Lauren Gunderson - "Stunning and fundamental. A source of terrible knowledge that leads to compassion." (Photo credit: Crossroads Foundation Photos)
Cover of The Republican War on Science- http://www.ecoshock.info/2012/04/worst-problems-in-world.html?m=1 Alex Smith's interview with Arnie Gunderson is definitely of value. A few comments [paraphrased]: Arnie Gunderson states in this intervi...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 46 minutes agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
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If you haven't already gotten and read Chris Mooney's two latest books, *The Republican War On Science* and *The Republican Brain*, I hope you at least watched the video of him explaining "The Science of... - posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 56 minutes ago
After Charli's video mashup this feels pretty lame, but I did promise the slides from my talk. Thanks again to all those who responded to the bleg. If it isn't obvious, I should note that everything I sai... - posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 59 minutes agoREMEMBER: JUST WEEKS AGO - TALK OF A STRATEGIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN RICK & NEWT WAS CIRCULATING. Nobody knows the details of that alliance. It's interesting that Rick didn't endorse. Conservatives may be in a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoVicky Hartzler is really an embarrassment to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – or maybe not. ~~~~~~~ Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) told a crowd of her constituents that she is no more convin...
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Stock markets around the world plummeted yesterday as the eurozone debt crisis came roaring back again and fresh doubts about the sustainability of the US recovery gripped investors. The FTSE 100 Index o... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour ago
Who wouldn't look happy in the middle of that natural splendor. Photo courtesy: mandy If you haven't already read, in the run-up to the Rio+20 environmental conference the UN has been highlighting the imp... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour agoSimon and Garfunkel, “The Boxer” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKjEHfHINQ
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 hour agoHow much would you pay to buy your votes? Turns out from party spending returns for the 201 election it cost some parties from $20 per vote (Social Credit) $25 per vote (ACT) to $30 per vote (Colin Crai...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoAtomfritz made this comment in response to blogger Ex-SKF's article titled, "Telephone Game of Fukushima Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool" http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/04/telephone-game-over-fukushima-reactor-...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoFrom Think Progress today I found this little blurb about Iowa. Last week, Progress Iowa asked Hawkeye State legislators to cut ties to ALEC in light of its work to push voter restrictions in state legisla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe special prosecutor investigating the controversial shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin has said she will release important new information "within the next 72 hours". The announcement come...
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 31.7 km (19.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:21:18 UTC Wednesday 11th April 2012 The epicenter was 153 km (95 miles) ENE from Korl... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Easter Island Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:34:13 UTC Wednesday 11th April 2012 The epicenter was 650 km (403 miles) WNW of Hanga Ro... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 31.7 km (19.7 miles), the quake hit at 23:16:16 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 185 km (114 miles) ESE... - posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour ago
A dead dolphin washed up on shore. Photo courtesy: NRDC It has now been nearly two full years since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, loosing a massive geyser of oil into the marin... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams�
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.7 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:45:14 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (93 miles) ESE...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 hour ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - Sorry, but part 3 of the F-35 fiasco is still in the hopper. And as much as I am not really a Titanic freak, as someone who understands the effects of hydraulics on sinking ships, there ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoThis headline from HuffPo hit the newwire yesterday *Scott Walker Quietly Repeals Wisconsin Equal Pay Law* WASHINGTON -- A Wisconsin law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"A Gathering of the Tribe"* by Charles Eisenstein ․ "Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on." - Rev. Henry Burton
- Mining 3: Debates on MiningGovernment and Taxes - 3 hours agoMy article, FAT-FREE ECONOMICS: Mining and environmentalism, fancy and reality http://www.interaksyon.com/article/26966/fat-free-economics-mining-and-environmentalism-fancy-and-reality has attracted variou...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 3 hours ago------------------------------ *What Is ObamaCare?* ------------------------------ April 10, 2012 | Original here Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Do the three fingers mean that the governor plans to tell only three lies, or that he's only telling three lies at this exact moment?* *carte blanche* *n.*. Unrestricted power to act at one's own discreti...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 3 hours agoReally, *debería escribir esto en español. *But then you’d have to use GoogleTranslate to read it, and who knows how that would turn out? It was a scarce five months ago thatI got serious about learning S...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago** *... and why the middle class is really just a temporary aberration* *Contributor: "Lucilla"* VIDEO: Margaret Sanger - The Mike Wallace Interview In the above-linked video, Sanger made it clear that t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Fishermen use pole and line fishing method to catch skipjack tuna. Greenpeace] By Lewis Smith 4 April 2012 An organisation has been set up to ensure the growing demand for tuna caught by pole ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago"And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge. And he answered saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoBack in the day, Tattered Sleeve was the first blog ever on TGB's brand-new, shiny blogroll. And he's back! Welcome back *Scott in Montreal*. And, Sir, assume your former spot. First among equals.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Brought to them by the world.* "In Haiti, cholera epidemic still a fatal fact of life; Disease infected 5% of population; 7,050 have died" by Deborah Sontag | New York Times April 01, 2012 MIREBAL...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 hours agoThe good folk over at DJ and Regina Mom we know about already. Today, we note the departure of the Dawg and the collective over at TGB. Not sure whether this is part of a larger pattern, but the need to re...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Low water fuels avian cholera outbreak in Calif." Associated Press, April 08, 2012 TULELAKE, Calif. - Because of a lack of water, an outbreak of avian cholera has killed more than 10,000 geese, ducks, an...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoWe Liberals found that out too... http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1159270 F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper's credibility In politics, trust corrodes easily. The damage may not be...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours agoMike Wallace hosting "CBS Morning News" in 1963. Photo from CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images.Sayonara to Mike Wallaceand the news era he ledMike Wallace turned the macho face-off into a personal signature th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoOakhurst, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*“Sic Et Non”* by Chet Raymo “Richard Capobianco's explanation of what philosophers do - or should do - strikes me as on the mark. "So, to put it simply, good philosophy keeps our unknowing in view, and ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.” “Albus Dumbledore”, “Harry Potter”
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago*Ben Bernanke: Financial Terrorist And Mass Murderer. Method of Killing Innocent Americans: Devaluing The Dollar.* What Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve banksters have done to the American people ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours ago[image: image] Once again, the news that several human beings are heading down under with the express aim of making a new home for themselves somewhere in Australasiahas talkback callers on both sides of...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“How Dangerous is the Radioactive Wave Headed Toward the US?“* “Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, joins Thom Hartmann. California beware! A radioactive wave is headed toward the West Coast of the United States...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*RE: defence of soldier* *let's not be quick to judge...This is after all the US Army Known to experiment with its own units...That said if this soldier or others are taking any sleep aid medicine that ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoA 4.7 quake on the surface, how big was it at 600k below ground? What moves at that depth to be felt on the surface? Ben Judea... Magnitude*5.3* Date-Time - *Friday, March 30, ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*By Derek L Fleming* Iranian conflict in the Straits of Hormuz with the United States (US) would be a one-sided string of engagements if it were to happen this year, and would have significant implicat...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoOut of this new college the *Scull & Bones* will recruit new member to infiltrate the chinese mainland. NEW HAVEN — Yale announced a year ago that it was creating the “first new college to bear the ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago** SABU AKA Hector In July federal agents quietly arrested Hector Xavier Monsegur at a New York City housing project. Less than 24 hours later, they'd converted the infamous hacker, known online as Sab...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*Stroke has a new indicator* They say if you e.mail this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along? * B*lood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoThe likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health Th...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoصديق من طاغية، عدوا للشعب، هديل العلي كانت المرأة في الولايات المتحدة وهديل المتعلمين العلي؛ رئيسها وكان الرئيس السوري، بشار الأسد. البريد الإلكتروني وإرسالها إلى حساب خاص المستخدمة من قبل الأسد على الت...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago- ¿Qué figura venerada religiosa - Moisés, Jesús, o el profeta Mahoma -, con gran firmeza y sin ambigüedades contra la esclavitud?Respuesta: Ninguno de ellos.Uno de estos hombres poseían esclavo...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoNorth Korean site of launch pad of the rocket Unah-3 at the Tongchang-ri space center on April 8, 2012. North Korea's long-range rocket is on its launch platform, AFP reporters said Sunday, as the regi...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoالانضمام للاحتجاج أو المساهمة http://www.femen.org/ ناشط من Femen النسائية المدافعة عن حقوق يستعد للمشاركة في تظاهرة ضد العنف المنزلي مارس اسطنبول 8، 2012. وكالة رويترز / عثمان أخترنا. الشرطة تعتق...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*This was exactly what our founding father warned us about. They warned that eventually the banks will end up being masters of everything. Abraham Ben Judea* "If the American people ever allow* privat...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago* **الشيء الوحيد الذي نحتاجه هو البرنامج الذي سيتم حذف أو إعادة الهاتف إلى ضبط المصنع الأصلي محو جميع البيانات الموجودة في ذاكرة الهاتف بعد 4 محاولات. إبراهيم بن يهودا* نمط الشاشة الأقفال على الهواتف...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoRead more here الجيش الاسرائيلي قد فاوضت الوصول إلى القواعد الجوية في موقع استراتيجي في أذربيجان التي يمكن أن تستخدم في هجوم على المنشآت النووية الإيرانية، وقال مسؤولون امريكيون.واقترح التقرير غير مؤكدة...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoOne Drug to Shrink All Tumors - ScienceNOW Seed Newsvine
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoSnyder se sano solo Snyder, ahora de 56 años, dice que comenzó el estudio de 2 años debido a una serie de avances tecnológicos que hacen que sea posible para ver el funcionamiento del cuerpo que más ínt...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoPattern-экран блокировки на телефонах Android находятся в безопасности, по-видимому настолько, что они в тупик Федерального бюро расследований. Бюро претензий в федеральный суд документы, что судебно-меди...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoA very smart man Snyder, now 56, says he began the study 2 years ago because of a slew of technological advances that make it feasible to view the working of the body more intimately than ever before. "...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoHigh-throughput screening finds surprising properties for antioxidants: Compounds can damage DNA, but may treat cancer Seed Newsvine
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*News we missed. Having read this article in Scientific American years ago...now comes the time to speculate if not extrapolate... Now comes recent news that a scientist wants to clone a Wolly Mammoth in...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*News you missed.* *Kelp is used as filler for toothpaste and ice cream. What these so called experts are not telling you is that it only takes a single radio active atom to cause cancer or tumours. So v...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*Of course there is no global Warming....Just don't look down...* *Claro que no, No existe calientamiento global...Solo no mire hacia bajo... * Seed Newsvine
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours ago*Hey Nick T...* *Are NSA employees covered under the below clause? They are Employees not covered agents correct?...* *ec. 601. Protection of Identities of Certain United States Undercover Intelligence...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoبحلول سبتمبر، فإن وجود القوات الأميركية في أفغانستان أن يكون وصولا الى مستوى ما قبل ارتفاعه من 68000. وبالنسبة للسنة المقبلة بعد أن والسياسيين والجنرالات ويناقش كيف بسرعة لجلب قوات إضافية المنزل. وعلى ...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 6 hours agoThese are the pictures of SOME Cheronovil Accident mutations.... It's been over a year since Fucushima dissaster. Where are the radiation mutation pictures? ...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 6 hours agoWe've made it through our first Semana Santa - Easter Week - in Copan Ruinas. It's a fascinating phenomenon. For starters, it's the year's big holiday, and much of the country is on the move. The pub...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 6 hours agoDue to a large number of requests I am posting up the slides from my talk yesterday - Wag the Dog (here in PDF). Since my commentary doesn't accompany the slides, the slides alone might be unclear or con...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours ago*Fort Berthold: Oil trucks killed seven children and youths* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY, Kansas – The trucks ofthe oil and gas i...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoI think I forgot to link yesterday's PostPartisan effort, which was about SCOTUS and the ACA. I covered the conservative argument that if the Court's majority believe post-New Deal interpretations of the C...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 7 hours ago*Guest post by Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-Chief, MoneyWeek (UK)* *Financial repression*. A few years ago when a few people (Gillian Tett, Russell Napier, etc) started predicting that it would be the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“Should We Worry about the Class Divide?”* by Jeffrey Tucker "Charles Murray’s new book “Coming Apart” has generated an incredible amount of hand-wringing on all sides. For those who are skilled at ignor...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours agoTough one to call that. Oh for Bill Clinton as US President, you knew where he'd stand on this one. I am sure there is a gag involving Brazilian Brazilians but I'm not sure that I want to go there. *Th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoBlue America endorsed California surgeon Lee Rogers for many reasons, including his support for single-payer health care, his insistence on ending the occupation in Afghanistan, his support for economic a...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoI don't watch Britain's Got Talent, I have some degree of self-respect, but did hear of one performance that I thought was worth watching, that of Britain's answer to Dita von Teese, Beatrix von Bourbon. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Wanna go for a spin?* "China may buy only domestic cars for official use; Proposal would help its struggling auto industry" by Keith B. Richburg | The Washington Post, March 25, 2012 BEIJING - On one ...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 8 hours ago*Alberta Tories play race card, call Wildrose party of old, white men in election* EDMONTON - Alberta's Progressive Conservatives appear to be actively painting their Wildrose opposition as the party of...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoCancer-stricken Robert Mugabe is 'fighting for his life' in Singapore hospitalZimbabwean tyrant 'close to death' He is believed to be suffering from prostate cancer Close family members are at his bedside ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*The ones the Globe is giving me.* "Analysts say distrust between China, US is growing; Report says gap between nations is narrowing fast" by Jane Perlez | New York Times, April 03, 2012 BO’AO, China -...
- posted by Rodger A. Payne at The Duck of Minerva - 8 hours ago[image: Ozzie Guillen] Photo credit = Dirk Hansen. Last Friday, April 6, *Time* magazine published controversial excerpts from an interview with Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen: "I love Fidel Castr...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*Grandson of Chief Dan George: Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, People of the Water* *By Brenda Norrell* ** ***Rueben George and Tom Goldtooth, IEN,* *at Rights of Mother Earth Gathering**Censored News* http:...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Visualizing What $1.2 Trillion In Secret Fed Bailouts * *To The Banking Kleptocracy Looks Like"* by Tyler Durden “While Bloomberg has done a tremendous job of digging through 29,346 pages of FOIA data,...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoA little late but somehow I don't think you will mind!
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“The Suffocation of Unsustainable Debt”* by My Budget 360 “In 2002 total global debt was above $80 trillion. In 2010 that figure more than doubled to over $190 trillion. GDP is unlikely to support this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA four-year-old boy who was found injured in the street is believed to have been stabbed, police have said. The youngster, who has not been named, was rushed to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Australia. BOM] By Tom Laskawy 10 April 2012 When I examined the reasons agriculture often gets a pass in climate negotiations recently, I pointed to t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 9 hours ago*The U.S. ultimatum to Iran: Surrender or Die*. The United States and Iran will meet in Istanbul on Saturday, April 14, to discuss Iran's nuclear program and other issues. But don't hold your breath....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*"True Unemployment Rate at a Staggering 22.2%"* by King World News “John Williams, of Shadowstats, notes that manipulated government statistics are not changing the fact that the true SGS Unemployment Me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBy A Staff Reporter — MUSCAT — The Environment Society of Oman (ESO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs and the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSHIJIAZHUANG - More than 2,000 people are struggling to put out a forest fire that has been raging on a mountain to the northeast of Beijing, local authorities said Tuesday. Steep hills, strong winds and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - About 1,200 families were displaced due to flash floods in the northern Philippine province of Cagayan, a senior government official said Tuesday. National Disaster Risk Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAGARTALA, April 10 (IANS): At least seven people, including two children and an elderly man, were killed and over 30 injured as cyclonic storms accompanied by rains lashing several parts of Tripura since ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoI have a piece over at Plum Line looking forward towards the general election, but here's a couple of quick notes about Rick Santorum, as he drops out and somewhat-more-formally clinches the nomination for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHONG KONG - A carcass of an oriental magpie robin found in Hong Kong last week was confirmed to be H5N1-positive after a series of laboratory tests, the city government said in a statement on Tuesday. A ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – At least two tornadoes have touched down and hail the size of softballs pounded northwestern Oklahoma, injuring two people and damaging a county jail and numerous vehicles. The Natio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJEWAR (GREATER NOIDA): More than 150 people, including women and children, were taken ill due to suspected food poisoning after eating at a 'shraddh' ceremony at Chiroli village near Jewar on Monday. Dist...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThirty-five passengers and four crew members aboard a Dash 8-300 aircraft belonging to Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) escaped death yesterday when the plane skidded off the run way at Kigoma airport ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Russian military anticipates that an attack will occur on Iran by the summer and has developed an action plan to move Russian troops through neighboring Georgia to stage in Armenia, which borders on th...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago*TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012* *Can you quit E. J. Dionne:* For the modern liberal, it’s the biggest test of your ability to resist the tribal imperative. Here’s the test: Can you quit E. J. Dionne? He seems ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe wife of a disgraced senior Communist Party figure once tipped as a future leader has been named as a suspect over the murder of a British man killed in China. State media is reporting Chinese police ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 51.1 km (31.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:49 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Sea of Japan at a depth of 374.3 km (232.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:36:13 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 202 km (125 miles) Northwest of Kanazawa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 357.2 km (222 miles), the quake hit at 13:42:03 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) SSE...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 51.3 km (31.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:00:41 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 199 km (123 miles) SSE of Manad...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoA typical Alberta soccer mom contemplates the differences between the province’s two conservative parties. The one on the left has indicated stronger support for public health care. According to the lates...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 10 hours agoA common failure of military types is that they're forever preparing to fight the last war instead of the next war. It's human nature. They know the last war, they lived through it. They know where the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoUS Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has pulled out of the race for the White House, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to become the nominee. Mr Santorum is holding a press conference in his...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 10 hours agoDan Drezner was kind enough to link to my YouTube ISA Presentation. However Foreign Policy has headlined it "Is This the Future of Teaching?" Given that a number of colleagues have written to me this morni...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoFor the sake of argument let's just call it - oh I don't know - global warming. People in most parts of the country enjoyed a dry, mild winter and an astonishingly early and HOT spring. It's the sort o...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoHarper, freely aided and abetted by the opposition parties in our Petro-Parliament, has been pulling Canada's political centre to what, in decent times, would have been considered the far right. It's be...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago"The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind, is getting the old one out." – B H Liddell Hart [quoted in King, Richard. 2009. "How stupid are we?" *Australian Army Journ...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 11 hours agoAt Anthony Cody's Living in Dialogue blog (*Education Week*), Educators for Shared Accountability have issued a VAM report on Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the context of the past nine Secretaries ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoNo Blue America live chat this week. We'll be back next week with Trevor Thomas, the progressive pro-Choice candidate running in MI-3. This week, though, we want to tell you about Blue America's new Indep...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoDivided & warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of corporate-financier oligarchs. Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com April 10, 2012 While the Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate follo...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoMr Howard Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory (CBS) designed a lavatory for the International Space Station. If you don't watch the sitcom, notice that a problem was that after some time, the device began to...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago* Ken Livingstone (right), who was London Mayor at the time of the London Tube Bombings. *"If ever we get tired of the name London it actually would enshrine a lot of what makes London a great city if we ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 12 hours agoApparently. And he wrote some heartfelt plea for solidarity. I on the other hand, stayed overnight in the city where I work for an unusually early-in-the-morning appointment. So I had two drags on the joi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoR. v. M.Q., 2012 ONCA 224 deals with the highly unusual fact situation where a defence counsel, who acted for a complainant on an assault then acted as trial counsel for the accused. When this fact emerged...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours agoSolidarity Sing Along at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Photo from Solidarity Sing Along / Facebook.The historic Wisconsin 'Solidarity Sing Along'Dubbed the 'longest continuously running singing protest in his...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoMilitary history going back to the very beginnings of civilization has been an endless succession of technological advancement as each side tries to get ahead and remain ahead of its perceived adversaries....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours agoAndrew Gelman: I resist what I see as the occasional habit of political scientists to report a null effect and imply from that the conclusion that various reforms don’t matter or shouldn’t be done. This ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAsian airlines said they will divert planes from the intended flight path of North Korea's rocket as shipping in the area was warned on Tuesday to beware of falling debris. Japan's two largest carriers, J...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoBio-Accumulation of radiation occurs as fallout in soil, precipitation and bodies of water is absorbed by plants and animals. Bio-Magnification occurs as higher concentrations of a contaminant accumulate ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoI have been following the ongoing disaster at the TEPCO Daiichi Fukushima nuclear power station, at Fukushima Japan, for over a year now. The fact is readers,that in spite of the false rhetoric that the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA teenager has died after plunging from a 17th-floor flat during a police raid in southeast London. Police say the 18-year-old woman fell from the bedroom window of the tower block in Woolwich at 9.30am....
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: A bluefin tuna cage being towed by an Italian trawler in the central Mediterranean. Greenpeace] By DAVID JOLLY 9 April 2012 The other day, a ninth-grade student e-mailed me to ask about the pli...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012* *Paul Krugman messes with Texas:* Yesterday, the New York Times ran a news report about funding cuts to the Texas schools. Click here. On his blog, Paul Krugman praised the Time...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 14 hours agoPolitical Prisoner Horst Mahler cited (in his 2008 court case) the traditional German fairytale (written down by the Brothers Grimm) of Rumpelstilzchen as appropriate to the situation in the world today. T...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: April to September (autumn and winter) rainfall deciles from 1997 to 2011 for Australia (a decile rainfall map shows whether the rainfall is above average, average or below average for the most r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Surrounded by floodwaters, victims of the Pakistan floods await rescue on the roof of a building. justforeignpolicy.org] By Marwaan Macan-Markar 8 April 2012 BANGKOK – With extreme weather poun...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: A Chinatown seafood-store sign warns that releasing frogs into the wild is illegal. Scientists fear that the global trade could lead to the extinction of countless species of frogs and salamander...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 15 hours agoRoll Call has a story this morning on the Plutocracy's attempts to crawl of out of sight from the Web spotlight that is now shining on their corporate coddling of the fascist outfit, ALEC. And yes, Gates ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours agoActivist? He was convicted of blowing up things -- that's a terrorist to my mind. He was convicted of bombing a Suncor well site near his home. He was also found guilty of encasing a Norcen Energy wel...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012* *Part 2—Is someone doctoring photos:* For decades, we liberals got to roll our eyes at those gullible ditto-heads. They would phone Rush Limbaugh to state their full allegiance. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA Melbourne mum has told how her intuition may have saved her little girl from brain damage. Four-year-old Shaylee Wilson loves playtime, but a game of hide and seek with a battery could have killed her w...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoToday's Tasty Tuesday is not so much a recipe but a simple meal preparation that will change your life. These little sandwiches are so good and very simple. I find myself often fixing them to fill the hu...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 15 hours agoAfter the NDP's French ad last week, we get the English version: The ad features a collection of what I can only assume are average hard working Canadians: guy in pick-up truck with dog, pregnant mom buy...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoLots of good choices today, but I'll go with Happy Birthday to Katrina Leskanish, of Katrina and the Waves fame, 52. And the good stuff: 1. Good comparison from Ezra Klein between the deficit-reducing pro...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoTwice in the last week I have heard a radio blurb about how Canada has gotten rid of the penny and that the US should do so also, because of the cost to produce a penny. I can’t help but think – to those ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoIf you come here via *Progressive Bloggers*, you will have to find a different route. I will apologize now to any readers to whom that causes inconvenience. I have asked the site administrator at that ag...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoI can't say that I agreed with Emanuel Cleaver yesterday when he said its improper for the Democratic Party to rub the Republicans' nose in their war against women. The Republicans *should* be called out-...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 15 hours agoConsidering we are in the midst of a rather heated, high-stakes election campaign, I haven't seen all that many campaign signs around, although since the writ was dropped I haven't really been around too...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 16 hours agoAmerican Thinker has a nice update... Here's an extract: 'New evidence, however, has reignited conservative interest in Obama's birth certificate. Conservative icon Sherriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, at the ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours ago“We are a member of ALEC, but we are members for business issues of importance for International Paper, not all policy issues that their members deal with,” said its spokesman, Thomas J. Ryan today. “We...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours agoLevees.org Disaster Bike Tour May 6th! ~This bike tour will begin at the City Park Boat and Bike Rentals at Big Lake Trail. Taking safe, marked biking routes, we will bike to the 17th Street Canal breach (...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“The Sea”* “The pull is so strong we will not believe the drawing tide is meant for us, I mean the gift, the sea, the place where all the rivers meet. Easy to forget, how the great receiving depth untame...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoIt was a classic con. Pose as stolid, competent managers while you raid the business, then burn it down. And they pulled it off -- until now. Linda McQuaig writes about how the Harperites must have laug...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*“The 13th Warrior: Prayers Before Final Battle” * Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: “Merciful Father, I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 16 hours agoAnd just who is behind these current Social Security lies? Right. The banksters and all the other "money-sucking" guys who just want to wet their beaks (taking about 1/3 off the top in "administrative cost...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 16 hours agoSource: El Tribuno Digital http://www.eltribuno.info/Jujuy/146895-Vision-Ovni-de-Victoria-estudia-extranas-huellas-aparecidas-en-un-campo-de-Pujato.note.aspx Date: 10 April 2012 Argentina: VISION O...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 17 hours agoSource:NotiExpress Date: 10 April 2012 Argentina: Pujato Field Owner Dismisses UFO Involvement Raúl Marelli, owner of a 32-hectare field in the Pujato area, found a 600 x 2 meter fringe of flattten...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoLiquid Mind, "Balance (Galaxies)" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKzFk-FiZM&feature=related
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 17 hours ago*UPDATED! Scroll down *-After you read the altering news.. *2nd Update!*-scroll down past the first ;) I want to get this up quick because this news and it's headline seems to be disappearing, fast While r...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 17 hours agoIn February, Chris Hedges wrote an article that continues to cause enormous consternation, in which he labelled Black Bloc the cancer of the Occupy movement. Many Occupiers who are themselves pacifist are...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*The collapse of journalism magnified in Tuba City* *Media Watch: When the Arizona senators came to steal Navajoand Hopi water rights, could the news coverage have been more pathetic?* Outta Your Backpack M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in Singapore, saying he was well and on holiday there with his family, and was expected to retu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has enough funds to withstand a total embargo on its oil sales for several years, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. "They (western powers) wan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoApril 10 - Mining engineer in charge of rescue operation says trapped Peruvian miners are all in good health and will be freed alive. Nick Rowlands reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Sony Corp flagged a record $6.4 billion annual net loss, double its earlier forecast and a fourth straight year of red ink, inflated by writing off deferred tax credits mainly in the United St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up to $530 billion to the federal budget deficit, a leading authority on U.S. government benefit p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(CNN) -- A U.S. team was at work Monday at a Himalayan military outpost in Pakistan, joining the search for as many as 139 people buried in a massive avalanche. The eight-member U.S. group of experts arr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Suicide attacks on government facilities in western and southern Afghanistan Tuesday killed at least 22 people and wounded 23 others, authorities said. Many of the dead were p...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 18 hours agoSource: NOUFA (Noticiero Ufológico Autónomo) Date: 9 April 2012 Chile: Regarding “Military Secrecy” NOUFA Newsroom The accident involving a C-212 Aviocar belonging to the Chilean Air Force (F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean space officials said Tuesday that all assembly and preparations for this week's planned satellite launch have been completed, and denied it is a cover for a miss...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- Two men aboard a houseboat that started to sink while sailing near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been rescued. The Fukushima regional coast guard rescued two men aged 34 and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA teenager from Washington State has been praised for his quick thinking after grabbing the controls of a school coach after the driver collapsed. Jeremy Wuitschick, 13, was seen on CCTV video steering t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA new psychiatric examination has found that Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last year, is not criminally insane. The report's conclusion conflicts with an earlier assessment which ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA registered sex offender confessed to killing his mother, stepfather and girlfriend at their Mississippi home before he climbed a cellphone tower and plunged more than 300 feet to his death, according to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAuthorities fear a western Indiana man arrested on a single count of sexual exploitation of children may have coerced hundreds of young victims into recording and sending him sexually explicit images. If...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA teenager who moved to a new town to start a fresh life has been gunned down after refusing to hand over his sneakers to an armed robber. Sergio Pinex, 18, recently moved from Chicago, Illinois, to Gary,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - A joke circulating among officials in Beijing pretty much underlines the bind China is in over North Korea's plans to send a satellite into space. North Korea's young ruler Kim Jong-un phones...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFour freshmen college students posted photos of their disturbing bruises after they were beaten up by a group of football players. The freshmen were walking home from a party near Colorado State Universit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe U.S. Navy says it has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear program. Cmdr. Amy Derrick-Frost of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said on Mon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAfter years of being a rare sight in Florida, crocodiles that can grow more than 14 feet long are making their way back to the region in huge numbers. The reptiles have multiplied 10-fold in the last 40 ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoDear New York Times, It Takes Two to Tango. an editorial by Tony Cartalucci April 10, 2012 - In New York Times' (NYT) latest, anonymous editorial, they berate the Syrian government for not making good on K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWeather records for the first three months of the year have been smashed as the U.S. continues to enjoy a sun-blessed start to 2012. Temperatures in the lower 48 states, which include Washington and Cali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSleeper agent: Lidiya Guryeva aka Cynthia Murphy, a Russian spy, was told to get close to university professors who had access to secrets. American universities have become infected with foreign spies pos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA ruthless member of one of Mexico's most notorious drug gangs enjoyed bloodshed so much that he recorded himself mutilating the bodies of his victims. Enrique Elizondo Flores was arrested in January, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 59.9 km (37.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:18:54 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 121 km (75 miles) SSW of Tasikmalaya, Java,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Cambridge University don convicted of downloading child pornography could be allowed to carry on lecturing. Dr Peter Smith was arrested after an international police investigation into an illegal websi...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 19 hours ago*Thai Prawn and Vegetable curry!* This Thai curry is super delicious and light. I tried to make it as healthy as possible by packing it with vegetables and using half coconut milk/half water. I have disco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe woman charged with helping her husband dispose of their teenage babysitter’s dead body revealed the extent of their relationship with the girl before her death, including their varied drug use and gro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBritish taxpayers are underwriting a multi-million-pound loan to help China plant trees as part of a project to tackle climate change. The Treasury has agreed to a European Union scheme to help the country...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe cost to taxpayers of transporting Polish criminal suspects from Britain to face court in their home country has doubled in the past two years, it has emerged. The secret extradition flights, dubbed C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Aokigahara Forest is a lonely place to die. So dense is the vegetation at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, it is all too easy to disappear among the evergreens and never be seen again. Each year the a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMI6 chiefs plan to offer more than £1million hush money to a Libyan who claims British spies sent him to be tortured by the Gaddafi regime. The Secret Intelligence Service is ‘scrambling’ to prevent Abdel ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA model who appeared on a TV cooking show killed herself after being taunted by internet trolls. Claudia Boerner was found dead after taking part in The Perfect Dinner, which is similar to Channel 4’s Co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBritain is demanding that Argentina repays £45 million in loans that were used to pay for the invasion of the Falkland Islands. The Department of Business is taking a tough line with the government in Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Western Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:25:49 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 465 km (289 miles) Southeast f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black teenager has created a website to seek financial support to aid his legal battle. George Zimmerman claims he was acting in self-defence when he sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoRadical preacher Abu Hamza can be extradited to the United States to face terrorism charges, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The court decided there would not be a violation of Article 3, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Western Xizang (Tibet), China at a depth of 34.5 km (21.4 miles), the quake hit at 08:08:38 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 276 km (171 miles) Northwest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn a new briefing, Open Europe assesses the state of the Spanish economy in light of recent budget proposals, announced by the Spanish government in full today. Spain is not the “next Greece” - it remains...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe National Secretary of Venezuela’s Communist Party, Pedro Eusse, has warned that the opposition coalition, the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD), is laying the foundations to dispute the results of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt’s no surprise that conventionally factory farmed chickens aren't fed the best diet. We already knew that they were routinely fed arsenic. In fact, a 2004 study from the Institute for Agriculture and Tr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOn April 5, as expected, Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act). Again, America's 99% was betrayed. Overwhelming bipartisan House and Senate support backed the measure. The b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago"Previous legislators and previous governors even awarded taxpayer funded health insurance benefits to themselves and 82,000 retirees, where 90 percent of them pay nothing on their insurance premiums. Thi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoTHE unions have ‘declared war’ on the mayor of Jerez after she announced 390 employees are to be laid off. Yesterday over 50 members blockaded the entrance to the city hall, bringing the ayuntamiento to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSitting alone on a filthy cement barrier that is the centerpiece of Omonia Square near the heart of Athens, Victor Ochiaghe, 20, an asylum-seeker from Ghana, looked around to see he was the only apparent ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSABHA, Libya, April 8 (Reuters) - When 26-year-old Yussef heard about clashes in the Libyan oasis city of Sabha, he wasted no time in picking up a rifle and heading across the desert to support his fellow...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLos Angeles' top budget official raised the specter of bankruptcy Friday in a sweeping report that calls for new taxes, possible layoffs and the privatization of some city services. Chief Administrative ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2012) — Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a method to derive enough DNA information from non-DNA sources -- such as RNA -- to clearly identify individual...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSony plans to cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, Nikkei reports. The layoffs will most likely happen in Sony’s chemicals and small and midsize LCD operations, Nikkei claims, but...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGlobal media outlets may have a feel-good story in Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent by-election win, but an over-emphasis on the domestic is missing the geopolitical forest for the trees. The National League of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoPresident Mikhail Saakashvili is getting ready for a war with Russia, says Georgi Gugava, political secretary of the Georgian opposition Labor Party. “The gang that is holding power is ready to continue t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 36 km (22.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:34 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (156 miles) SSE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIndia launches first nuclear sub as tensions grumble on over Spratly Islands. Apr. 9 – China suffered a blow at the recent ASEAN meetings in Phnom Penh, losing a motion not to have South China Sea disput...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt The Guardian’s Comment Is Free, journalist and author Jonathan Fenby challenges the assumption that China’s continued rise is inevitable, and catalogues the dizzying range of problems facing its next g...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 20 hours agoOne of the most popular apps Instagram has been bought by Facebook for a cool £1billion. We have all become happy to share our thoughts via blogs, twitter and Facebook, our business contacts via LinkedI...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Chinese general warned the Philippines that it was facing its “last chance” to resolve simmering territorial disputes in the potentially resource-rich South China Sea, a rhetorical uptick in what has em...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAfter World (Empire) War I Halford John Mackinder eloquently summarised his Heartland Theory in which the Geographical pivot of the world was described as: "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*The Bankster-Owned American Empire is the Demonic God of The Global Insane Asylum Called Earth.* "Deacon Frost: Tonight the age of man comes to an end. No more compromises. Quinn: We're gonna b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMore than 40 states are projecting billions of dollars in budget shortfalls for fiscal 2012. But, unlike the federal government, most states have some sort of balanced-budget law. That means the shortfa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoISLAMABAD: Ever increasing energy needs have compelled India to rejoin the transnational pipeline emanating from Iran and transiting Pakistan thus reviving IPI Gas Project, Online learnt on Sunday. A wel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoEmerging countries can now look to China and other new economic powers for development cash, said a leading African politician. "The rise of BRICS countries like China, Brazil and India gives an alternat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDUBAI // The number of vehicles being abandoned on the streets and in the car parks of Dubai is on the increase, despite the worst of the economic crisis seemingly over. A few years ago, when the financi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe government has yet to show why we should trust the security forces with sweeping new powers of surveillance On the evening of Tuesday, 5 July 2005, I attended an invitation-only seminar at the London ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoCAIRO (Reuters) - An explosion hit the Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan on Monday for 14th time since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began last year, security sources said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA flood of easy money courtesy of the European Central Bank made for a calm start to 2012 but a poor Spanish bond sale last week signals it may only have been a lull before the debt storm breaks, analysts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoSince he opened its doors last fall, Mr. Hamblin's small Pentecostal church, 39 miles north of Knoxville, has grown to almost 50 members, most of them in their 20s. Part of his strategy for expansion has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOn the organizing phone call for their Trayvon Martin April 9th National Day of action protest The New Black Panther Party engaged in violent, racist, hate filled speech. Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMore than three years ago, the CIA dispatched a stealth surveillance drone into the skies over Iran. The bat-winged aircraft penetrated more than 600 miles inside the country, captured images of Iran’s s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours ago(Reuters) - A storm dumped more than 4 inches of snow on Anchorage over the weekend, bringing the total snowfall for Alaska's largest city to a record 11.2 feet for the year, the National Weather Service ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAs Anchorage Eclipses Annual Snowfall Record, Weary Residents Dodge Potholes, Shovel Roofs and Brace for Flooding. ANCHORAGE, Alaska—As the rest of the U.S. emerges from an unusually warm winter, this nor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFORT WORTH — More than two months after President Barack Obama asked for Darin Wedel's résumé, the phone is quiet, e-mails are no longer flooding in and the long-sought-after job interviews -- which had b...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoI only wish he was around today to pass judgment on the F-35. Douglas Bader. He lost both his legs before WWII in a flying demonstration accident. Bader struggled to get back into the RAF but with no ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe last time I checked, even elephants liked their water holes. The fact remains that all creatures do betterwith insulation simply to prevent over heating in the first place. Large animals need a c...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis will be important and could well provide a biological pathway forextracting phosphate directly from the sea. I see no particular reason to refine the phosphate any further. Simple collection and d...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis work nicely reminds us that forest recovery is fully underway inthe Eastern North America. There areobvious limits that are been reached quickly because mature timber is harvestedfairly fast. Wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:01:46 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (6.8 miles) Southwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem. He's about to see proof that even he can't deny. In a new video (below) provided to Breitbar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoSEATTLE — U.S. Air Force pilot Patrick Burke's day started in the cockpit of a B-1 bomber near the Persian Gulf and proceeded across nine time zones as he ferried the aircraft home to South Dakota. Every...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAVALON (CBS) — Catalina Island is known for many things… its picturesque scenery, seafood and hiking, to name a few. But what about high gas prices? For the past two weeks, gas prices on Catalina Island h...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoThe Fathers of Confederation, 1967: Referenda? Fixed election dates? Recall votes? Not very likely! Let me get this straight: If two thirds of the electorate in a given constituency elect an MLA, the Wil...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 22 hours ago*The beach at Khao Lak, in Thailand, just before the Tsunami struck in 2004. Photo taken by Chris Jefferies on 5th December 2004, looking north from the beach outside the 'Khao Lak Resort' hotel. * On 28 M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCyber bills legislate for mass surveillance; Former Cybersecurity Czar calls for Homeland Security data “customs inspections”. In a New York Times editorial, former government cybersecurity czar Richard ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWASHINGTON — A White House order updating federal emergency powers has raised alarm among some conservative commentators, and U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, that President Barack Obama is attempting to grab uncon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAs if we needed another reason to idolize firefighters: Five Albuquerque firemen won $10,000 in last Friday's history-making Mega Millions lottery after matching five of the six winning numbers, and now t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck offshore California at a depth of 10.6 km (6.6 miles), the quake hit at 05:43:06 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) West from Petrolia, Cal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck North of Ascension Island at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:09:09 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 753 km (467 miles) North of Ascensi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Eastern Honshu, Japan at a depth of 55 km (34.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:57:41 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 16 km (9.9 miles) East of Ofunato, Hons...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoSorry, I slipped behind again... The next step was funding Liddy's projects. That happened, Emery reports, around April 6. Why is that day important? Because the new FECA went into effect on April 7, 1972...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Washington at a depth of 13.3 km (8.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:43:35 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) WNW from Touchet, Washington No ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*“Lessons In Water, In Rock”* by Alex Noble “The light focuses, a pattern emerges. You can be sure that most of your questions will resolve themselves eventually. Nothing is harder than this: those quic...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - Yes, I will be producing part 3 of the F-35 series. It likely won't be available until tomorrow evening. In the meantime, I cannot let this go by. *Andrew Coyne is apparently working on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 03:37:22 UTC Tuesday 10th April 2012 The epicenter was 1364 km (848 miles) NNE from CA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago[image: Link] China and Japan have signalled they may be moving closer to increasing their financial support to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to help it prop up the eurozone. The two nations sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn attack in September looks almost inevitable unless Tehran changes course on developing nuclear weapons. In an ideal world, President Obama would far rather postpone the festering issue of Iran’s nucle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNicolas Sarkozy warned French voters Thursday they should re-elect him as president to pursue his cost-cutting plans or face the kind of debt crises that have gripped Greece and Spain. Speaking at the la...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWard 8 D.C. Councilman Marion Barry said Thursday that he was not trying to insult the city's Asian community during remarks at a campaign event this week. “We got to do something about these Asians com...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Albert Zagitov had barely set up his new fruit and vegetable stall at the bustling Volga market in the Russian city of Kazan when he was told by a stranger to pack up and go. After he refused...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe latest chart from the Senate Republican Budget Committee, pointing out that under President Obama's budget, the U.S. government will be spending more in 2019 to pay the interest on the national debt th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON (AP) -- Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. Total public debt subject to limit April 6 15,575,23...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoWeinkle et al. 2012 is now online at the *Journal of Climate*. I provided a summary of the paper a few months ago when it was accepted, including these factoids: - Over 1970 to 2010 the globe average...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMarch NFP big miss at just 120K. Unemployment rate declines from 8.3% to 8.2%. Futures slide, for at least a few minutes before the NEW QE TM rumor starts spreading. The household survey actually posted ...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day ago*Our week-long event continues with a fascinating guest post by SB Knightwho shares his insight on publishing and the environment. If you missed yesterday's Meet & Greet ... never fear ... it will stay open...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe federal government ran a $777 billion deficit for the first six months of fiscal year 2012, the Congressional Budget Office estimated on Friday, including a $196 billion hole in March, marking the 40t...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoSouthern Pine Lumber Company workers at the company store, Diboll, Texas, about 1907. Photo courtesy of The History Center, Diboll. Image from Texas Beyond History.The hidden history of TexasPart IX: 1890-19...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoBy now we've all read how what's left of Gingrich's moribund "campaign" is "operating" on a shoestring and that he's run up around $4.5 million in campaign debts, which he expects the cash-rich Romney cam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists have found new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing. They have confirmed that resistant strains of the malaria parasite on the border between Thailan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSocial media networks in the Philippines have been buzzing with outrage after a photograph emerged of a girl standing on the back of a whale shark. In spite of their size they only eat tiny plants and an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDisabled Chinese lawyer Ni Yulan and her husband Dong Jiqin have been jailed a year after they were detained. Ms Ni was sentenced to two years and eight months, while her husband was handed a two-year te...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe chancellor has said he is "shocked" that some of the UK's richest people have organised their finances so that they pay virtually no income tax. George Osborne told the Daily Telegraph the very wealt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory is being sued for complicity in the alleged rendition and torture of a Libyan rebel who is now head of the Tripoli Military Council. Law firm Leigh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Two white men accused of shooting five black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing three of them, have confessed to authorities, media reports said on Monday, citing police and court documents. ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“How and why are all these stars forming? Found among the Small Magellanic Cloud's (SMC's) clusters and nebulae NGC 346 is a star forming region about 200 light-years across, pictured above by the Hubble S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA newspaper in Zimbabwe is reporting that the country's dictator Robert Mugabe is close to death in a Singapore Hospital. The Zimbabwe Mail says the Mugabe's family has flown to the hospital to be with h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Ogre And Us"* by Chet Raymo "A passage from H. G. Wells' "Outline of History," 1920: "We know very little of the appearance of Neanderthal man, but this...seems to suggest an extreme hairiness, an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree Asian airlines are making changes to flight paths to avoid a North Korean rocket launch due to take place between 12 and 16 April. Philippine Airlines, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Syrian regime has escalated attacks on civilians as the deadline loomed to begin a UN-brokered peace deal to withdraw forces from urban areas. The government of President Bashar al Assad is due to star...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHuman rights judges will rule later on whether to allow the Government to extradite radical preacher Abu Hamza to America to face terrorist charges. A final ruling on six extradition cases is expected. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSix men have been arrested after the Real IRA threatened to kill more policemen and soldiers. They were detained after a masked spokesman for the group made the threat at an Easter Rising commemoration i...
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