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Critically endangered sea creatures like Pacific turtles face extinction unless conservation zones are shifted to follow their migration paths, experts have warned. Current marine protection areas desig... - posted by Papani at DeadBanksterSociety - 19 minutes agoSilver appears to have the best advantage for those with less cash and are willing to follow good advice.
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Romney vs Santorum vs Paul vs Gingrich has a certain amount of entertainment value for political junkies... but let's be real-- the decision by the Republican Party Establishment to select Romney as their... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
European commission accuses Spain of 'serious deviation' after PM Mariano Rajoy sets deficit target of 5.8% rather than 4.4% agreed Spain is on a collision course with the European commission after Brusse... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
Aerial view from a helicopter of flooded areas in Wagga Wagga in southwest NSW, Australia Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA Sixteen river systems have flooded in NSW, with Queensland and northern Victoria also ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes agoFollowing the self-immolation of more than 20 Tibetans in the last year, the Chinese authorities say they are preparing for "a war against secessionist sabotage". At least 21 Tibetans have set themselve...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes agoSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the heavily armed border with rival South Korea and ordered troops to be on high alert, state media reported Sunday, just days after Washi...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 36 minutes ago
*McGregor and Maher* pull out another one. Elections Canada investigators probing the robocalls scandal are interviewing workers on the Conservative campaign in Guelph, Ont., and trying to determine why... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 40 minutes agoUS President Barack Obama has promised his "rock solid" commitment to Israel's security - but warned against any pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear capability. Mr Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Ben...
- posted by Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 41 minutes ago
*This is cross-posted from the University of Texas website.* As the March 6 Super Tuesday Republican primary looms, foreign policyissues understandably are likely to play a marginal role in the decisions of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoRussian riot police have detained hundreds of protesters at rallies challenging Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory. The arrests came as a Downing Street spokesman said British Prime Minister ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
The wife of a retired British businessman accused of arms dealing charges has described a US judge's decision to refuse him bail as an "outrage". Christopher Tappin's wife Elaine said the move to remand h... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 56 minutes ago
An "initial visual search" inside a car in which a man was shot dead by police has failed to locate any weapons, the police watchdog has said. Anthony Paul Grainger, from Bolton, died of a single gunshot ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India at a depth of 41.7 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 02:52:45 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (55 miles) Northeast of Mo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Revilla Gigedo Islands Region at a depth of 40.8 km (25.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:32:04 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 229 km (142 miles) ENE of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 25.6 km (15.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:47:23 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 104 km (65 ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Masbate Region, Philippines at a depth of 42 km (26.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:06:31 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) ESE of Masba... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Mona Passage, Dominican Republic at a depth of 180 km (111.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:52:53 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) SSE from... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:57:53 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85.5 miles) West of Kashi, Xinj... - posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour ago*David Akin* has extricated a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail from John Fryer, an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria. It's pretty damning stuff. I know John Fryer. He's not taken t...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoUS think-tank admits Iran is not a threat to either US or Israeli security, devises narrative to sell unnecessary war to public. by Tony Cartalucci March 6, 2012 - The corporate media has recently portray...
- posted by Brian C Rathbun at The Duck of Minerva - 2 hours ago...How I could just kill a man! Obama said today, or at least I think it was today, that "we have Israel's back." So have we replaced the cowboy swagger bullshit with some urban swagger bullshit? Fo shiz...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*“Hope”* “Hope is with you when you believe The earth is not a dream but living flesh, That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie, That all things you have ever seen here Are like a garden looked at from a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“Many wonders are visible when flying over the Earth at night. A compilation of such visual spectacles was captured recently from the International Space Station (ISS) and set to rousing music. Passing be...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Satan: ‘We Are Terminating Our Relationship with Rush Limbaugh’"* Radio Host Loses Longtime Sponsor by Andy Borowitz COLUMBUS, OH (The Borowitz Report) – "Embattled radio host Rush Limbaugh suffered ano...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not." - Robert M. Persig
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Epistemology"* by Chet Raymo “As an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame in the 1950s I took a course in epistemology, the study of knowledge as knowledge: How do we know what we know? To what...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 3 hours ago*Today, on the eve of the vulgar blood-lust orgy of luciferian satanic purim, the zionist shill and lesbian pathological liar Julia "Bestia" Gillard is announcing a new economic 'reform', (another one) th...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*Netanyahu Is A Demon From Hell* *Netanyahu, Iran, And The Nightmare of History * Blue Sky Black Death - In The Quiet Absence Of God
- As the buy-partisans hatch their secret budget scheme, you be the judge: morons or just plain thugs?
posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"We can't give up for a year on trying to address this problem. I think we have to do something."* *-- the pride of Idaho, GOP Rep. Mike Simpson (file photo)* *by Ken* Lordy, lordy, Heath Shuler is conce... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoToday on the radio I heard a snip where Romney was pushing states sovereignty for healthcare – indiovidual state programs are better than Obamacare – that’s basically what he said. He even evoked the te...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago*And chokes on it*. “The Leader of the Liberal Party knows full well, every household that they called, every originating phone number they called them from, and, in fact, when those calls were made,” he...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours agoBelow find a very helpful and clearly written analysis of the blue glow phenomenon visible here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWWeOcBjX7c&feature=youtu.be Is the AIR Supposed to be Blue? By: Aaron Date...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 5 hours agoPhoto by Andrew Ironshell Photo by Andrew Ironshell Photo by Andrew Ironshell Photo by Andrew Ironshell Photo by Andrew Ironshell*Lakotas arrested blocking tarsands trucks on Lakota land!* *Article by Br...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoYou have got to watch this video – released today Minnesota GOP Alternative to Obamacare. *GOP and DFL offer Health Insurance Proposals* (The Uptake doesn’t let you embed and I’m okay with that.) Choose t...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 5 hours ago------------------------------ Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board* **Experts warn e-voting systems decades away from security* By Iain Thomson in San Francisco • Get more from thi...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 5 hours agoPoor old Mr Creosote. Steve sent his parliamentary secretary out into the House two days in a row last week to claim the Libs spent "millions of dollars" in the last election hiring a foreign voter telem...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours ago[image: Cathedral] Whatever your view of religion, the Christchurch Cathedral was at the heart of the city in the same way London’s St Paul’s is of that city. [image: Blitz] We remember the refusal of ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoAt PostPartisan today, I'm fighting the good fight on behalf of automatic countercyclical stabilizers for state and local government spending, following up on a very good Paul Krugman column this morning. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoFort Myers, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours agoFort Myers, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours agoPouty Gate Will Only Encourage New Orleans Saints to Play Harder in 2012 ~Gary Davenport, Bleacher Report Darren Sharper: Pouty Gate Investigation is a ''vendetta' ~WWL
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.” - Epicurus
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoEvil Puppet Talks With Evil Puppet About An Evil War. There is a narrative, mainly endorsed by the stupid anti-war left, that President Obama is still on the fence on a war with Iran, and is keeping Is...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoJustin Hayward, “The Way of the World” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QUrpqOAXY
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Criminalizing Free Speech: * *Is This What Democracy Looks Like?"* By John W. Whitehead “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceab...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.” - Samuel Johnson
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoIf you watched the news this weekend you probably know that President Obama made a carefully-crafted speech at AIPAC to saber-rattle enough to sound plausible to the Zionist lobby while sounding reasonab...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"The Privacy Problem:* * We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us"* by John Biggs "This morning I was ready to bust some heads. I got a text message at about 8:39 from Highlight, the hot new social network thi...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHe3fZUDPI&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=2&feature=plcp Hat tip: posted by Jec and Wideawake at Enenews
- posted by PC at Not PC - 8 hours agoI must say, it was fascinating to hear Hone Harawira rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi this morning [audio]. Yes, it’s been rewritten before and by better men than him—one of whom, Pita Sharples, was on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDhaka, Mar 5 (bdnews24.com)—Detection of three new human infections with the deadly H5NI strain of bird flu in a week has set alarm bells ringing as scientists have found evidence of the virus in the live...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 9 hours agoI have so many reports book marked. It is impossible to know where to begin or which one to begin with. Everyone get's mentioned here. The US, NATO, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon and more. Be warned were going e...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“A Nation Of Lies And Scams”* "Floridians Are About To Get Raped - Again" by Karl Denninger "You'd think that the "nobody committed any crimes" crowd could muscle up some objection to this sort of bill, ...
- posted by Patrick Porter at The Duck of Minerva - 9 hours agoI'm very much looking forward to attending this year's International Studies Association conference in lovely San Diego. This is partly because I can fight a losing struggle against its declared theme for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoUS president Barack Obama has promised his “rock solid” commitment to Israel’s security - but warned against any pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear capability. Mr Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Ben...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoTo Brendan Nyhan, for noting the poor job by several news sites, especially Politico, in covering Sheriff Joe Arpaio's birther press conference last week: By contrast, Politico’s Tim Mak filed a story tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain is calling for the United States to lead an international effort to begin air strikes on Syria. McCain says that the Syrian government's brutal crackdown on its ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least two civilians Monday after detonating explosives at the gates of the NATO base where copies of the Koran were burned, Afghan officials said. The bomber target...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRiot police are clearing protests against Russia's new President Vladimir Putin after his disputed election win, with opposition leaders being seized. Opposition figureheads Alexei Navalny and Sergei Uda...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours agoIn November 2011, Marjorie Mazel Hecht, the managing editor of the magazine 21st Century Science and Technology interviewed Clinton Bastin, a nuclear scientist, chemical engineer, and former Department o...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 9 hours agoThis is our cat in the bath. He doesn't really do anything funny. He just stands in the bathtub. Then he leaves. That was then (or, to be more precise but still vague, a few months ago). He now usual...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"Turning The Tables On Big Brother: * *Now Internet Users Can Watch Who Is Spying On Them"* By Rob Waugh "Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives w...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoFollowing my article on how the BBC and others report 'global warming' in such a biased manner, and why. I received a rather interesting comment from one of my 'Anonymous' commenters. Here are their commen...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours agoThe Saga of the BP Gulf Holocaust Continues Unabated As BP seeks to reduce its liabilities, oil continues to seep in the Gulf of Mexico and animals continue to die. People's livelihoods and health have ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*“Geithner Arrested? 116 Major Bank Resignations?* * What The Finance Is This?”* by Washington’s Blog “Judge Napolitano testifies of Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve-insider Timothy Geither’s arrest ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours agoVIDEO: From dust to deluge By Amelia Harris, Michelle Ainsworth, Aaron Langmaid, John Dagge, and AAP 5 March 2012 AS the nation's flood crisis claims its second victim after record rainfall in three sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA crazed man shot his boss and a co-worker after being laid-off from the Greek rubbish bin factory he had worked at for 30 years. Distraught Dimitris Manikas, 52, barged into the Helesi factory in Komoti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoChinese hackers gained 'full access' to the computer network in one of Nasa's key control centres, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL manages 23 spacecraft conducting active space missions, including mis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoVienna (CNN) -- Evidence of ongoing activities at an Iranian military base suspected of being involved in testing related to nuclear weapons makes inspectors eager to get there as soon as possible, the he...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*The Shadow Elements of The Mossad And CIA Did 9/11 To Start World War Three. Another Epic False Flag Event Is In The Works, To Be Blamed On Iran.*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTehran, Iran (CNN) -- An Iranian court has canceled the death sentence for an American accused of espionage in Iran, semi-official news agencies there reported Monday. Iran's intelligence ministry senten...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- What is at stake in the meeting between the leaders of the United States and Iran? U.S. President Barack Obama was meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, in what could be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA second person has died as communities across south and east Australia battle a flood crisis which has seen almost 5,000 people evacuated from their homes. Heavy rain, especially in rural areas, has cau...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoThis year, one of the most important initiatives for progressive legislators-- in Washington and in the states-- is to work on creating housing security by holding the Wall Street banksters, who the Obama...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours ago*Tuesday, 03/06/12, on American Indian Airwaves - 8p.m. to 9p.m (KPFK FM 90.7) "Justice for Patty Dawson & Demystifying 2012"* Part I Cindy Dawson (San Carlos Apache/Dine Nations) joins us for t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoOpponents of Vladimir Putin are gathering in Moscow for a mass protest after his disputed victory, with reports of arrests both in the capital and in St Petersburg. The news agency AFP reports that Edua...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Italy at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:15:07 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) Northwest of Rezzoaglio, Ita...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours ago"Holder expected to explain rationale for targeting U.S. citizens abroad" by S. Horwitz and P. Finn March 4 2012 Washington Post [excerpted] Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday plans to provide...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours agoThe CFR public-relations office certainly thinks they've got a winner in the "attack Iran debate." Here's a video of the recent "live" debate between Colin and Matt on the subject.
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours agoPhoto by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog.International Women’s Day:'Fierce women' keeping the faithBy Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 5, 2012See gallery of photos by Carlos Lowry and Susan Van Haitsma, Below...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoListen to Gareth Porter's *interview with Scott Horton of AntiWar.com Radio*. And read Porter's article, *"Who Was Behind the Delhi Bombing?"* Gareth Porter gives four clues that the bombers had no inte...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoDirty. Dirty. Blood Thirsty. Money Hungry. Dirty. I've reported on this phenomena before and I credit Russ Baker's well-established research for a lot of my background facts. The mainstream media only repo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA convicted killer who got caught because he'd tattooed a graphic mural of the murder scene on his chest raked in more than $30,000 in unemployment benefits while he sat in the Los Angeles County jail syst...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Fukushima Daiichi's damaged reactor No. 6, center, on 28 February 2012. The large tanks hold radioactive water that poses a serious long-term storage challenge. Kimimasa Mayama / Press Pool] The...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours agoI used to have the best eater in the world. Seriously, the kid would eat anything. Brussels sprouts, quinoa, plain oatmeal. You name it, she would eat it. Then came a month of unavoidable events in our f...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoI linked to a couple of Matthew Dickinson's posts about the nomination battle earlier today, and mentioned that I disagree with him on a bunch of stuff with respect to the presidential nomination process. ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoJoshua Thompson loves the movies. But he hates the prices theaters charge for concessions like pop and candy. This week, the 20-something security technician from Livonia decided to do something about it:...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA Frenchman claiming that a Google Maps' Street View picture of him peeing in his front yard has made him a "laughingstock" is suing the tech giant for 10,000 euros. "Everyone has the right to a degree of...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012* *At long last, the Times comes clean:* Sometimes, you just have to chuckle when you read the New York Times. This morning, we get a trend story on the front page. Julie Bosman has ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 12 hours agoNobody is buying the lascivious loudmouth Limbaugh's phony apology. Advertisers are still fleeing Limbaugh's odious radio show, the latest being ProFlowers. Meanwhile, Clear Channel is still standing by th...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Poll results for U.S. belief in global warming, 2008-2001. After a period of declining levels of belief in global warming there appears to be a modest rebound in the percentage of Americans that ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012* *That isn’t Ezra Klein’s fault:* On the one hand, Ezra Klein wrote a very informative piece in Sunday’s Washington Post. To read Klein’s important report, just click here. In recen...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA B.C. man who raises tropical fish said his home and privacy were invaded when local enforcement agencies knocked on his door while looking for a marijuana grow operation, and then forced him to pay for a...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours agoAuthor: Duane Craig The State of Wisconsin is reviewing the U.S. Army’s plan for continuing to clean up the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wisconsin, according to an article in the Baraboo New...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 9.2 km (5.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:33:20 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 1 km (0.6 miles) North ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 13:59:31 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Southwest of Sarangani, Mi...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012* *Part 1—At the Washington Post, a new morning:* Rush Limbaugh has been in a world of hurt—except at the New York Times, a newspaper which is very brave when dealing with less poten...
- posted by Anonops at AnonOps Communications - 14 hours agoV For Vendetta director James McTeigue has applauded hacker group Anonymous's use of the distinctive masks from the comic book movie. "I think whether it's the Anonymous guys, Occupy Wall Street or the ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours agoWatch Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. *Frontline* interviews workers and citizens who recall events in the first nine days of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Australian real estate developer Jeff McCloy calls concern about sea level rise from global warming 'unjustified, worldwide idiocy.' Photo: Ryan Osland] By Ben Cubby 6 March 2012 CRACKS are app...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 14 hours agoTranslated from zena.centrum.cz ("woman.center.cz") by L.M., hat tip to Dr Mephisto MD *You may be surprised* *When it can't be done.* *The number of infertile men in the population keeps on increasi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoBRAZZAVILLE, REPUBLIC OF CONGO—International experts fought Monday to prevent a fire from reaching a second arms depot in the capital of the Republic of Congo, a day after a blaze set off a series of expl...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoA *NASTY* SUMBITCH INDEED, who seems to have Vladimir Putin's enthusiastic support. Last week, Bashar managed to kill Marie Colvin, an intrepid journalist with a fearless drive for the truth. And as we kn...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoThis morning a Knox County teacher sent me this note and link to a discussion at the Tennessean. Seems as if the ALEC and TFA crowd running education in the state are planning to go public with the state'...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 14 hours agoWell, well, well. After the previous week's slide Southern Man sort of gave up on the strict diet for a while. No, he didn't stuff his face with bread and pasta but he did follow the guidelines of his Sout...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours agoAna Luisa Cid has provided us with a video depicting the mutilations of farm animals in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y7aWS-1JPU Inexplicata Podcasts cov...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoThe broad stripes at NDHQ have gone into *self-defence mode*. Air force officers recently found themselves in the spotlight after it was revealed they quietly gathered information on Liberal MP Scott Simm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEtna just keeps on rolling. The Italian volcano had its third paroxysm of 2012 (see above) on March 4 and first since early February. This new eruption was a short event that was preceded by 18 days worth...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIt didn’t take long after Andrew Breitbart’s death was reported for the Baggertarian Believers to start ominously tweeting out some of the craziest (and funniest) conspiracy theories this side of the John...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(Reuters) - At least 85 soldiers were killed in twin suicide bombings and ensuing clashes with al Qaeda-linked fighters in south Yemen Sunday, medical sources said Monday. Militants detonated two vehicle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMar. 5 - South Koreans are not worried about North Korea's threats. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Matihullah, 24, had always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. Then news spread that Western soldiers had burned many copies of the Muslim holy book at a NATO base in Afghanistan. He gave up his st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with t...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoYesterday, Sunday March 4th, 2012, the so called US President, Barry Soetoro, went in front of the criminals in the annual AIPAC Conference in Washington DC, and did his usual grovelling to his masters by ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoGo, Saints!~Monologue, Adrianna Garcia Scapegoating the Saints~Clancy Dubos I still believe~Kevin Magill, Daily Comet ~For a longtime fan like me, the only thing good about the Saints' latest predicament ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoBallots have arrived to thousands of NDP members, who now have until March 24th to vote for a leader. Originally, the field reminded me a lot of the 2006 Liberal leadership race, with the role of the est...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoPerhaps you got the idea Saturday evening that Ken didn't take Rush Limbaugh so-called "apology" to Sandra Fluke at face value. Apparently neither have Limbaugh's advertisers, as more and more of them are...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 15 hours agoI submitted the following comment to the bishop hill web site this morning, where the solar influence on climate was being discussed, and the variability of the Sun in its output of ultraviolet radiation w...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoGiven the bottom of this post, I suppose I'll have to wish a Happy Birthday to poor Jake Lloyd, who is 23 and probably shouldn't be held responsible for any of it. The good stuff: 1. Nice Scott Lemieux...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - Syrian forces flooded the city of Deraa on Monday after overnight clashes there and pursued "clean-up" operations in Homs, where the Red Cross was still struggling to gain access to a former r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - World stocks fell and the euro traded near two-week lows on Monday after fresh economic data raised expectations of a recession in Europe, and China signaled it would accept a slower growth ra...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 15 hours agoThis is officially my 2000th post on Blogspot. When I started this blog some 4 years ago, I never thought I would actually reach this point, let alone publish some 2000 posts! For this article, I want...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the San Francisco Bay Area, California at a depth of 8.8 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 13:33:12 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 2 km (1.2 miles) North f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA couple convicted of torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch have been jailed for life. Kristy's sister Magalie, 29, was given a minimum term of 25 years and her partner Eric...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- The unrest among Tibetans in western areas of China appeared to take another macabre turn over the weekend with reports that a mother of four and a middle school student died after setting themse...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoThe Strong Woman Song is performed by Raven Hart-Bellecourt and Lisa Muswagon. This is one of the first songs that I learned as a young woman singing with other young women. *The Strong Woman Song* At...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoTo the editor of the Toronto Star: Thank you for printing so many excellent letters countering your terrible editorial about the Ontario Dog Owners Liability Act. The letter signed by "Michelle Brew, Toro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- The U.S. Navy rescued a survivor from an Iranian cargo vessel that sank in the Persian Gulf, killing at least three other crew members, the military said Sunday. It was the latest incident in a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- The United States appeared Monday to raise the possibility there may be no long-term strategic agreement with Afghanistan after American troops withdraw in 2014, a move that comes amid heightened...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Gunmen in SUVs opened fired on numerous checkpoints in iraq's Anbar province early Monday, killing at least 23 police, authorities in Ramadi and Baghdad said. One of the attackers was killed in ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 16 hours ago*Yummi Salmon Fish Tacos! MMMMMmmm!* * * This past week I was living it up at my sisters wedding in Panama Beach, FL, enjoying the fresh seafood and the smooth country vibes. Although this area of the worl...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoWe hear about so many human-rights abuses and outrages around the world, that it's easy to become numb. But think of this. A man held in a prison camp for 10 years - the last five in solitary confinment* -...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- After pummeling the western city of Rastan over the weekend, government troops turned their lethal attention to cities across the country Monday, opposition activists said. Three people were ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- China's National People's Congress (NPC) meets every year and brings about 3,000 national delegates together in Beijing's Great Hall of the People to discuss government reports, pass legislation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 156.9 km (97.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:45:43 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 259 km (161 miles) WNW from Saum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- The leatherback turtle is one of the ocean's titans. The largest member of the turtle family, it is also one of the world's biggest reptiles, outsized only by some species of crocodile. Ad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThere's a new threat to Australian workers and their jobs, with big financial institutions planning to shift employment to Asia to reduce costs. It's boosts profits, but cost thousands of jobs in areas onc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoCNN's Nic Robertson reports on a suicide bombing in Syria that indicates a disturbing new trend in the unrest. Note: Are they for real? they are calling this a new trend? The rebels called this an attac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoI have been guilty, on many occasions, of eviscerating the strategy taken by the leaders of the euro zone to combat its dangerous debt crisis. They have routinely acted too late with too little, causing c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Shamshiri in Tel Aviv is as busy as any restaurant might be during the lunch hour rush. Nestled in a part of the market area known as Little Persia, Shamshiri is run by Jews from Iran, providing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Monday as market sentiment was dampened after China's announcement during the session that it has lowered its economic growth target for 2012. The 225-issue Nikkei Stoc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago"It really brought tears to my eyes," said Fukushima Prefecture sake producer Yasuhiro Watanabe, recalling the moment he saw a brand new bottle of sake and vegetables from the prefecture discarded in a st...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoOKUMA, Fukushima -- This town frequently witnesses many vehicles carrying workers to and from the crippled Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant. Okuma has a total area of about 78 square kilometers and is o...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoVideo: (via RT.com) "It's official - Vladimir Putin has won the presidential race to become Russia's leader for a third term. Official results have given him almost 64 per cent of the vote. Asia Times c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- The rate of insomnia and high blood pressure among people in this city had grown significantly in the first six months since the outbreak of the nuclear disaster in comparison to data from th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIITATE, Fukushima -- The people of this village are all gone, ordered to leave last year due to radioactive contamination. The citizens of Iitate, however, are working for the day they might return, as du...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- Fears of radiation exposure continue to haunt people in Fukushima Prefecture, nearly one year after the March 11 megaquake and tsunami triggered the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Powe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoVIDEO: Thousands flee NSW floods The State Emergency Service and the police issued the order shortly after 10pm (AEDT). The order, affecting central Wagga Wagga, comes as the Murrumbidgee River threat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSpiritual leader: Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto is an adviser to Israel¿s powerful elite as well as sports stars such as LeBron James. The FBI is considering whether to open an investigation into allegation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAndrew Breitbart's untimely death has sparked wild conspiracy theories that the publisher was murdered on the President's orders. The Conservative blogger, who published the infamous tweets that brought ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIn the run up to the controversial presidential election, webcams were placed in polling stations across Russia amid allegations of fraudulent voters casting extra ballots. But the live streaming cameras ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoSource: Ana Luisa Cid & Diario ABC (Michoacán) Date: 03.05.2012 Mexico: Chupacabras Strikes in Michoacán Michoacán's Diario ABC reported the strange deaths of 35 sheep in the town of Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTaking a break from laying sod in a tornado-torn neighborhood, volunteer David Elliott cocked his head to the left. He was trying to remember all the trips he's made to help rebuild after disasters. Elli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThere was a buzz about this baseball game and it wasn't because of either team's sporting prowess. During the second inning yesterday between the San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks, a swarm of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe new lawyer appointed to oversee Justice Department policy toward detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp worked as a defense attorney for a fighter who admitted to fighting for the Taliban in A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoPresident Barack Obama said Sunday that United States will not hesitate to attack Iran with military force to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, but he cautioned that 'too much loose talk of war'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAuthorities said they have discovered the body of a four-year-old boy who has been missing since yesterday at the bottom of an ‘uninhabitable’ hole. Samuel Jones, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, was reported mis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoScientists have long held out hope that life might be found on Europa, a moon of Jupiter which has an ice cap like Earth's. This is because underneath the ice is an extensive ocean - and water is usually...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTen-year-old boys were allegedly tied up and gagged by two janitors at their elementary school, according to authorities. The maintenance workers have been suspended after tying up the four children with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThree male teachers at a single rural high school have been arrested after admitting to passing a male student amongst themselves during a series of over-lapping physical encounters. The boy, 16, came fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoNearly 850 registered sex offenders are at large, with nearly 700 of them missing for more than a year, it was reported. One has been off the radar for nine years, the Daily Mail said. Anyone jailed for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA three-year-old girl has made a miraculous recovery after swallowing 37 powerful magnets which tore up her intestines. Payton Bushnell is still in hospital after the rare Buckyball magnets snapped her i...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoMonday and this is well overdue - a bit like taking the axe to the BBC License fee! Over to you... Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 18 hours agoWell, here we are, 673 days since we all awoke to the news that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Across the seasons since, we have borne witness to the near silent disaster...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoThe BBC has been replete with reports on the situation in the Syrian town of Homs. However a Biased BBC reader suggests that we are not quite getting the full picture from the State Broadcaster; "You will...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoStartling admission here by Mark Thompson; "The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis is the first photograph of the fugitive terrorist Kenyan police suspect is using the identity of 7/7 widow Samantha Lewthwaite. The image was taken by an undercover officer as the woman crossed the ...
- posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoAs is often the case with the BBC, it's remarkable the news they choose not to report. Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; "With many political and corporate interests vested in green technology and the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA scroll containing a peaceful message sparked a three hour lock down at Disneyland after the bomb squad was called in to investigate the 'suspicious package'. An anonymous well-wisher had hidden the 'sp...
- Cannabis growers MUST be jailed says top judge as he ignores 'soft' guidelines and imprisons six men
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoJudge Alan Goldsack defied guidelines..And Done what he is paid for, His job. A senior judge has ignored ‘soft’ new drugs sentencing guidelines by jailing six men for growing cannabis. Judge Alan Goldsa... - posted by David Vance at Biased BBC - 18 hours agoAnyone catch THIS interview with *Cardinal Keith O'Brien *on Today this morning? John Humphrys exuded bias in my opinion but then again anyone prepared to go onto any BBC programme and criticise "gay marri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPrisoners, gipsies, terrorists and union activists routinely have their human rights abused, a highly controversial report will claim today. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has spent at le...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA hospital worker has provided horrific video evidence that medical staff in the besieged Syrian city of Homs are doing the unthinkable: torturing patients in their care. Chilling images covertly filmed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoClare Wood was killed in 2009 by a man she met through Facebook Women will be given the right to ask police whether a new boyfriend has a history of violence under plans to be announced today. ‘Clare’s L...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOne in three teenage girls in a relationship have experienced some form of sexual abuse, campaigners have revealed. The Government is launching an anti-sexual abuse campaign aimed at teenagers to challe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHealth experts are investigating an outbreak of potentially deadly hepatitis linked to sun-dried tomatoes, it emerged yesterday. Seven people developed symptoms of hepatitis A, which is infectious and can...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHomeowners face having to pay up to £735 per year more after Halifax said today they are hiking up their mortgage rates - sparking the threat of a mass customer exodus. The bank is increasing its standar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA hunt is under way for the remains of a suspected meteor that was seen shooting across British skies. Astronomers desperately want to track down any remnants of the space rock in the hope it could yiel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:12 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) WNW from Niue Island No Tsun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDuring a recent ‘Hard Talk’ program in the BBC, the UN’s former chief weapon inspector, Hans Blix was asked why Saddam Hussein of Iraq acted as if he had the weapons of mass destruction despite the fact th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoWhat would you expect from a website called 'Cross-Cultural Understanding'? I am prepared to believe that it is not articles like this one from 2007: 'Did UK Israel Lobby Destroy Life of Jenny Tonge? By ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoImage: Members of the hacktivist group "Anonymous" take part in a protest in central Brussels January 28, 2012. (Reuters / Yves Herman) A law enforcement operation that ended with the arrest of 25 hackers ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago“Any attack of that nature by Iran against its neighbors is likely to trigger a greater and broader international response against Tehran” Washington. Isabel Levine – APA. Washington, DC-based Iranian ana...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: More than 69,000 Iraqis have been killed as a result of terrorism and acts of violence since 2004 until 2011, official spokesperson of the Iraqi government said on Wednesday. "Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and several other congressmen have expressed concerns over the diversion of its aid money by Pakistan for other purposes, even as the United States has t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe euro crisis is still hot. There are riots on the streets of Athens. No part of the political progress is happening without hysterics and plot twists. Yet this is all a side show. The latest Greek bail...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 19 hours ago(The many moods of Billy Crystal. Welcome to the Annual Post-Oscar Film Roundup, a tradition that dates back to the misty age of pre-blog times. It's broken into four parts. To read it all, start here, sc...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 19 hours agoThe Artist: Versatile silent film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is riding high, but the talkies are coming in. He befriends an up-and-comer, confidant chorus girl Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo), and t...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 19 hours agoMargin Call: Most of the action takes place in the course of a single 24 hours at a high-powered investment bank at the beginning of the global economic crisis. Veteran Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci) is one of t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIn the wake of the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, Western credit rating agencies one after another made downward revisions in their assessments of Japanese government bonds. The reasons are not hard ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIsrael attacked nuclear facilities in Iran last year, according to emails Wikileaks released this week. The discovery was contained in emails from the U.S. security/intelligence firm Stratfor that were ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMANHATTAN (CN) - Reflection on the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II should compel Congress to reform the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), U.S. senators warned at a heari...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 19 hours agoMoneyball: Even if you're not a baseball fan, you should be able to get into this real-life underdog story, and you may remember the events – the 2001 playoffs, when the Oakland Athletics (the A's) with roug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThere are those who recall that not ten days ago, according to the IMF's Greek (un)sustainability analysis, worst case scenario no less, Greek GDP would somehow miraculously post just a 1% drop in 2013. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEditor’s Note : Two informed analysts from two sources weigh in on a very complicated situation in Syria. Both Webster Tarpley… and Elaine Hagopian’s analysis is accurate… the Syrians are caught between a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFor years, a wispy, gossamer dream has been spun by economists working for Wall Street investment banks about how China has managed the impossible: high growth with a very low debt-to-GDP ratio. The dream...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours ago*Some of the 'kidnapped' children. * Children were kidnapped by the military. Many of the children were brainwashed. Many of the generals involved in the kidnapping were trained at Fort Bragg and Fort Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoRecently, a resolution was passed in the US Congress to divide Pakistan and carve out an ‘independent Balochistan’. With this, an old neocon dream was revived. This time the so-called globalists and pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOverly reliant on commodities and energy exports, and grossly out of balance on the agricultural front, Russia’s Soviet-era economy was doomed to collapse, argues Hungarian historian György Dalos. It didn'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoISLAMABAD - In a rebuff to US warnings against going ahead with the vital project of import of natural gas from Iran through a multi-billion dollar pipeline, Pakistan on Thursday declared it would proceed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAmerica's national parks would hire fewer seasonal staffers and put off all but the most pressing maintenance work under President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 budget, advocates say. The president's $2.6 bi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe number of underwater homeowners grew to 11.1 million, or 22.8% of all mortgaged properties, during the fourth quarter, CoreLogic said Thursday. The real estate data firm said the number of borrowers i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWho are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing happened...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn a New York Times op-ed published on February 2, 1981, Henry S. Bienen, then an Africa specialist at Princeton University, discussed how “globalists” and “regionalists” advocated differing foreign-polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoArizona gasoline prices are rising at a faster pace than last year, and some fuel experts say a gallon of gas could cost metro Phoenix residents $5 this summer. A few of the most expensive gas stations i...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 20 hours ago*Ralph Macquarie, the artist who helped George Lucas bring Stars Wars to the big screen, has died aged 82. *Born in Gary, Indiana, Macquarie began his career as a technical illustrator for aero plane mak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe California High Speed Rail Authority (CHRSA) would be happy to consider investment by the People's Republic of China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC), in the state's propose...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe U.S. Coast Guard plans to muscle up its Arctic presence this summer, patrolling for the first time in a new marine frontier where the ice is melting and ocean-going ship traffic is on the rise. Unpre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe flood of cheap money from the European Central Bank is storing up grave trouble for the future. When something looks dangerous, it generally is. And few things look quite so high-wire right now as th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTOKYO (Newscore) - Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTwo British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia holding them has said. Faraj al Swehli, commander of the S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoINTENSE flash flooding in southeast Queensland has claimed the life of a man swept off a road in his four-wheel drive vehicle. However police have allayed fears that other people may also be missing. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEvacuations are continuing in the Riverina and central west regions of New South Wales as flood levels continue to rise. Around 70 per cent of the state is flooded or under threat of floods after days of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 43.4 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 08:12:32 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 191 km (118 miles) Northeast of Ternate, M...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoSource: http://sheepdrove.wordpress.com/category/animal-welfare/ As Schmallenberg Virus Ravages Sheep Stocks, Climate Changers Pedal New Equine Fears by Patrick Henningsen Global Research Can...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoVIDEO: More flood evacuations
*FLOOD fears for the NSW Riverina city of Wagga Wagga have grown, with the Murrumbid... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe threat of a rare cyclone developing off the southeast Queensland coast has emerged as authorities step up the search for a "good Samaritan" feared missing in raging floodwaters. The Bureau of Meteoro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Haryana, Delhi Region, India at a depth of 19.1 km (11.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:41:06 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Northwest of B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:55:27 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) South of Lhoks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Iraq at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:50:35 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) Northeast of Tikrit, Iraq No Reports of Da...
- 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 33.2 km (20.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:24:25 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) ESE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:14:14 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) WNW of Ile ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck Santiago del Estero, Argentina at a depth of 550 km (341.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:46:09 UTC Monday 5th March 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) ESE from Sa...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWith public consciousness rapidlyrising over the issue of head concussion it is inevitable that we now take headprotection much more seriously. Unfortunately there is little room in the available geomet...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIn the end, the complete failureof the Federal Government to come to grips with the mortgage crisis, which is afailure that must be laid squarely at the doorstep of this administration hasbrought this ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoWhat we have learned is that amulticultural regime cannot be easily imposed except over decades. Turning out one regime however desirablesimply changes perceived masters. A functioningdemocracy will s...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis article deserves broaderdistribution and is a clear portrayal of what has been Chinese policy from thebeginning. Unsurprisingly really, wehave command economy that is using money and credit to scr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 21 hours agoI knew that my post of yesterday re Mehdi Hasan would produce the usual defence from like-minded individuals and I was right.Here's one that I will spend a few minutes answering: 'Anonymous said... I'm a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 21 hours ago*A learning computer system that sorts potatoes has been built using off-the-shelf technology by researchers at the University of Lincoln's Robotics Lab.* The key innovation, in Mr. Duckett's view, is th...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*According to a study, Children who snore, or who have extra night-time breathing circumstances, are at risk from behavioral troubles. In adults, the result can be severe day-time weariness, and some stu...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*A Japanese investigator has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings.* Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan's Nara Medical University has been involved in the automatic properties ...
- posted by Chet at JUSTICE - 22 hours agoIsraeli troops have raided two private Palestinian television stations in the illegally occupied West Bank, seizing transmitters and other equipment. The two stations affected were Watan Television, a local...
- posted by Real History Lisa at Real History Blog - 23 hours agoThis is under four minutes, but it's some to-the-point real history. Missing from this segment is how the Ayatollah became popular as a response to Western influence in Iran. So any threat Israel now feels i...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 23 hours ago[image: image] Eric Crampton comments on the absurdity of the “Holiday Equation” above produced by some underemployed academics. A mathematical equation for holiday happiness, or banal tautology? Or ju...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 23 hours ago*There’s activism tomorrow in Wellington to highlight the desirability of legislation to legalise cannabis, and the iniquity of the incarceration of cannabis activist and former Daktory organiser Dakta G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(CBS News) Could the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged the Iranian nuclear program be used against the U.S. infrastructure or other high profile targets? A retired American general who was the head of the Cent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPHOENIX — Armed with a new 10-page report he commissioned, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President Obama released last year is a “computer-generated fo...
- posted by Chet at JUSTICE - 23 hours ago(CNN) -- Opposition fighters attacked a Syrian air force intelligence building outside Damascus on Sunday and tried to fend off an intense assault on the town of Rastan, said a leader in the Free Syrian Ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJust 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoFannie 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 - 1 day agoOn 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 - 1 day agoBy L. Randall Wray **Corrected Version. John Carney has pointed out that two passages I attributed to him came out of his blogs but were instances where he was quoting JKH. I had worked from a text file r...
- posted by Mitch Green at New Economic Perspectives - 1 day agoBy L. Randall Wray **Corrected Version. John Carney has pointed out that two passages I attributed to him came out of his blogs but were instances where he was quoting JKH. I had worked from a text file r...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoOpen-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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoThe 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 - 1 day agoSupporters 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 - 1 day agoUS 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 - 1 day agoTwenty 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 - 1 day agoSarayaku people fear loss of their culture if government boosts oil production in Amazon.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 candi...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoBangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand. Thanks for stopping by.
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