April 24, 2012 - Hole in the River (Photo credit: guidedbycthulhu)
Alberta Environmental Stewardship Coalition Forum (Photo credit: ItzaFineDay)
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Wag the Dog (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012* *Perhaps we can explain:* Did your country seem smarter the past few weeks? That may reflect the fact that Gail Collins was “off,” to use New York Times terminology. Collins h...
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I don't think I've ever followed an election where the polls were as horribly off the mark as they were in Alberta. Last May, when the media jumped on the "pollsters blew it" bandwagon for not projecting ... - posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoPolitico (natch) is running a big Maggie Haberman story about Dem HW 2016 today, and from what I see over the twitter machine she, and they, are taking a fair amount of heat over it. Sorry, world, but fac...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 2 hours agoToday's the day for the first hour of debate on 'The When Does the State Take Over Our Uteruses Motion'. Yesterday, the Radical Handmaids took the 'Fuck the Debate' message to Parliament Hill. And there...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 hours agoWill NATO Try a Wag-the-Dog Provocation Against Syria to Keep Sarkozy in Power After May 6? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV / Tarpley.net April 24, 2012 *Video: "PressTV has conducted an interview w...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012* *Part 4—O’Donnell could hear it quite clearly:* Incredibly enough, David Carr got one thing right in Monday’s “Media Equation” column. In an otherwise grossly misleading piece,...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 2 hours agoI absolutely hate it when that happens. It also ate a couple of important emails. (Well, important to me. The intended recipients will have to decide for themselves whether they can continue on in life witho...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 2 hours agoDedicated to all the students in Quebec who have peacefully hit the streets to protest AUSTERITY! I had no idea that there were so many of you protesting As is so typical the msm is absent/downplaying and l...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 hours agoThis week's award winner is Rupert Murdoch for his reported statement that Gordon Brown was not in a 'balanced state of mind' when he declared war on News International. Gordon Brown mentally unbalanced? ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 3 hours agoI'm seeing a trend here. Last night on the twitter, Ed Henry was bemoaning the "controversy" over President Obama's travel schedule. As I said to him, what controversy? Not hearing the guy on the street ta...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 3 hours ago*"Numb to Bad News"* by Greg Hunter "What is happening feels like a slow motion train wreck to me. I am waiting for someone to flip a switch and turn it to real speed. It’s as if people are numb to ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours agoI have been a big fan of Keystone Progress ever since they confronted Matt Baker eight months and put him and ALEC on the defensive. Baker was amazing in his threats made - to try and get Keystone to back...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 3 hours agoAnthony van Dyck of Taiwanease sent around the press release for their new app.... Taiwanease.com, a website created for Taiwan’s International Community by a small team of long term foreign residents, ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia became the first country to suspend imports of U.S. beef Thursday following the discovery this week of an American dairy cow infected with mad cow disease. Reaction el...
- posted by Joe Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 3 hours agoBy: Duane Craig It is no doubt a dubious honor to have a Superfund site named after you. This usually happens to corporations, but not so in the case of Dewey Loeffel, who was once associated with the Loe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoHigh winds have ripped through a Warwickshire town, blowing the roof off one home and damaging others in what residents have called a "mini tornado". Police said a number of properties suffered structural...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAuthorities will not lift the emergency status of a volcano that erupted this week in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, in the next month, a local official says. Tomohon’s acting mayor, Jimmy Eman, said the decis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoThe Shiveluch volcano on Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday ejected an ash cloud to as high as nearly 11km above the sea level, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. An ash column from the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoImage: Robert Ward displays one of two pieces of a meteorite he found at a park in Lotus, California Tiny meteorites weighing about the same as a 50p piece have been found in northern California followin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPortuguese authorities have no new evidence that would give them cause to reopen an inquiry into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann. "There are no new elements at the moment that would all...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*Mobile system O2 has launched a smart phone app that allows users to move up to £500 via text message. According to the firm said it had detained off introducing contactless payments as only a handful of...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 4 hours agoSo, Quebec student groups rioted last night. And, lo and nothing to behold, the Quebec government didn't immediately change its mind about tuition increases. Which just goes to show you that violence neve...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoI spend a lot of time talking with candidates for Congress. Sometimes you have to coax good answers out of them. Some are just learning what it means to be progressive. Some even lie to you and tell you ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 4 hours agoI have posted about Ken Livingstone's troubling links with Islamist preachers of anti-semitism, homophobia and more and so may have ignored other issues. From Guido Fawkes: 'Bob Crow, the RMT union boss h...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agowith right wing rhetoric. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is still making press statements “trying to cover their bums” – (literally speaking - British use, US meaning) from the substa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Námo Mandos) at DAMMIT JANET! - 4 hours agoI don't have terribly much more to add to everything that has been said about and against M312, at least not until the initial ordeal is over. The question of "when does Life(tm) begin" has absolutely ne...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to Amos Otis, 65. Bet you didn't know (I didn't, or had forgotten) that he was originally drafted by the Red Sox, not the Mets. On to the good stuff: 1. Sarah Binder on Bernanke, how the F...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoApril 25 - An explosion tore through a building in Hama, leaving at least 12 people dead and wounding dozens according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Deborah Gembara reports. (Reuters) - Syr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoApril 26 - Pakistan's prime minister guilty of contempt of court, but receives no jail time. Julie Noce reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoImage: Katerina Karousi, a 76-year-old cancer patient and former Socialist voter, breaks down in tears outside her home as Golden Dawn extreme right party members unload bags of food for her and her 79-ye...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 4 hours ago*The Digital Economy Act, The contentious piracy rule, has again been belated, the section for civilization, Media and Sport has established.*The impediment was welcomed by the Internet Service Providers’...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 4 hours agoJim Flaherty claims that his budget is about "jobs and growth." Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page makes a much stronger counter claim. He reports that, while the Harper government's cutbacks wil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Russia and Iran are helping Syria import fuel which it needs for heavy vehicles including army tanks, allowing Damascus to avoid the full impact of tightening Western sanctions imposed over it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - Earnings from some of Europe's top banks showed the scars of the euro zone crisis on Thursday, with big losses on Spanish property and fragile economic recovery likely to dampen an early inves...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoTroubling questions for the UN Rapporteur session, its speakers and sponsors *By Brenda Norrell* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON -- The UN Rapporteur's sessions for Indigenous Peo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- In one of the deadliest incidents in the Syrian conflict, a military rocket attack killed more than 70 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, an activist told CNN on Thursday. The incident prompt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoLondon (CNN) -- Rupert Murdoch admitted there had been a "cover-up" of phone hacking at his flagship British tabloid newspaper and apologized Thursday for not paying more attention to a scandal that has ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoOSLO, Norway (AP) — Facing terror with music, tens of thousands gathered in squares across Norway to sing a children's song that gunman Anders Behring Breivik claimed is being used to brainwash young Norw...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours ago*Witnesses * "I believe that there were TWO PEOPLE who were shooting," VG newspaper quoted 23-year old Alexander Stavdal as saying. Several of the youths who were on Utøya told VG that they are convinced...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 5 hours ago*Source: Diario de Córdoba Date: Thursday, 26 April 2012* *Argentina: Mysterious Circle Caused by UFO Landing at Las Perdices?* LAS PERDICES – The discovery of a circle with a 25 meter diameter in a fi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours agoThe article misses an important point. When police pull someone over, without cause, find something really bad and then lie about why they pulled them over dismissing charges because of the lie seems exc...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 hours ago*Has The Media Lost Focus Of The Saints?? ~Jason Calbos* *A Virtuous Contempt~Saints Win* ***Yo Coach Sean! * ~Thanks to our padnas on da Dirty Coast *Don't Come Around Here No More ~American Zombie* *...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoTake a read of this recent Melanie Phillips article; can you disagree? 'Of all the issues of concern to the public, immigration is possibly the most explosive - and the one about which the most lies are co...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"The Moment" "The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Connecticut police officer has been captured on video throwing several punches at a subdued man on the floor and then proceeding to Taser him while another officer holds him. The officer, Evan Cossett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA high school student has been charged after he was found with a journal where he outlined a 'Columbine-style' attack on his school. Sean Ivaldi, 18, was being held by police after jottings he made in his...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 7 hours agoEveryone knows that ALASKA is on the Ring of Fire and REGULARLY subjected to quite large magnitude earthquakes. Same as Japan, in many ways, but offshore nuclear detonation IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for what hap...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 7 hours agoThe UK Establishment grows more degenerate by the day. Having pushed for an ever lower age of consent, and equality for buggery alongside healthy and natural sex, the perverts in power are now pushing to...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 7 hours ago*Source: Diario de Córdoba & Planeta UFO Date: 04.25.12* *Argentina: A Crop Circle in Las Perdices* A 25 meter circumference that appeared in a sorghum field in Las Perdices gave rise of all manner of con...
- Sgt Gary Stein who called Obama 'the enemy' is kicked out of the military and will lose his benefits
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Marine Corps said Wednesday it has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook. The Corps said Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 13-year-old girl is dead and her mother is fighting for her life after a wild west style shooting in New York that saw cops fire 84 shots. The suspect, 28-year-old Steven Murray, was shot by police duri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Pentagon is launching a new spy agency that will send more agents to nations like China and Iran to work alongside the CIA. However, it's unclear how well the Defense Clandestine Service will mesh wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFormer Bengals linebacker Nate Webster was convicted Wednesday unlawful sexual conduct with the 15-year-old daughter of his former assistant coach for the Cincinnati team. A jury in Cincinnati found Webs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTwo former and current Transportation Security Administration employees were indicted on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges on Wednesday following a year long undercover operation at Los Angeles...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGeorge Zimmerman was known as a trusted aid to most of his black neighbours in the gated community of Sanford, Florida that was plagued by a string of burglaries in the weeks leading up to the shooting of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoU.S. authorities said they remain concerned over a possible ‘lone wolf’ attack on the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. While there are no concrete threats in retaliation for the Al-Qaeda ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAustralia's police force has been rocked by allegations of racism after two Aboriginal teenagers were shot by officers in the early hours of Saturday, stoking racial tension in the city. Police shot the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe powerful alleged mistress of murdered British businessman Neil Heywood confessed ‘I did it’ to a former Chinese police chief, it was claimed today. Gu Kilai, the wife of the former Communist party bos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoOne of Britain's most senior Buddhist monks is accused of carrying out a string of sex attacks on two young girls aged under 10. The Venerable Pahalagama Somaratana, 66, is facing nine counts of rape, in...
- *When I visited friends in South-Africa*, several years ago, I first noticed her. Although I had heard about Ann Pettifor, I didn't realize (to my shame) that she was the co-founder of the global campaign ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoThis is too funny... I needed some comedy relief after that food stamps chart. Max Keiser presents the Reverend Billy, from the Church of Stop Re-Hypothecation, performing the excorcism of Blythe Master...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDogs destined to be slaughtered and served up in China's restaurants were saved when the truck transporting them was intercepted by animal rights activists. The vehicle, carrying 505 canines packed into ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA riot ringleader who was at the heart of last year’s Croydon disorder had his sentence of four years detention nearly doubled today because it was too lenient. Adam Khan Ahmadzai, 20, attacked police, r...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*“Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.”* by Derrick Jensen “The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops just isn’t going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establish...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAntarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA BNP supporter - whose terrifying collection of knives included a swastika-embossed dagger - was jailed for life today for slashing a lost Indian man’s throat on Christmas night. Sheet metal worker Davi...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 8 hours ago***I have often thought that the Pharma industry and Monsanto would find ways to deliver their vaccines and drugs in indirect ways without consumer knowledge. It is probably already being done in many of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBo Xilai ran a wire-tapping system that extended as far as China's president, the New York Times has reported. Citing "nearly a dozen people with party ties", it said the disgraced Mr Bo ran a wire-tappi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Southern Peru at a depth of 67.7 km (42.1 miles), the quake hit at 07:57:23 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 215 km (133 miles) South ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThis Earth Day consider adding a few of these these mainstream and indie documentaries to your must-see list. In an apocalyptic 2012, is there a better time than Earth Day to remind ourselves just how lu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Pentagon announced on April 23 that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has begun a trip to South America, arriving in Colombia as part of a three-nation tour that will also take him to Brazil and Chile. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMembers Find Ways to Secure Funds for Home Though the Congressional earmark might be dead — or at least in a tea-party-induced coma — lawmaker boasting about funds secured for their states is alive and we...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours agoOn 21 April 2012, we read about how the CIA and Mossad have murdered US troops in Iraq. *http://www.federaljack.com/?p=19311* * * Roman generals often killed their own troops. The earliest documented '...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoNSA whistleblower William Binney believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAs the company faces a lawsuit by residents, an assessment by a US oil spill consultancy casts doubt on Shell's estimate of the Nigerian leak. Fishing boats lie abandoned in oil-polluted water near Bodo, ...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoit's something Ridley Scott says at the end of this 9min interview with Los Angeles Times reporter Geoff Boucher for the debut episode of Hero Complex: *The Show*. He talks about storyboarding, the Alien p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoLibya and Iraq continue to show interest in buying Russian-made weaponry despite regime changes in these countries, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday. “The Libyan military leadership a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoGold and silver will both rise far above their current levels. "When" is unknowable. "Why" is due to the unremitting and insolent amorality of central bankers and their practices. If not Simple Ben at the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe solvency of Europe’s governments has been under the spotlight in recent months, but Europe’s fragile and under-reformed banking system is a disaster waiting to happen, says Hugo Radice. The banks’ rea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the federal regulator of meat, poultry, and egg products, faces resource limitations that make it more difficult for the agency to ensure the safety of the f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Recent statistics show foreclosure activity is declining, but the nation’s foreclosure problem is far from over. What’s more, the drawn-out foreclosure crisis has lasting consequenc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoProfile writers habitually compare Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela for obvious reasons. Both have displayed immense bravery; both have endured many years of incarceration at the behest of brutal regim...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 8 hours agoSpinors are competitors of vectors and tensors. In other words, they are representations of the orthogonal (rotational) group or the pseudoorthogonal (Lorentz) group, a space of possible objects whose def...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Russia-India-China trilateral is an idea whose time has come, and will become increasingly more important in setting the global agenda, says Nivedita Das Kundu. The international balance of power is c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs the USA and the Philippines carry out joint military exercise in the South China Sea, the tension in the region mounts. Russia finds itself being drawn into the territorial dispute between China and it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe reason Apple makes its iPad in China is not just because of cheap labour, but also because rare earth elements used in the tablet can only be found there, according to reports. The New York Times rep...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAusterity policies are driving us towards a double-dip recession, warns US economist Joseph Stiglitz. He sat down with Martin Eiermann to discuss new economic thinking and the influence of money in politic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCall it a mantra, a litany, or a to-don’t list, but the drip, drip, drip of Afghan disaster and the gross-out acts accompanying it have already resulted in one of those classic fill-you-in paragraphs that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn the Eurogroup meting of 15 May, there will be a deep re-shuffle of the entire Eurozone's strategy to counter its sovereign debt and bring the euro area in a long term growth path again. The new factors...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoJUBA/KHARTOUM: When petrol started running low in South Sudan's capital this month, Peter Bashir Gbandi sensed a sinister force at work. Rather than blaming a severe shortage of dollars, which the newly-i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWhat you need to know about the world’s most important defense summit Obama’s announcement came out of nowhere in a speech last June: Chicago would be the first U.S. city outside of Washington, D.C., to ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWith continued volatility in gold and silver, today King World News interviewed 25 year veteran Caesar Bryan. Gabelli & Company has over $31 billion under management and Caesar Bryan has managed the gold ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the purported founders of communism, established in the 19th century a government paradigm that transformed Europe and other regions in the eastern hemisphere, adding to an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPakistan's prime minister Yousef Raza Gilani has been found guilty of contempt of court, state television has reported. The PM was charged for refusing to obey an order to write to the authorities in Swi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA man has been bailed after allegedly threatening to kill Home Secretary Theresa May and one of her predecessors Jack Straw, police have revealed. More follows...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussia and China have launched one of the largest joint navy drills, with a total of 25 ships and submarines, over 20 aircraft and special forces on both sides taking part in what is a very visible flexin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWell, that’s one way to stem the tide of illegal aliens streaming across the border from Mexico. Jack up unemployment rates to near double digits, dunk America into a double-dip recession and put us so d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBritain's economy slid into its second recession since the financial crisis after official data unexpectedly showed a fall in output in the first three months of 2012, piling pressure on Prime Minister Da...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids them...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSACRAMENTO (CBS13) – More than 30 women brawled in the street, all reportedly over Facebook posts. “I saw the girls yelling and pushing each other and one girl tried to push them apart,” one witness sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMACON, Ga. (CBS Atlanta/AP) – Authorities in Georgia say a grandmother foiled a robbery attempt by two armed men by getting into a shootout with them, injuring one man. Police told The Telegraph that Lul...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - Pakistan has spelt out in no uncertain terms that U.S. drone aircraft strikes against militants inside its territory must stop, but Washington is not listening, the country's foreign minister ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 616.7 km (383.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:38:32 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 226 km (140 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, F...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 10 hours agoRemember this tragedy, it`s the Concordia, it was caused by human error, shit happens, mistakes are made and nothing is failsafe. Burns lake saw mill explodes and burns to the ground, tragedy caused by w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 164.9 km (102.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:54:52 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) ESE of Khorugh, Tajikistan N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:11:09 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) ESE of Kyzyl, ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoThis is obviously a wonderful material. Now we have to figure out how to produce it continuously in a sheet to the desired thickness. Since it can be produced, it should be possible to generate ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoWhat this work seems to tell us is that any protocol that penetrates to the cellular level and combats oxidative stress is likely to be a huge life extender. At this point we know a suspension of ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoLet us make it simple. It is necessary to maintain each watershed as a salmon optimizing ecology. That means keeping it clean and maximizing the number of gravel beds for spawning. Then we also...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoIt is now fifteen years since the well diddled global temperature everyone was asked to accept peaked and flat-lined at the least. It is still warm because the original rise pushed it into the up...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 10 hours agoMarch 2012 Photo of the Month: GMO Protest, Sacramento, CA 2003. Photo: Langelle Source of picture: http://globaljusticeecology.org/photo_gallery.php?catID=27&ID=405 *New Study on Monsanto Corn Suggests...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoThe Wildrose Party Whip gets ready to get the Opposition caucus under control. Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Danielle Smith, Tom Flanagan, Joe Anglin, Dr. Gilles Tourette. ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 hours agoFrom Scarcity to Abundance: Re-imagining Money *by grtv * April 25, 2012 Speaker Bio: Ellen Brown is author of Web of Debt, and serves as president of the Public Banking Institute. Description of Talk:...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoThe recent paper confirms scientists' belief that the fungus killing off North American bats is from Europe. Photo courtesy: Joe Mcdonald/Getty Images Bats are such a misunderstood species. They are marve...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 11 hours ago[image: image]* A sight for Wellington eyes: St Kilda’s Nick Riewoldt marking over Gold Coast Suns’s Karmichael Hunt (which he’d do all night if Karmichael keeps jumping like that)* It was reported fir...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoA female rhino in Tugela Private Game Reserve, South Africa, that four months earlier survived a brutal dehorning by poachers. A rhino horn can fetch up to $260,000 on the black market. Photo courtesy: Bre...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoYes, yes, I want you to rise up in revolt against Stephen Harper's malignant regime. I want you to stand up - in public - and tell everyone around you that he's crossed the line. I want you to proclaim ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoA spotless adult cheetah at the Athi Kapiti Conservancy in Kenya – the sighting is thought to be first in almost a century. Photograph: Guy Combes/BNPS A rare 'spotless' cheetah has been photographed in K...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoFrom 1996 to 2005, the man, who was described as having a teardrop tattoo under one eye, preyed on 27 women and girls. DNA evidence shows that he has attacked again, sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in No...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 12 hours agoWhen does life begin? Perhaps this is a question for philosophers, or theologians. Perhaps it is a question for scientists. It is not a question for Parliamentarians. It is not a question for governm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSome Secret Service employees accused of misconduct in the Colombian prostitution scandal are privately contending that their conduct didn’t warrant dismissal because senior managers tolerated similar beh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDetroit— General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt defended the company's payment of income taxes after protesters interrupted his speech here at the SAE World Congress. "Tax rate was 29 percent last year," Immel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoUpdated at 5:51 a.m. ET: A boy who was allegedly kidnapped from a St. Louis hospital while awaiting a heart transplant was located near Chicago early Wednesday, NBC News reported. His father and grandmoth...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago"The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in *not entering* the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years sparked fears of illness that prompted at least one major South Korean retailer to suspend the sale of American beef. However, public health o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoU.S. Rep. Francisco Canseco said he was assaulted by a TSA agent at the San Antonio International Airport. The Texas Congressman said the security agent went too far during a pat-down earlier this ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBALTIMORE (AP) -- A mother managed to slip a long kitchen knife past security at a Baltimore social services building and used it to stab her infant daughter in the face and neck Tuesday, police said. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoHappy Earthday everybody! This was the scene at Fort Mason park in San Francisco after Earth Day activists were through partying ... San Francisco may be the greenest city in the nation, but some resident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CBS) — Health officials on Tuesday reported the rise of a troubling new trend in Southland emergency rooms: teenagers being treated for alcohol poisoning after drinking hand sanitizer. KNX ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSurabaya, Indonesia (CNN) -- A tiger swims in a pond to cool off on a hot Saturday morning. School children stroll under a canopy of trees and watch Kalimantan gibbons playfully swing on the branches. A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoCHERRY HILL, N.J. - A New Jersey father says he was so desperate to save his autistic son from he calls the bullying of teachers that he sent him to school with a hidden tape recorder. You'll never beli...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 13 hours ago[image: image] Looking after guests staying over these days is more complicated than just leaving out some linen and pointing them to the end of the hall where the bathroom lives. Joelle Alcaidinho and...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agolink to very short video explaining radiation exposure symptoms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHep4Os1qqE The video is very conservative overall, as demonstrated by its gross understatement of Chernobyl ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAngela Merkel launched a staunch defence of Europe's fiscal pact as politicians from the Netherlands, Spain and Greece scrambled to keep their own austerity measures on track. In a rare concession, the G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPresident Salva Kiir's remarks follow reports that Sudan fighter jets launched new air strikes on disputed border area. Salva Kiir, the South Sudanese president, has said his northern neighbour Sudan ha...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoMy headline would be almost comical, if it was not so very tragic. Japan Today: Tsuruga nuclear plant may be sitting atop active geological fault http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tsuruga-n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA viral image of a Swedish cake art installation has touched off a firestorm of questions. Artist Makode Linde says the showpiece, a cake in the shape of a naked black woman, was meant to highlight fema...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoPaul Oestreicher is a retired Anglican priest and the chairman of Amnesty International UK. If you haven't heard about him yet, you probably will. His essay about Jesus in *The Guardian* Sunday will proba...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe no-show in the Myanmar parliament by the National League for Democracy was an embarrassment for all concerned. It should have been a day for both the reformists in the government and opposition leade...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA retired British businessman extradited to the United States on arms dealing charges has been released on bail. Christopher Tappin, who faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted, was freed after his f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSlovaks are currently living in a fear of this tiny tearaway - whose fearsome fighting skills have seen it dubbed the Kung Fu Guinea Pig. The pint-sized ninja terrified dog walker Marta Domotorova when it...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoMany people are under the false pretence that the push for war on Iran has been halted due to ongoing talks with Iranian officials to bring a peaceful "resolution" to the situation, especially concerning I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEU demands for an inflation-busting 7 per cent budget increase have been met with outrage by politicians. Britain would have to shell out an extra £1billion under the European Commission’s proposals for a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoBritain has plunged into the first double-dip recession since 1975 and is enduring its longest economic slump for a century, shock figures confirmed yesterday. But the Prime Minister insisted it would be...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoEconomic and environmental catastrophes unavoidable unless rich countries cut consumption and global population stabilises. World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich cou...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoDS Mahal has graced with another amazing chart of statistics. This graph is of the number of people on Food Stamps since 2008. We are in a hidden depression, there are no soup lines, these people get ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(CNN) -- Israel's top general said Iran is led by "very rational people" and doesn't appear poised to build a nuclear bomb that would threaten his nation. Iran "is going step by step to the place where i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoFrance has said the ceasefire in Syria is not working and has suggested military action may be the next step needed to stop the violence there. French foreign minister Alain Juppe said the UN-backed peac...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 34.6 km (21.5 miles), the quake hit at 02:49:24 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 296 km (184 miles) SSW from NUK...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 13 hours agoToday Rupert Murdoch was "grilled" by the Leveson Inquiry on his relationship with British politicians, a key question thrown up by the phone hacking scandal at his now-defunct News of the World tabloid. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 93.4 km (58 miles), the quake hit at 00:10:42 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) North from Petersville, Al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 23:43:11 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 297 km (184.1 miles) South of NUKU`ALOFA, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:49:59 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 250 km (155 miles) ESE of Hotan,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 44.1 km (27.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:11:52 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) EN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:04:24 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 361 km (2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 80 km (49.6 miles), the quake hit at 20:45:25 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (29.8 miles) No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 253 km (156.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:17:55 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 mil...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 14 hours ago*The Missing Piece* 04/25/2012 by Sophie Loves The beginning is where it all starts. On this much we can agree. There is a moment in linear time when we each arrived. This is our beginning as ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago*“The Journey”* by Chet Raymo “Here's a deep-deep sky map of the universe from "Nature." The horizontal scale is a 360 view right around the sky; the vertical gaps at 6 hours and 24 hours are the part...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 14 hours ago"Did you see it? One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for a meteor to flash is typically less than the time it takes for a head to turn. Possibly, thoug...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 14 hours agoTwo books on workers and rabble-rousing: Kick some ass with the working class By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / April 25, 2012 [Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoIt has been a few months since the Kony 2012 video went viral over the internet and people all over the world were suddenly clamouring for something to be done to remove that "threat" in the African nation...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 15 hours ago....the Fortune 500. Why no matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change. *by Tony Cartalucci * *April 26, 2012* - President George Bush, President Barack Obama, and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 15 hours agoNot a carpenter? Me neither! But the key is patience. Act like you have all the time in the world, and use freely or cheaply available freecycled materials so it won't matter if you goof, and you can alwa...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 15 hours agoPrabhat Patnaik. Image from The Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism. 'There are Marxists in India?' Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the global crisis By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / April 25, 2012 A...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 16 hours agoI've long maintained that Blue Dogs were a detriment to progressive progress within the Democratic party. I endured years of no little criticism for suggesting that even though they often voted with the pa...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Sure, George "The Cleveland Clobberer" Steinbrenner was kind of battered when he emerged from the empty elevator that famous day in 1981 in Los Angeles, but you shoulda seen them other guys. No, really, y...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 16 hours ago*Sean Payton on his suspension and fan support*
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 16 hours agoWell, I guess that we know by now that nothing has changed since the Eisenhower administration, He warned us about all this just before he left office. Three months later John F. Kennedy told us more abou...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 16 hours ago*Examples of Just Rulers: George Washington and Cyrus The Great.* "Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law."...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 17 hours agoThere has been a lot of chatter lately about monetary policy under Ben Bernanke's leadership and how his Fed has dealt with the zero lower bound on interest rates. One of the more thoughtful analyses of t...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 17 hours agoHow many billions of dollars has all the damaging and unethical high stakes testing of children cost states and the Federal government over the past 25 years? Not nearly as much a Pearson, CBT/McGraw-Hill...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Niles) at DAMMIT JANET! - 18 hours agoPeople in favour of diluting human womb owners' legal 'personhood' rights like to use the framing of pregnancy as justification. The actual existence of a born individual in a society is denigrated in fav...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 18 hours ago*CALVIN JOHSNON OF LEUPP, ARIZONA RESPONDS TO NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT’S PRESS RELEASE FILLED WITH MISLEADING AND BIASED INFORMATION* *By Calvin Johnson* *Posted at Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blog...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Nuclear Peril: * *Why Fukushima is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl"* by Robert Alvarez “In the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the news media is just beginning to grasp that...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoThe GOP has now officially become so boring no one is covering it. I couldn't find any totals from yesterday's events. This is the closest I found to any rundown of the numbers. Of course, if this had happ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours agoCoppenbrügge, Niedersachsen, Germany. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 18 hours agoBuild a ventilated cold room in the basement or part of the coolest room in the house, or, better, if your water table permits, in a free-standing cellar. Load it with, to the extent possible, things you'...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 19 hours agoOutside Pediatric Clinic, Cite Soleil--April 24 (Photo by John Carroll) I have never seen Haiti so bad. Read this. *As President Convalesces in Florida, Confusion and Chaos Grow in Haiti * By Kim Ives an...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 19 hours ago[image: brrokings] NOTE: The following was actually written before Dan Nexon posted a good piece on exactly the same essay. I’m not sure if that coincidence means anything, but here’s my take: --------...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* “The Truth Revealed About Debt and Deficits”* By Marshall Auerback “It’s hard to open a newspaper or turn on the TV without being bombarded with narratives suggesting that fiscal policy didn’t work ...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoOvernight we heard news the UK is “back” in recession—back in recession because it recorded an “official” decrease in GDP for the quarter of 0.2% after a contraction the previous quarter of 0.3%. What I...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago* "How Employment and Economic Growth* * are Hindered by Politics"* by Bill Bonner "Nothing special in yesterday’s financial news. So let’s turn from farce to fraud…that is, to politics. President Oba...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoOkay, we're supposed to clear out in 2014, right? Maybe, maybe not. Now, according to *CBC*, Harper is saying he'll examine all options when the deadline nears. Wait a minute. 2014 is no longer a de...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoA retired RCAF Colonel who served as fleet manager of our CF-18s has said the obvious - the F-35 has no place in the defence of Canada. *Retired colonel Paul Maillet, an aerospace engineer and former CF-18...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 20 hours agoContent is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 20 hours agoHow have we allowed our "banksters" (Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Wells-Fargo, Citibank, BoA, Alan Greenspan, Tim Geithner, and all the rest of those very "smart boys") to screw our civilization for penni...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoTammy Baldwin is a congresswoman from Madison, Wisconsin. The people she represents know better than most what a Republican War Against Women feels like. The state's far right governor, Scott Walker, is t...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoWebsite for this image Presumably the idea behind Operation Breivik was to increase CIA-Mossad-Mafia control over Norway, and Europe. And the Arctic. ( http://www.voltairenet.org/Norway-NATO-Rehearses-F...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago*New Orleans Saints will enter draft without knowing of player discipline*
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours agoNo surprise -- but will they seek a stay pending appeal??? The Canadian Press The federal government seeks to appeal sex-trade ruling legalizing bawdy houses, living off the avails of pro...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoThe Marine Corps said Wednesday it has decided to discharge a sergeant for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook. The Corps said Sgt. Gary Stein will be given an other-than-honorable discharge f...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoOver at the Monkey Cage, John Sides directs our attention to an unsurprising Gallup finding: partisan-influenced perceptions of the economy. As someone who follows voters a lot less carefully than John ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoBy Amir Efrati April 25, 2012 p. B3 Majia paraphrasing: This article describes Planetary Resource's, a Seattle based start-up, plan to send "robotic spacecraft to remotely mine asteroids" The plan is to m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoEmergency medical crews whisked a Columbia nuclear fuel plant employee to the hospital this week after the worker was exposed to a uranium-containing acid, according to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commi...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 22 hours agoDo the risks outweigh the so called benefit? Seems quite likely Benefits of most commonly prescribed anti-depressants, even taken at their best, compare poorly to the risks, which include premature death ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 6.6 km (4.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:30:57 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 116 km (72 miles) NNE of...
- posted by Keith Peat at No Eco Twaddle- or other false policy (N.E.T) - 22 hours ago*CCNet – 25 April 2012* *The Climate Policy Network* *Shale Cars The New Transport Revolution?* There are more than 13 million natural gas vehicles on the road worldwide. Now companies and researchers a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Peru at a depth of 109.6 km (68.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:19:36 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) WNW from Arequipa, Peru N...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 22 hours agoApril 25, 2011 A3 by Tom Fowler Byline reads: "Engineer accused of deleting texts on flow rate, which can determine possible fines" Excerpt: "The government said the deleted texts included estimates of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:17:42 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 351 km (2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:16 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 246 km (152 miles) North of Pu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:44:21 UTC Wednesday 25th April 2012 The epicenter was 249 km (154 miles) North of Pu...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoImage from The Blog of Progress. Take a deep breath: How do we build our movements? The response of 2011 was spontaneous, passionate, daring, and electric in its transformational possibilities. By Harry Tar...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoGagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime. It has institutiona...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*The Real News:* "Robert McChesney: Corporate media making millions from political ads, then cover ad driven horse race as news."
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoConstruction is already underway on the Shimao Intercontinental Hotel in the Songjiang District of Shanghai - a five-star, 19-story, 380-room, luxury hotel built into an abandoned, part-flooded quarry...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoby GW Hardin An inspiring story is evolving of a little boy born with a hole in his brain. At the heart of the story is an evolving revelation as to how all of us may be effected by what is happenin...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoDestructive copper mining in southern Arizona at Bisbee*Protect Gila River Indian lands from water contamination from copper mining, south of Phoenix* *By Lori Riddle* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrel...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 23 hours agoAt Post Partisan, I take advantage of the end of the Newt Gingrich campaign to take several shots at the disgraced former Speaker. I did not, however, use the words "total fraud." Nor did I call him Tom P....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFormer Libyan rebels are now chanting for Syrians to follow their revolutionary path. Hundreds of mercenaries, some of whom are said to be former terrorists, are ready to pick up arms again to help overthr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Libya, preparing for elections in June, has banned parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, the government said on Wednesday, and a new Islamist party viewed as a leading contender signal...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoVamos v. Vamos, 2012 ONCA 262 holds, as is well established, that parents have to be at least on good speaking terms for joint custody to be awarded: [9] To have custody of a child is to have dec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAs many as 57 people have died, mostly in Maharashtra, of swine flu in the country till April 18 this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad agreed that swine flu or ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWe sit at the top of our planetary food chain but, when you're at the top it's easy, even natural, to imagine yourself far bigger and greater than you truly are. After a while you might just start thin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTomorrow our first Rob Zerban vs Paul Ryan billboard goes up. Sunday night I met John Nichols at an event for *The Nation* and when I told him where we put it, he lit up like a Christmas tree. I-94 is the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThiruvananthapuram, Apr 25 (PTI) A total of 12 cases of swine flu have been reported from different parts of Kerala. According to the state Directorate of Health Services (DHS), eight persons tested pos...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoShimla, Apr 25 (PTI) A 66-year old woman, who tested positive for swine flu, died within an hour after she was brought to Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) Hospital here in a critical condition on Mond...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago*... suggests secret doubts that vaccines provide immunity.* ** *Contributor: "YYC"* Pediatricians in Canada discharging unvaccinated children *Pediatricians in Canada are starting to discharge children who...
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