Lech Zondek, a Polish participant in the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 28 seconds agoNixon was working in the Oval Office at 4PM when he hears the news: George Wallace has been shot. Just to back up a bit...Wallace had been a major third party contender in 1968, winning over 13% of the vo...
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For the last decade or so, the global community has been fighting a war in Afghanistan which has its roots originating from the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s. The current war has various stakeholders inv... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 2 minutes agoBy Les Leopold, the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It. Cross posted from Alternet Gasolin...
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WASHINGTON - The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MoUs) accompanying it emphasize trans... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
Peru’s 13-year economic expansion is attributed largely to the country’s mining resources. High prices for precious metals have sent export earnings soaring and pushed growth rates to historic highs. Ove... - posted by Batocchio at Vagabond Scholar - 9 minutes agoOne of the recent conservative fauxrages is over Barack Obama's supposed deception and hypocrisy in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father. The main complaints come from people who never bothered to ...
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A violent clash over the weekend between a Montreal taxi driver and his fares that resulted in a man being struck by the cab is an all-too common example of the many angry confrontations cabbies face on a... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 minutes ago
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2012) — While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with conf... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than m... - posted by Small Footprints at Reduce Footprints - 25 minutes agoWelcome to Change The World Wednesday (#CTWW)! If this is your first visit, please click HERE for information and a complete list of all the challenges we've taken on so far. There's a lot of great inform...
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At one time he and Pataki pretty much ran the Republican Party in New York State. And in the 2006 election cycle he certainly ran the NRCC, the Republican version of the DCCC and was a big deal member of ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes ago
North Korea appears to have stopped a 16-day campaign to jam GPS signals in the South. "No GPS jamming signals have been detected since Monday," a high-ranking government source here said. "But we're close... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 37 minutes ago(Reuters) - President Barack Obama threatened on Tuesday to veto a defense policy bill in the House of Representatives that would authorize higher Pentagon spending and tie his hands on national security ...
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- The withdrawal of one of two massage therapists from a sex battery lawsuit against John Travolta "completely vindicated" the actor, Travolta's lawyer said Tuesday. The lawyer represe... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 47 minutes ago
Washington (CNN) -- A Chinese human rights activist who ignited an international incident when he escaped house arrest last month told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that his relatives continue to suffer governme... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Machete-wielding gunmen raided several remote villages in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48, the Red Cross said. The incident took place Sunday, with m... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 49 minutes ago
New York (CNN) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, is filing a countersuit for at least $1 million against the Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault. ... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 54 minutes ago
The home secretary is "on the precipice of destroying" a police service admired throughout the world, she will be warned by rank-and-file officers. Theresa May is due to face the Police Federation confere... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 55 minutes ago
The presidentﾒs financial disclosures for 2011, released by the White House, showed he has $500,000 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account. The disclosure came... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 59 minutes ago(Reuters) - Communications from the 1990s suggest Iran's current foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, had knowledge of a program to procure goods for an alleged clandestine nuclear program when he was head ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoISLAMABAD — NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan’s president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO militar...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoHundreds of police have broken up an Aboriginal tent embassy in Brisbane, escorting and sometimes dragging away about 80 protesters from their makeshift camp in Musgrave Park. Police say about 30 proteste...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 27.3 km (17 miles), the quake hit at 01:28:21 UTC Wednesday 16th May 2012 The epicenter was 375 km (233 miles) SSW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga No...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 hour agoA magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck the New Britain Region, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 154 km (95.7 miles), the quake hit at 00:59:34 UTC Wednesday 16th May 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) W...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 hour agoAIM-WEST to screen its latest documentary at San Francisco’s BRAVA Theater, Friday, June 1, 2012 By AIM West Censored News http://www.bsno...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago“How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. *Click i...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 2 hours ago*"Ask Me" * by William Stafford "Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some ha...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 2 hours agoUpdate by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation - May 15, 2012 1 Cauac, 12 Moan, 8 Manik Selamat Jarin! We return! Your world is inching ever closer to the sacre...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 2 hours agohttp://wendykeller.com/featured/finding-peace-where-to-start-looking/ Posted by Wendy in Featured on May 15th, 2012 *Peace of Mind is the Ultimate Goal. How do you get it under the circumstances?* ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago*He's not getting any*: "Rare glimpse of Putin’s wife suggests couple at odds" by David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, May 06, 2012 MOSCOW -* Rampant questions* about whether they are much of a *coupl...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 2 hours agoJoshua Blakeney interviews Denis Rancourt about the professor's conflict with the University of Ottawa.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Russia threatens strike on NATO site; Moscow strongly opposes planned US missile shield" by Mansur Mirovalev | Associated Press, May 04, 2012 MOSCOW - Russia’s top military officer has threatened to car...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 2 hours agoIt sounds like the start of a joke, i.e.: Q: What do you get when two economists argue about global warming? But the answer is less of joke than you might think. In fact, in the exchange between Willia...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 2 hours ago"Opposition leaders among 400 detained at anti-Putin rally" Associated Press, May 07, 2012 MOSCOW - A *demonstration by at least 20,000 people* on the *eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration* as president tu...
- posted by Northerntruthseeker at Northerntruthseeker - 2 hours agoBeing a student of real history, I must repeat again that what we have been taught in our education system is nothing but a load of crap. It does seem that real history has been purposely kept away from u...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 3 hours agoHere’s a short video with the great Johan Norberg on Europe’s woes. [Hat tip Cafe Hayek] Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"Suicide bomber blamed in double blast in Russia’s Caucasus" New York Times, May 05, 2012 MOSCOW - At least *13 people were killed *and about 100 injured in a *double bombing at a police station* in Russi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 3 hours ago[image: Shoreline change on Oahu beaches. A study of three Hawaiian islands found the state's shoreline is eroding an average of a few inches per year, with some areas gaining or losing several feet each...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"New Russian Aircraft Crashes During a Promotional Flight in Indonesia" by ANDREW E. KRAMER and NICOLA CLARK, May 9, 2012 MOSCOW — The *wreckage of a demonstration airplane* for a *Russian-made passenger...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*"What, me worry?": Jpmorganchase's Jamie "The Gambler" Dimon* *"This is the week of the third annual Deficit Fest, the event sponsored by Wall Street billionaire Peter G. Peterson. At this event, many of...
- posted by yayacanada at YayaCanada - 3 hours ago** *Contributor: "Ron"* *JNF London's Photos*Jason Kenney is one sick sociopath. Get this – Federal Government Minister Jason Kenney is accepting an award “for his position on inclusion and diversity” fr...
- posted by Oberon at GlobaLove Think Tank - 3 hours agoThe first in-depth look at the life of John Whiteside Parsons--better known as Jack Parsons pioneering rocket scientist, and ardent disciple of the notorious magus, Aleister Crowley--is finally available ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"At least five dead in Tbilisi flooding" by Associated Press | May 14, 2012 TBILISI, Georgia - A *flood* *killed five* people in Georgia’s capital * overnight* after torrential rain caused a river to bur...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 3 hours ago"The chief of the European Union’s head office said Monday that he will not go to Ukraine during the European soccer championships in June unless there is a swift improvement in the human rights situation ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago"As News Corp. boss, Murdoch is called unfit" May 02, 2012|By John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya LONDON — A damning report on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers concluding that Murdoch...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago*“The Sixth Day”* by Chet Raymo "Anthropologists pretty much agree that all modern humans had their ancestral origins in Africa, and spread from there to the other continents in a great exodus beginni...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours agoNavan, Meath, Ireland. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 4 hours ago*Globe voted me these stories from **Great Britain*: "Local UK elections may hold rebuke for coalition leaders" New York Times, May 04, 2012 NEW YORK - At a *time of deepening austerity*, *social cutbacks...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 4 hours ago“Denial of the truth envelops our culture like a suffocating fog. People desperately need to understand the consequences of denial of this kind. It is profoundly damaging, and it kills. I have written ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago"To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the w...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 5 hours ago*"Expectations, Previous Experiences Influence Perception Of Pain"* by Connie K. Ho "For many people, pain and needles go hand in hand. They shudder at the thought of going to the dentist or the doctor...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 5 hours ago"UK police say *drug sales funded terror*" May 02, 2012 *I'm sure bank$ will be happy to launder it.* LONDON - Seven people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of financing terrorism in Somalia by ...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours agoAs leaders in Athens accepted the need for a new general election to end a national stalemate, the International Monetary Fund said Europe’s leaders should prepare for the possibility of a Greek departur...
- posted by José Luis Ávila Herrera at FotoFrontera - 6 hours ago[image: Imagenes muy lindas - Las mejores fotos de Internet] [image: Imagenes muy lindas - Las mejores fotos de Internet] [image: Imagenes muy lindas - Las mejores fotos de Internet] [image: Imagenes muy l...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the North Coast of New Guinea, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 81.6 km (50.7 miles), the quake hit at 19:11:57 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 92 km (...
- posted by Grant G at The Straight Goods - 6 hours agoCan you feel it, a tidal shift wrenching Canada left, this day has been a long time coming.. Thomas Mulcair leading Stephen Harper, poll after poll the dynamics of change are apparent, an engaged youth ...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago* * * * *You are beginning to see the effect.* – Michael channeled by Ron Head May 15, 2012 in Ron's Channeled Messages Our message for today concerns the community of lightworkers and the ene...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 6 hours ago*Reposted from Kauilapele's Blog* Tolec – Emotional Healing on the way to Spiritual Awareness 5-13-12.. Video and MP3s Posted on May 14, 2012 Some of you may find this helpful in moving through an...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 6 hours agoBalancing power with an informed, active, pragmatic citizenry is key to thwarting neo-imperialism in all its forms. *an editorial by Tony Cartalucci * *May 15, 2012* - As the financial oligarchs of the We...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany, told the Ge...
- posted by Peter Cresswell at Not PC - 6 hours ago*[image: _Kris_Sayce]Guest post by KRIS SAYCE, from MONEY MORNING AUSTRALIA * *‘Actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse æquales et in ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 6 hours ago*The butcher is back!* "Past allies of Milosevic may return to power" May 06, 2012|By Dusan Stojanovic BELGRADE, Serbia - Former ultranationalist allies of Slobodan *Milosevic may return to power* in Ser...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoWhen will activist Chen Guangcheng come to study in the U.S. with his family after drawing the world's attention? Chen told NTD TV that after a week went by, the central authorities didn't send officials t...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 6 hours ago*Netanyahu and Barak: War Criminals And Mass Murderers*. You're reading the headline and thinking, "Too much, man. Tone it down." Tone it down? How can I? We are in full-blown danger mode right now. ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 6 hours agoHistorically being called 'to the Bar' means you can sit before the Bar in a Courtroom. Queen's Counsel -- those remaining -- sit within the Bar, slightly closer to the Judge. Serjeants-at-law, who no long...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoIf you're not on the twitters, you may have missed this one today: it turns out that the White House has carefully inserted, well, advertisements for the president at the bottom of a bunch of the historica...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours agoMe too, lol... - CP
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Saudi prince cleared of rape charge in Spain" New York Times, March 30, 2012 MADRID - A Spanish appeals panel has *dismissed a rape case* against Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a *billionaire investor and ne...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago* “My God, Common Sense Showing In Europe?”* by Karl Denninger "Wow.... "Denial is leading to collective economic suicide in Europe and the United States. The French elected a socialist president who w...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago------------------------------ * the**REALnews Permalink* *Corporate Media and the Austerity Campaign* Bill Black: Most media...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours ago*Colorado House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandino, a Democrat, vents frustration at (Republican) Speaker Frank McNulty's strong-arming of the doom of a civil-unions bill last night.* *by Ken* I don't thin...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"In the Czech Republic, almost *100,000 people rallied* in Prague’s downtown Wenceslas Square *last weekend* to *protest government reforms and cuts, calling on the government to resign*. And earlier this ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 7 hours agoVIDEO WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION! The Zapatista leadership in Oventic (JBG) and the family of a Zapatista prisoner made this important and unprecedented audio message presented with English translation in thi...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 7 hours ago------------------------------ Paul Krugman’s Economic BlindersPosted on May 14, 2012 by Mitch Green | By Michael Hudson Paul Krugman is widely appreciated for his *New York Times* columns criticiz...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (CoyotePrime) at Running 'Cause I Can't Fly - 7 hours ago* "What Happens When the World Economy 'Goes Japan'?”* by Bill Bonner "The Dow sinking. Gold sinking. Oil sinking. Copper sinking. Yields sinking. We struggled with this, Dear Reader. We meditated. We...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 7 hours ago"Vatican investigating Legion priests" ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 12, 2012 VATICAN CITY - The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled *Legion of Christ *religious order for alleged *sexual abus...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 7 hours agoDavid Birtley's to-die-for posts chronicling HBO's deviations from the *Song of Ice and Fire* book series get longer each week over at Wired. While some fans are annoyed at the significant and at times ran...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 7 hours agoAt Plum Line this morning, I talked about the Nebraska Senate primary today, which has become quite the fascinating contest; I only really covered the campaign finance aspects of it, but click through the ...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Berlusconi makes appearance at trial" Associated Press, April 21, 2012 MILAN - Silvio Berlusconi made a rare appearance at his trial Friday in Milan to hear police officials called by prosecutors who al...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours ago*Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and his mother Princess Andrew, also known as Princess Alice.* The Duke of Edinburgh's mother was Princess Alice, also known as her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Ba...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Cooked up courtesy of the Boston Globe*: "Trio accused of terrorism plot in Denmark" April 28, 2012 LONDON - Danish authorities said Friday that they had arrested three men accused of planning a terrori...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago"Two guilty in killing of Ulster constable" Associated Press, March 31, 2012 BELFAST, Northern Ireland - After *crucial testimony* from a *mystery witness*, two Irish Republican Army dissidents were convic...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 40.6 km (25.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:22:30 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 366 km (227 miles) South of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 8 hours agoToronto G20 protester Byron Sonne walked out of a downtown courthouse a free man Tuesday, tearing up his bail papers after he was cleared of possessing explosives and counselling mischief not committed. h...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 8 hours agoas "exceedingly sluggish and conservative" machines. Quoted in "Atomic Pile Blast Called Unlikely: Scientists Discount Danger to Public from Reactors Widely in Operation." New York Times (1953, Sep. 13), ...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (fern hill) at DAMMIT JANET! - 8 hours agoSUZYALLCAPSLOCK (aka, SHE Who Wants the Abortion Debate but Blocks Tweeps Who Ask Inconvenient Questions or Cite That Damned Facty Stuff) is whinging again that 'prolifism' is handicapped by the unfair fig...
- posted by thwap at thwap's schoolyard - 8 hours agoOne of the latest outbursts from Jim ("Low-Functioning") Flaherty is that white-collar professionals should take the first job that comes along rather than stay on EI and look for work more commensurable w...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 8 hours agoA reminder - BIASED BBC has a new home. Find us here. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
- posted by Jay Allbritton at Jay Allbritton - 8 hours agoABC News reports: Mitt Romney has the support of George W. Bush. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush told ABC News this morning as the doors of an elevator closed on him, after he gave *a speech on human rights*...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 8 hours ago*Almost forgot to post this, readers*: "Netherlands bans pot for foreigners; Open cannabis culture yields to worry over crime" by Anthony Faiola | Washington Post, May 13, 2012 AMSTERDAM - Even as he ea...
- posted by Rocker at MSM Monitor - 9 hours ago*As served up by the Boston Globe: * "Poland pulls food preserved with road salt" March 10, 2012 WARSAW - Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 500,000 pounds...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 9 hours agoThe idea of using nuclear energy for civilian purposes was legitimized publicly in an address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Decem...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (deBeauxOs) at DAMMIT JANET! - 9 hours agoReligious and fundamentalist gynophobes attempting to roll back women's sexual and reproductive rights typically use the struggles of oppressed groups. Abortion criminalizers try desperately to hitch their...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 9 hours ago[BREAKING NEWS: Buying At the Facebook IPO is Muppet Bait!] (Stolen from the adorable Tom Tomorrow! He's the one responsible for our beloved PK being mercilessly gunned down. (Click to enlarge.)) How muc...
- McIntyre Uses Fear Card Against Knoxville Teachers in Hopes of Building Support for Merit Pay Schemeposted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 9 hours agoDespite well-funded astroturf groups, the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the State Business Roundtable, and the unceasing positive spin by local corporate media, Eli Broad's Jim McIntyre's budget p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoThe boss of America's biggest bank, JP Morgan Chase, has been described as "one of the smartest we got" by President Obama, as it reels from a massive $2bn (£1.2bn) trading loss. The American leader was...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoATHENS—Greek depositors withdrew €700 million ($898 million) from local banks Monday, the country's president said, as he warned that the situation facing Greece's lenders was very difficult. In a transcr...
- posted by Not a sheep at Not a sheep - 9 hours agoI read that: 'Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama — mocking him as an “amateur” — that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primarie...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA mother-of-four killed her children and then herself early on Tuesday morning. Sheriff's deputies in Brevard County, Florida said 33-year-old Tanya Thomas on Tuesday shot her four children, who ranged i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFIVE FACTS ABOUT 'HAPPY FACE' - Its scientific name is Theridion grallator in recognition of its long legs - the term is Latin for stiltwalker - In Hawaii, where it is found it is known as the fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoFlames billow from the tiny boat as it floats adrift on the Indian Ocean - a dramatic illustration of the Royal Navy's success against Somali pirates. The bandits’ skiff was blown out of the water with an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoCorrupt police chief Ali Dizaei has lost his job at Scotland Yard for a second time. The 49-year-old, who has twice been jailed for corruption, was dismissed from his post as commander after an internal d...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA new piece of stencilled graffiti, possibly by Banksy, has appeared overnight on the wall of a Poundland shop in London. It shows a young Asian boy hunched over a sewing machine with real Union Flag bun...
- posted by AMERICAN KABUKI at American Kabuki - 9 hours ago05/15/2012 With all this talk of arrests and change and off planet beings and collapse, it feels like we need some love. At the core of this there is just you. The one in charge, the God force, th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoNearly 4,000 foreign criminals whom the Government wants to deport are at large in the community, figures showed today. Some 2,500 were released from jail more than two years ago and more than 800 have b...
- posted by martin-j at tamplins entire - 10 hours agoRather than anything as superfluous as a timetable, the essential component of any modern bus stop is an enlarged image of a revolver muzzle, all but bursting out of the Adshel and up the nose of the waiti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoMore than 50 Romanian beggars evicted from London's Marble Arch have moved just a few yards away to the exclusive Park Lane area of the city. The group have moved to the road's central reservation within ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA serving Scotland Yard officer has been charged with trying to arrange a child sex offence. Christopher Exley, 32, will appear in court on Wednesday accused of planning to meet a child on the internet f...
- posted by Charli Carpenter at The Duck of Minerva - 10 hours agoNow that this academic year’s loose ends are wrapped up, it is time to refocus attention on the important topic of norm development around autonomous weapons. Fortunately for my case study there is much de...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 10 hours agoMary and Carrie Dann/Photo courtesy Right Livelihood Award. Carrie Dann: Civil disobedience is one way to protect Mother Earth from gold mining Carrie Dann delivering testimony in Tucson to UN Rapporteu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoIt was one of Indonesia’s best zoos, but it has now become a deadly habitat for animals in desperate need of attention. It was once one of Indonesia’s best zoos, but now it has become a deadly habitat f...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 10 hours agoThe news today about the third party joke "Americans Elect" is that, well, it's still a joke -- they have lots of ballot spots, but still no candidate. John Avlon thinks that's too bad, but moreover thinks...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoNew Delhi, May 15 (PTI) Notwithstanding efforts by the government to conserve tigers, as many as 32 big cats have died in the country in the last over four months, even as the latest official data showed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoSince giraffes are 'extremely timid' animals, any prolonged stress can be fatal to the long-necked creatures. WARSAW — Two giraffes at a zoo in central Poland's Lodz died of stress after unidentified van...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 10 hours ago*Radonna Investments Ltd. v. Rubin*, 2012 ONCA 321 expressly upholds an earlier decision of the Superior Court which is a useful statement that a limitation period is a shield and not a sword: ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoBOISE, Idaho (KBOI) - Maybe a trip to the grocery store isn't necessary after all. The Idaho Fish and Game has released details of new rules that have taken effect that allow people to recover, possess, ...
- posted by Land Destroyer at Land Destroyer - 10 hours agoUS State Department leash overtly leads to yet more sedition in Russia. *by Tony Cartalucci* * * *May 15, 2012* - As chaos consumes Libya, with death squads roaming the fractured nation committing atrociti...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe recent killing of a cougar in Kennewick has spurred quite a debate about the actions taken by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. A cougar is a dangerous animal, even more so when it's treed in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoFisherman Martin Lavelle thought he had seen most species of fish around the Irish waters, but he was stumped by what he found washed ashore on Keel beach last week. While out walking his dog, Martin cam...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoArchaeologists have discovered ancient houses as well as precious artifacts and jewels from a buried kingdom, beneath the volcanic ash in Indonesia. The excavated remains were found on the Indonesian isl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoPutnam County health officials are awaiting laboratory test results and working to identify what food caused about 150 people to get sick after a Mother's Day celebration at a Buddhist monastery in Kent on...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA NUCLEAR reactor at Torness power station in East Lothian activated its safety system to close itself down at the weekend – nearly a week ahead of a scheduled “MOT”. But last night power company EDF Ener...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoThe possibility that a fault right below the nuclear reactor buildings at the Tsuruga Power Station in Fukui Prefecture may move in conjunction with nearby active faults has been repeatedly pointed out si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago(Reuters) - An explosion on a bus in a commercial district of Colombia's capital Bogota killed two people and injured several more, police said on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the explosion w...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 10 hours agoKeeping in mind the previous post Saudi Arabia seeks union of Monarchies.... Connecting dots US, Saudi Arabia plan to destroy Syria: Report 'peaceful protest' in Syria The United States and Saudi Ar...
- posted by Libby Spencer at The Impolitic - 10 hours agoThis ungrateful parasite pisses me off. Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook, renounced his US citizenship last week. He's moving to Singapore. Saverin, who owns a roughly four percent stake of Fa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - The FBI has opened a probe into trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co, stepping up the pressure on the bank after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve said they ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(Reuters) - A Soyuz spaceship carrying two Russians and one American astronaut blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday after more than a month's delay over a problem with the hull...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoParis (CNN) -- François Hollande became the president of France on Tuesday and promptly flew toward Germany to discuss the European debt crisis with his German counterpart -- but lightning struck his pla...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoPredator NationBy Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch 14 May 12 http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175541/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_predator_nation/ [Excerpt] "Here's the essence of it: you can trust America's crème ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 67 km (41.5 miles), the quake hit at 16:00:46 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 51 km (31.6 miles) East o...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 11 hours agoWar makes strange bedfellows, as they say. It turns out that the United Nations is not the good guy. It is committing war crimes in Syria in daylight by harboring Islamic terrorists and giving them safe p...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours ago*Hummus 'n' stuff* *-- at the Hummus & Pita Co., 585 Sixth Avenue (at 17th Street) in Manhattan (see below)* *by Ken* Probably every year the day creeps up on you, and you vow that *next year*you'll look ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 27.6 km (17.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:34:56 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 348 km (21...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 11 hours agoI've been talking for a while now about what I see as a GOP "War on Budgeting," which basically means that (many) Republicans reject the entire notion that spending and revenues have anything to do with ea...
- posted by Majia's Blog at Majia's Blog - 11 hours agoI've been taking screen shots all morning. The plant looks terrible. Here is a video posted by Fukulive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWipSGHSQdI&feature=BFa&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw The screen shot...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours ago(CNN) -- Iran has hanged a man who was convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists, state-run Press TV reported Tuesday. Majid Jamali Fashi was convicted of the January 2010 killing of Massoud Ali ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoAthens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece will hold new elections in response to a political stalemate that left the debt-racked country unable to form a government, the office of President Karolos Papoulias said Tue...
- posted by Big Dan at Big Dan's Big Blog - 12 hours ago*Corporate Media and the Austerity Campaign* *Crushing Defeat for Germany's Merkel as Voters Reject Austerity* *François Hollande wins French election, Greeks vote no to austerity. Socialist party candi...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 12 hours ago[image: Streamflow outlook for spring/summer 2012 in the western United States, 1 May 2012. The orange and red hues this year indicate well below average streamflow conditions are likely, as unusually th...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 12 hours ago*Assad is popular* "When I arrived in Damascus, it was not just peaceful, it was buzzing. "The roads were jammed with traffic, the coffee houses and restaurants were packed, the souks were bustling, and...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 12 hours ago*TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012* *Things you can’t say on TV:* If Greg Sargent can be believed, Norm Ornstein is no longer missing! Sargent says he has spoken to Ornstein. He even asked if the Sunday shows have ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 13 hours agoIt's been a stereotype that Mr David Rath, the current governor of Central Bohemia (a disk around Prague without Prague), a former socialist healthcare minister, and one of the most aggressive social democ...
- posted by Greg Mankiw at Greg Mankiw's Blog - 13 hours ago"A ballot initiative this November would give California a whopping 13.3 percent top marginal rate for state income taxes." Source.
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 13 hours ago*TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012* *Letting the swells tell their tales:* Was Mitt Romney a homophobe during his high school years—during his tenure at Cranbrook, a Detroit-area prep school? It’s certainly possible...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 13 hours agoIsn't this curious? No mention of Libya in this article, but, I would safely suggest if this unholy 'union' is successful Libya will be part of it. Egypt is mentioned. Imagine the level of US and Israeli ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 13 hours ago*© *Frank Stiefel www.natur-pur-tour.com/LAPPLAND_Picturecards-Ansichtskarten-Vykort.html Die zweite Veröffentlichung Habe keine Angst frei zu sprechen, denn wie kann man Andere lehren, wenn nicht durch ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 13 hours agoWhen was the last time you heard a world leader so much as acknowledge that, as a species, man is consuming renewable resources 50% faster than Earth can replenish them? Renewables, you know - clean wate...
- posted by Matt at The Coming Crisis - 13 hours agoPolice want your help finding four men who teamed up to beat a young U.S. Army soldier in a South Tampa street. It was an awful welcome to Tampa Bay for a young soldier. Police say the victim of a viole...
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 14 hours ago[image: Rubbish and pollution blight a canal on the outskirts of Beijing. The average Beijinger has a footprint three times the Chinese average, says WWF. Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Images] [Not a surpr...
- posted by bob somerby at the daily howler - 14 hours ago*TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012* *Update—Barely a ripple:* Question: When he was a full-grown adult, did Mitt Romney loot the pension fund at a Kansas City steel mill? Further questions: As a result of this loot...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoWOW – what an excellent read about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Common Core. For those of you who don’t know about Common Core: The Common Core Standards were developed to eff...
- posted by 2old2care at Because I Can - 14 hours agoYesterday there was an ALEC meme that was written by a guy who – again – did not release his full disclosure when it comes to writing about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). James R. Copla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours ago(CNN) -- Amid growing concerns of third-party militant groups leaving deadly marks in the Syrian crisis, the jihadist Al Nusra Front has denied a claim that it was responsible for dual suicide bombings t...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 15 hours agoI am on a never ending quest to make fish seem less fishy. I know it is good for me and I should love it, but there is something about that ocean taste that isn't my favorite. This simple breaded fish ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 15 hours agoMay 15, 2012 The 5th episode of The World Tomorrow takes us to the very heart of America's War on Terror: Guantanamo Bay. In the episode Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg - former Gitmo prisoner a...
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 15 hours agoHappy Birthday to Michael Brantley, 25. I was also a fan of his father, Mickey Brantley, who had a pretty nice rookie half-season at age 26, a mediocre full season at age 27, and was done in the majors aft...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 15 hours ago*Permanent pump station selection can continue, judge says ~Mark Schleifstein* *Pleased to be released and let go: Contractor Fraud Charges against Jerl “Pappy” Kershenstine dropped ~Slabbed* *Changing o...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoConventional wisdom: Angus King is destined to be the next senator from Maine. This week, while insisting he would be a true independent in the Senate, he said he had decided to vote for Obama, making it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoLady Gaga looks set to cancel her sell-out show in Indonesia because the police believe her sexy clothes and dance moves undermine Islamic values. A national police spokesman said the permit for Gaga's Ju...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoEuropean Union naval forces have carried out their first raid on pirates based on the Somali mainland. In what is seen as a significant change in tactics, a single attack helicopter - the nationality of ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA man has set himself on fire outside the court where Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is on trial over the deaths of 77 people, according to Sky sources. Sky's Trygve Sorvaag, reporting fro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoA massive sinkhole has opened up in a family's garden in north Florida, forcing them out of the home they built 37 years ago. The 80-foot-long and 40-foot-wide sinkhole began appearing on Friday and, wit...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 15 hours agoThe trial began today of a former California detective who allegedly raped a woman and texted pictures of his victim to a friend while he spent two hours beating and choking her. Anthony Nicholas Orban, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThirteen Paris firefighters are facing prison after a young recruit claimed he was gang raped during an initiation ceremony. They are said to have filmed the horrific attack which took place on a coach e...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours agoPosted at Opt Out of the State Test: Jean Schutt McTavishWe are in week 2 of the opt out for my 4th grader in NJ. We met with the Superintendent and the Board of Education last night. The Superintendent ...
- posted by Jim Horn at Schools Matter - 16 hours agoNACSA is the most visible and well-heeled of the corporate charter front groups posing as a professional organization dedicated to quality and oversight of charter schools. What they were, and are, is th...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHundreds of firefighters battled several Arizona wildfires on Monday night that have forced residents from their homes, destroyed several buildings and thousands of acres. The fires have charred more tha...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA former FBI special agent, who worked on some of the bureau’s most high profile cases including the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma bombing, faces twenty years in prison after being arrested on child porno...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoAuthorities say a longtime security supervisor at a New Jersey airport has been arrested on a charge he was using the identity of a New York City man who was murdered 20 years ago. Illegal immigrant Bimb...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoVictim: Thomas Schlender, 74, was found in his car on Interstate 55 in Panola County on May 8 Two shooting victims along Mississippi highways may have been killed by someone who posed as law enforcement ...
- Luerissie Ashley Ross aka Pocahontas on the run after 'luring man to robbery where he was shot dead'
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA stripper known as Pocahontas was on the run after being charged with murder for setting up a robbery in which a man was shot and killed by her two accomplices. Luerissie Ashley Ross, 20, arranged to me... - posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe bus ride lasts 3.2 years, which sounds a bit dull, but it is always exciting when it drives by Planet Earth. Asteroid 2012 JU passed within 119,000 miles of our planet on Sunday night, just a whisker...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA retired highway patrolman believes he has found the infamous Zodiac killer that is responsible for at least five deaths that haunted California in the 1960s. Lyndon Lafferty - a childhood friend of the...
- posted by Owen Gray at Northern Reflections - 16 hours agoThe Harper government's budget is all about oil. The changes in environmental assessment and employment insurance are all about goosing Canada's petroleum exports. As an economist, Stephen Harper suppos...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 16 hours agoDHS Federal Protective Services arrests photographer at Occupy Portland in Oct/Photo Demotix Photo Occupy Oakland port shutdown Partnership for Civil Justice Fund: Documents Show Massive Nationwide ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoThe fear that a solar storm may erupt and disrupt the Earth's electrical grids is a legitimate one, but until that day arrives, we can sit back and enjoy the view. This is an image taken by NASA of the s...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 16 hours ago*The short answer is No.* In his newest article, SUSY: A Matter Of Prior Beliefs, Tommaso Dorigo of CMS argues that many people at CERN have worked hard so they deserve to cause a paradigm shift in phy...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA “celebrity” crime family who have become reality TV stars have been warned they will never be untouchable - after one of them began almost seven years in jail. Damien Noonan, 25, was arrested after he ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoManchester City striker Carlos Tevez has today apologised for holding up a banner ridiculing Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, his former boss, during a celebratory open-top bus tour. The Arge...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoTwo gunmen have been given life sentences for shooting a stranger dead after a row in a queue at McDonald’s. Horace Campbell, 28, and Liam Douglas-O’Callaghan, 18, were found guilty of murdering Devon Sc...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoPreacher: The guide was written by Samir Khan who was killed by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen A bizarre 'must-read' English language manual for Westerners wanting to become a terrorist has been published by A...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours ago*Celebrate International Day for Conscientious Objection by calling on the government to rescind Operational Bulletin 202* Today, May 15, is the International Day for Conscientious Objection. Please join...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoHe was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA man has died from head injuries after shooting himself with a stun gun at a cattle market, police said tonight. Officers were called to Darlington's auction mart in Clifton Road by ambulance crew membe...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA violent thug who kicked his lover's five-year-old son to death because he was jealous of the attention the little boy received was yesterday found guilty of murder. Tyler Whelan died in hospital after ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA newlywed still wearing her wedding dress was found stabbed to death in a bathtub at her suburban apartment just days after her wedding. Estrella Carrera, 26, was found around 3:30pm on Sunday in the 780...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 16 hours agoA former police officer is facing up to 12 months in prison after admitting she conned cash out of her colleagues by claiming her daughter was suffering from leukaemia...when she was actually show jumping...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoFraudulent claims: Clare Jones, pictured, was caught sky diving while claiming incapacity benefits. Thousands who have been allowed to languish on sickness benefits for more than 15 years have been found...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAn Asian takeaway owner groomed vulnerable white girls as young as 12 for paid sex and told one of his five child victims: ‘In my country it doesn’t matter about age’. Bangladesh-born Azad Miah, 44, saw ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUnidentified bones have been found in the tomb of a murdered Italian gangster which was opened by police in an attempt to unravel a 29-year-old mystery. Enrico De Pedis, leader of a gang known as the Ban...
- posted by Rufus News From Atlantis at News From Atlantis. - 17 hours agoThe new Socialist President of France, François Hollande, has made his first speech as leader of the French Republic. The new President used his inaugural address to address the problems facing France. H...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoUkrainian football hooligans have warned black and Asian England supporters not to travel to the country for Euro 2012. A Sky Sports News Special Report investigation has discovered that racist thugs in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe eurozone's ailing economy stagnated in the first quarter of 2012, narrowly avoiding a double-dip recession, official data has shown. The single currency bloc's economy saw zero growth in the first thr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoNews International's former chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged over allegations she attempted to cover up illegal phone-hacking activities and corrupt payments to public officials. Brooks, ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA professional piercer has taken his penchant for body art one step further. Twenty-one-year-old Dave Hurban, who works in a tatoo parlour in Newfield, New Jersey, wanted to attach his iPod nano to his w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 302 km (187.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:31:17 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 127 km (78 miles) WSW of Raoul I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Africa at a depth of 9.9 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:03:58 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 1237 km (768 miles) Southwest of Marion Island,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoA magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck offshore Northern California at a depth of 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 10:19:32 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) Wwest from Petroli...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 17 hours agoThis should give you the original map. The northern station appears to be misnamed, it is actually Taitung Station. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoImage: Kara Hurring & Hui (Leo) Gao The mother of accused "runaway millionairess" 'Kara Hurring' told her daughter to return millions of dollars accidentally deposited into her partner's account by a bank...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTens of billions of pounds were wiped off shares yesterday as Angela Merkel conceded for the first time that Greece could be forced to quit the euro. The German chancellor suggested that European support f...
- posted by Michael Turton at The View from Taiwan - 19 hours agoLast December, just before the election, I blogged on the new aboriginal draft law which gave the appearance, but not the reality, of aboriginal autonomy. I also argued that Ma would be shoveling state ass...
- posted by Nonoy Oplas at Government and Taxes - 19 hours agoLast Thursday, May 10, after attending the meeting of the Congressional Oversight Committee on RA 9502, I went to the office of Sen. Pia Cayetano and gave this letter. --------- 10 May 2012 *SEN. PIA S. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoSenior Labour ranks are considering an in/out referendum on the European Union, it emerged yesterday. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls admitted the public could have their say on whether Britain should continu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBritish patients are being put at risk by a shortage of medicine, as drugs are being bought cheaply and sold at higher prices in Europe, MPs have said. The all-party Pharmacy Group, which today announces t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - Germany's economy confounded expectations by posting robust growth in the first quarter of the year while France could summon up none at all, data showed on Tuesday. Gross domestic product in...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo Britons have died in separate incidents while holidaying in Gran Canaria - just days after parts of the Canary Islands were issued with heatwave warnings. Wendy Richardson, 78, and Willoughby Chaffey,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoIf you were cryogenically frozen in the early 1970s, like Woody Allen was in Sleeper, and brought back to life today, you would obviously find much changed about the world. Except environmentalism and it...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2012) — Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting -- for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other sp...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago(Reuters) - Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term sustainability of wind power. Carbon dio...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoBeekeepers need to be especially careful this year. A mild winter and unseasonably warm early spring have created conditions reminiscent of 2010, when beekeepers were caught off guard from an explosion ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoApril 30 (Bloomberg) -- Babies exposed in the womb to a commonly used insecticide have brain abnormalities after birth, according to a study that looked at children born before the U.S. limited the chemica...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoLAMONT, Okla. — For decades, a small group of scientific dissenters has been trying to shoot holes in the prevailing science of climate change, offering one reason after another why the outlook simply mus...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe state must resist the temptation to try to control the internet, a Cabinet minister will warn today. Francis Maude, who is responsible for cyber security in the Government, will admit that there is a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoChildren are growing up lacking a proper understanding of the past because key swathes of British and European history have been dropped by schools, academics warned today. Lessons in history are being i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLOS ANGELES (CNNMoney) -- Notoriously bearish on China, Kynikos Associates president Jim Chanos is continuing to caution investors to brace for China's real estate bubble to burst. The hedge fund manager...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIs saving 30 percent on your car insurance enough to justify granting Big Brother access to your vehicle? That’s the question many consumers and industry analysts are asking, as more auto insurance compan...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoOn March 24, in the Public Health Workers neighborhood in Guatemala City, community leaders and neighbors chatted in a regular gathering place in front of a local store. The relaxed Saturday night was bro...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere comes a time when a coming convergence becomes apparent. But when it spells possible doom people are not too eager to see it. But see it we must. Because sound the alarm we must…as well as prepare. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA hundred years ago it was called “dollar diplomacy.” After World War II, and especially after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, that policy evolved into “dollar hegemony.” But after all these many ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoNSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed that 750 RailCorp jobs will be axed as part of a radical overhaul of the state's rail system. "They will be offered voluntary redundancies," she said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIt’s official. The Australian dollar has fallen back below parity with the US Greenback as renewed fears about Greece’s exit from the euro zone weigh heavily on global markets. In morning trade, the Aussi...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoGreece's president will ask party leaders to stand aside and let a government of technocrats steer the nation away from bankruptcy, but Leftists have already rejected the proposal and look set to force a ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoWhen civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of li...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEurope's finance ministers are in talks aimed at resolving the continent's ongoing crisis - amid heightened speculation Greece will be forced out of the euro. Debt-laden Greece is coming under mounting ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLeaders are upset over the growing scientific and technical gap between Russia and the West. It's not the scarcity of high-technology products coming out of Russia that alarms them. What worries Preside...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe lessons of the U.S. mortgage crisis seem to be lost on policymakers tackling student debt. A decade ago, government subsidies and guarantees helped expand the “dream” of homeownership to many American...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoLast week, the WSJ reported that big banks including Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley were preparing for sweeping layoffs that would include senior bankers and deal-mak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoJapan is on an unsustainable path of a strong yen and deflation. The unprofitability of Japan's major exporters and emerging trade deficits suggest that the end of this path is in sight. The transition fr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoIn 2004 for the first time it was reported that criminals were shunning US-Dollars in favor of Euros. Near Acapulco (Mexico) on Wednesday, December 8th, 2004, two armed men hijacked a bus threatening to b...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:16:16 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 646 km (400.5 miles) Southwest of REYKJAVIK,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAn emergency department clinician at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide has spoken in defence of ramping of patients in ambulances at times of high demand. Dr David Teubner said no-one at the hospital c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThere is a stand-off between council officials and Indigenous activists who are claiming sovereignty in Musgrave Park at South Brisbane. Delegates from the tent embassy in the park say they are prepared t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAustralian environmentalist Paul Sharp is about to set off on the fishing trip of a lifetime. But Mr Sharp will not be catching fish - he will be taking part in the first scientific survey of Japanese tsu...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:45:30 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 637 km (395.6 miles) Southwest of REYKJAVIK,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Reykjanes Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:31:32 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 636 km (395 miles) Southwest of REYKJAVIK, I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 05:19:56 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 709 km (440 miles) WSW of Banda Aceh, Sum...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck Azerbaijan at a depth of 3.4 km (2.1 miles), the quake hit at 04:54:37 UTC Tuesday 15th May 2012 The epicenter was 24 km (14 miles) Southeast of Zaqatala (Zakataly), ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoIt is time to take notice that the evolution of the scram-jet engine is well underway and will surely yield an air breathing hydrocarbon solution for ground to space lift capacity. I personally ...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAs expected further studies are step by step toning down the anti sunlight hysteria that has informed public health for three decades. This adds more weight to the story. I think that it is p...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoThis is an useful addition to the vitamin D debate. It tells us that the blood threshold is measurable and clearly needs to be sustained as a matter of course. It does not tell us if a move well a...
- posted by arclein at Terra Forming Terra - 21 hours agoAs I have posted in the past, all unknown natural phenomena are local in nature. Here we have the hard evidence of a creature that rips of the head of a victim. There are several incidences and ...
- posted by Stranger in a Strange Land at Stranger in a Strange Land - 21 hours agoSource of Picture: KABC Eyewitness News, Minneapolis, MNFood Freedom Rally to Support Freeport, MN Farmer To View The Video Of The Rally. by Andrea Hubbell May 14, 2012 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn – (KSAX) Alvi...
- posted by skrashen at Schools Matter - 22 hours agoThe NAEP Science Results: Inconsistent with American success in science: Are the Achievement Levels too high? And why ELLs scores are low. Stephen Krashen The NAEP Science grade 8 results have been announ...
- posted by David J. Climenhaga at David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary - 22 hours agoPrime Minister Stephen Harper and Calgary West MP Rob Anders plot the destruction of Alberta Premier Alison Redford and her Progressive Conservative Party. Warning: neo-Con Alberta politicians may not hav...
- posted by Dave at The Galloping Beaver - 22 hours agoDamn, I wish there was a magic bullet. I really, really wish that. The times where that wish becomes most enduring is at about 2 am when I know I have a class to teach six hours later. That's now my life, a...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*Apple has blocked using the idiom 4G within adverts for its most recent iPad.* The advertising regulator of UK and others investigated Apple more than use of the 4G axiom. According to spokesman for the...
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 22 hours ago*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 - 23 hours agoA 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 - 23 hours 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 day 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 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThere 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 day agoWhile 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 day agoAs 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 day agoAs 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 day agoA 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 day agoIt 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 day agoU.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 MrArbitrage at Table Of Wisdom.com - 1 day agoAfter making his historic remarks on same-sex unions last week, President Barack Obama led a conference call with black church pastors to explain his support for gay marriage, the New York Times reported t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoGuards 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 day agoGreece 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 day 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 day agoA 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 day agoEarth 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 day agoHospitals 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 day agoBEIRUT, 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoMichael Franti, “Hey World (Don't Give Up)” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature=related
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
- posted by noreply@blogger.com (Say No To Corporate America!) at Say No To Corporate America - 1 day ago
- posted by Jim at Desdemona Despair - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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," ...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago
- posted by Jonathan Bernstein at A plain blog about politics - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day agoMorro Bay, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!) - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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! - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 ...
- posted by James C Morton at Morton's Musings - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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 - 1 day 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...
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