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*At Stanford University in California, a retinal embeds or else bionic eye which is motorized by light has been invented by scientists*. Diseases like age-related macular degeneration and retinal pigment... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Northern Peru at a depth of 55.2 km (34.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:50:43 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) Southwest f... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoIn Khorgos, on the China-Kazakhstan border, trucks laden with Chinese goods line up along the road, waiting for Chinese and then Kazakhastani customs officers to give them the go-ahead to continue their ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoFew of us think regularly about water. It seems limitless because it falls from the sky year after year. We turn on the tap and fresh, pure water comes out. Most of us have never known it to be otherwis...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoIn my childhood years of the 1950s, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic landscapes were a dime a dozen. In the Arctic, the first radioactivated monster, Ray Bradbury’s famed Rhedosaurus, awakened in The Beas...
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There are several providers of statistics on Australian house prices, but only one that doesn’t have a vested interest in the direction house prices actually move in: the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
While the price of food to the American end consumers has been relatively flat over the past few months (at least according to official CPI data), behind the scenes another food inflationary storm for the ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
As world population swells and the threats of climate change become increasingly prominent, freshwater resource security is a growing concern around the world. Rapid urbanization and industrialization in ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
As it embarks on a period of economic growth and diversification, the UAE has a long list of targets. Building unrivalled malls and theme park attractions, increasing the number of visitors, and becoming ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A populist movement has emerged from the heartland of America that is campaigning for a fundamental change in economic policy. European nations are locked into a fixed exchange rate system and struggling ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
It was clear a priori that Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's decision to nationalize 51% of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF) in which Spain's flagship oil producer Repsol owned a majority stake woul... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoThe Chinese activist whose six-day stay at the US embassy in Beijing sparked a diplomatic crisis last month has voiced concern about the fate of his nephew, who has been arrested on charges of attempted ho...
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Guards stood watch last week outside Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, where the activist Chen Guangcheng was being treated. The West expends a lot of energy and time pointing fingers at China and feeling ge... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Greece has "seriously considered" leaving the euro, an adviser to the country's former prime minister has told Sky News. Richard Parker, who advised George Papandreou, the nation's leader until late last... - posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 hour ago
*Kissell was elected on a platform of equality... but he's since devolved into bigotry* Although the corporate media and the Beltway trade papers insist on referring to them as "moderates," there are a nu... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
A manhunt in the foothills of Los Angeles for a missing FBI agent who is thought to be armed and suicidal has entered a fourth day. The family of Stephen Ivens, a 35-year-old special agent in national se... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Earth is a planet in crisis with wildlife populations declining by more than 30% in the past four decades, conservationists claim. A new report examined how more than 9,000 populations of mammals, birds, ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
Hospitals in large cities are the breeding grounds of the superbug MRSA which then spreads to other hospitals as patients are transferred, researchers believe. The Edinburgh University team made the disc... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Nearly two dozen Syrian government soldiers were killed in intense clashes with the opposition over control of the central, rebel-held city of Rastan, opposition groups said Monday, deep... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoATHENS—Greek party leaders will get yet another chance to try to break a weeklong political impasse and avert fresh elections, this time to explore the possibility of forming a technocratic government afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia at a depth of 25.3 km (15.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:05:46 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 221 km (137 miles) ENE of Palu...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoMichael Franti, “Hey World (Don't Give Up)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:25:41 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 726 km (451 miles) Southwest of Banda Ace...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 42.6 km (26.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:09:06 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 74 km (45 miles) East of...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours agoSong by Peter Gabriel, video produced by Barney Hilton Murray. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcIHKqoij4&feature=fvsr
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 2 hours agoA chart from IranResearch.org "Iranians Have Democratic Values," screams a headline in *The Wall Street Journal*. The article that follows, written by "Israeli political strategist" Yuval Porat, publi...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 2 hours agoIf you didn’t get a chance to check out Part One of the new report by CMDthat was released today – you should. Here’s a snip to get you interested. Koch Industries has vigorously defended ALEC, and has ass...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Ikuko Hebiishi, a city councillor for Koriyama in Fukushima, Japan checks for radioactivity near the site of Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years earlier. Franck Vogel / thenational.ae] By April ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: An Bull Elk with snow on his face is seen near the road between Banff and Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, in this 2009 photo. Elk are one of the groups of mammals researchers say will be able adapt...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 3 hours agoTHE OATMEAL has a page you must visit: "What we should have been taught in our senior year of high school".
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: NASA, the US National Climatic Data Centre, and the UK Hadley Centre have each produced global temperature datasets. The graph shows the annual means calculated from the three datasets. Years beg...
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- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 4 hours ago[image: Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe Indians lobby the Brazilian authorities to uphold their land rights. © José Cruz / ABr via survivalinternational.org] 11 May 2012 (Survival International) – The Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light-years, one of our galaxy's largest star forming regions. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Ne...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"In-Groups, Out-Groups, And The Psychology of Crowds"* by Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D "It's a well-known principle in social psychology that people define themselves in terms of social groupings and...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 4 hours ago*(Thanks to C. Jerry Kutner Jr. on Bright Lights After Dark film-comment blog)* One of the characters in the classic 1939 film "Stagecoach" is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 4 hours agoSCIENTIFIC AND CITIZEN FORUM ON RADIOPROTECTION: FROM CHERNOBYL TO FUKUSHIMA http://independentwho.org/media/Documents_IW/Forum_Radioprotection_English_Abstracts_IW_2012.pdf Hat tip: Nuckelchen at Enenews
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*"Hoping for Knockout Punch, * *CIA Sends JP Morgan Execs to Infiltrate Al-Qaeda"* Terror Org Posts Huge Losses by Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – “In a covert mission designed to dest...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 5 hours ago05/13/2012 by John Smallman The awakening of humanity into full awareness of its true identity will be an event of enormous importance for all of God’s divine creation, and that importance cannot be ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 5 hours ago[image: Protesters raise banners demanding that the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, vetoes a forest code approved by the congress in April 2012. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty Images] [Petition: Vet...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago*Angela Merkel has warned Greece that unless it agrees to EU terms, which at present is an impossibility due to the disunity among Greek political parties regarding forming a new government, it will be eje...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 6 hours ago[image: Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers stand before the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant on 28 February 2012. Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP] By Hiroshi Hiyama 9 May 2012 (AFP) – Japan's government will...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.) at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog - 6 hours agoThe graph above answers a question I've wondered about for a bit: By how much would the services and manufacturing sectors each have to grow employment in order to reduce the current rate of unemployment...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 6 hours ago*“Idiocy as WMD”* by Linh Dinh “Borges writes, "dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." As ...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours agoThis is the funniest thing I’ve seen all morning. Yes, Labour’s gagging of David Cunliffe is funny enough [if true]. But Brian Edward’s description of Silent ‘T’ and his speech-making had me rolling arou...
- posted by thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 6 hours agoReframe the education debate: How we can show teachers the love Don’t allow education to be defined as an endless Social Darwinist competition. By Rick Ayers and Bill Ayers / The Rag Blog / May 14, 2012 La...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 7 hours agoUS, Israeli, and Saudi-funded terrorists destabilizing Syria now under fire in Lebanon. *by Tony Cartalucci * *May 15, 2012* - According to a 2007 New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh, "The Redirection," ...
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- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoAt Post Partisan this afternoon, I wrote about the news of the demise, or maybe demise, or something, of Ron Paul's campaign. Mostly, I thought it wasn't really a big deal, in that I suspect his actual cam...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 7 hours ago*From Daily Kos:* There's good news for public education in Alabama and Connecticut, as the Michelle Rhee breed of privatizers and corporate reformers were thwarted in both states, at least partially and a...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 7 hours ago[image: Screenshot of Brad Johnson's Pinterest site, 'Heartland Institute Sponsors'. Brands such as BB&T, PepsiCo, General Motors, Diageo, and State Farm have dropped support for Heartland Institute, bec...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoMorro Bay, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 7 hours agoAt just the time when everyone seems to be awakening to what a bad decision Homeland Security TSA pat-down forces really turned out to be (against an enemy that uses terror as a tactic), we get the headlin...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago*“The Dark Night”* by Chet Raymo “I first read Soren Kierkegaard's “Fear and Trembling” at about the same age as Kierkegaard was when he wrote it - thirty. The young philosopher was wrestling with his...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 7 hours agoFive years ago climate “scientists” were saying, predicting, expostulating that the Arctic Ice Caps were going to disappear in five years time! Gone away. Disappeared. Never to be seen again. All our f...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 7 hours agoReposted from PORTAL 2012 by special request Sunday, May 13, 2012 MAKE THIS VIRAL! REBOOT OF THE GRID 5-20-2012 After the great success of World Liberation Day, our efforts for planetary libe...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoWall Street Journal May 14, 2012 p. C1, C5 by Jean Eaglesham Excerpt from article: "It is a question that has been asked time and time again since the financial crisis: How many executives have been conv...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 8 hours ago*The Politically Engineered 9/11 Consensus is Collapsing*. "I am convinced a revolution is going on. It is an intellectual revolution." - Ron Paul, *"Our Time Has Come."* The politically engineered ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 8 hours agoRepresentative Buck McKeon, chair of the House Armed Services Committee and self-appointed Warmonger in Chief has been engaging in a very public battle with the Pentagon. Why? Because the Pentagon says it...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 8 hours agoI’ve been interested at all this talk of rising house prices—houses, in our little economy, being one of the main reasons for which New Zealanders borrow money. Or to put it another way, one of the main...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago*"For a New Beginning"* "In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long tim...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 8 hours ago“Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.” - Wolfgang Borchert, “The Outsider”
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 8 hours agoPosted originally at Rumor Mill News by Jordan Author and legendary conservationist Lawrence Anthony died March 7. His family tells of a solemn procession on March 10 that defies human explanation. ...
- posted by Jody Paterson at A Closer Look: Jody Paterson - 9 hours agoA little story from last night, which nicely sums up the Honduran experience. A couple weeks ago, I was playing accordion in the central park here in Copan Ruinas as part of a little "feria gastronomica" ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 9 hours agoMary Jeffries ran child brothels for the elite. She kidnapped children and provided them to the elite for sex. One of Mary Jeffries's brothels had a torture chamber. "There were rings in the ceiling for...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you ...
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- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 9 hours agoR. v. McBride 2012 ONCJ 121: "The problem of adding continuing trials to already full lists is reaching crisis proportions in this jurisdiction. To put it bluntly, we are about to experience another Asko...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago* "The Worst Yet to Come? * *Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb"* By Brad Jacobson "More than a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the Japan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoWHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - Three dead porpoises have washed ashore on Whidbey Island in a matter of days, and now some experts are wondering if the animals were ill - or the cause of their deaths is somethin...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 9 hours agoNew ad from Team Obama takes a crack at Romney's alleged business cred: Companion site to the ad, is romneyeconomics.com with a longer version of the ad and other details. I assume they'll be adding to ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago(Reuters) - Strong production in Germany could not make up for a slump across the rest of the euro zone in March with declining output at factories falling and signaling an oncoming recession may not be as...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoReturn to drachma nears amid political impasse in Athens and open discussion in Brussels of possible end of single currency. Financial markets are hastily making preparations for a Greek exit from the eu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Molucca Sea at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 19:28:43 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72.5 miles) Northwest of Ternate, Moluccas...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 9 hours ago"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoRussian – Latin American relations are relatively warm these days, especially when it comes to a number of seemingly left-leaning countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. Nonetheless, Washington’...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours ago“On the one hand, we could disengage, and wait, and see what happens. On the other hand, we could engage pro-actively and seek to shape outcomes that are more favorable to our interests.” [To pretend that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoDemand for water and energy, natural disasters and measuring carbon dioxide must be prioritised, leading institutions say The world's leading scientific institutions have urged governments to focus on thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoSpain rescued real estate lender Bankia, and more such bailouts will likely follow, says Christopher Whalen, Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners in New York. Spanish newspaper El País rep...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"When Cash is King: * *Investing with Risk on the Downside"* by Bill Bonner "China is falling apart. Bond yields are falling. Copper is sinking. Oil is sliding. US stocks, too, slipped all last week....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThere has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMany analysts regularly predict the break-up of the euro zone and even of the European Union, but in reality neither development is likely, especially in the near future. While it is true that the prospe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe traders of India and Iran have called for a secure payment mechanism and lowering tariffs to boost trade. At an industry meeting hosted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co lost $15 billion in market value and a notch in its credit ratings on Friday while a chorus of regulators and politicians reacted to its surprise $2 billion trading loss by...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoDespite belated gestures from Berlin, the single currency cannot survive if and when Greece leaves it. For all the latest news on the escalating situation in the eurozone read our debt crisis live blog ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 10 hours agoMay 13, 2012 Greetings, my dear, and to all who endeavour to wake others up to the Light. As so many more move out of the Third Dimension, they suspend 3-dimensional thinking and see, for the ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMAYOM WEL, South Sudan — On a recent blistering afternoon, this village danced in an open field. Women sashayed, hoisting chairs over their heads. Barefoot children scampered. Old men, with skin as dry an...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 10 hours ago*"The Difference Between Market and Government Swindles"* by Joel Bowman "What’s going on in the markets? Well, a gloriously strong chávena de café at one of this city’s many colorful, street side vend...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA top Pentagon official is trying to stop congressional opposition to a deal that provides Russian helicopters to the Afghan military — even as the same official Russian arms exporter also supplies Syrian...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPresident Vladimir Putin got right to work and presented a series of new decrees within hours of being sworn in as Russia's new president. According to Norway's Barents Observer, the Arctic figured promin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(FULLERTON, CA) - The video below shows police beating a homeless man to death. It is very hard to watch, however you should, to understand what your country and the state of California have come to. "Th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA former top CIA covert officer who ran one of the spy agency's secret domestic networks says there are now more foreign spies on U.S. soil than at the peak of the Cold War. The former officer, Hank Crump...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSenate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., returned this week from visits to Afghanistan and Egypt, among other countries. He discussed his trip with National Journal. Edited excerpt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPakistan carried out a successful test firing of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday, the military said. The launch of the Hatf III, which has a range of up to 290 kilometres (200 ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 10 hours agoThis afternoon during lunch – I heard John Nichols say something to the affect – As goes Wisconsin in the recall election – so goes the nation in November. I believe that to be a truthful statemen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAmericans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes. That's enough ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSEATTLE — Washington state’s worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades has prompted health officials to declare an epidemic, seek help from federal experts and urge residents to get vaccinated amid worry...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoRon Paul issued a carefully worded statement today, saying his team will no longer campaign in the rest of the primary states. Does that mean he's bowing out of the GOP primary and leave nomination all to...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoLONGVIEW, Wash. - As the highway to Mount St. Helens reopens this weekend, the Forest Service is warning of "very high" avalanche risk for people thinking of climbing the volcano. The Daily News reports ...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoIt's just a little local election, but... A quick follow-up to my weekend post about the local bond election here in San Antonio. All five bond measures passed, all by comfortable margins. That's not of m...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago3D bathymetric view of Monowai caldera in the Kermadec Islands. The red cone in the foreground is Monowai cone. You can see the scars of collapses on its slopes along with new domes near the summit. Image...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago"*Sudan ready for South negotiations* KHARTOUM - Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMay 14 - Two people were killed in northern Lebanon on Monday as unrest in neighboring Syria fuels tensions between Alawites and Sunni Muslims. Deborah Gembara reports.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPolice investigating a house fire in Derby which killed six children have said it was probably started deliberately. The announcement comes on the same day that the latest victim - 13-year-old Duwayne P...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:28 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 41 km (25.4 miles) Northeast of Sa...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago"Quake hits capital; no one injured SANTIAGO - A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook awake residents of Chile’s capital Saturday, but no damage or injuries were reported. The US Geological Survey reported that...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*:-(* "14 die as fire sweeps drug rehab center CHOSICA - A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima’s outskirts Saturday, killing 14. Rescue efforts were complicated by l...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 10 hours ago*Globe only gave me a couple of crumbs:** * *"*Hunger strikers put under medical care JERUSALEM - Ten *Palestinian prisoners participating in a mass hunger strike * in* Israeli jails* were *put under medic...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago*What could be taking so long up there? I only have half-an-hour. * "Industry, consumer groups query delay on food safety rules" by Dina ElBoghdady | Washington Post, May 06, 2012 WASHINGTON - More tha...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 11 hours ago*Not really but the stupidity of the LQG proponents has reached levels that are utterly comical* Just a week ago, I discussed the incompatibility between the black hole thermodynamics and loop quantum g...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 15 km (9.3 miles), the quake hit at 17:12:49 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 9 km (5.6 miles) South of Yasuj, Iran No Reports of...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 11 hours agoThis was too good not to write about – finding it was just one of those things. You gotta read the whole thing – it’s pretty effing amazing. Republicans – kicking the Republican party to the curb. Republ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 11 hours agoΑθΕ A.O.E. by Sophia Love 05/14/2012 My ears are working overtime. This morning at barely 7 AM they pick up cars, trucks and bikes in the street, a radio broadcast, an airplane and a host of b...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 11 hours agoThis week's award is presented to Boris Johnson for this comment: "The BBC is unlike any other media organisation in the free world, in that it levies billions from British households whether they want to ...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoSummary Video of Dangers of Fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJIEZvX4PZI&feature=youtu.be Video produced by Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine III. From Wikipedia: "[He] is a retired Major General in th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*There's nothing in it*: "Commercial food waste to be banned" May 04, 2012|David Abel, Globe Staff State environmental officials are preparing to *ban hospitals, universities, hotels, large restaurants, a...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 12 hours agoQishin Tariq *The Star/Asia News Network* Saturday, May 12, 2012 KUALA LUMPUR - The War Crimes Tribunal has convicted former US President George W. Bush and seven of his associates as war criminals f...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoKofi Annan Spouts NATO “Civil War in Syria” Mantra; Syrian UN Ambassador Jafari Exposes Role of Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar in Fielding Al Qaeda Death Squads; Rebels Attack UN Observers. Pres...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*It's almost lunchtime*: "Food banks confront hunger at community colleges; Seeing need, food banks target campuses like Bunker Hill Community College in Massachusetts" by Mary Carmichael | Globe Staff...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 12 hours agoI got started late and had other lives before university, so I'm a decade or more older than most of students in Quebec. But that makes little difference as I share the same debt burden and the rising costs ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSix people have made a miraculous escape after a plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas, killing 15 people. The Agni Air plane with 21 people on board came down near Jomsom, a popular area for tr...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 12 hours agoHas no program or solutions beyond "anti-Putin." RT/Stop Imperialism May 14, 2012 *Video: Geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser discusses the problem of legitimacy Russia's "opposition" faces, as it lac...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 12 hours agoNorth Dakota sometimes seems like a hopelessly red state. Obama only won 45% of the vote against McCain. The last Democratic presidential nominee to win was LBJ. They've had a long line of Republican gove...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoHundreds of Palestinian prisoners have agreed to end a mass hunger strike after a deal with Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides have announced. The agreement was apparently struck as the I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 75.9 km (47.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:16:25 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 287 km (178...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Tajikistan at a depth of 145.1 km (90.2 miles), the quake hit at 14:43:40 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) SSE from Khorugh, Tajikistan No R...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Bougainvillen Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 468.1 km (290.9 miles), the quake hit at 12:22:25 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 185 km (114 mile...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 13 hours agoAnyone who follows this blog regularly can see that I am extremely troubled by the ongoing disaster at Fukushima. Living where I am and directly under the Jet Stream over North America, I can guarantee t...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*You know what they say: unlucky in cards, lucky in love! * "Sex assault case haunts gambling director" May 03, 2012|By Andrea Estes and Mark Arsenault A 2007 *sexual assault case* is coming back to haunt...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoTed Hopf has an extremely cool talk on how practice-turn theory is being assimilated by the liberal-constructivist borg. Give it a listen. Background on liberalism and constructivism at the Duck, *Intern...
- posted by PM at The Duck of Minerva - 13 hours agoSome critics of academic social science, and political science in particular, have recently asserted that it's difficult to see the benefit of what we do. To be fair, our output is less immediately tangi...
- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*Royalty hike cure for Dutch disease * *Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair “very, very divisive” for expressing concern that Canada’s overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating manufacturi...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 13 hours agoHere is another proof that the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) is mainly about money-money. A bill in Philippine Congress, called the "People's Survival Fund" (PSF) bill, authored by *Con...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours agoRESISTANCE … IS NOT FUTILE Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com MNN. 13 May 2012. Resistance being futile is a lie. We must resist to survive. The European elite sent over invaders to ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours ago*R. v. Charbonneau*, 2012 ONCA 314 is an interesting decision because it makes clear that where a* Corbett* application is granted it is not to mislead the jury as to the true nature of the accused bu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago*Sorry, I already made my **last bet**.* *Call*: "Casino foes prevail in Foxborough vote; 2 selectmen elected on antigaming stand" by Mark Arsenault and Michele Morgan Bolton | Globe staff | Globe Corr...
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- posted by leftdog at Buckdog - 13 hours ago*"The high-and-mighty vitriol which greeted Tom Mulcair's comments last week about the downside of oil-powered currency appreciation is lamentable (repeating the over-the-top reaction to Dalton McGuinty's ...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 13 hours ago** *Menachem Begin's "Freedom Party" betrayed its real character* *Contributor: "PAJU"* *DeirYassin.org*The following letter was written by Albert Einstein and other leading Jewish Americans and published...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoThe mass of the soon-to-be-discovered Higgs boson, \(125\,\GeV\) or so, is below the threshold of \(135\,\GeV\) which means that it is compatible with the MSSM, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, w...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago"Arkana Limited, a Malaysian company that is financing the project, an investment group that financed the startups of Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut in 1992 and the Seneca Niagara Casino in New ...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 14 hours ago*Follow-Up: The A Graña UAV (Spain, 1966)* *By Scott Corrales* Our friend and colleague *Angel Rodriguez,* director of Spain’s *GEIFO*organization, has sent us an update on the fascinating story invo...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012* *And big pundits have to push script:* Did Obama take a “courageous stand” in the case of same-sex marriage? Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, Kathleen Parker seemed to say no: ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 14 hours agoht to Stan Karp. From NewJerseynewsroom.com: BY PAT SUMMERSNEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM If the growing groundswell against the country’s so-called “education reformers” has a philosophical leader, it is Dr. Dian...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 14 hours agoI agree with a lot of what Steve Kornacki has to say about the Tea Partyand the state of the GOP this morning: It’s not really about moving the GOP to the right; the party is already there, and has been fo...
- posted by paul at Paying attention - 14 hours agoBack from a two-day annual planning meeting with OCDIH, the agency I'm to help in Honduras, and I must say it went brilliantly. I succeeded in managing their expectations down to the point that any contri...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 14 hours agoWhen the fat cat reporters come to town, be ready to accommodate them By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com When outside reporters come to Indian country, they seem to think that ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoIf tensions are not eased over Huangyan Island, trade prospects between China and the Philippines will be affected and economic sanctions might be applied, experts said. "For the moment the dispute will ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoMore than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states. All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 sta...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 14 hours agoFor the last several years, I have been bashing the absolutely idiotic idea of replacing safe and proven reliable Tungsten filament light bulbs with absolutely horrrendous poisonous Mercury filled and unde...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 14 hours ago*It's a tragedy*: Dawn rose on their adventure, then disaster hit Deaths hit BU’s campus hard *More: * Relatives await word on injured BU student *Also see*: BU student is city's 4th homicide this wee...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 15 hours agoLaura is running for City Council and this is what she had to say about ALEC on her webpage: This issue is of great concern to me, as I believe it is destroying our democracy, of government by and for the...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Drew Brees' contract situation with the New Orleans Saints is not unusual, just unnecessary* *NFLPA hearing set for Wednesday* *Game of Zones~American Zombie* *A blog reborn: The ‘heritage’ that gave ri...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours ago*Our best wishes to the Parents, Staff and the Children being treated at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Send them your prayers and good wishes if you would be so kind and they will be stronger.* The hemo...
- posted by Karen Garcia at Sardonicky - 15 hours agoI haven't written about the JPMorgan Chase $2 billion debacle till now, for two reasons. First, Mothers Day and Jamie Dimon don't mix. It was really in poor taste to put this guy on TV yesterday -- when yo...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 15 hours agoAs though sane people are short of reasons to decry capital punishment. Steve Staley may be the* new poster boy for state barbarism*. Stanley is on Death Row in Texas for the 1989 murder of a restaurant ...
- posted by Dan Nexon at The Duck of Minerva - 15 hours agoScott's recent post (at LGM) on college debt, which links to a depressing *New York Times* story, focuses primarily on politics. The narrative has gotten pretty familiar. State education cutbacks force tu...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoKen Slay was shutting down for the night Sunday and went out to close his garage door when he noticed that something wasn't quite right. "As I was pulling it down ... well, it didn't want to go down," sai...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Vietnam population density within and outside of a 10m low-elevation coastal zone. The Mekong delta in Vietnam, seen in red at the bottom of this map, is at high risk from flooding, sea-level ris...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 15 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012* *Despite what Ezra Klein wrote:* In Saturday morning’s Washington Post, Ezra Klein let it rip concerning a missing person. The missing person is Norman Ornstein. Klein began his col...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Farmers in India harvest wheat. waterlink-international.com]9 May 2012 (Calcutta News) – The annual mean temperature in India is expected to rise by 3.5-4.3 degrees Celsius by 2098, badly impacti...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*The above-the-fold-feature*: "Celtics giving their all, as Fenway draws boobirds" by Dan Shaughnessy | Globe Columnist, May 13, 2012 Most Boston sports fans at this hour are having a love-hate relation...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 15 hours agoLast Friday, I posted this in my facebook wall. See the exchanges after that, until today: ---------- I support this suggestion from Stephen P. Cutlerr: "The Philippines may find a better "return on inves...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 15 hours ago*Maybe he can finally rest in peace. * "John Demjanjuk, accused of collaboration with Nazis" by Robert D. McFadden | New York Times March 18, 2012 NEW YORK - Had he been, as he and his family asserted,...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 15 hours ago[image: Cover of 'The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment' by Chris Martenson]By John Atcheson 28 Apr 2012 The first thing to say about *The Crash Course* is ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoCookie sheet magnet boards are all the rage. Easy to make, easy to hang and they work great! I showed them to my daughter to see if she wanted one and with a sad face she told me they were nice, but not ...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 15 hours agoI was going to write a longer piece as to why the gluey-looking Armoured Engineering Vehicle/Armoured Recovery Vehicle (AEV/ARV) acquisition may or may not be worth getting one's knickers in a twist over. ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoNO! to Enbridge pipeline! NO! to Tar Sands! NO! to pipelines! Thanks to Yinka Dene Alliance for sharing photos with Censored News! Photos by Yinka Dene Alliance/Collages by Censored News. Freedom Train in th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago"Path-setting children’s author Maurice Sendak dies" by Dan Wasserman | Globe Staff, May 09, 2012 Maurice Sendak, who wrote and illustrated beloved and beguiling children’s books, most notably “Where t...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 16 hours ago*MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012* *Part 1—Romney’s bad conduct:* Is Mitt Romney a sociopath? It’s certainly possible! A certain percentage of adults are; we’ll guess that some of them hold high office. Then too, th...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 16 hours agoHappy Birthday to Sian Phillips, 79. And for the good stuff: 1. The director of the Census Bureau on why the American Community Survey is important. Shani Hilton has more. 2. Jeff Flake defends defundi...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoMay 14 - Fresh elections in Greece look a certainty, raising the probability of default and euro exit. And Angela Merkel suffers an election blow
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 16 hours agoPlease, do not miss the video previously posted. It says a lot in six minutes. I just want to get back to an interesting "global warming" story. This information has been previously discussed here.* Carbon d...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 16 hours agoIn his *NY Times* column Saturday, Mean Boys, Charles Blow pins Romney down and dissects the mind of a bully. And you know, it's sure not all about Romney acting out his fears of being gay by violent an...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 16 hours agoMay 12, 2012 The Chicago NATO Summit: Preview and Perspective by grtv Ever since its inception there have been those who have warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, far from offering a si...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago"Pythons suspected in loss of Everglades wildlife" by Darryl Fears | Washington Post, May 06, 2012 EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. - Within seconds, the 16 1/2-foot Burmese python uncoiled and tried to s...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoAt some point in the future, historians will note that Bill C-38 -- the Harper government's four hundred and twenty page page Budget Implementation Bill -- marked the beginning of the end. They will no...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 16 hours agoNunavut is a deeply religious -- on Sundays the Territory is completely at rest, especially in the hamlets. This is a big event for Nunavut and Inuit everywhere: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/13/i...
- posted by BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 16 hours agohttp://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/NOW_IS_OUR_CHANCE_TO_END_ECOCIDE/?cWlKubb
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*I'm a cat man myself. * *This is the big debate on the Globe's op page yesterday morning*: "Exactly how winding is the road that leads from the exemplary treatment of pets to the proper treatment of ot...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoConventional wisdom has it that healthy foods cost more than junk food, that buying and preparing nutritious food is more expensive than eating processed food. How many people bemoan the supposed fact that...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoJoseph Ratzinger is not the Pope. Although he uses the title, and calls himself Benedict XVI, by his deeds he can clearly be seen as an anti-Pope who occupies the papacy for the sole purpose of undermini...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - Americans call it a Rube Goldberg machine, Britons a Heath Robinson contraption and the Danes a Storm P machine. The European Union's policy-making system often resembles one of those cartoon...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(Reuters) - A senior U.N. nuclear official said Iran must give his inspectors access to information, people and sites as he began a two-day meeting with Iranian officials on the Islamic state's disputed a...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 17 hours agoThanks to anonymous for making me aware of this This is Quebec, Canada Canada: An alleged democracy. It appears the police are employing some highly dangerous tactics Including some of their infamous "grabs"...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe head of the U.S. Northern Command has a reminder for his troops supporting the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago: no alcohol, no prostitutes. It comes as the U.S. Southern Command finalizes its probe in...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 17 hours ago*Dancing dog trick proceeds Ashleigh and Pudsey have won ITV's Britain's Got Talent and scooping a £500,000 reward.* The teenager trained the dog to jump, dance on his back legs, and interlace between he...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSeoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A meeting of South Korean political party ended in a fist fight this weekend after tempers ran high over a recent scandal. The minor left-wing United Progressive Party (UPP) m...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Concord proposal could result in cats on leashes" April 25, 2012|By Billy Baker CONCORD - It is a town closely associated with history, with the environment, and with civil liberties. And Wednesday, as p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoKathmandu, Nepal (CNN) – Twenty-one-year-old Ramila Syangden weeps uncontrollably as she clutches her 10-month-old baby. She sits and watches as the pyre where her husband’s body will be cremated is set ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours ago(CNN) -- European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to impose fresh sanctions on Syria as a U.N.-backed peace plan -- along with all other diplomatic efforts -- has yet to stop the carnage that mount...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google has started to integrate Groupon-like offers into Google Maps, and it is not stopping there. Eric Rosenblum, Google's director of product management for Google Offers, sai...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoWhen midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to watch movies, play games or gamble online. Controlle...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoGOTENBA, Japan -- Parts of Japan's Mount Fuji could collapse if a newly-discovered fault line under the mountain shifts, a government report warned Friday. A three-year study by seismologists discovered ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoOf 40 million born abroad, the greatest number lives in California, with large populations in New York, Texas and Florida, Census Bureau report says. The U.S. foreign-born population has risen to its high...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Banks are quietly readying themselves to start trading a new Greek currency. Some banks never erased the drachma from their systems after Greece adopted the euro more than a decade ago and wou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoSHANGHAI (AP) — Dismal data from China and India on Friday may signal a further weakening of the global recovery, undermining hopes the dynamic emerging economies of Asia can help prop up growth. China re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoBRUSSELS - The European Union estimates that the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro is in recession in the wake of a debt crisis that has prompted savage spending cuts and a jump in unemploymen...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least 44 people have died and 26 others are missing after a massive mudslide swallowed a region in northwest China. The slide was triggered by heavy rain and hail in the poor mountainous region. The ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"On The Beach"* by Nevil Shute “Nevil Shute's novel "On the Beach" is set in what was then the near future (1963, approximately a year following World War III). The conflict has devastated the nor...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoDoctors are training Al-Qaeda in Yemen to plant explosives inside the bodies of suicide bombers, it is believed. Security at airports in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East has been stepped up amid fear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA top United States senator said today that a bomb maker thought to have created at least two non-metallic explosive devices must be killed. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee, sa...
- Jeffrey Lill: U.S. Postal Service denies worker was poisoned by mysterious leaking parcel from Yemen
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA postal worker says a package leaking a mysterious syrupy substance that was mailed from Yemen has poisoned him, but the U.S. Postal Service has denied the parcel ever existed. The worker, 44-year-old J... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA semi-professional football player was killed while playing in a charity game on Saturday. David Coleman Jr, 32, was blind sided and fatally hit in the game at Springfield High School in Indiana. The d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoForty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were on found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours ago(Reuters) - Greece cannot stay in the euro zone if it tears up its bailout deal, as envisaged by the leader of the country's leftist SYRIZA grouping, Finland's European affairs minister said. "I think tha...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 18 hours agoWhat's being hauled around the blogs today? *BLOGS*: - Falungong Demonstration in Jhubei. - China accelerating naval expansion: when will the light dawn in Washington? - Battle of Formosa: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoA homeless man from Anderson, South Carolina, charged with killing and dismembering his friend has offered to show the prosecutor the location of the victim’s left foot in exchange for a plea deal. During...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoReverend Jeremiah Wright caused problems for President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008, and new details have emerged alleging that the then-candidate tried to convince his former pastor to keep quiet. Th...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way by walking. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your f...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 18 hours ago[*Stories of saucer crashes and retrievals are not the exclusive province of the American Southwest. The Pacific coast of South America has some interesting cases to offer, as we can see from Raul Núñez'...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Australian dollar has fallen below parity with the US dollar for the first time in almost five months. At 1224 AEST the Australian dollar was trading at 99.99 US cents, down from 100.14 US cents at th...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 18 hours ago[image: Creative Commons License] The Adventures of Limited Eating by Casey Lazonick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoQantas has rejected claims plans to close heavy maintenance operations in Melbourne or Brisbane will violate its own safety management procedures. The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association say...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe "Angel of The Gap", Sydney's Don Ritchie, has died aged 86. Mr Ritchie spent 50 years coaxing desperate people back from The Gap, the notorious cliff at Watsons Bay where hundreds have died or thought ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 18 hours agoIt certainly is true that Michael Rafferty’s internet searches show him to be a monstrous individual – indeed, they suggest a host of other offences beyond those of the brutal murder for which he was co...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTwo people died and two others were seriously injured after the hot air balloon they were travelling in hit a power line in northern France today. The pilot and a second man in his 60s died almost instant...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago"You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you wo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoPolice officers shot a naked man who was reportedly firing a gun near a college campus in Indiana. Neighbors called police on Friday morning when they heard someone screaming, firing a gun and apparently...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA former American tennis star has been charged in the murder of his two-month-old son's mother found strangled in his father's home. Benson Harrison O'Brien III, 35, once a top-ranked tennis player in Lo...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 19 hours ago*"Missing Our Old Habits: Enduring Discomfort"* by Madisyn Taylor "Sometimes when we break a habit or addiction we find ourselves missing it like a dear friend. Whenever we make the effort to free ours...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 10:12:33 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 17 km (10.5 miles) East of Kahnuj, Iran No Reports o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck Tarapaca, Chile at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 10:00:33 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34.7 miles) East of Tarata, Tarapaca, Chi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA golden statue poking fun at Soviet dictator Joesph Stalin has been dismantled just hours after it was installed in the Ukrainian capital. The mock gold figure, which depicts the former leader urinating,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agozn a gutsy move, Newsweek has released the cover of their next issue, on the cover of which they depict President Obama with a rainbow halo and the title of 'The First Gay President'. The news-magazine, w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo people are missing and 10,000 are homeless after a huge fire swept through a sprawling shanty town in Manila. Several residents jumped into the bay, clutching small appliances, to escape Friday's bla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoDevelopers working on a block of flats in China left residents open-mouthed after they began work on an underground car park - when the building above it was already finished. Worried that the move endan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA Scotland Yard police officer who spent three years in uniform before MI5 raised fears that he could be an Al Qaeda ‘sleeper’ agent is suing for compensation. Abdul Rahman, 33, resigned after senior off...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoScottish tycoon Sir Tom Hunter has accused his countrymen of being 'pampered' and 'dependent' on welfare as it emerges almost nine-out-ten working-age people in one deprived area of Glasgow are claiming b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoConvicted sex offender Gary Glitter is set to be paid thousands of pounds in royalties after the BBC aired a repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops in 1977. Viewers were left outraged by TV chiefs' ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 19 hours agoIn today's Globe Dirk Derstine comments -- perhaps it did not make a difference in Rafferty but how many accused are convicted, wrongfully (?), because there were not the resources to, say, hire an expert ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 19 hours agoI feel like a Jungle explorer lately. The kind that were in those old movies your mom watched on black and white TV. The man who leaves poorly supplied from some seedy dock in London headed for Afri...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAn irate woman has been captured on camera chasing after and scuffling with a cyclist in a country lane. The video on YouTube shows the slim red head catching up with the cyclist and pushing him as the p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoImage: Equality chief Trevor Phillips Equalities chief Trevor Phillips has described as ‘fatuous’ the idea that there was no racial link in the Rochdale child sex grooming case. Last week, nine men – eig...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Spanish Grand Prix was thrown into chaos last night when 16 people were injured in a team garage blaze. Flames took over the Williams pit stand just moments after Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado h...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoFormer army spokesman offers a series of justifications for coalition deal, including ‘all kinds of unpredictable factors unfolding in the region’ Kadima Knesset member Nachman Shai, the army spokesman at ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours ago(CNN) -- Greece may have given us the word democracy and many of the principles of civil society. But now it is "the sick man of Europe," and the people of other European democracies are asking whether it'...
- posted by Casey at The Adventures of Limited Eating - 20 hours ago*Baked Salmon, Green Beans w/ Garlic and Almonds (And A Yummi Salad)* This recipe was at an attempt to make a nice, filling, healthy, high protein salad. Mr DJ Konvex and I have been working out a lot late...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOne in four schoolchildren in Korea does not read even a single book in a month, a survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family finds. The ministry surveyed 6,514 students from elementary to high ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe instrument panel on a Jin Air passenger jet that took off from Chitose Airport in Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture on April 29 began to malfunction as the aircraft was landing at Incheon International Airp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe South Korean government says North Korea "has gone beyond reason" in its daily diet of verbal abuse of the Lee Myung-bak administration in the state media. It is now a daily routine for North Korean ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNorth may want to show off missile technology before negotiations: experts Experts and informed sources raised the possibility that North Korea may conduct another rocket launch to perfect its long-range ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn late 2001, while everyone was in shock over 9/11, the Argentines were going through a little shock of their own: The “Corralito”. Argentina was bankrupt, a product of a stagnant economy, rampant crony...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn the LiraSPG Scenario “When The Euro Breaks”, I discussed what would happen to the euro and the eurozone when those countries—unable to continue under their massive debt burdens—began exiting the Europe...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 20 hours ago"Sometimes, lifetimes are chosen to be with friends. And sometimes one friend agrees to be off balance and the other balanced. One teaches stability, the other teaches spontaneity. Win-win, cool-cool. G...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 20 hours agoMay 10, 2012 An archaeologist with help from the National Geographic Society discovers a never-before-seen Maya calendar in Guatemala that may dispel the myth predicting end times in 2012. (May 10) Wha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAt least 23 soldiers have died in heavy clashes in the central Syrian city of Rastan, according to activists. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were wounded in the attack in th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Galapagos Triple Junction Region at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 07:57:50 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 1119 km (695 miles) WNW o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 50.6 km (31.4 miles), the quake hit at 06:46:27 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 15 km (9.3 miles) WNW of Lankaran, Azerbaijan No Re...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Mariana Islands Region at a depth of 104 km (64.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:27:35 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) NNW of Farallon de...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 366.2 km (227.6 miles), the quake hit at 04:50:28 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 357 km (221 miles) SSE of Sigave, Ile Futuna...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA plane has crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal, killing 15 people and critically injuring six. Police spokesman Binod Singh said the Agni Air pla...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 21 hours agoThis is another example of civil society organizations (CSOs) doing their share in community development; in this case, in making governments become more transparent, more open, via technology This is post...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoShares in Greek banks have fallen by as much as 7% in early morning trades after talks to form a emergency government in the debt-laden country stalled. Stocks took fright after political parties in Athen...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 21 hours agoSaLuSa, May 14, 2012 There is evidence of the inevitable collapse of the dark cabal, and you need to be on your guard. They will try every possible ruse and disinformation to make a last attempt to...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 21 hours ago*The day after Rebekah Brooks gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry a former employee has described a culture of fear at the News of the World in which reporters routinely fabricated stories while she was...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 22 hours agoMother's Day lyrics Atmosphere She lost one to pneumonia and the other to prison, And now she spends mother's day sitting in her kitchen. Looking at her pictures of the past felt surreal, ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 22 hours ago *©** *Frank Stiefel www.natur-pur-tour.com/LAPPLAND_Picturecards-Ansichtskarten-Vykort.html *L**ieben **-** einfach nur **L**ieben?!* *W**as können Wir tun, bei so viel* *K**rankheit**, **Not** und *...
- posted by Mike Philbin at Mike Philbin's Free Planet blog - 22 hours ago*Russian air cargo businessman Viktor Bout convicted of alleged arms trafficking by the US says in an exclusive interview with RT that his case is purely political - and exposes America's justice system ...
- posted by Pippa at Pippa's Place - Environmentally Speaking - 22 hours agotarale /CC BY-SA 2.0 I have blogged about the adding of "pink slime" and "meat glue" to our meat products before all in the name of the almighty dollar. It would seem that some have heard the cries of an ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoThrow away what you thought you knew about cancer. The new model described here shows us that a reduction in oxygenation forces a switch to a far less effective solution which then drives blood...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoOne of the really interesting bits of natural history is the presence of Giant redwoods and its cousins on the west coast of the Americas. However one argues the case, one assumes that a long e...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoWith question it was high time for China to halt the breakneck expansion of its high speed rail system and allow the whole train to catch up to the engine. There is nothing wrong with the tec...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 22 hours agoIn general since the advent of the Arab Spring, I no longer think it needs to come to that at all. Middle class values soon trump barbarism and peoples make up their own minds about what is righ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoThis is a taste of a series running on Wealth TV about banking crisis. Unfortunately this is just a preview, you'll have to subscribe to the cable TV channel to see the entire show or watch it on Austral...
- posted by Judy Rabin at Schools Matter - 23 hours agoWhen the pink slime was discovered in the meat by large corporate processing plants and we realized what was actually in our food, there was outrage and it was banned, 1,2,3. Well, it's time the public de...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 23 hours agoOne of the Globe and Mail’s senior copy editors writes a headline while a Pagemasters NA trainee looks on. Globe editors may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Globe Publisher Phillip Crawley. In the ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoPeeing while swimming in a lake may not just be taboo – it could also be lethal, for the fish. At least that's what a group of anglers contend, blaming swimmers for the 500 dead fish that have turned up ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAbout 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday. Scores from the 2...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoIsrael has been warned that it faces a major uprising in the West Bank after six Palestinian prisoners taking part in one of the largest and most protracted hunger strikes ever staged in its jails were sai...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 23 hours agoLiterally. We have, over the past five decades, gone from being in awe of space-based instruments to relying on them as an everyday piece of the picture of life. Except that we're letting them die. Ninety...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 23 hours ago*The accepted US-based campaign site Change.org is opening a UK division as ingredient of a wide-reaching squash.* The opinion of the site's founder is that its success to date is based on letting petitio...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*"US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed making it easier to round up geese from a federal refuge near Kennedy Airport and kill them**.... A plan to kill hundreds of geese [by] rounding [the] ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Girl, 16, died after aiding duck boat hand" Associated Press May 08, 2012 PHILADELPHIA - Video footage played Monday at the opening of a trial stemming from a boat crash that killed two Hungarian tourists...
- posted by Boris at The Galloping Beaver - 1 day ago"Hey, Coxswain!" "What?" "If boatswains play with boats all day, what to do coxswains play with?" (h/t A)
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day agoHere's the DPP doing good things. Rumors of a proposed new nuke dump in Hualien county, in Sioulin Township north of Hualien town, were making the rounds. As the Taipei Times reported last month, Taipower ...
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 1 day agoTwo news reports by major wire services this weekend demonstrate just how pervasive misinformation and propaganda are in the mainstream media when it comes to the Iranian nuclear issue. The first: *R...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Just make sure you wipe your feet before entering the bat cave.* "Illness killing bats is traced to Europe" April 10, 2012 LOS ANGELES - The *mysterious deaths of millions of bats* in the United States a...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Loggers, tribe fight pests’ threat to trees" Associated Press, May 07, 2012 SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. - American Indians and loggers have been longtime rivals in the forests of South Dakota’s Black Hills re...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day agoWon't it be a lark in the future when the impoverished citizens of the U.S. learn that Bill Clinton was a part of the Fraud Team who touted the poorly-educated (but highly prized by the extremely well-conn...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoYesterday, the North Korean state media published stinging criticism by Kim Jong Eun of the management of Mangyongdae Funfair in Pyongyang, a move that stands out in the history of public reporting of ‘on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIt appears a technical glitch is to blame for a display of explicit sex in a Manitoba jail that aroused concerns by the Opposition Progressive Conservatives. Inmates at the Milner Ridge jail were able t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDebris from Japan's earthquake and tsunami is now littering the beach of Haida Gwaii, raising concerns about who is going to clean up the tonnes of garbage expected to wash ashore on the West Coast. In r...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago"Effort to shield Great Lakes from carp called inadequate" by John Flesher | Associated Press, May 09, 2012 TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Obama administration’s promise Tuesday to quicken its search for a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe government has accused foreign foundations of meddling in Canada's affairs by giving money to environmental groups - and now it's cracking down on how those groups spend their money. The government is...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA $1 billion (£620 million) 'ghost town' is to be built in the United States in the name of scientific research. The town, which will be modelled on a town of 35,000 people, will have roads, houses and c...
Satellite Pictures Of Chinese Ghost Cities - Business Insider
China plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years. The unacknowledged problem is finding buyers for those hundreds of millions of new homes.businessinsider.com/chinese-ghost-cities-2011-5
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