Worker barracks at garment factory on Saipan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map describing volcanoes of the Mariana Islands along the Marianas Trench (east of China and the Philippines). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
An enlargeable topographic map of the island of Saipan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Aerial view of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 43 seconds ago"People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes agoAs student loan debt exceeds $1tn, we ask if it is the ball and chain that follows Americans to the grave. The cost of higher education in the US has been referred to as the ball and chain that follows ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes agoIt shimmers shyly in the Western Pacific like an unpolished diamond in a nest of sparkling opals. Its size belying its strategic geographical importance. Saipan is the capital of the Northern Mariana I...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 minutes agoDemocracy. That buzzword we hear over and over again coming from powerful quarters in the US to help explain interventions across the globe, from Iraq to Central America. But while many in the world are f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 minutes agoIn 2011, 24,928 cars were stolen in Japan, an increase of 1,153 vehicles compared to 2010. This was the first time the number of thefts had gone up since 2001 when 63,275 cars were stolen. Obviously, thin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 minutes agoThe government is considering designating areas near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as off-limits for residents for an extensive period, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Wednesday. Concern ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 18 minutes agoI have previously posted about Barack Obama's various verbal misspeaks - 57 stats etc. and how the BBC just are not interested in the sort of misspeaks that they loved to report when made by George W. Bush...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 18 minutes ago*NATO is controlled by the Pentagon.* NATO is 'in the heroin trade' (THE MILITARY IN ALLIANCE WITH THE DRUGS GANGS) Is there a US-Israeli plan to use NATO to take over part of the United Kingdom? Why is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 minutes agoWASHINGTON — Call it President Richard Nixon's revenge. Amid election-year furor over high gasoline prices, something significant has happened to America's energy outlook. We are steadily reducing our de...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 23 minutes agoThe BBC's Breaking News Twitter feed tweeted this this morning Wouldn't the addition of the word 'next' before 'Tuesday' have made the situation clearer and less threatening?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes agoSINGAPORE — The pieces of a new strategic kaleidoscope in the Asia-Pacific region are starting to fall into place as allies and security partners of the United States seek to deter China from using or thr...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 26 minutes agoMarch 28, 2012 by John Cooper, Cabinet Maker http://jcooperforpeace.wordpress.com/ Edited slightly by AK for an international audience *I have been trying to find Peacemakers lately…* It reminds me of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes agoSINGAPORE — Most people live and work on land. Some journey by air, or go to sea. But all return to the land. Our terrestrial view of the world defines exploration. As we spread and settle on land that w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes agoChinese President Hu Jintao told his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on Monday that his government attempted several in-depth talks with Pyongyang to express its "deep concern" over the North's plan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoOne in five women in Korea in her 30s is single, while in Seoul the ratio is one in three, according to Statistics Korea. Although there are no specific data on the total number of single women, experts be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoMore than half of the inhabitants of Seoul between the ages of 30 and 34 are unmarried. According to research by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, there were 431,847 singles between 30 to 34 in the capit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes agoA magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papue New Guinea at a depth of 202.4 km (125.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:51 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 40 minutes agothis revelatory image comes from Prometheus UK's official Facebook page, so it's definitely legit - only hinted at in the trailer: Rennaisance art, on an alien planet? psychic conncection from the Engine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 43 minutes ago(CNN) -- While U.N. monitors try to observe a so-called cease-fire in Syria, the U.S. ambassador the United Nations said President Bashar al-Assad's regime has lost all credibility. "They have lied to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes agoNasa has released spectacular images of a powerful solar flare erupting from the sun. Although measured as "moderate", the sun storm captured by Nasa spacecraft revealed it to be a stunning display of m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 50 minutes agoA magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:14:38 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 181 km (112 miles) West of Coos Bay, O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 53 minutes agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:07:34 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) ENE of Hihifo, Tonga No Tsunami Warning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 04:25:02 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 36.6 km (22.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:03:17 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) North of Valpa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 58 minutes agoA powerful 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Chile's eastern coastal port of Valparaiso early on Tuesday, shaking buildings as far away as the capital Santiago, but there were no immediate reports of d...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 hour agoThis is one of the sillier items of gross speculation I have come across for a while. Someone has been reading far too much Science Fiction and put this together. We even got a pitch in for the ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 hour agoThe hunt for planets is in the early days and my sense is that we are getting glimpses of the true complexity. I suspect every solar system may prove to have the equivalent of Jupiter. Yet these...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 hour agoIt is clear that the tide has turned in the Salish Sea and is gathering strength. It is also true that the people are taking possession of the watersheds although none of this is formalized in la...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 hour agoThe great news here is that ground truth is now been established to allow a rigorous interpretation of CryoSat data that has now been collected for two years. It appears we will finally really k...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 hour agoOne of the wind turbines. Photo courtesy: Eole Water A new concept, that many consider to "cool", being tested in the Abu Dhabi desert uses a wind turbine to condense water from the air and pump it into s...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 1 hour agoApril 17, 1982: The Queen signs the Constitution as Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then Canada’s prime minister, looks on, apparently bemused. Below: The Charter; a sterner Mr. Trudeau. CALGARY Today is the 30t...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoHome is where you feel *safe, comfortable and welcome*. Yeah, we feel very much at home with our old friends at *A Creative Revolution*. Who wouldn't? So, *bookmark this*. We may live in the swamp but e...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 hours agoGordon Kane has pointed out that I have missed a shocking hep-ph paper by Christoph Weniger one or a few days ago, A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telesc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Truth, Lies and Self-Deception"* by Dr. Stephen Diamond "'Folie a deux' is an idiomatic French expression meaning "craziness of two." This fascinating syndrome is referred to diagnostically in the Amer...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - Peter Van Loan told CBC that, we, the people who buy cars worth, oh ... anywhere from $1000 to $50,000 do not work out the life cycle costs of that motor vehicle. I'm* not the only one ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago* “The Hollow Men”* “Between the idea And the reality, Between the motion And the act, Falls the Shadow... Between the conception And the creation, Between the emot...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago*Picture of President George W. Bush in a classroom in Florida on the morning of September 11, 2001. He used the crisis to score political points and take America to war against an invisible enemy for ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 3 hours agoHere’s one of the neat things the internet can do: by offering a live, free, web-streamed talk on happiness, presented by a philosophy professor and hosted by the Ayn Rand Center: The Declaration of In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoHuman rights abuses are still going on in Bahrain leading to calls for this weekend's Grand Prix to be cancelled, Amnesty International has said. The campaign group has said security forces are still usin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 37 km (23 miles), the quake hit at 03:50:14 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) NNE from Valparais...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSINGAPORE, April 17 (Reuters) - Brent crude slipped to $118 on Tuesday, continuing its steep decline from the previous session, as Spain's debt woes reignited concerns about the European debt crisis and t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe national minimum wage for British workers is set to be lower for workers in real terms than it was nearly a decade ago, according to a new report. Even after it is increased later this year inflation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 41.7 km (25.9 miles), the quake hit at 03:24:24 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) West from Ban...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 4 hours ago*OTTAWA — "Elections Canada investigators on the trail of the "Pierre Poutine" suspect in the robocalls case have been asking questions about the actions of staff at Conservative party headquarters in Ot...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoSunday morning, Digby was riffing on the place of aristocracy in this nation founded as a democratic experiment-- and she was looking straight at the Romneys who had managed, through a little-used loophol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA former Wickes cashier who later became one of Nigeria's most powerful politicians will be sentenced later for fraud and embezzlement which could exceed £160m. James Ibori pleaded guilty at Southwark Cr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSouth Korea has expressed support for the UN Security Council decision to tighten sanctions on North Korea for its botched rocket launch, and called for Pyongyang to refrain from further provocations. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA controversial gas drilling operation that triggered earthquakes in Britain is set to be restarted, but with tighter controls on the process. The company involved has accepted stringent recommendations f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:37:43 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32.2 miles) Southeast of Firuzabad, Iran N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mid-Indian Ridge at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:41:26 UTC Tuesday 17th April 2012 The epicenter was 464 km (288 miles) East of Ile Rodrigues, M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Mid-Indian Ridge at a depth of 9.6 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 23:53:30 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (110 miles) Northeast from Amsterdam Isl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*“The Devils Inside”* by Chet Raymo “I know it's unworthy of me, but sometime I wish he would just go away - Nicholas Kristof with his reports in the New York Times from the war zones of the Congo and Su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 87 km (53.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:16:42 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 101 km (68.2 miles) Southeast of Port Vila, Vanuatu No...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 5 hours agoSometimes you just have to listen to the eloquence of others – just think about it and let it fuel your focus. The snips below are not meant to represent the only eloquent orators in todays public arena,...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours agoHow does this work? Simple -- under the Federal Court Rules unless a claim is drafted so as to state a cause of action within the Court's jurisdiction the Court can (and should) strike out the claim. This ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - With the wave of an imperial hand *Harper sprays himself with teflon*. Asked Sunday in Cartagena, Colombia, whether the government lied about its estimates, Harper again focused on the co...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 5 hours agoReal life is kicking my ass today. Managed to land for the night just as a giant truck hit some wires and blew out the internet. Fixed now, but too late to blog tonight. Check me in the morning. [More po...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours agoDr Michio Kaku
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago* *#cdnpoli #elxn41* *#robocon* * *You're welcome!* And thank you *RossK*. Elections Canada investigators on the trail of the "Pierre Poutine" suspect in the robocalls case have been asking questions a...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours agoSouthern Man is pretty careful about following the diet proscribed by Southern Man's Platter and it's working well; weight remains steady at just above what Southern Man would consider ideal. One more week...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 6 hours agoSouthern Man spent a relaxed morning cleaning and piddling around. Teen Daughter returned from a weekend down south just in time to watch a movie and then head out to the Ancestral Manor for Sunday Dinner....
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 6 hours agoPrinceton economist, *New York Times* columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wonders if Europe's political leadership has a death wish. *"The question then was whether this brave and effective action [o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“The Asylum”* by Kahlil Gibran "I was strolling in the gardens of an insane asylum when I met a young man who was reading a philosophy book. His behavior and his evident good health made him stand out f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?"* by Tony Schwartz "Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from activity to activity. The consequence is that you don't do anything particula...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 7 hours agoMarcus Aurelius Cheery guy that Marcus Aurelius
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*"[T]he police backed down, and the standoff turned into a victory celebration, catered by [Ben] Cohen. Some activists boycotted the ice-cream party. 'One very loud Occupier walked up and down shouting abo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago* “The Bird And The Cage”* by Paulo Coelho “Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colorful, marvelous feathers. One day, a woman saw this bird and fel...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove ...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 7 hours agoOne frequent request from bloggers using blogspot (www.blogger.com) is to get rid of the year and month in a post permalink and just have relevant keywords in the post URL. This is not possible with blogsp...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 7 hours agoLt. Colonel Daniel Davis. Image from Eideard.'Truth, Lies and Afghanistan':Lt. Colonel Davis reveals futilityand folly of our war in AfghanistanBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / April 16, 2012How quickly ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 7 hours agoMarching for women's rights. Marching for women's rights. Marching for women's rights. Marching for women's rights. Marching for women's rights. Marching for women's rights. Mr. Woodworth, kindly take...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLos Angeles county animal control officials are heralding the loyalty of a black Labrador retriever that braved traffic to stay by another dog that was fatally struck by a car. A motorist who saw the do...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPolice say a mob of 25 anarchists fought with officers and tried to use eight-foot-long metal pipes to smash windows of a Starbucks in the East Village on Saturday. The incident happened around 8:45 p.m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPope Benedict marked his 85th birthday on Monday saying he is now in the "last stretch" of his life but sure that God would help him continue his mission. Benedict, who has looked tired and drawn recently...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 8 hours agoJust for fun. Right now Monday April 16 at 7:45 central pm There is a survey on the Daily Caller front page - half way down - left side Please go there and give good ol' Michele Bachmann a big old "unf...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours ago*Michael channeled by Ron Head* April 16, 2012 We are heartened to see the understanding of the overall message of all of our channels spreading far and wide among all those who follow them. Angelics...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Secret Places"* *․ * "Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Reason says, Nonsense. I have walked and measured the walls here. There are no places l...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours agoFairfax, Virginia, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago*“The Horror, The Horror”* by Paul Krugman “Atrios, aka Duncan Black, is celebrating his 10th blogoversary with a countdown of America’s Worst Pundits. And he emphasizes just how bad a decade it has been...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 9 hours ago. I would not post this email exchange were it not for the fact that this whole 'limited hangout' issue does my head in and it is a genuinely important issue. I have great admiration for Henry Makow. I...
- posted by angola3news at Angola 3 News - 9 hours agoThis public forum, entitled "The Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement," held at UC Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco on April 6, 2012 was organized by the International Coalition to Free the ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLt. Col. Shalom Eisner, the IDF officer videotaped striking a Danish anarchist with his gun, told a confidante Sunday that the leftist struck him first, causing fractures in his hand. Arik Ben Shimon, who...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago*Navajo Nation government usurped by corporate entities* *By Dine' CARE* *Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* DILKON, Arizona (Navajo Nation) -- Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environm...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 9 hours agoThe Grey Ones have done everything wrong since the Christchurch earthquake. They barred people from their city.1 They evicted people from their homes.2 They slowed down their repairs and insurance pay-o...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 9 hours agoIt's been a busy day and won't end until 9 pm. or so. So, here's a quick post about two books I'm reading. First is Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. I'm finding it very moving, but I'm not sure if tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSaajid Muhammad Badat, 33 from Gloucester, was jailed for 13 years in 2005 but had his sentence cut down to 11 years after providing information on up to 18 terror plots over a six-year period. The deal ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoA film by Jose Escamilla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k7bGzElE20&feature=player_embedded PS: Blog embedding has been disabled on YouTube, other wise you could play it directly.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJERUSALEM — The Israeli military announced the suspension on Monday of a senior officer caught on videotape striking a Danish pro-Palestinian activist in the face with an M-16 rifle during a standoff betw...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 10 hours agoBelow is a petition that is circulating on Change.Org. If you are a NY professor, please sign it. If you are not a NY professor, start a petition in your state. Contact me if you want to help me get on...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoThe glaciers flowing between the towering peaks of the Karakoram range on the Pakistan-China border have grown in size in the last decade, according to new research. The impact of climate change on the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*They came in photographs in my printed paper*: "FUEL HIKE PROTEST -- Student demonstrators burned tires and clashed with police in Indonesia Tuesday during a rally against the government's plan to raise...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 10 hours agoCentenary commemorations of the *Titanic* sinking wouldn’t be complete without the contribution of *The Onion**. * [image: Titanic0001] Too glib? But where would we writers be without the metaphor. Co...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI knew Florida state Rep Scott Randolph's name because he was Alan Grayson's campaign manager. Grayson told me "he was the mastermind behind our 2008 victory." But the last time-- before this week-- he wa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*Gotta get out and vote!* "Aung San Suu Kyi’s party raised the prospect of a *major hitch* in Myanmar’s *political reforms *Thursday, saying it may not take the seats it won in Parliament because the law...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoInspired by my twitter feed going wild with glee from conservatives after the first day of the Gallup general election tracking showed Mitt Romney with a two point lead (sparking junk analysis like this), ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours ago"This whole war on terror is a fraud. It's a farce. It's very difficult to say it out loud because people are intimidated against saying it, cause if you say it they want to make you into a nutcase. But...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*Maybe they need an AmeriKan sheriff in town, what with all that oil in the area.* "Mali coup leaders say they’re still in charge" by Adam Nossiter | New york Times, March 25, 2012 DAKAR, Senegal - Res...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 12 hours agoRussia Today is the international broadcaster for Julian Assange's new TV interview show THE WORLD TOMORROW, here's a 20-minute interview with Assanage prior to the show's launch tomorrow.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 12 hours agoHeartbreaker: Tom Petty's Guitars Stolen in Front of JazzFest Date~NOLA DEFENDER
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 12 hours ago*In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 12 hours agoLord of the Rings and Mount Doom *Aragorn: Are you frightened? * *Frodo: Yes. * *Aragorn: Not nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you. * *Frodo: What do you want? * ...
- *Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo* had a dream. Some 30 years ago now. Since that day he still is the well-respected Lord Mayor of the Andalucian village of Marinaleda, near Sevilla, and his dream appears to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 12 hours agoAuthors: Lucila Guadalupe Caceres, Hugo Rios, and Laura Ruth Guelman Journal: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety volume 72.3 (2009) 895-904. Abstract: "Neonatal ionizing radiation exposure has been sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA teenager was subjected to a sickening attack when he was throttled, bound and gagged, locked in a cupboard, beaten with a baseball bat and then shot at point blank range to the face with a BB gun. Josh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA teenager’s home was gatecrashed by 400 revellers after plans for his 16th birthday party were posted on Facebook. Bradley McAnulty had only intended for about 30 friends to come to the bash at his fami...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoGeorge Osborne is expected to plough another £10billion into the International Monetary Fund to help increase its resources, it emerged today. The UK has already pledged £29.5bn to the Fund, £5.5bn of wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:01:19 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 178 km (110.6 miles) Northwest of Kendari,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:04:24 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) East of Saryg-se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA would-be shoe bomber has become the first terrorist in the UK to have his sentence cut after agreeing to testify against al Qaida suspects in a US terror trial. Saajid Muhammad Badat had his 13 year se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - It is the cradle of Libya's revolution: the Benghazi square where protesters just over a year ago first demanded the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and waved the black, green and red flag that came t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 13 hours agoThink all the way back to last week, when the Washington Post ran a prominent story on a new study that claimed ACA increased, rather than decreased, the deficit, thanks to a "double counting" issue. Over ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoProtest: Relatives and police officers speak to prisoners standing on a roof of the prison in Brazil where inmates armed with knives and rifles were holding 131 people hostage yesterday. Picture: AFP INM...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 13 hours ago*APRIL 11, 2012* Permalink *Active-Duty Army Whistleblower Lt. Col. Daniel Davis: U.S. Decei...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 13 hours agoAnd watch this. Really. I guarantee it will be among the best things you do this week. (Don't let the language changes trip you up. If you're really interested, it won't make any difference in your under...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoRabindra Mohapatra is among the phenomenologists who seem to be convinced that the detailed properties of the neutrinos, together with some previously known characteristics of charged leptons and quarks, m...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoOoops, it's the IDF attacking protestors against the occupation of Palestinian land. Never mind! Remember Rachel Corrie This one will go away too, because, it is all "anti-semetism"!!!!! And your "anti-...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 13 hours agoFrom here: Tommy Robinson took a few seconds on Sunday evening to make an observation about Twitter's homepage. "Welcome to twitter homepage has a picture of a mosque," he wrote. "What a joke #creepingsha...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 14 hours agoSaLuSa, April 16, 2012 As channeled by Mike Quinsey When we speak of our allies we generally refer to those who are Lightworkers, at the front of activities that are occurring with our backing. They ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoThe man who speaks with forked tongue is at it again. Furious Leader Steve Harper says he accepts that the war on drugs, especially South American drug cartels, isn't working. Cue the Straw Men. "*Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe World Bank has named US doctor Jim Yong Kim its next president. The appointment came as Mr Kim's only rival, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, lashed out at Washington's perennial lock on...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours agoStory here
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 38.6 km (24 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:11 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 102 km (64 miles) West from Ternat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles), the quake hit at 16:05:54 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 684 km (425 ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 14 hours ago*Asplundh Canada Inc v Rousseau, *2012 SKCA 40 deals with judgments on admissions. In Saskatchewan the Rule provides: * * *The Queen’s Bench Rules* *Judgment on admissions* *247* Any part may, ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoI have spent the last two days with family and friends celebrating several birthdays and taking care of personal business... It has gotten to the point now that I am spending weekends doing other activitie...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 15 hours agoKeep a lid on it. By: Higson, Don, New Scientist, 02624079, 3/17/2012, Vol. 213, Issue 2856. OPINION by Don Higson [excerpt] "What is more, exposures to radiation were nowhere near high enough to cause a...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago"Our constitution," exhorts North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, "was written to guarantee rights, not to take them away." She urges all North Carolinians to vote against the homophobic travesty known as ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoChina may be looking to the future to avenge real and perceived wrongs from the past. *The Guardian* reports on war games undertaken by US and Chinese commanders that have taken an eerie twist. *The US...
- posted by Anaconda at PhoeniCIA2phoenix - 15 hours ago*Deep State Surveillance, Death of Democratic Alternatives, Backdoor Wiretap Bills Threaten Political and Privacy Rights in the Whole Zioconned and crumbling Western World and beyond...., no morals and n...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 15 hours agoMy "treetise", which has been accepted for publication in the new magazine from the Coming Crisis website which will debut next month, can be downloaded today(!) from google docs as a pdf. The subtitle i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 40.7 km (25.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:06:54 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) Southwest of Kalamata, Gree...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 422.6 km (262.6 miles), the quake hit at 13:02:05 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 451 km (280 miles) NNW of Raoul...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago"Malawi offers no word on president" New York Times, April 07, 2012 JOHANNESBURG - The United States expressed concern about the future of the impoverished African nation of Malawi on Friday after a swirl ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoMy parents are huge BYU fans. They both attended school there and it is actually where they met. While I do bleed blue and white, it is Utah State blue and white, not BYU blue. My dad and I see eye to...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Runners pass the halfway mark in last year's Boston Marathon in Wellesley, Massachusetts, 18 April 2011. Dominick Reuter / Reuters] BOSTON, 16 April 2012 (Reuters) – The 116th Boston Marathon kic...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 15 hours ago** *CNN says it wasn't "the Taliban"* *Contributor: "YYC"* Remember how we chortled about the Taliban spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid, who keeps in regular contact with CNN and tells all? (See "Coordinate...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 16 hours agothis should be interesting... Wednesday April 18th 2012, will N.A.T.O. hold back their invasion and allow IRAN to finally release the *real reason* why it's been targeted by the OCA or Oil Conglomerate ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Hope you don't mind eating s***. * "House passes severe GOP-backed budget plan; Bill targets aid programs and tax code" by Jonathan Weisman | New York Times, March 30, 2012 WASHINGTON - The plan draf...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoI talked about this already last week, but I wasn't really focused on Palin specifically and since Ross Douthat is keeping the discussion alive with what I think is a pretty good post, I figured I have an ...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 16 hours agoChina is now the world's second largest economy in terms of GDP size, next to the US and larger than Japan's. Its government under the Communist Party of China is possibly the 2nd biggest around the world ...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 16 hours agoSS stiffs a hooker, and now Hillary twirls the night away for the Paparazzi.
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 16 hours agoA strong young heart is now trapped inside Dick Cheney's body. It has no choice but to beat and beat and beat, enabling the ghoul of the 21st Century to fly around in his private jet, spewing his rejuvenat...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*He doesn't deserve any. * "Consumer agency softens fee limit for credit cards" by Daniel Wagner | associated press, April 13, 2012 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration’s consumer financial watchdog ag...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 17 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Romney has a wide range of people he consults on various topics. Many were active in *George W. Bush’s administration*.... * * *What more** do you need to know?* --more--" "Romney seeks to reach America...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 17 hours agohttp://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.in/2012/04/barack-obamas-bodyguards-sent-back-to.html
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours ago[image: NKl trajectory] Jennifer Lind has a good piece up on *Foreign Affairs *this week on why NK seems to regularly get away with with hijinks like last week’s rocket test (which directly contravenes UN ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 17 hours agoWon't have much computer time today since it's my son Adam's 20th birthday. But please accept these ecards in lieu of any actual content, all written by yours truly.
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 17 hours agohttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216366,00.html
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Raarrrr!* "Sharp reaction to Ann Romney critic" April 13, 2012|Stephanie Ebbert, Globe Staff In the* latest skirmish* in the “*war on women*,’’ Ann Romney stood firm against criticism from a Democratic ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 hours ago[image: Increase in annual-average daily mean temperature from 1960 to 2011 (in °C). Most of Australia has experienced warming over the past 50 years, with some areas experiencing warming since 1960 of u...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours agoMy "Human Security" doctoral students just finished reading Kathryn Sikkink's new book on international tribunals and it is undisputably their favorite of all those assigned this year. Partly that is becau...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 17 hours agoThis morning I saw an article that noted Altria Group Inc. (MO) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) are among the corporations keeping their membership Then later in the day - this hit the New Times Editorial page...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 17 hours agoWith a week to go, the parties in Alberta must now try to seal the deal with voters. You'll hear pithy one-liners as spin machines go into overdrive, but here's the brutally honest closing pitch I'd use f...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Screenshot from an attack ad by Grassroots Policy Strategies: 'President Obama stop blaming others, work to pass better energy policies'. In the first three-and-a-half months of 2012, groups incl...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago*The Winds Blow Hard These Days* *The winds blow hard these days.* *Yes, the winds of change blow against the structures of old so as to level them to be replaced by new less restrictive and freedom lim...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 18 hours agoEverything but the Kitchen sink! Which tells you I have way too much stuff bookmarked- Aargh! Some of it is a bit older but no less interesting. Revisiting Marie Colvin; another blogger, fitzhenrymac, who ha...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 18 hours agoAnders Breivik, the murderer of Norwegian children, is finally in court. Arriving today, he greeted the court with a clenched fist salute. Instantly, the media began reporting that this was a Right-wing...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: BP Plc's Atlantis oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Marc Morrisson / BP via Bloomberg] By Loren Steffy 12 April 2012 We now know why BP wanted to keep information about its massive *A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoALANDHAR: At least 250 people were feared trapped under the debris of a blanket factory building that collapsed late on Sunday night in Focal Point area near here, police said. Efforts are underway to re...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 18 hours ago** *“It would be a grave injustice to extradite me for a crime that even the evidence shows I did not commit.”* *Contributor: "diabsupport"* *Dr. Hassan Diab speaking at a press conference on Parliament H...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Daybreak over Gasherbrum IV on the Baltoro glacier in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas. Ed Darack / Corbis] By Jonathan Bamber, www.guardian.co.uk 15 April 2012 Glaciers are one of the natu...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 18 hours agoBy: Duane Craig Twenty-four years after being discovered, contamination in Wichita, Kan., is nearing a cleanup stage, according to an article in The Wichita Eagle. The property is at 250 N. St. Francis wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.4 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:57:44 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 508 km (31...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 12:19:02 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Northwest from Saphane, Turkey ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 18 hours ago* califather on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free * *1:30 p.m. – Mark Naison and Ira Shor: The Occupy Movement and the Struggle to Save Public Education in the United States* Mark and Ira will discuss t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*What do you want me to do, leave them at the church**? * "Suspect sought after 3 adults are killed at day-care center" Associated Press, April 10, 2012 BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. - Three adults were killed ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMIRPUR (AJK): A scared cat climbs up a tree, is spotted by an innocent child and consequently rescued by local heroes – an anecdote of human compassion often narrated in children’s books. However, in the...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoHappy Birthday to Bruce Bochy, the manager of the 2010 World Champion San Francisco Giants, 57. And now, the good stuff: 1. The dangers of manufactured controversies and twitter frenzies, from Brendan N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDAYTONA BEACH -- State wildlife officials responded after a dead baby manatee was found Friday afternoon floating in the Intracoastal Waterway in Daytona Beach. The manatee was reported at Beach Street a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe U.S. Geological Survey recorded two small eruptions of the Cleveland Volcano on Friday detected by changes in air pressure. The agency says neither explosion produced an ash cloud that could be detect...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*Think I'll skip it.* "Church shielded abusers, prosecutor says" Associated Press, March 27, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia *protected sexual predators*in its ranks for *more than 70 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoStephen Wolf thinks something strange is happening underground in eastern Shasta County and it is draining water wells and maybe even causing sinkholes and subsiding pavement. A retired marine geologist ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFlights in and out of Gatwick Airport have been suspended after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing after smoke was reported in the cabin. Virgin flight VS027 had left the West Sussex airport...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCoordinated attacks by Taliban insurgents across Afghanistan showed an intelligence failure on the part of both Afghan and Nato forces, President Hamid Karzai declared. “The terrorists’ infiltration in Ka...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoTwo consecutive polls seem to be proving what many political observers surmised-- corrupt, anti-Choice Blue Dog Tim Holden can't win in a Democratic district. And the newly redrawn 17th CD in northwest ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours ago#cdnpoli* * * * *This really is pathetic*. Now the Harper government proves how far into the future they really look. An award-winning program that helps rehabilitate prisoners and protect the public by ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 19 hours agoThose attack ads, branding Bob Rae a "Failure," are ubiquitous these days. But Tim Armstrong, a former deputy minister of Industry and Trade in Rae's government, sets the record straight in this morning...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - Fierce debate is growing in Europe over whether austerity or growth offers the best strategy to overcome the continent's sovereign debt crisis. As if it were that simple. As the euro zone hov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - A handful of soldiers in blue caps put a tentative United Nations presence on the ground in Syria on Monday, predicting success for their mission to stabilize a shaky four-day-old ceasefire ev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWoodward, Oklahoma (CNN) -- The death toll from a weekend tornado in Woodward, Oklahoma rose to six Monday with the death of a critically injured man in the hospital, a city official said. The man, whose...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIslamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspected militant tossed a hand grenade into a school in northwest Pakistan, killing one child and wounding two others Monday, police said. The attack took place at a co-e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The World Bank is expected to announce its next president on Monday, and for the first time ever, it's got a competition on its hands. Throughout its more-than-60-year history, the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:02:12 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (13.6 miles) South of Methoni, Methóni, G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoWashington (CNN) -- The French will vote next week to elect a new president. The April 22 election pits incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy against challenger Francois Hollande. Sarkozy, a conservative, argues tha...
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 19 hours ago*Britain’s Anti-Green Rollback Accelerating* *‘Chris Huhne’s Zealous Ambition Is Being Reined Back’* Ministers are preparing to veto major new wind farms in the British countryside and cut back their su...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours agoStory here CBC poll suggests Progressive Conservative trailing WildroseA poll conducted for the CBC shows the Wildrose Party has a seven-point lead over the Progressive Conservatives just a week before the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- The latest rumors filling a void of official information over the mysterious death of a British businessman and the fall of one of China's rising political stars are worthy of a Hollywo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNew North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged officials of the Workers' Party of Korea to debate economic reforms, including the introduction of capitalist methods -- hitherto one of the greatest taboos i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThree of the 12 members of Fukui Prefecture's nuclear safety expert committee have given the thumbs-up to government safety judgment guidelines accompanying the planned restart of the No. 3 and 4 reactors...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours agoDamage in oil’s wake, tensions mount on long-term solutions~Amy Wold ~State and local officials continue to express frustration that long-term monitoring and cleanup efforts do not appear to be moving forwa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:23:41 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 8 km (5 miles) West of Methoni, Methóni, Gree...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago* Why did the security services not want this photo released? * *1.* Is the 'Breivik' in court the real 'Breivik'? (BREIVIK'S DOUBLE) *2.* Has Breivik been brainwashed? (Norwegian children experimented o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe deaths of thousands of dolphins washed up on beaches in Peru may have been caused by acoustic testing offshore by oil companies, conservationists have warned. Nearly 3,000 of the mammals are thought...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThree young girls and two adults have died after tornadoes ripped through an Oklahoma town earlier today in an outbreak of twisters that swept through the Midwest and Plains states. Frank Hobbie was kill...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA search for four sailors, missing since a powerful wave smashed into their boat that killed a fifth member of their crew, has been called off. The Coast Guard yesterday launched a rescue mission near San...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLeft-wing protesters in the Philippines have splattered paint on the seal of the US Embassy to demand a pullout of American troops taking part in annual war games. About 70 student activists took police ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA mother and son who were found shot dead in their Florida home were killed for less than $400 by a pair of teenagers. Police have revealed robbery as the motive for the deaths of the Amy Ann Lorah and h...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago"Life without knowledge is death in disguise.” - Talib Kweli
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTwo football players at a university were wounded by gunshots outside a bar early on Sunday. Western Kentucky University players Tevin Holliman and Ricardo Singh were each hit once outside the Lava Loung...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after throwing his girlfriend's four-year-old daughter down the stairs in a violent rampage, according to police. Travis Gauldin called 911 on Thursday nigh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"The Battle of Watling Street"* by Wikipedia "In AD 43, Rome invaded south-eastern Britain. The conquest was gradual. While some kingdoms were defeated militarily and occupied, others remained nominally...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoZoos across China are still putting on cruel exotic animal performances, three months after they were banned by the government. In one show in Guangxi Zhuang yesterday, crowds cheered as a tiger teetered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMeet Jeckyl and Hyde. The six-legged bearded dragon is the latest addition to a family of two-headed animals owned by Grammy award-winner Todd Ray. The former music producer to heavyweights like Mick Jag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe owner of a New Mexico slaughterhouse is defending his plan to become the first plant in the nation since 2007 to handle horses after an outcry from politicians and animal activists. In interviews wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:25 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 145 km (90 miles) Northeast from Guerrer...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 21 hours agoClick on graphic to enlarge.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:21 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 84 km (51.9 miles) East of Karakendzha, Tajikistan No...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago* * *"The Tarek Mehanna Case:* * And Then They Came For The Muslims" * by Roqayah Chamseddine "29-year-old Tarek Mehanna, a United States citizen and graduate from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoOne of Britain’s top Muslim activists is facing war crimes charges in Bangladesh. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, the director of Muslim spiritual care provision in the NHS and a trustee of the charity Muslim Aid...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 21 hours agoIn what seems like the blink of an eye, my holiday is over. Not being exactly the richest person in the world, my holiday did not involve treks abroad, but in fact consisted solely in trips around my cor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNearly three quarters of Britons think human rights have become a ‘charter for criminals’, a poll has revealed. It showed a strong majority of 72 per cent hold negative views about the role of human righ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 9.4 km (5.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:10:48 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (55 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoCraters from asteroid impacts may be one of the best places to look for life on Mars, a study suggests. Scientists have found microbes thriving more than a mile under a U.S. crater where a space rock sma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA third mother has died at a scandal-hit hospital maternity unit which is being investigated by detectives. Five babies have also apparently died as a result of alleged poor care at Furness General Hospi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFormer Premier League footballer El Hadji Diouf was arrested and fellow soccer star Anton Ferdinand quizzed by police after a nightclub brawl left a man seriously injured. Diouf, 31, was held on suspicio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoWould you go for a meal at King Burger or don a pair of Anmani shoes? These laughable counterfeit goods made in China wouldn't have anyone fooled. The selection of ridiculous fake designer items shows a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 09:46:26 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 614 km (38...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoLive, “Overcome” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnkRTneZNnE
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours agoLive, "Overcome" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrN4Ehu0EU
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA political blogger who used an offensive term on Twitter to indirectly describe a local councillor is facing jail in a landmark conviction which has caused outrage on the social networking site. John Gr...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours ago"The SUPER SOLDIER programme is currently in its fourth generation." This phrase might be erroneous. In fact, it's likely this phrase is *totally erroneous* as no one has any real idea what generation such...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 22 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012* *A mission of national import:* We're driving home from Durham today, after visiting the kindergarten of our 5 and 3/4-year old great niece. On that visit, we will finally get to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe implied cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped above 6%, raising again the prospect of a bailout. The yield on Spain's 10-year bonds reached 6.1%, ahead of auctions of debt on Tuesday and Thursday tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoDrought zones have been declared in a further 17 English counties, as officials warn that water shortages could last until Christmas. The Environment Agency said dry weather over the past few months had l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoAnders Behring Breivik, the man accused of last year's terror attack in Norway, has pleaded not guilty but told the court he "acknowledges the acts", and he acted in "self-defence". At the start of his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoNorwegian man who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre goes on trial in Oslo. The rightwing fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre has gone o...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoThis is not a paid ad. I am posting it for a friend as a thank you for all the good advice and knowledge he's given me since 1994. These are very affordable seminars in a very beautiful part of Colorado ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA police force has come under fire over plans to take PCs off the streets and replace them with community support officers in a move that would spell the end for the "bobbie on the beat". Police Communi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoCharities cannot exist without their generous backers, so a Treasury assault on them is intolerable. Every year, at Conservative Party conference, a poster is brought out which actually makes the “Big Soc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoSource
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 08:12:00 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Reports of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(Reuters) - The world's biggest banks would have had to raise more than $600 billion euros ($791 billion) to achieve minimum capital ratios if tougher rules that are coming in for the industry had been in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoJapan has been one of the most active players in the North Korean "satellite" crisis. As a country well within the range of Pyongyang's ballistic missiles, Tokyo has good reason to be concerned, but the i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoHow deep into debt have state and local politicians plunged taxpayers? Nobody really knows. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to find out, but a probe of just one state, Arizona, by in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhat an incredibly complex confusing and treacherous month. It can be safely said that 80% of the activity is almost totally kept from the public. The financial system is breaking in an accelerated fashi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLast week, Wang Hao (王浩), a young medical intern working at a Harbin city hospital in northern China was stabbed to death by an angry patient. Three of his fellow doctors were seriously injured. Last yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAll eyes are on China's Chongqing city amid a major political scandal, which one former official says may deepen. China has deleted hundreds of thousands of microblog posts in an attempt to stem the tid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoMitt Romney may be the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, but it will be a while before he actually has the delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Romney currently has 645 delegates, according t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoLast March 29, 2012, the President of the United States told two untruths when he called on the Congress to end taxpayer giveaways to the oil industry and instead to double-down on investments in clean en...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 23 hours agoI was just gonna add this to yesterday's STUNNING SUNDAY without a single long white diffusing line polluting the clear blue sky, but I'm gonna start this NEW BLOGPOST about the phenomenon. That image th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA British businessman was poisoned in China after he threatened to expose a plan by a senior Communist Party leader's wife to move money abroad, according to reports. Neil Heywood, an old Harrovian in hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Sunda Strait, Indonesia at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:37:29 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 150 km (94 miles) South from T....
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*North America is under siege. * "We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRaise a Middle East policy issue during a meeting of Western diplomats and academics, and there is little doubt that a long and heated debate would ensue; it would include references to European imperiali...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe history of the US dollar is closely linked to US involvement in a series of wars. The Bretton Woods Accord and the resulting world reserve currency status of the US dollar were both byproducts of Worl...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThe BBC report the news that: 'Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for a £5,000 cap on donations to political parties, including those from trade unions. He told the BBC this would remove the influence o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoOver the weekend *Nature* reported that Michael Osterholm, a member of the US government's National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, has accused the Board and its staff of biasing its advisory pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is renewing his push for legislation that would amend how the federal government assesses the U.S. unemployment rate. When calculating national unemployment, the Bureau of Lab...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMartin Hutchinson writes: Last Friday's weak unemployment numbers, with only 120,000 jobs created, brought renewed wails that high oil prices were causing a recession. Having heard this refrain so many ti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoISLAMABAD: After over three weeks of hectic and behind-the-scenes efforts, a joint sitting of parliament on Thursday finally succeeded in approving the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Na...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAmericans have become remarkably careless about their civil liberties -- issues that previous generations fought and died for, like the right to vote and the right to religious freedom with liberty and ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMOSCOW, April 12 (Reuters) - Russia's commitment to economic reform will soon be tested by a plan to place its fragile public finances on a stable footing - primarily by weaning them off the ups and downs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWith renewed fears of Europe becoming a systemic risk to the global banking system, today King World News interviewed John Mauldin, President of Millennium Wave Securities. Mauldin spoke candidly with KWN ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe ECB has now done as much as the Fed to stimulate the economy – but finds itself on much riskier ground. More than three years after the financial crisis that erupted in 2008, who is doing more to bri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAlthough the disputed border between China and India is often highlighted as the major sticking point in Sino–Indian relations, in reality it has remained relatively peaceful since the end of the 1962 war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs I write this, no one knows if the Syrian government will respect the cease-fire that U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan brokered. Damascus promised to cease fighting by 6 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) mor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBRUSSELS - Most member states and EU institutions are keen to draw a new veil of secrecy over how they appoint top officials and enforce EU law. The rights of journalists, NGOs and average people to get ac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIf Sudan ended up a show of supremacy between US and China over Africa culminating in the separation of a nation into 2, we can expect a similar scenario concerning Sri Lanka in Asia. Many of the conflict...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFighting with insurgents in Kabul has ended after an 18-hour siege that began on Sunday, police have said. The Taliban launched a series of co-ordinated attacks in the Afghan capital in what they called...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 521.8 km (324.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:48:09 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 388 km (241 miles) SSW of Ndoi ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Northeastern Iran at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 04:22:22 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14.2 miles) Northwest of Bojnurd, Iran No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of Alaska at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:23:33 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 216 km (134 miles) SSE of False Pass, Alaska ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThe near death experience (NDE) has now attracted attention for forty years and was hugely advanced in terms of general acceptance by the work of Raymond Moody. It has hugely served to counter t...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoI am posting this item because so few in the USA know anything about the final defeat of the German army in 1918. All countries tend to tell their own story and this often clouds facts on he gr...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoA huge lesson has been taught in Wisconsin’s actions. It is that once again monopoly control over any commodity including labor promotes massive corruption and the deliberate gaming for self in...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 1 day agoThis is one of those scenarios that will not play out in a way that will provide either the USA or China much satisfaction. First off there is nothing whatsoever for either China or the US to ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 1 day agoShhhhhhh! The Wildrose campaign team reminds unsuccessful nomination seekers of the Manyberries Mafia’s Code of Silence. Vitor Marciano and Tom Flanagan may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: The real ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 day ago*That's tomorrow. We will see.* Julian Assange's exposure of tens of thousands of documents has made him notorious, but has also embarrassed governments around the world. On Tuesday Assange will launch...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe IPCC had told us that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. The notorious verbal Marxist guerilla group later admitted that the figure 2035 was created by permuting digits in the figure 2350 w...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agohere is The Crowhouse aka anti-corporate artist/musician Max Igan's new film - *Trance Formations* - watch it, consider what's being said. Consider your life on a Free Planet to come.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Cartagena means child prostitution and drugs and AIDS. * Obama arrived in Cartagena in Colombia on 14 April 2012. His secret service agents were in trouble, before his arrival. Ronald Kessler, veteran jo...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoObservers have watched whales vanish after an undersea earthquake. Photo courtesy: Andrew Sutton via guardian.co.uk Do whales hear earthquakes long before humans? As tsunami warnings hit the Indonesian an...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*At a ceremony held at the Royal Opera House in London Musical hit Matilda was the toast of this year's Laurence Olivier Awards, winning seven prizes.*Matilda's record-breaking count topped that of Nichol...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day agoNestlé's Smarties will still have lots of colours but none of them artificial. Photo courtesy: Nestle/PA Nestlé, manufacturer of KitKat, Aero and Smarties, has removed artificial colours, flavours and pr...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoI get loads of people going, "Mike, if we close all the prisons and let all the sexual freaks and psychopathic weirdos out, what are we going to do with them?" To this I say REINTEGRATION, welcome them t...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day agoAccording to scientists in China, Manipulating memories of drug use may aid reformed addicts keep away from a come back to a life of drug abuse. They were firstly shown a brief video to hark back them of...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*He actually makes a lot of sense*: * * *"*N. Korea urges US to end military drills" March 04, 2012 PYONGYANG, North Korea - A spokesman for North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission said yesterd...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"North Korea completed the hurried transition to its young new leader, Kim Jong Un, on Wednesday, as a *confrontation with the United States loomed*over the North’s intent to * launch a long-range missile*....
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThe reading was from ash. One wonders how much radiation was released into the air during this incineration process? Incinerating highly radioactive debris is criminal. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*Scientists believe they may lastly have seen proof for in particular indefinable pit in atom.75 years ago the Majorana fermion was first predicted an element that could be its own anti-particle.* Now th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttp://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Fukushima%20-%20Daiichi%20Reactor%20Design/?albumview=slideshow Posted at Washington's Blog by Youri Carma http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/a-visual...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Pakistani troops dig for 135 missing in avalanche; Search continues for 135 missing; no survivors yet" by Chris Brummitt | Associated Press, April 08, 2012 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani soldiers dug into a mas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA major Israel TV station on Sunday night broadcast a detailed report on how Israel will go about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the event that diplomacy and sanctions fail and Israel decides to ca...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoSample taken 4/14/2012 at 1:14 p.m. in St Louis http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/04/alert-radioactive-fallout-at-forty-nine.html
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 1 day ago*According to researchers some glaciers on Asia's Karakoram Mountains are defying the universal tendency and getting thicker*. A lot of the area is unapproachable, and present has been a universal acknow...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 1 day ago"Asbestos Kills" protest sign on inflatable coffin. Photo courtesy: gruntzooki To hell in an asbestos hand basket Asia goes, led by unfettered global trade, greed, and a general inability to manage public...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoRep. Chuck Kruger (D-Thomaston), the Democrat chair of the Maine legislature’s Moderate Caucus, used his Twitter account to express his view that former Vice President Dick Cheney should be executed. This ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoROMEOVILLE, Ill. (CBS) – A 99-year-old woman was duct-taped in a chair and attacked in her own home in southwest suburban Romeoville on Wednesday. Ann Budzinski, who turned 99 on Saturday, talked to CBS 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLUMBERTON, N.J. (CBS) — A South Jersey man has come up with what he hopes is a solution to a controversy over the American flag that he flew in his yard — a flag bearing the image of President Barack Obam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTraditional Chinese medicines contain traces of endangered animals including bears and antelope, a DNA analysis has found. A study of 15 samples seized by Australian border officials found that four cont...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A police chief from southeastern New Hampshire who planned to retire in a few days has been shot to death while trying to execute a search warrant, authorities said Friday. Chief Michael Maloney...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEight Los Angeles police officers fired more than 90 rounds at an unarmed 19-year-old man who had led them on a high speed freeway pursuit and called 911 to threaten them with a gun, authorities said. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCult comedy Angry Boys aims to shock viewers with its mockumentary style humor, but one right wing group thinks the HBO hit has gone too far and accuses a recent episode of being "akin to showing child por...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago“Most affidavits of probable cause are very thin. This is so thin that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge,” Dershowitz said. “There’s simply nothing in there that would justify ...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 1 day ago*Pesto Pasta in the Style of a Niçoise!* A Niçoise salad is one my favorite salads. I really love the mix of warm and cold ingredients in a salad, and the combination of eggs and tuna gets me craving sala...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Americans are deeply divided by race over the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, with 91 percent of African-Americans saying he was unjustly killed, while just 35 percent of whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the econom...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoComplete with red skirts, tunics, armour, swords and feathered helmets, the protesting centurions clashed with police in front of the city's tourist attraction, the Colosseum, built in the times of Ancient...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWECT-TV reports that Ryan Blackmon, an eighth grade student at Bladenboro Middle School, was suspended when he hugged his teacher after she broke up a potential fight between himself and another student. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is “almost certainly” man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a...
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- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNew analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows that NASA found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week. Further,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPresident Obama, during an interview with St. Louis's KMOV, was hammered for "jetting around, [taking] different vacations and so forth, sometimes ... under the color of state business." The interviewer, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEurope can’t accept that the economics of the single currency condemn it to failure. There is no mess quite so bad that official intervention won’t make it even worse. Nowhere is this old saw more appli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA team of Oxford scientists believe they have created a groundbreaking form of therapy that could revolutionise the way Parkinson's disease is treated. Sky News has been given exclusive access to one of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON – More people sought unemployment benefits last week, pushing the number of applicants to the highest level in two months. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment benefit a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWASHINGTON – Adm. Bill McRaven, the head of U.S. special operations, is mapping out a potential Afghanistan war plan that would replace thousands of U.S. troops with small special operations teams paired ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:18:37 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 97 km (60.2 miles) East of Chibiz...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoThis short video explains quanta, the wave particle, sub-atomic particles, the generators and the bio-feedback circuits. The sound track is in English, some of the charts have Spanish labels but most En...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoThe story about the Nazi Party getting its own lobbyist in DC probably looks weirder to anyone who hasn't read Ken Silverstein's hilariously brilliant book about the shocking corruption inherent in DC lob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Gulf of California at a depth of 10.3 km (6.4 miles), the quake hit at 03:27:42 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 137 km (85 miles) Southwest from Navol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPhotos taken by a French satellite show glaciers in a mountain range west of the Himalayas have grown during the last decade. The growing glaciers were found in the Karakoram range, which spans the borde...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNorth Korea won’t be bullied by its nuclear-armed enemies, third-generation dictator Kim Jong Un said in his first public address at a military parade on Sunday as South Korea warned that his regime may c...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoFormer ambassador Thomas Pickering on American-Iranian relations: "We are on the verge of potentially a breakthrough or a breakdown."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIsrael has refused entry to dozens of activists who arrived in Tel Aviv as part of an international campaign dubbed ‘Welcome to Palestine.’ Nine Israeli activists have also been arrested. The internation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Afghan capital woke up to the sounds of explosions and gunfire as a siege by Taliban militants continued into its second day. A police official in Kabul said fighting in the central diplomatic quarter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe first six UN military observers who will monitor a shaky cessation of hostilities in Syria have arrived in Damascus, just hours after Syrian forces reportedly shelled the city of Homs. "They've arriv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe people of Norway are fed up hearing about Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik. Now they have to brace themselves for even more details as the trial starts. Every day since the terror attacks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA series of attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul were in retaliation for Koran burnings, a US Marine urination video and the Kandahar massacre, the Taliban has reportedly claimed. The country's interior ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA House of Lords peer has been suspended over reports that he offered a £10m "bounty" for the capture of the US President. Lord Nazir Ahmed's Labour Party suspension comes after claims he was said to hav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:17:49 UTC Monday 16th April 2012 The epicenter was 169 km (105 miles) NNW of Kendari, Sulawes...
- 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 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 22:27:23 UTC Sunday 15th April 2012 The epicenter was 400 km (2...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Guard chief on leave amid rape allegations" March 30, 2012|By Andrea Estes and Sean P. Murphy Governor Deval Patrick placed the head of the Massachusetts National Guard on leave Thursday night after lear...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoInterview with me, Leuren Moret, and James Fetzer. http://radiofetzer.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html It is a couple weeks old, and does not include recent remarks about spent fuel pool #4, but other...
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- posted by Chet at JUSTICE - 1 day agoShin Bet had no solid grounds for believing that 470 of the 1,200 people whom Israel labeled as 'pro-Palestinian activists' intended to do anything illegal, source says. By Barak Ravid Forty percent of t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I'm opposed to elitism.* "Police seek charges in apparent fraternity hazing at BU; BU says students could be expelled" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, April 10, 2012 Police sought criminal complaints T...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoRepublicans always want it both ways. I ignored the fauxrage over Hillary Rosen's comment about Ann Romney never having held a job. Of course the GOPers seized on it to declare Democrats were waging a war ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoNAOMI WOLF IS RIGHTLY CONCERNED, with an article in *Reader Supported News*, *"Sexual Humiliation, a Tool to Control the Masses"*, about the liability of anybody in the US to summary strip-searching. Worth...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Fantastic shapes lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in NGC 6188. The emission nebula is found near the edge of a large molecular cloud, unseen at visible wavelengths, in the southern constellation Ara...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Doing Good”* by Chet Raymo “The New York Sunday Times Magazine had an article about Professor Robert George of Princeton University, a Roman Catholic who has become a leading intellectual light of Cath...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoShow Low, Arizona, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoFinally have a moment to review the state of the world. Stuff is still pretty well fked up and bullshit. But here's some stuff worth your time. Doonesbury is especially good today. (That would be the Su...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Beyond Outrage: * *How Did These People Make So Much Money?”* by Abby Zimet “With Mitt Romney the presumed GOP (obscenely rich) candidate, Robert Reich thinks it's fair to ask how he made his millions. T...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Snarling Banker"* by Jim Hightower "Woody Guthrie wrote a song titled "Jolly Banker," a perfect-pitch parody of the propensity of Depression-era bankers to feel good about gouging their small borrowers...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"It’s greed to top all" by Brian McGrory | Globe Columnist, April 13, 2012 At some point in the future, maybe 50 years from now, maybe a century, historians will look back at this era as the time when Am...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"I grabbed reason by its ear and said: ‘O reason! Get out. Today I am saved from you. O reason, take your hand off me. Today I attained insanity, and held on to it." - Rumi
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"EMC’s chief says he’ll delay retiring" January 25, 2012|By Hiawatha Bray Like millions of other Americans, EMC Corp.’s chief executive, Joe Tucci, is delaying his retirement, although not because he is wor...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Ken* With the timely rerelease of James Cameron's *Titanic* I'm finding myself tempted finally to see it, maybe even in 3D. (I haven't seen any of the new generation of 3D flicks. I only remember the...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoSunday, April 15, 2012 Victory of the Light Victory of the Light will happen with mathematical certainty. There is a law in hyperdimensional physics that is called syntropic inequation. It states th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Boston schools overpay for some books, review finds; State watchdog calls for changes" by James Vaznis | Globe Staff, April 10, 2012 Anyone searching the Internet could find a copy of “To Kill a Mocking...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Newlyweds found dead in murder-suicide" April 10, 2012|By Peter Schworm HOPKINTON - On Monday morning, Todd Vogel and his wife were found dead in their home, fatally shot in a murder-suicide. Vogel, a 43...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago'1,500 Thought Lost by Sinking of Titanic': New Orleans learns of the disaster
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoMichael channeled by Ron Head April 15, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages Now it is time for us to speak to you about military matters. You will see almost all of your star brothers and sisters w...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day agoThe Silver Anniversary of the “Keating Five” Meeting – Citizens United’s Precursor Posted on April 9, 2012 by Mitch Green | Go to Original By William K. Black April 9, 2012 is the twenty-fifth anniv...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago*Sweden has accepted that a “church” which believes in file-sharing as a religion: a move that will not please the Hollywood studios* On January 6, 2012 by Tom Jowitt The Swedish government has f...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoMontague Keen - April 15, 2012 Yes, my dear, you are all ascended Beings of Light. You chose to be on Earth in these days of change so as to ignite the Divine Light to rescue your fellow man from t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Melting Arctic ice, Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada. During spring, the sun, which shines for up to 24-hours a day, melts the ice. In recent years, the effects of global warming have caused sea ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day agoWhat is the Kurdish question? Who are the Kurds? What is their destiny? Who are their leaders? What kind of ideas guide their actions? Where do their loyalties lie? How will their choices impact the geo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“A Brave And Startling Truth” * “We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 1 day ago*[image: _McGrath001]Dr Richard McGrath has been driving around. Or trying to.* Now, I don't want to rain on anyone's picnic. The news about the Easter road toll of zero was welcome indeed. But even t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoIn arguing with conservatives, all of us sane people have encountered the 'moving the goalposts' schtick. Elected misogynists in Arizona have achieved a magnificent feat in that department. They've wr...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoPosted by Poof 4/15/12 16:31:00 Song Lyrics: Shake, Rattle and Roll Recorded by: Big Joe Turner (1954) Written by: (Charles E. Calhoun) Get outta that bed, wash your face and hands Get o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMany Republican congressmen shudder if Allen West, an unprosecuted war criminal and torturer who managed to slip into office in the Tea Party surge in 2010, gets anywhere near them. The man, who recently...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttps://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:GWeH1FZeXroJ:www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/eprmedt/Day_2/Day_2-6b.pps+&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgh-te4fzC_VQiS6mxLn1iEdKDJ2esfrvMflI3E6q7pUqX-yluMrt...
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