazement.* Michael channeled by Ron Head March 30, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages We begin today with a discussion of the current state of affairs in your wor...
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*This is another excellent micro-doc from one of the most talented and brave non-chosenites in the world today...*my source *FUCK ISRAHELL!* *FREE PALESTINE!* *TRUTH IS NOT RACIST | FACTS ARE NOT HATE* - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*I had planned to work all day and post, post, post, and yet somehow another unread Boston Globe ended up on the table at the end of the evening. I'm so sorry, and profusely apologize, readers. Reading the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Afghanistan would accept Taliban office in Qatar for peace talks" December 28, 2011 KABUL - President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that his government would accept the opening of a Taliban insurgents’ rep...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoI can't remember ever seeing a better description of soul rending, bone crushing poverty and its remedy than this link John Cole just posted on the twitter. It's all like this: Movements will fall away, b...
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*by Ken* It appears that finally the remaining shoe has dropped. From the NYT "Media Decoder" blog: *Current TV Dismisses Keith Olbermann* By BRIAN STELTER *6:10 p.m. | Updated* Current TV said Friday ... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours ago"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarke...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: A Sudanese child and camels. blogs.anoiadiari.cat] By Climate Desk 30 March 2012 Purdue University climatologist Matthew Huber gets plenty of death threats, but that hasn't stopped him from expl...
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------------------------------ *Break Up The Big Banks, Says the Dallas Fed* THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 | Original here As the Supreme Court shows every sign of throwing out “Obamacare” and leaving ... - posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 5 hours ago
*CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reported on this story for In America. Her report is here.* By* Roberto Rodriguez,* Special to CNN *(CNN) –* Look at the image above. For people who live outside of Tucson, Ari... - posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 5 hours ago*CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reported on this story for In America. Her report is here.* By* Roberto Rodriguez,* Special to CNN *(CNN) –* Look at the image above. For people who live outside of Tucson, Ari...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Dan Akerson, chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Co., speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, 28 March 2012. The company announced Wednesday it would stop funding the...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 hours ago
Movie time! The premise of this film is just plain silly - that two hundred years hence in a post-apocalyptic world, buff young scientists will not only still exist, but will have recuperated enough from... - posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 6 hours agoI rarely respond to reviews of my books because there really is little point to it. I am often astonished on how widely the reviews can vary from someone who loves a book to someone who hates it. In one ca...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours agoNew Orleans Saints GM Mickey Loomis and team join head coach Sean Payton to appeal NFL penalties
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 6 hours agoCompartmentalization Sculpture by Darla Graff Thompson 25-Mar-2012 Jim Stone - Freelance Journalist *The evil of compartmentalization.* * * So, they checked your background, and you got that job a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoAnd it's simple: wage a war on women while destroying Medicare and drastically reducing social services in order to spend billions subsidizing the wealthy Oil and Gas companies that finance the political ...
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- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 8 hours agoPublished on *Commonweal magazine* (http://commonwealmagazine.org) Aftershocks A Report from Haiti Created *03/27/2012 - 10:45am* *Fran Quigley* On a sweltering afternoon in Port-au-Prince, I walked with ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoreported at businessinsider.com CNN was down 50% in total viewers and down 60% in age 25-54 viewers (Total Day) for the month of March. The net loss was down 21% in Total Viewers and down 26% in a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoNate Silver posted a very long takedown of election predictions, some of which are by economists and some by political scientists. He proves, without a doubt that some people, or at least some book publici...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 29.5 km (18.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:47:38 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) ENE from W...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Looks like he is the one that needs the blessing*: "Karzai opens Parliament with honor roll of Afhgan dead" January 22, 2012|By Graham Bowley and Sharifullah Sahak KABUL - The Taliban have stepped up a *...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoWould it be possible to print a topless photo of show a video of every actress to have played one of Charlie's Angels? It was a tough challenge but I had to have a go. First I had to check who had appear...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agohttp://yumikikuchi.blogspot.com/2012/03/worsening-health-condition-of-fukushima.html Hat tip: Leuren Moret (thanks!) Enenews has a similar story: http://enenews.com/doctor-meltdowns-children-complain-circ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours agoI always was a big fan of Edward R. Murrow's reporting (and George Clooney's movie), but this is a horse of a different color (so to speak, a small horse, perhaps). (Try to ignore Scalia's ass until the se...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 9 hours ago*Empires Then and Now* ------------------------------ March 26, 2012 | Original here Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*Do Not Blame The Men Who Kill. Blame The Institutions That Lie. * The U.S. military is one of the most corrupt, soulless, and demonic institutions on the face of the Earth. "In all US war theaters," *...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoThree Major Banks Prepare for Possible Credit Downgrades By SUSANNE CRAIG and PETER EAVIS http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/three-major-banks-prepare-for-possible-credit-downgrades/?nl=todaysheadlines&...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck offshore Chiapas, Mexico at a depth of 49.3 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:16:15 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) West from Suchiat...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 9 hours agoCite Soleil, February 2012--Photo by John Carroll I know of at least three Cholera Treatment Units or Centers where I have worked since November 2010 that are no longer set up to accept cholera patients...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTranspower is brushing up plans to avoid South Island power cuts caused by massive storms on the Sun. As the Sun heads towards its 11-year sunspot maximum - a result of its magnetic field switching betwe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice investigating the decapitation of a woman by a lorry have revealed CCTV images of the victim before she was hit and a what appears to be a man seen walking off with her shoes and handbag afterwards...
- posted by Geezer Power at Home Nature Report - 10 hours ago“The Book the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read is a Book Everyone Must Read” Friday, 30. March 2012 by Sibel Edmonds A Surreal Journey into the Heart of the Beast Called the Police State CWIn this ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoIt's official. There is nothing Republicans won't lie about. The RNC has apparently graduated from the Andrew Breitbart Memorial School of Pseudo-Journalism and came up with this misleading, doctored anti-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTHE Department of Agriculture has confirmed an outbreak of avian flu in a small flock of pheasants near Clonakilty, Co Cork.. Preliminary results show the H5 strain is not the most pathogenic H5N1 strain ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 521.9 km (324.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:39:55 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 168 km (104 miles) NNW fr...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 10 hours agoFor years the Liberals warned you of Stephen Harper's hidden agenda. Just wait until he gets a majority, and *you won't recognize Canada*. For years, Conservatives quietly whispered to their base that the...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoSpeaking of Blogiversaries, just realized that yesterday was mine. Nine years ago, I published my very first post. It was about an anti-war demonstration I stumbled into in lovely downtown Northampton. Hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:21:09 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) East of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga No Tsunami ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoThis UFO Video was Too Good Not to Post!! 3-27-12, over Mission, BC… Posted on March 29, 2012 By Kauilapele Part of the fun of this is the absolute surprised, excited, “What the frick is this?”...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTWO more dead dolphins have been found in the Mandurah estuary. One of the dolphins was found near Parkridge on the weekend of the Crab Fest. The cause of the adult female’s death is not known. A blubber...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA total of 381 grizzly bears were killed year in B.C., 87 per cent of them by trophy hunters, according to statistics released Friday by the David Suzuki Foundation. The figures include grizzlies killed ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*AntiWar.com* "Child witnesses to the massacre of 17 Afghan civilians by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales say there was more than one U.S. soldier party to the crime, contradicting the story told by the Pentagon. ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agofor years, I've been ADAMANT that a) alien craft or UFOs are just military test flights and b) alien abductions are just military tests of clever drugs/gases and rendition techniques to PUT INFO IN. Maybe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAt least 10 more dolphins stranded themselves on the beaches of Cape Cod this week, a Cape-based animal welfare group said. The strandings raised the annual total to more than 200 in just three months, an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAccording to sources, it has been revealed that a gray whale was spotted near the Redondo Beach, entangled in fishing nets, on Thursday morning. It was not possible for the whale to get freed until a team...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTwo new studies into the 'plumbing systems' that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. International teams of researchers, led by the University of Leeds, studie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoBacolod City — A tornado swept through parts of this city, destroying trees and two sidewalk eateries, and causing a three-hour blackout at around 12:20 Thursday afternoon. No one was reported hurt, kille...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoWashington Post: Federal study estimates 1 in 88 children has symptoms of autism http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/federal-study-estimates-1-in-88-children-has-symptoms-of-autism/2012/0...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoBlue America is cooking up something fun in Wisconsin's first CD. But outrage over Paul Ryan's attempts to dismantle Medicare and-- in reality-- a civil society in this country, is coming from all directi...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours agoMy friend Michael J.W. Stickings celebrates seven years of blogging at the Reaction this week. Congrats to Michael and the whole fabulous team of bloggers. I'm proud to be a part of their history. [More ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Nearly 140 workers renovating Maracana Stadium for the 2014 World Cup went to hospital because of food poisoning this week. The construction companies renovating the famed stadium sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoFeb. 10 - At least 260 dolphins wash ashore in Chiclayo, Peru in over a week. Sophia Soo reports Note: Another Dolphin washed ashore 19th March 2012 Note: Another Dolphin washed ashore 24th March 2012
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoAs musical protests go, this one is pretty entertaining. Robert Wilkinson, of Edson, Alta., was arrested by RCMP last November and placed in the back of a police cruiser. In a video taken by security ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoCustomers who ate at a McDonald's in Northport, AL between February 28 and March 14 may have been exposed to hepatitis A through an infected employee, according to the Alabama Department of Health. In a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoIt's hard to believe that volcanic activity can come to seem routine, but Mount Cleveland, an active volcano located in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, is almost becoming just that. On Wednesday, the volc...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoMajia here: A group of activists comprised of both academics and journalists is combating the NDAA with a legal challenge. In the US, the law violates our First Amendment right. Below find a brief excerpt...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 12 hours agoLucky scheduling break for the Cons, eh? - getting Election Canada's Marc Mayrand to testify on 2011 election fraud on the same day they released the 2012 budget. "We are free to choose our future," Flahe...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoAbdula v. Canadian Solar Inc., 2012 ONCA 211 deals with the very limited use to which legislative history can be put in statutory interpretation: [52] It is important to note the extent to which leg...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*The Hunt for KSM* The mastermind of the 9 11 attacks would appear to be the Pentagon. "In the Pentagon, a top secret team drew up a plan to simultaneously send up two airliners painted and numbered exac...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPROVIDENCE, R.I. - People queuing up for Mega Millions tickets aren't the only ones salivating over the record $540 million jackpot that could be won Friday — some state governments struggling through lean...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Earthrise from Earth's moon. This view of Earth greeted Apollo 8 astronauts as they emerged from behind the Moon after the lunar orbit insertion burn. NASA] By Paul Douglas, Meteorologist; Autho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Veracruz, Mexico at a depth of 136.7 km (84.9 miles), the quake hit at 14:38:53 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) SSW from Las Choapas, Ver...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:53 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 238 km (148 miles) South...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGeorge Zimmerman's brother said medical records will prove that his brother was attacked and his nose was broken by Trayvon Martin before he fatally shot the teen. Robert Zimmerman Jr. spoke to CNN's Pi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Skywest crew radioed authorities Tuesday when two children refused to fasten their seat belts on a flight from Long Beach to Portland, Ore. Officers with the Port of Portland Police Department were calle...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA 10-year-old child was arrested and charged with felony burglary after stealing a bicycle while leaving his tricycle at the scene of the crime in order to get away successfully. According to the Fort Wal...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Moroccan worker in Italy set himself on fire on Thursday in protest at not being paid for months, a day after an Italian businessman set himself alight over a tax dispute, police said. The 27-year-old c...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours ago[image: obamahu132628592pk] So the US is supposedly going to pivot to Asia and start worrying more about China. This makes sense (which is probably why we won’t do it). The Middle East has become a pretty ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoMasterCard is investigating a possible breach of cardholder account data involving a U.S.-based payment processor, the company said Friday. "As a result, we have alerted payment card issuers regarding cert...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*At the moment in Canada, pricing of any item or service allows the seller to divide the dollar price into 100 individual units of currency known as a 'penny' or a 'cent'. The federal Conservatives are a...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 13 hours agoThere are a taste of the flavours of THE GAME THE (conspiracy) GAME we're all playing to keep the Corporate War afloat, to keep the bloodshed going. Do you know how much of your hard-earned wages goes on...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Dried up lake in San Angelo, Texas, June 2011. f150online.com] By David Mark 26 March 2012 A new study suggests climate scientists may have underestimated the effect of greenhouse gases, with g...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours agoHinds v. Group 4 Security, 2012 ONCA 207 is a malicious prosecution case. In order to succeed on such a claim there must be evidence of causation. Mere malice does not suffice -- there must be actions whic...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours agoI'm not sure how accurate the report of MP Garry Breitkreuz's is. He may have been misinterpreted. And of course carrying a concealed weapon in Canada (especially a gun) is (absent very special circumstan...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 14 hours agoTomorrow there will be a demonstration in Karlsruhe against the European Stability Mechanism. This demonstration will be the first of three in Germany, with the next in Stuttgart on the 5th May, returnin...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 14 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 14 hours ago[Friends, donations are even more appreciated at this time of the year!] BREAKING NEWS! (REALLY, NOT) (Click here for entire chart of winners and losers of unregulated bribery.) Now, back to our regular pr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Survivors wade through floodwaters in Pakistan, July 2010. stockmarkettoday.in] By Nina Chestney 25 March 2012 LONDON – Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoKnoxville's Branch Office of the Billionaire Boys Club has a new campaign to come up with $35,000,000 over the next five years to push forward the corporate reform agenda in East Tennessee. Local Broadie,...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 14 hours agoA collection of random nuggets from the first week on the campaign trail... 1. The *leader's debate* has been set for 6:30 mountain time on Thursday, April 12th. Unless of course, the Flames make the pla...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Warren Beatty, 75. First things first: I didn't get around to the Elsewhere post yesterday. At Post Partisan, I argued that it's okay for the press to say that Romney has won the nomina...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours ago*Not quite related news:* First LHC collisions at 2 × 4 TeV! Tommaso Dorigo was minutes ahead of Reuters and Fox News or AFP when he told us that signore Antonio Ereditato resigned from his chair of the ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoGeorge Galloway's victory in the Bradford West by-election is disturbing for two reasons. First it shows that shameless appealing to Muslim youth with a radical anti-imperialist stance works. This has gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA woman has accidentally set fire to herself after transferring petrol in her home, while the union representing tanker drivers rules out the threat of Easter strikes in the ongoing fiasco over fuel. The...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012* *The history of orgies:* We’re off on a mission of national import. We don’t expect to post again until Monday morning. In the meantime, we’ll recommend Gene Lyon’s column on the...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoA big day today as my son Gabriel turns one year old. It's a bit sad that I won't be able to share the day with him but ultimately, this day is about him and not my feelings. He is now standing completely ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*Tim, Pennsylvania's own Frackenstein Monster* I'm still laughing that clueless Blue Dog Tim Holden sent out a frantic press release to every media outlet in Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district-- m...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 15 hours agoThe Climate Etc. site has an article on the "Republican brain" (apparently a recent but fast-growing field of science), to which I respond here: *The larger problem is, when nobody has all the answers even...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 15 hours ago*Fans of Harry Potter will have an opportunity to see sets from the film contract when a studio tour opens to the public on Saturday. *It has often been said about films and the Potter movies in particul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian artillery hit parts of Homs city and at least five people were killed in clashes around the country on Friday, opposition activists said, as peace envoy Kofi Annan urged President Bashar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said on Friday Greece may need a third bailout package if the sweeping austerity measures demanded by its international creditors fail to stabilize its shattered...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMar 30 - South Koreans are worried over reports that North Korea has launched two short range missiles. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 16 hours agoIn most discrimination cases, you only have to prove discrimination was one of the motives your employer had in taking action against you. For instance, if you announce you’re pregnant and are su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Sheikh Abu Abdullah Zahed, a Lebanese Muslim cleric with influence amongst radical youth, is part of a growing effort to push the uprising in Syria towards militant Islam. Hardline Sunni Musl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Prostate cancer vaccine Provenge has long incited passions unlike any other cancer therapy. Doctors who raised doubts about it received death threats. Health regulators and lawmakers faced lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - When U.S. diplomats filed into North Korea's grim embassy in Beijing last month they found an unlikely surprise: Starbucks. Their hosts, led by North Korean's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-g...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours ago"Our government," Jim Flaherty announced yesterday, "has chosen prosperity." He then announced that the government would be slashing expenses by $5.2 billion and laying off 19,200 civil servants. In an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration has signaled a willingness to accept less-stringent controls on former Taliban leaders who could be transferred to Qatar as part of a deal between the United States and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Friday on a temporary increase in their financial rescue capacity to prevent a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, but markets may judge it to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran is helping its ally Syria defy Western sanctions by providing a vessel to ship Syrian oil to a state-run company in China, potentially giving the government of President Bashar al-Assad a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoIn mid-February, a 1-year-old in New Castle County was diagnosed with the A/H1N1 flu strain, which is resistant to antiviral medications. That child was hospitalized, but has fully recovered since. This wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- A drone strike took place early Friday in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani military official said. Authorities are trying t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian demonstrators Friday near a checkpoint separating the West Bank from Jerusalem as protesters throughout the region marked Land Day. Protesters hurled roc...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoHistoric French Quarter and Faubourg Tremé defaced with graffiti advertising Coca-Cola products~Nolafemmes What do you think about the possibility of Sean Payton working NFL games on TV? ~Kevin Spain PRE...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 16 hours agoIn the DC Universe exists an opposite (of sorts) to Superman—Bizarro Superman. In the corporate education reform universe exists an opposite to Robin Hood—Bizarro Robin Hood. This opposite, the school ch...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours agoBig surprise. The imbecilic Flaherty has cooked up another demonstration of his blinkered incompetence. I mean no disrespect to Dawg. I'm actually glad to have read his account of Flaherty's latest stupid ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 hours ago*FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012* *Epilogue—And then, the new tape disappears:* Normally, we don’t watch Martin Bashir’s daily MSNBC program, which airs at 3 PM Eastern. If you’ve ever watched Bashir’s show, you p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- Brothers at the helm of a company that helped build Hong Kong's skyline and the man who once was the city's number two official were arrested in an investigation of a bribery case has s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Getting to the truth of the events that led to one of the worst massacres of the war in Afghanistan may be as long and tortuous as the conflict itself. Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia's SBS, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBaghdad (CNN) - As Iraq's capital emerges from almost a decade of conflict and civil strife it is becoming an economic battleground for Turkey and Iran. Turkish firm Tefirom is contracted to build Baghd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Greenland Sea at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:19:19 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 386 km (239 miles) ESE of Nord, Greenla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoParis (CNN) -- Nineteen people have been arrested in a series of police raids on suspected Islamists, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told French radio Friday morning. The raids come a week after gunman...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 16 hours ago*The UK Biobank, the most comprehensive health study in the UK, is opening its doors to researchers. The biobank began recruiting participants three years ago, and was open to people aged 40 to 69.* The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- New satellite imagery appears to show preparations beginning for a long-range rocket launch in North Korea despite international objections. The image from a privately operated satelli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean officials say North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles this week from its west coast. Two Defense Ministry officials said Friday that the testing took place ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoBEIJING (Kyodo) -- China took issue Thursday with a reported plan by the Philippines and Vietnam to launch joint military exercises and patrols in waters claimed by China, warning them that taking such ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka on Friday ordered the Self-Defense Forces to intercept a North Korean rocket if necessary to protect Japan from the rocket and its fragments falling on the c...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoA Strange Entity in La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico in 1936 By Lic. Claudia Madrid Montezuma – La Esfera Azul www.acusticavisualnet./grupoaesferaazul/ The following story took place in 1936 at La...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- Massive amounts of radioactive soil left after decontamination work at schools, parks and other public spaces here has been stored near its original locations, prefectural authorities have r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFarming areas affected by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have expressed hope that a new radiation limit for food will help them promote the safety of local products, but some still wonder whether consu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIITATE, Fukushima -- Radioactive cesium far exceeding the allowable limit and way higher than previously detected contamination levels in fish has been found in river trout here, the prefectural governmen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAll rice from areas of Fukushima whose radiation levels exceed a new government standard of 100 becquerels per kilogram will be purchased by the government this year and discarded, it has been learned. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:55:24 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 238 km (148 miles) South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:43:01 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14.9 miles) West of Qalmah, Algeria No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- All 2 million residents of Fukushima Prefecture will receive compensation after the prefectural government decided March 29 to provide residents living outside the evacuation zones with redre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA delay in establishing a new nuclear regulatory agency under the Environment Ministry means that the governmental Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan (N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIsraeli forces have used tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and water cannon on Palestinian protesters at the Kalandria checkpoint in Ramallah in the West Bank. Footage showed Palestinians throwing rocks a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*Research suggests that some of the world's most commonly used pesticides are killing bees by damaging their ability to navigate and reducing numbers of queens. *Many causes have been suggested, includin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA 65-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after eight starving animals, a dead horse and a decaying cow, were found in her care. Migdalia Ameller was arrested on Wednesday on charges of animal cruelty...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA teen girl with a serious medical condition was lured to her supposed friend’s house, only to be beaten by a group of violent mean girls who were angry that the victim called a boy ‘cute’. A neighbour ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoGeorge Zimmerman’s 'Jekyll and Hyde' personality came to be such a problem that he was fired from his job as a security guard, years before the Trayvon Martin case, according to a former co-worker. The c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIn spite of the repeated specific threats against the life of Trayvon Martin’s attacker George Zimmerman, the Twitter account ‘@KillZimmerman’ remains active and gaining followers. The account, whose pic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA U.S soldier was struck and killed by an armoured truck immediately after rescuing an Afghan girl who was about to be run over. Sgt Dennis Weichel, a Rhode Island National Guardsman, was riding along as ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA man who allegedly beat his three-month-old daughter to death was charged today. Christopher Scott Ryon, 27, has been accused of aggravated manslaughter of a child, police said. He reportedly punched d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoU.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned 'guardian angels' - troops who watch over their comrades even as they sleep - as part of a series of increased security measures to protect troops aga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA radical wildlife conservationist who claimed to be a 'tiger whisperer' has been viciously mauled by one of his 14 captive tigers. John Varty was rushed to hospital after he was attacked by one of the 14...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 09:40:56 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBeing born with two extra legs may not the best start in life for a cow, but Lilii, the six-legged calf, refuses to be cowed into hiding away because of her disability. The plucky seven-week-old has defi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 595.9 km (370.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:59 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoShrien Dewani's extradition to South Africa over the murder of his wife during their honeymoon has been halted on mental health grounds. Two High Court judges in London ruled that it would be "unjust and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA terror suspect has come a step closer to returning to the UK after winning a Court of Appeal battle against the Government’s decision to strip him of his British nationality. Hilal Al-Jedda was detained...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 125.8 km (78.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:50 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) NNE of Luganville, Espiritu Santo,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA woman has suffered 40% burns when petrol ignited as she was transferring it to containers in her kitchen in York, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has said. It comes two days after Cabinet Offi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn unemployed man who tortured a pensioner to death for her bank card PIN was today jailed for the rest of his life. John Mason, 55, of Llandissilio, west Wales, beat Angelika Dries-Jenkins to death at he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSuperheated gases as hot as 50,000 to 2,000,000 Kelvin were sucked from the root of a dense structure called a prominence, spiralling up into the high atmosphere. A huge tornado five times the size of Ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.3 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 08:24:13 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 318 km (198 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBees are in dramatic decline, and scientists believe the answer may be in their homing instinct. They have found the latest generation of pesticides is stopping the foragers finding their way back to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPanic buying, police closures and profiteering brought chaos to filling stations yesterday. Prompted by ministers to fill their tanks to beat a strike that has not even been called, motorists besieged ga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe solution used to preserve most donor organs in the UK could be contaminated with bacteria, the Government has said. Viaspan preserves the kidney, liver, pancreas and bowel, and is often used when or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDangerously high levels of carcinogens have been detected in imported Chinese chopsticks, ladles, rice bowls, plates and other kitchenware. Most of the products have been sold and cannot be recollected. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNorth Korea has stepped up the number of training flights since last month to as many as 650 sorties a day. The North Korean air force is conducting training flights even on weekends, several times flying...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Japanese Education Ministry approved 39 high school textbooks on Tuesday to be used in the next academic year, and 21 of them claim that Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo as belonging to Japan. That...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoKim Jong-un's visit to a historically important armored division on New Year's Day can be interpreted as a warning to South Korea, pundits believe. When his father Kim Jong-il last visited the tank divisi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIf you filled up your car today because Francis Maude told you to, you’re an idiot. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but you are. In fact, anyone who has taken any action over the past seven days on the advi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA polar bear that was going house to house in the Northern Peninsula town of Goose Cove overnight was killed by provincial conservation officials who feared it might harm someone. The bear broke into one...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere is one part of Europe's economic suffering at least that suits Ottawa and the provinces just fine. The high unemployment among the continent's skilled trade workers has opened a motherlode of tens ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 20 hours agoDarkness is cool if you're in some far flung areas and want to commune with nature -- the fireflies, the infinite stars on a cloudless night, listen to various sounds of animals and bugs like frogs and cri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSome people call what has been happening the last few years “weather weirding,” and March is turning out to be a fine example. As a surreal heat wave was peaking across much of the nation last week, poo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe world’s transition to a low-carbon economy could be seriously hampered by a scarcity of key metals, a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has warned. The study, produced in part...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 20 hours agojournalist Jim Stone gets *interrogated* by Kerry Cassidy on Project Camelot. *topics of discussion*: i) the grid, our electrical system. ii) FUKUSHIMA never had a 9.0 earthquake. iii) 'haywire' keyword u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday. Scientific ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhen it comes to giant rat infestations, New York gets all the attention. But a breed of giant Gambian rats have been rapidly reproducing in the Florida Keys despite a decade-long effort to wipe them out....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTOKYO (AP) — One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the pla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNearly 100,000 head of cattle are believed to have been struck by foot-and-mouth disease in Egypt, where a major new outbreak is threatening the entire region, veterinary sources warned on Tuesday. Essam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists recently confirmed that endangered scalloped hammerhead sharks have a fishy twin — a newfound species, still unnamed, that is distinct, yet very closely resembles the threatened sharks. The ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGoogle on Wednesday began letting people get monthly reports summarizing what they have been up to at the Internet titan's free online services. A freshly-added feature keeps people posted on patterns at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn Obama administration official on Wednesday said he was not aware of any "secret deal" made by the White House on missile defense as Republicans continued to hammer the president for his remarks to Russ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo Transportation Security Administration officers are accused of trashing a South Beach hotel room and repeatedly shooting off a gun. Miami Beach police say two Transportation Security Administration of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNEW YORK (Reuters) - About one in 88 children in the United States has autism or a related disorder, the highest estimate to date and one that is sure to revive a national argument over how the condition i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's plea to Congress to end $4 billion in tax subsidies to oil companies was rebuffed Thursday as the Senate turned back a Democratic bill to repeal the tax breaks. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEgypt's ruling military has warned against any interference in its murky economic empire amid a burgeoning power struggle with Islamists who control parliament, state media reported on Wednesday. The war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAccording to officers with the Lewisville Police Department, an elderly man has admitted to shooting and killing his wife after becoming frustrated with one of his dogs for defecating inside their house....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMELBOURNE, Australia - Taking sick days is set to get tougher -- there may be a cure for the common cold. Australian drug maker Biota Wednesday reported the stunning success of its antiviral compound, nam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 38.3 km (23.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:12:52 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) WNW from Talca, Chile No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Internal Revenue Service wants to add about 4,000 agents to hunt down tax cheats and still plans to spend $303 million building a system to oversee Obamacare even though its future looks bleak in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSupreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argum...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours ago*Text by Taylor Mali Animation by Ronnie Bruce* * *Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. It is based upon the syntactic combination of lexicals and names that are drawn from very large v...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 20 hours agoThe UK is a beautiful land; populated by a cowering people; ruled over by indigenous-hating internationalist parasites. In London's Highgate Cemetery, there is a tomb to a monster. Karl Mordechai Levy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Paradise man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a mountain lion Monday morning. Robert Biggs, 69, often hikes in the Bean Soup Flat area, which is about a mile and a half above Whisky Flat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoUnable to afford private school, more parents are turning to loans years before their children start college. Instead of saving up for their sons' college education, Bill Dunham and his wife are taking ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSALT LAKE CITY — The ability to have tacos delivered at their feet is an idea many people wouldn't hesitate to get behind — especially when the tacos are being delivered by a robot. The Tacocopter — an u...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 20 hours ago*Amazing Steak with Mash and Mozzarella Salad!* It was a beautiful day when my dearest friend Inana from Sweden was visiting and we decided we wanted steak and salad for for dinner. So after enjoying the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCouncil of Europe investigator says deaths of migrants adrift in Mediterranean exposes double standards in valuing human life. A catalogue of failures by Nato warships and European coastguards led to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOksana Makar's plight prompted public outrage as it was revealed two of her suspected attackers had political connections. An 18-year-old Ukrainian woman has died in hospital after being gang-raped, half...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnger and dismay as government resumes capital punishment in same week it won Amnesty's praise for apparent moratorium Japan has carried out its first executions in more than 18 months, hanging three deat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAnti-capitalist firebrand whose ideas include 100% fat cat tax on earnings above £300,000 wins attention and support in the polls. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the hard left, anti-capitalist firebrand who is risin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe decline in deaths from all cancers combined continued in the USA from 2004-2008, but a major government report highlights a worrisome rise in cases linked to obesity and inactivity. Although the over...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 21 hours agoWhatever you think the answer is to the question posed in the title, I'd guess that that your estimate is way off. Mine sure was as I was seduced by a promiscuous factoid. Enjoy! *How Many People Have E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHOUSTON (AP) – With pastures withered from a lingering drought, farmers in Texas and northwest Louisiana have abandoned donkeys by the hundreds, turning them into wandering refugees that have severely tes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLAS VEGAS—President Barack Obama has a Sin City problem that won't go away. Obama is counting on Nevada's support for re-election next year. He easily won the Las Vegas Valley in 2008 and will probably win...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago(Reuters) - Brazil will push for its large emerging-market peers including China to denounce what it sees as unfair monetary policies by Europe and the United States, raising the stakes in a global confro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSanford hires 'Mistress of Propaganda' to handle media The city of Sanford retracted its threat to arrest reporters who ask city employees questions about the Trayvon Martin case after hours. The threat...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoA few days ago, the media were obsessed by a paper by Dim Coumou and Stefan Rahmstorf trying to hype hypothetical links between the increasing global mean temperature in recent decades and the increasing d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA scan of small, cool stars in the Milky Way suggests our galaxy has "tens of billions" of rocky planets located like Earth in zones where life can exist, European astronomers say. The European Southern ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southeast of Easter Island at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:19:32 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 1232 km (765 miles) Southeast of H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:38:31 UTC Friday 30th March 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) NNE o...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWe know that Mohamed Merah had links to the French security services. (MERAH WORKED FOR THE SPOOKS?) We know that David Headley had links to the US security services. (DAVID HEADLEY - 'US GOVERNMENT TERR...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours ago\Ah yes, that little detail aboutclear title. It is going to now take anout act of congress to reset the system and secure title. This spells out just nowamazingly bad the situation has become. On its ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThat they are able to simulate apositive outcome is nice and what it does do is trigger financing to run theproper experiments. What is happening isthat anyone with skin in the game is playing around ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI copied this material from DrDonald Ryle’s newsletter. It provides usa short discussion on the curious content of the Vedic texts that is now betterinformed through the advent of modern science than ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is an important discovery along with our understanding of thelimiting nature of iron content in terms of surface water productivity. What it suggests to me is that there is aneed to determine an a...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago...pensioners future *welfare recipients*: "Fuck-off and die already." Let's talk about this, shall we? Sixty-five isn't a fun age to finally retire. Me? I've got a haul yet to get there, but looking at my...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoUlysses S. Grant, exactly as he appeared. Below: Thomas Mulcair (from a Toronto Star photo), for comparative purposes; President Lincoln. I like Thomas Mulcair for the same reason Abraham Lincoln liked Ul...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours agoyes, I'm sure this PS4 leaked concept is FAKENEWS JUST IN FROM TECHRADAR: *Sony is yet to confirm the existence of the PS4 games console, but it exists out there somewhere - you can be sure of that. The l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt seemed to come out of nowhere. In the midst of a tight South Carolina girls soccer match between two area rivals, a player fell after a seemingly innocuous foul. While most anticipated that she would ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Sand Flea Robot can jump atop a 30-foot building with a single bound. Developed by Boston Dynamic as a tool to obtain information for the U.S. military, the Sand Flea, aptly named because of its incre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA popular Sanford restaurant claims its sales were down $10,000 last week because "people are afraid" to visit the city in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting death. "That is $1,500 tips for our serve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThis looks like major trouble. President Obama has nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim for the position of President of the World Bank. All bets were on Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs even thought h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoI was quite surprised by the reaction to my post on the Utah Data Center being built for the National Security Agency. It appears the center will be a depository for complete contents of private emails, c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was formed to ensure America’s freedom to travel. Instead, they have made air travel the most difficult means of mass transit in the United States, at the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAustralian bullion dealer ABC Bullion is reporting that one of its suppliers has provided them photographic evidence of a tungsten filled 1 kilo gold bar,. The bar passed a hand-held xrf scan which showed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoUnder construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAt the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monday, President Obama said that he would have “more flexibility” to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe above quote is from the introduction to a book co-written by President Obama's nominee for head of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. In full it reads: The studies in this book present evidence that the q...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(NaturalNews) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently released a report entitled Global Water Security that claims water supply issues around the globe will lead to economic ins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSpain's prime minister is today set to unveil a new budget amid anger across the country at the government's austerity measures and changes to labour laws. Hours after tens of thousands of workers took t...
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