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*"*Frère Jacques*"? That beloved old French round song -- huh??? You'll hear why, but here's a hint:* *Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, cond. RCA/BMG, recorded Oct. 10-11, 1962* *by Ken* Thi... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 minutes ago*"Mountains: Keeping Things in Perspective"* by The DailyOM "From the top of a mountain, we are able to witness life from a different perspective bringing us a new awareness. Mountains have always capture...
- A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the refor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 38 minutes ago“The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy - spanni...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 39 minutes ago
* Don't be a mean machine. Don't be a thoughtless tool of the totalitarian state. Free your mind. Question reality.* "Man as he is is utterly unconscious. He is nothing but his habits, the sum total of... - posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 50 minutes ago
My partner and I have heard all the cautionsabout not taking buses like the one we took today, and we take them seriously. But if you’ve travelled much,you know how it can be sometimes. Just because you k... - posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoRead the post - but take the time to read the comments - Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy!!! *>>READ IT HERE<<* *snip from the comments:* to ALEC spies who are reading this: We know you scan the internet f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"North Korea Expelled from Axis of Evil-* *Ahmadinejad Cites ‘Lack of Evil’"* by Andy Borowitz PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – "Just hours after an embarrassing launch of a rocket that crashed to the g...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Drought is intensifying in the Southwest, upper Midwest, Southeast, and along the East Coast in April 2012. Parts of every U.S. state -- except for Alaska and Ohio -- are either abnormally dry or...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoFrom Daily Kos I'm going to try to keep this short, so I'll put the punch line up front. State Farm is not budging in its support of ALEC. I think that if you are a policy holder, you should do two thin...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago
*Snackman or Cigarette Guy?* *Chip-chomping subway peace-keeper Charles Sonder, 24, says, "I get enough dates without Snackman's help."* It's hard to imagine there's anyone who still hasn't heard about th... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“Another New York Experience”* by Chet Raymo "On the evening of Holy Saturday I happened to be walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the upper west side, near Columbia University, and passed the Anglican cat...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoEquitable Trust Company v. Marsig, 2012 ONCA 235 deals with what limitation period applies when a debt guarantee is part of a mortgage. The Court holds ten years: [21] I agree with the motion judge's...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*I didn't see any of mine on his list.* "He uses the pleasures of a good book to ease the boredom of long road trips or soothe a particularly bad loss. --more--"* * *Good night, readers. *
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Detroit’s finances dire, review shows" March 27, 2012 DETROIT - A review team has determined that Detroit is in severe financial stress, but stopped short of recommending that Governor Rick Snyder of Mic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours agoDred Tory: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Warren Kinsella* This is the most recent smackdown of a certain junkyard dog, whose most annoying yapping had previously been addressed here, in the manner one tw...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoThis report of a study on the effects of Round-up was published today at the Watchers by Adonai 4/13. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/04/13/new-study-finds-roundup-herbicide-can-alter-morphology-of-...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoPuyallup, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 5 hours ago*... on the label of a micro brewery product from Shawinigan, Quebec.* CTV.ca
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*“Frogs Being Boiled”* by Paulo Coelho “A lawyer friend of mine, Renato Pacca, sent me an interesting text: Several biological studies have shown that a frog placed in a container along with water from h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*“Thoughts That Win”* by Medical Express “Back in high school, on the soccer field, poised to take a crucial penalty kick, "I always had a lot of thoughts going on in my head; I think most people do" say...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago*Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness* ------------------------------ April 12, 2012 | Go to Original The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and t...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 6 hours agoNote: this is my article yesterday in TV5's news portal, http://www.interaksyon.com/article/29289/fat-free-economics-foreign-aid-public-debt-and-tricycles ) There is a new loan from the Asian Development Ba...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"Do not think of a painful experience as a dark time in your life. You emerge out of everything learning something or becoming a better person. You realize who your real friends are, and how much your lov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 20:46:12 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 152 km (94 miles) South of Huajuapan de Leon, O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 213 km (132.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:28:29 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) West of Tupiza, Bolivia No ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Fear Turns People Into Sheep"* by George Washington "Sociologists from four major research institutions investigated why so many Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, years after it b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.9 km (17.3 miles), the quake hit at 20:00:33 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 355 km (2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Izu Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 429.2 km (266.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:54:32 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 352 km (218 miles) SSW of H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 16.8 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 19:52:07 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 630 km (391 miles) Southwest from Ban...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours agoThe Personal Trainer put Southern Man through the wringer once again, and the scales in the locker room tie with the all-time low weight. And that's after chocolate pancakes with Teen Daughter this morning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 64 km (39.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:35:08 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65 miles) SSE of Bengkulu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago“Control energy and you control the nations, control food and you control the people” is a quote credited to former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. On the lam for several years now, avoiding foreign ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*Don't take it, America (and judging from the early returns**, you are not). * "Grand jury won’t investigate Florida shooting case" by Mike Schneider | Associated Press, April 10, 2012 ORLANDO, Fla. - A...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“It’s a New World, and America Is Not Leading It”* By Jeffrey Tucker “I’ve followed Chris Mayer’s work for many years, and come to admire his capacity for seeing around corners with unusual prescience. H...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoI'm guessing that most people interested in this kind of thing have already read the *NY Times* story by Jackie Calmes, Obama Won't Order Ban On Gay Bias By Employers... or at least some good commentary ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"When you philosophically oppose an entire power elite, you cannot help but sound like a conspiracy theorist. Social power is by nature a conspiracy." - Tom N
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"El-Erian, Sustainability And Central Banks"* by Karl Denninger "PIMpCO's El-Erian gave a very interesting speech the other day that you should all read. The money shot is right here and thankfully reas...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoVery smart post from Kevin Drum, who looks at a polling question on Barack Obama's recent "hot mike" incident, notices that only 4% of respondents claimed to have no opinion, and concludes: The problem is...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“Weekly News Wrap-Up 4.13.12”* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “The biggest story not in the news is the upcoming meeting, this weekend, in Turkey about Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S is meeting with ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoI said from the beginning, keep your eye on Jamie Dimond. He not only thinks he's the cleverest of the foxes, he probably is. April 13, 2012JPMorgan Chase: The Great White Whale Of The Global Economy Mar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTHE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF OKLAHOMA A SMALL PART OF NORTHWEST TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 130 PM UNTIL 900 PM CDT. TORNADOES.....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - Iran is concealing the destination of its oil sales by disabling tracking systems aboard its tanker fleet, making it difficult to assess how much crude Tehran is exporting as it seeks to count...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - Forecasters are warning of a possible major tornado outbreak in the Midwest this weekend, with Kansas and Oklahoma seen at particular risk as early as Saturday. Atmospheric conditions will be...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoKate Upton and the banned advert, too many double-entendres? For more Kate Upton try looking here, but here's a picture
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 18:12:11 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 428 km (26...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours ago*YEAH, I'M ANGRY AGAIN*. I'm on a tight fucking life schedule here, so SCUSE ME if I don't pull any punches any more. FREE PLANET, where's the global uprising already? I mean, I'm sorry it's me angry-bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEgypt reports H5N1 death A 36-year-old woman who succumbed to H5N1 avian flu has become Egypt's ninth H5N1 case-patient and fifth to die this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today. The w...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago*Viktor Bout: The only arms dealer that the evil U.S. empire doesn't like. Bout was smeared as the "lord of war" in the court of international public opinion by the Western media and Hollywood. He did ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoSURAT: More than 70 dead jellyfish were spotted on Tithal beach of Valsad on Wednesday. This has created a lot of curiosity among locals. The cause of their death is still not known. Gujarat Pollution Co...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 9 hours agoHaven't done one of these in a while...it's an occasional item about things that aren't in the news or haven't happened, which is therefore newsworthy. 1. Minimum wage as a campaign issue, or for that matt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 67 km (41.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:52 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 120 km (74 miles) SSW from Severo-Ku...
- posted by Abraham Ben Judea at Abraham says - 9 hours agoSome politians say corporations pay too much taxes. Next time you read or hear that sent them the information below. Ben Judea Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid no net federal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThursday morning the Turrialbla volcano unleashed a new series of eruptions, with experts converging on the colossus to take a close look at the smoke emanations coming from its centre. According to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThree Queensland children have contracted the potentially deadly meningococcal disease, two of whom are in a serious condition. Queensland Health has confirmed three Gladstone children were in hospital w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne person is feared dead and 15 others severely injured in a high sea accident involving a Ghanaian fishing vessel and an unidentified foreign supply vessel in Takoradi seawaters. The body of the deceas...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 9 hours agoFINAL VERSION: Levees.org's nomination for National Park Service[image: Link] Seabrook floodgate won't be finished until September, says Exquisite Corps * *Tom Benson buying the New Orleans Hornets is good...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoKAMPAR - A total of 1,145 people from 254 families in seven villages here were evacuated after their houses were hit by floods early yesterday. They were sheltered at SMK Kampar and Dewan Pulau Bergading....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoROME, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Some 20 tons of fuel oil were spilled into the sea from a freighter near the Italian southern port city of Taranto on Thursday. A pool of about 800 square meters has appeared o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFirefighters from eight jurisdictions in Hampton Roads left Thursday to assist with a raging wildfire in Rockbridge County in the western part of the state. Thirty-two firefighters from York, Hampton, Ne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTHE EARTHQUAKE-STRICKEN country of Haiti could be on the verge of a second cholera epidemic, as the county’s rainy season leads to another rise in the number of cases recorded. Irish humanitarian charity...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLUCKNOW: The thunderstorms and rains might have made climate pleasant in the state but they left a trail of death and destruction in some parts. While in Lucknow, cloudy sky and cool breeze kept temperatu...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoPhoto Wetlands Preservation Organization *At the Rights of Mother Earth gathering, Native American students share the stories of resistance, survival and reconnection to the earth in the Haskell wetlands* ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago"Body believed to be BC student" by Brian R. Ballou | Globe Staff, April 11, 2012 NEWTON - With Franco Garcia’s disbelieving family and friends waiting on the banks of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, polic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSpanish bond yields also soared as it emerged that its banks borrowed a record €316.3bn from the ECB in March. Spanish stock markets fell 3.6% to a three-year lowon Friday as concerns mounted that the co...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA young boy in Australia has suffered a rare attack by a type of fish described as a "cross between a tadpole and a shark". Tom Horn, five, was bitten while wading with his family on Thursday Island, in t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA young boy in Australia has suffered a rare attack by a type of fish described as a "cross between a tadpole and a shark". Tom Horn, five, was bitten while wading with his family on Thursday Island, in t...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 10 hours agohttp://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/middle-east-then-world.html
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 10 hours agoI noticed today on twitter a number of messages on the annual meeting of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Annual Meeting in Boston, so I checked their website, http://phrma....
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 10 hours ago* Source: Diario El Pais http://www.elpais.com.uy/120413/pciuda-635888/ciudades/testigos-polemizan-con-la-fuerza-aerea-por-un-ovni/ Date: 04.13.12* *Uruguay: Witnesses at Loggerheads with Air Force Over U...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWe're looking for an iOS programmer who can help the Coming Crisis make its own app for iPhones and iPads. If you're able and interested, please contact us by email at: thecomingcrisis@gmail.com Be sure ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoWest Yorkshire police have launched a murder investigation after the death of a seven-week-old baby girl. The police said that the baby had died at about 3am this morning from her injuries in Pinderfield...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA traffic officer in Vietnam has gone the extra mile by clinging onto a bus doing more than 30mph as he tried to issue a ticket. The officer in Hanoi told the driver to pull over but when he asked for hi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNote: This also goes for any other presidents and leaders who oppress the common man and curtail his freedoms, in America, and in any nation; this prosecution should be carried out by whatever political,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours ago[image: 6fg.png] This is from the website of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Then people wonder why some boys grow up to be Russell Williams. Link from this tweet. Grand merci! Added: T...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoBut prefers "cheapest" method possible - exposes Annan "peace deal" as insidious gambit to "buy time." by Tony Cartalucci April 13, 2012 - As if there was any doubt, NATO's official "Alliance News Blog"...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoThe GOP war on women continues. Men are the be all, know all - GOP men are "the deciders". And by god, if they can’t prove they are god – they will legislate that they are. Anyhow two men in Iowa are fee...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 11 hours agoHAPPY FRIDAY 13TH! (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/13/hartmann-confronts-anti-gay-leader-do-closeted-gays-run-your-movement/) Friends, I apologize for my blog's misbehavior (until Blogger straightens ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 488.6 km (303.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:42:34 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (156 miles) WNW of NUKU'ALOFA, Tong...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoCarol Shea-Porter was endorsed by Blue America again and we were enthused by her taking the bull by the horns and addressing phony-baloney right-wing claims that they have ever had anything to do with pro...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoOver at Plum Line today, I'm not at all nice to an awful NYT article about the Hilary Rosen phony controversy, following up on Greg's item about it earlier. His item: the article was misleading about Rosen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 245.2 km (152.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:52:45 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) Northeast of Isangel, Tanna, Vanu...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoSteven Goddard at real-science.com is posting lots of old newspaper articles with scary predictions we already know to be wrong. I was intrigued by this particular one today: NASA 1986: All Life Extinct...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 11 hours agoSome of those who missed the ISA panel on popular culture have asked me if I can send them my remarks. So I decided to upload them in video format as well. You can see my presentation on Battlestar Galacti...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoPentagon to fast-track cyberweapons acquisition. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2012/04/09/gIQAuwb76S_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines [Excerpted] "The new framework s...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agohttp://cironline.org/projects/americas-war-within I provide a detailed explanation of why this is happening here: http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-what-happened-in.html
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.8 km (22.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:54:46 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 167 km (104 miles) Eas...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoQuakes Caused By Waste From Gas Wells, Study Finds http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150440356/quakes-caused-by-waste-from-gas-wells-study-finds [excerpt] "A dramatic increase in earthquakes in the Midwest is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:33:29 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 659 km (408.5 miles) Southwest from Band...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoWhat a curious ruler we have in Steve Harper. The guy readily embraces religious superstition but recoils from knowledge, preferring at every turn to run with his gut instincts. The papers are full of it...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 12 hours ago*Source: El Observador Date: 13 April 2012* *Uruguay: How Uruguay’s “Area 51” Responds to UFO Reports* *By Sebastián Amaya* Thirty-two years ago, the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) created the Comisión ...
- Bernie Ecclestone pictures burned in Bahrain by protestors outraged that F1 grand prix will go ahead
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoPictures of Bernie Ecclestone are being burnt in Bahrain but the F1 boss insists it is safe to stage next week's grand prix in the troubled Gulf kingdom. The decision to go ahead with the race comes desp... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA looming flare-up in the eurozone crisis over Spain will drive the price of gold towards $2,000 (£1,255) an ounce this year, a leading consultancy predicts. Rising fears about the region’s fourth largest...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 12 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw It is very clear that coming into the 21st century, the United States of America is no longer the "land of the free", but has become the land of the cowed, and the home of the surveille...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 12 hours agoR. v. Tse, 2012 SCC 16, released a few moments ago, holds s 184.4 of the Criminal Code unconstitutional, primarily because of a lack of accountability provisions. The Court notes there are no accountabili...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoMini-Documentary Exposes Imperial Expansion Through "Humanitarian Interventionism" by Tony Cartalucci April 13, 2012 - The Paris-based Centre for the Study of Interventionism(CSI) and Julien Teil, directo...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 12 hours agoAn email from Monty Neill alerted me to the latest development by today's Corporate Stalinists at ED to judge teacher education programs on the basis value-added test scores of students who are taught by t...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNorwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik will demand that he be acquitted when his trial begins next week, on the grounds that killed his 77 victims in self-defence. The 33-year-old extremist has conf...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 12 hours agoBournemouth is a town on the South Coast of England. It is a very popular holiday town, with golden sandy beaches. Many English people retire there for its relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. The town itself...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 12 hours agoThe hype machines were in overdrive for yesterday's Alberta Leaders Debate, but the outcome was similar to most debates: steady but unspectacular performances from all the candidates, with the end result...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPC AC 130602 DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK RESENT 1 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0102 AM CDT FRI APR 13 2012 VALID 141200Z - 151200Z ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACRO...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 13 hours agoThe BBC want Ken Livingstone to win the London Mayoral election. In fact regardless of who was standing for the Labour party and the Conservative party they would want the Labour party candidate to win; th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA Massachusetts man convicted of conspiring to help Al-Qaeda was sentenced Thursday to 17 1/2 years in prison after giving an impassioned speech in which he declared his love for Islam and said, 'This is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThree people were left dead and a child injured in a restaurant after a man reportedly turned his gun on his wife after she said she was leaving him. The woman and a girl were killed inside the Cracker B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA murder hunt was launched today after two coast guards were gunned down on an island off the coast of Alaska. The victims' bodies were found at their work station inside the Kodiak Island Coast Guard of...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 13 hours agoThe changes in the technology market are somewhat frightening and swift and organisations we once expected to last for ever, or were seen as the new role models can soon wane. We remember, the first ‘Publ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 13 hours agoWith former Senator Rick Santorum now out of the picture, the GOP presidential nomination now appears to be Mitt Romney's for the taking, leaving the former Massachusetts Governor free to close the asshol...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012* *Did you understand what this means:* No, this doesn’t exactly matter. But did you understand the following passage? It comes from yesterday’s New York Times—from a news report a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours ago*1-See Update below regarding Russia permanent presence on Syrian Coast * *2-Additional update regarding miniscule turnouts.. * *3-Additional update regarding failure of the UN to vote on Observers* Is the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: The rate of sea-level rise around Australia as measured by coastal tide gauges (circles) and satellite observations (contours) from January 1993 to December 2011. CSIRO / BOM] The rate of sea-le...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoSaLuSa, April 13, 2012 As channeled by Mike Quinsey There is nothing that you cannot do inasmuch that you have much more power than you realize. You are not yet at the level where you can achieve in...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012* *The return of a famous old cult:* A famous old cult has sprung back to life—The Cult of the Offhand Comment. In this case, the offhand comment in question was made by Hilary Rose...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours agoBy: Duane Criag The recent announcement that the Revere Smelting and Refining Corp. cleanup in Middletown, N.Y., was estimated to cost almost $19 million and require removing up to 24 feet of contaminate...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: Ocean waves and skyscrapers. AFP] SYDNEY, 13 April 2012 (AFP) – Sea levels in the southwest Pacific started rising drastically in the 1880s, with a notable peak in the 1990s thought to be linked...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Canadian lynx – a large cat native to the wilds of Canada – is generally elusive, and shies away from using highway-wildlife overpasses. But one lynx bucked the trend, and the extraordinary event was ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoI have for a very long time been a fan of both Les Visibles, who writes an assortment of different blogs out of Europe, and Patrick, aka Snordelhans, who does a great job on presenting some superb videos ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*CENSORED: Indigenous Peoples protecting the rights of Mother Earth, and Navajos and Hopis battling the theft of their water rights* *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoChina's draconian internet censorship system - known as 'the Great Firewall of China' - intensified briefly today, blocking ALL foreign websites. Observers speculated that the system could be being upgra...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 13 hours ago[image: U.S. concern about air and water pollution, 1989-2012. Americans currently express record-low concern about both air pollution and pollution of drinking water. Thirty-six percent say they worry a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 102.5 km (63.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:49:55 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) SSE from Cacahoatán, Chiapas, M...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012* *Epilogue—Piers Morgan v. Cronkite and Brinkley:* Are ditto-heads born? Or are they made? Surely, it’s a bit of both. We’re all inclined to pick and choose (and invent) our facts...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA suspect wanted over a £2million heist had been held in custody – but was released on bail after confusion between police and prosecutors, it has emerged. Lee Wildman, 35, was arrested and questioned by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHundreds of terrorised children often on the verge of suicide are calling the police every day because they are viciously bullied on Facebook. Britain's forces fear this could be 'the tip of the iceberg' a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA police chase of an unarmed runaway motorist in LA who failed to stop for driving recklessly ended with the teenager being shot dead live on television. Officers fired more than 90 rounds at 19-year-old...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA woman has been charged over the death of her four-month-old son after a television fell on top of him while he was at home. Kian McMillan was rushed hospital with severe head injuries following the inc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe Viking 1 lander which arrived on Mars in July 1976: Scientists now believe there is strong evidence of microbial life in the soil samples analysed by Viking 1 In July 1976, the Viking 1 probe touched...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA mother whose eyes were gouged out by her partner said today he had 'robbed me of one of the most precious things in life'. Shane Jenkin, 33, subjected 32-year-old mother-of-two Tina Nash to a sickening...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:27 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 165 km (102 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe ability of the Royal Navy to react to events such as a terrorist attack on the Olympics is being tested with a massive exercise involving warships from across Europe and North America. A total of 8,0...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoHappy Birthday to Al Green, 66. Getting right to the good stuff: 1. Fred Kaplan on Iran, Israel, and the US elections. Not cheerful. 2. 2016 alert: GOP state senators in New York blocked the creation of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has said the ceasefire in Syria appears to be holding despite reports of clashes close to the Turkish border. Fighting has been reported between government troops ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA Christian group is taking legal action against Mayor of London Boris Johnson after he banned bus advertisements suggesting gay people could be cured. The posters, by the Core Issues Trust, stated: "Not...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15.4 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 12:48:12 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 642 km (398 miles) WSW from Banda Aceh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- A Florida judge ruled Thursday that a woman's defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony can go forward, contending that a jury should make the final decision on several contentious issues critical ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker ran into a burning building Thursday night to help rescue a trapped woman, an act of heroism that sent him to the hospital. Booker talked about the incident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoLima, Peru (CNN) -- Peruvian authorities have deployed 1,500 troops and police to search for dozens of gas workers taken hostage by rebels in southern Peru this week. A police captain was killed and two ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 14 hours agoI was listening to the Project Camelot interview with Ralph Ring from 2007, and he mentioned an experiment he performed in the fifties where he levitated a ping pong ball using "*28,000 cycles*" sound (abo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours agoNearly two years later, BP oilspill remains ~Nikki Buskey~“We still have 200 miles of oiled coast two years after the spill. That’s unacceptable,” said Garret Graves, top coastal adviser to Gov. Bobby Jind...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIllinois Republican closet case Aaron Schock is pissing off a lot of senior Republicans these days with his interfering in the re-election of Members who were in Congress when he was still playing with do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Gunfire and explosions rocked the capital of Guinea-Bissau early Friday as soldiers launched an apparent coup attempt. The African Union said it was deeply concerned by the attacks by soldiers o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan will deport the widows and children of terrorism mastermind Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia next week, their lawyer said Friday. Earlier this month, a Pakistani cour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoBerlin (CNN) -- Three people died and 13 were injured when a German commuter train collided with a maintenance crane Friday morning, German police said. The collision occurred on the track near the city ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council has called for an immediate end to the escalating conflict between Sudan and South Sudan over a disputed oil-rich border region. The border clashes have threatened to ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoJim Flaherty claims that the public service cuts he is making are moderate. He argues that the Harper government is simply demonstrating prudent financial management. But, Susan Riley notes, the cuts pr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPyongyang, North Korea (CNN) -- Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Friday, but it broke apart before escaping the earth's atmosphere and fell i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.2 km (21.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:12:06 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) ESE f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato, whose prefecture hosts the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, has spoken out against central government moves to restart reactors across the country idled for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 30.8 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:03:51 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 480 km (298 miles) Southwest from Ban...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoSAITAMA -- A woman was handed a death sentence in a lay-judge trial here on April 13 for murdering three male acquaintances in the metropolitan area in a widely publicized case, despite her insistence on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea state media say new leader Kim Jong Un is now "first chairman" of the top state body while his father,Kim Jong Il,has been named "chairman for eternity." The ann...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 15 hours agoOkay, maybe my headline isn’t quite what they said, but the subtext is there. In a case decided on March 20, 2012, the men in black said that, for state employees, they can take FMLA leave to care for fami...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 15 hours agoSo, the guy who cheats to win power over us? The guy whose power over us stems from his control of a majority of the votes in an institution he himself has no respect for? The guy who lies shamelessly to o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 11.2 km (7 miles), the quake hit at 11:43:49 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 618 km (384 miles) Southwest from Banda ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoEurope's tallest active volcano, Mount Etna, has been blasting flaming lava and ash into the air in its sixth eruption this year. The eruption is the 24th in a series that began in January 2011. Rock bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThere is one thing certain about U.S. Pentagon strategy: it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. And using an old trick from Operation Desert Storm, establishing a humanitarian, NATO-protected no-fly sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThat 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little spice to his dreary life, but no, it just can’t last. Born in March 1946 alongside his evil twin, IMF, in Savannah Georgia, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Sudan said it would mobilize its army against South Sudan on Wednesday, and halted talks with Juba over oil payments and other disputed issues after the South occupied an oilfield vital to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAlison Edgley is Lecturer in Sociology of Health at Nottingham University and author of The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky. She spoke to Robert McLaren about Chomsky's work, focusing in this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBritish Prime Minister David Cameron will be seeking to boost weapons sales to Indonesia, which he calls “one of the world’s most important democracies”. This comes just twelve years after Britain imposed...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAccording to William Taft, the 27th US President, there is no individual right, other than liberty, more important than property. It has contributed, he went on, more to the growth of civilisation than an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoISLAMABAD: It seems that the United States will try just about any approach to dissuade Pakistan from going ahead with the Iran-Pakistan pipeline, pitching ideas that are overly optimistic at best and d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRiyadh has sent a message to Islamabad offering an “alternative package” to meet Pakistan’s growing energy need so that it can abandon the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, Press TV reports. The m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAt the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, President Dmitry Medvedev renewed the offer to make Russian rail lines available for the transportation of non-military material from Europe to Afghanistan and vice v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe S&P 500 just broke a five-day losing streak today, but the index is still down from its highs. Market bear Gary Shilling was on Bloomberg TV today saying that with a hard landing in China and a stron...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe unfunded liability for California's teacher pension fund has risen to $64.5 billion, an amount that is $8.5 billion higher than a year ago but not as bad as forecasts had anticipated, fund officials sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Myanmar at a depth of 73.4 km (45.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:11:53 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) ESE of Kohima, Nagaland, India No R...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoMillions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our LivesFreedom Food News, April 12, 2012 By Ronnie Cummins For nearly two decades, Monsanto and corporate agribusiness have exercised near-dictatorial c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFormula One's governing body has confirmed the Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead next weekend despite unrest in the Gulf state. There had been pressure to cancel the race for the second year running due t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:04 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (6 miles) Southwest from Pinotepa Nacional...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 17 hours agoApril 12, 2012 Follow us @ http://twitter.com/laurenlyster http://twitter.com/coveringdelta Welcome to Capital Account. Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen suggested keeping interest rate...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 13.6 km (8.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:02 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) East f...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 17 hours agoAbout seven years ago two oyster hatcheries located on the US Pacific northwest coast began to experience mortality rates which decimated 80 percent of their brood stock. The oyster larvae were dying befo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGatwick Airport has been forced to briefly suspend all outbound flights due to a hot air balloon straying into its airspace. Incoming planes were not affected. A spokeswoman for the airport in West Susse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been trying to prevent former FBI employee and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds from publishing a book she submitted for prepublication review nearly one year ago,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe US and forty countries which formalized a joint statement before the World Trade Organization complaining about Argentina’s trade restrictions are considering moving a step further and begin a “dispute...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Florida Bar has fielded nearly 1,400 complaints against attorneys relating to the housing crisis, an unprecedented amount that has buried investigators and forced the group to rethink how it will hand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAs a university lecturer, I often find that my students take today’s dominant economic ideology – namely, neoliberalism – for granted as natural and inevitable. This is not entirely surprising given that m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMilitarization of the US foreign policy on global scale is an obvious fact. It concerns Latin America as much as it concerns other parts of the world. The US State Department does not show its usual “depa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNEW YORK - On Saturday, a new round of nuclear chess between Iran and representatives of the "Iran Six" nations will resume in Istanbul after a 13-month hiatus in talks on Tehran's nuclear program. Iran h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIntegration processes, involving Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, are currently beyond the point of no return. This opinion of view was expressed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his speech ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFive years ago, the M2 definition of the US money supply (including coins, currency, checking and savings accounts, CDs and money market funds) was about $7 trillion. At the beginning of 2011, it was near...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoComputer scientists and biologists in the Data Science Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, have developed a rare collaboration between the two very different fields t...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 19 hours agoc/o Lord Kronosin this year of the 2012 British Olympics, isn't it OBVIOUS that competition is good? We've had it drilled into us from an early age that WINNER TAKES ALL and SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST and al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago"You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!" - The Dark Knight. We always hear about "those crazy Russians" and "those crazy Middle Easterners." Hollywood films are fu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThough India is the home to world’s second largest Muslim population its large majority are overwhelmingly secular. It was our recent history which had created the sense of the separation or ‘the other’ r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago[The highly inept Tajik government has maneuvered itself to the edge of a crevasse. The entire world anxiously watches to see whether it is pressure from Tashkent, Moscow, or Washington, which pushes the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBuzzFlash at Truthout has been covering the bloody fiasco of the US sponsored war on drugs in Mexico and other southern nations. Most recently, Truthout reported, "The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLet's begin the day looking at Bank of Queensland's (ASX:BOQ) $91 million first-half loss. People who think housing can never crash in Australia (because it's a cultural thing, you know) will be quick to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHomicides in Chicago soared by 60 percent in the first three months of 2012, continuing a troublesome trend that began late last year. Nonfatal shootings also rose sharply in the first quarter, Police Dep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNearly five years ago, Tonisha Allen watched her big sister drive off after the two had spent the evening together. It was the last time she would see her sister, who was gunned down hours later as she sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA woman was shot in the face while driving in the Gresham neighborhood on the Far South Side late Wednesday. The woman, 38, was driving west in the 2000 block of West 84th Street about 11:30 p.m. when a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe slayings of two USC graduate students early Wednesday about a mile from the campus has shaken the university as police swarmed the area looking for the killer. One of the victims, a man in his 20s, at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMike Tyson thinks that George Zimmerman deserves violent retribution for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. In an interview with Yahoo News about his upcoming one-man show in Las Vegas, the former heavyweig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTampa, Florida - It was an emotional interview for Michelle Williams. As a community activist and chief of staff for the New Black Panther Party, Michelle is used to addressing many issues. But when it co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHave you got your schedule C in order? Have you hunted down all your receipts? Have you made sure to count the depreciation on your laptop and the percentage of your cable bill attributable to your home o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - People worldwide are living three years longer than expected on average, pushing up the costs of aging by 50 percent, and governments and pension funds are ill prepared, the International Mone...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Awarding bonuses for wasting taxpayer dollars? That appears to be incentive offered by the federal agency under fire for spending lavishly on a 2010 conference ...
- GSA employees spent 5 days in Hawaii for 1-hour groundbreaking event.....It's ok, your paying for itposted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWatch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Wednesday that five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Admini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago*Note: We definitely do not endorse Mitt Romney or the Republican Party, but merely want to point out laziness and the scripted, phony nature politics has taken on in modern times. It's no wonder things ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIf you're looking for proof of extraterrestrial life -- or just like a good government cover-up conspiracy -- you'll want to check out this video of the space shuttle Atlantis' final mission. Read More ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoScientists first documented that PCBs had neurological effects in children in the mid 80s. Now new research suggests they may also play a role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In late Fe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*“October 1307: An Unlucky Friday the 13th”* King Phillip IV, Pope Clement V, and the Fall of the Knights Templar By Christopher Hodapp and Alice Von Kannon “King Phillip IV of France set his sights on the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere has been international condemnation of North Korea's long-range rocket launch, as Pyongyang admits the mission failed to put a weather satellite into orbit. Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:38:38 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 668 km (41...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*Disinformation? *We believe that the 9 11 attack on the Pentagon was a false flag attack. *We believe that elements of the security services of several countries were involved. * We do not believe that ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 154.8 km (96.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:02:39 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 223 km (138 miles) Northwest from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 46.5 km (28.9 miles), the quake hit at 04:15:11 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) SSW of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:22:10 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) SSE of Van, Turkey No Reports ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 04:49:49 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 642 km (398 miles) Southwest from Band...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:08:12 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 638 km (396 miles) Southwest from Banda ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 17.4 km (10.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:31:46 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 708 km (439 miles) WSW from Banda Ace...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Maule, Chile at a depth of 52.5 km (32.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:20 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) NNW of Talca, Maule, Chile No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:01 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 73 km (45.2 miles) Northwest from Kashi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Sicily, Italy at a depth of 26.8 km (16.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:21:36 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 12 km (7.4 miles) NNW of Palermo, Sicily, Ital...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoRussian Flash Mob Dances to Putting on the Ritz
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe half life for Sm – 146 has been cut from 103 my down to 68 my. That is pretty significant and the immediate impact has been to clean up some vexing discrepancies out there. The underlying...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoFrom this we suddenly understand why specific hot spots or magma chambers are copper sources while others are not. Deep 3D seismic could prove very useful in determining the best hot spots, altho...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI had already reached the conclusion that slash and burn was a post Columbus phenomena. My reason was simple. Steel axes and machetes are necessary in order to clear enough land in a season. Th...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is an extraordinary result that utterly dwarfs any imagined effects driven by climatic warming. My first question is to determine just how accurate this result and the derived conclusion r...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe half life for Sm – 146 has been cut from 103 my down to 68 my. That is pretty significant and the immediate impact has been to clean up some vexing discrepancies out there. The underlying...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoFrom this we suddenly understand why specific hot spots or magma chambers are copper sources while others are not. Deep 3D seismic could prove very useful in determining the best hot spots, altho...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoI had already reached the conclusion that slash and burn was a post Columbus phenomena. My reason was simple. Steel axes and machetes are necessary in order to clear enough land in a season. Th...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoRevisionist view of the last decade in literacy research Submitted to Education Week, April 12 I was astounded to read Linda Diamond’s revisionist view of the last decade in literacy research (“Common-core...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours agoThe 2012 Alberta leadership debate’s dull set. From left to right: Brian Mason, Danielle Smith, Alison Redford, Raj Sherman. Below: Ms. Redford and Ms. Smith as they appeared on the debate. (Main phpoto g...
- posted by The Arthurian at The Rules of Exposition - 21 hours agoThe intent is to convey. Sometimes you want to take half an idea and get it going, and then fire off its rockets and send it into the sky. The run-on sentence is a tool to be used, like any other. But you...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoA plant is seen on the cracked bed of the dried area of Xieshan, which is part of Poyang lake in east China's Jiangxi province. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters For visitors expecting to see China's larges...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoBobby Samir Acharya, Gordon Kane, and Piyush Kumar have been invited to write a review for *International Journal of Modern Physics A* about their picture of particle physics beyond the Standard Model: Co...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago*Oh dear. *Is wing-nut media a threat to air safety? Discuss.
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoFirst, you make a big deal about porous borders and how dangerous terrorists and assorted creepy crawlies are moving through CBSA checkpoints in packs and herds. You say that to address this we need to lik...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA pilot has died after his microlight crashed into a field, it emerged today. The plane is reported to have plunged between 200ft (61m) and 300ft (91m) in the accident, which happened near the village of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA—When South Sudan gained independence last July, the capital was electrified. Jubilant citizens crowded the streets, flags in hand, faces painted in the national colours of black, red...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to the Grand Finale of our week-long event celebrating the debut novel, *Born of Blood*, by my friend and very talented author, S.B. (Brian) Knight. How appropriate that today is Friday the 13th (o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoAccording to an article in *The Hill* yesterday, the DCCC is running their generic anti-Ryan billboard against 14 Republicans who voted to end Medicare. The article mentions Charlie Bass (NH), Sean Duffy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 14.1 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:20 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 633 km (393 miles) Southwest from Band...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Iran Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:04:52 UTC Friday 13th April 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) Northwest of Kh...
- posted by mollymew at Molly'sBlog - 1 day ago*INTERNATIONAL LABOUR/ANARCHOSYNDICALISM:* * LATEST SPANISH GENERAL STRIKE A HUGE SUCCESS:* ** March 29th saw a one day general strike in Spain that eclipsed previous general strikes in magnitude if one ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“This complex of beautiful, dusty reflection nebulae lies in the constellation Scorpius along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Its overall outline suggests a horsehead in profile, though it covers a much...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southeast Indian Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:15:47 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 1584 km (984 miles) ESE of Amsterdam I...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago2012 hosts anniversaries of relevance to the history of Canada. The first one is the 200th anniversary of a war fought between Britain and the United States in what is now Ontario, Quebec, and the northern...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.1 km (16.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:37:16 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 358 km ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Sea of Okhotsk at a depth of 480 km (297.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:28:19 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 296 km (183.5 miles) West of Yelizovo K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 28.7 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:42:23 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 566 km ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Greenland Sea at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:07 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 628 km (389.3 miles) Northwest of Tromsø, No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Greenland Sea at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:31:22 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 618 km (383.1 miles) Northwest of Tromsø, No...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Feeling Lonely: An Incomplete Understanding"* by The DailyOM "When we are feeling lonely, we have lost the idea that we are all one and none of us are separate from the whole. We all have days when we f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” - James D. Miles
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:21:55 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 338 km (20...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoThe incredibly beautiful and rare Sumatran tiger. There are believed to be no more than 300 left in the wilds in Indonesia. Photograph: Dave Watts/RSPB In a previous blog, I discussed how Asian Pulp and Pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Strait of Gibraltar at a depth of 82 km (50.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:41:29 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) South of Marbella,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:25:55 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 370 km (22...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 1 km ( 0.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:58:34 UTC Thursday 12th April 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) WNW of Puerto Ange...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"What is Heading Our Way?"* by Charles Goyette ․ “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.” - Victor Hugo "Perhaps it's like shouting an alarm, unheard above the engine noise of two trains on a collision...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo teenagers have been arrested in connection with the police investigation into alleged attempts to access an anti-terror hotline and record conversations. The youths, aged 17 and 16, were taken into c...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoSioux Center, Iowa, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Being in Power Does Not Always Magnify Personality"* by ScienceBlog “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power,” said Abraham Lincoln. It’s a truism that power magnifies personality—but is it...
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