Photo montage of Cairo, Egypt. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map in English of the Mediterranean Sea, with the borders and the name of the States following the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 code. Français : Carte en anglais de la Mer Méditerranée avec les frontières et les noms des États suivant le code ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
View from Cairo Tower (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Rocky coast of sea near Darnah, Libya (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- "*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, ...
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A 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 - 14 minutes 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...
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Archaeologists 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 - 23 minutes ago
Engadget have more about this intriguing vehicle as featured on tonight's Gadget Show Live. - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
ATHENS (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Greece sent a letter Thursday to European leaders saying the country's loan agreement with international creditors is no longer valid following n...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 - 26 minutes ago
Antananarivo - 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... - posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 39 minutes 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 - 42 minutes 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 - 47 minutes 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...
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The 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 - 53 minutes ago
------------------------------ *Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Permalink* *Former Labor Sec. Robert Reich on Clinton’... - posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 hour 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...
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Moscow (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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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! - 1 hour 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 2 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 gl...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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. - 4 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 - 4 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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! - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 hours agoI will be updating this post. Check back for new info Thanks Freethinker: Graphic Photos, just terrible, here NATO backed terrorists and NATO nation taxpayer dollars at work The latest news on the explo...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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. - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 - 10 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 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 11 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 12 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 13 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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: Mars ...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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 - 14 hours 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! - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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 - 15 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Central Alaska at a depth of 14.7 km (9.1 miles), the quake hit at 02:23:20 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) East of Nikolai, Alaska No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Easter Island Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:13:56 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 349 km (216 miles) WSW of Hanga Roa, E...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 3.5 earthquake has struck Wyoming at a depth of 6.3 km (3.9 miles), the quake hit at 01:18:30 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) SSE of Jackson, Wyoming No Tsunami Wa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.5 km (26.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:28:22 UTC Thursday 10th May 2012 The epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) ENE o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 22:14:39 UTC Wednesday 9th May 2012 The epicenter was 343 km (213 ...
- posted by MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 16 hours agoAccording to an article I read at Yahoo News, Fox anchor Shepard Smith has warned the GOP not to be “on the wrong side of history”. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/obama-supports-gay-marriage-shep-smith...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoYet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. Ernest Hemingway
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 16 hours ago* * *This is the third post in 3:* 1. Post I: Report Contains Numbers of Fuel Assemblies at Fukushima as of March 2010 http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/report-contains-numbers-of-fuel.html 2. Po...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 17 hours agoFuller Western Rubber Linings Ltd. v Spence Corrosion Services Ltd., 2012 ABCA 137 holds that reasons ought not to consist reproductions of the written arguments of counsel. Such a practice is common but u...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 17 hours agoSometimes you're the recipient. Sometimes you're the bestower. So upon my return to the Little City, I'm in line at the grocery store and the tiny little old lady behind me engages me in a long conversat...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 17 hours ago** *Contributor: "YYC"* *Witness:* Breivik yelled Woo-hoo as he carried out the slaughter *Breivik:* Death or acquittal are the only logical outcomes; psychiatric ward a fate "worse than death". From the ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 17 hours agoSome years ago I finally got around to reading Goodrick-Clarke's *The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology*. Reading Goodrick-Clarke's description of various for...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours ago*"I have to tell you that over the course of several years, as I talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationsh...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that get too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practic...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"Second Law"* by Chet Raymo "Cartoon in last week's New Yorker: Kid in his incredibly messy bedroom says to his frowning mother at the door, "I blame entropy." Well, yes. The universe is a mess, and ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 18 hours ago[image: Number of small (50–250 µm) cysts per section in F1 (A) and F3 (B) generation ovaries. Number of large (>250 µm) cysts per section in F1 (C) and F3 (D) generation ovaries. N = 9 animals per treat...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago“I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any ‘Good Old Days,’ there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, ‘Don’t ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 18 hours agoWestern NGOs hyping dead "political prisoner" omit contents of his "free speech." *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 10, 2012 *- Suppose at the height of a violent rally where soldiers, police, protesters, and ci...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago* "What Can I Say?"* "What can I say that I have not said before? So I'll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience. Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you a...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 18 hours agoin the post below there are 2 annoying popups. I did not approve them or import them. ?????????????
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 19 hours ago*UPDATE: Joe Romm obviously understands that he went way over the line on this one, as he has retitled his post and added some confusing words of update. He maintains his assertion that I have some sort ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 19 hours ago[image: Conservative plans to oppose wind power in a memo dated 23 Janury 2012: Strategy document calls for a national PR campaign aimed at causing 'subversion … so that it effectively because so bad tha...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours agoFor months the bureaucrats destroying Cantabrians’ spirits “managing” Christchurch’s recovery have successfully avoided addressing the growing elephant in the room: there is simply not enough residential...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours agoKingsmead, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago*"North Carolina Weighs Ban on Electricity, Soap"* Amendment One Supporters Push New Law by Andy Borowitz NORTH CAROLINA (The Borowitz Report) – "Flush with victory from yesterday’s statewide vote, s...
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 20 hours agoDespite yesterday's somewhat dampening headline : *Pierre Poutine robocalls trail goes cold in Saskatchewan*, the main story here is not that Elections Canada's Al Mathews was unable to secure phone record...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 20 hours agoIf this kind of lying were not so commonplace among the governors owned by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, it would be astonishing. HT to Stan Karp: One week after releasing new graduation rates that his D...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 20 hours agoFormer GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann recently became a citizen of Switzerland after her husband claimed his heritage. “Congresswoman Bachmann’s husband is of Swiss descent so she ha...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 21 hours ago*“The ultimate basis of an all around bureaucratic system is violence.” - *Ludwig Von Mises, *On Bureaucracy* There are two kinds 0f bureaucrats: the Jobsworths and the Born-Agains. And frankly, I pre...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 21 hours agoTitanic: Iceberg ahead. Image from Luther, Out of Station. Iceberg ahead: The big money that is sinking democracyIt is hard to wrap your head around the scale and immediacy of this danger. By Danny Schechter...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 21 hours ago*Corps of Engineers gets more time to comment on Hurricane Katrina breach sites* *They will hear us now, or in the next election ~American Zombie*
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 21 hours agoIn the current issue of *Nature*, Dan Sarewitz has a column about the threat posed by bias to scientific research. (The image above is a screenshot of a paper cited by Sarewitz, which is by J. Ioannidis...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 21 hours ago*"The Return of Son of Underwear Bomber"* by Kevin Barrett "The Guardian has revealed that Underwear Bomber II, who was about to blow up a passenger jet with an undetectable explosive codpiece when h...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoI didn't get around to doing this post earlier in the week...I guess I'm not going to go back and link to everything, but I will link to yesterday's post on the old, old, Senate. Today at Plum Line I talk...
- Link: http://youtu.be/XgsCdNHqwx0 OK boys, let's pack our bags, ... or better not? I couldn't believe my ears the first 2 minutes. John
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours agoAlthough the narrator is a 'tard who can barely read the Stratfor script she was given, the main points are well taken: "The traditional political elites are losing control of the system they once domina...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjICZoqspv4 Moody Blues, “Don't You Feel Small?” Lyrics: "Ask the mirror on the wall Who's the biggest fool of all, Bet you feel small, It happens to us all. See the w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"GDP Growth: * *The Civic Duty of Every US Consumer"* by Bill Bonner "No panic on Wall Street — yet. Gold still over $1,600. But watch out. Our hunch is that when people come to their senses…they wil...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoPlease contact me at americankabuki@yahoo.com, I don't have your email address and you asked me not to post your blog comment. I would like to reply to your questions but don't have your email address.
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*“More Social Diversions”* by Karl Denninger “Please, make the stupid stop! “President Barack Obama said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, the first time he’s declared support for making ga...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoGood morning to you. There is information given out lately that very soon things will really begin to get underway and I am imagining that from then on the show will begin. What wisdom could you off...
- posted by Harry Dale Huffman at The Earth and Man: Setting the Stage - 22 hours agoI do not take the fevered climate debate seriously anymore, since my definitive Venus/Earth temperatures comparison has not brought everyone to their senses, that the consensus is entirely incompetent in p...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 22 hours ago*"The Pentagon Goes Rogue"* by Bill Bonner "The Obama Administration deserves credit. What other government ever reached such staggering achievements? On the home front, as we reported last week, over...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 23 hours ago*"Economic Alert:* * If You’re Not Worried Yet…You Should Be"* by Brandon Smith "For the past four years I have been covering the progression of the global economic crisis with an emphasis on the debi...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 23 hours agoThere is a line in his movie featuring "Borat" that I thought was good comedy. Throughout the film, "Borat" tries to figure out the comedic use of the addendum "Not!" at the end of a sentence. Then, when P...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 23 hours agoFirst the Facts: #1. More Canadians are being diagnosed with liver, thyroid and kidney cancers because of factors like obesity and alcohol abuse. So more Canadians are getting cancer... #2. 75,700 Canadi...
- posted by Lilith eZine at LILITH NEWS - 23 hours agoCanadian blogger Charles Moffat is attempting to trade his way to a Toronto condo. He started with a mere Hot Wheels toy car and is already up to a bicycle (and rumour has it he may soon trade the bicycle...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 23 hours ago*Indigenous Youths protesting lack of participation at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, are removed and banned by UN security* *Update from Glenn Morris* *May 9, 2012, night update* *"Hello, AIMst...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 23 hours agoArt by DonkeyHotey / Flickr. Texas ballot initiatives illustrate bogus Republican values The propositions fit into the typical Republican mindset -- they tend to see things in black and white, without the ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 23 hours ago*Kirk Cameron* In March 2012, former child actor Kirk Cameron stated on* Piers Morgan Tonight* that "homosexuality is unnatural, detrimental and ultimately destructive to the foundations of civilization"...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 23 hours agoHand with Reflecting Sphere M. C. Escher 1935 Lithograph M. C. Escher Website
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 1 day agoUS Stokes "Terronoia" Domestically, While Backing Real Terrorists Abroad. *by Tony Cartalucci* *May 9, 2012 *- The term "terronoia" was used by James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy to describe what exactly...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agoSaLuSa, May 9, 2012 There are those amongst you that are now awakening to their missions, as you are approaching a most intense period of activity. These Beings have been waiting for this particular...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoFirst Nations activist from Yinka Dene Allinance storm the Annual General Meeting with shareholders from Enbridge in Toronto on May 9, 2012. Video by Emma Pullman. LIVE BLOG: http://ht.ly/aNQca Censored ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck Western Turkey at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:49:31 UTC Wednesday 9th May 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) Northwest of Saphane, Turkey No...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 1 day ago“The young people seem to be taking over all the older groups and it’s hugely re-energizing,” said 23-year-old Jonathon Van Maren, communications director with the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform....
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoLook, I admit it: the silly GOP talking point about the Senate not passing budget resolutions bothers me more than, perhaps, it should. Oh, it's a stupid talking point, alright, no question about that (and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSouth Korea is to file formal complaints with Pyongyang and relevant United Nations agencies about jamming of Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver frequencies that it contends emanates from North Kore...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSEOUL, South Korea -- A Seoul court has sentenced an American soldier to six years in prison for raping a teenage South Korean girl last year. The Seoul Central District Court's sentencing of Pvt. Kevin Ro...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoYou know how I adore Bill Black, right? I'd be a forever happy camper if I ever got the chance to kiss his feet. And you know why. Read his pithy essay below and jump on that bandwagon. (And up to now you ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe drama surrounding Chen Guangcheng highlights — again — America’s role as refuge for Chinese citizens. Late last month, the blind activist, after a request for protection, entered the U.S. embassy in B...
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