- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 minutes agoDon't you just love the way Matt Taibbi cuts to the chase? He is such a pistol and clearly the man for these times. Thank whoever that he lives and is reporting so sharply on those who are stealing our civ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 22 minutes ago
This is the annual re-post, originally published in 2010: I did not realize this before, but every year the upscale supermarket King's, in Bernardsville, sponsors a competition. In honor of Earth Day, mem... - posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 24 minutes ago'Larry & Steve' from 1996, before there was Family Guy A later pilot. A fascinating comparison of some early Larry and late Family Guy extracts.
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I've already written about the difficulties of using seat projection models due to the unique circumstances of this Alberta election. So rather than crunch the numbers, I thought it might prove more useful t... - posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 26 minutes ago
Special Commentary by Big Dan: The mission of this blog is to expose the corrupt controlled mainstream media. That includes publishing important stories they aren't telling us and exposing cover ups, lies,... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 33 minutes ago"Drone Use Takes Off on Home Front" Wall Street Journal April 20, 2012 p. A3 [excerpted] "With little public attention dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies ahve been given approval by feder...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
A Russian oligarch and one of the world's richest men has been forced to admit he regularly paid members of organised crime gangs. Oleg Deripaska, a close friend of Lord Mandelson and financier Nat Roths... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
Tehran (CNN) -- Iran declared Sunday it has "cracked the codes" of the intelligence gathering system of a U.S. spy drone it captured last year for violating its airspace, the nation's semiofficial media r... - posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 50 minutes ago21:30 22 April [Excerpted] "An electric device whose quake resistance was deemed insufficient in 1978 remained in place at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for more than 30 years, contributing to the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 176 km (109.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:13:51 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23.5 miles) East of Asahikawa, Hokkai... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck West of the Macquarie Island at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:19 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 1225 km (761 miles) SSW of HOBAR... - posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*And I will come clean with you, readers; I broke down and bought one**. It's the only reason I read the this, and I wish I hadn't.* "Questions about climate change and the remote Himalayas have fomented a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sunda Strait, Indonesia at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 13:04:15 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) South of Bandar Lamp... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck West of the Macquarie Island at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:20:46 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 1212 km (753 miles) SSW of HOBA...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 39.2 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:37 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 141 km (87 miles) SSW of Dadali, Santa I... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
Today Disney is releasing *Chimpanzee*, Earth Day. Yesterday we asked some of the Blue America candidates to tell us what Earth Day means to them. Let me pick that up with a short post from Ken Aden, who... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 2 hours agoWould he support making it legal? Saying someone with a small amount of marijuana shouldn't go to jail says nothing about the legal status of marijuana -- very few people with small amounts go to jail now ...
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 2 hours agoPodcasts for Leaderful Schools Volume 5 Episode12: Dr. Paul Thomas: Educating the "Others"April 19, 2012 9:00 PM
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours ago
Happy Earth Day The 2012 New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo will be held on Sunday, April 22 from 9:00 a.m.- 7:30 p.m. at Bayou St. John on Orleans Avenue. *9 a.m. *Ancient Tree Treasu...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 hours agoHappy Earth Day The 2012 New Orleans Earth Day Festival and Green Business Expo will be held on Sunday, April 22 from 9:00 a.m.- 7:30 p.m. at Bayou St. John on Orleans Avenue. *9 a.m. *Ancient Tree Treasu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles), the quake hit at 10:08:53 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 14 km (8 miles) ENE of Christch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.5 km (15.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:23 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24 miles) North...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the eurozone it must make bold reforms to reassure financial markets. A statement from its governing council, says the 17-strong eurozone needs to make majo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*The whole deal stunk from the start.* "NStar OKs top dollar deal with Cape Wind" March 31, 2012|Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff Boston utility NStar has agreed to pay a *starting price for power* from the Ca...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*I'll try to make it quick.* "Five former officers sentenced in Katrina killings; Judge lambastes US prosecutors’ handling of case Says plea deals tied court’s hands" by Cain Burdeau and Michael Kunzelman...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoApril 20, 2012 This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song "Walking in the Air," by Howard Blake, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*And helped save the environment on this Earth Day by not purchasing a Boston Globe. On a normal Sunday I would be on my way to the store right now to get one, but there is simply nothing that I want to re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:00 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 954 km (592 miles) WNW of Bouv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 235.4 km (146.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:17:14 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) Southwes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:36:20 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 177 km (109 miles) West of P...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours agoAre there any lawyers that can explain what is going on the Wall Street Law firm Dewey and LeBouf? Dewey and LeBoeuf is a finance and energy law practice and it has lost 70 partners and there are rumors ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 5 hours agoSource: http://naturalpapa.com/humor/hank-d-and-the-bee-monsanto-taking-bees-to-jail/ GMO AND THE DEVASTATION OF BEE COLONIES: Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm by Ant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe International Monetary Fund, armed with a replenished arsenal containing billions of dollars to battle Europe's lingering debt crisis, now must press governments in the eurozone to carry out bold chan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:13:55 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) Southwest of Dehl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 67 km (41.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:07:49 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) South from Mazatenango, Suchitepéqu...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 7 hours agoIn recent weeks a number of pieces have discussed the prospects and issues swirling around deeper US involvement in Asia and its meaning for Taiwan ( Hsiao/Stokes, J Michael Cole). An apparent confrontatio...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 7 hours agoVictor Volsky at Israel Against Terror has written an interesting piece, here's an extract: 'Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim? Even if he were, it would hardly matter. For his policies are apparently anim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed and at least one seriously wounded in a suspected drug-related shootout on Friday in a bar in northern Mexico, a region that has been brutalized by fighting between ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Man's Best Friend: Dog 'Dominance' Theory Wrong" * by PhysOrg "A new study shows how the behaviour of dogs has been misunderstood for generations: in fact using misplaced ideas about dog behaviour a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoApril 21 - Thousands marched in Manama to call on the government to step down and to demand Sunday's Formula One race be canceled. Deborah Gembara reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- Eight American soldiers died of overdoses involving heroin, morphine or other opiates during deployments in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, according to U.S. Army investigative reports. The overdo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- A French official of the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped Saturday in western Yemen, an ICRC spokeswoman said. The ICRC official, whose identity was not disclosed, was taken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- Chinese and Russian warships began six-day joint naval exercises Sunday in the Yellow Sea, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. "The exercises will involve several simulated missions, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:38:56 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (14.9 miles) Southeast of Savadkuh, Iran No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDAMASCUS: Syria has said it was ready to facilitate UN monitors, but stressed that a majority of them should be from "neutral countries" like BRICS, which also includes India. Syria also stressed that wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoChinese government hackers are believed to be behind a crippling cyber attack on a US-based website that revealed how British businessman Neil Heywood was killed with cyanide on the orders of the wife of ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 8 hours agoJust stepped off an interstellar Greyhound from Alpha Centauri, AB? Alberta Diary is here to help. Toronto media here to cover the campaign may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Tom Flanagan. As the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIn recent months celebrities and politicians have rushed to join the thousands of media savvy ‘pinning’ on the web’s latest hit social network. But they may have caught on too late as it now seems that th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA murder investigation has been launched into the death of a teenager believed to have been shot outside a pub. The 19-year-old victim was taken to hospital following reports that a gun had been fired at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide. In circumstances strongly reminiscent of Dr Kelly’s own m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAn Iraqi Muslim cleric suspected of being involved with Al Qaeda and radicalising young Britons has used the Human Rights Act to continue to live in the UK – despite Government efforts to deport him. Tah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoEuropean human rights judges have been accused of ‘alerting’ radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to the fact he still had time to lodge a last-ditch appeal against deportation. Furious Home Office sources l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMI5 betrayed enemies of Colonel Gaddafi given refuge in Britain in a covert joint operation with Libyan spies working on UK soil, documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal. Gaddafi’s secret agents ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThere were no immediate reports of fatalities, but of those injured, 13 suffered major injuries while 43 or 44 were badly injured, a spokesman said. About 70 other passengers suffered minor injuries. Ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDoctors are battling to save the sight of a senior British diplomat who was mugged while walking through a cemetery in west London. Bermuda's new Governor George Fergusson may lose his vision in his left ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBahrain's king has declared himself committed to reform amid tight security for the Formula One Grand Prix which is going ahead today. King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, who is due to attend the controversia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Potosi, Bolivia at a depth of 122.8 km (76.3 miles), the quake hit at 04:08:34 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 162 km (100 miles) NNE of Calama, Antofagas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:17:30 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 602 km (374 miles) Southwest of Banda ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Volcano Islands, Japan at a depth of 48.9 km (30.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:35:06 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 284 km (176 miles) Southeast of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 10.4 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:22:00 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) ENE of Dezful, Iran No Reports ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:26:48 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 193 km (119.6 miles) East of Lambasa, Vanua ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 12.1 km (7.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:18:14 UTC Saturday 21st April 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) SSW of Lebu, Bio-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFormula One racing and its host nations have a symbiotic financial relationship, brought into sharp focus by the latest events in Bahrain. For six years Formula One and Bahrain had an uncontroversial part...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 10 hours ago*A war based on myth does not end on the battlefield, but in the mind.* "Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power." - Hans J. Morgenth...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 10 hours ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoI grew up about 10-miles as the crow flies from Hitsville USA. It spawned amazing music like this, "Shotgun" performed by the late Gerald Levert. About as good as it gets. The Funk Brothers f-Gerald Le...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoGrab 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 - 12 hours agoAfter a long winter, April is a breath 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 headin...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours 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 - 12 hours 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 ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Río de aguas cristalinas en la selva]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 12 hours ago[image: Una hermosa postal de Taiwan]
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 13 hours ago[image: Una linda chica llamada Brisa by Евгений ISIcreate]Foto: Евгений ISIcreate
- posted by PC at Not PC - 13 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 - 14 hours agoNew Orleans Saints bounty scandal puts NFL, NFLPA at odds~James Varney Lakeview house is designed to address post-disaster challenges
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*"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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 15 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 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 - 16 hours agoWelland, Ontario, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 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 - 17 hours ago"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 17 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 - 17 hours ago[image: La bicicleta frente al exhibidor de antigüedades]Foto: José Luis Ávila Herrera
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 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 - 17 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 - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 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 - 18 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! - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 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 - 19 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...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 20 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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!) - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
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