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Image via Wikipedia- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 seconds ago“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.” - Samuel Johnson
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If 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 minutes 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...
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- posted by PC at Not PC - 58 minutes agoI must say, it was fascinating to hear Hone Harawira rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi this morning. Yes, it’s been rewritten before and by better men than him—one of whom, Pita Sharples, was on air imm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Dhaka, 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 - 1 hour ago
I 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 - 1 hour ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours ago
In 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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.*
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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! - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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!) - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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; he followed the guidelines of his Southern ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 hours agoMar. 5 - South Koreans are not worried about North Korea's threats. Sophia Soo reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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! - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours 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...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours 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 - 16 hours agoBy 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 hours 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! - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours agoSarayaku people fear loss of their culture if government boosts oil production in Amazon.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 17 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 hours 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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!) - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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! - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoBangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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, in...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoblue glow-- so pretty-- over radioactive snow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWWeOcBjX7c&feature=youtu.be
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoRush Limbaugh: Good or bad for the Republican Party? Good or bad for conservatives?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAbout 60 people are feared dead after a boat they were traveling in capsized in Lake Victoria on Friday night. Buikwe District Police Commander, Aggrey Mugoya, told Sunday Monitor yesterday that the accid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Lead emission from factories and the natural environment in China's manufacturing heart of Guangdong has poisoned 160 children, Xinhua said on Sunday in the country's latest case of unfettered...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The burning of Korans at a NATO base in Afghanistan advanced the Taliban's cause and any repeat of similar "negligence" by Western forces would be disastrous, the Afghan army chief of staff ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The Red Cross hoped to deliver vital aid to the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday but troops were still stopping it getting through despite government permission, three days after rebels were flus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - North Korea threatened "sacred war" against the South in a huge rally in the capital Sunday just days after the secretive state agreed with the United States to suspend its nuclear weapons tes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The euro ended a roller coaster week sharply lower and may come under further selling pressure as Greece's bailout moves back into focus, and as the European Central Bank chimes in on monetary...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar 4 - Rescuers search through the wreckage after a deadly head-on train crash crash in southern Poland. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMar 4 - The last resident of Hawaii's Royal Gardens district goes with the flow as creeping molten lava finally gets too close for comfort. Paul Chapman reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTens of thousands of North Koreans rally in protest over the South's joint military drills with the U.S. after threatening 'sacred war'. North Korean broadcaster KRT shows soldiers and civilians in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - For two weeks, an armed band of former Haitian soldiers has occupied an old military camp in the capital where they carry out military training in defiance of the government. "We took control...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - China will boost military spending by 11.2 percent this year, the government said on Sunday, unveiling Beijing's first defense budget since President Barack Obama launched a policy "pivot" to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoStrong words continue to come out of Pyeongyang. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Young-ho told a crowd of more than 150-thousand people at Pyeongyang's Kim Il-sung Square on Sunday that South Korea'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Suicide bombers attacked two military posts in Yemen Sunday, killing at least five soldiers and injuring seven, two senior security officials said. Bombers using explosive-laden vehicles hit pos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBeijing (CNN) -- China is calling on the Syrian government and others involved to "immediately" stop violence, particularly against innocent civilians, and pursue a political solution to the Middle East n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The savage nightmare in the Syrian city of Homs will only intensify after government forces stormed the embattled neighborhood of Baba Amr, opposition activists said Sunday. "The news coming fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- A large map of Libya hangs on the wall in the home of Idris al-Rahel, with a line down the middle dividing the country in half. Al-Rahel, a former army officer, leads a movement to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe actual number of bacteria-related foodborne illness incidents in Japan could be hundreds of times more than what official government statistics show, a recent report indicates. The report, compiled b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAccording to Aileen Mioko Smith, who together with her late husband, the photographer Eugene Smith, drew the world's attention to one of Japan's most far-reaching pollution-caused diseases, the ongoing Fu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of 86 percent of municipalities in Japan responding to a survey said they are reluctant to accept debris from Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, which were severely hit by the March 20...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo teenagers have been charged with murder after allegedly being caught on camera killing an 18-year-old. The youths were filmed apparently shooting the other teenager execution-style while he was lyin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAngel Babcock, above, who is 20-months-old was found alive, lying in a field surrounded by the bodies of her family following a deadly tornado in Indiana on Friday. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed child was ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day agoThere Is An Alternative to Neoliberal Monetary Austerity by Prof. Michael Hudson Global Research Canada, March 4, 2012 *2,181 Italians pack a Sports Arena to learn Modern Monetary Theory: * *The Ec...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThe Mail reports that: '... The evidence of massive voter fraud taking place in Tower Hamlets is overwhelming. 'Postal vote farming' where extra names are registered at an address, is not an isolated or r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThieves have stolen the preserved heart of Dublin's patron saint from the city's Christ Church cathedral. In the latest in a spate of holy relic raids to hit the Irish Republic, the 12th century heart of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn a small act of defiance, he arrived at his foreboding desert prison dressed in classic English attire: blue golf club blazer, beige flannels and immaculate tie. But when Christopher Tappin appeared be...
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