Yemen IDPs 7 (Photo credit: IRIN Photos)- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 minute ago[image: Amateur naturalists help track the shifting seasons. A. Miller-Rushing / grist.org]By David Richardson 9 Apr 2012 Susan Peters, who moved from the East Coast to Tucson, Ariz., a couple of years...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute ago(Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran would not agree to world powers imposing pre-conditions ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks later this week, Iranian media reported on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 minute agoSanford, Florida (CNN) -- As controversy over the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin swirls, all sides are anxiously awaiting a possible decision this week by a special prosecutor on whether to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago(CNN) -- Rescue crews continued their frantic search Sunday at a Himalayan military outpost near the Indian border where a massive avalanche buried up to 139 people, most of them Pakistani soldiers. A b...
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(CNN) -- Al Qaeda militants seized control of a military base and two checkpoints during raids in southern Yemen on Monday in which at least 21 people died, security officials and residents said. Hours o... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 minutes ago
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks sold off Monday as investors reconsidered the outlook for economic growth following a disappointing jobs report last week. In addition, a higher-than-expected reading o... - posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 minutes ago"*You could look at the facts of the case and come up with would appear to be a logical theory, but we're going to let the evidence take us where we want to go*." Five shooting victims, three of them dead...
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(CNN) -- Nuclear talks will resume this week in Turkey between Iran and six world powers, the U.N. nuclear watchdog reported Monday. "We have agreed with Iran to launch a new round of talks in Istanbul on... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
NINGBO, China (AP) -- China's foreign minister said Sunday that his country is troubled by North Korea's plan to launch a long-range rocket and has urged more diplomacy to handle the situation, a measured... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean intelligence officials say North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test. A report written by intellig... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 minutes ago
FUKUSHIMA -- Around 350 people from inside and outside Fukushima Prefecture gathered at a park here on April 7 to rake and pick up leaves and branches believed to have been contaminated with radioactive s... - posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 24 minutes ago
White people are forever being told that we are guilty of exploiting Africans. We are told that we are to blame for the famines which have plagued Africa since the European powers left. We are blamed for... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes agoONAGAWA, Miyagi -- "How can they call these waves six meters high?" screamed 39-year-old Takahiro Aoyama, who worked at Onagawa's chamber of commerce and industry. It was March 11, 2011, and Aoyama and hi...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 28 minutes agoI have not done any articles about the joke called the American political system for a while, because I have thought... Why bother? All we have is a subservient group of stooges and slaves to Israel that...
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North Korea plans use two rocket launch sites, one on the eastern coast and the other on the west, for its space program, according to a North Korean government official. The official, who briefed foreign... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
Lindsay Lohan has been accused of assaulting a woman in an LA nightclub, only a fortnight after a judge ended her formal probation period. The alleged incident happened on Thursday according to US gossip ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes agoRescuers in Peru have said they are close to reaching nine men who have been trapped underground in an illegal mine for four days. The mining minister has appealed to Peru's mining companies for equipmen...
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A powerful bomb blast has rocked the Greek capital, gutting a government building in the latest show of violence ahead of critical national elections. No injuries have been reported after the explosion, ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 30 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 80 km (49.8 miles), the quake hit at 11:54:38 UTC Monday 9th April 2012 The epicenter was 483 km (299.4 miles) South of Nuku'al... - posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 45 minutes ago*By Paper Rocket Productions* SB2109 Video- Tuba City, AZ- McCain & Kyl from Paper Rocket Productions on Vimeo. SB 2109 was introduced into congress on February 14, 2012 Over 300 Diné and Hopi people ( ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 45 minutes agoGeorgia's Vogtle nuclear plant faces big challenges. Image from io9.America's two new nukesare on the brink of deathThe financial pitfalls of what may be America's last two proposed reactor projects may writ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 52 minutes agoThe Monday morning weigh-in was a tie with the all-time diet low so it's going well. It helps that Teen Daughter is also dieting so we help each other out a little. Onward to the next week!
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 53 minutes agoFor a very long time, I and others in this real truth movement have been absolutely begging people to NOT take any vaccines period. There have been countless links and reports that have been coming out ...
- posted by ProfPTJ at The Duck of Minerva - 55 minutes ago[Note: This post is almost entirely "inside baseball" for IR academics.] For this year's ISA conference I was supposed to write a paper called "The Constructivism That Wasn't: On the Non-Inevitability of S...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*American Indian Graduate Student Association * Contact: Gerard Begay (M) (602) 301-3969 asu-aigsa@hotmail.com ***NATIVE FASHION SHOW HONORS WOMEN, EMPOWERS FUTURE* *AIGSA Fashion Show Provides Platform...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 hour agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Said to have been written in about 20 minutes, John Fogerty 's 'Fortunate Son' is most often described as "anti-establishment". It was and remains a celebration of '...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012* *Promoting the great Saint McCain:* We have no overall view of the career of the late Mike Wallace. Presumably, he did a lot of good work. Presumably, no one is perfect. This morn...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 hour ago*MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012* *O’Brien got hers for free:* How much should a mind-reader cost? At a conference in Las Vegas, the GSA paid $3200 for such a performance. For the New York Times’ account of this m...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoNavajo President Ben Shelly attempting to aid Arizona Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl to steal Navajo water rights to the Little Colorado River. Video taped in Tuba City on April 5, 2012. Censored news...
- posted by Joseph Pitkin at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 1 hour agoBy: Duane Craig Something we don’t hear of much, but may begin to, is contamination from cemeteries. At least that is what's being floated as a cause for groundwater contamination by some residents of St...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: The Other Arab Spring. Thomas Fuchs / The New York Times] By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN 7 April 2012 ISN’T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor who was harassed b...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour ago*PIT RIVER TRIBE OF CALIFORNIA UNANIMOUSLY AFFIRMS THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES* *By Pit River Nation* *Censored News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com BURNEY, CA –...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: A coot lies dead on a mudflat on the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge near Tulelake, California, on 30 March 2012. Standing behind endangered fish and farms in the line for scarce water, th...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoAlthough an older case, recent trends towards increasing bail amounts make *R. v. Cichanski* (1976), 25 C.C.C. (2d) 84 worth remembering. It is an error for bail to be set so high as to amount to comm...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour ago[image: Evidence of alopecia and other skin lesions may be difficult to see unless the bear can be observed closely. In the polar bears that USGS has observed to date, the most common areas affected incl...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 hour agoTurkey begins fabricating "cross border" incidents to justify Brookings prescribed "safe havens" inside Syria. by Tony Cartalucci April 9, 2012 - From the very beginning, US policy makers admitted that ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 hour ago*6,858 Occupiers arrested as of yesterday* – that number includes 11 new arrests in Minneapolis. It’s time to start planning your spring and summer to - Re-occupy. Chicago, Philly and Boston have been b...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 hour agoGovernor General David Johnston is in France to participate in ceremonies today marking the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The First World War battle was a significant turning point in Cana...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 2 hours agoHappy Birthday to Ed Plank, 60. No, you've never heard of him -- he had a long career pitching for the Phoenix Giants, and also of course shared a name with a HOFer. Also, a quick note: I'm over at Greg's...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoI'm no expert in the internecine struggles of the Republican Party but I can smell smoke when something is burning. Exactly one week ago we saw that something was fraying badly inside the House Republican...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 2 hours agoThis story -- A Montreal university student was detained at the U.S. border, held for several hours, interrogated, had his personal belongings searched and saw his computer confiscated for more than a we...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 2 hours agoYesterday, Peter Mackay admitted that the Auditor General was right. Mackay and his cabinet colleagues had known that the F-35's would cost $25 billion. The difference between the $14.7 billion figure, ...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours agoI can't believe it's been over a month since I started trying to write an article - a really good, persuasive, comprehensive article - about air pollution killing trees...something a magazine might publis...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 2 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012* *Part 1—Believing O’Donnell:* For decades, we liberals had it good in the tribal wars of self-esteem. In 1988, Rush Limbaugh’s radio show went nationwide. From that point forward,...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 3 hours agoThe Saints’ Bounty-Gate & Steve Gleason’s Tragic Hollywood Sequel~Anthony Aucoin ~Gleason’s naive characterization of their arrangement defies credulity.Pamphilon is a documentary filmmaker with a track rec...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 3 hours agoJse-Che Lam and Michelle Solomon prepared and email and letter sent to educators and NFB supporters. I strongly support their actions -- the NFBis a national treasure (and candidly a very inexpensive way ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 4 hours agoSource: NotiExpress Date: 04.08.2012 Argentina: Alleged UFO Sighting and Landing in Pujato (Santa Fe Province) A striking incident shattered the customary peace of Pujato, a community of som...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 hours agoA 42-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 17-year-old boy outside a pub in Hastings, police said. Adam Skilton of Wilton Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, is accused of stabbing Jacob Wou...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 5 hours agoThe Boat Race saboteur Trenton Oldfield's online manifesto includes this: 'The boat race itself, with its pseudo competition, assembled around similar principles of fastest, strongest, selected …etc, is an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA fire marshal in Alaska's capital city says a seven-year-old boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months. Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager says the boy caused about $1,000 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPolice may be close to arresting the husband of a marketing executive found dead in January, despite fervent statements to the contrary. Authorities have reportedly spent the last few months gathering a c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSyrian forces have opened fire at a refugee camp inside Turkey wounding three people - as a UN peace plan teetered on the brink of collapse. Two Syrian refugees and one Turkish translator were injured by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPolar bears have been spotted with sores and missing patches of fur, causing concern among wildlife experts that a mystery disease had become widespread in the species. Nine bears were being studied by b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTheresa May yesterday promised to bring an end to the rampant abuse of Britain’s human rights laws by foreign criminals. The Home Secretary said new immigration rules would be in force by the end of the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhy the smile? Vanessa Clark, seen here in this bizarre mug shot after her arrest, faces up to 20 years in prison after her conviction. A mother is facing up to 20 years in jail after her newborn baby die...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIsrael has banned German author Gunter Grass from entering the Jewish state, over a poem in which he accuses Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. In his work called What Mu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNorth Korea has moved its controversial long-range missile into position and is gearing up to launch it despite warnings from the West that firing it would violate U.N. resolutions. North Korean dictator...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNicolas Sarkozy has threatened to bring back passport checks for all EU citizens entering France if member countries fail to seal their borders against illegal immigrants. The French president named Greec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTwo New York brothers were killed and a third injured when they got hit by a cargo train after becoming stranded on tracks running over a deep gorge, making it impossible for them to jump. Brian Reed, 2...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 6 hours ago(This post is part of the annual Blog Against Theocracy. The twitter hatchtag is #AgainstTheocracy.) Tolerance is a worthy value, but it's important to recognize that different religious traditions do not ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 6 hours ago*"The eight-year-old Hitler sang in the church choir, and entertained thoughts of becoming a priest."* (Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia) *1.* What makes one person turn into Adolf Hitler, and another person turn ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA Palestinian activist, who was allowed to enter Britain despite being banned on the grounds he might incite racial hatred, has won an appeal to stay. Sheikh Raed Salah, 53, leader of the Islamic Movement...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA massive plume of smoke billowed over the Thames Estuary today as a bomb disposal squad destroyed a Second World War German mine. Royal Navy experts said the hefty weapon had the potential to go off 'at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoApple paid a paltry £10million in UK corporation tax in the last financial year, despite earning an estimated £6billion in the country over the period. It is the latest technology firm to be accused of av...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAuthorities declared a red alert in areas downstream the central Colombia Nevado del Ruiz volcano Sunday amid growing concerns an eruption is imminent. According to Colombia's meteorological institute ID...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBrazilian media is reporting that ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will make an emergency trip to Brazil after allegedly suffering intestinal burns during his radiation treatment in Cuba. Chávez, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAl Jazeera crew forced to take cover, as South Sudan claims to have shot down one of planes which carried out raid. An oil pipeline has been attacked, apparently by Sudanese fighter jets, in the latest ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoInvisible Children launches second internet film to rally activist network behind campaign to catch Uganda rebel leader. The US non-governmental organisation Invisible Children has released a follow-up ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoResidents live close to Siberian nuclear plant with 50 times safe levels of radiation. Russia's nuclear industry has a past shrouded in Soviet secrecy. In the last 60 years, tens of thousands of people ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Wednesday "advised" neighbouring Arab states in the Gulf not to adopt a missile shield project being promoted by the United States. "From the start we have reject...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNorth Korea could carry out another nuclear test if the launch of its long-range rocket leads to the expected suspension of US food aid, a pro-North newspaper in Japan said on Wednesday. North Korea says...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIsrael's concerns that its historic peace treaty with Egypt could be in peril amid the political upheaval in Cairo have intensified with the announcement by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood it will contest...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoGerman Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass touched off a firestorm of protest Wednesday with a poem accusing Israel of plotting Iran's annihilation and threatening world peace. The 84-year-old longtim...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours ago*If crazy had a face, this would be it.* Who is crazy? Who is telling the truth? Who is wearing the tin foil hat? * Him?* Or *him?* Who gets to define who is crazy, and why? We should not let the gove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the outer-s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIndia returned to the elite club of countries with a nuclear-powered submarine on Wednesday when it inducted a new vessel leased from Russia. Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony formally commissioned the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe first batch of 2,500 US Marines to be deployed in Australia began work Wednesday as Washington bolsters its presence in the strategically vital Asia-Pacific, to the irritation of China. Some 200 Mari...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNew research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Ag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTaiwan's plan to cut its armed forces by a fifth has been held up by political wrangling, a lawmaker said Wednesday, delaying by a year a military reduction driven by improved ties with China. Taiwan's d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoConvinced that the United States is in decline, China's distrust is growing of the longtime superpower which it sees as bent on holding back the Asian power's rise, an influential scholar says. In a cand...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe still-deteriorating Pakistan-U.S. relationship is setting off new alarm bells. The diminishing breed of America's friends in Pakistan, a nuclear power of 180 million people, are urging the Obama admi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoReports that Israel has access to airbases in Azerbaijan, Iran's uneasy northern neighbor, could point to a strategic shift in the battle lines between the Jewish state and the Islamic Republic -- and cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoSoutheast Asian leaders on Wednesday pledged to step up efforts to resolve overlapping maritime disputes with China, at the end of a two-day summit which also focused on Myanmar and North Korea. Leaders ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoArgentina escalated its quarrel with Spain over the fate of largest oil producer YPF, controlled by Spain, and threatened action against another Spanish company accused of failing its telecommunications c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAl-Qaeda's main Internet sites have gone silent for more than a week in an unprecedented blackout that is most likely the result of a cyber attack, analysts said Tuesday. "All of them essentially went do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe competition for energy between China and India, the world's two largest expanding economies, is likely to encompass the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, a vital artery for oil and gas to Asia from the Pe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoEducation standards are being put at risk by repeated attempts to force schools to cure the country’s biggest social problems, a minister warned today. Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister, said the “first an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTeachers said lessons should put a greater emphasis on broad skills such as independent research, interpreting evidence and critical thinking rather than learning dates, facts and figures by rote. The As...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChildren as young as five are being allowed to go hungry at primary schools as head teachers cut lunch portions to save money, research suggests. More than a third of teachers said canteen meals no long...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 8 hours agoI hate doing this. I really do. Unless you have had the experiences which constitute my life, you cannot understand how much I despise human conflict. I live with the wounds on a daily basis, both physic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA peace plan to end the bloodshed in Syria is in danger of collapse after eleventh hour Government demands were rejected by rebels. The truce plan, devised by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, was due to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 89.7 km (55.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:54:39 UTC Monday 9th April 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 mi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoUniversities are being forced to stage remedial lessons in the three-Rs amid fears growing numbers of “spoon-fed” teenagers are starting degree courses lacking basic skills, according to research. Some s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands, Russia at a depth of 173.1 km (107.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:43:05 UTC Monday 9th April 2012 The epicenter was 338 km (210 miles) Southwest fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMiddle-class children are being turned into spoilt 'little Buddhas' as a rising number of parents refuse to require that they do household chores, a teachers’ leader has warned. Too many pupils lack prop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDiscrimination claims are expected to rocket in the year ahead as disgruntled workers seek ways of getting around the new unfair dismissal rules introduced on Friday. Under the changes, workers will have...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis item establishes anotherrecent sighting of an apparent giant sloth in the Southern Appalachians. The observerwas able to establish that he was not looking at a bear or a Sasquatch for thatmatter....
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoAt the moment this effect is food for thought and it is still unclearwere we go from here. A reversiblechemical process could conceivably deliver up a great battery even if it lookslike a long shot now...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis is a heartening story aboutdedicated people effecting meaningful change for a clearly definableproblem. Yes Virginia, it can be done. In 1960, social problems had notbeen addressed or at best they...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 8 hours agoThis is a superb specimen andwill surely be worked with extensively. It may well provide ample DNA to assist in the start up of the mammothresurrection effort. Without question,if any creature can be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoOil is a better bet for investors than gold, a leading fund manager has said. Trevor Greetham, portfolio manager of Fidelity's multi-asset funds, said gold did best when the dollar was weak and global gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoFor those who missed the story, a 77-year old retired pharmacist – Dimitris Christoulas – has shot himself to death in front of the Greek Parliament in Syntagma Square, protesting the degradation of his c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoI want to live in a surveillance state. Big Brother, come cast your watchful eye over me and mine. I love you, bro. Seriously, when I saw the outcry over Government plans to gain access to telephone, ema...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoChina is weighing up whether to open an Indian Ocean naval base in the Seychelles in a move which will heighten tensions with India amid fears of a regional arms race. Beijing’s Defence Ministry confirme...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(NaturalNews) How in the world did the U.S. change from having the best scientists in the world who were discovering vitamins, minerals, vaccines and cures for disease, to modern times, where the only med...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhile most folks are looking elsewhere, it appears that Congress is trying to see if it can sneak an absolutely awful "cybersecurity" bill through Congress. We've discussed how there's been some fightin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours ago(Reuters) - Foxconn Technology's agreement to improve the lot of its 1.2 million workers in China who make Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones is a signal that China is losing its title as the world's lowest-co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWhile war drums keep on beating along the disputed inter-Sudanese border, Europe's engagement in Central and East Africa is intensifying. Over the past months, by emulating the United States, the European...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoKey US counter terrorism actions in Yemen The US Department of Defense is primarily responsible for counter-terrorism activities in Yemen, just as it is in Somalia. CENTCOM is the lead Pentagon command. J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoHere's a shocker for all you kids out there: Americans over 60 still owe 4.2 percent of student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Compared to millennials, they're not doing th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoIn a new briefing, Open Europe assesses the state of the Spanish economy in light of recent budget proposals, announced by the Spanish government in full today. Spain is not the “next Greece” - it remains...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA disorderly break-up of the euro would set off a cataclysmic chain-reaction and a collapse of Europe’s banking system, pushing the world into full-blown depression. That is the shared nightmare of those...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOTTAWA (NEWS1130) - The Harper government has been monitoring political messages online, and even correcting what it considers misinformation. One local expert says the government is taking things too far...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 125.6 km (78 miles), the quake hit at 06:01:09 UTC Monday 9th April 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) East of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoOne of the most quoted lines from Eric Schlosser’s now famous book, Fast Food Nation, comes from the chapter about pathogens in ground beef. Without mincing words, he wrote: “There is shit in the meat.” ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAs two men in Louisiana complete 40 years in solitary confinement this month, the use of total isolation in US prisons is on the rise. What does this do to a prisoner's state of mind? Robert King paces t...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours ago* Naples* "At age 10, these kids are already working 12 hours a day..." At the head of an association called Il Tappeto di Iqbal, "Iqbal’s carpet",named after a Pakistani child-slave who led a revolt and w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoBamboo is being hailed as a new super material, with uses ranging from textiles to construction. It also has the potential to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, the biggest greenhouse gas, and provid...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA study suggests a previously widely accepted death toll of the US Civil War may actually be way under the mark. How many did perish in this conflict, fought before the era of modern record-keeping and DN...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoHANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Nguyen Huong Giang loves to party but loathes hangovers, so she ends her whiskey benders by tossing back shots of rhino horn ground with water on a special ceramic plate. Her father...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIntelligent people take less sick leave, according to atudy showing a "clear" link between low intellectual ability and long-term work absence. Cognitive ability at a young age has a ''strong impact'' on ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoIn its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.” The ne...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 9 hours agoAlberta’s listless governing Conservatives are getting creamed in the sign battle by the Wildrose Party, and even by the impoverished NDP. Above and below: NDP signs in Edmonton. Below: Yogi Berra, eviden...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe onward march of the Chinese consumer continues, with China overtaking the U.S. as the biggest grocery market in the world in 2011, according to new research out of the United Kingdom. The Chinese gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNot long before Dick Armey – a conservative Republican constitutionalist – retired as House majority leader, he gave a speech expressing his worry about the government’s increasing blanket surveillance ov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA year ago, a Reno clean energy businessman warned the Public Utilities Commission that if it didn’t set a few standards for NV Energy’s wind rebate program, its customers could end up footing the bill fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHundreds of extra police have been sent into the Paris area where four people have been murdered with the same gun, raising fears a serial killer is on the loose. Senior local official Michel Fuzeau sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNorth Korea is preparing a long-range rocket for launch, defying international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity. Pyongyang said last month it would launch what it claims is an observa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAt least 150 firefighters tackled a major blaze after a petrol tanker was hit from behind by a car. The truck was carrying 34,000 litres of fuel when the incident happened on Saturday night near Glendal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThree people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a body was discovered in a waste bin on an industrial site in Southampton, police said. Two men, aged 28 and 25, and a woman, aged 20, are bein...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 222.6 km (138.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:30:25 UTC Monday 9th April 2012 The epicenter was 135 km (83...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Taiwan Region at a depth of 25.5 km (15.8 miles), the quake hit at 21:43:32 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) East of Hualien, Taiwan No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 25.7 km (16 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:47 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 204 km (126 miles) ESE of ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 11 hours agoA day devoted to family and rest. And cleaning. Let us not forget cleaning. We gathered at the Ancestral Manor for a delicious Easter meal and (as it turned out) home video of the two older children when t...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 11 hours agoTransforming the discussion. Image from pennlive.com.Voice of Choice:Fighting back against bullies, stalkers,and those who would intimidateMaybe it is time to empower local citizens overwhelmed by moneyed in...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 11 hours agoWelcome to what is sure to be a special week. Right here on Reduced Footprints we will be celebrating both the environment and the release of SB Knight’s debut novel *Born of Blood*. What does a book relea...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoHint: it isn't because they want him to win the election. And this video is very moving-- much more so than a Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney campaign could ever hope to be. It's a very different side of M...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 11 hours agoPhoto courtesy: DigInfo/screen grab Having worked with plants most of my life, I know that plants respond to emotions. When I worked for a plant company that supplied offices with plants and maintenance,...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours ago"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever." - George Orwell. Death To All Tyrants. Death To All Torturers. *Why The West Created The Islamic Republic of Iran, ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 12 hours agoThe CIA, Mossad, and MI6 fucked Afghanistan. St. Petersburg Times: *The man who would have led Afghanistan* (September 9, 2002). *The Shadow CIA And Bush White House Assassinated Afghan Hero Ahmad Shah ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 12 hours agoPhoto courtesy: PhBasumata/CC BY 3.0 I am pleased to blog about another man who didn't let anything get in the way to accomplishing his dream. Despite the odds, the setbacks; and, alone, this man created ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours ago#F35 #Cdnpoli* -* * * *In the last post* we were at a turning point in the F-35 project. On 6 July, 2006 the prototype F-35A rolled out of the hangar. On 7 July, 2006 it was officially named the *Lightnin...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 13 hours agoI sure don't agree with every word uttered in this video, but it is worth watching. (JC)
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 13 hours agoI sure don't agree with every word uttered on this video, but it is worth watching.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoYanni, “Live at the Acropolis,” “Acroyali/Standing in Motion” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67sx66QV0eI
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 13 hours agoA lot of people outraged by this story today. It is infuriating and sad to read about the callous disregard our ruling class shows to the children of poverty, especially when the state cuts off welfare fro...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 14 hours ago*Contributor: "YYC"* Homeowner, Lukaszuk at odds over alleged assault Those odds could be settled very quickly if we could see the injuries. You know, both your habeus and your corpus. Comeon, sweethea...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*In a feature at the top of today's Face the Nation broadcast, Morley Safer remembers his longtime 60 Minutes colleague Mike Wallace. (Sorry about the commercial, but it should be only 15 seconds.)* *"Mi...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoJust the other day, I became aware of an amazing poem written by the German Nobel Literature Laureate named Gunther Grass. It seems that ever since this poem was released, the criminals in charge of the ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 15 hours agoWow. Just ... wow. "Paladiea" would like you all to know that he or she is very pro-choice, and dislikes anti-abortionists with a vengeance. He / she makes it clear in the very first paragraph of his / he...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 16 hours agoFrom a comment over at DJ: I've requested the regina mom be removed from so-called ProgBlogs because "I will not be associated with an organization of any sort that believes women's fundamental right to f...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago“How big is Jupiter's moon Io? The most volcanic body in the Solar System, Io (usually pronounced "EYE-oh") is 3,600 kilometers in diameter, about the size of planet Earth's single large natural satellite....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 16 hours ago"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference." - Virginia Satir
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 16 hours ago[I just keep going down this road, don't I?] There's an *article by a Wyss and Wilner* in the most recent issue of the Canadian Military Journal, where they argue for the F-35 for Canada. The guts of the...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours agoCovent Garden, Westminster, United Kingdom. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*“All Night, In The Dark”* by Chet Raymo “Why do we so admire the poetry of Mary Oliver? She is not the most technically proficient poet around, and there is a disquieting sameness to her work. But we co...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 17 hours ago#F35 #cdnpoli While you wait for the 2nd part of the *lies the Harperites told*, *this should get your blood up*. Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he was aware two years ago that it would cost closer ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 17 hours ago*Rick Steves is an American ambassador of peace and a bridger of worlds.* There are very few ambassadors of peace in the world who use their platform and celebrity to bridge the gap between East and We...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"On Roses"* "Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright. He dares not say ‘I think,’ ‘I am,’ but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These r...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Snow caused the roof to collapse in the auditorium at the Abbott Loop Community Church in Anchorage, Alaska, 8 April 2012. CNN] 8 April 2012 (CNN) – While winter is a distant memory for most Amer...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 18 hours agoI don't have any grand memories of the man, but Mike Wallace was the kind of journalist they just don't make anymore. Hard to imagine any of the current crop of bobblehead moderators asking the kind of que...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 18 hours ago2022: what's the situation with the death penalty in the US? Also, does it become a presidential election issue in 2016 or 2020, and if so which party is helped by it?
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoPolitics is so much easier when there are guys with white hats and guys with black hats-- or guys with red t-shirts and guys with blue t-shirts. The real world is more complex. *Generally speaking*, the D...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 18 hours agoThe motto of the American Legislative Exchange Council: “Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.” ― Oliver Goldsmith Ask a member of the American Legislative Exchange council if they are a member...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlef...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago*I thought you guys voted for change? ** * *"A similar effort to enhance the authorities’ powers was made by the Labor government in 2006 but was abandoned after ferocious opposition, including from the t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 18 hours agoOf course he knew that original $9-billion figure was nonsense. And, sure, he knew that $15-billion figure wasn't the whole story either. And, okay, he knew the $15-billion figure was shy $10-billion an...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours ago*Mike Maloney breaks down Price Manipulation in the Gold and Silver Market* http://youtu.be/UWK5UQDCDTc Uploaded by CapitalAccount on Apr 6, 2012 Follow us @ http://twitter.com/laurenlyster http...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 19 hours agoIf Mitt Romney becomes president: how many US deaths do you expect in Afghanistan in 2015? (It was 418 last year, dropping from a high of 499; note that the highest death toll in that country under Bush wa...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 19 hours agoWell if you celebrate the holiday, Happy Easter or happy Passover or just happy day if you don't subscribe to the religion thing. If you're looking for an Easter graphic, click over and check out this East...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours ago*THE DISAFFECTED LIB* has a post about the F-35 you *must* check out. It seems that the F-35 may be quite vulnerable to the latest Sukhois, plus it has to have systems tie-in to American AWACS and re-fueli...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours agohttp://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/761341?src=mpnews&spon=12 Suicide rates in Canada are increasing in girls aged 10 to 19 years, but they are decreasing among boys in that age group, new data show. In 20...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours agoConsider, for a moment, you are going out to buy a new car. You compare the various aspects of the vehicles available to you. Of the vehicles *which suit your particular needs* only three of them measure u...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours ago7 lies in uder 2 minutes; impressive Barack Obama.
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 19 hours agoA video tutorial from Aviation Week: Note the diverse competition, the technical, life-cycle cost, and commercial benefit analyses integral to the program.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 19 hours agoYeah, you. I'm talking to you or at least somewhere around 90% of the people who'll read this. You're incompetent and while that might be inadvertent, it is by design. I'm reading Tim Flannery's new bo...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 20 hours agoThat is one of the tired defenses of the harpercon shit-lickers. It makes no sense and is only evidence of the mind of a dull plodder beginning to break down under the strain of events. 1. Elections Canad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFrustrated homeowners in Fort Worth’s Meadowbrook hills are wondering what’s killing hundreds of fish in their backyard pond. Neighbors started to notice the dead fish after Tuesday’s storms. The pond kn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCentral Colombian volcanologists warned Saturday that seismic activity inside the Nevado del Ruiz volcano has increased. According to the Manizales Volcanological and Seismological Observatory, the volca...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoAgain, important developments in Syria. Also, the elections in Myanmar. Jobs numbers on Friday reminded everyone that neither economic recovery nor Barack Obama's re-election are sure things -- although ov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least 38 people have been killed after a car bombing outside a church in northern Nigeria where an Easter service was under way. Security officers managed to stop the vehicle carrying the explosives fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoNational Disaster Management Centre has stated that 55 islands throughout the nation have been faced with severe water shortage due to the recent drought. Director of the Centre Hisaan Hassan said today ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoHeavy rainfall recently in southeast Brazil has led to flooding problems and mudslides. Some of the hardest hit areas are northeast of Rio de Janeiro where more than 20 mudslides have been reported since ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoAt least 97 girl students of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-run primary school number 5-G at Janata Vasahat, Parvati Paitha suffered food poisoning on Saturday after eating idlis served as mid-day m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMalacca: A group of 15 members of the Pasukan Kadet Bersatu Malaysia landed in hospital after being injured during a freak storm with strong wind and lightning this afternoon. The cadets aged between 13 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 2.7 earthquake has struck Oregon at a depth of 5.6 km (3.5 miles), the quake hit at 17:16:27 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles)WNW from Pine Grove, Oregon No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoMore than a dozen protesters broke into a TV studio in Greece and threw eggs and yoghurt at a newsreader during a live broadcast. The demonstrators were angry because a member of a neo-Nazi party appeare...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours agoIf you've been confused or just puzzled about the Obama administration's love affair with Richard Nixon's "plugging leaks" obsessive madness, here is some recent history for your further enlightenment. Alm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoLONDON — An Arab-Israeli Islamist leader has won an annulment of an order for his deportation from Britain, the interior ministry said Sunday, adding that it was "disappointed" by the ruling. An immigrat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoTEHRAN — Iran on Sunday rejected demands the West is reportedly to submit at talks due to take place in days, saying it will neither close its Fordo nuclear bunker nor give up higher-level uranium enrichme...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 22 hours agoBefore my discussion, a backtrack of what I wrote last *August 28, 2010:* *Canada's Healthcare Monopoly* Canada's "free healthcare" system is often envied here in the Philippines and many other developing...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 22 hours ago*By Alexander Ač, Czech Globe* Thanks to Luboš Motl for providing me the place for a guest post. Natural greenhouse effect is a well described and for a long time understoodscientific phenomenon. Without...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 22 hours agoI'm all for freedom of religion - on one condition. Freedom of religion must also mean freedom *from* religion. Religion should be practised in churches, that's where it belongs, not in legislatures, n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoPyongyang vows to go ahead with launch of what it says is a satellite, but US fears is a disguised long-range missile test. North Korea has moved three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a co...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 22 hours agoIn an article reported at Think Progress they note that the natural gas companies outbid farmers for the use of Colorado’s scarce water supply. *Frackers Outbid Farmers* – when you think about it in the bi...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*King Herod's Dream* *KING HEROD:* That dream again! Again the child who is to cast me down. And not to know what to believe of this omen which threatens my glory and my existence! O the wretchedness of ki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Philippine Islands Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:08 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 132 km (82 miles) WNW from Basco,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Phoenix made an emergency landing Saturday afternoon when one of the plane’s engines unexpectedly shut down. Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec said Flight 2046 was begin...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 22 hours agoNorth Shore News reporter Benjamin Alldritt has a great column on getting kicked out of a Christy Clark rally here. Allldrit got a personal invitation from the local Liberal riding association. So did hund...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoCANACONA/MARGAO: Sixteen children of an anganwadi at Cola in Canacona taluka suffered food poisoning following consumption of Bhundi ladoos and chiki on Saturday. Six are still being treated at Hospicio ho...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoBandipora, Apr 7: Scores of people have been infected by outbreak of some skin and respiratory diseases in many villages here. Reports said scabies like skin disease was spreading fast among people mostl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoKolkata: The saga of infant deaths continues with nine cases being reported over the past 12 hours at West Bengal's Malda Medical College and Hospital. Of the nine babies that died yesterday, six were less...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 47.6 km (29.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:11:48 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 138 km (86 miles) WSW from Banda...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*Remember when he said the relaxation on the medical marijuana raids was a sign of change?* "Federal agents raid California marijuana university; IRS spokeswoman mum on purpose of Oakland sweep" by Terry ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*Prepare to be molested when arrested, Amerikans.* "High court upholds strip searches for minor offenses; High court also protects testimony before grand jury" by Adam Liptak | New York Times, April 03,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 73 km (45.4 miles), the quake hit at 15:03:31 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 151 km (94 m...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*See you then, readers.* "Supreme Court justices to vote today on health care case" by Mark Sherman | Associated Press, March 30, 2012 WASHINGTON - While the *rest of us have to wait until June*, the ju...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 23 hours agoSource: Publimetro and Planeta UFO http://www.publimetro.cl/nota/vida/fotos-carabineros-avistan-a-un-ovni-en-paso-fronterizo-austral/xIQldc!NvC2KRHo5Pimk/ A UFO on the Chile/Argentina Border: A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoFour NYPD officers were wounded during a shoot out in the early hours of this morning, authorities said. Two officers were hit in the leg and the others were grazed by the suspect's bullets after he barr...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 23 hours agoIn Executive Pay, a Rich Game of Thrones. The New York Times. By Natasha Singer http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/business/in-chief-executives-pay-a-rich-game-of-thrones.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*You think I type USrael in jest?* "Jerusalem birth case kept alive by ruling" by Jesse J. Holland | Associated Press, March 27, 2012 WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the federal courts ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 2.5 earthquake has struck Oregon at a depth of 6.8 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:19:17 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles)WNW from Pine Grove, Oregon No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTulsa, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Authorities in Oklahoma arrested two people early Sunday in connection with a deadly spate of apparently random shootings in Tulsa that have had residents on edge. About 30 repre...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWhen Barack Obama sits down with Latin American leaders in Cartagena to discuss the "war on drugs" he won't like what they've got to say. They're ready to declare the war on drugs a failure - a failure i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Syria will not commit to pulling armed forces from cities only to have "armed terrorist groups" commit attacks, a Syrian foreign ministry spokesman said Sunday as opposition activists reported mo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoVeteran American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace has died at age 93. Best known for his four decades of confronting "leaders and liars" and making that a staple of *60 Minutes* since he joined it at ...
- posted by Robert E Kelly at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day ago[image: KJU] Here is part one, where I argued that Kim’s rise scrambles our conventional wisdom on NK, opening a lot of unexpected room, at least early in his tenure, to try to deal. The cold war stand-of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoVigilantes are vowing to hunt down Karen Matthews in an online hate campaign after she was released from prison this week. Websites have been bombarded with threats made against the 36-year-old who was n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTULSA, Oklahoma (AP) — Police backed by a helicopter arrested two white men early Sunday and said they would face murder charges in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Unimak Island Region, Alaska at a depth of 12 km (7.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:26 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 126 km (78 miles) South of Fal...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Police track cellphones without court approval" by Eric Lichtblau | New York Times, April 01, 2012 WASHINGTON - Law enforcement *tracking of cellphones*, once the province mainly of federal agents, has...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 1 day agoyou know what I mean, iff *commercially available pieces of manufactured technology* like mobile phones and and their APPs and laptops and and their OSs and kinect and their online stat-chompers and televi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoYou might want to keep this site in your bookmarks as he will be updating companies. Gotta give this person credit - this is a lot of work. Kinda shows what one person with a mission is capable of. *Tweet...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 1 day agoFeminism is one of the great Zionist lies which has been used to beat Europeans into submission. By pitting men against women in an un-natural fight, the self-chosen rulers of our oppressed lands have und...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*In Massachusetts?* *"a two-week trial from which all black and all female prospective jurors were dismissed**"* "The long, hard half-life of Lawyer Johnson; The last man sentenced to die here was freed ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Looting and lying seem to have that effect, yeah.* "Timothy Cahill’s defense undercut by record; Lottery sales did not dip before he ran ads" by Frank Phillips | Globe Staff, April 08, 2012 Former stat...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Is it not ironic that the AmeriKan newspaper industry headed by the Old Gray Lady is sinking like the famous ship did nearly 100 years ago?* "The ‘story of the century’ brought newsrooms to life; Titanic ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*It is my belief God wants me right here. * "Pope holds Easter vigil at basilica" by Frances D’Emilio | Associated Press, April 08, 2012 VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, us...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoOr, as we say in our household, the day Jesus turned into a flying zombie.
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day agoNFL’s Roger Goodell cares more for cash than safety ~Miami Herald ~Hat tweet~ *Free Sean Payton Now* @*SaintsReporter* Our times: Blasting the Mississippi River levee at Caernarvon ~Also~2011 Mississippi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoA friend of mine in Congress, a Democrat who serves alongside Florida Republican Cornelius MacGillicuddy IV (AKA- Connie Mack) tells me Connie-- and his wife Mary Bono-- are very pleasant people. "They're...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoThe BBC has a long history of consumer champion programmes from That's Life to whatever Anne Robinson vehicle is currently running. Will they be looking into the absolute scandal that The Telegraph has dis...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 1 day agoThis is one of the most iconic photos in sports history: the Olympics, 1968, Mexico City. As the Star Spangled Banner begins to play, gold-medal winner Tommie Smith and bronze-medal winner John Carlos, e...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoOver the next four years, the Harper government will cut $523.5 million from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rights and Democracy was only one of the victims of the cuts. In reality, the Harperites kil...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoSeries of mainstream admissions of US & Israeli state-sponsored terrorism. by Tony Cartalucci April 8, 2012 - Ynetnews reported in their article, "US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins," that, "the...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoAs Blogger continues to gulp down my labor-intensive posts, I'd like to offer this quickie that I think is incredibly important, and hopefully not tasty enough to tempt the Blog monster this late in the ev...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 1 day ago* UPDATED -scroll down!* The latest: *President Assad says he will need written agreement over violence, in move observers say is designed to divide opposition * UN-backed plans for a ceasefire and negot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The United States and Afghanistan have reached a landmark deal in a bid to end visceral Afghan anger over special operations raids on local homes, officials from both nations said Sunday. The d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - North Korea, pressing ahead with a rocket launch in defiance of a UN resolution, is also preparing a third nuclear weapons test, South Korean news reports said on Sunday, a move bound to scare...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoJapan has deployed missile batteries in central Tokyo and dispatched destroyers as North Korea makes final preparations for a rocket launch that could take place this week despite global condemnation. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (AP) – Just two months ago, amid celebrations of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an Iranian rocket roared off a military launch pad and placed a 110-pound Earth observation satellite into orbit. The U....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Israel has signaled it would accept, as a first priority, world powers focusing on persuading Iran to stop higher-level uranium enrichment when they resume stalled nuclear negotiations this wee...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked hideouts on Sunday in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 14 suspected militants, military sources said. Ten suspected mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSuspected militants have blown up a girls’ primary school building in Mohmand tribal region of northwestern Pakistan, where troops are fighting the Taliban, Press TV reports. Militants used explosive mat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - NBC News' decision to air an edited call from George Zimmerman to police in the moments before he shot Trayvon Martin was "a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call," a...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 1 day ago*Vladimir Ivanovich Dal - Notes about the Ritual Murders* *Dr Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl (Russian spelling – 'Dal') 19th century Russian lexicographer, writer, historian, folklore collector…of Danish-French-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSyria's government wants "written guarantees" from the opposition before it withdraws its troops from flashpoints in parts of the country. The foreign ministry statement comes two days before a UN-backed d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA father of two who suffered horrific injuries in a bottle attack at a celebrity-packed party held by smartphone firm BlackBerry has died, police said. Phillip Sherriff, 37, was fatally wounded at Pulse ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- The police chief of Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered a stern, succinct message Saturday to the man he believes killed three people and critically wounded two others in a spate of seemingly random shooti...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 1 day ago*I was interested in the fact that the scandal over Deasy's PhD hit the headlines at the same time he was hired by Gates. His financial connections with Robert Felner date back to his Santa Monica days &...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Gunmen loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked the country's main airport with mortars Saturday, forcing authorities to cancel flights, witnesses and officials ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 559.3 km (347.5 miles), the quake hit at 08:50:02 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 185 km (115 miles) North from DIL...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Bahraini authorities have charged the daughter of a human rights activist with assaulting a public employee after she tried to visit her father who is on his 60th day of a hunger strike. The Bah...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- A series of videos appeared online Saturday purporting to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime to evade capture, deriding Iraq's current leadership. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Rescue crews worked through the night to try to retrieve nine miners who have been trapped below ground in southern Peru for days. The miners have been stuck since Thursday in the Cabeza de Negro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoROME - (AP) -- Several Romans dressed as gladiators have climbed the Colosseum to protest a crackdown on their unauthorized business of posing with tourists for money. Saturday's protest came three days ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTEHRAN, Iran -- The Iranian government, angered by a Reuters' article on an increase in women in Iran training as ninjas, has suspended the reporting credentials of reporters at Reuters' Tehran bureau, wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTOKYO (Kyodo) -- Fifty people were taken to hospital by ambulance with alcohol poisoning between March 31 and Saturday in Tokyo after drinking to excess during cherry blossom viewing parties, the Tokyo Fi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- The state will start building storage facilities for debris generated by the March 2011 tsunami as early as May at two locations in a coastal area of Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNINGBO, China (Kyodo) -- The foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea agreed Sunday to make "maximum efforts" to dissuade North Korea from conducting a satellite launch but failed to reach consen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSeven people have been injured after an RAF Chinook helicopter made an emergency landing in the United States - in what is being described as a "mishap". The crew was practising how to land the aircraft ...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 1 day ago. Here in the red team-blue team One-Party state the (not so) secret war against God goes on. On 29th February Lady Smith, sitting in the Court of Session in Edinburgh, ruled that* the senior midwives’ ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoTension ahead of Pyongyang Missile Test Nile Bowie NileBowie.blogspot.com April 8, 2012 As China declares fresh warnings of retaliation against any strike on Iran [1], the regime in Pyongyang shows no si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHome Secretary Theresa May plans to crack down on the "abuse" of human rights laws that prevent foreign criminals being thrown out of Britain. Vowing to stop all but the most "exceptional cases" succeedin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA devastating avalanche that engulfed a Pakistan army base in the Himalayas has left 135 feared dead, the Pakistan army says. A security official told Sky sources more than 15 bodies have been recovered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA single-engine plane crashed in Naples on Friday afternoon killing its pilot, the host of a popular fishing TV show. Spanish Fly presenter Jose Wejebe, of Florida Keys, died when his kit plane plunged ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoFor those celebrating the holiday I wish you all a very Happy Easter. To all, a very good and happy day.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCharged: Brandon Cain is one of the five men charged with murdering the women, witnesses said that Cain was pursuing one of the victims romantically. Five men have been charged with murdering two women w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe unseasonably mild winter kept the mercury high, but could have inflated something else as well – the economy. Cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis saw some of their warmest winters ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoScientists have discovered a new type of planet - one that travels at high speed to the very edge of the galaxy. The so-called 'hypervelocity planets' are flung out of their usual orbit when the enter th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNBC News has fired a producer involved in broadcasting an edited version of a 911 call in which George Zimmerman appears to racially profile Trayvon Martin before shooting him. The employee was reportedl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA father has confessed to killed his newborn baby boy because the three-week-old’s crying was disturbing him as he played on a games console, police said. Jacob David Hartley, of Lakeland, Florida, had ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice and FBI officers are still hunting for a man who left three people dead and two others critically wounded in a shooting spree early on Friday morning which is feared to be racially motivated. The ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNASA has revealed stunning 3D images of the 14 confirmed tornadoes that devastated parts of Texas last week. The images reveal hugely powerful thunderstorms more than eight miles high were responsible fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA chef who was knifed in the back by his girlfriend while he was sleeping proposed to her in court through her barrister. Gregory Todd, 48, bought a diamond ring to the courtroom as Tiffany Baillie, 32, a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA frail 79-year-old man who recently emigrated from China pleaded not guilty yesterday in the brutal slaying of his elderly wife. On Thursday, police in the quiet New England town of Shrewsbury, Massachu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA hunt is under way for a gunman who has shot five people in Oklahoma, killing three of them. Police are linking the shootings - which all happened in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Tulsa with...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* El-Shater* Mohammed Khairat El-Shater, an Egyptian businessman, could be the MI6 candidate for the Egyptian presidency? El-Shater is the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential ele...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Triple Junction at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 06:24:40 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 1189 km (738 miles) WNW of Puer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBritish farmers could be forced to spend about £28 million revamping their pig sheds – because a new ruling from Brussels says gaps in the floors are a millimetre too wide. Many are threatening to quit fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMigrants with criminal convictions will be allowed to apply for jobs which Britons with similar records have no hope of getting under a new regime which will be introduced this month. Britain has signed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:44:53 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) ENE from...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoOn March 27, 2012, the Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) facebook profile posted this photo (the President riding on it) with the following caption: [Adm-08] *The National Economic and Development Authority is set to p...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago* Florida* "It would destroy the world environment and our civilization." - *The Fuel Pools of Fukushima* Sold by his mother - *The Moore Show** * *Our Terrorists - Our Men in Iran?* *Batman As An Examp...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoJohn Derbyshire was one of the brightest writers in National Review who focused on history, immigration, China, race, and even mathematics – including topics involving the Riemann zeta function. He is cons...
- posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 1 day ago(This post is part of the annual Blog Against Theocracy. The twitter hatchtag is #AgainstTheocracy.)Rick Santorum's understanding of freedom of religion and the separation of church and state matches his un...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe teenage girlfriend of a former teacher who abandoned his family to move in with her has ended their controversial relationship amid claims he sexually abused a different student more than a decade ago...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 1 day agoThe crew of the Wildrose lays smoke to obscure their exact position. Below: Jane Cawthorne (Writers Guild of Alberta photo). Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith can pass off reports of her party’s (half) hidd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA race against time is under way to save to save 130 Pakistani soldiers buried today in an avalanche on the 'world's highest battlefield'. The incident happened early this morning on the Siachen Glacier, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 92.5 km (57.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:44:11 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 256 km (159 miles) SSE from Gene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDespite the years of cruel reality, Margaret Bentham still seemed incredulous as she told her story, a story she once thought she could never share. But with quiet dignity she summed up the ordeal she an...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoImagine for a moment the rebirth of some of the great religious figures in history -- including (in alphabetical order) Buddha, Gaia, Jesus, and Mohammed -- Imagine if they were to be briefed on the sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe military hardware that led to 14-year-old Daniel Omar's horrific injuries started life closer to home than you might think. Under the glare of Sudan’s sun, a toddler points skywards at the metallic a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWilliam Hague has ruled that key evidence in the ‘body-in-the-bag’ inquest into the death of an MI6 officer be heard in secret. The Foreign Secretary signed an order prohibiting disclosure about details ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Triple Junction at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:31:47 UTC Sunday 8th April 2012 The epicenter was 1017 km (631 miles) Southeast of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:15:36 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) Nort...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoThough my ISA experience was indeed interrupted both by an ultimate game and a nasty case of the flu, rumors of my disappearance have been wildly exaggerated. A travel-intensive Friday day plus a kid-int...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNeo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are "prepared" for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect "white citizens in the area wh...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 1 day agoNotes from week 2 of the Alberta election, as Alison Redford tries to resurrect her campaign over Easter Weekend. 1. Daveberta's post on the Wildrose Party's more controversial candidateshas generated ov...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNeo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are "prepared" for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect "white citizens in the area wh...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 1 day agoA third day spent at The Land in labor and contemplation. Actually, not as much contemplation as one would like as Southern Man put Harbor Master on the iPad and he's totally hooked. Nothing warms the hea...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*Will the Kochs give Scott Walker a job running one of their toilet paper factories after the recall?* Some clown named George just responded to one of my posts on the Republican War Against Women by clai...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 1 day ago*The mad man in the White House needs you to believe in his magic, and that those who question the U.S. government's narrative of the war on terror are mentally ill deviants. * The modern totalitarian...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I'd like to avoid the tunnel.* "Delivery of T’s new fleet beset by delays" March 27, 2012|Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff New commuter rail cars designed to replace part of the MBTA’s aging fleet are at lea...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoSee this great article on cholera. Article pasted below: ** Cholera Patient--Artibonite (Photo by John Carroll) *APRIL 7, 2012, 3:30 PM* *Saving Lives in a Time of Cholera* *By **TINA ROSENBERG* Damon Wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago2002, “Heart of the Nile” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFVxudmqwNo&feature=related
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoI have been spending the last while both recuperating from a bout of Sinusitis, a bit of a head cold, and after clearing up those ailments..Catching up on some personal issues with family and friends... ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoGrow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*You overpaid and are drowning in debt and they built you a pos?* "Big Dig needs $54m light fix; Tunnel fittings must be replaced, officials say" by Sean P. Murphy | Globe Staff, April 05, 2012 The stat...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoI resisted as long as I could, but I finally checked Texts from Hillary. It's good. Almost Hillarious. [More posts daily at the Detroit News.]
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I would rather watch a movie than read a Globe. * "11 box office kings that became part of Hollywood history; Movies that hit the jackpot (and one that hit an iceberg, too)" by Mark Feeney | Globe Sta...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 1 day agoMr. T: Don’t be messin’ with him! That was then. This just in: Alberta Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk allegedly assaulted by resident while door knocking in Edmonton-Castle Downs! What’s more, accor...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“Final Flight”* by Alex Noble “And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, Th...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago...please explain their *selection* in the context of *this quote* from real analysts? Russian choices have been guided by a consistent Western tactical air defense plan that has been centered on the F-35...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 1 day agoNot even close to a full throated condemnation of his vile blathering, but good to know there is a place where even *they* will draw the line. National Review actually dumped Derbyshire. Reproducing the po...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable t...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day ago*by Ken* It would be nice if the reports didn't come bathed in quite so much gloating from PC users long accustomed to virus infestation. Still, for Mac OS X users who, like me, have heretofore smugly tho...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: The beautiful Río Baker in Chile’s Patagonia. March 2011. Berklee Lowrey-Evans] SANTIAGO, Chile, 5 April 2012 (AP) – Chile's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected challenges by environmental group...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoSince I am unable to magically transport myself to Ontario to watch my phenom goalie nephew I've been doing my best to keep up to date through my sister and the Internet. His team, the Campbellford Rebels,...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 1 day agoOxford crew member William Zeng used Twitter to send Trenton Oldfield, the protester, a series of emotional messages after the race. Mr Zeng, a doctorate student at Oriel College, tweeted: ‘When I miss...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"An Interactive Look to the Heavens" * By Modern Survival Blog "Astronomers have released a picture containing more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. The full image contains 150 billion...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Peak Civilization: MIT Research Team Predicts Global * *Economic Collapse and Precipitous Population Decline"* by Mac Slavo "Researchers at one of the world’s leading think tanks have developed a computi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice in Hungary say a 24-year-old man killed four people with a sword and injured three others after a family argument. Laszlo Garamvolgyi of the Hungarian police told reporters that the killer used "we...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"What is Hope?"* by Rubin Alves "What is hope? It is the pre-sentiment that imagination is more real and reality is less real than it looks. It is the hunch that the overwhelming brutality of facts tha...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 1 day agoIf John Derbyshire had thought for a hundred years for a time to write The Talk: Nonblack version, he couldn't have chosen a worse one. With the country more racially divided than ever over the Trayvon Ma...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day agoJuneau, Alaska, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Global Warming"* by Chet Raymo "Goodness," thought Alice to herself, "what a very strange place this is." Only a moment before, the sun had been shining brightly and Alice was quite comfortable in her ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Rebuilding The World"* by Paulo Coelho "A father was trying to read the newspaper, but his little son kept pestering him. Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper –...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment- n...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Arsenic in Our Chicken?"* by Nicholas D. Kristof, NY Times "Let's hope you're not reading this column while munching on a chicken sandwich. That's because my topic today is a pair of new scientific stud...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHackers group Anonymous claims it has taken down the Home Office website in a distributed denial-of-service attack. A message on the group's Twitter account read: "TANGO DOWN - http://www.homeoffice.gov....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 16.7 km (10.4 miles), the quake hit at 20:37:52 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 1096 km (681 miles) Northea...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoStudents & faculty of Friends Seminary high school in Palestine, March 2012 (*Friends Seminary*) The *Anti-Defamation League*'s Abe Foxman is annoyed that a group of seventeen high school students and s...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*"Cahill’s campaign brought the suit against his former campaign manager and consultant, who had recently quit. Had he not instigated the legal action, it is unlikely the evidence would have emerged that l...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoMarch 23, 2010 I took possession, paving the way for my first death bond,er, mortgage that is, and a few days after that, April 4 I believe it was, I officially moved into the house here. The bathroom is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 76.4 km (47.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:09:40 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 219 km (136 miles) NNW of Saumlak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 106 km (65.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:05:58 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 170 km (105.4 miles) West of Tual,...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoMiss McConnell has his panties all in a bunch over the outrage he perceives of President Obama chastising the most politicized and most corporately-orineted Supreme Court in American history. He didn't a...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoI've been wading through piles of paper. Some of it is recent correspondence received after the Auditor General's report on the unbelievable mess that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has become. Other mater...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 1 day agoThis whole UFO thing is becoming quite confusing with little bits and pieces dropping in from all sorts of places. As I wrote a while ago, I had been driving into the Hy Vee grocery store parking lot when ...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoFishing around for things F-35 today, I came across one or two interesting quotes. Emphasis mine. First, an article in Macleans by *Alec Castonguay, where he interviews and quotes RCAF Maj.-Gen. Yvan Blo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Kodak wants bonuses for key workers" by Carolyn Thompson | Associated Press, April 07, 2012 BUFFALO - Eastman Kodak Co. is seeking permission to pay about 300 executives and other employees a total of ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Verizon to require landline in DSL package; Move will affect new customers" y Gail Waterhouse | Globe Correspondent, April 07, 2012 Verizon will require new customers who want its high-speed DSL Interne...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Entwistle attorney: Illegal searches led to murder conviction" by John R. Ellement | Globe Staff, April 06, 2012 Neil Entwistle was convicted of murdering his wife and daughter by a jury that was not i...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"North End fed up with drunken crowds; Residents speak out, asking officers to make arrests to end the ruckus" by Martine Powers | Globe Staff, April 07, 2012 For Damien DiPaola, the drama on Hanover St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Syrian forces are targeting civilians displaced from their homes by earlier fighting, an opposition group said Saturday, three days before a deadline for government forces to withdraw from citie...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Murder charges dropped against 2 in 2009 death; Pair accused of dismembering victim" y Amanda Cedrone | Globe Correspondent, April 07, 2012 DEDHAM - Two men charged with first-degree murder in the 2009...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThree people have been killed after two vehicles collided on the A614 in East Yorkshire, police say. Two others were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the accident in the village of ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"What Your Facebook Account Says About Your Brain"* by Dario Maestripieri, Ph.D. “Why do some people have thousands of friends on Facebook and others have just a few? It turns out that it depends on the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Dutch government wants to block the publication of a controversial article on a deadly bird flu strain engineered by the Rotterdam Erasmus Medical Centre to prevent the information from falling into th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*To the power of the banks and federal government, as did all the other state AGs. * "$318m for state in banks deal" February 10, 2012|By Jenifer B. McKim Thousands of Massachusetts homeowners are likely ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBOGOTA, Colombia — Authorities in Colombia say a towering volcano is showing renewed activity and could erupt in weeks or days. Gas and vapor has been rising periodically from the Nevado de Ruiz volcano ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"The Epidemic of Gray Divorces"* More Couples Are Ending Their Marriage After Age 50 by Linda and Charlie Bloom "Barbara and Jack got married twenty-four years ago. Barbara is fifty-one and Jack is fifty...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoALEUTIANS -- Alaska's Cleveland volcano in the Aleutian Islands is continuing to erupt. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Friday that low-level eruptions continue to occur inside the volcano located on...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*We would all be better off if he let the debt-enslaving institution of globalists die.* "President of Dartmouth picked to head World Bank" March 24, 2012|By Mary Carmichael President Obama nominated Jim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWhen a retired fisherman called to report that about 1,500 dolphins had washed up on Peru's northern coast, veterinarian Carlos Yaipén's first reaction was, "That's impossible." But when Yaipén traveled ...
- posted by Steve Saideman at The Duck of Minerva - 1 day agoI cannot say for sure, the last we saw of her was running deep towards the endzone looking for a long throw. We are left with a mystery--what happened to the Friday nerd blogging? Thus, I must leap into...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago* * *"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"* by Charles MacKay "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recov...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*It sure is an education knowing where all that debt tuition is going. * "Top lawyer helped win many college chiefs’ perks" March 28, 2012|Mary Carmichael and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff When universities a...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 1 day agoThe Right gets it wrong. Pro-life. Who could argue with such a sentiment? Is anybody really anti-life? Of course not, but by invoking such simplistic catch phrases, the far-Right attempts to assume a mo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I can barely make it to the turn-ins these days; what makes you think I'm reading any business section material?* "US economy adds jobs, but at modest rate; Analysts voice concerns over sluggish recovery...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 1 day agoPortland sextet Y La Bamba recently played a set for NPR. They have three albums, 2008's *Alida Street*, 2010's *Lupon* and this year's *Court the Storm*, which came out in February. In 2010 they played a ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoA few days ago, I discussed the maximally supersymmetric gauge theory, the Darth Vader theory, which is exceptional. I mentioned that the \(\NNN=4\) gauge theory in \(d=4\) dimensions is a beautiful, full...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Joe Scarpa, wrestling persona known as Chief Jay Strongbow" By Daniel E. Slotnik | New york times, April 07, 2012 NEW YORK - Joe Scarpa, who became *one of the best-known professional wrestlers* of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Salta, Argentina at a depth of 173.3 km (107.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:18:36 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) West of San Antonio de ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoPayola for the Most Profitable Corporations in HistoryBy Bill McKibben, TomDispatch 07 April 12 http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175525/tomgram%3A_bill_mckibben%2C_how_you_subsidize_the_energy_giants_to_wre...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"Arizona To Outlaw... Internet Trolling?"* By Caperton "Politicians’ complete and willful ignorance of the way the Internet really works would be entertaining, if it weren’t so dangerous. For instance: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo giant Baleen's humpback whale sharks washed up dead on the Mumbai and Thane beaches in separate incidents last week. This was preceded by a Bryde's whale shark getting washed ashore at a beach in Ratn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMoscow: At least four people died when an SM 2000 turboprop plane crashed during a training flight in Russia, an official said. The plane crashed in central Russia's Kaluga region Friday. Four people die...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoLast year, I wrote two entries during the Holy Week, Filipino Religiosity 1: Baclaran and Quiapo Churches, April 19, 2011, and Filipino Religiosity 2: Iloilo Holy Week Procession, April 24, 2011. This year'...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoI'm not so sure. We'll see in the next week or so. http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/adam-radwanski/why-ontarios-ndp-isnt-drawing-a-line-in-the-budgetary-sand/article2392569/?service=mobile
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDHAKA, Bangladesh (April 7, 2012)--News reports say storms that produced heavy rain and strong winds killed at least 17 people and injured dozens more in Bangladesh. Two newspapers reported that Friday's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoHYDERABAD: Parts of Hyderabad on Friday evening witnessed heavy hailstone showers. Nagole, LB Nagar, Koti, Charminar and Shamshabad areas recorded heavy fall of hailstones and other parts remained cloudy,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMOSCOW, April 6 (UPI) -- Russian space officials say a defunct 1.6-ton military satellite is expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean early Saturday. The Molniya-1-89 satellite, currently orbiting 1,500 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Federal officials are trying to figure out the source of radioactive particles at the Idaho National Laboratory advanced test reactor complex after a contractor came across traces of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCrews vigorously attacked a wildfires that erupted Friday around the state as high winds threatened to spread them quickly. Most of the fires were contained by nightfall, although crews were on the scene...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoPolice urged the public on Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula to stay clear of a polar bear that had been seen by the main highway in the area. The warning, issued by the RCMP and the provincial Department ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*He came back as Democrat congressman from Massachusetts? ** * *"George Romney undermined his presidential campaign by telling an interviewer he had been “brainwashed’’ by US generals in Vietnam"* "Lynch ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoThe report looks very interesting. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/assets/docs/climate_food_commission-final-mar2012.pdf
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA mysterious disease that swept through populations of seals in the Canadian, Russian and American Arctic last year and was associated with high levels of mortality, may have spread to one of the seals’ p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- At least 11 people died and another 50 were injured when the driver of double-decker bus traveling from Bolivia to Argentina lost control of the vehicle, which veered three meters off a cliff, Ar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(CNN) -- Three Palestinians were hanged in Gaza on Saturday, one of them for "collaborating" with the Israelis, the territory's ruling Hamas government said. The other two were convicted of murder, the M...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Wilted tree leaves in a Hawaiian forest during the extreme drought of 2010-11, which was the worst in at least 11 years and was federally designated a natural disaster.The tree is an alahee (Psyd...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoEarlier today I was extolling the virtues of Chris Mooney's two excellent books, The Republican War On Science and The Republican Brain. But perhaps they would have been more accurately named if they wer...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day ago[image: Ranking of U.S. states according to climate preparedness planning, 2012. NRDC] 4 April 2012 (NRDC) – As climate change affects communities across the U.S., some states are leading the way in pre...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoIn fact the burgeoning cost of Lockheed Martin's light bomber may be the least of our problems. To begin, what do you do with 65-light bombers in a country the size of Canada? You'll always have a good ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*You only get one chance to guess Which one it is*: "George W. absent from Bush endorsements" March 31, 2012|By Steve Peoples HOUSTON -* George W. Bush* is as hard to find in his father’s office as he is ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Gunmen loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh attacked the country's main airport with mortars Saturday, forcing authorities to cancel flights, witnesses and officials ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Nayarit, Mexico at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:30:38 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 192 km (119 miles) Southwe...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 1 day agoGood Friday procession We've made it through our first Semana Santa ina Latin American country, an experience that we’ve been hearing out (andstudiously avoiding) for years now. Indeed, things were the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Not quite, but it will be here. * *See: Recalls Rejected* *Sorry I don't have the energy** for such things anymore.* "Troubles mount ever higher for Lawrence mayor" March 29, 2012|By Sean P. Murphy, And...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Self-serving front-page fare considering the Globe heavily advertises and brings you the Sawx and even sponsors the pregame show.* "With the Red Sox starting the new season Thursday against the Detroit ...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 2 days 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 Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago*You will soon see why. * "Obama, Romney energy views are similar" April 05, 2012|By Callum Borchers An examination of President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s records reveals that Obama and Romney are *hardl...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 days agoThat's the 'green band' trailer for the upcoming Seth MacFarlane live-action comedy Ted. For any Family Guy fan it looks a must watch, Ted and Brian do seem to share a voice! Next is the 'red band' trail...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis. - 2 days agoZionists have used deception and outright lies to further their aims for as long as Zionism has existed. We could go back into Biblical history to see documented evidence of Jews defaming those they wish t...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 2 days ago** *We are asking you to raise your voice ...* *Contributor: "diabsupport"* As you may be aware, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson recently decided to surrender Dr. Hassan Diab to extradition. We are asking...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe first bodies have been recovered after a devastating avalanche engulfed a Pakistan army base in the Himalayas, Sky sources say. A security official said more than 12 bodies have been recovered from t...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 2 days agoContinuing our teach-in from last weekend's Occupation at ED, next up is Dave Green, who does field supervision of teacher interns for Fordham U. in NYC. This is a really well-crafted presentation by some...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 2 days agoPUPPIES DEAD PUPPIES DEAD PUPPIES DEAD PUPPIES STFU KNIFE-TWISTING MFKR SEAN PAMPERLOIN A (Tragic) Hero in His Own Mind ~Saints Win ~Hat Tweet @moosedenied Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman needs to fi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days agoBob Scheer isn't looking any more forward to voting for conservative Democrat Barack Obama than I am. We both live in California, so neither of us presumably *has* to-- as we would if we lived in swing s...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 2 days agoThe Harper government tells us that its recent budget is all about making government more efficient. It's an argument the world has heard before. In the 1930's, Dan Gardiner writes: Liberal democracies...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 39.6 km (24.6 miles), the quake hit at 11:58:07 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Lake Baykal Region, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:20:39 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 61 km (37.8 miles) North of Ka...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 2 days agoThere's not many things worse, not many things more dangerous, than a zealot. Someone so infatuated with an idea that they elevate it above actual human beings. Someone who thinks they have such a firm gra...
- posted by The Arthurian at The Rules of Exposition - 2 days ago*Before:* *I picked up on that theme and tried to show that our reliance on credit increased...* *After:* *I picked up on that theme and tried to show our reliance on credit increasing...* "That" is a w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoApr. 6 - Two al Qaeda militants were killed after a bomb they were carrying on their motorbike accidentally detonated. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoApril 7 - A 10 million dollar bounty on a Pakistani Islamist leader prompts anti U.S. protests across the country. Julie Noce reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(Reuters) - The civilian attorney representing the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan villagers wants to replace the military lawyer assigned to the case after disagreements over how to handle hi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(CNN) -- A number of relatives of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were replaced Friday in a major shakeup of the military, though two prominent members of his family remained in powerful milita...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(CNN) -- Authorities in Bahrain said Friday that they've arrested the daughter of a human rights activist who has drawn international attention and widespread protests with a hunger strike that he's susta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoAbu Dhabi (CNN) -- New details have emerged in the United Arab Emirates' shuttering last week of two nongovernmental organizations that worked primarily on promoting democracy. The Dubai office of U.S.-b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(CNN) -- The Lord's Resistance Army slammed "Kony 2012" as a "clear act of malevolent deception and manipulation of world mass consciousness" in an 18-page statement believed to be its first response to t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days ago(CNN) -- Mali state television announced late Friday that the leader of Mali's coup, Captain Amadou Sanogo, and the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to a plan under which the coup lea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoMoscow (CNN) -- Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have arrested two gay rights activists for breaching a new law that bans the "promotion of homosexuality" to minors, state news agency RIA Novo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoVolker Kraft, right, decorates a tree with 10,000 Easter eggs in the garden of the retired couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld, Germany, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) Source
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea may have moved the first stage of a rocket to a launch stand, indicating it is on schedule for a controversial mid-April launch, according to a new analysis of satel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoRIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate -- The terrible destruction wrought by the March 2011 tsunami along Japan's northeast Pacific coast has seen tens of thousands of people uprooted and scattered across a host of tempor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoKOCHI -- Kochi Prefecture in western Japan has decided to look into the feasibility of an "underground shelter" project using submarine technology to protect residents from a tsunami of up to 34.4 meters ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 544.3 km (338.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:44:47 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoNote: This story is nearly Identical to the Story during the 1st Week in Feb 2012. Article April 2012: Facebook (Robert Ford, United States released satellite images on Friday that it said showed Syria ha...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 2 days ago*Watch the movie called Thrive for free. Just click on the link below. All that is required is that you give your e-mail address.* http://www.thrivemovement.com/the_movie SYNOPSISTHRIVE is an unconv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoAn avalanche has buried more than 100 soldiers at a Pakistani army base in a remote area in the Himalayas. Troops with sniffer dogs, aided by helicopters, were frantically trying to find signs of surviv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA Mexican drug boss has been sentenced to life in prison after he admitted ordering more than 1,500 killings. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez pleaded guilty in El Paso, Texas, to 11 charges, including cons...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoHackers who broke into government computers last weekend likely stole Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of people, including children, who have received public assistance ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA woman was charged with two felonies after she threw a drink in the face of a Red Lobster waitress because she brought out the wrong meals. Ania D Wilkes, 20, of Ferguson, Missouri, was arrested after an...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 2 days agoWhich George Galloway to believe? The one who denies any wrong doing by himself on his Press TV show or the one we see and hear in the Middle East?
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoMilitary officials on Friday were trying to determine why two off-duty Marines left their desert base with 10 explosive training devices in their truck and went to a Los Angeles-area shopping mall, causin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA convicted murderer with a 'White Power' tattoo on his forehead has been sentenced to his second life term for killing a fellow inmate to 'avenge' the death of a nine-year-old girl. Frank Souza, 33, who ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 days ago*Technical:* Speed up your MathJax \(\rm\LaTeX\) by a second per page, at least in Windows. Download these zipped OTF fonts, unzip them, and for each of the 22 OTF files, right-click Properties/General a...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 2 days ago*Archbishop Sentamu and the Queen.* Five teenagers claimed that they were sodomised by a very important pastor. One teenager testified: "A few minutes after I had eaten and taken the juice, I lost my sen...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 2 days agoWildrose Apocalypse? Abortion chatter sparks new fears about Wildrose as poll shows NDP mini-surge in Edmonton. Below: NDP Leader Brian Mason. Are residents of the Edmonton region, as disgusted with the a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThey made lewd comments, stalked their pupils and flirted with students. But 16 teachers who were all reprimanded for inappropriate behaviour are still in their jobs - to the outrage of parents. The grou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA pregnant mother was brutally stabbed and her body mutilated at a Mississipi casino. Brandi Nicole Floyd, 25, was at least five weeks pregnant when she was found on a hotel room floor in the early hours...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 2 days agoNothing is really said about thenuclear power source which has to produce copious electrical power without heatissues. Since this is useful in thepower generation business and it is not available, this...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 2 days agoThis will be important and could well provide a biological pathway forextracting phosphate directly from the sea. I see no particular reason to refine the phosphate any further. Simple collection and d...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 2 days agoI am a little surprised that thisproblem was not well tackled in the past, but then it surely was and the resultwould have been a compromise in materials. Here apparently we are utilizing something call...
- posted by arclein at Global Warming & Terra Forming Terra - 2 days agoThis is hard evidence that the use of fire came early and was theenabling tool more than any other that then drove the domestication ofhumanity. This domestication led to thechangeover of our face and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA man has been convicted of capital murder for killing a 14-year-old cheerleader whose charred body was found at the asphalt plant where the man worked. Adam Longoria, 38, stood and stared straight at ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoAs her husband prepares to stand trial next week for hiring a hitman to murder her, wife Yvonne Stern has spoken for the first time about why she is standing by him. Millionaire Texas attorney Jeffrey St...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA former teacher who left his job and family to move in with an 18-year-old student has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade ago. Christopher James Hooker...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA mass grave revealed the horrific impact of Syrian violence as the brutal regime stepped up attacks on opposition activists and rebels four days before a United Nations deadline planned to bring a stop t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoStaff were today being withdrawn from the British Embassy in troubled Mali in the wake of the military coup, as insurgent Islamic fundamentalists declared it an independent nation. The Foreign Office sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoPublic fears about ‘Frankenstein farming’ have killed off plans to sell milk from Britain’s only herd of clone cattle. Most of the 96 animals – sired by two bulls bred from embryos from a cloned cow – ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoNeil Entwistle, the British man who murdered his American wife and baby daughter, is demanding a new trial on the grounds that a police search of their family home was illegal. He also claims the jury wh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoChina’s military leaders have told the country’s troops to ignore rumours on the Internet about a coup in Beijing. Soldiers were told to steel themselves for an 'ideological struggle' as the ruling Commun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe secret service slang for having removed or destroyed incriminating evidence such as fingerprints from the scene of a crime is ‘dry-cleaned.’ It is a phrase now being used frequently in connection with...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoTwo people arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a six-year-old girl at a campsite have been released without charge after police concluded there were no suspicious circumstances. Paramedics...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 2 days agoA former Japanese diplomat, with a rather extensive history as secretary generals for United Nations administrative units, has a webpage that discusses Fukushima. The former diplomat is named Akio Matsum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe racism crisis engulfing Scotland Yard took a dramatic turn last night as an officer was exposed for abusing an Asian takeaway manager. In an appalling drunken outburst, PC Philip Juhasz, 31, told the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThree people are still unaccounted for after an American military fighter jet crashed into a block of flats in Virginia and exploded into flames. The US Navy F-18 plane suffered what the Pentagon is desc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 36.4 km (22.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:50:20 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) Northeast of PANAMA CITY, Panama No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 113.2 km (70.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:57:21 UTC Saturday 7th April 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles)...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 2 days agoIf it was a hammer you'd have a broken hand by now. This test post will be deleted before midnight on the western boundary of NATO.
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 days agoSouthern Man again spent the day at The Land. All the lava rock (a Craigslist find from long ago) that was scattered everywhere is gathered in a newly-constructed bin, more brick was cleaned, and Southern ...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 days agoThis week we celebrate the seminal event of Christianity: the week when the son of a carpenter, having become aware that he was more than merely Man, ended three years of ministry by surrendering himself f...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 days agoBeeswax and propolis on top of a frame. Photo courtesy: mattprice News today of yet more evidence linking neonicotinoid pesticides to Colony Collapse Disorder in bees was notable not just because it showed...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*Yessirree, girls 'n' boys 'n' moms 'n' dads . . .* *It's a genuine downloadable "Holy Family Picture" coloring page! Download the pattern, color it in with crayons, cut it out with scissors, and with th...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 2 days agoFrom Tunisia to Libya, to Syria and Iran: the US-UK Destabilization Campaign . Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Atlantic Television News/Tarpley.net April 7, 2012
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 2 days agoImage courtesy: GMO-Free Europe News broke this week that Monsanto has threatened to sue Vermont if it passes a law requiring labeling of genetically-modified foods. I think the question here remains: IF ...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 2 days agoMr. Neil Young is hard at work making the way we listen to music better. Until he's done, you can check out his performance of "Comes A Time" at Farm Aid 2011.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago“This is no time for our president to be pulling his punches with the American people, and not telling us what he’s intending to do with regards to our missile defense system, with regards to our military ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago*He must be pandering to me!* "Santorum defends use of profanity in response to reporter" March 27, 2012|By Callum Borchers Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum isn’t backing off his use of a ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 days agoKarunesh, “Journey Of The Heart” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNhPSXlXf8&feature=related
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago"Disabled veterans hit ice with passion on display" March 27, 2012|By Brian MacQuarrie DOVER, N.H. - The Northeast Passage Wildcats, a team composed of disabled players who use custom-built sleds to push,...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 2 days agoSo apparently the administrators at the so-called "Progressive Bloggers" aggregator are prepared to continue including members who think it's worthwhile to have a "debate" about Stephen Woodworth's crusade...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago*I had to bring something in there. * "Deaths on rise from gastrointestinal illness" New York Times, March 20, 2012 NEW YORK - Two-thirds of the deaths were caused by a bacterium, Clostridium difficile, ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 days ago*Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.* "FDA plans $600m antismoking efforts" November 03, 2011|Associated Press RICHMOND - The Food and Drug Administration is planning to spend about $600 million over five years to e...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 days agoThey're here to help: Neo-Nazis are currently conducting heavily armed patrols in and around Sanford, Florida and are "prepared" for violence in the case of a race riot. The patrols are to protect "white...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 days agoWhen I saw this article on Politico announcing that Ed Gillespie had joined Mitt Romney, and that Gillespie was associated with Paul Weyrich – I thought I better take another look. Romney officials and Gi...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 2 days ago*The brand of Barack Obama is collapsing. * "Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream." - Percy Bysshe Shelley. "He who abhors and shuns the light of the Sun, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 2 days agoThe propaganda North Korean Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPT) yesterday warned that if the U.S. or South Korean military shoots down or gathers the debris from its ‘Unha-3’ r...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 days ago*"I say it's government-mandated broccoli, and I say the hell with it."* *by Ken* How audacious of our friend Bob Mankoff, not only the *The New Yorker*'s cartoon editor but one of the magazine's elite ca...
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