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A politician who attempted to cover-up getting a nose job by telling his bosses he had been robbed and beaten has been forced to resign from his post. Anwar al-Balkimy a member of Egypt's ultraconservati... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 22 minutes agoI just adore this man. Especially when his wit is at large. March 4, 2012 Schrödinger’s Tax David Cay Johnston tells us that the usual suspects on the right are arguing that it’s OK to cut corporate...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 minutes agoTheir leaders have names such as Durnwalder, Klotz, Widmann, and Mair. Their neighbours include Swiss, Germans and Austrians. And at the moment a good many of them are wondering why they should be saddl...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 39 minutes agoI linked this this earlier without comment, but I think I'm going to have to disagree with Josh Putnam's post saying that Rick Santorum (and Newt Gingrich) *can't, *as if by a matter of arithmetic, get to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 41 minutes ago
China’s thrill-seeking nouveau riche are being offered a £50,000 trip of a lifetime – hunting down endangered polar bears, the Daily Mail can reveal. The expensive price tag for the 10-day expedition acro... - posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 44 minutes ago
Republicans and the women, beyond all earthly comprehension, who love them, just can't help it. Even when answering charges that her husband Willard is hopelessly and eternally out of touch with the commo... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes ago
The British ambassador to Syria has told Sky News he expects President Bashar al Assad will be out of power within a year. Speaking on television for the first time since he was recalled from Damascus la... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 53 minutes agoGlobal warming is expected to devastate polar bear numbers but even down toward the 49th it may bring a similar fate to pond hockey or, as we called it when I was a kid, "shinny." A new study warns that o...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 54 minutes ago
------------------------------ *MARCH 05, 2012* Permalink Debate: Attacking Iran, AIPAC, I... - posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour agoThe Gay Secretary Two centuries of first-degree premeditated murder court trials prove this. Americans plot to murder Americans every single day. Spouses plan to murder spouses, victims of crime plot to t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoThis is for real, for a good cause and there's a cash prize, besides possibly having your slogan immortalized on highways across the country. Long time activist, master of pithy messaging in unexpected pla...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 hour ago
When I need a fantastic dish that uses very few ingredients and is easy to throw together, I turn to this. It is tasty and wonderful and it won't take you all day. You will need: 4 chicken breasts 4 clo... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoSome things you just have to post to the archives for future historians to study. This is one of them. On the bright side, as least he didn't try to sing it. So there's that... [More posts daily at th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoPublished in the Arizona Republic Mar 5, 2012 p. A2. The brief article states that poor air quality recorded in Maricopa County AZ was caused in some cases by pollutants that originated in Asia. [excerp...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour agoLive from Tel Aviv..... The Ben ( Netanyahu ) and Mo ( *Ahmadinejad* ) Show: Netanyahu: We demand you cease building nuclear weapons! Iran: No problem; we aren't building any. We are building a power stat...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour ago
Syrian Activists Caught Lying, Syrian Rebels Caught Committing Atrocities. by Tony Cartalucci March 6, 2012 - Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out "activists" giving daily body counts, ... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012* *Exactly as we told you:* There are a couple of questions we typically get. “Are you *always* right?” people will ask. “If so, how does that feel?” Normally, we change the subject...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:08:19 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) ESE ... - posted by Economic Perspectives from Kansas City at New Economic Perspectives - 1 hour agoThere is an interesting discussion over at The Great Debate concerning the efficacy of Dodd-Frank featuring our own William K. Black. Check it out!
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 hour agoLisa Murkowski is very sorry. Sure she voted for the Blunt amendment but she didn't really mean it: Murkowski called the Blunt Amendment a “messaging amendment” that “both sides know is not going to pass...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012* *Part 2—We’re all the Fox News Channel now:* “Where’s the outrage?” William Bennett once asked. He wanted to know why regular folk weren’t more upset about Bill Clinton’s sexual c...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 hours agoAtomfritz posted this link at Ex-SKF http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/discovery-of-neptunium-239-in-iitate.html Shepherd, S. & Kay, A. C. (2012). On the Perpetuation of Ignorance: System Dependence, Sy...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: A family enjoys mild weather on the Lake Michigan shore earlier this month. A poll released Tuesday, 28 February 2012 that found more people believe in global warming was taken before the mild wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck Colorado at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:10:21 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) WSW of Trinidad, Colorado No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoIran is to allow UN inspectors access to a military complex where the United Nations' nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work is being carried out. The country's permanent envoy to the International A...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Snow covers the remains of a home demolished by a tornado in Marysville, Indiana, on Monday, 5 March 2012. MSNBC] WASHINGTON, 4 March 2012 (CNHI) – National Weather Service officials said Saturd...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoPatriotism: the last refuge of a scoundrel — if Stevie isn't proof by himself, just look at Vickie and the rest of the chimps.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 2 hours agoYesterday, Michael Lemonick asked of journalists at Climate Central, "should we tell the whole truth about climate change?" His answer is to ask "So where’s the right balance between telling the whole tr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Deep-sea coral reef in the Mediterranean, discovered by a team headed by Professor Zvi Ben-Avraham of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, October 2010. israelity....
- Brad Wall And His Saskatchewan Party Appeal Court Ruling On A Persons Right To Withdraw Their Labour
posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 2 hours ago*Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is an 'unfettered free market' kinda guy. He believes that a working person does not have a constitutional right to withhold their labour. In other words, in Brad Wall's w... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoNo weapons have been found in the car where a man was shot dead by police, an initial search by the police watchdog has revealed. Anthony Grainger, from Bolton, was shot in the chest by an armed police o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoKenyan police say British colleagues have confirmed that a fugitive terror suspect wanted for her role in a bomb plot is 7/7 widow Samantha Lewthwaite. Senior anti-terror police sources in Mombasa yesterd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA video camera that was meant to capture a man’s sleep patterns instead recorded the final hours before he died and cost him his life, according to the 25-year-old’s family. Brandon Harris, who was menta...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Cover of 'Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics' by CCAFS. ccafs.cgiar.org] By Grant Potter and Graham Salinger 3 March 2012 A recent report by The Consult...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoWhen Adam Spencer's girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal as they travelled through South America, the couple could begin thinking of a happy life together. But their dream trip soon turned into a ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoTaylor Sauer, a teenager who was texting every 90 seconds during her four-hour commute from Utah State University to her parents’ home on January 14, made a fatal mistake while behind the wheel. Her prol...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoOccupy Chicago on May 1, 2012 Has Been Cancelled *While Obama may think he can hide world leaders from dissent or shield them from our protest, our message will be heard clearly across the world - inclu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoThe Moriond conference offers us updates on many searches in particle physics although the most interesting findings may be stored for later and larger conferences. Matt Strassler has mentioned an inter...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 3 hours agoThe following is an updated version of my comment submitted in response to the latest John O'Sullivan post, at climaterealists.com: *Lay readers need to know they are being fed incompetent science by all ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHospital patients are being forced to fork out up to £10 a day to watch their favourite programmes - while prisoners pay just £1 a week to watch shows and films in their cells. The cost of packages in so...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoImage: Abdul Rauf denies trafficking for sexual exploitation An alleged sex gang was today accused of setting up a abuse ring involving thousands of men with young 'white girls in the middle', a teenager ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA mother has escaped jail despite pretending she had eight children in a £42,000 benefits scam. Sarah Jane Smith, 41, even pretended that she and her two real children were disabled so that she could cla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoYou could be forgiven for thinking that these incredible images are simply scene grabs from a computer game or film depicting some imaginary and non-existent world. But these pictures are actually photogr...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago*For a long, long time now I have been ending the majority of my posts with this epilogue containing links for people to use to educate themselves on the American Legislative Exchange Council:* *–**—**–**...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Rob Reiner, 65. You're not going to see all that many starts better than Spinal Tap/The Sure Thing/Stand By Me/Princess Bride; that's four excellent movies in four tries. Also, he was ter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoAdding ocean acidification and deoxygenation into the mix of climate change predictions may turn “winner” regions of fisheries and biodiversity into “losers,” according to research released today by Unive...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoCanadian government scientists are still being hampered from talking to the media about their taxpayer-funded research and that's bad news for the public, say groups representing both journalists and fede...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoBarbarism Begins At Home ~moosedenied ~"That's my third monocle this week. I simply must stop being so horrified." Welp, everything sure is going according to the plan so far, don't you think? High five? Gu...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoThere's a memo going around stating Tim Geithner was indicted last week, in custody for a brief moment and released the same day. I haven't seen it. Yesterday we talked a little about accountability for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLast year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet. According to recent data by NASA, average Arctic tempera...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoSeawater to a depth of up to 700 meters is warming at a pace of 0.02 degree every 10 years worldwide, according to an analysis by the Meteorological Agency. In its first analysis into deep-water temperatu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoUpdate, 6:11 p.m.: Monsanto spokesman Tom Helscher says the company does not think there is “sufficient data” to demonstrate a link between the use of Lasso herbicide and the symptoms Francois reported. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoStudy comes amid attempts across U.S. to ban use on playgrounds, parking lots and driveways. Children living next to driveways or parking lots coated with coal tar are exposed to significantly higher dose...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLast August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm whipped up water levels, generating storm surg...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIt looks more like squid than steak and because it lacks the fat and protein found in real cattle, does not taste like traditional beef. So why would anyone eat meat grown in a lab? Cultured or in-vitro ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFollowing Japan's nuclear disaster last year there are fears the US may be heading for a nuclear catastrophe of its own. In March 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused a meltdown at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoIndustrial civilisation's entire economy is based on a finite resource we treat as infinite. Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clo...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 3 hours agoRoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: "And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so much r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoNaples, Italy - The once-pretty commune of Terzigno, a small town near Naples, has recently been described by its residents as "the rubbish dump of Italy". Sitting in the middle of the Vesuvius National ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA grandmother has collapsed in court after she was jailed for helping a criminal gang make millions of pounds by effectively stealing people's homes. Surjeet Chana, 64, was among a trio of crooked offici...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra at a depth of 103.1 km (64.1 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:23 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) Northwest of Padang, Suma...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours agoFootage appears to show “activist” coordinating fake gunfire. *Paul Joseph Watson* Infowars.com Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Astounding footage has emerged of ‘Syria Danny’ – the dubious “activist” who appear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40.5 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:06 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 110 km (68 miles) East...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 4 hours agoWho is Alleged Poutygate Snitch with Vendetta? ~Canal Street Chronicles Irony: Conservative Think Tank To Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana Science Education Act Is A “Devastating Flaw” ~CenLamar The winds of c...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 4 hours agoWhile entering Soleil yesterday morning my driver and I noticed hundreds if not thousands of young people walking in the streets. This seemed unusual and looked like a demonstration was just ending. My d...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 5 hours agoYeah, yeah, I know. Originally I thought this was a good representation of George Smitherman's campaign, but I'm an environmentalist, and I believe in recycling, and given Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuc...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoBiased BBC alerts me to comments by the BBC's Mark Thompson that: '...the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un's official visit on Tuesday to Army Unit 842, which handles the North's missile systems, suggests he has gained full control of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons, experts say. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAbu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) -- During the summer months, in the arid, subtropical coastal plains of the United Arab Emirates, temperatures rise to 40 Celsius plus -- while average rainfall is a desolate four in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGrand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- In case you plan to see Wednesday's GOP debate, allow me to offer up some crib notes so you don't get lost. First, when you hear the candidates talk about "job creators," ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(CNN) -- What happens to the bar of soap you barely used the last time you checked into a hotel room? Most certainly it's gone to waste at the end of each day. This was a shocking revelation for Ugandan ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- U.S. troops helping in the fight against a brutal rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army are now deployed in four Central African countries, the top U.S. special operations c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50p higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue. The Treasury received £10.35 billion in inc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThis evening, speaking at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that folks getting and spending unemployment checks is a healthy thing...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 6 hours ago*UK health experts believe sun-dried tomatoes could be the cause of a recent outbreak of hepatitis A. Four of the patients in this latest outbreak in England said they had consumed sun-dried tomatoes. *H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNational Security Agency director General Keith Alexander believes Anonymous could have the power to take town the United States’ electrical grid this year. The Wall Street Journal’s sources say the direc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe federal government said Tuesday that fresh milk is 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized milk — a finding that bolsters the government’s argument as it goes after farmers who sell unpasteurized mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPolice in Papua New Guinea's capital have used tear gas and fired shots in the air to clear a crowd of angry landowners. There were rowdy scenes outside the building that houses the prime minister's depa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoResidents of the small southeast Queensland city of Gympie are preparing to face floodwaters for the third time in two years. The Mary River, which runs through the city north of Brisbane, is expected to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTop-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model. On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGoree island, Senegal (CNN) -- A short ferry ride away from Dakar, lies the quiet and picturesque Goree Island. Three kilometers off the coast, the Senegalese island is tiny and easily accessible by foot....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoLast week Tom Chivers posted a blog in which he observed that Portugal has recorded a fifty per cent drop in “problem drug users”, since they decriminalised all drugs. Will our government take note and ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoViolent crime so far this year in the District has spiked sharply — a 40 percent increase that includes twice as many robberies at gunpoint than at this time last year. Across the city, all police distric...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoChina’s prisons are more modernized than our rural elementary schools Where is this? The White House? No, this is Jiansu Province Yancheng Prison. More.......
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours agoEurope and Eurozone's fiscal problems continue to wobble their macro economy as citizens keep paying more taxes and fees while their governments keep piling up more debts to the already high debt stock. Be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEd Balls, the shadow Chancellor, has called for a £12bn tax cut in next month's Budget. There is not a snowball's chance in Hades of the Chancellor listening, but it nonetheless seems worth considering, g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEmployees all too often think they are "bullet-proof" when they post anything on Facebook or Twitter. But as the law stands today, if they bring their employer into disrepute, the boss of the firm is well ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 46.1 km (28.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:50:22 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe mansion sits in the heart of Maputo, Mozambique. From the street it looks abandoned. Its walls are crumbling, the windows are broken and overgrown shrubs and trees hide the once grand entrance. But ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe world's first test tube hamburger will be served up this October after scientists perfected the art of growing beef in the lab. By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they ca...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoScientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a technological principle called Moore's Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. The atom was etched int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoStanding too many months on the unemployment line is driving Americans crazy — literally — and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. With their unemployment-insurance checks running out,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThree states in Australia continue to suffer from serious flooding with 13,000 people being evacuated from homes in New South Wales alone. The floods have so far swept two people to their deaths and come...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 7 hours ago*Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds - a work made up of 10 tonnes of porcelain seed replicas has been bought by Tate Modern.* The work has been purchased for an undisclosed figure with assistance...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAlarming rise in bacteria resistant to antibiotics, Government report finds Britain is facing a "massive" rise in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by the bacterium E.coli – bringing closer the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNSW shoppers could face a spike in fruit and vegetable prices as heavy flooding continues to devastate prime farming areas. NSW Farmers president Fiona Simson said rural communities had suffered signific...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 7 hours ago Fukushima Protest 2012 One Year After Fukushima: Defining and Classifying a Disaster by Lucas W. Hickson Global Research Canada, March 6, 2012 ** ** *This is the first in a series of articles dedic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(CNN) – Ten years after the Spanish currency, the peseta, was phased out, a rural town in Spain has revolted. Against the backdrop of the ailing euro, about 30 shops in Villamayor de Santiago last month b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoI spent last Saturday comforting a friend, Sue, whose mother had been taken to Accident and Emergency following a fall. Sue’s mother, a 78-year-old widow, lives on her own outside Oxford. Sue and her fami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLujiazui is falling down, falling down. The price to pay for having one of the world’s most iconic skylines, Shanghai’s Lujiazui is suffering from an increasing number of mini “fault lines” radiating outw...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe gap between rich and poor in developed countries is the widest in 30 years, the OECD said in a report Monday. It said the average income of the richest 10 percent was about nine times that of the poor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe number of indebted people is increasing across all age groups in Korea, from young couples struggling to start their own family and people with mortgages to middle-aged parents burdened with exorbitan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWith household debt totaling W900 trillion, eight out of every 100 households in the country spend more than 40 percent of their incomes to repay their loans (US$1=W1,175). Most of these households have t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRochford in Essex and South Lakeland in Cumbria are the only areas which have seen a rise. Rochford in Essex and South Lakeland in Cumbria are the only areas which have seen a rise, and at 1% and 0.1% re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Queen is right – our national religion is a force for unity and a channel of peace. William Blake famously asked “And did those feet, in ancient time, / Walk upon England’s mountains green?” The shor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoLast summer’s rains only provided brief relief - Britain is now facing the biggest water crisis since 1976. Writing about impending drought, in my experience, is a dicey business. The last time I did so ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe residents of Nathalia are bracing for one of the biggest floods in almost a decade to hit their town, and they are being urged to get out. But those who are taking their chances, there will still be p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEarth is set for a close encounter of the asteroid kind, with a space rock capable of causing damage equivalent to a nuclear explosion passing extremely close to the planet. But NASA scientists say we wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA state of emergency has been declared in Wagga Wagga with the NSW Riverina city's flood levee about to be tested by the imminent peak of the Murrumbidgee River. NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell declared a s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 17 km (10.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:49:47 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (55.6 miles) East of Kyzyl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the State of Yap, Fed. States of Micronesia at a depth of 45.6 km (28.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:05:50 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 270 km (167 mil...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago* “What the Greek Rescue is Really About”* by Dan Denning "In today’s Daily Reckoning, we’ll do something we can barely stand to do: we’re going to write one more time about Greece. If you can stand to re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 240 km (148.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:16:38 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 133 km (82.4 miles) West of Sever...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*A strict request for the exile of Mega upload’s creator has been filed in New Zealand by the US government. Mr. Dotcom - a German national - was released on bail 12 days ago despite protests by the US t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:26 UTC Tuesday 6th March 2012 The epicenter was 424 km (263 miles) WNW of Coos Bay, O...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoIn November 2011, we were informed about a result of the LHCb experiment, an experiment using a smaller detector at the LHC that focuses on aspects of particle physics associated with the bottom quark i.e....
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 8 hours ago*Scientists found that the fringes of Antarctica are being invaded by alien plants and minute animals. Foreign plants previously grow on the fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula. The research team believes ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Evie, the male nanny.* Barack Obama's nanny was a gay man. (Barack Obama's transgender nanny in Jakarta) In the late 1960s, Barack's mother appointed Evie, an openly gay Indonesian male, as Barack's...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThe good news is that we know itis out there. The bad news is that weare as yet unable to do much about it. The worse news is that many have passed by over the years and we havebeen blissfully unaware....
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoWe need to start somewhere. Urban trees are critical to the health of thesurrounding air and for local temperature moderation. This fact has slowly been understood andaccepted. Even as important are...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoA reliable method of sterilizingbulk grain crops is clearly necessary and should plausibly be feasible. This is not the only bug we have to worryabout. It should also be naturallycheap. In short it ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis suggests an explanation forthe laidback behavior of potheads. Theysimply forget the sense of urgency. Waymore important, this means that the drug is just about the last thing you wantto use whil...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoMarch 5, 2012 Welcome to today's Capital Account. More than 25 billion applications have been downloaded from Apple's store, according to the company. Likewise, according to Apple, it's app "economy" ha...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI didn't bother to answer the last part of Matt/Anonymous's comment on my BBC bias on Global warming piece because it was so wrong it didn't seem worth it. Fortunately Derek P has done it for me. So here...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoSaanich-Gulf Islands and the "irregularities" which occurred in the 2008 general election in that riding are not going away. Briony Penn, the person leading in the polls on the eve of the 2008 election i...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 11 hours ago------------------------------ Original here *ELECTIONS 2012* | MARCH 1, 2012 Carol Paul: Election fraud confirmed Jeffrey Phelps Denver Conspiracy Examiner *Subscribe* Carol Paul breaks her silence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCritically 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 - 12 hours agoSilver appears to have the best advantage for those with less cash and are willing to follow good advice.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoRomney 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 - 12 hours agoEuropean 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 - 12 hours agoAerial 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 12 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 Josh Busby at The Duck of Minerva - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 - 13 hours agoThe 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 - 13 hours agoAn "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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours agoA 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 - 13 hours 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 15 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! - 15 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 hours agoPhoto by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron ShellPhoto by Andrew Iron Shell Photo by Andrew Iron Shell*Lakotas arrested blocking tarsands trucks o...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 hours agoFort Myers, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 hours ago“Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.” - Samuel Johnson
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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! - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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