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Men perform pre-flight checks on an unmanned aerial vehicle before launch. (Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery)
Voizle also provides an API that allows applications to automatically create short URLs. Voizle is also integrated with iGoogle. Users can add voizle gadget in their iGoogle. Users can directly integrate voizle in their webpage or blogs using Voizle Script or HTML Form. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Release (The Tea Party song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)( You'd think somebody would pick up on the lack of traffic at Bloglines and Google Reader....and have second thoughts about emulating a losing setup. Speaking of which - iGoogle had a hiccup where function was lost for hours. That's to be changed too.
I used offered customization to 'roll my own.' There really seems a dedication to shooting oneself in the foot going on. RSS Aggregators are not social networks : mucking them up is no successful adaptation to loss of share )
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 3 minutes 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 - 6 minutes 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 - 11 minutes 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 - 17 minutes 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 - 18 minutes ago
Back 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 - 29 minutes ago
*When 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 thin... - posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 38 minutes ago
If 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 - 38 minutes ago
More 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 - 43 minutes ago
For 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 - 53 minutes 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago*Drew Brees' contract situation with the New Orleans Saints is not unusual, just unnecessary* *A blog reborn: The ‘heritage’ that gave rise to The Lens ~Karen Gadbois* *Army Corps of Engineers in Center o...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour ago
Scott'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 - 1 hour ago
Ken 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 BAL at WPB/NYC and Anything Else; A Green Rights Collection - 1 hour ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 1 hour 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 - 2 hours ago** *NO! 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.* *Freedo...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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! - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 hours agohttp://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/NOW_IS_OUR_CHANCE_TO_END_ECOCIDE/?cWlKubb
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 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 - 2 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. - 2 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 - 2 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 - 2 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 - 3 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"...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 4 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 5 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 6 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 - 7 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 - 7 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 8 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 9 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 10 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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!) - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours ago
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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 - 11 hours 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 8.4 km (5.2 miles), the quake hit at 03:36:44 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) Southeast from Miyazaki, Kyushu, ...
- posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 11 hours agoWelcome to Meet & Greet Monday! Banner by Art Ist Grab our banner for your site: Do you have an Eco-friendly blog or site? Do you occasionally write about the environme...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoWe had some sad news out of North Carolina on Tuesday, the approval of the homophobic Amendment One. We did, however, have one powerful victory that night too. In the Democratic primary, one district, NC-...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoSanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Government troops in southern Yemen on Sunday attacked al Qaeda hideouts, killing two dozen suspected militants in the latest push to clear the area of the terror organization, local...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoKabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An Afghan official involved in setting up peace talks with the Taliban was gunned down in Kabul on Sunday as Afghanistan announced plans to take control of security over more ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA suspected chemical leak on a container ship has shut down half of Sydney's Port Botany container wharves. The DP World section of the wharves was closed about 1am (AEST) on Monday, as soon as the Calif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out after it was found he padded his resume with an embellished college degree, ending his term at the company after just four months. Yahoo confirmed T...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany's most populous state, a result which could embolden the left opposition to step up atta...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 26.7 km (16.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:45:22 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 83 km (51 mil...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 11 hours ago"Bear meets end after brush with fame" May 05, 2012 DENVER - A bear whose photograph was widely circulated after it was tranquilized and fell from a tree at the University of Colorado last month died this...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck offshore El Salvador at a depth of 35 km (21.7 miles), the quake hit at 01:11:28 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) WSW of Acajutla, El Salvad...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Panama at a depth of 43.4 km (27 miles), the quake hit at 00:29:47 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24.2 miles) South of Santiago, Panama No Reports o...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Death at track is a Kentucky Derby mystery" by Brett Barrouquere | Associated Press, May 08, 2012 LOUISVILLE - The bourbon had been stashed away and the hats returned to closets by the time someone fou...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 106.9 km (66.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:22 UTC Monday 14th May 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) South of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia at a depth of 162.5 km (101 miles), the quake hit at 23:10:31 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 243 km (150 miles) WNW of Saumlaki...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 4.8 km (3 miles), the quake hit at 22:46:11 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 117 km (72 miles) ENE of Lambasa, Vanua Levu, Fiji...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe former Great Britain Speedway rider Lee Richardson has died after a crash during a race in Poland. The 33-year-old was competingin the Polish League meeting for PGE Marma Rzeszow against Betard Spart...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago"Mission hopes song lures swallows back" Associated Press May 04, 2012 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - Decades after the annual migration of swallows was immortalized in a chart-topping romantic ballad, Miss...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*I sure am glad I'm off hamburger. * "New case of mad cow disease in California" by Lauran Neergaard | Associated Press, April 25, 2012 WASHINGTON - The first *new case of mad cow* disease in the United...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago♫*Ding, ding, ding" went the bell*♫ "Streetcars may make comeback in Los Angeles" April 09, 2012 LOS ANGELES - Half a century after the last of the lost Pacific Electric Red Cars rumbled through Los Angel...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 12 hours ago*Maybe the damn DEA was smoking the pot, 'eh?* "DEA apologizes to Calif. college student left in cell for 4 days" Associated Press, May 03, 2012 SAN DIEGO - The Drug Enforcement Administration issued an a...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago"Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, pictured below, was captured in spec...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago"Cut in benefits to have big impact on Calif. jobless" Associated Press May 07, 2012 MERCED, Calif. - Unemployed workers in rural California are bracing for next Saturday: the day the state’s *chronically...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours ago*"The Great Silence"* by Chet Raymo "If there is one word that should not be uttered, it is the name of - no, I will not say it. Any name diminishes. In the face of whatever it is that is most myste...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago"Suspect arrested in San Francisco slayings" Associated Press March 27, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO - A 35-year-old man has been arrested in the killing of five people inside a San Francisco home last week, as poli...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 13 hours agoBurbank, Illinois, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago"Small earthquake, aftershock strike LOS ANGELES - Some Southern Californians were shaken out of bed Saturday morning by a small earthquake that rattled homes across the Inland Empire region and caused bu...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 13 hours ago"Man arrested in hammer slaying LAS VEGAS - Using a hammer as a weapon, a “complete stranger’’ with no significant criminal history allegedly chose a family at random and attacked them in their home, kill...
- posted by Southern Man at Southern Man - 13 hours agoA big Southern Man shout out to Southern Mother on this Mother's Day. May there be many more!
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 13 hours agoHundley v. Garnier, 2012 BCCA 199 is a useful decision dealing with use for context in interpretation of instruments: [55] The importance of considering surrounding circumstances is long-standin...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 14 hours ago*Auf Wiedersehen, meine Damen und Herren* Last week when the German right lost Schleswig-Holstein for the first time in decades, well... who cares. It's a small state way up flat against Denmark, used to ...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*YouTube Video Description:* Oct. 11, 2011 War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Ben C. Green Lecture presented by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy Case Western Reserve Univer...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 15 hours ago*Picture Above: Mass Murderers And Liars Laughing.* Can the magicians and dark comedians in Hollywood turn mass murder, state terrorism, and treason into a joke? We'll see. Time: *Former Obama Speechwr...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 16 hours ago*Then stop reading, right?* "Obesity rates down for infants, toddlers" April 23, 2012|Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff After a three-decade tripling in *childhood obesity* rates, the trend has*leveled off * and,...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Tw...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago“The Lone Gunmen Pilot: 9/11 Predictive Programming?” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3WW6eoLcLI • The pilot episode for the FOX series "The Lone Gunmen" which first aired on *March 4, 2001*. The plo...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 17 hours ago*Capt. Clyde Stagner (Ret.) shared with me a letter he wrote to the Maricopa Association of Governments and the EPA* Capt. Stagner is very concerned about the lack of monitoring of tritium emitted from P...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoSuspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Yes, *"Another mother's breakin', Heart is taking over. --*MORE*--" *You know,* "I did my best But I guess my best wasn't good enough. --*MORE*--" * * *Gee, those lyrics describe my feelings towards th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago*Good, because I intended to be right here.* "Calendar find changes Mayan timetable" by Carolyn Y. Johnson | Globe Staff, May 10, 2012 In the rain-forest-covered ruins of a Mayan city dating back more t...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 17 hours ago*"Fukushima Reactor No. 4: Doomsday Scenarios Spread"* By Hideo Sato "When Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from the U.S. state of Oregon, visited the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on April 6, he sp...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Girl, 12, forced to wear diaper as punishment for bad grades" Associated Press, May 10, 2012 FRIDLEY, Minn. - A mother and her boyfriend shaved the head of her 12-year-old daughter, then forced the girl ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 17 hours ago"Martin case raises profile of Md. trial" Associated Press / April 23, 2012 Two Baltimore brothers accused of *beating a black teenager *while *patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood* are set to go ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 18 hours ago*"We’re All Greeks Now"* The End of the End of Austerity by Rob Urie "One of the joys of being American is that every new day is a clean slate—no history, no memories, no experiences, a complete blank....
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 18 hours ago"Thirteen charged in fatal Florida A&M hazing" May 03, 2012|By Mike Schneider ORLANDO - Thirteen people were charged Wednesday in one of the biggest college hazing cases ever prosecuted in the United Stat...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 18 hours agoYesterday I attended an event *way* out in Agua Dulce in the Santa Clarita Valley for two of Congress' worst warmongers, House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Buck McKeon (R-CA) and a more hands-on kin...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 19 hours agoRemember this billboard from 2008: [image: image] John Key’s party didn’t make too many promises when they got elected in 2008 (their promises were as blancmange as their campaign), but these were two ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*He did choose the name “The Bishop.’’ * "Accused bomber says devices not destructive" Associated Press, May 04, 2012 CHICAGO - A former Iowa letter carrier accused of sending *dud pipe bombs*and *tauntin...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*The Fascist Bureau of Instigation at it again!* "5 accused of plotting to blow up bridge near Cleveland; Officials describe men as anarchists" by Thomas J. Sheeran and Kantele Franko | Associated Press...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTo D-fox: if you're reading this, please contact us at thecomingcrisis@gmail.com. It's important -- we believe.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoAngela Merkel and François Hollande to have first face-to-face talks in Berlin after eurozone finance ministers meet in Brussels Europe is braced for a crucial 48 hours of high-stakes summitry likely to d...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 19 hours ago*They have to test the total surveillance and control system first. * "N.M. community to test ‘smart city’ technology" Associated Press, May 09, 2012 ALBUQUERQUE - A city in the heart of southeast New Mex...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA sixth child dies in a suspicious fire that swept through a Derby home as police appeal to the distraught community for information. Duwayne Philpott, 13, lost his fight for his life on Sunday when his ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe bodies of 49 men and women - some of them mutilated - have been discovered in plastic bags on a highway in Mexico. The remains were found near a major road, which connects the northern Mexican city o...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 31.6 km (19.6 miles), the quake hit at 18:44:38 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 56 km (34 mil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Seram, Indonesia at a depth of 121.9 km (75.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:24:49 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 69 km (42 miles) East of Ambon, Moluccas, In...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago*Just a small one, readers*: Indian tribe sues beer companies over alcohol-related problems *Globe sprung for another shot*. *Bottoms up!* "Woman accused of prostituting daughters" Associated Press, May...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Southern Iran at a depth of 40 km (24.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:21:18 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 62 km (38.4 miles) South of Gerash, Iran No Report...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"Seau’s apparent suicide stuns Patriots, league; Follows deaths of other athletes with brain trauma" by Greg A. Bedard Globe Staff / May 3, 2012 Junior Seau, one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours agoBackreaction highlights what Sabine Hossenfelder considers ten "most interesting and pressing open problems" in theoretical physics related to quantum gravity. The amount of ignorance – a type of ignoran...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 20 hours ago"Remains found on Cape are pregnant woman’s" April 24, 2012|By Brian R. Ballou BARNSTABLE - The discovery of Trudie Hall’s remains has provided authorities with new evidence in their two-year quest to fin...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 20 hours ago[image: Northeastern San Bernardino, California, as the wildfires light up the night sky. Chris Doolittle] By Alyson Kenward 11 May 2012 In California, May typically marks the beginning of a warm and d...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 21 hours ago** *2009 - Canada's PM wants to dismantle the long-gun registry and "fight crime" instead* (See CTV article with video). *2012 -* Conservatives celebrate end of gun registy *2012 -* Provinces defy feds and...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*Seldom is a thief. * "Citizens Bank to pay $137.5m to settle overdraft suit" by Beth Healy and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff Citizens Bank customers hit with *questionable overdraft fees* could receive refu...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 21 hours agoBeen tied up doing family stuff this weekend. Having a laid back day myself. Slept in this morning. I'll be going out for an early Mom's Day dinner since those the only reservations we could get, so no ...
- posted by Edstock at The Galloping Beaver - 21 hours agoTHE GOPPERS WELCHED last week, according to SLATE, and things could get really crunchy next year: House Republicans just reneged on the debt-ceiling deal, making a default in 2013 almost inevitable. Well...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 21 hours agoHow much, if any, does Barack Obama's new position on marriage equality change you view of him? Of his presidency?
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 21 hours ago*Enjoy.... * "EPA chief calls official’s remark wrong; He apologized for ‘crucify’ comment" by Mark Drajem | Bloomberg News, April 28, 2012 WASHINGTON - The head of the Environmental Protection Agency ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 21 hours agoMy research every day pretty much takes me where anything ALEC is. But somehow I missed this article and found it today. It's a great read - not only making a specific point - but sharing information for ...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 21 hours agoMother's Day? Someone just reminded me it's Mother's Day! "Happy Mothers Day" to all you Mothers out there. Especially to the mothers of the Wall Street Casino-Running babies! It seems that Congress has re...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 22 hours agoWhat are your thoughts about the filibuster? Many (most?) liberals believe that Republicans would rapidly eliminate it if there's unified GOP government after the 2012 elections and Democrats follow the GO...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA number of Formula 1 personnel are being treated by medical staff at the Circuit de Catalunya for burns and smoke inhalation following a major fire in the Williams garage after the Spanish Grand Prix. Sh...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 22 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 40.7 km (25.3 miles), the quake hit at 13:48:14 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) WNW of Dezful, I...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago*Here's a little foreplay for you*: "Mont. sex assaults under US scrutiny" May 02, 2012|Globe Staff, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON - The *United States is investigating* whether the University of Montana in ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 22 hours ago*Simon O'Neill as Florestan in the opening scene of Act II of Fidelio in Houston, October 2011* *OUR STORY SO FAR (from Friday night's preview)* *Orchestral introduction* *A dark underground dungeon. *FLO...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 22 hours ago"Michigan jackpot winner charged with fraud" April 18, 2012 LINCOLN PARK, Mich. - A Michigan lottery winner was charged with fraud Tuesday for collecting food stamps and public health insurance despite po...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*I had no idea Kansas was an Islamic state.* "Anti-Shariah bill advances in Kansas"Associated Press, May 12, 2012 TOPEKA, Kan. - A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 23 hours agoPosted at: http://goo.gl/6GQwc May10, 2012 Dear Friends, Support for a military attack on Iran is, plain and simple, support for mutually assured destruction, not only for the State of Israel, but...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 23 hours ago*All began last week*: "Mother, three girls abducted in Tenn. JACKSON - Three girls and their mother were abducted in Tennessee, police said Saturday. They were last seen in Mississippi, and authorities ...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 23 hours ago[image: Simulated evolution of near-bottom temperatures in the Weddell Sea. a-d. Values are from 60 m above bottom for the period 2030-2099 of the HadCM3-B/A1B scenario. Warm pulses into the Filchner Tro...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 23 hours agoWe went in full of self-righteous anger, the images of jetliners flying into office towers burned into our brains. The idea was to eradicate al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban government that had sheltered ...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 1 day agoDoes ALEC really have the 2,700+ members that they brag that they have? Is it truly 2, 700 ALEC members that are true to the ALEC anti-democracy cause? Or is it 300 ALEC members and 2,400 people who do not...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day agoWell, we had at the beginning of the week elections in France and Greece, and all week the attempts to form a Greek government. So circling back again to Europe and the economy. Do we count the new Israel...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day ago*I didn't post this article earlier as the Portal 2012 blog was new and I wasn't sure what direction Cobra was taking the blog. I think its time I posted "The Resistance" view on the situation on e...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGreece's deputy prime minister has said the country will run out of money in six weeks unless it honours its bitterly-disputed EU bailout deal. Speaking exclusively to The Sunday Telegraph, Theodoros Pan...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 1 day ago------------------------------ Taibbi: Why You Should Care About JPMorgan Chase's Gambling Losses By Susie Madrak http://youtu.be/XWTkOG_UprY Matt Taibbi with a good explanation of why we should b...
- posted by Inexplicata at Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology - 1 day ago[*This article by our friend and colleague Pablo Villarubia appeared in Inexplicata #12 (Summer 2003). It describes one of the most shocking UFO incidents of the year 1977 - the so-called "Tonna Case",...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 1 day agoFirst, I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all of the great mothers out there, and especially to my own mother who has had to put up with me for all of these years.. I have done a lot of focus over the la...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 1 day agohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk By TIM SHIPMAN PUBLISHED: 18:25 EST, 7 May 2012 *New French president Francois Hollande launched an outspoken attack last night on Britain’s obsession with protecting th...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*I hope she learned her lesson, sieg heil.* "Georgia kindergartner handcuffed for tantrum" Associated Press" April 18, 2012 ATLANTA - Police in Georgia *handcuffed a kindergartner* with her arms behind h...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 1 day agoWhen the going gets tough, the tough tell the weak to "shove off." Apparently overlooking the fact that Britain is officially in a double-dip recession and wracked with unemployment, the country's conserva...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day agoRuh-roh (source): Congressman Bill Owens says he will repay more than $20,000 dollars for a junket that he took last December to Taiwan. The trip was paid for by a university in Taiwan. And it was planned...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 1 day ago*Let's face it, the whole blog** does.* "Naked man flees, kills pedestrian PORT ROYAL - A naked man stole a fire truck at a South Carolina apartment complex and sped away, killing a pedestrian, authoritie...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day agoAn appeal is very likely -- why not? The situation for the accused will not get any worse and generally speaking there will be legal aid available for an appeal in such a serious case. But having said that...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAthens, Greece (CNN) -- Greek politicians traded insults and accusations Sunday following an effort by President Karolos Papoulias to broker a coalition government, increasing the possibility of new elect...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoIncreasing pace of US strikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula comes as US expert warns of anti-western sentiment Suspected US drones have killed 11 alleged al-Qaida militants in a strike in sout...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - The formal response of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Palestinian grievances over frozen peace negotiations contains nothing that could revive the talks, Palestinian officials sa...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 1 day ago*The New Orleans Saints enjoy the benefits of second-generation NFL players dotting the roster ~Nick Hogan* ~Hat Tweet~ crazy eyed girl @cassiez76 *Chad Ochocinco writes to commish* *In New Orleans, i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck offshore Valparaiso, Chile at a depth of 14 km (9.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:42:50 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) NNW of Valparaiso, V...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 3.9 earthquake has struck Northern California at a depth of 3.5 km (2.2 miles), the quake hit at 12:38:52 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 3 km (1.8 miles) ESE from The Geysers, Calif...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 15.3 km (9.5 miles), the quake hit at 12:30:58 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 633 km (393 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 493.1 km (306.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:55:00 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) ESE of Ndoi Island, Fiji N...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 140 km (87 miles), the quake hit at 11:29:40 UTC Sunday 13th May 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) ENE of Bristo...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 1 day agoSome good news on the polling front. The Taipei Times reports... The three most chosen descriptions of Ma’s brand were all negative, with 60.6 percent of participants saying Ma was “over-packaged,” 53.3 pe...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 1 day agoLet me start with a little shared wisdom from Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (VT), one of the only trustworthy members in the whole Senate: “The debacle at J.P. Morgan Chase reaffirms my view that the...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 1 day agoTony Burman offers some important insights into the current situation in Europe. He suggests that there are similarities between 1912 and 2012: No inkling yet of the Great Wars to come or which superpow...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 1 day ago*Football Coach 'Barry Bennell' in 1986 (*crewe alexandra | Tumblr) Barry Bennell liked Florida. In 1994, Bennell was in Florida with a group of boy soccer players. In Florida, a 13-year-old boy spoke ou...
- posted by John Carroll at Dying in Haiti - 1 day agoMay 12, 2012 *Haiti’s Cholera Crisis* * * The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reasons that are well understood and that the aid community has done far t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe leaders of China, Japan and South Korea say they will not tolerate further provocation from North Korea, amid fears that Pyongyang is preparing for a new nuclear test. South Korean President Lee Myun...
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- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoOn May10th, a bombing occurred at Qiaojia County in Yunnan. 4 dead and 16 injured are the latest official figures. Yet non-official sources have a different story of the bombing. Local authorities claimed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoAfter June 4th rights defender Huang Qi's release from prison upon which he was diagnosed with terminal illness, he continues to work hard everyday for the suffering parents and students of the Sichuan ear...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day ago(Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by armored vehicles on Sunday shot dead seven civilians when they overran a rebellious Sunni Muslim village west of the city of Hama, burning houses and arresting dozens of...
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