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Just one month from today, Japan will lower their corporate income tax rate from 39.5 to 35 percent. When they do so, the United States will officially have the dubious distinction of possessing the highe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
The anti-Occupy Wall Street movement—or Occupy Occupy D.C., as they call themselves—held a rally today at Freedom Plaza to call for a “Cease Fire in Obama's War on Nature.” In particular, the rally goers ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 minutes ago
Fannie Mae said Wednesday it lost $2.4 billion during the fourth quarter of 2011 and $16.9 billion for the full year. It has had worse years, remarkably. Fannie lost about $60 billion in 2008 and $72 bil... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
On the March 2012 cover of FHM Philippines, the country’s top-selling men’s mag, a light-skinned model emerges from a group of black models accompanied by the caption, “Stepping Out of the Shadows.” Acco... - posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 14 minutes ago
By L. Randall Wray My piece last week on MMT for Austrians set off a bit of a flurry of comments here and across the web, aided and abetted by commentary on the MMT event in Italy. Several followers of NE... - posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 17 minutes agoBy L. Randall Wray My piece last week on MMT for Austrians set off a bit of aflurry of comments here and across the web, aided and abetted by commentary onthe MMT event in Italy. Several followers of NEP...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 minutes ago
*Your elderly demented uncle may simply be a Republican!* *by Noah* We've always known that to be a Republican is to adopt the Bizarro Code. The Repugs truly live in an alternate universe; walking among u... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 minutes ago
Open-source software, shared innovation and crowd-sourced manufacturing threaten capitalism as we know it. Chiang Mai, Thailand - Does Facebook exploit its users? And where is the $100bn in the company's ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 24 minutes ago
The US used 'dollar diplomacy' to gain influence in Latin America; now the Chinese are beating the US at its own game. Boston, MA - When no one was looking, China became the largest source of finance for ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 24 minutes ago
The largest obstacle in manned interstellar travel may not actually technological, but human. Bristol, United Kingdom - Fifty years after the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and the fir... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 29 minutes ago
Supporters of former leader prevent president from opening parliament, as police clash with protesters outside building. Supporters of fomer Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed have clashed with police an... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
US reliance on drones is outsourcing war to things that cannot protest or vote, and to whom there is no "home front". New York, NY - In the American mind, if Apple made weapons, they would undoubtedly be ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
Twenty years after peace accords were signed, many aspects of El Salvador's long civil war remain murky. Scranton, PA - From 1980 to 1992, civil war ravaged the Central American state of El Salvador, clai... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes agoSarayaku people fear loss of their culture if government boosts oil production in Amazon.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoComputer-generated image shows nuclear attack on Israel An apocalyptic vision of Israel coming under nuclear attack has been portrayed in a video, which its creator warned could become reality if Iran's ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 54 minutes ago"Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 55.1 km (34.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:33:19 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 471 km (292 miles) ENE of Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Northern Algeria at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:45:29 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 53 km (32 miles) WNW of Chlef, Algeria No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 14.9 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:33:41 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 107 km (66 miles) East of Kyzyl,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“Nevada's Mysterious Cave of the Red-haired Giants”* by Terrence Ayn “Many Native American tribes from the Northeast and Southwest still relate the legends of the red-haired giants and how their ancestor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 59.9 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:17:05 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) SSE of Bengkulu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoSo... we're spending a TRILLION dollars a year "defending" ourselves. Who or what, exactly, are we "defending" ourselves from? Russia, as an example, spent $71 billion last year on their military. Besides...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA 14-month-old girl who was found alone in a field miles from her home in tornado-ravaged Indiana has died. Angel Babcock of New Pekin was found after her family's mobile home was destroyed in the storms...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 hour ago"The Devil's most devilish when respectable." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "Following Israel’s direction, the real goal of Obama’s Iran policy is to make the Islamic Republic so weak that it could no...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"I did my best, it wasn't much, I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though It all went wrong I'll stand before the lord of song With nothing on my ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour agoMainly lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) can be addressed via change in lifestyle and hence, preventive healthcare, not curative. Preventive approach shifts the burden of healthcare from t...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 hour agoCancer -- there are probably 200 types as listed in wiki -- will remain a major killer disease into the future. Aside from natural human biology that allows certain diseases to advance as we grow older, hu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of lea...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago“How did spiral galaxy ESO 510-13 get bent out of shape? The disks of many spirals are thin and flat, but not solid. Spiral disks are loose conglomerations of billions of stars and diffuse gas all gravitat...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours agoToday was just about a perfect day! Southern Man headed out mid-morning in The Titan to pick up a couple of freebies found on Craigslist - a load of brick (mostly fill quality but still useful) and an uno...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*After all the years of faithful collaboration and service? * "Israel withdraws Abbas’s VIP status" Associated Press, January 16, 2012 RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel has stripped Palestinian president Mahmo...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours agoI guess if you speak a foreign language, you’re a traitor Here were my first, domestic politics thoughts on the GOP debate-run, particularly the competitive, extreme position-taking forced onto the ca...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 2 hours agoAre you kinda thinking (now and then, anyway) about how those "oil" guys are real stinkers now that everyone's finally conserving energy use and yet the price (due to speculation, according to the buzz on ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Israelis, Muslims at odds over bridge work near holy site; Area’s control is sore point since takeover after 1967 war" December 13, 2011|By Matti Friedman, Associated Press JERUSALEM - Israel closed a pe...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe 14-month Indiana toddler who was found hurt and alone in a southern Indiana field after violent storms ravaged the area died Sunday evening at the Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, WD...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours ago*MARVELOUS! * *Animation: What Stephen Harper thinks he does* *The Province* Editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy presents the Canadian prime minister in all his various incarnations. Can't embed it, so click...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*I'm still waiting for the one from the Hague, but.... * "Former Israeli prime minister indicted" New York Times, January 06, 2012 JERUSALEM - Ehud Olmert, who resigned as prime minister of Israel in 2008 ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*In this Moment of Clarity, Lee Camp asks: "Should Hearing from God Disqualify You From Running for President?"* I'm really tired of political goons claiming that "God" told them to run for office or go t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago“Sullivan Ballou’s Letter Home”, from Ken Burn's "The Civil War" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrC-ipke9s&feature=related
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours agoBangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*“Silence And Speech”* by Chet Raymo “The poet Jane Hirshfield was last evening's guest of the college. As I read her work in anticipation of the visit, I found myself thinking of Rainer Maria Rilke, and...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 4 hours ago*MUSIC EVENTS HAMILTON:* *REBEL FEST II:* ** Coming up in Hamilton Ontario on April 14 and 14-----Rebel Fest II, hosted by Rebel Time Records. Here's the promo... ◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘◘ *REBEL TIME RECORDS PRESENTS: R...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago"The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it." There is no "what should be," there is only what is." - Lenny Bruce
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours agoWall Street & London elite lay groundwork to justify large scale destabilization in Russia. by Tony Cartalucci March 5, 2012 - As predicted - the Western media and US State Department-funded "opposition"...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoValero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Image from Nation of Change.The Keystone XL flim-flamThe dirty little secret that those pushing so urgently for building Keystone XL don't want you to know is that the ...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 4 hours agoIt has become popular in pundit circles to tritely assert that “a bag of rocks could beat Obama in 2012.” If that is the case, than let’s run the damned bag of rocks. I would sooner vote for the bag of ...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 5 hours agoBy William K. Black James Q. Wilson was a political scientist who often studied the government response to blue collar crime. The public knows him best for his theory called “broken windows.” The metaphor...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 6 hours ago*United States and the Culture of Fear * "The people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours agoWith a pen behind my ear and a clipboard of geocache descriptions and Google Earth printouts in hand I head to the likely hide, ignoring the three-year-old-boy on the nearby playground and the man watching...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoSince Bernard Hickey et al persisting in promoting a healthy tonic of inflationism to “fix” every problem from the high NZ dollar to excessive lint in your laundry, here’s some common sense as a response...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours agoWhen the Great Recession first began hitting the country, everyone had two choices: either hunker down and beginning cut your cut according to your shrunken cloth, or keep spending like a drunken tailor ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 7 hours agoFrom the *New York Times* March 3, 2012 Confessions of a ‘Bad’ TeacherBy WILLIAM JOHNSON I AM a special education teacher. My students have learning disabilities ranging from autism and attention-deficit d...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA toddler who was ripped from her home in New Pekin, Ind., and flung into a field by a tornado that killed her entire immediate family in southern Indiana remained in critical condition Sunday, hospital st...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"HTTPS and Tor: Working Together to Protect* * Your Privacy and Security Online"* by Electronic Frontier Foundation "This week EFF released a new version its HTTPS Everywhere extension for the Firefox bro...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoMy pal Roland teaches elementary school in Compton, one of L.A.'s most challenged neighborhoods. But he always tells me his kids are happy. They don't know they're challenged. They don't feel impoverished...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoBarack Obama loves to bow before tyrants and thugs. Here he is bowing before China: And Saudi Arabia: Does Israel rule the United States of America? It appears that way. Pictures speak louder than words.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The Wall Street-Washington Financial Complex"* By Jeff Harding "President Eisenhower warned of a “military-industrial complex,” which was his term for the combination of defense contractors, the militar...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 8 hours agoFrom the NYDaily News According to the numbers, I am a highly effective New York City public school teacher. But you won’t see me jumping for joy over the news. My teacher data report, along with those o...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours ago*THANK-YOU, REV — YOU NAILED IT*. Go visit *The Woodshed* for the entire summation of malfeasance — to date. These yumpums have quite a web of nastiness, and it sure is nice to have the panoply of crimina...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Money: A Semi-Fictional Fable"* By Jeff Harding "We have forgotten what money is. Money is really easy to understand, but most people have no idea what it is. We all understand that barter is an ineffi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“They’re Baaack!”* by Paul Krugman “The one percent, that is. Emmanuel Saez has updated his distributional estimates (pdf), and as expected the top 1% share, which fell in the crisis, has resumed its up...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoIn a November 2011 article, I discussed the Grassmann anticommuting numbersthat satisfy \[ \theta_1 \theta_2 = -\theta_2 \theta_1 \] My goal was to convince you that this new kind of abstract numbers is, ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoMystified, *he is*. “It looks like there is something worth investigating there and that's a concern to me, to you, to all Canadians because the right to vote is sacrosanct and anyone who wants to mess ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSURAT: The death of about 300 chickens in a poultry farm at Navapur in Maharashtra created panic in Surat and other areas in south Gujarat. The memories of bird flu outbreak in 2006 came rushing to the mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSANAA, Yemen — Al Qaeda militants overran an army base in southern Yemen on Sunday, capturing heavy weapons and turning them on soldiers in intense clashes that left 61 dead, a military official said. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBRAZZAVILLE — Stunned residents of Congo's capital surveyed damage caused by deadly blasts at a weapons depot Sunday that levelled homes, destroyed military barracks and blew out windows in a neighbouring...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA lawyer who was targeted alongside Celtic manager Neil Lennon in a bomb plot has died in a hotel in Pakistan. A spokesman for the family of Paul McBride QC - who two men are accused of conspiring to mur...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoblue glow-- so pretty-- over radioactive snow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWWeOcBjX7c&feature=youtu.be
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoVladimir Putin looks on course to become Russia's president again after winning nearly 60% of the vote in the country's election, according to exit polls. The prime minister, 59, is set to secure a new ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSyria - reconstruction - 20120218 - al-Mazzeh, Damascus - The Shooting On A Funeral - part 1. Syria - reconstruction - 20120222 - Baba Amr, Homs City - Day 19. Syria - reconstruction - 2011.05.20 - al...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoSame question that the conservatives received this week. Rush Limbaugh: Good or bad for the Republican Party? Good or bad for conservatives? I didn't mention this the first time, but I'm talking long-term,...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoThe outfit behind the Northern Gateway pipeline/tanker venture, Enbridge, successfully lobbied (code for "ordered") the Harper government regime to scuttle an agreement with a charity that supports inconve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned on Sunday against "loose talk" of a war with Iran ahead of a crucial meeting in which he will urge Israel's prime minister to avoid a premature strike on the Isla...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoRush Limbaugh: Good or bad for the Republican Party? Good or bad for conservatives?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMar 4 - Amateur video purports to show Syrian rebels celebrating an attack on a military vehicle in Homs, as aid workers hope to deliver vital aid to the stricken city. Travis Brecher reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoMar 4 - Around 200 people have been killed and many more injured in a series of explosions in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo Republic. Lindsey Parietti reports
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 11 hours agoHere is a rifle, here is a parachute, here's a helmet. We ran out of the desert camo but we have lots of left over bright orange jumpsuits from Abu Ghraib. Watch your step climbing into that transport air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice are investigating a possible race hate attack after a 13-year-old boy was doused in gasoline and set on fire. The teenager, who suffered first degree burns to his face and hands, is white and his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 66.8 km (41.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:26:23 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) SSW of Severo-Ku...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 11 hours ago*Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe in happier times.* There's an interesting study in contrast between the deaths of Andrew Breitbart (who, ironically died the day after the end of Black History Month) a...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*The first movement (Allegro) of Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp is played by flutist Patrick Gallois and harpist Fabrice Pierre, with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana conducted by Sir Neville M...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 11 hours agoTomorrow what we can read, watch and the art we observe may not be decided by ourselves or governments and laws but by a new breed of censors. These censors may have no qualification or experience, just t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: SPEEDI simulation of radioactive iodine fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor meltdowns for 12 March 2011. The prevailing wind direction forecast shifted over time, resulting in the...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoChina's "official" defence spending has rocketed over 11% this year, topping $100-billion for the first time. Compared to US defence spending of $740 that may not sound like much but China, like the US...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoHereis the link to the conference proceedings: http://www.willamette.edu/events/fukushima/stream/index.html Iwas the second speaker on the 2nd day. My extended powerpoint presentations can be found on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA massive sperm whale carcass is causing a stink after washing up on a Lincolnshire beach. Crowds of interested people gathered to see the 35ft (10.7m) whale today, which was first spotted near the botto...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Latest daily mean river flow for 22 November 2011 expressed as a percentile and classed relative to an analysis of historic daily mean flows for the same time of year. Environment Agency] Despit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:59:03 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 119 km (74 miles) East of Kyzyl, R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe rise of the internet, from obscurity to ubiquity in the course of a few decades, has had profound effects on our society and on us as individuals. No one could have predicted how significant it would ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSANAA, Yemen (AP) — Intense clashes erupted on Sunday between Yemeni soldiers and al-Qaida fighters in the southern province of Abyan, killing at least 30 government troops and 14 of the militants, milita...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoNRC's Operation Center Fukushima Transcript Audio Clips March 16 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=gtnTnjko5BU&NR=1 Paraphrasing: With Mark 1, with station blackout you are going to lo...
- posted by David Preiser (USA) at Biased BBC - 12 hours agoJustin Webb (Mark Mardell's predecessor as BBC North America editor) has written a little piece about the current state of the Republican Party. He's not pleased, of course, which is no surprise to those o...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*And mine, too, for being so enthusiastic about posting lately, readers.* "IRA apologizes for killing boy in 1973" Associated Press, February 25, 2012 DUBLIN - The outlawed Irish Republican Army apologized...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 44.1 km (27.4 miles), the quake hit at 16:27:21 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (93 miles) Northwest from Calama, C...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 12 hours ago*... that resonates with the present. * *Contributor: "Lucilla"* There is a quote floating around the internet referred to as the "Banker Manifest": *"Capital must protect itself in every way, through co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 16:05:13 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) SSE of NUK...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoControversy Over FDNY Exam Workshop: MyFoxNY.com A chaotic scene unfolded outside Middle School 72 in Jamaica, Queens, on Wednesday night as several men who wanted to attend a tutorial workshop for the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- Relentless Syrian forces took aim at the city of Rastan on Sunday, hitting it with 15 rockets in 15 minutes, opposition activists said. The government attack killed three people and injured dozens...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Australian foreign minister resigns" New York Times, February 23, 2012 SYDNEY - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned yesterday amid growing speculation that he and his backers in Parliament wer...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 12 hours ago. I have been working for the past few months as an agency-supplied tutor of Maths in a secondary comprehensive in South London. It has been an interesting week. One of the other tutors, a physicist ear...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours ago*Daniel Morgan* Hacking celebrity voicemails for lurid gossip is one thing but obstructing a murder investigation, an axe murder possibly committed by crooked cops, is something else altogether. It's one...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago"Kenya to start construction of new port" Associated Press, March 03, 2012 NAIROBI - East African heads of state, including South Sudan president Salva Kiir, attended a ceremony yesterday to mark the begin...
- posted by sue at Biased BBC - 13 hours agoThat outrageous interview on Today was but a mere chapter in the Jenny Tonge saga. She may not have anticipated that her recent ill-advised antics at the Middlesex University would make the headlines so sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Suicide bombers linked to al Qaeda killed at least seven soldiers in coordinated attacks on military outposts in southern Yemen Sunday, officials and residents said, part of an escalation of v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Luzon, Philippines at a depth of 152.5 km (94.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:26:19 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Southwest of MANILA, Phi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*And who will be the survivor?* "Protesters seize area in Senegal’s capital" February 20, 2012|By Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal’s aging president seized ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 155.3 km (96.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:18:49 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) West of San Antonio de los...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoCompare these NYT stories. Now: Romney Takes Washington Ahead of a Big Election Day Mitt Romney won Saturday’s nonbinding caucuses in Washington State, handing him a symbolic victory in his quest for the R...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours ago*— Great flick —* “WE ALWAYS OVERESTIMATE the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.” *— Roy Amara* Methinks Roy has a point. That's one ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoSeries of large explosions kills at least 200 people in Brazzaville and shatters windows across the Congo river in Kinshasa. At least 200 people have been killed and many more injured in a series of explo...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoTargeting Free Expression by Stephen Lendman Global Research Canada, March 4, 2012 Free expression in all forms is fundamental in democratic societies. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 14 hours agoOrleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman close to releasing city money~Matt Davis Bobby Jindal looking better to desperate GOP: Stephanie Grace Here we go guys, lets start talking oil spill settlement: Playin...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoDesdemonaDespair notes in timely fashion that Insurance Networking News reported on a meeting March 1, between representatives from the insurance industry and US Senators, to discuss the increase in damage...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoDuring the school term, I am frequently frustrated by not being able to blog. I have ideas for posts that never get written - unusual for me, and unpleasant. If this annual tradition of collecting my best ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoA group of progressive *machers* in DC I work with has been trying to persuade me that Maryland state Senate majority Leader Rob Garagiola is the best candidate to win the newly redrawn 6th CD away from c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA series of explosions that occurred at a military base in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, left 150 dead so far, according to diplomatic sources. Witnesses said an ammunition depot caught f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAn official at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, confirmed on Sunday that a patient, identified only as A, 42, died on Saturday evening after having been treated for bird flu symptoms sinc...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoYesterday the rallies kicked off in Vancouver. Next Sunday is Toronto's turn. Demand a complete, public inquiry into election fraud in the 2011 election. Demand a by-elections! Toronto: Sunday, March 11, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:49:02 UTC Sunday 4th March 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) East of Tad...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours agoMehdi Hasan is a regular guest on the BBC and is generally described just as 'political editor of the New Statesman'. I have yet to hear him described as 'political editor of the *left-wing, al* New States...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA top Taiwan agriculture official has stepped down amid allegations he covered up bird flu outbreaks, a day after authorities said they had culled thousands of chickens. Hsu Tien-lai, the chief of the Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDHRANGADHRA (SURENDRANAGAR): As many as 71 people were injured in bees' attack in Bharad village of Dhrangadhra taluka on Friday. Police said the victims had gathered around the village pond for a meeting....
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoMarch 4, 2012 RT interviews economist and professor at the ICAI School of Engineering Manuel Balmaseda, who insists that the economic disaster that heavily indebted Spain has found itself in is clearly ...
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