Skyline of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The twin spans of the Crescent City Connection bridges are in the foreground. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
HAVANA, CUBA - MARCH 29: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter sits in front of the flags of the United States and Cuba during the official welcome by President of Cuba Raul Castro in the Cuban State Council, on the second day of Carter's three-day visit to Cuba, on March 29, 2011 in Havana, Cuba. Former President Jimmy Carter, who is traveling with his wife Rosalynn Carter, will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro and other Cuban citizens discuss Cuban economic policies and ways to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, according to the Carter Center. The visit comes nine years after Carter's first trip to the island, which was the first by a former U.S. president since Fidel Castro's revolution. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 36 minutes agoLike I said, these live-streamed Objectivist events are coming thick and fast now. Given this is a talk examining why the free market has erroneously been blamed for the financial crisis, perhaps someon...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour agoGoes to James Fallows, who takes on Mitt Romney's claim that "even Jimmy Carter" would have made the same call Barack Obama did with regard to the raid on bin Laden. Fallows, who worked for Carter, is nev...
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A friend sent me this, I don't know the source of it so I can't give attribution... *They certainly don't make them like that anymore.* This man owned and drove the same car for 82 years. Can you ... - *New Orleanians: If you’re not disgusted by the proposed Hospitality District, then you’re not paying attention ~Lunanola, NOLAFemmes* *The Tolls, The Ferries and the Crescent City Connection ~Alex Woodwar...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 hour ago*Related*: *"Apple said Tuesday its fiscal second-quarter profit almost doubled to $11.6 billion."* "Apple slashes its tax bill with legal, cutting-edge practices" by Charles Duhigg and David Kocieniewsk...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour agoA federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood clinics from offering women's health services for the poor in the state because the organization...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*“Humanity Will Never Have Truth Until Criminal 1% Arrested.* * Will YOU Demand It?”* by Carl Herman “The annual cost of US 1% “leadership” lies and obvious crimes is death to millions, harm to billions...
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- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Shale gas boom has benefits and risks; Lower energy costs welcomed, but harm to environment feared" by Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff April 29, 2012 A proposal to expand a major local pipeline could b...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Fr...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours agoEven Cactus Kate is now ready to call “time” on the hollow shell that is the current ACT Party. And with not even one person in a thousand now willing to tell pollsters they would vote for them, it’s cl...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago* "The WSJ: There Are No Civil Liberties. Suck It America"* by Karl Denninger "Why am I not surprised reading something like this in the WSJ? "The tea party movement has generally been constructive...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*.... keeps the doctor away. * "Health care spending shows slowing trend; Behavior changes and recession key as costs taper off" by Annie Lowrey | New York Times, April 29, 2012 WASHINGTON - The growth ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*It starts with the bankrupting decision to commit your loved one:* "Use of antipsychotic drugs raises alarm; Federal data obtained by the Globe show many nursing homes make heavy use of antipsychotic drug...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours agoThere isn't a single Caucasian student in the class my pal Roland teaches. There wasn't one last year either. Or the year before. No wonder Republicans-- and let's face it, would anyone choose to be a Re...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Interesting Facts About the Student Loan Debt Bubble"* by Bill Bonner "Nothing much happened last week. Except that Ben Bernanke told investors that the fix was in…and the stock market went up. The c...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours ago[image: image] This evening I’ll be attending a friend’s gallery opening at the Warwick Henderson Gallery, titled ‘Road to Eden.’ Feel free to join us. WHERE: Warwick Henderson Gallery, 32 Bath St, Par...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoA really good article showed up in Businessweek today about ALEC At least one member of the media has finally figured out that what ALEC says – is not exactly what ALEC does. ALEC-ers are liars. The ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 3 hours agoShare widely. From United Opt Out: *Pearson, ALEC, and the Brave New (Corporate) World: Stand Up to Pearson Now!* Supporters of Public Education, The curtain has been pulled aside recently from the Ame...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours agoOn a notorious weblog run by his fellow crackpot, Lee Smolin got inspired by Lawrence Krauss' low-brow battle against philosophers and presented his opinions about the comparisons of science and religion...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 3 hours agoI am truly sickened by the lies that we have been taught about our history. I am someone who has spent years now carefully going over our fraudulent so called "recorded" history, and re-evaluating what w...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 3 hours agoAs Teen Daughter begins to spread her wings to fly away she struggles with the typical teen trap - to get a credit card, you must have credit. She complains that everyone - including her employer - has dec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 3 hours agoFrom the Pre-empting the Where Are the Feminists? Bleat File: Have you heard of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng? Probably not, unless you are a fetus fetishist or follower of China-US relations. Secr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 137 km (84.9 miles), the quake hit at 19:15:36 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 37 km (22.9 miles) North of Nuku'alofa, Tonga No Tsunam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Talaud, Indonesia at a depth of 48 km (29.8 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:51 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 303 km (187.8 miles) North of Ter...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:20:08 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 227 km (141 miles) ESE from Pagan,...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 3 hours agoPropaganda accommodated to "the comprehension of the least intelligent." *an editorial by Tony Cartalucci* *May 1, 2012* - A man who has championed every war America has fought in recent history, as well a...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 4 hours ago*Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes* By Rainer Maria Rilke Translation by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland That was the unearthly mine of souls. Like silent silver-ore in heavy darkness they moved, like veins. F...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 368.7 km (229.1 miles), the quake hit at 18:11:45 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 235 km (146 miles) South from Am...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 5 hours agoWhy, why, why, did the Washington Post give over space to discredited GOP hack Frank Luntz over the weekend? Luntz, as part of the Post's "five myths" feature, writes about what he calls "five myths about...
- posted by goatman at GlobaLove Think Tank - 5 hours ago*Remembrance* By Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) 1. YOU wait, with memories drifting, For the something that made life blessed, The mighty, the rare, the uplifting, The awaking of stones...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad say they are shifting tactics towards homemade bombs, hoping to even the odds between their outgunned forces and his powerful ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoApril 30 - As two Chinese warships dock in Hong Kong for a short visit, the deputy chief of staff of China's South Sea Fleet says the recent U.S.-Philippine military drill did not target any particular cou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - In this small Icelandic village, sailors are making double their pre-crisis pay, haddock sales to places like Boston and Brussels are booming and unemployment is almost zero - signs of this isl...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 5 hours agoFrom a post entitled *BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA*. we learn: There is a belief that Obama has been subjected to CIA mind control and that these CIA mind controllers are fans of the occult. The Obama regime...
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 5 hours agoLast Friday, Afghanistan's rugby team made their international debut at the Dubai Sevens. Al Jazeera reports on the team's first international match. And here's a look at the action:
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 5 hours agoI was reading my favorite health journal, *Environmental Health Perspectives *, which is published by the National Institutes of Health, and I came across a rather strange article: "Integrated Molecular An...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 5 hours agoSince the money doesn't go to victims and is, in any event, seldom collected this is just another press release: Justice Minister Rob Nicholson plans to change the Criminal Code in order to make victim ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAMMAN, (SANA) – Social Nationalists in Jordan condemned the terrorist blasts which hit Syria and led to the martyrdom of many civilians and army personnel. In a statement issued Sunday, the Social Nation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.7 km (19.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:53:15 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) ESE f...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 5 hours ago*.... now Canada should turn it's back on Conrad Black.* The Globe & Mail
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoSurface-to-air missiles could be deployed at six sites across London to prevent any aerial terror attacks on Olympic venues during this summer's Games, the Ministry of Defence has said. Officials are con...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35.5 km (22.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:11:34 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 263 km (163 miles) East...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoOn Monday the Lebanese Army summoned several individuals for questioning over the Syria-bound ship that was allegedly carrying illegal arms. The cargo ship, LETFALLAH II, was seized by Lebanese officials ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFUZHOU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Six people have been confirmed dead after a landslide buried a work shed in southeast China's Fujian province last week, local authorities said Monday. The disaster occurred a...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 33.3 km (20.7 miles), the quake hit at 16:56:44 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 218 km (135 miles) Southwest from ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Dodecanese Islands, Greece at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:23:24 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) North of Irakli...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 6 hours ago------------------------------ * * *Fast & Furious Gun Scandal: Is This the Obama Administration's Greatest Cover-Up?* http://youtu.be/ufColuskra8 Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Pajamasmedia Author an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoImage: Drone Victim Noor Syed aged just 8 (Reuters) - The deadly U.S. campaign of drone strikes against al Qaeda is fully legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism chief ins...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 6 hours agoWe've been told that there are hundreds of examples of the European Union projects that look comical but it's always interesting to see particular examples. On Wednesday, April 18th, the European Union ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 6 hours agoThe other day, after reading about our Filter guitar giveaway on behalf of Ken Aden's Run 2 End Hunger II, a correspondent asked me if I have a lot of guitars and if I play them. I once had a lot of guita...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 6 hours agoAs if they weren't obvious enough for all to see already. But they're not. And our country will not recover from their plunder until they are. And speaking of plunder, how many of you agree with me about t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours ago(Reuters) - The U.S. economy appeared to downshift as it entered the second quarter, with consumers increasing their spending only modestly last month and a gauge of business activity in the Midwest falli...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoFriends of Lansdowne Inc. v. Ottawa (City), 2012 ONCA 273 is a helpful source for the distinction between illegal (ultra vires) and unreasonable bylaws: [12] Since municipalities are creatures of s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoGAUHATI, India — A packed ferry boat capsized in heavy winds and rain in remote northeastern India late Monday, leaving at least 35 people dead and 165 others feared missing, police said. Assam state pol...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMarine authorities in north Queensland say they are at a loss to explain why the annual northern whale migration has started a month early. Humpback whales traditionally migrate to the warmer waters of the...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 6 hours agoRecently, my daughter was lucky enough to inherit almost a complete wardrobe from a friend that is just a little older than she is. The clothes are completely darling and my daughter fell head over heel...
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 6 hours agoDo not underestimate foraging. In our area there's thimbleberry, sorrel, Oregon grape, salmonberry, wild onions, morels, chanterelles, fiddleheads, chickory, lambs-quarters, miner's lettuce, dandelion, wil...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 7 hours ago** *It's not even May yet and already I'm into shorts.* *Contributor: "YYC"* Syria suicide bombers tear craters in the ground in twin blasts Yeah, suiciders do that - tear craters in the ground - NOT. Isr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA HORRIFIC attack on a kangaroo in Bendigo at the weekend has left local residents in fear. It is believed the kangaroo was struck by a car before being placed in a trolley and pushed down a staircase abo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNicaraguan Experts reported Sunday more seismic activity at Masaya volcano, about 20 kilometers south of Managua, with an increase in expulsions of sulfur gases, which keeps the disaster warning system in...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA Montreal taxi driver will appear in court today in connection with a bizarre altercation that was captured on video and resulted in a 23-year-old man being run over by a cab. The incident happened at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoNew research is casting doubts on the frequency or even the possibility of a ‘super-eruption’ that could blot out the sun from the Earth with a thick veil of volcanic ash. A joint research team from Wash...
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 7 hours agohttp://shanghaiist.com/2012/04/30/watch_black_bears_practise_skipping.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoKIEV — Ukraine faced growing isolation Monday as five presidents and an EU chief voiced plans to miss a summit and the Euro 2012 football tournament over its treatment of jailed former prime minister Yuli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe European Union has urged China to exercise "utmost restraint" in the case of escaped blind activist Chen Guangcheng. Mr Chen is holed up in the US embassy in Beijing after escaping house arrest but is...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 7 hours agoA long, long time ago, I thought of myself as shy. But I left that behind many years ago when I took a job that required asking bold questions of strangers, and it was onward into bigger and bolder from t...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 7 hours ago*Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. * *Canada's banking syste...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 7 hours agoThe situation with the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima has not become any better than a year ago. And in fact, from what we are really seeing going on there, the situation is actually much worse! ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoOccupy Wall Street demonstrators, whose anti-greed message spread worldwide during an eight-week encampment in Lower Manhattan last year, plan marches across the globe tomorrow calling attention to what t...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 8 hours agoI like David Icke. He may be a bit new-agey, and have theories about shape-shifting inter-dimensional reptilians, operating from inside the hollow metallic space-ship which we know as the moon (honestly,...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours agoBy Marilia Brocchetto, CNN 30 April 2012 (CNN) – Authorities in Peru are investigating the death of over 538 pelicans, along with other birds, on the northern coast of the country, the Peruvian ministr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Wis. recall effort highlights unions’ election-year efforts" by Jim Rutenberg and Steven Greenhouse | NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 2012 GREEN BAY, Wis. - “Recall Walker’’ bumper stickers dotted the workers...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*Marchers declare state of human rights emergency in Arizona* *Please read this Peaks update as well: **Stop Snowbowl: Upcoming Flagstaff Elections, Know Where They Stand** (** http://indigenousresistanc...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoWikipedia: [excerpted] "Polonium has 33 known isotopes, all of which are radioactive. They have atomic masses that range from 188 to 220 u. 210Po (half-life 138.4 days) is the most widely available. 209Po...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 8 hours ago------------------------------ AlterNet / *By Mela Heestand* UC Davis Students and Faculty Face Prison Time for Peaceful Protest Against Bank *The pepper spraying of UC Davis students shocked the n...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 8 hours agoI refuse to feature any official reporting of the testimony from the MI6 code-breaker Gareth Williams's dog-n-pony inquest, it's just silly (as Monty Python used to enjoy saying). False Flag Terrorism, Ma...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoThe War on Drugs is increasingly accepted as a hopeless failure. Yet even those who do get it often act like a kid standing at the end of a high diving board for the first time. They look down and free...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 8 hours agoSheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential preacher based in The Yemen, a man whose sermons are seen by millions of people, has once again has called upon Muslims and Arabs to rise up and destroy Israel. I...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 8 hours agoEven though the end result was a Stephen Harper majority government, the NDP took a giant leap forward last May. In one election, the party may very well have taken the first step in killing off Canada's n...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Town employee in Illinois accused of $30m swindle" by Jason Keyser | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 DIXON, Ill. - The small-town bookkeeper dazzled friends and co-workers with invitations to her imma...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 8 hours ago...because if you do, you might wind up with what Chris Cillizza wrote over the weekend, in which he concludes that Mitt Romney's ceiling is basically what George W. Bush got in 2004 -- that he "he has a c...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: Satellite views of Dubai, 2000 and 2010. With a population of 1.2 million people, Dubai is one of the few places on Earth where urban sprawl has extended into the ocean. Construction of the Palm ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Revisiting South Los Angeles, 20 years after deadly race riot" by Amy Taxin and John Rogers | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 LOS ANGELES -A day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoJIMBOBBYSEZ IS BRILLIANT! The Ballad of Stephen Harper, à la Jed Clampett. Enjoy.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 9 hours agoGotta love that Leo Gerard. In a posting today by him - you will find the following snips (my emphasis): Too bad, they say, for grandma, who has voted in every election for the past 65 years but doesn't h...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: A ferry sails by the Philadelphia waterfront. G. Widman for GPTMC] By Les Christie 25 April 2012 The U.S. has significantly reduced its air pollution, but there's still a lot of work to be done...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 9 hours agoBattle of Britain Spitfire II MONDAY SURPRISE — 20 BRAND-NEW Spitfire XIV's! According to Victoria Ward at and Rowena Mason at The Telegraph, "Spitfires buried in Burma during war to be returned to UK". Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoTwo Polish immigrants who burgled over 100 homes and stole more than £300,000 worth of valuables have been jailed for seven years each. Krzysztof Karmaciuk, 35, and Ryszard Elert, 37, turned to a life of c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(CNN) -- The North Africa arm of al Qaeda is offering to release a British man abducted in Mali in exchange for Britain releasing accused terror fundraiser Abu Qatada, whom authorities describe as the spi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Spain has fallen into its second recession since 2009 as its economy shrank for the second consecutive quarter, according to a government report Monday. There are now a dozen Europ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: As the United States gets more oil imported from Canada's oil sands, critics worry that the pipelines that carry it will leak. Veronique de Viguerie / Getty Images] By Steve Hargreaves 30 April ...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 9 hours agoIf you have been paying any attention to corporate media political coverage the past couple of days, you might think you were trapped in a seventh grade time warp. This is the narrative: Obama is the cool ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 9 hours agoIn Nashville, as in many metropolitan areas, capital improvement funds are short and the need is large. Nashville Metro has identified needed school improvements that amount to $185 million. Mayor Dean h...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours ago*By Dine' Hada Asidi* *Posted at Censored News* *Scoll down document* Vast Navajo Water Giveaway Exposed Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 9 hours ago[image: A man holding an umbrella watches large waves on the Marina beach as a cargo ship passes after Cyclone Thane hit the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, 30 December 2011. Reuters / Babu] By Dav...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 9 hours agoPhoto credit: Sabin Portillo *About Outta Your Backpack Media: Indigenous youths in Flagstaff, Arizona region* -- Klee Benally indigenousaction@gmail.com | www.twitter.com/eelk www.indigenousaction.org -...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBeijing (CNN) -- A Chinese musician famous for playing a two-stringed fiddle, a 1994 Hollywood drama about two prison inmates, a United Airlines flight bound for Washington and CNN -- what do they have in...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoFour Dems in Nebraska left ALEC, allegedly. Good! Not enough legislators leaving yet – but good. At least the Dems are started to get out of ALEC – why in the hell Dems chose to belong to the conservative ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Andaman Islands, India Region at a depth of 43.5 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 13:06:59 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 297 km (185 miles) SSW from...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy is to file a complaint against a website that claimed Libya's Col Gaddafi had offered to fund his 2007 election campaign. In six days' time, he faces Socialist Francois H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoApril 30 - At least 20 people, many of them members of the security forces, are reported killed in double bomb blasts in Idlib. Rough Cut
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoApril 30 - An attack on a prayer group in Kano, Nigeria, leaves at least 15 dead following similar attacks at the hands of Islamist militant sect Boko Haram. Lindsey Parietti reports
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDavid Cameron was today dramatically summoned to explain to MPs why he has not ordered a probe into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Commons Speaker John Bercow approved an urgent question tabled by Labour ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 11:53:02 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25.4 miles) East of Kongan, Iran No Report...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoThe US state of Connecticut has abolished the death penalty! This amazing and wonderful news is brought to you by Amnesty International, the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and lawmakers w...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoYou've probably heard about the pineapple. Eighth-graders in New York State recently took a standardized test (Canadian translation: students in grade eight wrote an exam) where they were asked about a tal...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 10 hours agoConsider the cost of this. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has always vehemently denied bringing cheap foreign labour into Canada. Employers had to pay foreign temporary workers “the prevailing wage,” ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Western Iran at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:37:29 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) Northeast of Masjed-e soleyman, I...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 10 hours ago*Happy Birthday New Orleans! * *New Orleans expected to shine for Super Bowl XLVII ~WWL* *Fools on Parade~American Zombie* *Legislative Auditor reports Aaron Broussard cronies looting the Kenner Conventi...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours agoIf you've been following our coverage of the exciting Buck McKeon-Lee Rogers congressional race (25th CD-- Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Porter Ranch, Antelope Valley in northeast L.A.) you probably know th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThere are fears of all-out war as the world's newest nation, South Sudan, prepares for action against its northern neighbour. Less than a year after getting independence from Sudan, South Sudan is now r...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe bodies of hundreds of pelicans have been found in Peru on the same beaches where almost 900 dead dolphins have washed up over the last month. The government said they will investigate the deaths of a...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoIs your state GOP hiding debt? The party of fiscal responsibility has screwed up royally in the State of Minnesota and the facts that are coming out may indicate that this could be a national issue. AND t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman died at a hairdresser's in Kent, according to police. Police said the woman, who is believed to have been aged in her 30s, died at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA man has died after his car became completely submerged in floodwater as he tried to cross a ford - while large swathes of England and Wales brace for more flooding. A woman managed to escape from the ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 10 hours agoA brother of a friend of mine just got a new job at the Center for American Progress (CAP). He's a young attorney with a good heart so I know he'll do well. My friend at The Burned Over District has some i...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 10 hours agoMitt Romney and George Bush the Elder share at least one characteristic. As former governor Anne Richards used to say, each "was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Last week, Romney advised the youn...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoHappy Birthday to Cloris Leachman, 86. Weird that imdb got her "known for" horribly wrong; I assume the correct answer is Mary/Young Frankenstein/Last Picture Show/her current sitcom, no? On to the good s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Antofagasta, Chile at a depth of 21.6 km (13.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:23:15 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) North of Antofagasta, An...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoThis story on the impossibly high cost of so-called zero tolerance laws reminds me of the breed-specific legislation (anti-pitbull laws) plaguing Ontario. Reacting to media-created public hysteria, legisla...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 10 hours agoWriting in the Boulder Daily Camera, Bob Greenlee, a local columnist, finds the idea of a levelized tuition model appealing: All state universities are proud icons representing the faith, hope, and fut...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours ago*You like that title? I chose it with great care. For a specific reason.* *First: to grab your attention. * *Second: to make you, the reader, think about how information is presented to you.* *Sensational. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 10 hours agoTwo great books - both children's classics, and both simply great books for any reader - had milestone birthdays this year. *A Wrinkle In Time*, which I've blogged about before, is now 50 years old. And *C...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 11 hours agoI have a bunch of links I want to share, and no real post for any of them. I think readers don't like linkathons, so I'm putting each link in a separate post. Coincidentally, many are from the same source,...
- posted by Martyn Daniels at Brave New World - 11 hours agoThe breaking news that Microsoft have bought heavily into Barnes and Noble to create a new venture which encompasses their Nook, digital and college business is shall we say a surprise and a significant ...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 11 hours agoDoctors Without Borders-Drouillard Hospital in LaPlaine This Cholera Treatment Center is located two miles north of Cite Soleil April 29, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll) Doctors Without Borders in Haiti is dire...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 12 hours ago*Don't you worry. Foul play is NOT a factor.* And if you believe that........ Shokri Ghanem Libya's former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been fo...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 12 hours agoTate à Tate Audio Tour by Liberate Tate, Art Not Oil & Platform
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012* *A pundit of very few words:* Charles Blow’s role at the New York Times? It's nice work—if you can get it. The fellow composes one column per week. In Saturday’s newspaper, this ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours agoNow Is A Time Of Great Rejoicing *Now is a time of great rejoicing within your realm, although few will see it that way.* *A small group seeks a peaceful and equitable lives way for many within your hu...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoJiddu Krishnamurti – 11th May 1895 – 17th Feb. 1986. In to-day’s world would this be a voice crying in the wilderness? Jiddu Krishnamurti – 11th May 1895 – 17th Feb. 1986. *His Life and Work – An Ov...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoDAMASCUS (AP) -- Syria's state news agency says assailants have fired rocket-propelled grenades at the Central Bank and a police patrol in the capital Damascus and detonated two bombs in the northwestern ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Svalbard at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:25:52 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 365 km (226 miles) Northeast of Nord, Greenla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoApril 29 - A van veers off a road in New York City plunging more than 100 feet into a wooded area of the Bronx zoo, killing 7 people, including 3 children. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - With some sporting pirate garb and black beards in light-hearted tribute to their name, Germany's internet-savvy Pirates party gathered this weekend to chart a course that may yet take them to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - China is considering sovereign guarantees for its ships to enable the world's second-biggest oil consumer to continue importing Iranian crude after new EU sanctions come into effect in July, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(Reuters) - The United States faces a tense week in China as high-level talks on trade and global hot spots like Iran and North Korea open in the shadow of a blind Chinese activist's bold escape from hous...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMadrid (Financial Times) -- Spain's government and its banks are discussing a new scheme to segregate problematic property loans into one or more asset management companies to relieve the burden on strug...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Police in Bahrain regularly resort to beating anti-government protesters, despite officials' pledges to stop such practices, a human rights group said Sunday. A Bahraini government spokesman den...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- A pro-democracy activist has been ordered detained in Vietnam for at least four months, having been charged with organizing terrorist activities, state media reported. Nguyen Quoc Quan, a Califo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago(CNN) -- Washington and Beijing may be facing the most tense and delicate moment in their bilateral relationship since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The reported escape from house arrest of dissident lawye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:00:08 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 762 km (474 miles) WSW from Banda Aceh, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoAl-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affilate of the terrorist organisation, have offered to free a British-South African hostage if Abu Qatada, the radical cleric, is allowed to choose a country for his ex...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*The final attempt to deter madmen?* "Israel’s former security chief slams leaders on Iran stance; Says Netanyahu, Barak shouldn’t be trusted on policy" by Dan Perry and Diaa Hadid | Associated Press, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA controversial Florida pastor has staged another Koran-burning ceremony to protest about the imprisonment of a Christian clergyman in Iran. Publicity-grabbing Terry Jones, who caused international outrag...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck offshore Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 29.8 km (18.5 miles), the quake hit at 07:39:45 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) WNW from Coquimbo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoGoogle's collection of sensitive and personal information from unsecured WiFi networks around the world was a deliberate and repeated choice, a new report alleges. The Federal Communications Commission h...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoThe BBC and their environmental allies have told us many times that the rise in CO2 levels in the seas is killing coral and that coral just will not survive in acid oceans. The trouble is that the science ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoNearly 15,000 children - some as young as four - have been excluded in the last five years for committing sex attacks in school. Figures released today revealed more than 1,100 of those expelled or suspe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoConcern is growing for the safety of a courageous Chinese activist who was detained after helping a blind dissident escape house arrest. Human rights campaigners believe He Peirong was arrested for her i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoOBO, Central African Republic (AP) — Deep in the jungle, this small, remote Central African village is farther from the coast than any point on the continent. It's also where three international armies ha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoMost metal thieves confine themselves to drain covers and the lead from church roofs. But in the Czech Republic they think a little bigger. A gang in Slavkov dismantled an entire ten-ton bridge and 200 me...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWind turbines could warm local climates up to ten times faster than the natural rate, a study has shown. Researchers found air temperatures around four of the world’s largest wind farms had increased by ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoOne of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s top official’s has been discovered dead floating in the river Danube in Austria. Shukri Ghanem, 69, who was Libyan prime minister between 2003 and 2006, was ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoFierce winds battered much of the country yesterday as the deluge that has followed the hosepipe ban turned into powerful storms. Hundreds of trees were uprooted by gusts of up to 70mph, blocking roads or...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 16 hours agoThe Red Army menace grows even as the government cuts the budget.... The total area in Taiwan affected by exotic red fire ants has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2003, but despite the growing infesta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA British aid worker was found beheaded and riddled with bullets on a roadside in Pakistan yesterday because his kidnappers have not been paid the ransom they demanded. Khalil Dale, 60, was taken at gunp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDavid Cameron raised the spectre of the collapse of the euro and years more economic turmoil yesterday as he confronted his deepest political crisis since entering Downing Street. The Prime Minister warn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoSoaring petrol prices and rail fares have plunged 8.2million households into ‘transport poverty’, figures reveal. This means they spend more than 10 per cent of their income on transport costs such as fu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHe has received at least £35million since joining the beleaguered Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008. But while the taxpayer-owned bank continues to record hefty losses, Stephen Hester’s personal spending on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwo bombs have exploded in the Syrian city of Idlib as the UN continues to step up its monitoring mission across the country. State television said the blasts occurred on Monday morning in two separate a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 30.2 km (18.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:31:22 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 187 km (116 miles) ESE ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoWe know Islam began as a barbarian outburst that overwhelmed the weakly protected parts of the ancient Roman world. It was purely driven by loot and differed not at all from similar events in the...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoThis helps us put this all together. We have a source population in Ireland of red haired giants that plausibly became common and even became part of a tribal group possibly sought after for mili...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoThe promise here is generating mechanical action using first ultrasonic energy and then even photonic energy. Right now the potentialities may only be imagined but with the door now open developm...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 16 hours agoThis mass of reports were put together by Dale Drinnon and are an important addition to the two prior reports that I posted on. A lot of additional information is added and a few remarks can now b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Barat Daya, Indonesia at a depth of 144.5 km (89.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:03:36 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 234 km (145 miles) ENE fro...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 16 hours agoFrench chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-95) not only developed the process named after him - pasteurization - but; made the other important contributions to public health including a vaccination to prevent ant...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 169 km (104.7 miles), the quake hit at 04:59:09 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44.6 miles) East of Su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA judge's decision to uphold a subpoena for an Occupy arrestee's Twitter account raises serious privacy issues I tweet a lot. Sometimes I feel like I tweet more often than I have face-to-face conversation...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe New York Times reports on a new model of emergency care—debt collectors posing as medical staff: Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe feminist riot grrrl punk band Pussy Riot, which I’ve been covering here at Death and Taxes since their anti-Putin performance inside Christ the Savior Cathedral, have had their detention extended two ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 16 hours agoUnder threat ... an Acehnese worker prepares mangrove saplings on the outskirts of Banda Aceh. Photo courtesy: Tarmizy Harva/Reuters Standing at the entrance to Lang Co town hall, 69-year-old Mai Truc Lam ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 17 hours agoWellington rallies his troops during the Battle of Waterloo. “The nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” Below: I think you’ve all seen enough photos of Alison Redford and Danielle Smith, so here a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoInterview with Evgeny Satanovsky, President of the Middle East Institute based in Moscow, Russia. The situation in Sinai is absolutely understandable after the so called Arab Spring. This is a territory w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe armed forces have vowed to "fulfill their duty" to safeguard China's territory in the South China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. "China's military forces will collaborate closely...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Thursday his country is setting up a $10 billion credit line to support joint projects with Central and East European nations. Wen said that Ch...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUK's stop-start-stop recovery is weaker than after Great Depression, 70s oil shock or recessions of 80s and 90s The UK's stop-start recovery has been the weakest to follow any recession in the past 100 ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoYUBARI, Japan — Most young people have already fled this city of empty streets and shuttered schools, whose bankrupt local government collapsed under the twin burdens of debt and demographics that are slo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe crisis between the political blocs has reached the next level with Ankara and Tehran becoming overtly involved. The Kurds are once again at risk of being at a crossroads, where neither direction offer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMost of us probably imagine authoritarian rule as a dramatic event – a coup d’état that ousts an elected government and replaces it with a military junta. Although world history offers several such exampl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoATHENS - After a brief pause due to the pre-election period in Greece, representatives of the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank) will once again be ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoATHENS - Despite the severe austerity measures imposed by the government in Athens, in line with international creditors, in a bid to restore to health the country's disastrous national accounts, the rece...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoANKARA - The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has fired a new warning shot to the Damascus authorities today, saying that Ankara "will take the appropriate measures, as a NATO country" if the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn underwater earthquake has occurred in Spain and is quite possibly occurring now in Italy. Killer waves are now headed directly at the central banks and financial systems throughout the developed world ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 17 hours agoAnonymous commented as follows on a previous post: Who are the individuals who DO scheme for world power? I have stated here before there is a Globalist/Zionist cabal seeking ultimate p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSeveral of my savviest readers wrote expressing disappointment and consternation with the Frontline series on the crisis, “Money, Power, and Wall Street.” The first two parts of the four part series have b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoIran has offered $500 million to Pakistan to build the latter's part of a planned cross-country gas pipeline, doubling its earlier offer of $250 million, an official at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natura...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 17 hours ago*Was Breitbart’s Coroner Poisoned to Death?* that's the title of the latest rant by rantmeister Alex Jones. Here's Alex explaining why he thinks a 'fatal accident' of one of the L.A. Coroner's staff relat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFearing a frenzy, an outreach campaign off the hopeful shores of Nome begins in five weeks, when the US Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers and other agencies hold a series of meetings designed to offer sa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(China Military News cited from ruvr.ru and by Alexey Pilko) -- Apparently, with the Cold War over, a new global confrontation between the United States and China could begin. One might get this impression...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours ago[image: April2012_X4] *A juvenile Malaysian night heron, a common sight around Taiwan.* A friend sent this from the China Times around: "A ship carrying pesticides and herbicides manufactured in Africa and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe next time you fill up your car, watching the tank fill and your wallet empty, you may want to think about the kids in Mr. Reynolds’ after-school group at Aurora Jr. High School in Missouri. They buil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Republican lawmaker says it's time for an inspector general's investigation to find how widespread the problems at the Secret Service are. Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoU.S. economic growth cooled in the first quarter as businesses cut back on investment and restocked shelves at a moderate pace, but stronger demand for automobiles softened the blow. Gross domestic prod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA big increase in reports of Asian tiger shrimp along the U.S. Southeast coast and in the Gulf of Mexico has federal biologists worried the species is encroaching on native species' territory. The shrimp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A purported practical joke on a colleague that threatened a plane hijacking and the assassination of President Barack Obama has landed a Utah man in trouble with federal authorit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFAST food giant KFC has been told to pay $8 million to the parents of a girl who say she was left paralysed and brain damaged after eating a chicken Twister. Monika Samaan, then aged 7, became seriously ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe House on Thursday approved controversial cybersecurity legislation that the Obama administration has threatened to veto. Members approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection (CISPA) act, H....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - More than 1 million Americans who have taken out mortgages in the past two years now owe more on their loans than their homes are worth, and Federal Housing Administration loans that require o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThirty-five big U.S.-based multinational companies added jobs much faster than other U.S. employers in the past two years, but nearly three-fourths of those jobs were overseas, according to a Wall Street J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe planet lies in what they describe as a 'habitable zone', neither too near its sun to dry out or too far away which freezes it. And the discovery could help answer the question of whether we are alone ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBlue collar Democratic voters, stuck taking depressing “staycations” because they can’t afford gas and hotels, are resentful of the first family’s 17 lavish vacations around the world and don’t want their...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA decade ago, Americans felt similarly about their local, state and federal governments. No longer. Today, just one in three has a favorable view of the federal government — the lowest level in 15 years,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPower Shift: It is no Arab Spring, but Communist Cuba is trying to tap in to the country's entrepreneurial spirit. Rafael Hernandez, the head of Cuba's largest cultural magazine, Temas, lost his last edit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHere is some food for thought, if you are a China "take-over-the-world" bull. I have just been listening to a talk on the Chinese housing market by Xianfang Ren, Beijing analyst for IHS Global Insight. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe case for more money printing to bolster the recovery has been strengthened by the UK's slump back into recession, a leading Bank of England rate-setter has said. Martin Weale, a member of the Monetar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoIt cost taxpayers nearly a half-million dollars for first lady Michelle Obama to travel to Spain in 2010, according to an analysis by Judicial Watch. The right-leaning watchdog group estimated that the t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoFormer White House adviser says Pyongyang not interested in bargaining over nukes The history of doomed autocratic regimes suggests that impoverished North Korea under untested leadership may see its end...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoEARLIER this month, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei decided to mark the anniversary of the day in April 2011 when he was detained by police, taken to a secret location, held in solitary confinement ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoLast March, at the peak of the pressure on Syria and Iran, the Syrian Kurds boldly declared the independence of West Kurdistan, with the city of Afrin as the capital. The territory thus claimed lies in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOn April 24, Wells Fargo, assisted by dozens of Bay Area police, took the unprecedented step of locking more than 100 of its shareholders out of its annual meeting – a meeting they had every legal right t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoObama plans more wars. The peace candidate can't get enough of them. Hawkishness defines his agenda. So does belligerently transforming independent regimes into client ones. The business of America is w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBalochistan is Pakistan’s restive province, where a movement for the right to self-determination and independence is going on since 1948. Last month in a hearing of a US Congressional Committee on foreign ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoCHERNOBYL, Ukraine -- April 26 will mark the 26th anniversary of the worst case of nuclear contamination in history: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Since the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoImage: Tewkesbury was badly hit by floods in 2007. A town devastated by flooding five years ago is on alert again after rain and wind continued to wreak havoc across the country. Tewkesbury, in Glouceste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSeven people, including three children, have been killed after an out-of-control van drove off a road and plunged more than 100ft into New York's Bronx Zoo. The van had been heading south down the Bronx ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Syrian Army continues to lose increasingly higher numbers of men as violence in the country goes on despite the stepping-up of a UN monitoring mission. Major General Robert Mood, who is leading the m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 2 km (1.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:33:22 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11.2 miles) Southwest of Semnan, Iran No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 34.9 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:37 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) ENE of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 48.2 km (30 miles), the quake hit at 22:35:58 UTC Sunday 29th April 2012 The epicenter was 157 km (97 miles) SSE of Ra...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 19 hours agoReuters Cites US-Funded Front in Chinese "Blind Activist" Case. * * * by Tony Cartalucci * *April 30, 2012 *- Reuters has recently reported in their article, "U.S. eyes testy China talks, Chen backer expec...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 52.6 km (32.7 miles), the quake hit at 22:00:05 UTC Sunday 29th April 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 19 hours agoYesterday Digby turned me on top an old quote from the 2009 version of El Presidente that I had missed. He was talking about Jamie Dimon and the other Wall Street banksters: “It’s almost like they’ve got...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 19 hours agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 19 hours agoThis Telegraph report reveals that: 'Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures. Usually at night t...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 19 hours agoNeil Heywood: New Details Emerge of British Business Dealings of Chinese Woman Suspected of Murder The death of Neil Heywood has come under fresh scrutiny after a Sunday Telegraph investigation unearthed d...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 19 hours agoI think this one is a must watch. http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/04/dying-in-rain-one-non-detect-at-time.html Potrblog has very carefully tried to validate their findings by checking the reli...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 20 hours ago*No Evidence, No Trial, No Photos, No Worries. Cause Barack Obama Is A Bad Mothafucka. * Reality does not have a liberal bias; it has a conspiracy bias. Liberals and conservatives deny reality when the...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 20 hours agoAs is our habit the clan gathered at the Ancestral Manor for the usual fest of pizza and dominoes. Southern Son and his fiancée are collectively known as J-Tab. Teen Daughter and Southern Father. Let ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoNOTE: Isn't there anyone out there that can reduce these call in programs to a written transcript? Its much faster for me to read than spend hours listening for the gems of information in these highl...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 20 hours agoThe Usual Suspects gathered early this morning to head about an hour south to an area lake for horseback riding and hiking and geocaching and fishing and all manners of fun. More evidence that Southern Man...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 20 hours agoSouthern Man wasn't going to do a Family Dinner post tonight as there are only so many ways that you can say "the family gathered and ate and played cutthroat dominos and traded insults and otherwise had a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago“Large, dusty, spiral galaxy NGC 4945 is seen edge-on near the center of this rich telescopic image. The field of view spans nearly 2 degrees, or about 4 times the width of the Full Moon, toward the expan...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours agoLABOUR’S DAVID CUNLIFFE yesterday released his economic vision for New Zealand in a community hall in Blockhouse Bay. At least, we were told to expect by sundry bloggers, commentators and Mr Cunliffe hi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*“Whence Ourselves?”* by Chet Raymo “My post of yesterday took me back to David S. Goodsell's "The Machinery of Life," and I found myself reading the book again. There is nothing I didn't already kno...
- posted by Bill Robertson at GlobaLove Think Tank - 21 hours agoRecent information blows my PTSD theory. Sgt Bales wasn’t suffering the effects of multiple deployments. He re-up’d and saw the military as his calling. It sounds like a deliberate attack. I have a new the...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago"Iraq leaders call for solution to political crisis; Shi’ite, Sunni, Kurd politicians irked by Maliki" by Lara Jakes | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 BAGHDAD - Leaders from nearly all of Iraq’s top po...
- Dear Alberta Conservatives, all I ask is that you keep just one election promise and twin Highway 63
posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 21 hours agoIn light of the recent tragedy on Highway 63 I feel compelled to express my deepest concern for your complete ineptitude with twinning the highway. I travel Highway 63 every day to and from work and on o... - posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours ago*This* is why I've deleted your emails without even opening them for the last three years or more. If you refuse to lift a finger to help progressive Democratic challengers unseat entrenched GOPers, I'm no...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 22 hours agoI have long said to everyone that what we have been taught are mostly a pack of lies and falsehoods. It is important for everyone to understand that we have been purposely programmed as sheep and slaves f...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*AmeriKa wants you to assume the burdens of empire!* "US looks to South America for security partners" by Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT - In these day...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*It should be interesting to see how political strategists of both parties respond to Frank Luntz's "five myths about conservative voters."* *"[W]hile big names such as Rush Limbaugh and Larry Kudlow may d...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 22 hours agoIn my misspent youth, I couldn't get enough of them but the older I get, the less I care about big parties. Couldn't work up enough interest in the White House Correspondents Dinner to even follow the twee...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*With the CIA giving an assist.* "Dissident’s daring escape inspires Chinese activists; His flight from house arrest hard, dangerous" by Andrew Jacobs | New York Times, April 29, 2012 BEIJING - The *im...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoMost Canadians can be excused for not having a clue about the Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) Project. It is, after all, only worth $2 billion. This particular project, which is intended to provide the army with...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy"* Could Imperil Reelection Hopes, Experts Say by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – "In the first term in office, President Barack ...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 23 hours agoIt has been a busy April for me with many personal issues that I have needed to attend, take care of, and get out of the way. It seems that every year April is the busiest month of the year for taking car...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*“This is not just about the Olympics, this is about what happens before and after, it’s about Heathrow as a world-class airport, and it’s about our reputation, and we need to make sure we get it sorted.’’...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago"Malaysian police use tear gas as 25,000 protest; Marchers demand election reforms" by Eileen Ng and Sean Yoong | Associated Press, April 29, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - *Police unleashed tear gas and ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours ago*The surf is up.* Michael channeled by Ron Head April 29, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages It is time to talk about the month which is about to begin, dear friends. There has already been a lot of i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." - Albert Ellis
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- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoI was so taken with the response from those very thoughtful readers at Paul Krugman's site to his essay on the long-hoped-for death of the confidence fairy that I thought I'd share some of the best ones wi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago"Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment." William Glasser
- posted by P. L. Thomas at Schools Matter - 1 day agoEducating Business Ethics Douglas Storm The population of the US seems to be experiencing a kind of national awakening regarding the harsh and endemic inequalities of our “Us vs Them” economic reality. ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoCanned Heat - Going Up The Country Lyrics Artist: Canned Heat Lyrics Writer: WILSON, ALAN I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you want to go? I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wan...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. - P.J. O’Rourke Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please cont...
- posted by NO ONE TO VOTE FOR at NO ONE TO VOTE FOR - 1 day ago. Massive, ridiculous security provisions have been prepared for the London Olympics to protect us from 'terrorist attack' during July/August 2012. As someone who lives here, I can tell you that there is...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*“H.L. Mencken Was Right”* by Jim Quinn "H.L. Mencken was a renowned newspaper columnist for the Baltimore Sun from 1906 until 1948. His biting sarcasm seems to fit perfectly in today’s world. His ace...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoIllustration by Eric Drooker "The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation" Posted at http://www.hiphopisread.com/ Posted by Ivan April 24 at 1:34 PM This anonymous letter ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoFriday I noticed a tweet from disingenuous New Hampshire teabagger, Frank Guinta about how he voted to keep interest rates low for students, a topic we took up a few days ago. Carol Shea-Porter, Guinta's ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 day ago*"US Companies Are Furiously Creating Jobs... Abroad"* by Tyler Durden "Whatever one thinks of the practical implications of the Kalecki equation (and as we pointed out a month ago, GMO's James Montier s...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 1 day agoNo, this is not a spoof interview with John Clark. This is a real interview: with Australian MP Bill Shorten, something called a “workplace relations minister,” showing all the intellectual independence...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 1 day agoMy dad passed his driving test on his 87th birthday Friday in Medicine Hat. My mum passed her's earlier this year. Good going for both of them. It struck me that if I take a driving test at the same age, i...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Walmart allegedly covered up corruption in its Mexican unit" April 22, 2012 |By David Barstow MEXICO CITY - In September 2005, a senior Walmart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*It's the kind of thing that makes me furious fast.* "US, Mexico gingerly confront drug woes" April 03, 2012|By Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico’s border with th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Dutch court deals blow to ‘pot tourism’" Washington Post, April 28, 2012 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch court Friday upheld a new law that will prevent foreigners from buying marijuana in coffee shops across the Net...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoIf you've been following our coverage of the exciting Buck McKeon-Lee Rogers congressional race (25th CD-- Simi Valley, Santa Clarita, Porter Ranch, Antelope Valley in northeast L.A.) you probably know th...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 1 day agoStudy Links Autism With Industrial Food, Environment By Katie Rojas-Jahn, Renee Dufault, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. 19 April 12 http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/313-17/1101...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 1 day ago** *Here and now boys. Here and now boys.** *Contributor: "YYC"* Study: Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief *When was the last time you sat down and questioned your decision to believe in God?...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 1 day agoIn my political and economic discourses, I seldom mention personalities, only institutions and policies. Well for doing good work and advocacy of free market, individual freedom philosophy, I mention names...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoLong-time readers will know that I consider it likely that torture will wind up as a partisan issue, with Republicans supporting it. I've proposed that the way to get around that is for Barack Obama to set...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoBEIJING—The Chinese government clamped down on activists and online media in the wake of the dramatic escape of a blind human-rights advocate from home imprisonment, an embarrassing development for Beijing...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThousands of homes have been left without power in Wales as storms and extreme weather lash much of the UK. Around 10,000 homes were left without power in south Wales and the West Midlands, as well as 2,0...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago[*Our friend and colleague Paulo Poian informed us today a motion picture project based on one of Brazil's most stunning cases of alleged UFO encounter after-effects. An electrifying read! -- SC*] ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day agoIn which SUZYALLCAPS demonstrates her total ignorance of feminism and socialism despite her claim to having been there, done that. Also on display is the hallmark of fetus fetishists everywhere -- economy ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoNicolas Sarkozy was forced to deny allegations he had received 50 million euros from the late Muammar Gaddafi as France's presidential rivals accused each other of dirty tricks a week before election day....
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day agoCHRISTWIRE.ORG is a delightful satire site. Adam Nelson reports in "Game Of American Thrones" that atheists are responsible for this comparison with today's Presidential Politicking — "Pint-sized lump of pur...
