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WEST DES MOINES, IA - DECEMBER 30: As a light and steady rain falls, Jim Wilson of Buckingham, Virginia, hand out United States flags to supporters before the start of a campaign rally with former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a Hy Vee supermarket December 30, 2011 in West Des Moines, Iowa. Despite cold wind and rain, hundreds of Romney supporters came out to see the candidate just days before the 'first in the nation' Iowa Caucuses. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)That`s what you`ve been reading. The revamped Dashboard is their idea of an upgrade - not mine.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 2 minutes agoYou may remember that Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was originally one of the architects and promoters of the so-called Reagan Revolution. He's apologized repeatedly for being a part of those modern-day Vandals b...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 minutes ago*"Fukushima is Falling Apart: Are You Ready?"* By Christina Consolo "Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to s...
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I have always had a love of all things British. I grew up on Keeping Up Appearances and BBC movies. My biggest dream was always to visit England and now it is to go back. My little brother is actually ... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 minutes ago
As the F-35 fighter-bomber debate returns to the House of Commons today the opposition parties, forever chasing the shiny thing, will be all over the government about costs and who knew what and when. W... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 27 minutes agoBeltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008. Image from Wikimedia Commons. 2012 spring fertility festival: Beltane: Monday, April 30 / Tuesday, May 1 By Kate Braun / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2012 ...
- posted by Joe Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 38 minutes agoBy: Duane Craig More news about the contamination being left behind by the country’s military-industrial complex comes from two locations: Albuquerque, N.M., and Barstow, Calif., according to reports here...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 54 minutes ago[image: Mitt Romney. Illustration by Tony Millionare]By Frank Rich 22 April 2012 […] Sugar daddies—whom I’ll define here as private donors or their privately held companies writing checks totaling $1 m...
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For this article, I want to present the newest work from a great writer and poet.. Lasha Darkmoon, who writes the blog "Darkmoon" at www.darkmoon.me. It is entitled: "Who Is The Real Enemy? By E. Michael... - posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 hour agoKyle, Texas-area Constable James Kohler: "If they can't pledge allegiance to that flay, they need to get the hell out of the United States. Image from Hays Free Press. Respect for freedom of conscience mis...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 hour agoas we all know, the Japanese are the WORLD'S BEST CORPORATE SLAVES, as illustrated here by there insanely gushing adoration of rendered pop-star 'Hatsune Miku'. Fear not, dear fan of Free Planet, dear f...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour agoFound this on PRWatch this morning. This is what ALEC in Congress looks like. This is why American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ALUMNI are just as dangerous as state legislators – ALEC Alumni jus...
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Homage Last night I was looking on the intertubes for a contact for Chris Hedges, because I have a question I want to ask him about the burning debate over two competing Occupies planned for Philadelphia t... - posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 1 hour ago
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* Note: This article was sent to me by a good friend from London early this week, hoping that some Philippine newspapers would take interest in publishing it. Unfortunately, none of the few papers I approa... - posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012* *Why does he even ask:* At the start of this morning’s column, Paul Krugman pops a basic question: “Just how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are?” We’re not sure how to answer t...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 2 hours agoJudith Curry's Climate etc. site has a post on "Ignorance: The Engine of Science", discussing the latest junk-food science book recommended by Curry, to which I respond here, with what I have learned, in m...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours ago— The Holy Goat of Sincerity — DUBYA AND THE NEO-CONS have got a lot to answer for, according to SLATE's Larry Siems, whose article, "How America Came To Torture Its Prisoners", is a fascinating over-view ...
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You need lots of razor wire in a country without governance We were commiserating over breakfast yesterday with the owner of the little hotel in Tegucigalpa where we stay when on Cuso International busines... - posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: The deadly depths - Methane release in the Arctic. Arctic sea ice extent and methane releases. Rob Brooks / independent.co.uk] By Steve Connor 23 April 2012 A new source of methane – a greenhou...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 2 hours agoCome out and vote! This is your chance to actually cast a ballot for a US primary election right here in Taiwan! If you haven't and don't plan on participating in your home state's primary election this ye...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Modern agriculture in the Tunisian village of Demmer. The intrusion of development policies has caused the loss of traditional knowledge of desert agriculture. Habib Ayeb co-directed the document...
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- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 2 hours 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 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoFound the reference to this on the ALECExposed Twitter Feed It’s important enough to share- cause I’m pretty sure Motley Fool could care less about our activism – as their focus is investing, not the Ame...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012* *At the New York Times, them perfessers strike again:* Should the Supreme Court strike down Arizona’s immigration law, the infamous SB 1070? We’re not sure, in part because of the...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent sails past an iceberg in Lancaster Sound on 11 July 2008. Jonathan Hayward / Canadian Press] 22 April 2012 (Canadian Press) – A group of m...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 2 hours ago*Mexico: Of Spirits and Ouija Boards* *By Scott Corrales (c) 2012* A man is elected to the highest office of the land. He is a noble-spirited reformer from a wealthy family, vegetarian and given to suc...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Captain Sensible, 57. Wot?!? The good stuff: 1. Ezra Klein horns in on the stuff that we political scientist bloggers do by reminding political professionals and political junkies tha...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours ago#m312 #tellyourmpeverything #cdnpoli - On April 26th, on the floor of the House of Commons, the rights of over 1/2 of this country's citizens will be placed on the table in a motion to "study" whether tha...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 3 hours agoList of side effects: http://www.cchrint.org/psychdrugdangers/ How Psychiatric Drugs Made America Mad *Many casually prescribed drugs are fully capable of disabling – often permanently – bodies, brains ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoPlans eyed to divert Atchafalaya water into rice country~Richard Burgess River can be power source Coastal zone changes await debate ~Hat Tweet~*Restore the Delta* @*RestoreDelta*~Excellent video on the...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 3 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012* *Part 1—Don’t answer too fast:* Is the New York Times’ David Carr really this clueless? Careful! Don’t answer too fast! Is David Carr really this clueless? We found ourselves ...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours agoChecking out the latest resolution from the UN... It does appear that the Russian/Chinese version of drafts was adopted. Read entire piece at above link- -* Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoFour unattended children died in a mobile home fire and their mother was charged on Sunday for allegedly leaving them alone, authorities said. The children who died were ages two, five, seven and eight, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA $320 million hypersonic drone developed by the Pentagon tore itself apart after just three minutes after it blasted through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound. When the military launched of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA ground fish product known as 'Tuna scrape' has been blamed for a salmonella outbreak that has caused 116 cases, US health authorities said. The illness is being linked to a frozen product called Nakaoch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoStates across the U.S will experience bizarre weather over the next few days, but while the east coast is smacked with heavy snow, thunderstorms, and lashing rain, the Southwest is in the middle of a swel...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours agoOn the day that the Wildrose Party appears to be on the verge of shaking things up big time in Alberta, Canadians would do well to consider what Janice Kennedy wrote over the weekend in *The Ottawa Citi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoLarge parts of Nevada and California experienced a loud explosion on Sunday morning as a result of a meteor. The sound of the explosion around 8am prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoEl Paso has around 650,000 people and the county, most of which comprises the 16th congressional district has around 800,000. It's the westernmost part of Texas, closer to L.A. than to Houston-- and in a...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 hours agoAfter the most only exciting election in nearly twenty years, Albertans head to the polls today, with the fate of the 41 year old Tory government hanging in the balance. The polls all show Danielle Smit...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours agoIt was more true when I was living in Europe, but even here, "student rates" were always a great deal for struggling students-- especially for getting into museums, public transportation, cinemas... But,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoIs this the dumbest craze ever? These vertigo-inducing pictures were taken by a daredevil photographer who risks his life to scale public buildings in a bid to get incredible shots of people hanging in hig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoUS President Barack Obama was told of the alleged murder of British businessman Neil Heywood before foreign secretary William Hague. The president was briefed about the 41-year-old's suspected poisoning ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA convicted fraudster who is believed to have stolen more than £60million in a number of frauds is finally facing justice after four years on the run. Michael Brown - the Liberal Democrat's largest donor ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA convicted armed robber who was filmed tying the knot behind bars for ITV1 reality show Strangeways is on the run today after escaping from an open prison. More than five million viewers watched last Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFormula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone joked about the unrest in Bahrain that has left several dead and scores injured. The Gulf state yesterday defied anti-government demonstrators to go ahead and stage its G...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours agoThe screaming hypocrisy of the Harper Conservatives continues unabated. If you don't know what I mean yet, go read Nancy's morning post.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFewer than one in three of the illegal immigrants caught last year have been deported, according to figures disclosed yesterday. They showed that of 21,298 individuals discovered in Britain unlawfully, o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 'giant rat' measuring 4ft from nose to tail has been caught and killed by a pensioner with a lump of wood on his farm. Brian Watson, 67, from Waskerley, Consett in County Durham, was made aware of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTwo men have been arrested for placing potentially deadly booby traps on a popular Utah hiking trail. Police say Benjamin Steven Rutkowski, 19, and Kai Matthew Christensen, 21, of Provo, confessed to set...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago'Despicable': Rizwan Ahmad, 24, (left) and Hassan Siddique, 19, have been jailed for a total of 18-and-a-half years and could face deportation Two ‘despicable’ sex predators who raped a woman after she fe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:19 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 316 km (196 miles) SSW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga ...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 5 hours agoWhen is it going to stop? In Taiwan, after you have been convicted, the judiciary orders you to appear to start your sentence instead of remanding you to custody immediately like the do in many other cou...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoThe BBC are scum, they lie and defame Israel regarding Jenin. Read the truth here and here then wonder why the BBC and The Guardian lie about Israel quite so much.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFUKUSHIMA -- The government on April 22 released six hot spot charts to show projected annual dose rates of radioactive materials spewing from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant from the end...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoEven after the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, almost all local governments in Hokkaido and 20 other prefectures are without comprehensive evacuation measures for a total of about 4.4...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - The euro and shares extended losses on Monday as the outlook for Europe's economy unexpectedly worsened in April, adding to fears that leading governments in the region may soften their resolv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoApril 22 - Dutch officials say they will examine the black boxes from the trains involved in the crash that injured 125 people in Amsterdam. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoApril 22 - An Iranian military commander says Tehran has decoded the U.S. drone captured last year and are working on copying it. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoApril 23 - Police and students clash at an annual festival near Kent State University in Ohio.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - Germany's manufacturing sector unexpectedly shrank at the fastest pace in nearly three years in April, denting hopes it can drive growth in the euro zone and casting a shadow over upbeat busin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoResearchers have recorded video footage of the only known all white male orca in the wild. Scientists from the universities of Moscow and St Petersburg have published video of the first-ever, adult, all-w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMilitary says it will wipe out Lee Myung-bak's administration by 'unprecedented peculiar means' lasting three to four minutes. North Korea's military says it is planning to launch "special actions" meant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe inquest into the mysterious death of an MI6 spy found in a holdall has reopened. Relatives of Gareth Williams have demanded to find out if he was killed by secret services. The naked and decomposin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFriends and fellow runners have paid tribute and donated money to charity in memory of a 30-year-old woman who collapsed and died near the finish line of the London Marathon. Claire Squires, who was taki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorway gunman Anders Behring Breivik has apologised to those he called the "non-political" victims of his Oslo bombing, but not to those he killed in the Utoya massacre. The right-wing extremist, who has...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoCounterfeiters, smugglers, illegal operators and others who make money in the so-called “underground economy” could be targets of a sort of state central intelligence agency that would pool information to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe decision to place one or the other of the candidates in the Oval Office this election will have immense, perhaps dire consequence. The wrong choice can send us off to a great conflagration that could ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTurkey has intercepted a vessel in the Mediterranean suspected of carrying weapons and ammunition to Syria, a diplomatic source told AFP on Wednesday. "We received information that the vessel has a cargo ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe bloodbath in Syria is developing into a battle between Islam's mainstream Sunni sect, led by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the breakaway Shiites, led by Iran. The main fear in the region is the confli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAutonomous, self-replicating robots - exobots - are the way to explore the universe, find and identify extraterrestrial life and perhaps clean up space debris in the process, according to a Penn State eng...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTaiwan Thursday tested its ability to defend one of it largest air bases against Chinese invasion, a scenario experts insisted remained relevant in an age of missile and cyber attacks. About 1,500 soldie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThere's a major shift under way, one the US mainstream media has left largely untouched even though it will send the United States into an economic maelstrom and dramatically reduce the country's importan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoRussian foreign minister says 2014 deadline is 'artificial' and worries China and other countries as well as Moscow. The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has criticised Nato's plan to withdraw it...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Willingness to Feel: Opening to Understanding"* by The DailyOM "When we are resisting something based on a limited understanding, we must then open ourselves to willingness. There are times when we m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGeorge Zornick carries a rebuttal from Eric Schneiderman’s team on yesterday’s damaging expose of the securitization fraud working group. Here’s what it has to say: • There are 50 staffers “across the co...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours ago*compound mysterious death issue:* 1) THE INQUEST BEGINS into the *wonderfully inventive* death of MI6/GCHQ 'hacker' aka coding genius and health nut Gareth Williams ... what was he doing for the NSA (to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo key events, the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Vladimir Putin’s impending return to the Kremlin, have reopened a long-standing debate in Russian foreign-policy circles about Mo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIf running out of your own money wasn’t bad enough, policy makers are increasingly spending other peoples’ money to bail their country out. At the upcoming G-20 meeting, finance ministers from around the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOn May 1 (May Day), or the International Worker’s Day holiday, Occupy Wall Street will stage a general strike. Oddly, though, union workers suffer under the yolk of a piece of 1947 GOP legislation called ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Japanese government welcomes the recently released US defense strategy because it rebalances the strategic focus toward the Asia-Pacific region. But the other focus of this new strategy — the so-calle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoResidents of Mendocino County reported gross incomes of $1.377 billion in 2010. Using a calculation suggested by a Humboldt County banker, the underground economy contributed another $675 million to the co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAlex Nunns reports from Athens on the human consequences of the austerity measures, and how they are being resisted. ‘Although Athens is not São Paulo, it is not any more a normal European capital,’ warn...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 7 hours agoSearching for clarity on the DOJ Agency debate is often like searching for the Holy Grail and wherever one turns one finds opinion based often on vested interest more than independent judgement. So it wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWASHINGTON (CN) - The government must release reports on all of American International Group's transactions in the years leading up to its 2004 settlement of securities fraud charges, a federal judge ruled...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoScientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoJan Mulder, “Sailing Sunny Seas” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jJphqNhcM
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe 11th round of the Russia-India-China (RIC) Foreign Minister’s meet was held in Moscow on 13 April. Prima facie, this impressive continuity in the Ministers’ annual parleys has gathered sufficient mass...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTens of thousands of Egyptians demanded on Friday that their military rulers stick to a pledge to hand over power by mid-year after a row over who can run in the presidential election raised doubts about t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChina has down-played any sense of rivalry with India after the test launch of a new Indian missile capable of hitting targets throughout China. A foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing noted the launch, bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBRUSSELS - Ideas kicking around in a reflection group of select EU foreign ministers include merging the roles of the EU Council and European Commission presidents. A senior EU source told this website f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of ...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoIn the UK, the countries of England and Wales are to continue spearheading the roll out of the Police State. We are blanketed in CCTV; we have measures to spy on our every electronic communication (email...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world. Penitentiaries have become a niche market for such work. The privatization of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoPrime Minister Wen Jiabao is ready to tour Sweden and Iceland in a bid for his country’s permanent observer status. China does not accept that it is being held out of the increasingly important Arctic C...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLloyd’s report urges companies not to rush in to the Arctic, but instead step back and think carefully about the consequences. The Lloyd’s report outlines the multiple risks facing businesses operating or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCountries trade crude oil and oil products back and forth. When all of these transactions are netted out, is the US close to becoming a “net” oil exporter? With the recent increase in oil production (per...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoEyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. New Orleans, LA - "The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoPeople & Power investigates claims that Russia's political supremo has amassed a secret multi-billion dollar fortune. On March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin was elected to serve as Russia's president for anot...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAfter three years of staying in her sister’s living room, Tene Smith decided to move her family into a home that had sat vacant on Chicago’s South Side for more than two years. With the help of Liberate ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - Measles cases in the United States hit a 15-year high in 2011, with 90 percent of the cases traced to other countries with lower immunization rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoVANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In the wake of a new study that indicates that unborn girls are being targeted for abortion by certain immigrant groups in Canada, evidence...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA record 5.4 million workers and their dependents have signed up to collect federal disability checks since President Obama took office, according to the latest official government data, as discouraged wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA pathologist has said a New Zealand woman's eight-litre-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excess...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLanguage enthusiasts bemoan the way words are being misused. But are the meanings they view as improper destined to take over? The editors of the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook announced that after care...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Jujuy, Argentina at a depth of 176.9 km (109.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:45:05 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) Northwest of San Antonio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 42.9 km (26.7 miles), the quake hit at 07:21:58 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 315 km (195 miles) SSW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 8 hours agoSome links for you to wallow in.... *BLOGS*: - New bike models on display at Cycling Satin Cesena - Individual combat training from Bala Daily - The Hengchun Incident of 1894 from Patrick Cowsi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 50.3 km (31.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:18:52 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 280 km (173 miles) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:28:56 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22.3 miles) Southwest Em...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 129.8 km (80.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:27:25 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) South of Karakul, Tajikistan No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoVernon police are continuing to investigate a stabbing that occurred Thursday night. Just before midnight, police said they received several 911 calls reporting a large fight that broke out near the int...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Veterans Affairs Department faces a "staggering" backlog of 897,566 disability claims with more than 65 percent pending for more than 125 days, a problem compounded by an error rate of 16 percent, rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(CNN) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Friday for downing a Black Hawk helicopter in southern Afghanistan. "Yesterday (Thursday) evening Taliban fighters shot down a helicopter and killed all its pa...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoWhy is this video of importance now? The Iranian government recently laid out the legal and religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people. This doctrine includes ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe U.S. truck driver detained by Mexican authorities Tuesday with 268,000 rounds of ammunition was transporting a legal cargo to Phoenix but mistakenly exited to Juárez, the man's employer said on Wednes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe South Korean military on Thursday unveiled two indigenous strategic missiles in a show of force against North Korea, which has increased its military threats through its ongoing pursuit of long-range ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe sea level near Jeju Island has risen at a pace faster than the global average, data showed on Thursday. The Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration said the mean sea level surrounding the...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoKhader Adnan recounts his 66-day fast in Israeli jail that has made him a symbol of Palestinian resistance. 21 Apr 2012Linah Alsaafin Al Jazeera Adnan's 66-day hunger strike inspired others in Israeli priso...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoApril 21, 2012 By ANDREW F. MARCH New York Times LATE last year, a jury in Boston convicted Tarek Mehanna, a 29-year-old pharmacist born in Pittsburgh, of material support for terrorism, conspiring to pro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDandelion patches in Ottawa and across Eastern Canada have been playing host to hundreds of thousands of butterflies in recent days due to an unusually large spring migration. Many of the butterflies ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first. Instead of passing out of the hen's body and being incubated...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoToday is the 50th anniversary of the Lhasa uprising. Much of the associated commentary suggests that Tibet is, at most, an internal human rights issue in China, albeit one that impacts China's foreign rel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWith the global economy losing steam, the World Trade Oganization said that international trade would slow this year. The World Trade Organization warned that growth in international trade would slow to ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoFOR THE FREEDOM OF OUR PATRIOTS Gerardo said on one occasion that justice will only come when it is dictated by a jury of millions. Ours is the task of mobilizing those millions wherever we find ourse...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA leading Russian political scientist asserts that the Kremlin’s influence in Central Asia is exaggerated and Moscow’s regional impact is likely to “become less and less,” despite President-elect Vladimir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe man charged with killing unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has been released from jail on $150,000 (£93,000) bail. George Zimmerman shot the 17-year-old dead on February 26 while patrolling his...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoMarch 16, 2012 Food Not Bombs By patches [A few weeks ago we re-posted an action alert sent from some brothers out of Russia. The following is an in depth interview with Moscow ABC - Enjoy!] *How long has...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoStudy Links Autism With Industrial Food, Environment By Katie Rojas-Jahn, Renee Dufault, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy April 19, 2012 he epidemic of autism in children in the United States...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoBy REEM KHALIFA | Associated Press – April 21, 2012 MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The discovery of a protester's body near the scene of clashes on Saturday threatened to tip Bahrain deeper into unrest as a 14-mo...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours ago*325 **receives and transmits:* *17 April 2012 Athens Indymedia* * * We stand alongside the *Conspiracy of Cells of Fire / Informal Anarchist Federation (CCF/FAI)* and salute our brothers on hunger strike i...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoApril 21, 2012 Avtonom Alexey Sutuga, anarchist, anti-fascist and the member of "Autonomous Action" was arrested on Tuesday evening, April 17, in Moscow. It happened during fundraising effort in support ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoFrom: newsletter@lists.riseup.net Date: Thu, April 19, 2012 On Wednesday April 18th, a server hosted in Riseup's NYC facility was seized without warning by the US Federal authorities. Be assured, th...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoApril 18, 2012 Riseup.net FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility. Contacts:¶ - Riseup Networks, Devin Theriot-Orr, 206-708-8740, sunbird@rise...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThere is an aspect ofcivilization that I wish to address. Itis the idea of civility and respect for the rights of others that we have all grown up with andintuitively accept as the natural state of hu...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoThis is a little bit of history that deserves to be acknowledgedbecause it preconditioned the popularimagination for Russian participation in space long before it was possible. It is also a reminder t...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoWe are about to enter an age of outright abundance. This will be driven by access to cheap energyand ample energy storage. We are nowwaiting for it all. Much is made here in terms of the idea of the ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoYes something is rotten in America. Three things actually. 1 The Drug Industry hascreated a criminal monopoly and an offsetting police state to play racket ballwith. The people know this and ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 9 hours agoOCCUPY4PRISONERS PRESENTS In Solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest in Washington, DC on Tuesday, April 24th - Mumia Abu-Jamal's 58th Birthday End Mass Incarceration! 4PM - RALLY at 14...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoApril 19, 2012 by Shahd Abusalama Electric Intifada Several thousands of Palestinians joined the marches on Prisoners’ Day in Gaza. (Joe Catron) Last Monday, I couldn’t wait for my class to end at 10:00am....
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoBy MALIN RISING and NIGEL DUARA | Associated Press – April 19, 2012 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoApril 18, 2012 by Maureen Clare Murphy Electronic Intifada Last week, a federal judge sentenced 29-year-old Boston-area pharmacist Tarek Mehanna, convicted earlier this year of various material support f...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoApril 21, 2012 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief and the head of the World Bank have described the economic situation as fragile. Fears have been growing that failing to safeguard the eurozone...
- Addameer Calls for Continued Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners as Mass Hunger Strike is Launched
posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoRamallah, 18 April 2012 – Samidoun The call for hunger strike came amidst a wave of individual hunger strikes initiated in the past few months, and prisoners on hunger strike continue to face punishmen... - posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoM1 PERFORMS -- DANNY GLOVER and others TO OCCUPY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: TRANSFORM THE WORLD! April 24, 11AM -- Washington DC GET ON THE BUS! New York: 212 - 330 - 8029 Princeton Seminary: 260 - 355 - 8...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoAssociated Press – April 18, 2012 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Amnesty International says a Saudi Arabian court has convicted a prominent rights activist of anti-state crimes and sentenced him to four years in pr...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoApril 17, 2012 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Sheikh Adnan Khader, a leader of the Islamic Jihad who went on hunger-strike for 66 consecutive days demanding an end to his illegal detention without ch...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours ago17 April, 2012 Russia Today [image: Palestinians burn Israel's national flag during a rally in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City marking Palestinian Prisoners Day April 17, 2012. (Reuters ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours ago*Constitutional claim may be the last chance for aging Angola 3 inmates. * Apr. 17, 2012 —By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella Mother Jones [image: Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, Angola prison] Herman Wal...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoAlberta Premier Alison Redford, not exactly as illustrated notwithstanding the Stetsons, has only one good card left to play. Is it an ace, or is it junk? We’ll find out tonight. Below: The real Ms. Redfo...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours agoBy weareallhanashalabi / April 17, 2012 * * Over 40 protesters have occupied the Headquarters of BBC Scotland in Glasgow, demanding mainstream media coverage for the 2,400 Palestinian prisoners who began...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 10 hours ago*17** April 2012 Samidoun** * *Joint Statement* Today, on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we the undersigned Palestinian civil society and human rights organisations salute all Palestinian political prisoner...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 11 hours agoA federal judge has ruled a CIA whistle-blower will have to forfeit any future money he earns from a scathing book he wrote about the spy agency after he failed to get approval from his former employer pr...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoSamidoun * * *The following statement, titled Statement No. 1, was issued on April 16, 2012 by the coordinating committee of Palestinian prisoners engaged in a massive hunger strike to launch on Palestinia...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoBy Michael Melia Associated Press / April 16, 2012 HARTFORD, Conn.—A 66-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist awaiting trial in a record-setting 1983 robbery has asked to be released on bond, saying that the...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoThey've spent 23 hours of each day in the last 40 years in a 9ft-by-6ft cell. Now, as human rights groups intensify calls for their release, a documentary provides insight into an isolated life Guardian.c...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours ago*S**amidoun * *Background | Actions | Events Around the World | Act now: Write the ICRC* - *Global Call to Action and Endorsers of Prisoners’ Day* - *Download Factsheets for Prisoners’ Day* - *Watc...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours agoChuck Wild, “Liquid Mind V: Serenity - Awakening.” Images courtesy of ESA, NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope. http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCa4dpKyzwo&feature=g-vrec&context=G26ee619RVAAAAAAAAAw
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoSunday, 15 April 2012 08:26 By Rania Khalek, Truthout [image: Gary Freeman, Chicago](Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)The consequences of America's racist history still linger deep into the present. No ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoApril 15, 2012 04:29 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian prisoner support group Addameer announced Saturday that it knows of eight Palestinian detainees currently on open-ended hunger ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoFri Apr 13 2012 Indybay.org Supporters of UC Davis Protesters Say, "Drop All Charges on the Banker'$ Dozen" Just months after UC Davis police pepper sprayed seated students in the face during a protest aga...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoApril 14, 2012 11:48 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies 1600 Palestinian political prisoners, held by Israel, declared they will be starting an open-ended hunger strike on April 17th in protest to their ...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoBrothers, Sisters, Friends and Supporters, I'm still here fighting for my freedom. The government is fighting just as hard to keep me where I am. The government also has unlimited resources, even in such to...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 11 hours ago*"Ancient Mother Of The World"* by Chet Raymo "'Nature Unveiling Herself To Science,' created by Louis Barrias in 1899, stands on a pedestal in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The sculpture gives expr...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoAl-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition calls on all people of conscience to take immediate action to help save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners who have been detained by Israeli authori...
- posted by Break the Chains at BreaktheChains.info - 11 hours agoApril 11, 2012 Making Change at Walmart The body of a prominent labor organizer in Bangladesh’s garment industry was found last week after he was tortured and killed. Aminul Islam worked for improved standa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 192.4 km (119.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:01 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 142 km (88 miles) WNW of Neiafu, Tonga No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:57:49 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 131 km (81 miles) NNW of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:14:24 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 324 km (201 miles) SSW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:31:04 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 149 km (92 miles) SSW of Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxa...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoIf you want to keep an eye on what the most dangerous far right elements in public life-- the David Bartons, Pat Robertsons, Matt Barbers, Cindy Jacobs, Glenn Becks, Bryan Fischers, Ted Nugents, the Phyll...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:25 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 161 km (100 miles) WSW of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 13 hours agoMore to come, much more, so much more that I haven't been able to post coherently about this because I have so much to say. So while I struggle with my inarticulate rage, make sure your MP knows exactl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 57.2 km (35.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:40 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 64 km (39 miles) WNW of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:27 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012 The epicenter was 693 km (430 miles) Southwest of Mohean,...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoKerry Cassidy at Project Camelot posted an article from Japan that says the Sun's magnetic poles will become quadrapolar in May. The article is farther down on this page. Do I know what this means? N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 112.8 km (70.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:57 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) Southeast of Huanuco, Peru No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 39.5 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:09 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) ESE of M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Celebes Sea at a depth of 591.3 km (367.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:31 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 265 km (165 miles) Southeast from Jolo, Su...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoI figured it was time for another of my rants about what I see is happening around us... First, I must say that I truly do not like being sick at all... I have spent the last month suffering from some mig...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 13 hours agoIn an interview with the Israeli daily *Globes*, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel rejected the constant comparisons and conflations of Nazi Germany with Iran, calling such efforts to draw...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"When does Mars act like a liquid? Although liquids freeze and evaporate quickly into the thin atmosphere of Mars, persistent winds may make large sand dunes appear to flow and even drip like a liquid. Vi...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 15 hours ago
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoStephen Harper finds blowing craters in distant countries infinitely preferable to actually defending Canada, or at least my part of it. That Canada's west coast remains undefended was embarrassingly demon...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 15 hours ago[image: Un pequeño cachorro a la moda - Funny Dogs]
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*DOONESBURY* [*Click to enlarge*] *by Ken* I have freely confessed that when it comes to utter cluelessness regarding the brave new world of 21st-century social media, nobody is more utterly clueless tha...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 15 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Literally. *** Senate campaigns stoop to pat the dogs*** * *Related: Brown Throws Warren Spitball* **Brown says he will not drink until Nov. election* * *I'm feeling like I need one. * "Obama, Romney...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape in...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: 1000-year records of southern hemisphere background concentrations of CO2 parts per million (ppm – orange), N2O parts per billion (ppb – blue) and CH4 (ppb – green) measured at Cape Grim Tasmania...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago*"Experiment: Microwaved Water Killed The Plants In Just Days"* by Marco Torres “f you're a regular reader of any type of website that thrives to educate on natural and toxic-free living, then you prob...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 16 hours agoDon’t expect the quality of health care in Alberta to improve because of a “wait-time guarantee” – unless you can pay. If you, dear reader, are one of the thousands of Albertans who has come to the concl...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours ago[image: Bewl Water in Lamberhurst, Kent, which has been suffering low levels after two dry winters. Rex Features via guardian.co.uk] By Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk 20 Apri...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 hours agoBy Nora Muchanic 18 April 2012 TRENTON, N.J., (WPVI) – The depth of the Delaware River is at record low levels for this time of year. That has people who rely on the river very worried. "It's like y...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago"Gingrich’s wife, Paul now stumping in Rhode Island PROVIDENCE - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s wife and Ron Paul are campaigning in Rhode Island as voters prepare to head to the polls ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Longtime Mitt Romney aide to lead VP search; Candidate relies on adviser Myers" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, April 16, 2012 WASHINGTON - Beth Myers, who lives in Brookline and graduated from Tufts Unive...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*It's the best thing the American government ever came up with -- and the political parties are destroying it. * "Postal staffers fear what future will deliver; As service shrinks, the anxiety grows" by K...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoBrake-Patten v. Gallant, 2012 NLCA 23 provides a good synopsis of the law regarding causation in tort: [12] Causation in law is an expression of the relationship that must be found to exist betwee...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoOlympia, Washington, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"What Is There Beyond Knowing?"* "What is there beyond knowing that keeps calling to me? I can't turn in any direction but it's there. I don't mean the leaves' grip and shine or even the thrush's ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Has the smell of a staged and scripted controlled-opposition event*: "Protester considers legal action; Officer’s move at rally called ‘inappropriate’" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff, April 16, 2012 A pr...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“Asking Questions”* by Paulo Coelho "Warriors of light always keep a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world, they are part of the lives of other people and they set out on their journey ...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours ago[image: editor] I have been asked to revise and resubmit an article submitted for an IR journal. But it’s a big r&r; the editor even said it would be “a great deal of work” (groan). While I must make the ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*Lady Astor:* "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" *Winston Churchill:* "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober." *Lady Astor:* "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffe...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 18 hours agoSubject: Dancing in the Streets Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:33:59 -0400 *Irving Berlin Puttin' On The Ritz Lyrics * Have you seen the well-to-do Upon Lennox Avenue On that famous thoroug...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 18 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?” - Harry S. Truman
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours ago*From InsideALEC March 2010* ALEC is here to help you. Please contact Amy Kjose at (202) 742-8510 or akjose@alec.org. *From InsideALEC July 2010* Task Force Directors ALEC’s Task Force Directors [ALEC staf...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Five Reasons Why The Very Rich Have NOT Earned Their Money"* by Paul Buchheit "The wealthiest Americans believe they've earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they're the most ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Children navigating Amazon flooding in Peru, April 2012. Mary Shipman / My Shot] By Meg Weaver 19 April 2012 Though writer Robert Earle Howells adds greater fuel to our wanderlust fires with hi...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoListen up all you folk opposed to “The 1%.” And all you others opposed to rent-seeking and privilege.You need to know who it us you really oppose. Mark Spitznagel, founder of “black swan” hedge fund Univ...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 19 hours agoFor the first time in history, the United Nations is launching a human rights investigation within the borders of the United States -- specifically, a probe into the often-abysmal living conditions of 2.7 ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoAfter the weekend’s polls, poor old Scott Yorke is wondering what his Labour Party has to do to get a break. Asset sales, the Crafar Farms issue, the Sky City pokies deal: every time there's a poll on ...
- In The Wake of Epic Financial Fraud, The American Ruling Class Choose Stability Over Justice And Law
posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 19 hours ago*Source: Boiling Frogs Post/Paul Jamiol*. "Wayne Smith, who is a distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins, formerly the State Department's representative in Cuba, resigned in 1982 in protest of Reaga... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*ALEC Democrat, state Sen. Ophelia Ford, Harold's crooked aunt* Yesterday we focused in on one especially "bad Democrat," corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden. His old pal Jack Abramoff, who paid him bribes to vote...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Psychopathic Endless War: Afghanistan and U.S. Strategy"* by Kathy Kelly and Hakim "Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset."*** - Tacitus "Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoIt's kind of like watching paint dry but I love these bird cams. I'm told this falcon at Cornell Lab is about to hatch her eggs. So far I'm not seeing it, but I expect this cam will get entertaining once t...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoSame question: who is the best Democrat/liberal on TV or radio? Define best however you want -- most entertaining? Most intelligent? Most persuasive?
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 20 hours ago[image: Maceta colgante de petunias moradas]
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoWho is the best Republican/conservative on TV or radio? Define best however you want -- most entertaining? Most intelligent? Most persuasive?
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 20 hours agoFound this Sunday read fascinating. A profile of the societal breakdown of trust in our oldest institutions as viewed through the lens of Muncie, Indiana. It covers a broad spectrum of the town, but I foun...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours ago"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson.
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours ago
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago[image: Es hora de comer un rico postre]Foto: Greg Du Toit
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoRENO, Nev. (AP) — Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and California on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor. The explosion rattled windows and shook houses from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTOKYO (AFP) - A blast at a chemical plant in western Japan killed one worker and injured at least fifteen others on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred at a factory operated by comprehensive chemica...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 85.7 km (53.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:12:09 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 32 km (19 miles) South of Autlan, Jalisco, M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck LA PAZ, Bolivia at a depth of 155.6 km (96.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:04:54 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 130 km (80 miles) ENE of Tacna, Peru No Rep...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago[image: Dulces sueños mi querida princesa]Foto: Vanessa Paxton
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoEast London - Ambulances were bringing 67 children with suspected food poisoning from Chintsa to medical facilities in East London on Saturday afternoon, Eastern Cape health authorities said. "The childre...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours ago**Use Your Own Internal Discernment as in all postings. Chemtrails are still very active where I live but not as intense as they were a year ago. Many areas of the USA are now clear of chemtrails. Bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoFrench Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of the country's presidential election, early estimates say. He got about 28% of votes, according to projections based on partial ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago"“Seinfeld’’ Character Cited in Bill to Curb Can Smuggling" Bloomberg News, April 20, 2012 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A *lawmaker* seeking to *curb smuggling of bottles and cans* into California for cash redemp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA man from London has died after falling from a balcony at a hotel in Magaluf - the second Briton to die at the Spanish resort in three days. Benjamin Harper, 28, from Twickenham, fell to his death at the ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 22 hours ago** *World War something-or-other is about to begin ... but even the weather reports are confusing. * *Contributor: "YYC"* *See Update at Bottom* *Rain or Snow?*It's Sunday, so let's talk about God and hi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoABC1, an Australian TV channel, is planning to air I can change your mind about... climate on Thursday, April 26th, 8:30 pm. You may click on the link above and check the trailer as well as the results...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*The few items I snatched from the Boston Globe for you*: "Newborn abducted after mother fatally shot found" by Juan A. Lozano Associated Press / April 17, 2012 SPRING, Texas—A newborn who was abducted ...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago"If at first you don't succeed... skydiving is not for you... ...maybe golf."
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 68-year-old woman has died of injuries she sustained when two trains collided head-on in Amsterdam, injuring scores of passengers. Eberhard van der Laan, the mayor of Amsterdam, said 16 other people who...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agohttp://2012portal.blogspot.ca/ Sunday, April 22, 2012 Japan forgives $3.7 billion of Myanmar's debt - thank you White Dragons! Japan said Saturday it will forgive about 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoLooking back, Toronto looked a lot like the trial run. The first protests began outside Enbridge's offices, the BC legislature, and several places along the route. Then access roads to the workcamps were bl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 23 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Tanimbar Region, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:32 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (85.5 miles) S...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoDon't answer that, it's a rhetorical question. Early last week it was announced that Harper's EnviroCan was relocating its Pacific emergency oil spill operations to Quebec which a suspicious mind might co...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 23 hours ago*Blogger's Note:* It might seem ironic that a liberal like me could find such information in a magazine called *The American Conservative*. Indeed, it was very unlikely that I would have stumbled on this e...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours ago*We've heard the fine pianist Ralf Gothóni accompanying baritone Jorma Hynninen in the opening song, "*Gute Nacht*" ("Good Night"), of Schubert's Winterreise (*Winter Journey*). Here he plays the first mo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoI was born into a politically useless family. When voting day rolled around the only thing certain was that my mother and my father would always vote. They'd get in the car, drive to the poll and cast th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*There are more things in heaven and earth.... * "Jonathan Frid, 87; actor helped give ‘Dark Shadows’ more bite" by Margalit Fox | New York Times" April 21, 2012 NEW YORK - Jonathan Frid, a Shakespeare...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoThe 9/11 lie is so ridiculous that it doesn't stand up to any serious scrutiny. In the following video, the 9/11 myth is demolished in under five minutes, with such simplicity that only the most feeble-min...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoDr. A (one of Southern Man's colleagues) found himself in charge of the IEEEregional student robotics competition and enlisted Southern Man's aid as a judge. So very early Saturday morning Southern Man hit ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Radioactive ash from burning the sewer sludge from May and June 2011 is dumped, with no protection, in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, April 2012. Levels of radioactivity are up to double th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Globe gives me a headache. * Fertility treatment bans in Europe draw criticism
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Disney folks in demand for tips on how to be nice; Customer service a skill many firms admit they lack" by Brooks Barnes | New York Times, April 22, 2012 ORLANDO - Maryland teachers were instructed to ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*“Nobody cares about what’s happening to John Edwards anymore - he’s old news’’* "Trial will put disgraced Edwards back into spotlight; Case centers on ex-senator’s use of campaign funds" by Kim Severson ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Thus no divine intervention.* "A pastor’s dream, a Roxbury church in crisis; Proud Roxbury church, buried deep in debt, leans on the courts and faith to survive" by Meghan E. Irons and Beth Healy | Glo...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago#NorthernGateway #BCpoli #Cdnpoli - On 21 June, 2010, soon-to-be-ousted-premier Gordon Campbell allowed the signing away of the sovereignty of British Columbia and any right to intervene on the Enbridge N...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Scenes from the climate change chapter of 'Science Tales', by Darryl Cunningham. Illustration: Darryl Cunningham / Myriad Editions] By Killian Fox, The Observer 21 April 2012 "The argument for h...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agohttp://enenews.com/second-explosion-at-mitsui-plant-kyodo-3400-drums-with-radioactive-materials-fnn-confirms-depleted-uranium-at-plant-did-not-appear-to-have-any-effect-on-radiation-levels-videos
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoAs a follow-up to the previous entry Southern Man more or less plagiarizes this post from Smoke In My Eyes. SIME calls it "Four Pillars Of Game" but Southern Man will think of it as the four crucial aspect...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoThis 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 - 1 day 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.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI've already written about the difficulties of using seat projection modelsdue 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 - 1 day agoSpecial 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoA 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 - 1 day agoTehran (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 - 1 day 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 day agoA 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 day agoA 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 day 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 day agoA 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 day 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 day agoA 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! - 1 day agoToday 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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