HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 31: Hot air balloons leave from Innes Common at dawn on the second day of the Balloons Over Waikato Hot Air Balloon Festival on March 31, 2011 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Held annually in Hamilton, the five day event attracts balloonists from New Zealand and around the world. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
WARSTEIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 02: Hot air balloons take to the air on the first day of the Warsteiner International Hot Air Balloon Show in the Arnsberger Forest National Park on September 2, 2011 near Warstein, Germany. Approximately 200 hot air balloons are scheduled to take part in the nine-day event sponsored by the Warsteiner brewery. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
WARSTEIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 02: The Hot air balloon is flying at the Warsteiner International Hot Air Balloon Show in the Arnsberger Forest National Park on September 2, 2011 near Warstein, Germany. Approximately 200 hot air balloons are scheduled to take part in the nine-day event sponsored by the Warsteiner brewery. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
PALO ALTO, CA - AUGUST 02: Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, speaks during the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness High Growth Business and Entrepreneurship Listening and Action Session at the VMware headquarters on August 2, 2011 in Palo Alto, California. Jobs Council members, administration officials and Silicon Valley leaders spoke with entrepreneurs about how public and private sectors can partner to create jobs through innovation. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Grab your hanky: there’s another rich Silicon Valley-type feeling “disenfranchised” by the system. Stacey Lawson, a candidate in California’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District which runs from the Gol... - posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 hour agoAfter a long winter, April is a breathe a fresh air. It is one of my favorite months for birding. I get great views of our non-migratories over the winter without leaving the house but nothing beat headi...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Shameless in the light of the forgotten-by-the-MSM CLIMATEGATE scandal and the expanding glaciers.* "Big shifts in summer heat tied to death risk" April 10, 2012|David Abel, Globe Staff Large *daily tem...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago"Times they are a-changin’" April 13, 2012 *An insult right off the top. * HENRY KISSINGER’S return to Harvard this week was a *homecoming* of sorts for a man who has conspicuously avoided his alma mater ...
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[image: Una linda chica llamada Brisa by Евгений ISIcreate]Foto: Евгений ISIcreate - posted by PC at Not PC - 2 hours agoHere’s the note on this week’s discussion at the Auckland Uni Econ Group (which, by the way, has now switched to Monday evenings for the rest of the year): Hello All, First off: We have changed our mee...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoNew Orleans Saints bounty scandal puts NFL, NFLPA at odds~James Varney Lakeview house is designed to address post-disaster challenges
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*"Marijuana refreshes your perspective and allows you to see things in a different way. It's humbled me about my ability to really appreciate things. When you're not high, it reminds you that there might ... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago"Despite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you're looking for. Instead, the enclosures house 1.8 meter Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert regio...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Because I Dread The Loss of Heaven And The Fires Of Hell"* by Chet Raymo “The fun thing about the Irish Times is that opinion pieces spill over onto the letters page and sometimes the discussions go...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago*Related: Sunday Globe Special: No One Takes the Boston Globe Seriously Anymore* *I don't about anything anymore. It's all cover-story crap, agenda-pushing division and diversion, and endless war promoti...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*“The Farewell”* “Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. It was but yesterday we met in a dream. You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"Immigration officials arrest more than 3,100" by Kevin Freking | Associated Press, April 03, 2012 WASHINGTON - The *Obama administration* said Monday that it * arrested more than 3,100 immigrants* who ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*That's a Jewish name, right? * "Board says Marine who criticized president should be discharged; Sergeant posted repeatedly on Facebook page" by Julie Watson | Associated Press, April 07, 2012 CAMP PE...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoElmer Derrick doesn't live in Prince Rupert. His Gitxsan Nation's land isn't in Prince Rupert. What makes this so "odd"? Well, take a look at this: The northern B.C. First Nation chief who signed a controve...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours agoWelland, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours agoOnce Politifact was a fairly neutral, mostly reliable fact checker. Then they realized that the bulk of the lies were being told by Republicans, so they decided to go all "both sides do it" for "balance" a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: A failed wheat field in Cimarron County, July 2008. www.ok.gov] By Stephen Lacey 20 April 2012 Corn farmers concerned about the impact of climate change are speaking out, calling the problem “a...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago[image: La bicicleta frente al exhibidor de antigüedades]Foto: José Luis Ávila Herrera
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 111.6 km (69.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:51:33 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) Sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Uzbekistan at a depth of 23.1 km (14.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:58:08 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) ESE of Qarshi (Karshi)...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago* "What If the Greedy Rich Paid Their Share?" * 8 Things to Know About Wealth and Poverty in the US By Les Leopold "America is loaded. We are not a struggling nation ready to go under. We are not faci...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 6 hours agoI've been defending Blogger from its critics for years. I've stuck with the platform, despite its annoying quirks because it was simple and fast to use. Of course, like every other damn thing on the intern...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoA reaction to fanatics-- both religionist and capitalist-- had a lot to do with the first Earth Day. Extreme capitalists-- predators and sociopaths-- just want to rape and pillage for their own profit an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Unplugging Americans From The Matrix"* by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts "China is often a country about which Washington’s moralists get on their high horse. However, China’s “authoritarian” government is a...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 7 hours agoNow these things don't even make the nightly news. At least I didn't see it covered anywhere. End of an era. They're retiring the space shuttle and as a final tribute, it made a flyover in DC. My friend He...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 7 hours agoI've never agreed with the public funding of schools run by an organized superstition in the first place and this just reinforces my reasons why. While we're at it, let's remove the tax-exempt status from ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"Bottom-Bouncing Economy"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com “Bottom-bouncing” is the term John Williams of Shadowstats.com uses consistently to describe the true state of the economy. The mainstream...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA 'giant rat' has been caught and killed by a man in the North East of England. Grandad Brian Watson killed the large rodent with a piece of wood in Castleside, County Durham. It was first spotted by th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours agoAs I said earlier, I'm a bit preoccupied today, so I'm not even going to try. Instead, I'll just open it up and see what I get. What do you think mattered this week?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo trains have collided near the Dutch city of Amsterdam, injuring dozens of people. The accident happened near the station of Sloterdijk, Dutch news agency ANP reported. Local reports cited an unname...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours agoWatch Gulf Still Grapples With Massive BP Oil Leak 2 Years Later on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. [Sorry for the ad.] 20 April 2012 (PBS) – Two years after the largest oil leak in U.S. history, t...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: A boat passes by a row of homes Wednesday afternoon near Channel Island Harbor in Oxnard. Troy Harvey, Ventura County Star] By Arlene Martinez 19 April 2012 Oil spills, water pollution, harmful...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours ago"Another BP Cover-Up" By Greg Palast, *Ecowatch* 21 April 12 [Excerpted] "Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-o...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 hours agoYesterday on Ira Flatow's NPR radio program, Science Friday, I heard an interview with James Cameron, the movie director who has just returned from a deep-sea expedition. He answered questions about the s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe NAACP's Jacksonville chapter has thrown its support behind a woman who will be sentenced Monday in a shooting where she claimed self-defense against an abusive husband under the state's Stand Your Grou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA volcano outside of one of the world's largest cities, Mexico City, has begun spewing ash and molten rock, forcing the authorities to raise the level of alert for fear of an eruption. Eruptions from th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoOSEMEAD, Calif., Apr 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Operations personnel at Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) declared the occurrence of an unusual event as the resul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFRIDLEY, Minn. — A mercury spill prompted Totino-Grace High School in Fridley to evacuate students Friday. But the students were told Friday to remain on campus in case chemicals were found on their shoe...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Farmer Nguyen Van Ut in Go Cong Town, Tien Giang Province, Mekong Delta pumps fresh water into his paddy field to save it from salinity. monre.gov.vn]By Marwaan Macan-Markar 19 April 2012 BANG...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 10 hours agoHope I'm not too late in commenting on this most important piece of "banking" news ever. Later in this essay, we'll discuss the rampant inequality in the U.S. and how the so-called ignorance (which I deem ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours agoPoor Fox and its allies have been taking a beating, lately, and have been loading their diapers with outrage as false as their news. Oh yes, let's all have a pity party for the pampered cunt wife of a mult...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: An MSF staff member measures the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of a child with severe acute malnutrition in Chad. Chad 2011 © Alfons Rodriguez] 30 March 2012 (Médecins Sans Frontières) – Th...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoSteny Hoyer, the quintessential corrupt old machine Democrat, jockeying to be Speaker, is running around the country bolstering the kinds of corrupt, transactional political hacks he feels most comfortab...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Screenshot of the OSU Phenology Garden Network site. phenology.osu.edu] By Mary Beth Breckenridge, Akron Beacon Journal 20 April 2012 How strange has this spring been? Denise Ellsworth can te...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Annual (line) and decadal (box) mean sea-surface temperature anomalies for the Australian region relative to the 1961–1990 average. The average value for the most recent 10-year period (2002–2011...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago[image: Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (R) meets with China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at Bessastadir, 20 April 2012. China and Iceland announced a deal on the oil-rich Arctic region after C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - China's military warned the United States on Saturday that U.S.-Philippine military exercises have raised risks of armed confrontation over the disputed South China Sea in the toughest high-le...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: U.S. coastal population and energy facilities located below 4 feet (4.9m). Climate Central] By Benjamin H. Strauss 20 April 2012 Good morning, Senator Bingaman and colleagues. Thank you for your...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 11 hours ago#Abvote I normally wouldn't pay all that much attention to Alberta politics. In turn, I'm pretty sure that most Albertans would likely ignore the rants of a lotus-lander pointing a finger eastward from the ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoJapan utility group did not compile plan on reprocessed plutonium usage" Kyodo April 21, 2012 http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/04/154134.html [Excerpted] "A utility industry group did not compile a p...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook, Drought Tendency During 19 April 2012 - 31 July 2012, released 19 April 2012. NOAA] By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com 19 April 2012 Most of the Southwest as well as part...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Issei Kato / Getty Images]By Bill Powell and Hideko Takayama 20 April 2012 FORTUNE – More than a year has passed since a massive earthquake and a series of t...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoFarm ministry asks food industries to abide by gov't-imposed allowable radiation limits http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120421p2a00m0na012000c.html [Excerpted] "The Ministry of Agricu...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: One of the impacted corals with attached brittle starfish. Although the orange tips on some branches of the coral is the color of living tissue, it is unlikely that any living tissue remains on t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoOne by one, the doors are slowly closing shut on the climate change denialists. They've had a good run. They have perpetrated a highly-successful scam and have bought a great deal of time and profitabi...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoReid Gardner dirty coal fired power plantMedia Advisory for: Monday April 16, 2012 Contact: Lynn Goya, Sierra Club, (702) 281-8686, lynn.goya@sierraclub.org / Elspeth Cordua, Sierra Club, (702) 732-7750, el...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours agoJEB! Down the rabbit hole. Im sure New Orleans remembers!~Lisa Rab I'm sure it smelled fine~American Zombie Spilled BP oil lingers on Louisiana coast Thousands sought for oil spill health study Offshore ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: A flooded cornfield in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Joel Sartore / National Geographic / Getty Images]Most are rural, many are tiny, and a few are huge and urban. The median household income for these...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 15:52:26 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) East from BRIDGET...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan security officials said Saturday they had seized 10 tonnes of explosives and foiled plans to stage attacks in the capital, Kabul. Three Pakistani citizens and two Afgha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 11 hours agoIhanktonwan protest hogfarm 2008*Ihanktonwan are still fighting the hogfarm in South Dakota* By Faith Spotted Eagle Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com On Monday, April 23, 2012 a group of Iha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 98 km (60.8 miles), the quake hit at 15:27:32 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 312 km (193.4 miles) Northeast o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThe UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution allowing a 300-strong ceasefire monitoring mission in Syria, despite the strong doubts of many Western nations. Under UN resolution 2043, the u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice in Bahrain have fired tear gas on protesters as they responded with petrol bombs ahead of the Gulf state's Formula One Grand Prix. Up to 150 protesters were reported to be facing off against 50 p...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 12 hours agoOn Friday, I watched this 25-minute video, among other things: On Russia Today's flagship program, the CrossTalk, there were three men (which includes the host, American journalist Peter Lavelle, and O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 94.4 km (58.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:29:37 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) East of Tomakomai, Hokkai...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoAfghan security forces seem to have derailed a major terror attack against civilians in Kabul. They intercepted a truck laden with 10-tonnes of explosives hidden underneath a load of potatoes. They also...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours agoBy: Duane Craig With the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that Cosmoflex, Inc. in Hannibal, Mo., would pay an $80,000 civil penalty because it violated environmental regulations, comes the ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThey rail on about Darwinism. They argue for Creationism rather than evolution. They claim to be devout adherents to the Bible, particularly the New Testament, and worship Jesus. Why, then, is the funda...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama urged Sudan and South Sudan to resolve their outstanding issues through dialogue and avoid a return to war amid soaring tensions between the neighboring nations. Cla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 51 km (31.7 miles), the quake hit at 13:23:39 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 146 km (90 miles) Northeast o...
- 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 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 13:01:39 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 593 km (36...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 14 hours ago*UPDATED BELOW * NATO looking for another bloodbath....... *Libya redux.* The phrase sums up the shifting political sentiments — and rhetoric — toward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime as Western ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 2.9 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 12:45:25 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) South from Wellston, Oklahoma No Repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoNew Delhi (CNN) -- A man was arrested Saturday in India after he was caught traveling on a train with about 30 detonators and other explosives, CNN affiliate IBN reported. The man was a passenger on an e...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 14 hours agoOne year ago today, we adopted Diego. I had just gotten home from my spring New York visit. Allan and I had been looking at dogs online, and had decided Diego was our guy. I called Toronto Animal Service...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoIf you follow me on Twitter you've probably seen me tweeting the Romney quote in the title of this post over the last week or so. I had an advance copy-- I'm a member of People For the American Way; you ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Southeast of the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 39.5 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:36:10 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 237 km (147 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA pair of British brothers are facing charges in the United States for allegedly defrauding investors out of more than 1.2 m US dollars (£745,000) through a bogus stock scheme. Twins Alexander and Thomas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:10:51 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 311 km (...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:57 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 359 km (2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 9.7 km (6 miles), the quake hit at 11:04:30 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 306 km (190...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 90.9 km (56.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:36:03 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) SSE of Cusco (Cuzco), Peru ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 16 hours ago*There were a few things that needed beefing up at the end of the book, a symptom of the choice of ending I'd made during the writing of the first draft, the deletions I'd made. I had to do things I really...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 16 hours agoPentagon's Fear of Technological Progress Mirrors Global Elite's Fear of Progress in General. *by Tony Cartalucci * *April 21, 2012 *- US Army General Martin Dempsey delivered an April 2012 speech at Har...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoMay Day Directory: Occupy General Strike In Over 115 Cities While American corporate media has focused on yet another stale election between Wall Street-financed candidates, Occupy has been organizing s...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoThe internet has changed fact-checking in an amazing way. Used properly, nonsense cannot survive the web. I was reading a text and the author made a claim about something unlikely in a Papal Letter from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMeasles cases in the United States hit a 15-year high in 2011. Ninety percent of the cases were traced to other countries with lower immunisation rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting down a Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan on Thursday night. Four U.S. soldiers are believed to be have been killed in the crash, which happened in the s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn anti-government protester has been found dead after clashes overnight with police in Bahrain ahead of Sunday's grand prix, according to the opposition party Wefaq. It said the body of Salah Abbas Hab...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 17 hours ago*TIME FOR PAYBACK, EH?! * * * *TRUTH IS NOT YIDDISH | FACTS ARE NOT JUDAIC*
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTwenty years ago, at the intersection of Florence and Normandie in south Los Angeles, a mostly black mob, enraged at the acquittal of four Los Angeles policemen in the beating of black motorist Rodney Kin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn elementary school teacher and mother-of-four who was shot and killed by her estranged husband who then turned the gun on himself had been denied an emergency restraining order against him less than a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTerrorists have blown up an oil pipeline in eastern Syria, according to the state news agency. The alleged incident comes after the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) renewed its call for the Unite...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA southeastern Ohio village mayor suspected of repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl and 30 other sex crimes has pleaded not guilty and is being held on bond of $1 million. Stockport Mayor Michael Shane S...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours ago[image: IMG_0972] Blogger switched me over to the new blogger look today. The new Google reader look was just awful, like watching an iceberg melt in a dull gray ocean against a flat, overcast sky. Then th...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 18 hours ago*Paradise* 04/20/2012 Reposted from: http://www.sophialove.org/1/post/2012/04/paradise.html A field of yellow catches my eye and I turn to enjoy the view. This little patch of dirt, squished betwe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA video has emerged that appears to show an illegal immigrant from Mexico being beaten and tasered by more than a dozen border patrol agents just hours before his death. It comes as another video apparen...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 18 hours ago2012 Farm Bill: Stop Big Ag’s theft of public farm dollars By Ken Cook Food Freedom News, April 20, 2012 Every five years, the federal farm bill sets our nation’s food policies – it’s the single big...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan at a depth of 30.1 km (18.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:45:52 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 139 km (86 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoStarbucks is to stop using colouring made from crushed beetles as it bows to pressure from vegetarian customers. The coffee giant has been using the colouring derived from cochineal insects in its strawb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA graphic photograph showing blood pouring from the back of George Zimmerman's head on the night he shot teenager Trayvon Martin was released today - and could be the key piece of evidence that will clear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Los Angeles County coroner's office has ruled that conservative blogger and commentator Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure stemming from coronary disease. Coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said on F...
- posted by Peter @ Enviroman at the original Blogger Tips and Tricks - 19 hours agoBloggers are complaining that when they upload vertical pictures to Blogger post, these vertical pictures are turned horizontal which is not what they want. The solution is to go to the picture in Picassa...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours agoCANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal by James Cairns Global Research Canada, April 20, 2012 A lot of people are angry about the robocall scandal. Even by the lo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThree people were killed and eight injured when masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight on a Texas ranch. The attack, described by authorities as a bloody massacre, sent spectators fleeing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA cruise ship worker who filmed himself abusing children left in his care aboard luxury Cunard liners has admitted attacks on 13 youngsters. Paul Trotter, 34, pleaded guilty to a string of sexual assaults...
- Robinson Crusoe-style island retreat goes up in smoke close to millionaire's playground of Sandbanks
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThis is the dramatic moment the Robinson Crusoe-style island retreat of a multimillionaire went up in smoke. The magnificent three-storey timber chalet was nearing completion when the inferno broke out a... - posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 19 hours agoseriously, I love this crazy stuff, I know it's dud'sville/fake'sville/goofball'sville at all our expense but I'm like a moth to a flame, I just can't look away, can't not share this with you, patient rea...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 19 hours agoMoslem al-Asadi, a doctor living in exile in Iran, has said that the real Saddam died in 1999 from cancer. The *Saddam Double*s "The real Saddam died because he had cancer of the lymph nodes, and sin...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 19 hours agoSource: http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/international/2009-01-30/wsf-for-anti-neoliberal-offensive "Social State" versus "Corporate State": FROM EUROPEAN FASCISM TO "GLOBAL MONEY-SEQUENCE ABSOLUTI...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoEgyptian protesters have vented their fury about the country's military rule and the possibility of former Hosni Mubarak cronies winning power. The country's biggest demonstration in months stepped-up pre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA village's plans to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with a street party could be cancelled - because killjoy council chiefs say proper 'street closed' signage needs to be erected for health and saf...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA two-month-old child was killed and dismembered by a dog in his family's South Carolina home as his father slept, authorities said Friday. Aiden McGrew's mother Chantel called 911 when she got home aroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPolice have issued a direct appeal to a missing teenage girl to get in touch as a major search for her resumed. Moyra Liz As-Chainey, 16, was last seen two days ago at her home in the village of Edderton...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Home Office came under fire yesterday when it emerged an illegal immigrant brutally raped a young woman - three years after a judge ordered him to be deported. Abdikarim Abbas Abdisamad, 33, original...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThree men have been arrested on suspicion of possessing articles and documents with intent to use them for terrorist purposes overseas. The men, from Birmingham, were detained at Heathrow Airport last nig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn Islamist terror group has threatened to launch a wave of attacks against Britain if Abu Qatada is deported. Al-Shabab militants, who are based in Somalia, say they will plunge Britain into ‘disaster’....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.4 km (18.4 miles), the quake hit at 07:13:01 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 233 km (144 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 43.3 km (26.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:12:19 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 165 km (102 miles) ESE o...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 19 hours agoaccording to the light-bending properties of any UFO-driving anti-gravity engine, light would be bent AROUND IT and it WOULD BE INVISIBLE to the naked eye. now that I've go that off my chest, here's some ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 20 hours agoI have posted similar pieces to this before but think that the point bears repeating... Let's start with Israel's size and creation on Palestinian land. Israel's very size at creation was a result of los...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 20 hours agoWhat is it with right-wing politicians and tobacco, anyway? Below: Don’t worry, she won’t have to pay higher taxes for her tobacco. The leaders of all Alberta parties but one seem committed to ending smok...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn the wake of Force India personnel being caught up in a petrol-bomb incident en route to Manama from the Bahrain International Circuit on Wednesday, Sauber have now confirmed members of their staff also...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.6 km (17.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:08 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 232 km (144 miles) So...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoControversial moves giving European air passenger information to America were approved by MEPs despite warnings over breaches of privacy. More than 400 MEPs backed the Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreeme...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 20 hours agoArgentina is a proud European country which has struggled valiantly against the imperialism of the old lands from which it sprang. In the 1980s Argentina unsuccessfully fought for the liberation of the B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA teenage gang who hacked a boy of 15 to death in front of horrified commuters received sentences totalling more than 100 years yesterday. Sofyen Belamouadden was punched, kicked and stabbed in a murder p...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAll volcanoes bear watching, but this one particularly so. It is fully grown and is quite capable ofcollapsing like Mt St. Helens. At themoment, it appears to be merely adding more mass and is not lif...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAs I have posted before, genuine crop circles are formed out of sixinch pixels formed by a microwave laser firing under a computerized aiming andfiring system from a couple of miles above the fields. ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is excellent. I havethought this may be plausible and now it is proven. This also shows us the royal road tocontrolled nuclear fission and fusion. The correct photon is able to alter a particle a...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThe moment we accept that dinosaurs were feathered, as was inevitablefor any land creature not immediately adjacent to water, then we need onlyrecall the viable range available to birds. Penguins parti...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoDutroux A powerful pedophile ring in Belgium kidnapped large numbers of kids, tortured them and killed them. Top politicians and generals worldwide were linked to the Dutroux ring. The original official...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA group of Muslim men who abducted and raped two teenage girls as part of their Eid celebrations laughed in court yesterday as they were jailed for a total of 38 years. The girls, aged 15 and 16, were lur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoDavid Cameron's 'Christian fightback' has been undermined in the courts by one of his own Cabinet ministers. A radio station was barred from broadcasting an advertisement on the rights of Christians at w...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours ago*A bold LHC application of Randall-Sundrum models got published in PRL* Since the middle December, I thought that the \(125\,\,\GeV\) Higgs boson is a sure thing. But of course, there's always a chance I a...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours ago(Note: this is my article today in the online magazine, http://www.thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/less-gorvernment/1300-banks-filipino-savings-and-the-bsp ) Majority of Filipinos, especially those in rural ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 34.7 km (21.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:13:30 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 20 km (12.4 miles) North of D...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA team-mate of a footballer jailed for raping a drunken teenager provoked outrage last night by branding the victim a ‘money-grabbing little tramp’. As Welsh international Ched Evans began a five-year sen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA woman's two gallons (10 litre) a day Coca-Cola habit may have contributed to her death, an inquest has heard. Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old mother of eight from Invercargill in southern New Zealand, di...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMexico's Popocatepetl volcano has been spewing gases and glowing rocks almost one mile beyond its crater amid fears of a major eruption. Residents of the country's capital, Mexico City, have been hearing ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoFood banks were almost unheard of just a few years ago - now they are being opened in the UK at the rate of one every four days. For Kenny and Leanne Jones, spiralling debts caused by rising utility bills...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 597.2 km (371.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:33:59 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 440 km (274 miles) West from Neiafu, Ton...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTens of thousands of anti-government protesters are set to intensify demonstrations in Bahrain ahead of tomorrow's Grand Prix following a day of violent clashes in the Gulf state. Around 50,000 activists...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoIts been a weird week in the mainstream media. Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and CNN’s chief business correspondent Ali Velshi, all involved in three separate incidences...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoGeorge Osborne is facing criticism from Parliament for announcing that Britain will commit another £10bn to the International Monetary Fund. Both Tory backbenchers and Labour MPs have accused the Chancell...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 39 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:25:12 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) North of Al `A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 14 km (8.7 miles), the quake hit at 02:39:14 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) North of Al `Am...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:16:17 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) S...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 35.1 km (21.8 miles), the quake hit at 02:01:22 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 27.6 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:25:16 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:19:28 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 400 km (248 miles) WNW of Tr...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoYou will read Lawyers Guns and Money. You will visit the links. You will then utter, in the quiet of whatever space you occupy, " Fuck you Stephen Harper" You will have commemorated the fact that, if Har...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 6.6 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia at a depth of 16 km (9.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:16:52 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) SS...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 123 km (76.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:56:23 UTC Friday 20th April 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51.4 miles) Northwest of Trapper Creek,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 25 km (15.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:14:31 UTC Friday 20th April 2012 The epicenter was 427 km (265...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:56:31 UTC Friday 20th April 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 28.3 km (17.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:29:00 UTC Friday 20th April 2012 The epicenter was 300 km (1...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 16.9 km (10.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:19:45 UTC Friday 20th April 2012 The epicenter was 302 km (1...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 23 hours agoI was listening to a song today. It's theme was about an individual realizing that they're a drone and rising up and speaking out for their own personal autonomy. It didn't really go anywhere. It's a rock ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago[image: Ave Fénix by Stephen Earle]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 23 hours ago[image: Alrededores del Pueblo (Paisajes Naturales)]
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 23 hours agoWildrose candidate Ron Leech explains the Caucasian Advantage to a broadcaster. Nevertheless, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says he’s a fine man and won’t discipline him. Below: Kris Wells, the man behi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*When you think of Brahms and the key of A major, it's hard not to think of the Second Symphony. Most of the gorgeous first movement is performed here by the Deutsch-Niederländiscshe Chamber Philharmonic ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUN "aid" program to be used in establishing NATO "humanitarian corridors." *by Tony Cartalucci * *April 21, 2012* - Recently reported in Reuters', "UN seeks Syria nod for major aid operation," the UN is s...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Truth is, you're always going to lose when you play a game of cat and mouse with the cat." - Cory Eberhart
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago“Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to perspective - our view from planet Earth looks down the...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoThe push for war against Iran by both the criminal and terrorist state of Israel, and their compliant puppets in the US Government, is still ongoing at a fever pitch. With yesterday being "Holocaust Memo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies." - Tim Robbins, "The Shawshank Redemption"
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoFor a very long time now, I have put up articles in this blog exposing the farce of Global Warming for what it truly is... A massive lie and swindle to both take more of your hard earned monies in the form...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* "Why Is It Necessary To Turn The United States* * Into A Prison Camp?"* by The Economic Collapse Blog "There has been no society in the history of the world that has ever been 100% safe. No matter h...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have been personally doing articles in the real truth movement now for almost a decade, and have written articles in this blog for over 4 years now and counting... During that time, I periodically come a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe newspaper USA Today said Friday an editor and reporter probing Pentagon propaganda efforts have been targeted by an online "misinformation campaign." Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been crea...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoViatcheslav Moshe Kantor and Avigdor Lieberman at the World Holocaust Forum An *Associated Press* article by Diaa Hadid, filed from Tel Aviv and published Wednesday, warns of a potential increase in anti...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day agoBy Chris Hedges at *Truthdig* A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amuseme...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*Peel away the labels, and look at reality with new eyes.* "Doubts about the validity of history, about the ability of historians to produce objective accounts of the past, had of course penetrated the ...
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