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View from the village of Zermatt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 16 seconds ago[image: East and North side of the Matterhorn, photograph taken from the village of Zermatt, 16 October 2009. Marcel Wiesweg via Wikipedia] By Michael Day in Milan 4 April 2012 With its four steep fac...
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber today as they took pictures and went sightseeing in an Afghanistan park. Witnesses said the bomber walked up to the troops, who had been warned by local... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 minutes ago
Nearly four decades after a quiet secretary was found stabbed to death in her home - baffling investigators - her alleged killer has been arrested. Lena Triano was found bound, raped, strangled and with m... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 minutes ago*Green v. T&T Inspections & Engineering Ltd*., 2012 NSSC 131 is a useful case outlining the entitlement to a civil jury. While arising in Nova Scotia the reasoning applies broadly: [8] It ha...
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A crazed driver turned his car into a 50mph motorised battering ram as he tried to mow down a crowd of terrified pedestrians on a night out in Manchester. These dramatic CCTV images show the moment the d... - US Draws Up Plans for Nuclear DronesBy Nick Fielding, Guardian UK 04 April 12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/02/us-plans-nuclear-drones [excerpt] "American scientists have drawn up plans for a n...
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A ginger-haired mammoth baby found in Siberia could have been snatched by hungry human hunters from the jaws of a lion 10,000 years ago. The body of the beast - the first ever found with its distinctive ... - posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 38 minutes agoReaders, I am truly shocked at the continuing lack of so called "media" reporting about the still ongoing disaster at Fukushima, Japan. It has been over a year now since at least 3 nuclear reactors at the...
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She was the beautiful blonde bombshell who starred alongside movie star Ashton Kutcher in That '70s Show. But actress Lisa Robin Kelly looks a haggard wreck of her former self in a mugshot released by po... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 1 km (0.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:21:42 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54.5 miles) Northwest Aksu, Kyrgyzstan No Re... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 14 km (8.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:18:37 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 5 km (3.1 miles) Northeast of Karliova, Turkey... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is preparing to unveil a missile capable of striking mainland U.S., according to government sources in neighbouring South Korea. The missile has been spotted by reconnai... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
A drunken street row that resulted in the death of a 'harmless and vulnerable' middle-aged father has today seen the attacker jailed for manslaughter. Kevin Harrison, 48, was on the phone with his wife T... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 52 minutes ago
Heavily armed and dressed in black from head to toe, an elite squad of balaclava-clad police commandos storm the homes of suspected Islamic extremists. Officers arrested ten terror suspects in a series o... - posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 56 minutes agoI had wondered from time to time (upon hearing all the exciting news about mysterious Bahrain) from which government fount the support for the obviously corruption-laden Bahraini government was flowing. Ha...
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Last October, I was surprised by the incredible economy of Current TV, an unknown TV station owned by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. A few months earlier, the station with tens of thousands of viewers hired Ke... - posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 hour agoThe best one yet - more reps at higher weights, longer endurance on the cardio machines, better stretches, and less fatigue and soreness. Improvement!
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 hour agoFukushima Radiation Spreads Across Pacific Ocean. By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience 03 April 12 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/10778-fukushima-radiation-spreads-across-pacific-ocean [ex...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoI put out some cookies from *Nigeria* in my office. Someone then asks me where they can by the *Norwegian* cookies that were so good! Hmmn, "I thought he said *Norwegian*, not *Nigerian*" ... .
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoOne of the country's most wanted men has been arrested at the scene of a suspected burglary and carjacking in Birmingham. The man, named by sources as Cedric Brown, was held after a carjacking involving...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012* *The Washington Post, left in the dark:* We’ve been stunned, the last two nights, by the way Lawrence O’Donnell has played the Mormon card on his cable program. O’Donnell’s a n...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 hour agoNomadic inflated head Keith Olbermann floated onto the set of *Late Night*where he compared himself to a $10 million dollar chandelier and jawjacked his firing from Current with the still amazingly cool and...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Honestly, that cover story has been so played and is so shop-worn.* *They have nothing else, and I suppose that is why the AmeriKan media is a dying hulk.* "US soldier executes 16 Afghans; Dead include 9...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 hour agoThe Economist points towards an interesting new paper by Posner and Weyl titled, "An FDA for Financial Innovation:Applying the Insurable Interest Doctrine to Twenty-First-Century Financial Markets." The ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe delivers her Faith Based Response to Climate Change talk to students and faculty during chapel at Hardin-Simmons University Tuesday, 3 April 2012. Nellie Doneva...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Regions vulnerable to flooding caused by sea level rise. Originally Fig. 3 in Nicholls, R. J. and A. Cazenave (2010), Sea Level Rise and its Impact on Coastal Zones, Science, 328(5985), 1517–1520...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012* *Part 3—The New York Times, novels v. facts:* Thanks to the way modern journalists work, we live in a world with very few facts. The coverage of Trayvon Martin’s death has broug...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: Large numbers of dead fish have been washing ashore on resorts and inhabited islands in the upper north of the Maldives in Noonu and Haa Atolls, 2 April 2012. minivannews.com]By JJ Robinson 2 Apr...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 2 hours ago*Manchego Crusted Tilapia with Pesto!* Tilapia is my favorite white fish, it has such a distinct flavor which makes it really easy to cook. You don't really need to do much to it in order to make it tasty...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 hours agoEnglish-language panel held at SKUP 2012 Investigative Journalism Conference in Oslo, 25 March 2012. *Speakers are:* Annie Machon - M15 whistleblower Smári McCarthy - Icelandic transparency activist Kr...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 2 hours ago[image: China is creating a 4,500 km (2,800 mi) long forest belt to control sandstorms pushing forward the sands of the Gobi desert. Biopact]Beijing, 3 Apr 2012 (UPI) – China's agricultural security is a...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 3 hours agoWas Adolf Hitler a defender of Europe, who just happened to make bizarre mistakes such as letting the British Army escape from Dunkirk when their capture would have ended the War in the West? Was he real...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 3 hours agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoTwo radical Islamists were kicked out of France yesterday – prompting calls for Theresa May to take the same no-nonsense approach when it comes to removing extremists. Nicolas Sarkozy demanded the deporta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoPolice marksmen were accused last night of Tasering a man as he lay grievously wounded in the street after they had shot him four times with live bullets. Witnesses claim they heard one of the 50,000 vol...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 hours ago*Watch live today, the Rights of Mother Earth conference, in Haskell, Kansas.* *Listen to the audio at Earthcycles: **www.earthcycles.net* *Indigenous Environmental Network live blog:* *http://www.ieneart...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoIt's only fitting that the most sustained and widespread effort to stop the abusive testing frenzy would come from Texas, which is, after all, the birthplace of testing on steroids and the home of the only...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA rocket carrying a top-secret payload blasted off from the California coast yesterday. The Delta IV rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles north west of Los Angeles. The r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA man has been arrested after a handbag and shoes were apparently taken from a woman left decapitated in a horrifying traffic accident. CCTV footage released in the aftermath of the accident shows an Asia...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoNew Orleans Saints Uniforms for 2012! Severe storms overnight leave some streets flooded in New Orleans area Relatively quiet hurricane season predicted U.S. Senate Ethics Committee is no threat to Louisi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"The money they make from high gas prices is going right into Mitt Romney's campaign."* The ad above, which an Obama-friendly SuperPAC started running in seven key swing states yesterday, and the quote...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA benefits cheat who swindled more than £100,000 out of the welfare state was yesterday given an incredible 93 years to pay the money back. Julie Kennedy will be 140 years old if she ever gets around to c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 33 km (20.4 miles), the quake hit at 12:10:56 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 1321 km (819 miles) Northeas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Turkey-Syria Border Region at a depth of 20 km (12.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:05:16 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.6 miles) Northwest o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago- About 23,000 children were reported victims in England and Wales during 2010/11 but fewer than 10 per cent of cases ended in a conviction - Six times as many reported offences were committed ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA boy has been arrested after he and a 14-year-old girl appeared in a pornographic video, which was then posted on Facebook and is believed to have been seen by thousands of their fellow schoolchildren. ...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 3 hours agoThe Harper government has killed Rights and Democracy. The decision -- even though it wasn't mentioned in Tuesday's budget -- should come as no surprise. In fact, it's pretty clear that the Harperites h...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 3 hours agoInteresting interview. First time I had ever been exposed to Josh Reeves. What did I like about it? Why post it? For the same reason I post anything, I guess. It makes me think. And question. It does seem ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Eastern Turkey at a depth of 2.6 km (1.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:41:40 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 45 km (27 miles) NNE of Van, Turkey No Report...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Bay of Campeche, Mexico at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:18 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 155 km (96 miles) NW of Ciudad...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 3 hours agoHappy Birthday to Senator Richard Lugar, 80. Yes, 80. Look -- it's not my job to tell people that they should retire. I've always hated those who say that a sports star should quit while he's on top, befor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck South of Panama at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:41:37 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 245 km (152 miles) South of David, Panama No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kamchatka, Russia at a depth of 39.1 km (24.3 miles), the quake hit at 05:21:35 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 233 km (144 mile...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 83.1 km (51.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:28:59 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) Southeast of Colima, Coli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoThe presidents of Somalia's Olympic committee and football federation have reportedly been killed after a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a theatre. Olympics boss Aden Yabarow Wiish and footbal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 35-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a decorated war veteran in the West Midlands. William Davis, 92, was found collapsed at his Hobley Street home in Willenhall, between Walsa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoAn operation to refloat a stricken cargo ship which ran aground in rough seas, sparking the rescue of seven crew members, is due to begin later. Salvage and counter-pollution experts will assess the dama...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 4 hours agoWith summer around the corner, people spend more time outside and issues with neighbours that were hidden in winter tend to come out. That’s why spring is often the time for fences. As the saying goes “g...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 5 hours agoNote: This is my article today in TV5's news portal, http://www.interaksyon.com/article/28670/fat-free-economics-property-rights-policy-lefts FAT FREE ECONOMICS: Property rights, policy lefts 04-Apr-12, 4:5...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 5 hours agoIf your life is half as crazy busy as mine, it can be hard to find time in the day to get the necessities done, let alone any extracurricular activities. I would love to get out and visit museums and histo...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 6 hours agoPhoto by Rocky Kistner Lakotas launch hunger strike against tarsands pipelines *Rocky Kistner’s Blog* *National Resources Defense Council* In the Dakotas, members of the proud Lakota Nation rose in protest ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours agoI was all prepared to post exactly what I thought about the *Auditor General's report* with respect to the the procurement of ... any number ... of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters. And I was going ...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 6 hours agoThis week's award is presented to Migration Watch for the title of its latest report - 'Benefits Regime Makes UK Attractive Destination for East European Migrants' "No shit Sherlock" The press release i...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 7 hours ago*BLOOMBERG* * * By Chris Cooper, Kiyotaka Matsuda and Stuart Biggs - Apr 3, 2012 3:54 AM PT Japanese airlines canceled hundreds of flights, some train services were halted and thousands of workers wen...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 7 hours ago** *Putri at the Rockefeller Centre.** **Putri Exploring the Archipelago*** On 3 April 2012, we learn that millionaire George Galloway has married 27 year-old Putri Gayatri Pertiwi. Putri, an upper class ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours ago*This just blows it all out of the water*: A former B.C. Liberal MLA now working as a director at Simon Fraser University has been giving public dollars from his university expense account to the B.C. Lib...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 9 hours agoAre Boys Turning in to Girls Because of Synthetic Chemicals? by Dak , Veracity Voice April 2, 2012 Cases of accelerated puberty in young girls and the “transgender” phenomenon are occurring with i...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago04/04/2012 by John Smallman When your awakening happens – as all negative or unloving thoughts and attitudes dissolve – total peace and love will fill your hearts, expanding them to encompass infini...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 9 hours agoPRESS RELEASE March 28, 2012, 8:00 a.m. EDT New Evidence Reveals Goldman Sachs Engaged in Secret Re-Titling Into Goldman's Name Alone of Over 20 Million Shares Owned by Marvell Founders SIMILAR TO M...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoI am going to post an interestingquestion. Does life follow God or doesGod follow life? For most of humanhistory this question had exactly one answer. That God was and is the master with a small codi...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoBefore you dive into thesevideos, I want to describe the Jesus paradigm I have presently constructed as abackgrounder. *Conjecture 1* GOD is a real construct built by humanitypossibly 40,000 years ...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 9 hours agoTake a close look at this. It reminds me of the Mcculloch Autogyro put togetherback in the sixties as it uses the exact same configuration as also the AyroGyro of the same time. A push prop todrive ve...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoGordon has reminded me of this 6-million-views viral video from December 2011. A young husband, while driving, asks his young blonde wife how long does it take to drive 80 miles if you are traveling 80 mil...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago*-Dale Carnegie * So very true -- worry and frustration (and stress) is exhausting!!!
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoHead on over to* Tidal Station* and get the good word from a professional tanker captain on the latest Enbridge nausea. There's a lot there but, aside from the gutting of the latest Enbridge attempt to c...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 10 hours agoA bubble of Wildrose Party support hovers over Edmonton Journal political columnist Graham Thomson. Actual Alberta political writers may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The real Mr. Thomson; Dav...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Bay of Campeche, Mexico at a depth of 15.2 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 02:28:18 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 214 km (133 miles) North from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoTexans will begin the devastating task of counting the costs of an unprecedented cluster of tornadoes that ripped through major towns and cities in the state yesterday. Homes were reduced to rubble and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA child was sexually attacked every 20 minutes last year, according to new figures. The statistics, released by police, also revealed more than a third of all sex crimes are committed against children, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoPolice have released a picture of the sole suspect in a shooting at a US college that left seven people dead. Oakland police chief Howard Jordan said earlier that 43-year-old Huan Goh, who was expelled f...
- posted by Roberto at Dr Cintli - 11 hours agoJon Stewart on MAS-TUSD: Most people are thinking that MAS-TUSD Governing board member Michael Hicks was in on the joke. He wasn't. This is unintentional humor at its finest. ... and it is why we will win ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoI skipped the news coverage.* Romney won everywhere. What else is there to say? I mean, you all know that I'm a political junkie, and especially a nomination politics junkie, but I'm not going to pretend t...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 12 hours ago* * *Note: This post has really surprised me. I was told about the return of the Elohim and Seraphim by a friend who was told that personally by some usual sources. I haven't mentioned it on this blo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe government-owned China Daily featured an editorial today containing a devastating condemnation of the US-led war in Afghanistan. The context is the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar on Marc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoTerming the South China Sea as a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from undertaking oil exploration in the resource-rich Vietnamese blocks in order to ensure "peace and stability" in the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoBuyers hoping to pick up a bargain on a foreclosed home won’t have much luck in Green Hills or Belle Meade, where only a few dozen borrowers defaulted last year. But homes by the hundreds faced foreclosu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNEW DELHI: After a carbon tax levied on aviation by the European Union, the government is now preparing for a possible trade war with the European Commission imposing a similar levy on shipping business as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRs 100 cr routed through Uco Bank for exporters of pharmaceutical items. India and Iran have conducted their first rupee transaction for exports of pharmaceutical products and some other goods worth Rs 10...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoExperts warned that original draft legislation would have legalised disappearances, allowing police to hold suspects without informing families. China unveils new legislation on police powers of detention...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChina has pledged to end the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within the next five years, state media report. Officials say the country would instead rely on a new national donation syst...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe US touts itself as the land of free, but it has laws which are designed to crush criticisms of the state. New Haven, CT - In 1893, a massive financial panic sent demand for the Pullman Palace Car Comp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoCommon sense dictates that war with Iran would be devastating for the region - and common sense must prevail. Washington, DC - One critical element leads me to the conclusion that the United States will n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now. A rapidly increasing strea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWashington, D.C. (CNN) -- During a sleepless night, Song Ee Han agonized over a decision: Was she willing to leave her youngest child behind while she and her daughters escaped North Korea? The next morn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours ago(CNN) -- Travel to Shekou, a port city in Shenzhen, and you will find the stirrings of something unexpected: entrepreneurial capitalism. This part of China, home to many mega-factories like those of Foxco...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoToday’s idea: The all-professional military poses a danger to American democracy, a historian says, because it allows politicians to wage prolonged wars with the public disengaged, and thus soldiers’ disd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoMASHAVA, Zimbabwe - Susan Dhliwayo was stunned when she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in. The reason? They feared being raped. Sensational re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAuthorities in Shanghai are considering establishing an all-boys high school in response to a so-called "masculinity crisis" among male Chinese youth. The idea has caused a stir in Chinese cyberspace, wi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe health of hospitalized Canadians and their visitors is being seriously put at risk by hospitals that have cut corners in cleaning budgets to save money, a Marketplace investigation has revealed. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoNorth's on-job carcinogen limits weakest in Canada Working environments in Canada’s isolated Arctic are "an embarrassment" when it comes to the amounts of carcinogens labourers can be exposed to, a federa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA bald eagle glides low, curving with the meandering sloughs of Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in Southeast Portland. At the former St. Johns landfill northwest of downtown, workers track a breeding pair th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON — As natural gas production in the United States hits an all-time high, a major unanswered question looms: What does growing hydraulic fracturing mean for climate change? The Obama administrat...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours ago*Here I am in downtown Timbuktu, 4 years ago* When I would tell people I was going to Mali or I had gone to Mali they would look at me incomprehensibly. Maui? Bali? I almost never met an American who knew...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 12 hours agoLove that Rethuglican clown show? Try not to forget as you chuckle along with the unending unique brand of American political sideshow that the quiet but never-ending machinations of the rapidly growing de...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, alth...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 12 hours ago2002, “Suddenly Yours” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQn4U-IxDL8&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of just 1.3 km (0.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:12:08 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) Northeast from In...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 8.8 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:33:00 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) ENE of Denizli, Turkey No Re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago“Many stars form in clusters. Galactic or open star clusters are relatively young swarms of bright stars born together near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Separated by about a degree on the sky, two ni...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 38.9 km (24.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:13:00 UTC Wednesday 4th April 2012 The epicenter was 113 km (70 miles) ESE...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“Brain/Mind”* by Chet Raymo “The brain is flesh. A softball-sized clump of meat. Blood and burger. But, oh, what meat! An estimated 100 billion neurons. Each neuron reaching out with spidery arms to tou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Kai, Indonesia at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:42:19 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) WNW of Dobo, Kepula...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 13 hours agoI'm going to repeat here what I said at Dawg's: nothing gets done by a harpercon unless harper wants it done. Just like the party-financed "private member's bill" about the gun registry when he had a min...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoI appear to have been hacked on my home computer. Bravo! Very cleverly done! But this shall be fixed very shortly! Update: 8:45 PST Thank you for reversing that. It won't help you anyway. I own far ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*“10 Lessons from Einstein”* by Paulo Coelho *1. Follow Your Curiosity:* “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” *2. Perseverance is Priceless:* “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Philippines Islands Region at a depth of 109.3 km (67.9 miles), the quake hit at 20:41:34 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 254 km (157 miles) ESE of G...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 14.3 km (8.9 miles), the quake hit at 18:07:00 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 115 km (71 miles) Southeast of B...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoSan Bernardino, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Radiation Levels in California Rain Recorded at 506% Above Normal"* by The Intel Hub "A radiation test carried out after a storm swept through Southern California has recorded radiation at 506% above no...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Radiation Levels in California Rain Recorded at 506% Above Normal"* The Intel Hub "A radiation test carried out after a storm swept through Southern California has recorded radiation at 506% above norma...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 13 hours agoI have seen several European countries and cities (been to Europe 4x), many US states and cities, Asian countries and cities, Sydney. But moving and living abroad never crossed my mind. There's just more f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"Are We Oppressed by Technology?"* by Jeffrey Tucker "Do we really need an iPad 3 after it seems as if iPad 2 was released only a few months ago? Was it absolutely necessary that Google give us Google+? ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 14 hours agoThis is Laffy's latest blunt, a 10 minute video from mostly Twitter liberal luminaries about Trayvon Martin, including the Rude Pundit and Marnus3. I come in at 3:50 in. Very powerful piece and a good job...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: German solar panel manufacturer Q-Cells filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, 3 April 2012. AFP] By Stefan Schultz 3 April 2012 The German solar industry is at a turning point. The bankruptcy of Q-Ce...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 15 hours agoSee this article on the jump in cholera cases happening now in Haiti.
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours ago*When now ex-GSA Administrator Martha Johnson (seen here in 2010 with Homeland Security Sec'y Janet Napolitano at left) was finally confirmed for her job, after one of those endless Senate confirmation str...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 15 hours ago*"The loss of the Saskatchewan film employment tax credit has been a blow to the industry, but it will also be felt in Indian country, where aboriginal people were playing a major role in the film indust...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 15 hours ago2012 APRIL 3 Posted by Steve Beckow (Thanks to Gene) *CFTC accuses Royal Bank of Canada of sham trades* By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer The Associated Press, April 2, 2012 http://goo.gl/iD851 WASHI...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe leader of what has been called the largest proven human smuggling ring in Canadian history was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday. Ferenc Domotor, 49, was sentenced in a Hamilton, Ont., court af...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 16 hours agoThe Columbia Journalism Review has an informative and eye-opening interview with Justin Gillis, who covers climate change for the *New York Times*. I have been fairly critical of Gillis' reporting on thi...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agohttp://sixthestate.net/?page_id=1381 Is this accurate? It is consistent with a sense that Party affiliation is tremendously important to this government. (And yes other Parties favoured their own but it w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"In Controversial Decision, Supreme Court * *Replaces Annual Physicals with Strip Searches"* Major Expansion of Police Officers’ Role by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – "In a stunning dec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"How the Speed of Information Has Affected Human Progress"* by Joel Bowman "Imagine receiving today’s Daily Reckoning…and then discovering our meandering correspondence postmarked for March 24, 2012. Or,...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 18 hours agoI just finished reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley and the epilogue by Haley, and the endnote "On Malcolm X" (reproduced below) by Ossie Davis who had delivered this moving eulogy.I...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 18 hours ago*Q: What do Sky City, Air New Zealand, Mediaworks, South Canterbury Finance and Fletcher Building have in common? A: They’re all big enough to pull favours out of the Prime Minister’s arse.* After four ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 18 hours agoA horrific tornado system has hit Dallas/Ft Worth Dutchsince issued this warning yesterday, April 2, (video below) about Tornadoes in Texas. Note the HAARP rings, square waves, and saw tooth pat...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 18 hours ago*“* Hilarious that Fulfie describes the coalition as BRICs (small s for South Africa). There’s been articles locally about how small South Africa is in comparison to the others, and how we’ve only been ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 18 hours agoSaints Sign Linebacker David Hawthorne! ~Canal Street Chronicles
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 18 hours agoVan Jones. Photo by Bill Pugliano / Getty Images.The Age of Obama:What went wrong (and how to fix it)By Van Jones / Progressive America Rising / April 3, 2012[This article is adapted from Van Jones' new book...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 413 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAbout 10,000 homes in the north of England are without power after strong winds and ice brought down lines. Northern Powergrid said the cuts had affected buildings between Carlisle and Newcastle. Faults h...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoBit of a ramble here. Michael Byers and Stewart Webb nail *a lesson in the F-35* (via Dawg). The latest is where we find F-35's stealthy skin apparently doesn't react too well when the plane hits design...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 19 hours ago*Senators Seek to Extinguish Navajo and Hopi Water Rights* URGENT…URGENT…URGENT For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Contact: Ed Becenti Phone: 480 313-8070 Email: rezztone@yahoo.com TUBA CITY, A...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 19 hours agoNot all that long ago a story appeared about a fire in California in which a man, David Aaron, said he lost all of his collection of UFO related materials. Included in that was a reported interview of Mack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA "tornado emergency" has been declared in Texas after two twisters caused mayhem in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The United States National Weather Service confirmed that two separate "supercells" had ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoAt Greg's place today, I reacted to the NYT FDA story about WH political interference in policy matters. Important point that I didn't emphasize there: we would expect the FDA to leak that sort of accusati...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 19 hours agoAn announcement this week shows this government’s alleged economic management is even more irresponsible than we thought. When the recession hit the decision facing everyone in the country, from politic...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours ago*"Organized crime will put a man in the White House someday-- and he won't know it until they hand him the bill." - Ralph Salerno, NYPD, 1967* That man was Ronald Reagan. You probably wouldn't have gues...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 20 hours agoNew Orleans Saints will play at Tennessee in Week 4 of preseason
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 20 hours agoWhat took nature thousands of years to create was destroyed in a matter of hours by the machines of man. I am familiar with construction sites, born into the concrete jungle of South Florida, where saw...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 20 hours agoPapa had a brand new bag:James Brown was 'The One'By Ron Jacobs / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2012[The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, by RJ Smith (2012: Gotham); Hardcover; 464 pp.; $27.50l.]When I was ...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 20 hours ago* * *My light is on your path to show you the way.* Michael channeled by Ron Head April 2, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages Adjustments have been made to the relative valuations of most of the currenci...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: The first 31 years of this projection are relatively well-defined and can now be compared to the observations. We used the GISS Land-Ocean Index that uses SST over the oceans (the original one in...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoStanley Cutler says that "of all the presidents in the last 50 years, it is Nixon that’s the most interesting." Is Nixon more interesting than LBJ? I'm not sure. I would say, however, that I find Nixon, Jo...
- posted by American Kabuki at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoOn How to Determine the Merits of a Channeled Message * April 3, 2012* Hello there. Me here. I have a question in mind, which I may have asked before. It is to do with all the discrepancies between...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: Line plot of global mean land-ocean temperature index, 1880 to present, with the base period 1951-1980. The dotted black line is the annual mean and the solid red line is the five-year mean. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe alarming number of marine deaths off the Konkan coast in the past few days, with two whales and several turtles found beached in separate incidents, could be natural or fishing-related, said experts. ...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 21 hours ago*"It think this is a great country. In some countries I might be actually locked up for teaching the way I have, but in this country, I'm just banned from doing it." — Curtis Acosta (TUSD Teacher)* The D...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 21 hours agoIn the struggle for freedom, it is vital that we fight the real enemy, and do not get drawn into attacking those who are used as human shields. We need to distinguish between the real architects of our p...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 21 hours agoJon Butterworth of ATLAS asked the same question on his Guardian blog. Many other physicists will be asking the question increasingly more frequently, especially if (and as long as) the 125 GeV God particl...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoMike Luckovich political cartoon from The Friends of Jake.GOP's biggest mistake:The anti-woman agendaBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / April 3, 2012I can understand some of the actions of Republicans, even ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 21 hours agoBelow is an important and informative short clip called "Western ideas in Iran." It destroys the Islamic Republic of Iran's propaganda that democracy and freedom are purely Western ideals, and do not deser...
- Link: http://youtu.be/1hIF36ty1Eo Let's go where nobody has ever gone before...! And see our Milky Way in a new light here. John
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 21 hours agoLike scary stories? Here's one. Imagine that Stephen Harper truly is the "Smartest Man In the [Tory Caucus] Room." Since he came onto the federal scene we've repeatedly heard the Steve sees himself a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 21 hours ago[image: An aerial view of damage to Sukuiso, Japan, a week after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in March, 2011. Dylan McCord. U.S. Navy] By Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contribut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA stranded whale in East Lothian has died after a huge rescue effort failed to save its life. The 15ft (4.5m) minke whale was found by the coastguard at North Berwick's east beach, near the harbour, at 0...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(Reuters) - Opposition activists accused Syrian troops of shelling two cities on Tuesday in a campaign to weaken forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad's government before a ceasefire deadline next wee...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoI'm a pretty old blogger in more ways than one, but Atrios is older in blog years. He's coming up on his tenth blogiversary and is doing a series of rare long form posts to mark the occasion. Being that I'...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 22 hours agoThe BBC Radio 4 news at 7pm runs for less than two minutes but the BBC still manged to find the time to broadcast an Ed Miliband soundbite re News International. Do the BBC have any shame?
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 22 hours ago*Besharah v. Saikaley*, 2012 ONCA 214 is another example of where the failure to plead is fatal: [5] First, breach of fiduciary duty was not pleaded. Accordingly, the trial judge was not asked...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 22 hours ago*by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy* Many sources support my assertion and emerging thesis: the concept of 'corporate personhood' has Germanic, fascist roots. Herr Schlegel, for example, wrote an essa...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoLast day of the historic Pueblo Convocation. Media is invited to this rare opportunity to hear Pueblo leaders from the 19 New Mexico Pueblos, Isleta del Sur of Texas and Hopi of Arizona. The Convocation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch in mid-April. Was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBangladesh's quaint town of Tangail stands in stark contrast to its infamous red light area that houses over hundreds of sex workers. A majority of prostitutes in Kandapara slum are as young as twelve yea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoApr. 02: A Dutch company has successfully conducted a test flight of a car which doubles as an aircraft and hopes to put the machine into production. Andrew Potter reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoTokyo (CNN) -- A spring storm packing typhoon-strength winds caused two deaths and paralyzed traffic in Japan on Tuesday. In Toyama, strong winds pulled down a barn, killing a man, police there said. In ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(CNN) -- At least four people were killed and dozens more injured in heavy fighting around the coastal Libyan city of Zuwara on Tuesday, a city official said. The four killed were Zuwara militia members e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours ago(CNN) -- Sondos Asem has butterflies, formulating answers to questions she expects to be asked and practicing her diction with the devotion of a high school debate champion. The gentle 24-year-old graduat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:36 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) North from Grov...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 22 hours ago** *... all in good, sick fun, of course.* *Contributor: "YYC"* VIDEO: CNN feigns a neutral position while accusing FOX and MSNBC of taking sides in the vigilante shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin. CNN...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours agoRequest For a Day For All In Major League Baseball to Honor Native American Baseball PlayersFrom Quanah Parker Brightman Posted at Censored News It's time for Major League Baseball to acknowledge and HONO...
- posted by Rich Rifkin at Lexicon Daily - 23 hours agoIf every American would stop eating products with sugar added, I suspect our health bills would fall by about 75 percent in the United States. After experiencing some symptoms which are associated with d...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*Federal Reserve Notes Belong In The Toilet.* Bernie Madoff, Ben Bernanke, and Barack Obama are names that belong in the same sentence. They have destroyed global public confidence in the U.S. governm...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 23 hours agoCharlie Smith identifies one of Christy Clark's big problems in a Georgia Straight piece today. "With most politicians," Smith writes, "you can figure out what they really believe in. There are certain is...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 23 hours agoBlue America was the first national group to endorse Ilya Sheyman and we were sad that the DCCC and other DC conservatives were able beat him in the primary last month. But we were as happy as can be tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoRoyal Mail has been accused of trying to airbrush the two world wars after postcards from the 1940s were banned for being offensive to Germans. The light-hearted cartoon images feature Hitler, Hermann Goe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoTwo controversial papers on bird flu will be published by scientific journals this year after the go-ahead was given by a U.S biosecurity panel. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB)...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 23 hours agoAmerican Scofflaw Bush, Powell, PNAC, etc. et. al. are just dropping the blame on him, so they can claim to be trustworthy when they claim Iran needs to be invaded. Now the US government (and the corpora...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 23 hours agoOur ability to create an educated, informed, responsible citizenry will determine whether our collective future is bright or a nightmarish dystopia. by Tony Cartalucci April 2, 2012 - Imagine a human ce...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA personal trainer who called himself 'Danger' has been accused of using Craigslist to stalk women and 'torture' them. Dejon Miller, 35, from Hollywood, allegedly used the advertising website to recruit ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA father who was credited with helping to bring an end to last summer's riots accused a man of staring at his wife before punching him to the ground, a court has heard. Tariq Jahan, 46, allegedly assault...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 23 hours ago*NOTE: This is a guest post by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of The Breakthrough Institute* In the two years since climate treaty talks fizzled in Copenhagen, the international community fin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder has been cleared today of murdering his landlady. Aaron Wilkinson, 24, of Alma Street, Woodlesford, Leeds, was found not guilty of murdering...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*MJ Rosenberg: Who speaks for Iranian-Americans? * *Al Jazeera * *March 29, 2012* *Washington, DC -** *The schedule for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) conference in Washington coming up in May...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoWall Street Journal page A10 April 3, 2012 by Y. Hayashi [excerpt] "A government panel estimates Teco will have to pay [in yen] 4.5 trillion in compensation by the accident's second anniversary in March ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012* *What, The Times report:* Yesterday, we discussed Paul Krugman’s new column, which called Paul Ryan’s budget proposal a fraud. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 4/2/12. According to Krugman...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoI will be on a panel at 1.45pm in Indigo A with the following description: There has been a growing body of work in world politics that relies on or analyzes fictional narratives. To what extent can cultut...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Southern California at a depth of just 2.7 km (1.7 miles), the quake hit at 15:15:37 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) NNE from Indio, Cal...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoAsahi: Power industry donated millions to influential research agency" "The electric power industry donated 250 million yen ($3 million) to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency over four years, including 55.1 ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoI really hate these questions: From what you saw and heard about the Court hearings on the health care law, opinion of the [health care law/Supreme Court] hasn't changed; less favorable; more favorable W...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Pentagon recently activated its global missile shield in anticipation of North Korea’s launch of a long-range missile, according to defense officials. The measures include stepped-up electronic monito...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoEgypt has reported the seventh and eighth cases of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza in 2012 according to a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert Response (GAR). The Ministry of Health and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHong Kong (HKSAR) - A green tea leaves sample, imported from Japan and collected from a local retail outlet during surveillance, has been found to have low radioactivity levels, a spokesman for the Centre...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoSteve Harper, perhaps unwittingly, set out to be the Defence department's butt boy and today he finds himself with a blinding hangover, lying in an alley in a pool of his own puke, surrounded by empty bott...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Flexible solar-powered shades and tents designed for military purposes. U.S. Army via ecofriend.com] By Joshua Zaffos and Daily Climate 2 April 2012 The U.S. military's elite forces have always...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoMainichi: Cesium up to 100 times levels before disaster found in plankton far off nuke plant [excerpted] Radioactive cesium up to 100 times pre-nuclear disaster levels has been detected in plankton inha...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 1 day agoToday's NY Times has a lengthy article by Gardiner Harris on conflicts between the Obama Administration and the Food and Drug Administration over decisions over food labeling, drug safety and regulation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Nicaragua at a depth of 47.2 km (29.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:08:51 UTC Tuesday 3rd April 2012 The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) Southwest of M...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoIsrael using their Mossad and Sayanim agents within the United States, and with their firm and total control over the US Government, absolutely did the attacks of September 11th, 2001 that cost the lives o...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 1 day agoAnd military vet Scott Olson was shot in the head by police at OCCUPY OAKLAND? And OCCUPY OAKLAND has the most UNCONSTITUTIONAL police brutality? Did any "news" anchors say, "This is odd: there's two huge ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 1 day agoDuring the past weekend (March 30-April 2), a feisty and determined group of teachers, scholars, parents, grandparents, and students met to organize and teach one another about how all this high stakes tes...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day ago*R. v. Aitken*, 2012 BCCA 134 considers the admission of what appears to be novel science as part of expert evidence. The specific question was whether a podiatrist could evidence about an individual’s...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day ago*TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012* *Part 2—The Times reports height and weight:* Balconies rarely fall off the sides of major American buildings. Presumably, that reflects the competence of those in the building t...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 1 day agoThe news is nasty. I wonder if we are going to look back at this famine and say, in hindsight, this is where the global conflagration began. "Vast portions of west and central Africa have become so dry tha...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Dry as a bone: A stranded boat jetty at Bewl Water reservoir in Kent, February 2012. dailymail.co.uk] By Nathan Rao 28 March 2012 Almost half of Britain now faces devastating water shortages wit...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoOn Sunday, the Wildrose Party released an April Fools press release, proposing to merge Alberta and Saskatchewan. On Monday, they took the silliness up a level: *Wildrose promises cash rebates to Alberta...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoShould Gulf oil spill dispersant, clean-up companies stay in the litigation? ~Rebecca Mowbray Feds stop oil company's tests in Gulf amid concerns over dolphins ~Cain Burdeau Revised Coastal Master Plan ov...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoHappy Birthday to Mike Ness of Social D, 50. Sorry for the slow blogging yesterday. You know what's good times? A 24 hour stomach thing. At least I hope it's only a 24 hour thing... And some good stuff: ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoThe world's most powerful woman, Angela Merkel, is visiting Prague today. She speaks Czech to some extent; to say the least, her skills would simplify her practical life in the Czech lands because she kn...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 1 day agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday Daily (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. Here's today's challeng...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago* Must read links-* This post will put them all in one place for your easy accessibility. *From Anonymous/ April 03/2012* -*The real Bashar Al-Assad * *" A very objective study of the current Syrian crisi...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoThe Harper government keeps adding to its enemies list. First and foremost, there are the "radical environmentalists." And, of course, there is the CBC. And then there is the entire province of Quebec. ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*What the DCCC should have run* We've been castigating the DCCC for campaigning against Paul Ryan everywhere in the country-- except WI-1, his own congressional district. Now, for the first time in a deca...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 1 day agoLast night my husband was in a creative mood. When he gets like this, I tell me him to unleash his creativity on dinner. Sometimes it backfires and other times it is utterly and completely amazing. This ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago* * *Tehran, Iran (CNN)* -- Iran revoked the press cards of Reuters staff in the country after the news agency ran a mistaken headline saying Iran was training female Ninja assassins, Iran's official ne...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Amnesty International has raised concerns about the safety of civilians in areas of northern Mali now controlled by Tuareg and Islamist rebels, citing reports of violence and looting. The warnin...
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Two new gadgets to make your blog better with Google+
April 3, 2012 — permalink
Imagine being able to share your blog with like-minded people across the web. Today we’ve made doing that easier with the introduction of two Google+ gadgets, the +1 button and Google+ Badge.
Unlike the +1 button that can appear below a post, this gadget is specific to your blog. Displaying it on your blog will allow visitors to endorse your blog and share it with their friends.
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If you’re wondering what a +1 means, think of it as a public stamp of approval from your readers. As soon as someone clicks on the +1 button next to your blog, they’ll also have the option to share it with their friends, contacts, or the rest of the web.
+1s from your readers will appear to people in their circles whenever your blog shows up in Google search results. Here’s an example:
We’re also introducing the Google+ badge gadget, which allows you to connect your blog to your personal profile or your Google+ page on Google+. Adding the badge to your blog helps you connect with friends, fans, and customers. It enables your readers to add you, or your blog to their circles and follow your blog posts on Google+.
If you are happy to blog under your real name, people can follow your stream on Google+. If you prefer to blog under a nickname or an established pseudonym, you can create a Google+ Page to represent your blog. Bloggers who wish to remain anonymous should continue to blog as usual.
To add these gadgets to your blog, select "Add a Gadget" from the "Layout" tab of Blogger, and select them from the list of gadgets under "Basics". You'll need to copy your Google+ ID (personal or Page) to configure the brand badge gadget for your blog.Add the +1 and Google+ brand badge gadgets to your blog today to grow and engage your audience.
Bora Toska, Product Marketing ManagerMoving to the New Blogger Interface
April 2, 2012 — permalink
Last September, we introduced a new user interface that makes it easier to find what you need and focus on writing great blog posts. Since then, we’ve implemented a number of updates and improvements based on your feedback.
In the coming weeks, we will change the default interface for those of you still using the old version, and bring the advantages of Blogger’s improved interface to everyone. If you are already on the new interface, there will be no change.
If you have been using the old interface, give the new look a try today by clicking “Upgrade Now” at the top of the page. This is, of course, a free upgrade and all major features are present in the new interface. You can still temporarily switch back to the old interface by clicking the “Old Blogger interface” link located in settings, but not for much longer.
We recommend that anyone currently using the old interface switch to the new one, as all accounts will be permanently upgraded very soon.
When you switch to the new interface, you'll find a number of new features that we've released recently, including:
To help you get a better sense of what’s changed and how to navigate the new interface, check out the short video below or read the friendly guide “Using our upgraded interface”.
We hope you enjoy the new interface and welcome your thoughts about the new look. If you have suggestions or feedback, sign in to Blogger and click “Send Feedback” at the bottom right of the screen.Customize your search preferences
March 21, 2012 — permalinkHi Bloggers.
Ensuring that your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results is valuable. Today we introduced a suite of new features that enable you to more effectively customize your search preferences. Managing how your blog is viewed by search engines is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy blog, regardless of whether you’re new to blogging, or a seasoned veteran.
Here’s an overview of what we added:
The first thing you’ll notice is a new “Search preferences” option under the “Settings” tab.
Clicking it will display three sub-sections: Meta Tags, Errors and Redirections, and Crawlers and Indexing. When enabled, some of these features, such as Search Description and Custom robots header tags will also appear in the “Post settings” area of Blogger's post editor as well. For example, if you elect to create a Search Description, you may do so for your blog, and/or individual posts.
Also available is the ability to add a custom “Page Not Found” (eg. a “404”) message, and Custom Redirects for pages on your blog.
While most of the new features are located in the Settings tab, a few others can be found in the post editor. For example, we’ve introduced the ability to incorporate “alt” and “title” tags to images in your post.
Last but not least, you’ll also find a “rel=nofollow” link attribute in the link tool. Checking this box means that you don’t want this link to be considered when web crawlers are searching for information they’ll use to index your page.
While most of these features are easy to understand and use, others, such as custom robots header tags are geared toward advanced users only, hence the warning message:
Before diving in, I would encourage a quick read through the Help Center articles. They’re comprehensive, and do a great job translating some technical concepts to the layperson.
We hope you enjoy the new features. It’s all part of our effort to bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger. Next week, we’ll be holding a Hangout on our Google+ page to talk with you about your experience with these features and answer your questions. Follow us on +Blogger for details.
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