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The source of the River Severn in the Winter of 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 1 minute agoToday is May Day. Although the current deluge would make one think otherwise, May day is the first day of summer. Traditionally this is the day in which Morris Dancers black up and perform the Mummer pl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes agoA helicopter pilot could face manslaughter charges after a mountain rescue expert died when he was dropped from a rope into a jagged crevasse. Alpine policeman Franz Franzeskon, 52, and two colleagues wer...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes agoA Mexican woman who claimed to be pregnant with nine babies is not expecting and is simply clinically obese, health officials have said. They have also revealed it would be impossible for Karla Vanessa Pe...
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- posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 6 minutes ago*What could be expected is happening in Greece*. The *unexpected* is happening in Spain. President *Mariano Rajoy* and members of his team appear to contradict each-other in claims about the path to recov...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 10 minutes agoI'm on my way back to Manhattan for May Day General Strike. Yesterday I bought a children's set of noisy musical instruments - a drum, tamborine and kazoo - so I can join the 1,000 Guitarmy in Bryant Park....
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 minutes agoSimon & Garfunkel, “Sounds Of Silence” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoPolice fear a man has drowned in flood waters in the River Severn in Tewkesbury, according to Sky sources, as parts of England and Wales face fresh flood alerts. A search of the river in the Gloucesters...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoDozens of cities across the U.S. are preparing for what could be the largest May Day protests that America has ever seen. The Occupy movement is calling for a general strike tomorrow and is urging millio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 minutes agoServing and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 27 minutes agoToday is May Day, the International Workers' Day, a day to celebrate our strength and our unity as working people. Although May Day is an official holiday in many countries around the world, many working...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 35 minutes agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Security at airports in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East has been stepped up amid fears terrorists may be using bombs surgically implanted ins...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoChildren were among spectators who watched in horror as a pilot died in a fireball when his plane crashed at an airshow. Martino Waller, 49, was flying in formation in a vintage Czech-built Zlin 226 air...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes agoA man accused of murdering a gay supermarket worker embarked on a campaign against uncaught paedophiles using 'military strategy' to track them down after overhearing convicted prisoners planning new offe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoBeware the next time you order a lamb kebab - as consumer watchdogs have discovered that every one they tested contained a concoction of other meats. An investigation by trading standards officers has rev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoSurfers are known for going to extreme lengths in search of that perfect wave, but these adrenaline junkies really pushed things to the limit when they risked their lives by Newlyn Pier off the south coas...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 45 minutes agoIt is a divisive subject - those who believe in alien visitors to our planet, and those who do not. But there are many people on this planet who earnestly claim they have been visited by aliens, and have...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThree people are still 'unaccounted' for after a huge fire ripped through a West Country hotel yesterday afternoon. Around 30 guests, including Blur guitarist Graham Coxon, were evacuated from the Best W...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoDetectives from the Counter Terrorism Command have arrested seven people in England and Wales on suspicion of terrorist financing offences. The arrests were made at four addresses in London, Coventry and ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoDavid Cameron will have the grim task of ordering the Armed Forces to shoot down a passenger airliner over Britain to prevent a suicide attack on the Olympic Games. The Prime Minister will have his finge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoJudges last night moved against internet giants with a ruling on copyright infringment that proved it is possible to take action to combat online porn. The High Court ruled that a Swedish file-sharing web...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNot a single U.S. citizen has been extradited to Britain for a crime committed on their home soil, it was revealed last night. MPs said it was proof of ‘double standards’ by the American government in the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA suspected terrorist plot to drive a toy car loaded with explosives under the gates of a Territorial Army base and blow it up has been smashed by police. Detectives believe the device was to have been d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoNearly 70 firms are collapsing every day, the largest number for two years, as banks continue to refuse to lend. Researchers found that 2,112 businesses became insolvent in March, equal to 68 per day. N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Offshore Atacama, Chile at a depth of 40.5 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:55:11 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) WSW from Copiapo, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore Guatemala at a depth of 55 km (34.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:18:56 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) SSW of Escuintla, Guatemala ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck South of the Islands at a depth of 505.9 km (314.4 miles), the quake hit at 05:58:51 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 427 km (265 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck Volcano Islands, Japan Region at a depth of 128.2 km (97.7 miles), the quake hit at 05:33:51 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) North of Iwo ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 hours agoKoala populations in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have been placed on the national list of vulnerable species. Photo courtesy: imagebroker/Alamy The Australian governme...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 3 hours ago*Guest blog by Eugene Seidel* In 1986 Robert Nozick, professor of philosophy at Harvard and author of *Anarchy, State and Utopia* among numerous other works, published an essay titled *Why Do Intellectu...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 3 hours agoumers30/CC BY 2.0 It takes a brave and hearty (and spartan) soul to give up coffee and tea in the name of food miles. Many do, but morning caffeine is the guilty pleasure that whispers in a voice too allu...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 3 hours agoblatantly freemasonic rival to the TransAmerica building in downtown San Francisco, the new ONE WORLD TRADE CENTRE building in Manhattan is about as close to a pyramidic design, or at least the Cap Stone o...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 3 hours agoThe following are six graphs of earth temperature from JP Attitude. Look at each graph and see how why the warmists like to start their temperature records from 1850. JP Attitude have some excellent descri...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 3 hours agoAfter a wet and cloudy March, April this year here in Metro Manila and surrounding provinces was generally hot and often cloudless. There were about three days of cloudy sky, it even rained once. Now the 1...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours agoThe mermaid is certainly alive in legend and generally provides a good story. What is clearly lacking is a credible modern day witness of any kind and that pretty well leaves us without a touch o...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours agoDo look at this video - the photo i got from Google and know nothing about it except if it is Peruvean, it is comparable to the one in the Great Pyramid This work is comparable to the work d...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours agoIt is time to pay attention to this story. If this engine can operate over the range of velocity required, then it will be the magic bullet for getting us into space. It has always been obviou...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 4 hours agoIt has finally been done. Neuron signals are been successfully converted as usable data able to drive neuron excitation and control in a paralyzed muscle. It will never be the optimum solution and...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 4 hours agoIn Buffalo, New York, a deer and a goose formed an interesting alliance during nesting season. The deer guarded the goose while she sat on her nest in a city cemetery. Joel Thomas, of the Erie County SPCA...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 5 hours agoLord Black gesticulates at Communications Energy and Paperworkers Local 115A President Andy Marshall in 1999. Below: Omar Khadr, Jason Kenney, George Galloway, Farouk Adatia. Let’s mark this internation...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 5 hours agoYour blogger with yet another of the candidates to be called Mr. Speaker, the dulcetly mellifluous Gene Zwozdesky, looking none too thrilled about this photo opportunity in Speakerly garb. I have been s...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 5 hours ago#NorthernGateway #BCpoli #Cdnpoli - Do you live in British Columbia? You may remember this post. Well Robyn Allan received a reply from Christy Clark's office. Apparently Christy's pretty busy reorgani...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe Navy's much-awaited Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will fall below any expectations of standing up to a shootout with China if things get out of hand in the Asia Pacific region. The Pentagon is actively ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoPeak oilers have had a pretty hard time lately. Not only have global unconventional finds flattened Hubbard’s ‘peak’, more and more conventional plays are cropping up. ‘Running out’? We have more than eno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAccording to a 2011 survey from the Pew Research Centre, 76 percent of Nigerians have a generally positive view of China. And with Beijing providing moral and material assistance at a level most Western c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAs the real estate downturn searches for the escape pod that will carry it to upturn, so-called short sales, which might help, are not living up to their name. Short sales are transactions in which the l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago(Reuters) - Two key central bank meetings and a string of big data releases in the coming week should sharpen the debate over slowing growth and rising inflation risks, and may shake the markets out of th...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAsia's military might appears to be growing by leaps and bounds these days. Just last month, China announced a significant increase to its military spending. Since then, North Korea attempted (and failed)...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoThe BRICS leaders have seen concretely that there is no alternative to moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world that is based on mutual respect and an end to hierarchies. The fourth BRICS Summi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoRepE is especially pronounced and embraced by center-left regimes (CLR) resulting from popular movements which overthrew neo-liberal regimes. RepE is promoted under the banners of anti-neoliberalism and ev...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIf the Koch brothers didn't exist, the left would have to invent them. They're the plutocrats from central casting – oil-and-gas billionaires ready to buy any congressman, fund any lie, fight any law, bus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoZbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard (1997) noted that “Cultural domination has been an underappreciated facet of American global power.” United States philanthropic foundations skillfully applied t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoI have just been reading C G Tracey’s “All for Nothing?”, itself a weeping autobiography by one of Rhodesia’s leading farmers and, especially after UDI, one of Rhodesia’s leading sanctions-busters. The bo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWith the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers. India and China are rising, Russia is increasingly imperia...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoMUNCIE, Ind.—Johnny Whitmire shuts off his lawn mower and takes a long draw from a water bottle. He sloshes the liquid from cheek to cheek and squirts it between his work boots. He is sweating through his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWith little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drones, according to documents ob...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBUENOS AIRES — Last September, Argentine Judge Carlos Olivera Pastor emerged from his courthouse in the northwestern province of Jujuy to find a box next to his parked car. Numbered as if it held judicial...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPeople in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of Americans feel we're on the right track as a nation. Tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoPreparations have begun to relocate about 20,000 residents from the vicinity of China's massive Three Gorges Dam because their homes are at risk from "constant landslides," authorities in Central China's ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSevere outbreaks of new, invasive pests triggered by rising temperatures could threaten Southeast Asia's multi-billion dollar cassava industry, as well as the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoHigh oil prices are shielding Iran from the full weight of U.S. and EU economic sanctions aimed at choking Tehran's oil exports and forcing it to abandon its nuclear program. It's a Catch-22 situation. O...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA panel of experts on North Korea told US lawmakers Wednesday that Pyongyang will probably conduct a new nuclear test, and relying on China to dissuade the isolated state from doing so is unwise. "It's n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoNew research at Concordia University is bringing us one step closer to clean energy. It is possible to extend the length of time a battery-like enzyme can store energy from seconds to hours, a study publis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA tsunami saved the Greek village of Potidaea from Persian invaders in winter 479 BC, a US study said Thursday, warning that the area remains prone to earthquakes. New geological evidence suggests that t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe landing of two Americans on the moon, in July 1969, was among the most inspiring scientific and technical achievements in human history. But today, both the political will and federal funding to susta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA majority of China's opinion leaders and much of its public disapprove of their government's handling of ties with the United States, in a sign of increasingly open criticism, a study said Thursday. A w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoImage: Close up of a CMOS chip - a new version of the commonly used chips would allow users to capture images 'through' walls and even inside the human body. Comic-book superpowers could become reality a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoIf there's one thing that unites U.S. President Barack Obama, top-ranking Saudi officials, and Americans at the gas pump, it's this: The price of oil is too damn high. What's more, given physical and mark...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoAs we approach the fourth anniversary of 2008’s financial crisis, it’s clear that Congress has done nothing to solve the crisis’s central problem. Today, as then, certain financial institutions are “too b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoTORNADO WATCH NUMBER 214 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 730 PM CDT MON APR 30 2012 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF FAR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SOUTH CENTRAL ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIt’s the rare scandal that involves murder, corruption, Harvard University and comparisons to Jacqueline Kennedy. The Bo Xilai kerfuffle now mesmerizing China offers all this and perhaps more: It could fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoThe entire US GDP is less than $15 trillion each year. The gross notional amount of derivatives issued in the USA is more than $291 trillion. Does that sound like a lot? Apologists for derivatives deale...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoChalk it up to the genuine strangeness of our second Afghan War. Americans, according to the latest polls, are turning against the conflict in ever greater numbers, yet it’s remarkable how little -- beyond...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago“Pink slime” just had its fifteen minutes of fame. BPI, the producer of pink slime, calls it “Lean Finely Textured Beef.” BPI’s slogan is “expect a higher standard.” Pink slime starts with fatty tissues t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDerivatives are the "meat and meat by-products" of the financial markets. They look, smell and taste just like regular securities, but almost no one understands why we need them in the first place. After ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoDetroit is warning drivers with outstanding parking violations to pay up now or risk not being able to renew their licenses under a new state law set to take effect next month. The law reduces the number...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoHundreds of soldiers from the Illinois National Guard will be deployed in Chicago during next month's NATO summit to help move foreign dignitaries around the center of the city, among other duties, guard ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoFor a few dedicated academics, the Cold War isn’t dead. While recent archival research tends to uphold existing interpretations of the superpower confrontation, scholars have made a few exciting finds. M...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoBetween the ages of 18 and 22, Jodi Romine took out $74,000 in student loans to help finance her business-management degree at Kent State University in Ohio. What seemed like a good investment will delay ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoWhy Fed officials' suggestions that a third round of stimulus is possible may have sent emerging market central bankers into a cold sweat. Like Pavlov's dog, which would salivate at the sound of a bell, U...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoThe new issue of *New York* features a "photo-illustration" of Wall Street's and the One Percent's favorite up-and-coming politician of Reaction, Paul Ryan, by Jesse Lenz... and it gets very close in styl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Eastern New Guinea Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 58.7 km (36.5 miles), the quake hit at 01:43:38 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 60 km (37.2 m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoMilitary spending combines the two certainties in life: death and taxes. U.S. taxpayers are paying more than anyone else on Earth to support an industry devoted to death. Tuesday, Tax Day, Americans were...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA 'guinea pig’ generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night. Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - Dangerous currents swirl around Sotobanari island, which has not a drop of natural water, and local fishermen rarely land there. But 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made this kidney-shaped i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours ago(Reuters) - America's swelling ranks of fallen municipal borrowers have been blamed in the past year on 'what-were-they-thinking' causes, be it a Taj Mahal sewer system in Alabama or an overpriced trash i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoIn many fields of international competition, China is less sanguine about its abilities than outsiders. Chinese leaders often remind Westerners that China is a developing country, with hundreds of milli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 7 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Coquimbo, Chile at a depth of 58.3 km (36.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:43:34 UTC Tuesday 1st May 2012 The epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) Northeast of Coquimbo, Coquim...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoMore than 100 people have been killed and a similar number are missing after an overcrowded river ferry broke in two and sank in India during a severe storm, police said. About 150 others were rescued or...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA hairdresser has been stabbed to death in front of her horrified staff just after she opened up her high street salon. Natalie Esack, aged in her 30s, died from her wounds as her attacker fled past star...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoDespite heavy losses in the Bab Amr district of Homs the Free Syrian Army (FSA) still controls large areas of the city. The FSA stronghold is the Khaldia district but it manages to keep the Syrian army o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 8.3 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:20:37 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 125 km (77 miles) SSW of Isangel, Tanna, V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 178.6 km (111 miles), the quake hit at 22:56:10 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) ESE of Khorugh, Tajikistan No ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:40:38 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 361 km (224 miles) Sou...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago"M78 isn't really hiding in planet Earth's night sky. About 1,600 light-years away and nestled in the nebula rich constellation Orion, the large, bright, reflection nebula is well-known to telescopic skyg...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago"There may be a false flag incident where some ship goes down and be used for the excuse to accelerate the next war. We have to learn to distinguish war propaganda from the truth." - Ron Paul. "...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago"There may be a false flag incident where some ship goes down and be used for the excuse to accelerate the next war. We have to learn to distinguish war propaganda from the truth." - Ron Paul. "*Do...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 36.7 km (22.8 miles), the quake hit at 20:17:45 UTC Monday 30th April 2012 The epicenter was 172 km (106 miles) ESE of Raoul...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 8 hours agoOccupy posters by Eric Drooker. Life, labor, and liberty: May Day then and now By Greg Moses / The Rag Blog / May 1, 20112 Counting in reverse through the great Theses on Feuerbach, we pass by the iconic...
- posted by veritas6464 at VERITAS 6464 - 8 hours ago*A week ago, it emerged that the Australian Federal Police hold a secretly recorded conversation between two known criminals, discussing the collection of marijuana from Sydney airport on 8th October 2004...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 8 hours agoSTRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! OccupyWallStreet Don't go to work or school on Tuesday! May 1st, 2012 A Day Without the 99% No Work – No School – No Housework – No Shopping Take th...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 9 hours agoThe territorial conflict in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) or the South China Sea (SCS) was exacerbated last week with the discovery of large-scale poaching of important marine resources by Chinese fishing ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours agoFrom John Kettler's blog: The ETs/EDs indicate that this could be a busy week, what with in-depth raids planned by the ETs/EDs on certain black project facilities, foreign nukes disappearing, purloi...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours agoAdelaide, South Australia, Australia. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." - "Tyler Durden", "Fight Club"
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"Free As A Bird"* by Chet Raymo "All afternoon I have been watching a pair of hummingbirds play about our porch. They live somewhere nearby, though I haven't found their nest. They are attracted to...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours ago*Re-posted* on April 30, 2012 from http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/benjamin-fulford-5-1-12-chaos-on-multiple-fronts-as-controlled-implosion-of-financial-cabal-continues/#more-10865 *Kauilap...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours ago*Must see video of Fukushima spewing massive amounts of what looks to be smoke* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp If you have capability, please...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 10 hours ago*The bipartisanship scam*: *Would you buy a leaky, vermin-infested ship from self-proclaimed bipartisans like this?* *"The elder statesmen of nonpartisan political analysis, Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago"Just when we think we figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. So, we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find ourselves back to the things that matter the most...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 10 hours ago23 April 2012 – Flooding hit rural areas in Colombia and Peru on Sunday, driving hundreds from their homes, flooding crops and taking at least three lives in the Boyaca province. In the Colombian town...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 10 hours agoYes. Your students have less observable brain activity during lecture than when they're asleep. A new paper in *IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering* suggests so: Long-term assessment of EDA [*a mea...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoPolitical cartoon by Joshua Brown / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2012.[Joshua Brown is the executive director of the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The City U...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Amazon River Level in Iquitos, April 2012. www.dhn.mil.pe] The Amazon has reached record breadth, width, and height this rainy season. According to Peru’s Health Ministry, the river has grown at ...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 11 hours agoMother of God. This guy doesn't live all that far from my home. This is what my local "independent conservatives" consider to be civil disagreement. But, you know, it's the gay people who are the threa...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours ago*Remains to be moved in attempt to stem rumours of murdered girl hidden in crypt* Michael Day - The Independent Milan - Monday - 30 APRIL 2012 http://goo.gl/wyWWD The Vatican is facing a deepening con...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoBy Jose Escamilla Go to: http://TBLNFilms.com/CELESTIAL.html for more information.
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Coal power capacity additions in major regions, 2000-2010. From 2009 to 2011, demand for coal continued to shift, particularly to China and India. Since 2000, China has more than trebled its inst...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 hours agoIn the last week alone the only political stories that seem to have mattered involve political donations, political favours, and behind-the-scenes revelations about the way deals are done in this cosy l...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoIn the video below, a delusional Barack Obama implies that had Mitt Romney been President he would not be ballsy enough to invent a fictional narrative in which the President of the United States is portra...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 11 hours agoIn the last week alone the only political stories that seem to have mattered involve political donations, political favours, and behind-the-scenes revelations about the way deals are done in this cosy l...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 12 hours 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 Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 12 hours agoLivestream events hosted by Objectivists are coming thick and fast now. Here’s a provocative live-stream internet event for tomorrow, Wednesday NZ time: Morality and Religion A talk at the University ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 12 hours 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...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 13 hours agoA 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 ...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 13 hours ago*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 - 13 hours 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! - 13 hours 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 - 13 hours 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...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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! - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 o...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 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 - 14 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! - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 15 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 - 16 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 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 - 16 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 hours ago*.... now Canada should turn it's back on Conrad Black.* The Globe & Mail
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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 - 17 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...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 18 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 18 hours agoFROM OCCUPY CANADA. Makes you wonder . . .
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 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!) - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 18 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 - 19 hours agohttp://shanghaiist.com/2012/04/30/watch_black_bears_practise_skipping.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
- posted by Barbara Diamond at American Scofflaw - 19 hours agohttp://youtu.be/iGz6zm1U-h8
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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 - 19 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. - 19 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 - 19 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoI refuse to feature any official reporting of the testimony from the amazing foil, counter foil, tripups, disturbed ground, office search cut short, new evidence miraculously appears, new black North Face ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 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 - 20 hours agoJIMBOBBYSEZ IS BRILLIANT! The Ballad of Stephen Harper, à la Jed Clampett. Enjoy.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 20 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 21 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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! - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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!) - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 22 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 23 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 - 1 day agoTate à Tate Audio Tour by Liberate Tate, Art Not Oil & Platform
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day ago
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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