BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 21: A 'knife point' unmanned aerial vehicle is displayed during the Aviation Expo China 2011 at National Convention Center on September 21, 2011 in Beijing, China. The Aviation Expo China 2011 (14th) will be held at the China National Convention Center from September 21 to 24. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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www.naturalnews.comFed clears China's first US bank takeover
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The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China's biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-leve... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes ago
An injectable tanning drug is being used by some B.C. residents, despite its not being approved by Health Canada or authorites in the U.S., according to a spokesman for the tanning salon industry. Melano... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 minutes ago
US think tank launches poster campaign comparing Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to those concerned about global warming It really is hard to know where to begin with this one. But let's start with: "What o... - posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 6 minutes ago*League, union at odds over Ornstein email ~Mike Florio*
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Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. South Africa is th... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 13 minutes ago
*Brendan and Brian Burke* Ken is more apt to take note of a sports story than I am but yesterday he got to President Obama's evolutionary jump before I could so I just want to point out a somewhat related... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes ago
BERLIN — French President-elect Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have each been prescribing the same salve — growth — to ease Europe’s economic ills. But the medicines vary sharply on... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 minutes agoDAMASCUS — The UN Security Council condemned the deadliest bomb attacks of Syria's 14-month uprising, urging all sides to stick to an international peace plan after at least 55 people were killed. The Sy...
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of wasting police time after a major search was launched for a baby thought to be lost at sea. The land and sea operation in Belfast Lough was cancelled when officers... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has apologised after a newspaper reported that he had been among a group of students who bullied a classmate they presumed was gay. "I did some dumb things and... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 31 minutes ago
JP Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the US, has admitted losing $2bn in a trading portfolio designed to protect the company against risks it took with its own money. Chief executive Jamie Dimon blamed ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 34 minutes agoThe double agent who helped foil an al Qaeda plot to blow up a US-bound plane was a British national, possibly of Saudi origin, American officials have said. UK intelligence played a central role in the...
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A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Bougainville Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 200 km (124 miles), the quake hit at 01:31:59 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) West... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Banda Sea at a depth of 150.7 km (93.6 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:44 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 208 km (129 miles) NNW of Saumlaki, Kepulauan... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 49 minutes ago“Beautiful island universe M94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for astronomers, the brighter inner part of th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:52:07 UTC Friday 11th May 2012 The epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) ENE of Ambon, Moluccas, Indo...
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A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Indiana at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:05 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 6 km (3.7 miles) ESE from Russellville, Illinois No Rep... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 55 minutes ago*"My School Days, By Mitt Romney"* by Andy Borowitz NEW YORK - (The Borowitz Report) - "Today, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney released the following open letter to the American people: Dear Frie...
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A magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Oklahoma at a depth of 6.8 km (4.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:14:31 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 27 km (16 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma No Reports ... - posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 57 minutes ago
Southern Man is a child of the Space Age. He vividly remembers watching Neil Armstrong put bootprints on another planet, live on television, and hardly slept during the dramatic return of Apollo 13. He sat... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 8.6 km (5.3 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:22 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 136 km (84 miles) WNW of Ternate, Moluccas, In...
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- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 1 hour ago*"The One And The Many"* by Chet Raymo "Near the end of Mary McCarthy's "The Company She Keeps," the protagonist - Meg Sargent, a stand-in for Mary - and her therapist steer away from talking at lengt...
- posted by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene at Schools Matter - 1 hour ago*In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now. — Sherman Alexie* [image: Resist Arizona Book Burnings and Racist Att...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 2 hours agoWell, almost. Tonight was the very last final exam of Spring 2012 and Southern Man bid a fond farewell to the last of his students at the community college where he moonlights for extra budget-saving cash....
- posted by risa bear at stony run farm - 2 hours agoKerosene is a fossil fuel, but sometimes these lamps are the way to go, such as during power outages. Keep the blackened end of the wick scissored away, finished on a gentle curve like that of a trimmed fi...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 2 hours agoActually, I should have titled this, the cons are most assuredly crazy. This is no dog whistle. It's a full volume air raid siren purposefully false and recklessly breeding paranoia and encouraging violenc...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 3 hours agoSchmidt CW 2012. CT Scans: Balancing Health Risks and Medical Benefits. Environ Health Perspect 120:a118-a121.http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.120-a118 [excerpts] "CT scanners emit X rays. Different tissue...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoHOW MITT ROMNEY BULLIED A GAY STUDENT. An analysis of the story first reported in the Washington Post, done by Amy Davidson, who is a senior editor at The New Yorker. The question is, will this get traction?
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*We know that Senator Dick isn't going to get his six more years. My question is, should he even have asked for them?* *by Ken* I understand the conventional wisdom about Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar's Rep...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 4 hours agoBig news of the week appears to be the issue that Dick Cheney and Joe Biden got to before Barack Obama: agreeing that same-sex marriage will not end civilisation as we know it. Or in Obama’s case: realis...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 4 hours agoClick arrow below to watch video by The Mending News. . The Mending News covers the Dignity and Resistance March in Oakland, Ca on May 1, 2012, International Workers Day. Communities from across the Bay ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 4 hours ago'Inside/Out': The poetry of Marilyn Buck By Mariann G. Wizard / The Rag Blog / May 10, 2012 The Rag Blog's Mariann Wizard will join fellow poets Czarina Aggabao Thelen, Lilia Rosas, Jorge Renaud, Michel...
- posted by rc at GlobaLove Think Tank - 4 hours agoThe Ecological Worldview: Hearing the Cries of the World | Center for Ecoliteracy: Thirty years ago, the king of Bhutan proclaimed, "Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product."...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 4 hours ago2007 New Yorker Article Exposed US-Israeli-Saudi Conspiracy to Overthrow Assad. *by Tony Cartalucci * - Muslim Brotherhood is funded by & serves as the primary instrument of US, Israel, & Saudi Ar...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoWhitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Lysander Spooner vs. the USPS"* by Joel Bowman "I gave a letter to the postman, He put it in his sack. Bright and early next morning, He brought my letter back." - “Return to Sender”, lyrics by Ot...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 4 hours agoMigration allows people to move to other places or countries that give them some optimal utility and satisfaction. No place can be perfect of course, but depending on one's priorities in life, say a good p...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 4 hours ago* * * * *Does this not ring true?* Michael channeled by Ron Head May 9, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages We shall speak today on the topic of self-worth. The importance of this cannot be over-stated. ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*There really is no way of getting around it if you apply an honest appraisal. The problem is the material with which I have to work. That's one of the many reasons I've been absent from posting. I'm just ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago*So am I, readers, after having been gone so long.* "Globe’s paid circulation up for first time since 2004; Sunday up 2.5%, daily 2.9%, including digital" by Chris Reidy and D.C. Denison | Globe Staff, ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours ago40 Acres and a Rule: Draft Federal Fracking Regs Cover Only A Sliver of Land by Lena Groeger ProPublica, May 8, 2012, 12:04 p.m. http://www.propublica.org/article/40-acres-and-a-rule-draft-federal-frackin...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 6 hours agoLatest Potrblog Video: Live in San Francisco? You Inhaled 75 MILLION Plutonium Atoms In Just 4 days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09HdHTwhUI&feature=youtu.be
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 6 hours agoGoes to Matt Yglesias, for pointing out that today's House vote to scale back the Child Tax Credit for low-income filers is, well, a tax increase. Over at Greg's place today, I wrote about today's vote, p...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago"America is a melting pot, the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top." - Charlie King
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- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 6 hours agoThe Pope and Stephen Harper are on the same stage in the Maple Leaf Gardens in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Mr. Harper and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand, I can make...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago* "The Revolving Door of Insanity,* * or From the Frying Pan Into The Fire"* by Larry Pinkney “Are we hamsters running endlessly on a spinning wheel, oblivious to the fact that we are substantively goin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Positive Dissociation, and its Importance:* * "Losing Yourself" in a Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life"* by The Ohio State University "When you "lose yourself" inside the world of a ficti...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 7 hours ago
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*What Romney did was not a prank or bullying... it was assault!* I'm surprised Romney didn't leak out the incident about how he bullied a gay classmate-- or presumed gay classmate-- when he was in a privat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 7 hours agofern hill found this creepy YouTube at "choicetvnetwork" here; it's the only entry. It's also being promoted at all the usual fetus lobby sites, like SoConOrNutz, here. It could be something produced b...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoBlah, blah, blah, ad infinitum... - CP
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*"Austerity Can't Be Just For Regular People"* by Matt Taibbi "It didn’t take long to crank up the backlash against European voters. This is inevitable whenever a socialist wins a major election, but par...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago*Your top investigative story of the day -- above-the-fold. * "Red Sox sellout streak a real numbers game" May 04, 2012|Bob Hohler and Seth Lakso, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent At 9:35 p.m. Wednesday,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“Demographic Winter: The Closing Of The Muslim Womb”* by The Johnsville News "Demographics is destiny, and this century will be defined by the great demographic death spiral that is swirling across Eu...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoThe Hotline's Reid Wilson had a good item yesterday contrasting Dick Lugar and Orrin Hatch and concluding that "campaigns matter." I think that's right, but I'd urge a bit of caution. On the one hand, cam...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours ago*The Cry: Censoring Native authors By Brenda Norrell Censored News *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Sometimes the magic arrives in the mail, as it did today. Inside a small brown envelope is a piece ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 7 hours agoReposted from Steve Beckow's the2012scenario.com 2012 MAY 10 Posted by Stephen Cook Whistleblower John Cruz: HSBC is a “Criminal Enterprise”. Laundered Billions. Amex and Paypal Involved. Thanks to Gene...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoWe need you to subscribe to our magazine (or give a donation this month) if you haven't already done so. Without your financial help, we wouldn't be able to spend the amount of time researching, reporting ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 8 hours ago*The Cry: Censoring Native authors * *By Brenda Norrell Censored News *http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com Sometimes the magic arrives in the mail, as it did today. Inside a small brown envelope is a piec...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 8 hours agoMany if not most politicians are sociopaths -- otherwise, how could they even live with their own lying, scheming selves? But the story of Mitt Romney's scissor-wielding assault on a fellow prep school stu...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago*The Polar Bears Are Fine. But Are Intelligence Agencies Going Extinct As Glaciers of Lies Melt and Icebergs of Truth Surface To Global Collective Consciousness?* "From underwear bombers to Libya’s ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 8 hours agoWhen Tar Sands sludge leaves Canada so does most of the wealth associated with it. Most of the Tar Sands is foreign owned, most of the revenue goes straight into foreign pockets. *More than two-thirds o...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"The So-Called 'Fiscal Cliff'"* by Karl Denninger "This is simply nuts, when you get down to it. The so-called "Fiscal cliff" is a combination of expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the payroll tax cut ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agohttp://www.ddpyoga.com/site/index.php/en/results/83-arthur
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*She didn't get paid for services rendered?* "Prostitute calls Secret Service agents ‘fools’" by Frank Bajak and Vivian Sequera | Associated Press, May 05, 2012 BOGOTA - A woman who says she was the *pr...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoRumor holds it that one leg lifted means the rider was wounded in battle. Two legs in the air means the rider died and all four hooves on the ground means the rider died of natural causes. The truth behin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 8 hours ago[image: Tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada. priceofoil.org] By JAMES HANSEN 9 May 2012 GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoBillions more life-bearing planets the size of Earth may exist in the Milky Way, a study has claimed. The research by an international team of scientists suggested a few hundred thousand billion of these...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 9 hours agoThen Deny Actual Bombings. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 10, 2012* - Perhaps in an attempt to soften coming revelations that Syria's opposition will be increasingly armed and backed by the West for a final ...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 9 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012* *Structuralist movin’ on up: *Just for today, we’ll tip our cap to the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column. This is precisely the type of reporting the guild once refused to ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 9 hours agoPhil Gibbs wrote a nice article about an insightful puzzle, Bayes and SUSY, which is relevant for a sensible answer to the question "how much we should change our mind when we eliminate a big chunk of a ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 9 hours ago"*I am prepared to consider all legislative and regulatory measures necessary to give effect to the will of Canadians*." That pearl of wisdom and efficacy from the Minister of farcical family values er, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA senior Egyptian police official said, Thursday that Egyptian forces had seized a large shipment of heavy weaponry on the Mediterranean coast, 430 kilometers northwest of Cairo. The official said the thre...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe Pentagon’s newest ballistic missile interceptor successfully destroyed a test missile off the coast of Hawaii late Wednesday. It’s a first for the latest upgrade to the America’s — and NATO’s — main de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoArchaeologists working at the Xultun ruins of the Mayan civilisation have reported striking finds, including the oldest-known Mayan astronomical tables. The site, in Guatemala, includes the first known i...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoEngadget have more about this intriguing vehicle as featured on tonight's Gadget Show Live.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoATHENS (Dow Jones)--The head of the leftist Syriza party of Greece sent a letter Thursday to European leaders saying the country's loan agreement with international creditors is no longer valid following n...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoAntananarivo - A particularly severe outbreak of malaria in Madagascar has killed seven people since the beginning of the month and has left 60 others in need of hospitalization, the country's health mini...
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- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours agoIn summertime, the lazy McIntyre River, a tributary of Lake Superior, is a picturesque waterway that meanders through Thunder Bay’s George Burke Park. An easy canoe paddle will give you a view of white and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a baby boy, who is believed to have fallen from a moving car. West Midlands Police said the incident took place nearly a week ago, at the...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago*R. v. Belisle*, 2012 ONCA 303 is a good current source for the test for causation in homicide: [30] A single test – the *Smithers* test – for causation applies to all forms of homicide: th...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 10 hours agoThe delightful Felicity Kendal is on the One Show, normally I would avoid this programme like the plague but for Felicity.... Actually I just can't do it even for Felicity... Instead of watching that wa...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 10 hours ago------------------------------ *Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Permalink* *Former Labor Sec. Robert Reich on Clinton’...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 10 hours agoToday is the March of the Feti! Every year, the fetus fetishists make wild claims about attendance. Last year they said there were 15,000 people on the Hill. By chance, I ran across a screen shot from the...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 10 hours ago*The Message of Fukushima Unit Three* TerraHertz 20120501 http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/20120430_Message_of_Fuku3.htm Consider reading in conjunction with my post from yesterday http://majiasblog....
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- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoToday's Gallup approval number for Barack Obama is 48%, covering May 7-9. Meanwhile, a Gallup's May 7-9, 2004 poll had George W. Bush dropping to 46%. This is the first time that Obama has been ahead of B...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMoscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday. Authorities arrested three men this week in G...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 10 hours agoTricked out tunes on the cosmic sly: Ray Wylie Hubbard's 'Grifter's Hymnal' From the beats of the opening bar of the opening track you can tell that Ray Wylie is in a mood to groove right through this mille...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 604.4 km (375.6 miles), the quake hit at 16:15:31 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji ...
- posted by jurassicpork at Welcome Back to Pottersville - 10 hours agoStop me if this sounds familiar (although I *won't* stop even if it does): Uptight, right wing douchebag with a well-connected father in politics, a failed athlete and cheerleader, assaults fellow student...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoWilliam Hague condemned suicide bombings that killed at least 55 and injured 300 in the Syrian capital Damascus today and urged the regime to implement a full ceasefire. The Foreign Secretary said civilia...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoThe Traitor is the Plague (with Thai/ไทย translation) “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoListen up, this is serious. The American Warfare State, the very one that any country buying the F-35 is signing on to serve, has achieved *a degree of madness* that we cannot afford to overlook. This ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoSome people say Arkansas' 3rd congressional district in the northwestern part of the state is the reddest CD in The South. It may have been at one time but even if it isn't any longer, it's certainly the...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 11 hours agoGlobal Corporate-Financier Mafia Grows New Tentacle: Global Tax Collectors. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 10, 2012* - The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 50 year old network c...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 11 hours agoSince this appears to have become the Week of Geocaching... After the weekly appointment with the chiropractor Southern Man hit a couple of caches in that area. Again, it is surprising to find such wild ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoI will not be posting any more Drake, Freedom Reigns, or Bill Wood postings. As far as I am concerned its all a distraction to keep people focused on the duality game. If the military and law e...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThousands of pelicans that perished on Peru's northern beaches died because of a heat wave, scientists have claimed. Investigators looking into the deaths of 4,450 of the birds say hotter than usual ocea...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 11 hours ago[image: Detail from a 2009 map of oil sands leases and facilities south of Fort MacMurray, Alberta, Canada. Scale: 1 inch = 10 Kilometers. Source: Terracon Group via insideclimatenews.org]By David Sassoo...
- posted by LuboÅ¡ Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours agoNext month, there will be a conference in Rio – called Rio+20 or Earth Summit 2012 – which will take place exactly 20 years after the 1992 conference in Rio that helped environmentalism in general and glob...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 11 hours agoMitt Romney admits *bullying a classmate* but swears he never thought the guy was a homo. There's plenty of rich character detail in Jason Horowitz's profile of Mitt Romney, prep schooler. The part that R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA mother who slit the throat of her four-year-old son had intentions to kill all nine of her children with the same knife, according to police. Doinita Mitaru, 44, from Polk County, Missouri, was arrested...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA family said they have been left 'humiliated' after they were ordered off a flight because airline staff claimed their 18-month-old was on a no fly list. The girl's parents, who did not wish to be ident...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAn online video of a British tourist carrying out a drunken sex attack has caused outrage in China. The disturbing three-minute footage has been watched by millions and shows a young male dressed in a po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 3.7 earthquake has struck Eastern Texas at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:15:38 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) NNE of Nacogdoches, Texas No Repo...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 12 hours agoIt has been a few days since my last report on the ongoing disaster at Fukushima, and the news has not been good. There have been a myriad of reports coming out of ENE News, at www.enenews.com, about how ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 12 hours agoPlease visit my sports blog -- The Least Thing -- where I have a two part article (with original reporting) that tells the tragic story of Mario Goijman, and the personal consequences to one man of failu...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 12 hours agoEdgar Cayce (pronounced Kay-Cee, 1877-1945) has been called the "sleeping prophet," the "father of holistic medicine," and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoChina has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country's first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea. The rig, CNOOC 981, *began drilling operations* yesterda...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012* *Where corporate loyalty takes us:* Last Sunday, Tom Brokaw did three hours on C-Span’s monthly program, In Depth. Brokaw has always seemed like a basically decent person. Around...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012* *Interlude—Heroes and bigots:* Good grief. This is *really* bad journalism! Jackie Calmes wrote the featured news report on the front page of today’s New York Times. This is the ...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 12 hours agoParticipants hold a traditional "Koinobori" carp-shaped banner for Children's Day during anti-nuke march in Tokyo Saturday, May 5, 2012. Photo by Itsuo Inouye / AP. Nuclear industry melts in Japan, France; o...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoThe *Swiss have a new countryman*, er countrywoman. She's Michelle Bachmann who, thanks to her marriage to flamboyant, gay-curing psychologist, Marcus Bachmann is entitled to claim Swiss citizenship. T...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoFound this quote It is by nature oriented to procreation, and so defining marriage as a male-female union is not unjust discrimination Who cares where. ∞∞∞∞∞ To the Homophobe GOP Based on this limited ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoPoor Rupert Murdoch, will his demons never go away? Unfortunately, for him, no because the demons plaguing him at the moment poured out of his own mouth at the Leveson inquiry. The focus now is on *contr...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 13 hours agoFound out two things this morning reading a short post on Daily Kos. Angie's List is going public. Now that they are big "corporatists" They are advertising on Rush Limb...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 13 hours agoWe live in a bizarre world in which our traditions are dismissed, our culture mocked, and our very biological essence is under attack. The architects of the One World State understand that in order for t...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoThe Athabasca Tar Sands controversy is about three key things - energy, carbon emissions and water usage and contamination. Oddly enough those three are the very *"global dilemmas"* identified as needing...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoThe Los Angeles sheriff's department has changed the status of the case of the missing 57-year-old father and film executive to a criminal homicide investigation. Gavin Smith has been missing for one wee...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoThose goddamned self-righteous Tories like nothing better than to preach responsibility except when they get a chance to dodge it themselves. And, when a chance does arise, they'll use their full bag of ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 14 hours agoIn which Conservative higher education blatherer Naomi Schaefer Riley entitles a post: The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations. Gets fired for it. Then appea...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 14 hours agoNew study: Amish prove raw milk promotes health in children By Rady Ananda Food Freedom News, May 9, 2012 An international team of researchers recently confirmed that children who drink fresh milk – ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoEighteen dismembered and beheaded bodies have been found inside two vans in an area frequented by tourists near the city of Guadalajara in western Mexico, authorities said Wednesday. Police discovered 15...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoThe ‘monster mom’ whose four-year-old daughter died covered in bruises and open wounds and weighing only 19 pounds was convicted on Wednesday of murder. Carlotta Brett-Pierce was emotionless when the jur...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwo suicide blasts rocked the Syrian capital today, killing 55 people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in the deadliest bombing since the country's uprising began 14 months ago. The blasts in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoPresident Obama's dramatic change of heart on the issue of gay marriage today sent shockwaves through the political world - and a boatload of cash into his campaign war chest. After Obama's shock announc...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours ago*This story keeps getting bigger - in a NATIONAL NEWS type of way - which is EXTREMELY RARE for ALEC - before one of their "secretive" meetings.* I'm posting this because you need to know what members ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 3.3 earthquake has struck off the Coast of Oregon at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 10:58:56 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 254 km (157 miles) West of Coos Bay, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoWith a trendy, short hair-cut, Karen Matthews is trying her best to conceal her identity from the British public. The 36-year-old no longer sports the long, greasy red hair which made her so recognisable...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA senior EU watchdog has been ordered to resign over her links to the ‘Frankenstein Food’ industry. Diana Banati was chairman of the management board of the European Food Safety Authority, which is respo...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Vilma’s lawyer calls NFL process “a kangaroo court”* *NFL bounty punishment being questioned by some in league* *So This Is Reform? ~Diane Ravitch* ~Hat Tweet @*ChMaldonado* *Obama likes teh gay Mitt w...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Polly Walker, 46. And the good stuff: 1. Here's the transcript of Barack Obama's interview on marriage. By the way -- I've always been a Robin Roberts fan; nice to see her get this. 2. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA married police officer has been jailed for two years for getting a vulnerable woman who had threatened to kill herself to perform a sex act on him. Peter Jee 38, who was a Greater Manchester Police se...
- DC Dems Think They Have A Way To Win In Indiana Now-- Who Is Dick Mourdock? And Who Is Joe Donnelly?
posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe extreme right-wing victor in Tuesday's Republican primary in Indiana, Dick Mourdock, was interviewed the following morning by Chuck Todd on MSNBC. “I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA babysitter faces 30 years behind bars after she admitted broadcasting a sex attack on a 5-year-old girl to other alleged predators using the live video-chat programme Skype on her iPhone. Jennifer Maho...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoPass the Password Protection Act Right now, your boss or school can demand that you hand over your Facebook or email password, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. *Some people have even been fir...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe father of a victim of notorious pedophile Dennis McKenna has told an inquiry how he walked in and found his son in bed with McKenna but did nothing about it after being threatened. A special inquiry i...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 15 hours agoPeter Kent has accused environmental organizations of "laundering" foreign money, implying that they are enemies of the state. But, according to the Canada Revenue Agency, the organizations which receiv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA mother has been arrested on suspicion of killing her two children - including a newborn baby - at home in south London. The bodies of a 10-week-old boy and a 14-month-old girl were discovered at a house...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA helicopter carrying 16 people has ditched in the North Sea off Aberdeen, police say. Stephen Bond from Bond Air Services said an oil light pressure warning light came on in the chopper, so the pilot b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA Satanic cult is being blamed for the horrific death of a horse found beheaded on a beach. The stricken animal was discovered on Pentewan beach near Mevagissey, Cornwall, with a driftwood cross topped w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoPolice fired Tasers at a terrified Alzheimer’s sufferer in a troubling incident that reopens the debate on the controversial weapon. Six officers were called to take the unarmed 58-year-old man to hospita...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago10 May 2012 Helen and Sylvia’s court battle begins*EPISODE SEVEN: WE DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IT* After being charged under section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act for trespassing i...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 15 hours agoFurther to my recent post re Chelsea I note that there are two other teams with 'nothing to play for' on sunday in the last Premier League match of their season: Blackburn & Wolves. Chelsea, Blackburn & Wo...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 15 hours ago* I have updated this post 5 times. Don't miss them.* Thanks Freethinker: Graphic Photos, just terrible, here NATO backed terrorists and NATO nation taxpayer dollars at work The latest news on the explos...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 15 hours agosourceI think the soundtrack in this brief video is a little irritating, but EVERYONE should watch it anyway, *and then click here* to sign the petition.
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoI don’t normally just point people to an article about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It has to be pretty good and a good read, for me to do that and I found one this morning. Interesti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoDetectives who brought down a child sex grooming ring are poised to make more arrests - as the hunt continues for more than 40 other suspected members of the gang. Nine Asian men were yesterday jailed fo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA wealthy jeweller's son accused of strangling his model girlfriend today told a court he held her neck for 'five or six seconds' during a violent argument before she died. Elliot Turner, 20, confessed t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoUnion leaders have told Sky News that up to 80% of UK prisons are being hit by an unofficial prison officer protest, as tens of thousands of public sector workers went on strike. The Government plans to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - Bahraini opposition activists said they blocked roads with burning tires on Thursday to demand the release of women prisoners, many of them locked up during more than a year of protests against...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoThe next Federal Election is aways off but this story is important -- especially the NDP strength in rural areas. Remember the NDP's roots -- a rural base is not implausible. The Canadian Press OTTAWA...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 16 hours agoTwo days this week in the news for this ALEC member. He must want to win the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)“Legislator of the Year” award. But good for us – because we have a reporter who a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMay 9 - Striking Bolivian workers set off dynamite on the streets of downtown La Paz and clashed with police
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - This swampy township of garbage dumps and junk yards on the edge of Mexico City is hundreds of miles from the traditional drug-producing areas in the Sierra Madre mountains where trafficking g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - The Florida Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit that could undo hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and open up banks to severe financial liabilities in the sta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Reuters) - China risks a fresh downturn in demand for goods from its massive factory sector, with weaker than expected exports and stalling headline import growth signaling that government spending is th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Investigators pleaded for help from the public Wednesday in their search for two kidnapped Tennessee girls and the man accused of abducting them and killing their mother and sister. The FBI add...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(Financial Times) -- Spain has taken a 45 per cent stake in Bankia, the country's third-largest bank by assets, as worries over the financial system sent equity and bond markets falling on Wednesday. Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoChicago (CNN) -- Jurors will resume deliberations at 10 a.m. ET Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of entertainer Jennifer Hudson. William Balfour...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- The agent who penetrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and returned from Yemen with the group's new "airline bomb" was always under Saudi control and was not a double-agent, two sources brief...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- With his fate at home hanging in the balance, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani repudiated U.S. claims that Pakistan was falling short on fighting the war on terrorism and said instead ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Reeling from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has effectively been nationalized after Tokyo approved a request for a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) injecti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- Sony Corp. lost a record $5.7 billion in the fiscal year ending in March, the company announced today -- lower than beleaguered electronics giant's previous estimates of finishing the year $6.4 b...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 16 hours agoLike what's that guy doing? These are gigantic allegations: *Subject of Communications:* Fantino directly contacts Finley (PM Harper’s #2 and now a Senator) about using federal party resources to pay for ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHong Kong (CNN) -- The hugely popular Chinese micro-blogging site, Sina Weibo, is set to introduce new rules on what topics users can and cannot post, as the country's social networks face increasing pres...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- A U.S. drone strike killed eight militants in southern Yemen Thursday morning, continuing a coordinated assault on al Qaeda and its affiliates in the area, security officials said. The attack ta...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 16 hours agoThe Know-Nothing Party flag flies proudly once more. Fresh from their defeat of longtime Senator Richard Lugar, the Know-Nothing Party yesterday voted to end NSF funding of political science research and t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoJakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- The wreckage of a Russian passenger airliner that went missing during a demonstration flight over Indonesia has been located in a mountainous area, but rescue workers have yet...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours ago(CNN) -- The infiltration of a Middle Eastern terror network by a mole who helped foil a plot to blow up a U.S.-bound plane was a "phenomenal," "brilliant" and "powerful" success, experts said Wednesday....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoBEIJING — Authorities in the hometown of blind activist Chen Guangcheng have notched up restrictions on members of his extended family while he awaits permission in Beijing to travel abroad under an agree...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRussia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip a planned visit to the United States this month for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the Kremlin confirmed Thursd...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoRadical left leader Alexis Tsipras failed last night in his effort to form an anti-bailout coalition in Greece, as European leaders debated withholding loan payments in response to political posturing in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoDetectives charged the man on Thursday, about four days after a passerby noticed the 13-year-old girl talking with a man. Police say a man approached the girl in Isabella Williams Memorial Park in the ci...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAuthorities say the passengers and crew on board a Russian plane had no chance of survival when the aircraft slammed into the side of a mountain in Indonesia during a demonstration flight. Search and res...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoWell, it's hard to imagine it's the times that have changed When there's a murder in the kitchen that is brutal and strange If killing anybody is a terrible crime Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come 'roun...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 17 hours agoAmerican Thinker asks some interesting questions.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (BenefitScroungingScum) at Broken of Britain - 17 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoMore than 40 people have been killed and 170 wounded in two powerful explosions in the Syrian capital Damascus. State television said the "terrorist bombings" targeted an area that houses a military inte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 08:34:54 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 40 km (24.8 miles) South...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoGulf of Alaska Keeper, a non-profit organization that estimates it has cleared nearly 1,000,000 pounds of plastic debris from Alaskan coasts over the past 10 years, is reporting “tons” of what it believes...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe euro is doomed to fall apart: no, not because I'm some nasty man in UKIP but because the basic idea was such a terrible one. Our chart above (from JP Morgan Asset Management, which you can see more ea...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSo general practitioners are being told not to refer to their patients as obese. I’ll tell you what – I think we’re all going to die the death from a thousand euphemisms. It reminds me of my days as a co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTanks, troops and heavy weaponry grace Moscow's Red Square for Russia's Victory Day parade as new President Vladimir Putin implores all not to forget the lessons of World War II. Russian President Vladim...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 19 hours agoFollowing on from the deranged 78-year old James Rose who thinks he is a woman and is going to be genitally mutilated when he is 80, comes revelation that there are boys in the UK who want to have their p...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours ago*Queen unveils draft internet super-snoop bill - with clauses* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/09/queen_speech_ccdp/ Her Maj opens Parliamentary session with clear nod to CCDP By Kelly Fiveash Post...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe Queen has formally announced plans to greatly increase surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies and the police, in plans that are being labelled a “snooper’s charter” by civil liberties gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPoor parenting is to blame for a rise in the number of children starting school unfit for the demands of compulsory education, according to a senior government official. Dr Elizabeth Sidwell, the Schools...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoVIENNA (AP) — Hopes dimmed Tuesday for staging major nuclear talks later this year between Israel and its Muslim rivals, as Iran and Arab countries at a 189-nation conference accused Israel of being the g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoImage: An Israeli fighter plane takes off from Ramon airbase in Southern Israel in 2008. Photograph: Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters There is no Arab appetite for the chaos caused by an Israeli or western attack...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoHouse prices fell at their fastest pace for six months in April as a recent rebound in the housing market "ran out of steam" following the ending of a stamp duty concession for first-time buyers, the Royal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNote to readers. Yang Hu is the Director of Economics and Mortgage Market Analysis at Fannie Mae. He is also a serious student of history and a thoroughly skilled writer. He offered a rejoinder to my earli...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe title of David Graeber’s epic new book sums up the extent of his ambition: to re-ignite grand historical theory, using anthropology, history, philosophy, politics and psychology to undermine the found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIf you had followed May Day protests in New York City in the mainstream media, you might hardly have noticed that they happened at all. The stories were generally tucked away, minimalist, focused on a few ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDUBLIN—In Mairead Harold’s Irish childhood, there were no rugged mountains, stone-built cottages or seaside cliffs. Harold grew up poor in Dublin’s derelict Finglas neighbourhood, where rows of gritty se...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA reusable grocery bag filled with snacks managed to capture and transmit a vicious stomach bug that sickened nearly half of a girl’s soccer team a day later, a U.S. public health investigation reveals. “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoFor once, the top line in the agenda for Hillary Clinton's just-concluded visit to India wasn't Pakistan or Afghanistan or even terrorism but the Obama administration's obsessive compulsive desire to turn ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoPakistan has once again asked China to finance the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, as Beijing appears to be least interested in the face of pressure from the United States. “No Chinese governmen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoOperation Self-Deceit: New Documents Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects By Sven Böll, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga and Klaus Wiegrefe Newly revealed German government documents reveal that many in Helm...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIcelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger. Since the end of ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 20 hours ago*US soldier in Mali.* The CIA's al Qaeda would appear to be trying to grab the wealth in Mali. Mali has gold and uranium. About half of Mali's population live below the international poverty line of US$...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBeijing warned yesterday that it was ready to respond to any escalation of a tense, month-long stand-off with the Philippines at Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in what was its toughest statement ...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSixty-nine percent of Okinawans say the heavy concentration of U.S. military facilities in their prefecture is "unfair," while only 33 percent of people in Japan as a whole echo that view, according to su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe War on Drugs is a costly and controversial operation of the US federal government. A look into its origins and history is necessary to understand its present scope and its future direction. The Natio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBen Bernanke journeyed across town to give a 4-part seminar to 30 undergraduates at George Washington University. This was clearly a public relations stunt. Why would the head of the world's most powerful...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSome of the world's most prominent hedge fund managers are betting against the eurozone -- and not just the peripheral countries everyone knows are in trouble. They're taking positions against the core co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 172 km (106.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:31:30 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) WSW from Gor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 172 km (106.9 miles), the quake hit at 07:31:30 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) WSW from Gor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMainland China’s gold imports from Hong Kong surged more than sixfold in the first quarter, adding to signs that the country may displace India as the world’s largest consumer of the precious metal on an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Washington Post is onto something. Is it possible that the election of Francois Hollande as French president might doom Barack Obama's re-election? The shrill anti-incumbent message that has emerged f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWARWICK, RI (CBS) – Gun parts discovered by TSA officers inside stuffed animals in a child’s carry-on luggage at Rhode Island’s T.F. Green Airport on Monday were a result of “a domestic dispute,” Rhode Is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCARSON CITY — Nevadans will soon see driverless cars being tested on streets and highways. Google received the first license Monday from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to test the autonomous vehic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(Reuters) - Ten alleged members of a white supremacist group training near Orlando and Disney World for a "race war" have been rounded up in a series of arrests in central Florida, authorities said on Tue...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoCity Hall released an edited version of a consultant's 911 report Friday The city's 911 system fielded nearly four million accidental calls in 2010, which exceeded the number of times officers were dispatc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThat’s what some of the world’s largest wealth-management firms are saying ahead of Washington’s implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, known as Fatca, which seeks to prevent tax evasio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoSAN ANTONIO - South Texas is seeing a rise in children from Central America who have slipped across the border unaccompanied into the US from Mexico after that country began deporting fewer kids who arriv...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoInterpol president Khoo Boon Hui said on Tuesday that organised international gangs are behind most internet scams and that cyber crime's estimated cost is more than that of cocaine, heroin and marijuana ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoMI6 agents could be asked to volunteer DNA as part of a renewed bid to discover how Gareth Williams died, the head of the Metropolitan Police confirmed yesterday. Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWILMER (CBSDFW.COM) – Keithan Manuel is sitting inside the Dallas County Jail Tuesday night waiting for someone to believe him –– it was a joke, he told investigators. He didn’t really want to rob that po...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoDemocrats backed off of their effort Tuesday to offer a "Trayvon amendment" to pressure states to drop their stand-your-ground laws after learning it was likely to be ruled out of order under the evening's...
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- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoMay 9, 2012 *Quand l'injustice est loi, la résistance est un devoir.* ** *Police State Montreal: Brutal Treatment of Protesters * *by grtv* ** * * Compilation of footage of protests in and around Montr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 27.5 km (17.1 miles), the quake hit at 06:41:20 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) East ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 56 km (34.8 miles), the quake hit at 06:01:29 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 25 km (15.5 miles) SSE of Kushiro, Hokkaido, J...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Al Qaeda bomb maker behind the recently foiled plot to use underwear bombs on US-bound flights has designed explosive devices to be hidden in cameras, computers and even pets, according to officials c...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoAustrian Medical Association Objects to Smart Meter Rollout Press Release translated to English from January, 2012 The Austrian Chamber of Physicians is calling for a reconsideration or suspension of “t...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoOne poorly explored topic in the geological sciences is that of catastrophic land subsidence. I have argued in previous posts that an event that I have named the Pleistocene Nonconformity around...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoScience continues to struggle with the ancient themes of time and death. Yet existence means I am. That implies succession and that implies the observable arrow of time. As suggested here, th...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is neat. The photons are sent and the extra photon acts as confirmation with zero possibility of copying the information. It also can be tuned over a range of wavelengths to provide even more...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 21 hours agoMice, like this little cutie, will be laced with poison and then parachuted out of a helicopter. Photo courtesy: tinali778/CC BY 2.0 60 years after they found their way to the shores of Guam, brown tree s...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 21 hours ago“Put ’em up, put ’em up! I’ll fight you with one paw tied behind my back,”former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach tells Dalton McGuinty and Thomas Mulcair as Alberta Premier Alison Redford looks on. Alberta pol...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours ago#Cdnpoli - They keep on coming and now, after totally screwing up the Joint Support Ship project, we have one of Harper's own hobby-horses being stuffed into the quicksand and now it's the navy looking wa...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*Carmageddon, a notorious video game as of the late nineties, is attempting to raise crowd-sourced financial support to make a return.* In consequent years, extra 3D vicious games such as the genre-defin...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoThe idea that the gauge fields of the Standard Model are extended not just to \(\NNN=1\) supersymmetry multiplets but to \(\NNN=2\) supermultiplets has been discussed a few times on this blog, e.g. in Nove...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoBy Hibah Yousuf CNNMoneyInvest May 9, 2012: 3:54 PM ET Chinese banks are expanding their presence in the United States, which could boost more M&A activity. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Federal Reser...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 23 hours ago*Statue of Lady Hell on Ellis Island.* "Liberty for Milton is not something that starts with man: it starts with God. It is not something that man naturally wants for himself, but something that God i...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 23 hours agoGlobal warming on other planets (and moons) is one of the cute scientific observations that have amused many of us many times. *Mars for Martians* The topic got hotter in recent hours once again: Mar...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago*Idle computers are being required to raise cash for charities and donate to a sequence of science projects. While those computers are not being used their processors assist among one of many dissimilar s...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agovideo platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be take...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Coal train on its way from Montana to Canadian ports via Washington State and then White Rock, B.C. right across the border, for sale in Asia, polluting the planet to fuel 1% greed. Many thanks to the 12...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoU.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. The revelation, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours ago(CNSNews.com) – “Let’s Move,” says the Obama White House. But Obama’s Labor Department is telling some workers to slow down. On Monday, the administration launched a national campaign warning people how d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoI sincerely apologize for the distress these incidents have caused our readers and appreciate that so many of you have made your sentiments known to us. Which is simply craven nonsense. If Naomi’s post wa...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoOne of Canada's greatest embarrassments gets his pants pulled down by one of the finest commentators in the U.S. Mr. "Axis of Evil" is reminded that he is an idiot.
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day agoA letter from Pat Shearer, the current boss of Dumfries and Galloway police, has now admitted that statements about a break-in at Heathrow airport, just hours before the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIn the space of two weeks, three European governments have fallen, sending shock waves across the Continent and calling into question the experiment that has consumed its elect for decades: the constructio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSteven Jiang, a Beijing based CNN producer tweeted on Tuesday at 8:35PM EST: "Chinese censors just began blacking out CNN signals during #ChenGuangcheng coverage- not a good sign." According to Jiang's...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe flight of North Korea’s long-range rocket that failed on April 13 may have been terminated intentionally by the command center, a U.S. rocket expert said. According to David Wright, co-director of th...
- posted by Way Way Up at Fort McMurray Adventures - 1 day agoInitially I planned to do a quick post just to show my birding list for the year so far since I spotted my first Brewer's Blackbird at work late this afternoon, but then a new visitor showed up in the back...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFive-day official visit by Israeli president continues Tuesday with education agreement, meeting with Mulcair Israeli President Shimon Peres says science has changed global governance and can be neither c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFor Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the 2011 election story is not about robo-calls. The former Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre suspects he was robbed, but not by Pierre Poutine and his disposable cellphone. Rather, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoWEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The Animal Services section of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect or suspects who set a stray cat ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAn estimated 400,000 public sector workers are expected to join a 24-hour strike in a dispute over proposed changes to pensions. Airports, jobcentres, tax offices, colleges, driving test centres, museums ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoDavid Vitter is probably best known as a hypocrite and sex pervert who has been preaching "family values" as a career path in backward parts of Louisiana, while spending more time in diapers, being spank...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago#elxnfraud #Cdnpoli - Here's one: Why is one of the three CIMS reports downloaded by Andrew Prescott - phone numbers identifying supporters and non-supporters - now missing from CIMS? A simple explanat...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos will make a last- ditch attempt to form a government on Thursday and avoid a new election after voters rejected a bailout deal and pushed Greece into...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoCIDAHU, Indonesia - Helicopters spotted the scattered wreckage a Russian-made passenger plane on the side of a mist-shrouded mountain Thursday after it disappeared during a demonstration flight in Indones...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoTwo California police officers will stand trial over the death of a schizophrenic homeless man who was beaten and repeatedly shocked with a stun gun. Kelly Thomas, 37, died on July 10, 2011, five days a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFerrari has sparked outrage in China after a publicity stunt left skid marks all over a 600-year-old historical site. The Italian performance marque had paid 80,000 yuan (£8,000) to have exclusive use of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA baby is missing after falling from a ferry as it made its way into port in Northern Ireland. A search by the police helicopter, coastguards and lifeboat services in Belfast Lough, near Holywood, County...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago*05/09/2012 by John Smallman* When you all awaken into the amazing brilliance of Realty your joy will be ecstatic. It truly is your natural state – constant ecstatic joy – and it will be as though y...
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