- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 minutes agoThis has been coming for years. Science is speaking out. It's time to redistribute the wealth, globally. *The world's most renowned population analyst has called for a massive reduction in the number o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 minutes ago
Our Barenaked Ladies guitar fun for Norman Solomon and David Gill has been working out so well that we decided to launch another one. This time we have a sleek, black Squier Telecaster autographed-- in 20... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoA man suspected of killing two people in their own homes is a known drug user who had been released on court bail, the detective leading the manhunt has said. James Allen has previous convictions for vio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:22:34 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 154 km (95 miles) West of Port ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 71.5 km (44.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:22:58 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 106 km (65 miles) North of Luganville, Espiritu Sant... - posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 23 minutes ago#HarperHistory You really have to go read Kady's account of Harper's history. Like now. Just don't have any food or drink in your mouth. There's a reason this guy doesn't do unscripted. Harebell has ano...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 27 minutes ago
------------------------------ *THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 * Permalink *CISPA Critics Warn Cybersecurity Bill W... - posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 29 minutes agoIn this new political ad by the Obama camp, former Pres. Bill Clinton reinforces the popular myth that the president of the United States is the "Decider in Chief." If Obama is really the "Decider in Chie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Taiwan at a depth of 46.9 km (29.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:48:35 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Southeast of Hualien, Taiwan No Tsun... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 39 minutes ago
A man has been arrested by police and led away from a building in Tottenham Court Road in central London, following a siege that sparked a major alert. Hundreds of people were evacuated and one of the ca... - posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 49 minutes ago*Since launching this website in 2008 I have been committed to providing timely recommendations to my readers when extraordinary value is presented in the financial market. The following video illustrates ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 59 minutes agoFor all you Canadian and prairie fiction aficionados who happen to read this blog, my wondrous and brilliant marvel of a friend has just published her first novel. The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupré is historica...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoECONOMICS MARKET DISTORTIONS AND PROFIT DRIVEN FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: 84% of All Stock Trades are by High-Frequency Computer Algorithms by Washington's Blog http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 hour agoHow does the F-35 stack up against the competition today? That depends on who you ask and how badly they want to buy/sell it. First off, let's leave the stealth business out of this. Like most emergin...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 hour agoht to Stan Karp: *Opting Out of NJ ASK* *NJ Spotlight* *Reilly, a former literacy director in Newark and then assistant superintendent in Hackensack as well as Morristown, said it has clearly led to a na...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 1 hour ago
*Stephen Harper is not going to be Prime Minister for ever. The sooner Canadians see him out of office, the better the whole nation will be. This country is starting to wake up to the reality of Mr. Harpe... - posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
It is quite reasonable to conclude the the Greenland ice sheet is generally stable. It has stood up to far worse for far longer and not collapsed. Yet a rapid collapse is possible and this ice ... - posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 2 hours ago
This has been a long time coming. It was possible at least a decade ago when several developers identified the opportunity and created software and tools. I suspect that it has simply become che... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 hours agoI'm convinced that, badly as the air force boys want the F-35, even if they got it they would soon be back, begging bowl in hand. Everyone, especially those air force guys boosting the F-35 option at the ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours ago*Are you supporting ALEC with the financial decisions you are making?* *PLEASE say NO to ALEC and NO to ALEC Corporate profit sector members - use your money wisely.* As I write this the stock market is ...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 hours agoDo you want to know what's really pathetic? Understand, Canada's Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms is apparently a popular model for other countries when they write their constitutions. This ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Compacting trucks assemble the latest delivery to L.A.'s Puente Hills Landfill, the largest rubbish dump in America. Despite surface appearances, Puente Hills is considered one of the most state-...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours ago*EPISODE FOUR: FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL PROTECTION* * *Sylvia and I take a walk around the perimeter of Menwith Hill and find ourselves accused of forming an unlicensed procession! Coinciding with a small ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Global temperature anomalies for March 2012, based on an ongoing analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. It shows changes from the norm for each region, not absolute...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: The Colorado River Aqueduct, a lifeline to Southern California. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, via Associated Press] By ADAM NAGOURNEY and FELICITY BARRINGER 23 April 2012 ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 3 hours agoNot as celebrated was Kafka's short story in which his character wakes up as Donald Duck.
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 3 hours agoThe answer to that question is "not very many of us". More than 190 people entered the joint daveberta.ca and CalgaryGrit Great Alberta Election Pool, but like nearly all the pollsters and pundits, most e...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours ago*Congroovient Butt~Nola Smokehouse* ~Hat Tweet @*NOLAsmokehouse* Butts after a long night of smoke #*porkcandy* #*bark* *Proposed gasoline pipeline under Lake Pontchartrain draws few questions in Mandevi...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours ago"Technically, we might still call it a democracy," Lawrence Martin writes this morning. But, "in practice it's a democracy in name alone." Martin, perhaps more than any other Canadian journalist, has tr...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 4 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli - Michael Ferguson repeated the points he made in his report to Parliament on the F-35 boondoggle at the public accounts committee and then added this: So far, the government has talked abou...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 4 hours agoHappy Birthday to Jack Klugman, 90. As for the good stuff: 1. Sarah Posner remembers Chuck Colson's latter years. 2. The decline of Tucker Carlson, by Alex Pareene. Brutal. 3.Super PACs might matter a l...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 4 hours agoThe assassination of Osama bin Laden by US special forces certainly has created a political problem for the Republican party. They spent years demagoguing the war on terror, but now the symbol of that stru...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:52:47 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) West of Port...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 4 hours ago*Tunisian beggars* Tunisia, which greatly prospered before the Arab Spring, is now a typical African basket case. Tunisians have become beggars. In April 2012, The Globe and Mail reports: http://www....
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 4 hours agoSo the first hour of debate on the not-so-stealth abortion motion did not go well for Mr. Woodworth. The Opposition parties came out strongly in favour of the 21st century and rationality. And as you know,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoSnipers, explosive experts and a police negotiator are attending a potential hostage situation at Tottenham Court Road in central London. There are reports that four people have been taken hostage at a bu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - More than 1 million Americans who have taken out mortgages in the past two years now owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, and Federal Housing Administration loans that require o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(Reuters) - An elite Afghan soldier shot dead an American mentor and his translator at a U.S. base, Afghan officials said on Friday, in the first rogue shooting blamed on the country's new and closely vett...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- A top European Union official expressed concern Thursday about the condition of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, saying she was roughed up in prison. Tymoshenko is serving a sev...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours agoLast cycle we talked a lot about how the DCCC adamantly refused to even recognize the campaign against John Boehner by a valiant young progressive Democratic veteran, Justin Coussoule. They would go out ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- A U.K. businessman whose death is at the center of a huge political scandal in China was not a spy working for Britain, the foreign secretary said. Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoPolice have been called to a potential hostage situation after one of the country's busiest shopping streets was closed. Businesses and shoppers were evacuated from Tottenham Court Road in central London...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 4 hours agoDr Cintli: ARIZONA'S SALT OF THE EARTH MOMENT: ARIZONA'S SALT OF THE EARTH MOMENT By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez During the miner’s strike in Grants County, New Mexico in 1951, d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- Three people were arrested in Copenhagen Friday on suspicion of planning a terror attack, Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service said. The three are a 22-year-old Jordanian citizen, a 23-yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoFour explosions that rocked an eastern Ukrainian city on Friday have prompted a terror probe, the Ukrainian News agency reported. A regional prosecutor's office has started a "terrorist case" into the bl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours ago(CNN) -- A suicide bombing in a Damascus neighborhood killed nine and injured tens of people, Syrian state media said Friday. It was the second bomb blast to rock the Syrian capital Friday. The deadly att...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 4 hours ago*FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012* *Two columnists and those new clothes:* We’ve been called away from our sprawling campus on a mission of national import. We expect to finish our current, award-wining series on M...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 4 hours agoI have to be honest – I have no idea what this article says. (I only speak Minnesotan.) BUT – I did use a translator site and input a couple of phrases and it seems legit and since it is from the Nation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOffices on Tottenham Court Road have been evacuated after a man reportedly walked into a Starbucks wearing a gas canister and threatened to blow himself up. Photo: @benturner83 A man alleged to be carryi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoTWO CREEKS — Point Beach Nuclear Plant declared an alert Wednesday night when carbon monoxide built up in a room near where a diesel generator was being worked on. The alert was declared at 9:06 p.m. Air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoOKLAHOMA CITY - Putnam City High School's baseball fields were shut down Wednesday after a swarm of bees attacked the grounds crew. The school says the fields are safe tonight, experts warn Oklahoma resi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA police officer at the scene asking members of the public to move away from Tottenham Court Road (Pic: Twitter/Stephen Hull) Offices on Tottenham Court Road have been evacuated after a man reportedly wa...
- posted by Donna at Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home - 4 hours agoThe Miami Marlins suspended new Manager Ozzie Guillen for saying: “I love Fidel Castro,” and "I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, b...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 5 hours agoABC News from Australia has featured a video so harshly blunt about the dismal prospects for the fate of trees, I wouldn't expect to see it compete for a time slot on an American channel against Dancing W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoTwo men have been jailed for five years each for sending nail bombs to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and high-profile Celtic supporters. Neil McKenzie and Trevor Muirhead were convicted of conspiracy to assa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoCleveland police are involved in an "ongoing operation" at a Middlesbrough housing estate as they search for double murder suspect James Allen. Detectives are searching a house in the Pallister Park area...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago[image: Link]Police have closed part of Tottenham Court Road in central London because a man is causing a disturbance. There are reports that it is a hostage incident. Police have confirmed it is not rela...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA deadly fungus is rapidly killing off frogs around the globe by making them died of thirst. The fungus attacks the skin of the creatures, leaving them unable to absorb water - essential for any amphibia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory. The shrimp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA six-year-old boy was arrested and carted to a police station in the back of a cop car after he assaulted his elementary school teachers. The kindergartener, from Shelbyville, Indiana, was arrested on al...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA teenager has undergone surgery after being beaten unconscious by a fellow student in an incident of school bullying. The argument between Preston Hodge and a classmate reportedly broke out on Tuesday d...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 5 hours ago*The author is a top Israeli astrophysicist and cosmoclimatologist, blogging at sciencebits.com* *Does the global temperature lag \(CO_2\)? More flaws in the Shakun et al. paper in Nature.* Over the pa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA woman returning home from Africa caused a monkeypox scare aboard her flight after she broke out in a rash, sparking a massive quarantine among the passengers. The Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAnxious Russians have been bombarding Twitter today with fears about an ominous green cloud looming over Moscow. Having awoken to the bizarrely tinged skies talk of chemical spills and ash clouds soon do...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 5 hours ago*The Argentine government's fraudulent nationalisation of YPF* *by Cunctator * The so-called nationalisation [of YPF] by Jewess [President] Kirchner is just another swindle by our favourite culture-disto...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA company behind a new range of Afro style washing up sponges has been slammed for being racist. Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which cari...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoIn fairness, the focus is on the accused and not the police -- and what may superficially look like a lie can be true in fact. But but but the brushing aside of the issue by Chief Blair's office is not enc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoProtesters have hurled petrol bombs at a police station in Bahrain and riot police have responded with teargas and stun grenades. The violence flared after a funeral march for a man killed in clashes dur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA large black bear who wandered up into a tree at the University of Colorado - Boulder, is again safe after wildlife department officials managed to get him out of a sticky situation. The 200-pound male ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMET forecasters are predicting the wettest April since records began after days of tornados and constant downpours have left many parts of the country under water - with one driver needing to be rescued a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 49.2 km (30.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:32:45 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) North from Kulob (Kulyab), Tajik...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 55.4 km (34.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:29:43 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 miles) NNW of Kendari, Sulawe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA benefit fraudster treated herself to exotic holidays and then posted pictures of the trips on Facebook - while falsely claiming handouts worth £37,000. Andrea Raftis, 24, claimed she was a single mothe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA bus driver who bludgeoned a young British student to death in Poland last year has begged for leniency because he 'had a wife and family to care for'. The battered body of Kate Zaks, 21, an art student...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDebt collection agencies are chasing a staggering £58billion – equivalent to £1,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. The total has shot up by £6billion in just six months and demonstrates ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:01:05 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 31 km (19.2 miles) Southwest of Changji...
- posted by Megan H. MacKenzie at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoAfter reading the FP special 'sex' issue this week I had the strangest feeling. It was like I woke up and it was 1991 and I was 13 again reading teen magazines. After reading Charli's excellent post on th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Spain's sickly economy faces a "crisis of huge proportions", a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in two decades and Standard and Poor's weighed in with a two-notch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe Reconstruction Agency announced on April 27 that as of March 31 this year, there had been 1,618 indirect deaths related to the Great East Japan Earthquake disasters in Tokyo and nine prefectures. The...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced April 26 that it will recalculate the height of a potential tsunami that may strike its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture. The move w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSome 9,000 U.S. Marines will be moved out of Okinawa Prefecture under a revamped roadmap for the realignment of United States military forces in Japan, the governments of both countries announced on April...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago“THEY can’t be Japanese!” a journalist from Tokyo whispered caustically into your correspondent’s ear on hearing the uncharacteristic volume of shouting and heckling at a well-attended town-hall meeting. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKauai, Hawaii - As Noam Chomsky wrote in this two-part essay, America's "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region is in response to what it calls "classic security dilemmas" posed by the rising influence of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIN OUR common narrative, the modern era of global finance—what we call the Old Order—begins with the Great Depression and New Deal of the 1930s. The economic model put in place by President Franklin D. Ro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoI went to Lille in northern France a few days before the first round of the French presidential election to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate Francois Hollande. It was a depressing experience...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe European Union (EU), we have long been told, is an uncompromising champion of human rights, supporting them with all possible means, from diplomatic measures to military action against sovereign state...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war. Recent attacks in Kabul confirm the occupation is falling to pieces. Claims abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoChina warns of risk of confrontation but says committed to diplomacy * Recent South China Sea gas find may stoke China's claims * Vietnam, Taiwan re-stake their claims (Recasts) ULUGAN BAY, Philippines, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 reversed a process that had been under way since the Russian Empire’s emergence in the 17th century. It was ultimately to incorporate four general elements: Easte...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoaround this time last year, as shown by the video below, the Royal West of England Academy, in Bristol, ran a retrospective of the work of radical figurative artist Robert Lenkiewicz (31 December 1941 – Au...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom has been further solidified following recent talks between Turkish and Chinese leaders. The first steps are being constructed with a number of little...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMADRID – The latest round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program between Iran and the so-called “5+1” group (the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members – the United States, the United...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoTehran's efforts to expand its circle of influence in South America is tantamount to exporting state-sponsored terrorism into the region, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. "We always have a concern a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThe so-called Global Financial Crisis is a term so widely used that it has earned its own acronym of GFC. When first seen, it seemed like girl friend club or some such, since many friends use GF loosely t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoThere has been a great deal of chatter recently about too-big-to-fail. The presidents of two regional Federal Reserve banks – in Dallas and Kansas City – are calling for the end of government support for a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Asquith* Herbert Asquith, the British Prime Minister who took Britain into World War I, was a Liberal. During World War I, Asquith's energies were devoted to a mistress 35 years his junior - Venetia St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoExamples 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." - Sene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWith NATO members meeting soon to discuss the future of the alliance's nuclear weapons, and next-door neighbor Iran threatening to get nuclear weapons itself, it's a volatile time for Turkey and nukes. Cu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that he would direct the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan to follow the implementation of agreements conc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - China will send its envoy for Africa to Sudan and South Sudan to urge talks as it works with the United States to bring an end to border fighting that has raised fears of a full-scale war, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoAustralian economist Steve Keen is amongst a growing group of economic renegades who believe things are so far gone with the global economy that a debt jubilee and a total reset of the financial system is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoJERUSALEM -- The burgeoning relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan is raising eyebrows throughout the Middle East, not least of all because Azerbaijan is Iran’s neighbor to the north and shares close ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDaniel Stid is a partner in The Bridgespan Group, a non-profit organization that provides advisory and consultancy services to philanthropists and non-profits. Stid leads Bridgespan’s performance measure...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:38:37 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) West from Petro...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoEarly adopters to the Free Planet ideology, where you don't have to pay and pay and pay for life-basics like food, water, shelter, got this knowledge for FREE. People are beginning to see the sense of e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoCleveland police are checking two possible sightings in Middlesbrough of James Allen, who is wanted in connection with two murders. Detectives say they are urgently trying to find Allen, 35, over the dea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoChen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese lawyer who won global acclaim for uncovering rights abuses under China's "one child" policy, has escaped from house arrest, according to his supporters. Chen had been u...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoI often wonder who is worse: George W. Bush — the man who turned a projected trillion dollar surplus into the greatest deficits in world history, who bailed out the profligate Wall Street algos and arbitra...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoI've received a lot of unusual information today. I feel like I am in the eye of an information hurricane that is about to hit in May. Got this from a somewhat obscure source, claims to be ex-Illumin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck near the North Coast New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 123.1 km (76.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:49:43 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 89 km (5...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMobile Police made their first arrest in the mob beating of Matthew Owens. 44-year-old Terry Rawls surrendered Wednesday on assault charges. "This here is an ongoing dispute with neighbors, that's what thi...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours ago*The author is a retired Greek experimental particle physicist and a frequent TRF commenter* *The story with the huge author list high energy experiments* What follows is my experience of participating in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoU.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits. Seattle-based Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne (KIROT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFour current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSwiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone. The Zurich newspaper repo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHere’s what we do know about student loan debt: it’s roughly $1 trillion in size, greater than either auto or credit-card debt and second only to mortgage debt in the U.S. Borrowers in their 30s today o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNew U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week but a trend reading rose to its highest since January, the latest sign of a weaker pace of healing in the still-struggling labor market. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoMore Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week and consumer confidence declined by the most in a year, signaling that a cooling labor market may restrain household spe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoPolice now reaching out to the public, asking witnesses and victims to come forward. MONTREAL - Montreal is waking up to a morning of smashed windows, vandalized cars and questions about how a protest d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoLess than half of Europe's development aid budget goes to the neediest, low-income countries, MPs have warned. A report by a House of Commons Committee has challenged the Government, which provided £1.23...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 29.3 km (18.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:16 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 188 km (116 miles) East...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoMajor New Issues with Vaccines Are Surfacing By Greg Davidson Food Freedom News, April 26, 2012 Bill Gates spoke to Sanjay Gupta on CNN in February 2011, saying that skeptics of vaccines are killin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 224.5 km (139.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:49:30 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 82 km (50 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 33.9 km (21.1 miles), the quake hit at 05:37:10 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) ESE ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 161 km (99.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:17:19 UTC Fruday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 55 km (34.1 miles) Southwest of Kuril'sk, K...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 04:37:08 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37.8 miles) Northeast of S...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 10 hours ago*Weekly find: Flatbread Company* Last week when I was back in the Boston area visiting my family for my sisters birthday surprise we came across the amazing, limited eater friendly, Flatbread Company. Bui...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 10 hours agonot only is world war three ON, it's BEEN ON for the last two hundred years: Let me (try to) explain. WHAT IS AN OVERT WAR? most 'overt wars' are publicly advertised and publicly organised events betwe...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoMendacious attacks on Israeli water policy has been going on forevermore. I caught a whiff of it even as a high school student. Ongoing investment in water by Israel has succeeded in providing n...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 10 hours agoSome folks cannot resist a press release. On top of that the economics of the material is only hinted at and as on earth, all that glitters does not pay. If every other aspect of this adventure ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 11 hours agoYour blogger with Robin Campbell, Ken Kowalski’s possible replacement as Speaker of the Alberta Legislature. Below: Laurie Blakeman, Gene Zwozdesky, and Wayne Cao with you-know-who. JASPER, Alberta Just ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoBill Zajc sent me a link to this 1-hour panel discussion about the God particle at the Columbia University. It was moderated by Amber Miller, a physicist and a science dean of Columbia's FAS. Brian Greene ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoSir Alan Sugar has reportedly said: "I don’t care if Ed Miliband is backing Livingstone. I seriously suggest NO-ONE votes for Livingstone in the Mayoral elections." Sensible chap... on this matter anyway.
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 12 hours agoLooks like the BC Liberals are attempting again to alter society, more social engineering, Gordon Campbell`s and Rich Coleman`s smart meters, it was in BC Hydro`s service plan, real time billing, meaning...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago#M312 #Cdnpoli - Who woulda thunk it? The Harperist government whip stood better ground against Woodworth and his anti-abortion crusade than Liberal leader Bob Rae. Rae's decision not to whip his party's...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 12 hours agoRIP. These are probably my two favorite songs by The Band. Both clips are from Martin Scorsese's doc, The Last Waltz. Levon Helm was quite a talent. (Side note: I played trumpet on a version of "The Weig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn Oklahoma City woman is facing a felony charge after she allegedly called in a bomb threat to Oklahoma Gas & Electric. Her motive? She received a bill for $14. "I remember flipping out, but I don't re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoState troopers blew the cover off an illegal street race in Northwest Miami-Dade Wednesday night after someone tipped them off. Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Nelvys Hernandez says more than a thousan...
- "Bombing Sudan’s air bases only way to protect innocents" — Because America surely needs another war
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoI have seen what happens when the world turns its back and looks the other way. For 20 years I have worked in Sudan, helping its people struggle through the horrors of starvation and murderous attacks. Du... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is reporting a major surge in New York City subway crime. The agency said pick pockets and other thieves are bumping up the crime rate by...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“Drifting through the one-horned constellation Monoceros, these dusty streamers and new born stars are part of the active Monoceros R2 star-forming region, embedded in a giant molecular cloud. The cosmic ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoSong Dae-sung, the president of the Seoul-based Sejong Institute, is one of many security analysts who agree with the president’s stance. He sees the current limitation’s on Seoul’s arsenal to be a major ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoTwo nuclear power plants in Japan are located right on top of a seismically unstable region, raising the possibility of an earthquake-induced disaster, according to a report on Wednesday. Tomari plant in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Splat!"* by Chet Raymo "In Stephen Crane's American classic, "The Red Badge of Courage," young Henry Fleming goes off to war fired by dreams of heroic sweep and grandeur. "He had read of marches, s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWhen Obama bundlers get special government subsidies they didn't deserve, I don't see the main lesson as being one of corruption in the Obama administration. I think the main lesson is the nature of gover...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoDepartment of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that "no one knows" if gasoline prices in the United States will reach $9 per gallon, and acknowledged that the possibility is outside his control. "I do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoIran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists will war...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago"We're headed in the right direction. Unemployment continues to drop and those people who are unemployed, they're not going to be voting for the party who wants to cut their benefits, cut access to food st...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agohttp://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120427_08.html Majia here: The article states that the EU started conducting stress tests on Japan's nuclear reactors over a year ago.The stress test results are not ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy whi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoAnalysts who have studied photos of a half-dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased recently at a lavish military parade say they were fakes, and not very convincing ones, casting further doubt o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Suicide car bombers targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the capital Abuja and northern city of Kaduna on Thursday, killing at least four people in apparently coordinated...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoWASHINGTON – A federal judge on Thursday denied a request to release photos and video taken of Usama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos last year. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 hours agoIf you've been reading this blog lately you probably have come to the conclusion that we were more than a little obsessed with defeating corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden in northeast Pennsylvania, where I used...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 13 hours ago* Brainwashed soldiers in America and Russia are training to suppress popular revolts against the new authoritarian global government.* A new *report* by the Xinhua news agency says that, "Airborne troo...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 13 hours agoCorrelations They Hope You Never Make. *by Tony Cartalucci * *Image: While the UN demands that Syria not only allow admittedly armed terrorists to roam freely through its cities, but that they also capitu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours ago(Reuters) - Treasuries prices rose in Asia on Friday, after Standard & Poor's cut of Spain's credit ratings added to fears about the ability of some European countries to continue financing their debt. *...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck The North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15.6 km (9.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:40:53 UTC Friday 27th April 2012 The epicenter was 725 km (450 miles) WSW of Banda Aceh, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:59 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 723 km (449 miles) SSW of Ba...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 13 hours agoAsahi: Radioactive cesium spread 600 km in waters off Fukushima http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201204260447.html "...scientists said, in amounts that reached 100 times pre-accident levels." Background:...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 5.8 km (3.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:05:35 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31 miles) NNW of Usak, Turkey No Repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 26. km (16.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:21:45 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 329 km (...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoToday the Kaiser Foundation released This brief was prepared by Cynthia Cox, Larry Levitt, and Gary Claxton of the Kaiser Family Foundation as part of the Kaiser Initiative on Health Reform and Private Ins...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 14 hours ago** *... through the back door.* *Contributor: "YYC"* MPs denounce motion to study when life begins *Most Canadians don't agree with the 400-year old definition, and don't accept the notion that "birth is ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*"Music and Moonlight"* "We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone seabreakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moo...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 15 hours agoSURPRISE! *A judge just ruled that pictures of Osama Bin Laden, killed by Team 6, cannot be released.* Still think courts aren't RIGGED? Still saying, "9/11 and the Team 6/Bin Laden story are true, other...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours agoPine River, Minnesota, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 15 hours agoWe lost our beautiful mother two years ago today. The last two years I have lived with a deep ache in my chest. My mom meant everything to me. As I prepared for pediatric clinic in Cite Soleil today, I a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. No...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 15 hours agoI heard myself saying I was happy to be “home” on Tuesday when we dragged back from eight long days in Tegucigalpa. Home. I’ve always known I have quite a fluid definition of that word, having lived in ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago*“Internal Revenue Service Laying Claim To $18 Trillion* * Sitting In 401(k) Accounts?”* by the NY Post "The cat just stuck his head into the canary cage and is eyeing his next feathered meal. I keep wa...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 15 hours agoWe can't pretend to be surprised at the Harper Regime's appeal to the socon mouth breathers. That's part of their playbook, and we've known that all along. But when you read that Bob's not going to whip t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 15 hours ago"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions." - Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield, "Pulp Fiction"
- posted by Vikash Yadav at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours agoDrogo as angry brown man. Source: dothraki.org*Graddakh!* We the brown people of Vaes Dothrak collectively curse the producers of HBO and the slanderous "creator" of our world, which you call the *Game of ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoBluestem Prairie – Breaking News In 2011, Denny McNamara & Amy Koch were ALEC Natural Resources Task Force members American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) documents released to the public today by...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoI've just returned from a lovely brief trip to New York City and points nearby. Apologies to friends who I didn't notify that I was coming in; I was in dire need of less running around and more downtime....
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours ago*Plus NY Transit Museum news and other NYC gadabout notes, including big MAS news* *From obscuraday.com (click to enlarge)* *by Ken* I sure hope you're not depending for information on the now-certified L...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 16 hours agoVisions of Kerouac: Gerald Nicosia. Photo illustration by James Retherford / The Rag Blog. Beats are back bigger than before: A Rag Blog interview with Kerouac scholar Gerald Nicosia By Jonah Raskin / The ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 16 hours ago*It’s Friday. It’s the ramble. You know the drill. **But first, the quote for the week. * *No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*The surprise would be if we didn't get it and actually got a free and fair election. * "Americans Elect falters in bid to ignite third-party fever; Online voting plan postponed, Web traffic light" by Ned...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*The check is in the mail. * "Senate proposals seek to delay Postal Service closings" April 25, 2012 WASHINGTON - “Individual congressmen can try to save their post office this year or next year and get s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*What is sad is they **missed the original scoop**** to the National Enquirer.* "Judge says Edwards case witness contacted others" by Michael Biesecker | Associated Press, April 24, 2012 GREENSBORO, N....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Obama advisers asking unions for convention aid *After he selected a city in a right-to-work state? * WASHINGTON - President *Obama’s political advisers are pressing labor unions * to *underwrite *Septem...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours agoThe War Stories of Three Nations: Israel Is Fighting For Its Survival, America Is Fighting Terrorism, And Iran Is Fighting Tyranny *Related: 9/11 And Karbala: The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Give ...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 18 hours ago* **(typo corrected)** * *Prime Minister Stephen Harper was shouted down during a debate in question period Thursday on the Afghanistan mission for suggesting the NDP – not yet in existence – didn’t even ...
- posted by Cantoral at GlobaLove Think Tank - 18 hours agoThe Federal Reserve Turns Left | The Nation: 'via Blog this'
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours agoJust one item today: over at Post Partisan, I have a post on Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and representation; in particular, about the nature of "promises." I'm arguing that the reason (former) supporters a...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 19 hours agoThree months ago, when I was new in Honduras, I probably would have dismissed the 'charter cities' idea pitched in a column in today's Globe and Mail as undemocratic and dangerous. Now I'm not sure the Hon...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoThursday, April 26, 2012 Message from the Galactic Federation of Light 4/26/12 As channeled through Greg Giles One day we would like to furnish you with a list of all the worlds and the races of be...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 19 hours agoDear Bishop Daniel Jenky- I've read in the news of you calling President Barack Obama both Hitler *and * Stalin. This has unfortunately resulted in a typically liberal online petition that seeks to force ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*“Epic Fail- Part One”* by Jim Quinn, “The Burning Platform” “Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.” – Edmund Burke "No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling i...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 20 hours agoExcellent Essay: Lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima: Nuclear Safety is an Oxymoron. by Prof.T.Shivaji Rao, Director of Center for Environmental Studies,GITAM University, Visakhapatnam (India) http://www....
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 20 hours agoEuropean political elites-- who know who ultimately keeps them living high off the hog-- seem to have persuaded themselves that they know better than the hoi polloi in their countries. In country after co...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours ago*4/26/12* *http://2012portal.blogspot.ca/ * This has indeed gone viral and reached about 100,000 people in one day. But to read about it is one thing and actually do the visualization on 5-5-2012 compl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"The TSA's Mission Creep Is Making The US A Police State"* by Jennifer Abel ․ "Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage a...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 20 hours agoA great many of the comments below the CBC pieces on the student tuition protests in Quebec demonstrate what I think is wrong with Canada these days. The students are apparently ungrateful, lazy, and unwil...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"War: Lest We Repeat"* by Joel Bowman "War doesn’t determine who is right — only who is left." — Bertrand Russell "Is the world marching off to battle, Fellow Reckoner? If history is any guide, the...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoAs every April, Jewish students from Israel, North America, and other countries are brought to Poland where they march from Auschwitz to Birkenau in order to learn something about the horrors of the Holoca...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours ago* * *Press Release: 24 April 2012* *Michael Tellinger Launches Constitutional Court Action Against Standard Bank; and The South African Reserve Bank; and The Minister of Finance.* After a slight techn...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 20 hours agoKaren Tumulty has a good story about the way that twitter is working in the 2012 campaign so far. It's especially useful, I assume, for those who don't really have any idea about what twitter is and how it...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoPhilip L. Russell, left, and David P. Hamilton at the KOOP studios in Austin Friday, March 30, 2012. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio. Rag Radio: Writers David P. Hamilton and Philip L. Russell discuss t...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoOr, in other words, just another day in Wingnuttia. Maybe it's because it's finally sinking in that they're really going to get stuck with the Romneybot 2012 as their candidate, but for whatever reason, th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agohttp://www.propublica.org/article/is-cipsa-sopa-20-we-explain-the-cybersecurity-bill
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 21 hours agoBlackwater Website for this image Reportedly, the Pentagon-linked Blackwater company is behind some of the violence in Syria. Aangirfan Traffic Ranks Country Rank [image: Israel Flag] Israel 29,388 ...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 21 hours ago[image: Ho Kham Luang Royal Pavilion en Tailandia]Foto: Suradej Chuephanich
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 21 hours agoVice President Biden spoke about the Obama Administration's record on foreign policy at NYU yesterday. He brought the thunder by reminding the crowd that the president made the bold decisions that kept Gen...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 21 hours agoI recommend it highly http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sNeRxpYCkHs Please see my post here for discussion: http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/time-to-wake-up.html My extended p...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*It's a once-every-four-years kind of effect. * "President takes rates pitch to colleges in swing states Pivoting to his latest election-year theme, President *Obama will go before college crowds in three...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 21 hours agoThe shenanigans going on this spring in Knoxville, TN, offer a powerful case study of corporate control of schools in action. A few weeks before Eli Broad's East TN transplant, Jim McIntyre, delivered hi...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 22 hours agoAs Southern Man has no Friday lectures, it's the last day of class. Final exams are next week. And there has been a steady stream, all day, of students all asking the same question. *Dr. Southern Man, wha...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago*I have deleted the entire text of the original post. Readers have pointed out that it was a hoax story by anti-Islamics in Egypt that was picked up and carried even in mainstream Canadian media. *
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoBravo! In a twist of irony, a West Virginia woman is trying to collect money from a collection agency. Diana Mey, of Wheeling, W. Va., won the largest judgment ever against an abusive debt collection co...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoMany thanks to Paul Morrison for this: Paul would like any and all to take this image and put it up on their blogs as a way to get this armband thing off the ground.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 69 km (42.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:41:22 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38.4 miles) Northeast of Mutsu, Hokka...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoHundreds and possibly thousands of open-billed storks have died mysteriously in Ang Thong, triggering fear of a new outbreak of bird flu. The birds were found dead in open ground behind a deserted factory...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoKyustendil. 18 of the children hospitalised with poisoning in the town of Kyustendil have been released, Mayor of Kyustendil Petar Paunov announced for FOCUS News Agency. At around 10 p.m. on Wednesday t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoStrange, jellyfish-like creatures swarming a coastal nuclear power plant: It might sound like the premise of a cult horror flick, but the invasion has prompted officials at the Diablo Canyon facility in Sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoKIMBERLEY (NEWS1130) - Evacuation alerts have been issued near both Princeton and Kimberley. They are the result of the first major flooding in BC this year. Warm weather and a high snow pack are likely t...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 22 hours agoGraphic from Left Turn :: Virage a Gauche. Why we oppose NATO! The new NATO is a secretive and costly instrument of war and aggression. It makes its own rules and confirms its own authority. By Bernardine...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours ago*"When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.”* So wrote Briti...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 22 hours ago*Mickey Loomis transcript from NBC radio interview today ~Kevin Spain*
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 22 hours agoBy Alison Young and Peter Eisler, USA TODAY 22 April 2012 Kathleen Marshall used to think the fenced backyard of her Philadelphia home was a safe place for her five children to play. Not anymore. Marsh...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 22 hours ago*By Neil Gillespie* Cross-posted from *The Justice Network* Many people are uninformed about farm animals, slaughterhouses, factory farms, industrial animal agriculture, and the *normalization of violence*...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA Nike business director allegedly tried to blow up his home by cutting a natural gas line to kill his sleeping wife and their four children. James Speidel, 36, was arrested on five counts of attempted ag...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoDuh, really? We now have a scientific study, courtesy of UBC, that shows analytical thinking can be really bad for clinging to religious faith. *The psychology report, published today in the prestigious ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEnvironmental officials in China have been left baffled by the mysterious dumping of millions of pill capsules which has left a sewer awash with colour. The bizarre sight along Zhengshang Road in Zhengzh...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 23 hours agoConsider growing all your own seasonings! We make ours by drying the side leaves of collards, kale, cabbage, spinach, turnip greens and the like with rosemary, marjoram, cilantro, oregano, chives and sage...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA black teenager has told police he punched a white man to the ground and robbed him because he was angry about the Trayvon Martin case. Alton Hayes III said he smashed his 19-year-old victim to a Chicago...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA 15-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly raping an eight-year-old schoolboy and gouging out one of her eyes, it emerged today. The horrific attack saw the young girl subjected to a brutal sex at...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA ten-year-old boy's brutal death at the hands of his stepfather could have been avoided after it was revealed the boy called 911 twice in the past year to report abuse. Abdifatah Mohamud, from Buffalo, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoImage: 15-year-old Sofyen Belamouadden from Acton, west London, was repeatedly beaten and stabbed to death by a gang of youths A teenage girl who organised the killing of a 15-year-old schoolboy at Victo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoThe Royal Society, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary, has a warning for mankind - there are too damned many of us and we're all consuming too damned much of everything. That's the abbreviated ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 23 hours ago[BREAKING NEWS: Largest Student Beat Downs You Never Heard About] I'm a little bit late in getting these videos to you, but it's been a trying day already and I hope this makes more sense to you than some ...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 23 hours agoRupert Murdoch is accused of manipulating the political process of numerous nations including the US. Every American has the right to lobby Congress and participate in the political system. But Murdoch –th...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 23 hours agoUpon the invitation of the President of the Philippine Pharmacists Association (PPhA), *Ms. Leonila "Leonie" Ocampo*, I attended yesterday the afternoon activity, also the formal opening ceremony, of the P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoNext time someone complains that we spend too much time talking about the weather, just remind them about this week. For in the last 24 hours, three tornados have swept through some parts of the country ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoEgyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the I...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 23 hours agoPhoto courtesy of Conflict CupcakeTo be fair, despite all the criticism, *Foreign Policy*'s "Sex Issue" got a few things right. For an all-too rare moment, it put gender - er, sex - er, *sexuality** - on t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoI have added these images to show people what soldiers wear when they are in the Military, note in the Video not one of the supposed soldiers is wearing their standard issued boots.
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 23 hours agoKolios v. Vranich, 2012 ONCA 269 holds an arbitrator may rule on its own jurisdiction to conduct the arbitration and may in that connection rule on objections with respect to the existence or validity of t...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours ago------------------------------ ------------------------------ 26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster GABRIELA BULISOVA photo - Chernobyl Children International It was 26 years ago today when a de...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours agoThe new Mohawk Nation News MNN website has been launched: Would you please go to the website and sign in to receive updates on our articles. Your help in distributing our stories is greatly appreciated....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoImage: Evans is being supported by his girlfriend Natasha Massey, 24, despite him being convicted of a 19-year-old woman Three men have been arrested as part of the investigation into the naming of the v...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Ceram Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 17:01:24 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 247 km (153.1 miles) East of Amaha...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*March for Human Rights to be Held in Flagstaff, Arizona**For Justice & a Healthy Future for Coming Generations!* *Posted at Censored News* *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com* FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Dozens of ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoBrit Hume tweets (and, yes, I know; Brit Hume tweets? but that's what's out there...): Can Barack Obama campaign his way to re-election in the face of conditions in US that would normally spell defeat for...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 110.4 km (68.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:45:59 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) NNE from Calama, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA businessman today slammed 'work shy' Britain after seven of his new recruits failed to turn up to their first day of work because it was raining. Carl Cooper, 26, was flabbergasted when his new employe...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoFor decades we've used the *Exxon Valdez* incident to define oil supertanker disaster. Yet what Harper is planning for coastal BC, south and north, will make the Exxon Valdez disaster a perversely fond me...
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- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 1 day agoImage from Bite Size Buzz. Ways to say 'should' It behooves us to choose wisely what duties and rules to live by. And the way to choose wisely is by considering the effects of our choices. By Bill Meacham ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA huge police manhunt is underway tonight following the separate murders of a 50-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man in their own homes. More than 100 officers are now involved in the search for James A...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoYou can never go far wrong by underestimating the integrity of the Harper regime. They seem to lie when it would be easier to tell the truth and what they can't lie about they simply omit or hide. If yo...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoThere is a new initiative by the Department of Health (DOH) through the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to develop vaccine self-sufficiency project (VSSP). Here is the news report from BWorld: http://www...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoTuesday night a conservative old Democrat, Tim Holden-- despite having all the support the Establishment could give-- lost his congressional seat to an outspoken progressive champion, Matt Cartwright. Sil...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoLabour's former attack dog and now Campaign chief, Tom Watson, has said in an interview on LBC that: "For once, I’m being totally candid with you. I’m saying to you, those Labour voters that are thinking ...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 1 day agoBruce A. Dixon of the *Black Agenda Report* provides a sobering explanation of why plans to close 40 public schools in Philadelphia and turn them over to privatizers and charter operators gets no coverage...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ *Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence* ------------------------------ April 25, 2012 | Original here *A fish rots from the head * Andy Worthington is a superb repor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Romania at a depth of 126 km (78.1 miles), the quake hit at 14:32:40 UTC Thursday 26th April 2012 The epicenter was 11 km (7.2 miles) Northwest of Lopatari, Romania No...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThe NSA Is Watching YouBy Amy Goodman, Truthdig 26 April 12 http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/294-159/11144-the-nsa-is-watching-you [Excerpted] "Three targeted Americans: A career government intelli...
- posted by Roberto Rodriguez at Dr Cintli - 1 day ago*ARIZONA'S SALT OF THE EARTH MOMENT* By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez During the miner’s strike in Grants County, New Mexico in 1951, depicted in the 1954 epic *Salt of the Earth *movie, the striking miners...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoI 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 *Talented Set of Tigers Set for NFL Draft First Roun...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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. - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
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